Tussilago petasites
Petasites hybridus · Plant · Asteraceae
Remedy for acute or chronic gonorrhea with thick yellow discharge and urethral crawling. Also indicated for lumbago, headache, and painful pylorus affections in those subject to movement restriction.
Key symptoms
- Lumbago of very great severity
- Headache shifting between head regions
- Yellow thick discharge in gonorrhea
- Crawling in urethra with jerking pain
- Pain about pylorus region
- Tightness of chest
- Pain in small of back on movement
- Vulva burning sensation
- Night sweats profuse
- Weakness and restless sleep
Worse (aggravation)
- By pressure (pains in pylorus)
- Standing, stooping, walking
- Going up stairs
- Rising from a seat (especially lumbago)
- Cold drink (toothache)
Better (amelioration)
- By emission of flatus (colic)
Butter-burr
Has some action on the urinary organs, and found useful in gonorrhœa. Affections of pylorus.
Urinary
Crawling in urethra.
Male
Gonorrhœa; yellowish, thick discharge. Erections, with urethral crawling. Pain in spermatic cord.
Relationship
Compare: Tussilago fragrans (pylorus pain, plethora and corpulency); Tussilago farfara (coughs); as an intercurrent medicine in phthisis pulmonalis (See Tuberculinum).
Dose
Tincture.
Petasites vulgaris. Bitter-bur. (Sandy meadows on the banks of streams.) N. O. Compositæ. Tincture of whole fresh plant.
Clinical
Gonorrhœa. Headache. Lumbago. Night-sweat. Pylorus, affections of. Throat, sore. Tibia, pain in. Uvula, burning in.
Characteristics
Petasites is "a genus of Compositæ established for three or four species of Tussilago, which have the flower-heads partially diœceous in racemes, sometimes branching into panicles. The essential characters which separate them from the common Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara) are very slight, and the foliage is the same" (Treas. of Bot.). I retain the name of Tussilago petasites under which it is best known. Tussilago grows on river-banks that are little trodden on. "The roots are an admirable medicine in the worst kind of fevers with boils or buboes" (Green's Herbal). Kuchenmeister and five others took substantial doses. Most noticeable among the symptoms are: a lumbago of very great severity. Tightness of the chest. (Tussilago means …
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