Vesicaria
Plant · Brassicaceae
Key symptoms
- Smarting, burning sensation along the course of the urethra and bladder
- Frequent desire to void urine, often with strangury
- Nephralgia with severe pain requiring relief
- Acute and chronic cystitis with burning on urination
- Irritable bladder following acute cystitis; frequent night urination
- Hæmaturia; bloody urine with clots
- Albuminuria; albumin in urine even in Bright's disease
- Gonorrhœa with smarting on micturition and thick creamy discharge
- General dropsy with suppressed urinary secretion
- Prostatitis with painful, difficult micturition and tenesmus
Vesicaria communis. N. O. Cruciferæ (Tribe, Alyssineæ). Tincture of whole fresh plant.
Clinical
Albuminuria. Cystitis. Dropsy. Gleet. Gonorrhœa. Gravel. Hæmaturia. Nephralgia. Prostatitis.
Characteristics
Vesicaria is a "genus of Cruciferæ, natives of the Northern Hemisphere, distinguished by the globose or ovoid inflated pouch, with hemispherical valves and numerous seeds (generally four to six) in each cell. They are herbs, sometimes shrubby at the base, with oblong or linear entire or repand leaves, and terminal racemes of yellow flowers" (Treas. of Bot.). George R. Shafer (Chic. Med. Times, quoted H. News, xxx. 117) says Ves. com. is an old remedy much used in some parts of Germany for all forms of urinary and kidney difficulties; for gravel; for gonorrhœa, both in the male and female. Shafer's indication for the remedy is "a smarting, burning sensation along the course of the urethra and bladder, with frequent desire to void urine, often accompanied with strangury." The conditions he has found …
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