Hedysarum ildefonsianum
Plant · Fabaceae
The chief effect of this remedy is inflammation of the penis and eyes, indicating its use in gonorrhoeal ophthalmia and penile inflammation. The remedy picture includes urethral discharge, conjunctival inflammation, and bowel symptoms. Its clinical application is primarily in conditions associated with gonorrhoeal infection.
Key symptoms
- Inflammation of the penis with redness, itching, and smarting
- Sudden appearance of yellowish urethral discharge
- Gonorrhoeal ophthalmia with pain, pricking, redness, and lachrymation
- Redness of sclerotica with smarting and epiphora
- Diarrhoea alternating with constipation
- Painful tearing from loins to navel (better second day)
- Profuse urination
Better (amelioration)
- Loins to navel pain better on second day
Hedysarum desmodium. Barba de Roy. Carapicho. Brazilian Burdock. N. O. Leguminosæ.
Clinical
Gonorrhœa. Gonorrhœal ophthalmia. Penis, inflammation of.
Characteristics
This plant is named by Mure, who gives a figure of it in his book and describes it thus: "The brownish ligneous stem of this plant is about three feet high; it is ramose, pubescent, especially above. Leaves alternate, pinnate, trifoliate; folioles oval and slightly tormentose, on a hairy, bistipulate petiole. The flowers, which are small and seated on filiform unifloral peduncles, form loose, terminal spikes. Fruit oval, hairy, on bent peduncles, and attaching itself very intimately to clothes and to hairy skin of animals." I give this description in full because the species, according to Allen, is doubtful. The symptoms are not many but they are very definite, and knowing the value of Mure's observations in the case of Ocim. can. and other remedies I give them in full. The chief effect was inflammation of the penis and of the eyes, which should indicate it in some cases of gonorrhœal ophthalmia.
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