Solidago virgaurea
Goldenrod · Plant · Asteraceae
The classic symptom picture for Solidago is of kidney disease, possibly with nausea, insomnia, a weak chest, and susceptibility to colds. Solidago is used when the kidneys feel distended, sore, aching, and tender, with pain extending down to the thighs, or toward the bladder and abdomen. There are typically difficulties in passing urine, which is scanty and discolored, or clear and foul-smelling. The remedy may also be prescribed to treat fibroids.
Key symptoms
- Pain in region of kidneys with dysuria; kidneys sensitive to pressure
- Scanty, reddish-brown urine with thick sediment, gravel, and dysuria
- Albumen, blood, and slime in urine
- Hay-fever when Solidago is the exciting cause
- Bronchitis with purulent blood-streaked expectoration and oppressed breathing
- Repeated colds with chilliness alternating with heat
- Asthma with nightly dysuria
- Backache of congested kidneys
- Fibroid tumors with uterine enlargement pressing on bladder
Worse (aggravation)
Better (amelioration)
Golden-rod (SOLIDAGO VIRGA)
Inhalation of the pollen has caused hæmorrhage from the lungs in phthisis. Repeated colds of tuberculosis (2x) feeling of weakness, chilliness alternating with heat; naso-pharyngeal catarrh, burning in throat, pains in limbs and thoracic oppression. Pain in region of kidneys, with dysuria. Kidneys sensitive to pressure. Bright's disease. Hay-fever when Solidago is the exciting cause. Here give 30th potency or higher.
Eyes
Injected, watery, burning, stinging.
Nose
Nares irritated with abundant mucus secretion; paroxysms of sneezing.
Stomach
Bitter taste, especially at night; coated tongue with very scanty brown and sour urine.
Respiratory
Bronchitis, cough with much purulent expectoration, blood-streaked; oppressed breathing. Continuous dyspnœa. Asthma, with nightly dysuria.
Female
Uterine enlargement, organ pressed down upon the bladder. Fibroid tumors.
Urine
Scanty, reddish brown, thick sediment, dysuria, gravel. Difficult and scanty. Albumen, blood, and slime in urine. Pain in kidneys extend forward to abdomen and bladder (Berb). Clear and offensive urine. Sometimes makes the use of the catheter unnecessary.
Back
Backache of congested kidneys (Senec aur).
Skin
Blotches, especially on lower extremities; itch. Exanthema of lower extremities, with urinary disturbances, dropsy and threatened gangrene.
Relationship
Iodoform 2x antidotes poison of Golden-rod. Arsenic. Agrimonia (Pain in region of kidneys).
Dose
Tincture, to third potency. Oil of Solidago, 1 oz to 8 oz. Alcohol. 15 drops doses to promote expectoration in bronchitis and bronchial asthma in old people (Eli G. Jones).
Solidago virgaurea. Golden-rod. N. O. Compositæ (Tribe, Corymbiferæ). Tincture of whole fresh plant. Tincture of flowers. (Infusion of dry leaves and flowers.)
Clinical
Albuminuria. Calculus. Croup. Deafness. Dysuria. Eruptions. Gout. Leucorrhœa. Ophthalmia, scrofulous. Phosphaturia. Prostate, enlarged. Rheumatism. Sciatica. Scrofula. Urine, scanty; suppressed.
Characteristics
The common Golden Rod is the only British species of Solidago. It is common in woods and heathy thickets. "This herb," says Rademacher, "is a very old and good kidney medicine. It is a specific for kidneys, and brings the patients back to the normal condition." I quote from a paper by M. Gucken in H. R., iv. 205. Gucken confirms Rademacher's observations and quotes further confirmations and cures, by Dr. Buck of Würtemburg. According to Buck Solid. v. is Specially Suited to scrofulous subjects, but not exclusively to them. The grand keynote of this remedy lies in *the condition and the action of the kidneys and the quality of …
Phatak's chapter on Solidago virgaurea is available in the app.
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