Triticum repens-agropyron repens
Elymus repens · Plant · Poaceae
Couch-grass is an excellent remedy for those with excessive irritability of bladder and dysuria. Particularly suited to cystitis, gonorrhea, and chronic urinary tract inflammation.
Key symptoms
- Frequent, difficult, and painful urination
- Chronic cystic irritability and incontinence
- Gravelly deposits in urine
- Catarrhal and purulent discharges
- Strangury and enlarged prostate
- Dense urine causing irritation of mucous surfaces
Couch-Grass (TRITICUM)
An excellent remedy in excessive irritability of the bladder, dysuria, cystitis, gonorrhœa.
Nose
Always blowing nose.
Urinary
Frequent, difficult, and painful urination (Pop). Gravelly deposits. Catarrhal and purulent discharges (Pareira). Strangury, pyelitis; enlarged prostate. Chronic cystic irritability. Incontinence; constant desire. Urine is dense and causes irritation of the mucous surfaces.
Relationship
Compare: Tradescantia; (Hæmorrhage from ear and upper air passages; painful urination, urethral discharge; scrotum inflamed). Chimaph; Senecio; Populus trem; Buchu; Uva.
Polytrichum Juniperinum-Ground Moss--(Painful urination of old people; dropsy, urinary obstruction and suppression).
Dose
Tincture or infusion by boiling two ounces in a quart of water until it is reduced to a pint. To be taken in four doses in 24 hours.
Triticum repens. Couch-grass. Cooch-grass. Cutch-grass. Quitch-grass. Twitch. N. O. Gramineæ. Tincture of fresh plant.
Clinical
Bladder, irritation of, Dysuria. Urine, incontinence of.
Characteristics
Burnett (Organ. Diseases of Women, 115) tellshow he learned of a herbalist the use of Trit. r., the herbalist having cured with it a patient of Burnett's, a man suffering from dysuria. Burnett has found it no less valuable for women than for men. "Frequently in dysuria from an inflamed state of the urethra, I found Trit. r. Ø, ten drops in a little water, frequently repeated, of prompt effect, often giving complete relief in a few hours, and if the ailment is primarily in the urethra the relief is an abiding cure; if from a tugging of the heavy womb, it is only relief." He gives this case: A widow, suffering from complete procidentia, uteri and very bad hæmorrhoidal bleeding, wrote that she was driven almost mad with painful micturition; the burning and straining were truly awful. Trit. r. Ø, as above, was ordered, and brought a most grateful letter from the patient. She keeps a supply always at hand.
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