Geum rivale
Plant · Rosaceae
Based on the single recorded symptom, the remedy picture centers on intense, electric-shock-like pains originating deep in the lower abdomen and shooting to the urethra. These pains are so severe they instantly incapacitate the patient and are triggered by eating, requiring the patient to lie down for relief.
Key symptoms
- Tearing, jerking pains shooting from deep abdomen to end of urethra
- Pains like electric shocks, excessively severe, always occurring twice in succession
- Pains instantly unfit the patient for any activity
- Pains return as soon as anything is eaten
- Obliged to lie down from severity of pain
Worse (aggravation)
- Worse after eating (pains return immediately)
Better (amelioration)
- Better from lying down
Water Avens. N. O. Rosaceæ. Tincture of the plant in flower.
Clinical
Bladder, affections of. Penis, pains in.
Characteristics
Hering is the authority for this medicine. Only one symptom has been recorded, but it is very definite. Tearing, jerking pains, which instantly unfit him for everything; seem to shoot from deep within the abdomen, below the umbilicus to the end of the urethra. As soon as he eats anything they return; then he is obliged to lie down. They are like electric shocks, excessively severe, and always occur twice in succession.
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