Urea pura
Urea (carbamide) · Human-made/chemical
Urea Pura is suited to those with renal dysfunction presenting with systemic intoxication, albuminuria, diabetes, and general dropsy. Acts as diuretic in dropsical conditions with symptoms of uremia.
Key symptoms
- Head very dull, as if filled with heavy lump
- Itching and profuse watering of eyes
- Intolerable sensation in abdomen with burning of skin
- Constant urging to urinate with much sediment
- Fatiguing, tearing pain from bladder to groins
- Albuminuria and bloody urine with general dropsy
Carbamide (UREA)
Tuberculosis. Lumps. Enlarged glands. Renal dropsy, with symptoms of general intoxication. Gouty eczema. Albuminuria, diabetes; uræmia. Urine thin and of low specific gravity. A hydrogogue diuretic in the treatment of dropsies. 10 grains every 6 hours.
Relationship
Compare: Uric acid (gout, gouty, eczema, rheumatism, lipoma); Urinum (acne, boils, scurvy, dropsy); Urtica; Tubercul; Thyroid.
Carbamide. The chief solid constituent of the urine of mammals. (White crystals.) CO(NH2)2. Trituration. Solution. [also tincture or solution of the nitrate─Urea nitrica].
Clinical
Albuminuria. Diabetes. Dropsy. Eczema, gouty. Gout. Liver, cirrhosis of. Tuberculosis. Uræmia.
Characteristics
The failure of the kidneys to eliminate Urea from the blood leads to uræmic intoxication, delirium, convulsions, and coma. On general indications Urea has been used in medicine by both schools. Merck mentions that it is diuretic, and is used in cirrhosis of liver, pleurisy, renal calculus. Allen cites from Mauthner two cases of renal dropsy with symptoms of general intoxication in which Urea nit., gr. ii., divided into three doses and given two hours apart, cured brilliantly. Burnett has used both Urea 6 and Uric acid 6 in gouty eczema, "where the gouty eczema has been the cutaneous outlet for the constitution." Burnett gave Urea in gouty cases where the urine was thin and of low specific gravity; "it thickens the …
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