(Inflammation of the kidneys—Nephritis)

Aconite N. When brought on by cold or sudden suppression of perspiration by sitting or lying on damp ground, followed by restlessness, thirst, headache and sudden suppression of urine.

Apis Mel. In acute cases of Brigit’s disease with thirstlessness. It has dropsy ; oedematous swellings of the face and extre­mities. Pain in the head, back and limbs and also in kidneys. Urination frequent but scanty. Urine heavily charged with albumen. Feeling of suffocation and breathing difficult. Puffiness with pitting on pressure. Ail symptoms are aggravated by heat and ameliorated by cold. Give in low potency in which it acts best.

Helleborus. Uraemia with unconsciousness ; pupils dilated and insensible to light ; convulsions ; strong urinous odour from the body.

Arsenic Alb. Covers all stages of Brights disease but mostly indicated in later stages when watery diarrhoea sets in, with pale skin, waxen appearance. Urine loaded with casts and albumen, uurst for small quantities for water at short inter­vals. Desire ; for warmth. Restlessness, puffiness of face, anguish fear of death. Convulsions.

Kali Chlor. Violent nephritis with scanty dark atbuminous urine containing casts.

Calcarea Sulph. Anaemia, with progressive emaciation and debility. There is pus in urine. Burning during urination. Much distension of the abdomen. Catarrhal headaches.

Mercurius Cor. Indicated in large white kidney. Scanty and red urine with albumin and casts. Nephritis of pregnancy. Supportive nephritis. Swelling of feet from fifth to seventh month of pregnancy.

Picric Acid. Hemoglobinuria. Urine contains much indican, granular cylinders and fatty degenerated epithelium. Inflam­mation of kidneys with profound weakness, dark, bloody, scanty urine. Nightly urging.

Phosphorus. Hemoglobinuria. Urine turbid brown with red sedi­ment and blood.

Cantharis. Uraemia delusions with sense of persecution. Suppression of urine with restlessness, flushed face, sparkling eyes. Urge to pass urine but nothing is voided, there being no urine in the bladder. Dropsy after scarlet fever or diphtheria. Urination painful, only a few drops passing at a time. The urine is scaldy and bloody.

Terebinth. In,-early stages of congestion of kidneys. Urine bloody with pain along the ureters and in the back.

Plumbum. Granular degeneration of kidneys, gouty kidney. Pale, bloated, heavy expression. Constipation. Albuminuria. Kidney contracted.

Digitalis. Granular degeneration of the kidneys with palpitation of heart, slow pulse.

Nephritis. accompanied with rheumatism is the guiding symptom.

Helleborus. Dropsy due to inflammation of kidney. Urine scanty and dark. Effusion occurring within the brain is its guiding symptom.

Mercurius Cynat. Excellent remedy in the first and second stage. The urine is scanty, dark, turbid, loaded with albumen. Pain in the tubes of kidney.

Apocynum. Dropsically condition with scanty urine and thirst. There is no thirst in Apis with which this remedy is com­parable. Indicated in coma and convulsions in nephritis of pregnancy.

Vesicaria. Nephralgia. Nervous pain in kidneys, dribbling of urine with burning in urethra and irritable bladder. Passing urine about thirty times in the night. Gonorrhoea, brick dust sediments in urine. It also cures polyuria. Passing too much urine. Painful urination, pus, albumen and bloody urine in dropsy.

Colchicum. Albumen in urine which becomes black, scanty urine with dropsical swelling. Acute form of Brigit’s disease.

Solidago. Tenderness of kidneys to slightest touch with pain extending from kidneys to abdomen, bladder and down the limbs. Urine red, brown, scanty, thick, voided with difficulty albuminous, mucus, phoshatic urine, Give IX or 3X.

Lycopodium. When red sand is passed with urine with nephritis and dropsy.

Acid Nitric. Kidney diseases associated with ear trouble such as yellowish-white discharge from the ear. Urine smelling like that of a horse.