Equisetum hyemale

Equisetum hyemale
(scouring-rush)
* Principal action on the bladder.
* A remedy for enuresis and dysuria.
Urinary
- Severe, dull pain and feeling of fullness in bladder, not relieved by urinating.
- Frequent urging with severe pain at the close ofurination.
- Urine flows only drop by drop.
- Sharp, burning, cutting pain in urethra while urinating.
- Incontinence in children, with dreams or night-mares when passing urine.
- Incontinence in old women, also with involuntarystools.
- Retention and dysuria during pregnancy and afterdelivery.
- Much mucus in urine.
- Albuminuria.
- Involuntary urination.
Kidney
- Deep pain in region of right kidney, extending to lower abdomen, with urgent desire to
micturate.
- Right lumbar region painful.
Modalities
- Worse, right side; movement, pressure, touch, sitting down; better, in afternoon from lying
down.
Relationship
- Compare : Hydrangea; Ferr. phos.; Apis; Canth.; Linaria; Chimaph.
- Equisetum contains silica in appreciable quantity.
Dose
- Tincture, to sixth potency.
- A decoction, teaspoonful doses, or the tincture in hot water, is found useful to allay
irritability of urinary tract, calculus, dysuria, etc.; also for pleuritic effusion and dropsy.