Urinum
Urine · Sarcode
Urinum suits constitutions prone to general dropsy and urinary suppression, particularly where skin affections coexist with systemic fluid retention and uremic symptoms.
Key symptoms
- General dropsy with anasarca more marked in upper body
- Scanty, thick, deep brown, very offensive urine
- Fluid in abdomen, chest wall, and belly
- Heaviness and weakness with shortness of breath
- Very swollen face with pale, heavy expression
- Heaviness of head worse on stooping
Urine. Dilutions.
Clinical
Acne. Boils. Dropsy. Ophthalmia. Scurvy.
Characteristics
Under Urea Allen gives some symptoms observed on, a, man who, for a skin affection, drank in the morning the urine he had passed the night before. The symptoms were severe, consisting of general-dropsy, scanty urine, and excessive weakness. These symptoms I have arranged under Urinum. Urinotherapy is practically as old as man himself. The Chinese (Therapist, x. 329) treat wounds by sprinkling urine on them, and the custom is widespread in the Far East. Taken internally it is believed to stimulate the circulation; and is valued as an active oxytocic. The parturient woman drinks the urine of a male child four to five years old, and the part voided in the middle of micturition. The child urinates into three vessels, the woman drinking the contents of the second. In the Brit. Med. Jour. of 1900 a number of instances of Western urinotherapy were given (collected H. W., xxxv. 507). To these Cooper has made some additions …
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