Equisetum Hyemale

The chief effects of Equisetum are found in the urinary organs. Pain in the

kidneys (especially right), in the bladder and urinary passages. Constant desire to urinate, and

passes large quantities of clear, light-coloured urine without relief. Pain in bladder as from

distension. Retention and dysuria; especially in women during pregnancy and after confinement.

• ▸Enuresis.
• ▸Wets bed at night; when he dreams he always sees a crowd of people.
• ▸Equis.
• ▸has:

Severe dull pain which does not lessen after urination; irritation of the bladder, especially in

women. Linaria has enuresis, with frequent painful urging to urinate, causing the patient to rise

at night (Farrington). It relieved loss of control over bladder and rectum in a case of general

• ▸paralysis.
• ▸Carcinoma uteri is said to have been cured by it.
• ▸Pain in sacro-iliac joints.
• ▸< From

pressure or contact; moving; sitting. Eating > pain in temples; lying on back > pain in back:

continued motion > pains in back and knees.

Severe headache with intense pain in upper part of eyes or roof of orbit—Headache

with heat of face without redness.—Constrictive feeling across forehead.—Sticking, darting pains

changing locality.—Constriction of whole scalp, as if drawn tightly over whole skull; continual

desire to wrinkle up forehead.—Skin over frontal bone very tight, with feeling of skin continuing

to contract.

Dull, transient pain and stiff feeling behind 1. mastoid —Confused feeling in

ears.—Confusion of sounds; confused noises; fearful rumbling.

Face flushed, feeling of heat.—As if blood pressed into face.—Heat and burning without

redness.

Distended feeling.—Dull, heavy pains in either side of lower abdomen and

bladder, with frequent desire to urinate; the desire to urinate, which is constant, is not > by

urinating. —Slight pain in bowels with desire for stool, not urgent, early in morning; three stools

during the morning, quite thin; during the whole day frequent inclination for stool with slight

pain in bowels; no diarrhcea.—Severe pain in lower abdomen with passage of fetid flatus—Sharp

• ▸pain in hypogastrium with sticking-like pains in anus (11 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸).
• ▸—Sharp pains on either side of

hypogastrium; extending to middle line.

Smarting in anus during and after stool —Stool with great

flatulence.—Stool with aching in anus and feeling as if rectum would protrude, followed by

smarting in anus and a feeling as if some feeces still remained.

• ▸Slight pain in r.
• ▸kidney, then in 1.
• ▸, extending down 1.
• ▸side of

sacrum.—Dull pain in r. kidney, with urgent desire to urinate; had urinated only a few minutes

before and now passed four ounces of clear light-coloured urine.—Pain in bladder as from

distension.—Severe dull pain in bladder not > by urinating; continued some days after taking the

drug, and caused him to fear inflammation of the bladder—Tenderness in region of bladder, and

• ▸r.
• ▸side of lower abdomen, extending upward from groin; same but less marked |.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Pain and

tenderness in bladder region with soreness of testicles, extending up spermatic cords.—Excessive

burning in urethra while urinating.—Sharp, cutting pain in urethra.—Pricking in urethra a short

distance back from meatus.—Biting itching in meatus < scratching.—Great desire to urinate but

only a small quantity passes.—Urgent desire to urinate with prickling and soreness of meatus

from contact and pressure.—Obliged to rise several times at night to urinate-—Profuse urination,

with burning in urethra and sharp pain at root of penis.—Later passes smaller quantities and

darker.—Passed small amount but felt as if he had not urinated for hours; the amount grew less

each time but the desire increased.—Urine cloudy.—Great excess of mucus on

standing.—Enuresis, nocturnal and diurnal.

• ▸Severe, dull pain and feeling of fullness in bladder, not relieved by urinating.
• ▸Frequent urging with severe pain at the close of urination.
• ▸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 involuntary stools.
• ▸Retention and dysuria during pregnancy and after delivery.
• ▸Much mucus in urine.
• ▸Albuminuria.
• ▸Involuntary urination.

Violent erections; in the afternoon.—Soreness of testicles and cords;

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• ▸18, 19.
• ▸Chest and Heart.
• ▸—Sharp stitch in 1.
• ▸breast one inch to |.
• ▸and over nipple.
• ▸—Sharp pain in

region of heart < by inspiration.

Pains in back esp. while sitting, > lying on back and walking.—Heavy sensation like a

lump in r. lumbar region.—Severe rheumatic pains in region of sacro-lumbar joint, and through 1.

hip-joint extending down outer side of 1. leg, ending in front three inches above knee.

Pain in upper part of shoulders and in region of vertebra prominens, < by

• ▸least motion or contact.
• ▸—Pain in r.
• ▸shoulder to middle of upper arm.
• ▸—Pain in |.
• ▸shoulder with

shivering over body and great heat of head.

Pain in r. hip-joint and near knee-joint—Knees very weak on least

• ▸exertion.
• ▸—Dull, heavy pain under I.
• ▸patella—On awakening, sharp pain inner side of |.
• ▸knee, >

after moving about a short time.

Very sleepy, eyelids heavy.—Sleep much disturbed by tiresome dreams of many

persons, places, and things.

• ▸Cystitis.
• ▸Dropsy.
• ▸Enuresis.
• ▸General paralysis.
• ▸Gleet.
• ▸Gonorrhoea.
• ▸Gravel.
• ▸Heematuria.

Urine, retention of.

• ▸Compare: Apis, Cannabis, Canthar.
• ▸, Fer.
• ▸phos.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸; Canth.
• ▸comes closest; there is

less bleeding, tenesmus, scalding, and fibrinous flakes than with Canthar., but more mucus.

Compare: Hydrangea; Ferr phos; Apis; Canth; Linaria; Chimaph. Equisitum contains silica in appreciable quantity.

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.

Deep pain in region of right kidney, extending to lower abdomen, with urgent desire to micturate. Right lumbar region painful.