Populus tremuloides
Plant · Salicaceae
Populus Tremuloides is especially suited to elderly patients with catarrh of the bladder and urinary tenesmus, dyspepsia with flatulence and acidity, and night sweats. It is a good remedy for vesical troubles after operations and during pregnancy.
Key symptoms
- Vesical tenesmus with severe painful scalding on urination
- Urine containing mucus and pus; prostate enlarged
- Pain behind pubis at end of urination
- Indigestion with flatulence and acidity; nausea and vomiting
- Night-sweats and ague
- Fullness of head with sensation of heat of body surfaces
- Cystitis and vesical troubles after operations and during pregnancy
American Aspen
The gastric and urinary symptoms point to its usefulness in dyspepsia and catarrh of the bladder, especially in old people. Good remedy in vesical troubles after operations and in pregnancy. Cystitis. Fullness of head, and sensation of heat of the surfaces of the body. Night-sweats. Ague.
Stomach
Indigestion, with flatulence and acidity. Nausea and vomiting.
Urine
Severe tenesmus; painful scalding. Urine contains mucus and pus. Prostate enlarged. Pain behind pubis, at end of urination.
Relationship
Compare: Nux; China; Cornus flor; Cannabis; Cantharis.
Dose
Tincture or Populin trit, 1x.
Aspen Poplar. (The American Aspen; the British Aspen is P. tremula.) N. O. Salicaceæ. Tincture of inner bark. Solution of Populin.
Clinical
Ardor urinæ. Bladder, catarrh of. Gleet, chronic. Prostatic affections.
Characteristics
The few symptoms of the Schema were provided by Paine (eclectic), whom Hale quotes. Paine used Pop. t. in affections of the bladder, urethra, and prostate. Hale confirms its action in vesical tenesmus and inflammation of the neck of the bladder. He gives this case: A lady had metritis, vaginismus, and cystitis, and was apparently cured. A ride on the cars brought back: Weight, pressure, and aching in pelvis and vesical tenesmus with frequent desire to urinate. Pop. p. 3x removed all these symptoms in three days. In the cases cured by Hale he says there was little pain during urination, but as soon as the last drops were voided, or a little before, a severe cramp-like pain just behind pubes lasting ten to fifteen minutes.
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