Petroselinum Sativum

Petrosel. is referred to by Hahnemann as a gonorrhceal remedy when frequent

desire to urinate exists. It was proved by Bethmann. He obtained only thirty-six symptoms, all in

the genito-urinary sphere, but these were very characteristic, and have given the remedy a

definite place in homeeopathic medicine, especially in gonorrhcea and gleet. The leading

indication is: Sudden urging to urinate; and drawing, tingling, crawling, or itching in navicular

fossa. During micturition, burning and tingling from perineum through whole urethra. After

micturition cutting biting in fossa navicularis. Milky or yellow discharge. Parsley tea is a

recognised remedy for gonorrhoea in domestic country practice. Parsley eaten after meals, with

or without salad oil, is reputed to act as a solvent on uric acid if there is a tendency to its

formation in the urine. I have seen a case in which this effect was apparently produced. In

gonorrhcea and gleet I have confirmed its efficiency, given in ten-drop closes of the tincture. In a

case of dysuria from prostatic enlargement (quoted in Critique, vii. 84) there was frequent urging

to urinate every half to three-quarters of an hour, with burning pains in bladder and urethra.

Petrosel. 4x, three drops every hour, took away all the pains and relieved the tenesmus in a few

days. The prostate gland itself was not influenced. Hering has collected symptoms from other

• ▸observers.
• ▸Farrington says Petrosel.
• ▸is a great "baby medicine" in urinary difficulties.
• ▸It has

cured numbers of cases of intermittent fever; and traumatic or other urethral fevers. [Parsley is

said to be poisonous to ferrets. Fresh butter mid parsley applied warm is an old remedy for

bruises. An infusion is given to all children recovering from scarlatina by the matron of a

suburban infectious hospital. An old gleet has been known to disappear from parsley infusion;

and an old Edinburgh surgeon used to give it in all nephritic and vesical diseases that were

• ▸chronic.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸]

Shrill singing in ears, like a bell ringing out of time, which affects the whole organism.

Thirsty and hungry, but desire fails on beginning to eat or drink.

Thirsty and hungry, yet as soon as they begin to eat or drink they lose all

desire.—T witching, jerking pains in epigastrium, flatulent eructations, colic, nausea, and

vomiting.

Sudden urging to urinate.—Child suddenly seized with desire to urinate; if

not gratified immediately, jumps up and down with pain.—So much pain when he passes urine as

to cause him to shiver and dance round room in agony.—Discharge of a milky fluid from

urethra.—Albuminous yellow discharge from urethra; gonorrhcea.—Orifice of urethra

agglutinated with mucus.—Creeping and crawling throughout whole length of urethra.—Frequent

and almost fruitless want to urinate, every half-hour.—Tingling, lancinating, pressure and

drawing, in urethra.—Crawling and pressure in region of Cowper's glands in morning in bed, >

while standing and sitting —During micturition, burning and tingling from perineum through the

whole urethra.—Drawing, afterwards itching in fossa navicularis; burning in navicular fossa

while urinating —Frequent desire to urinate, caused by crawling stitch behind navicular

fossa.—Frequent voluptuous tickling in navicular fossa.

Burning, tingling, from perineum throughout whole urethra; sudden urging, to urinate; frequent, voluptuous tickling in fossa navicularis. Gonorrhoea; sudden, irresistible desire to urinate; intense biting, itching, deep in urethra; milky discharge.

Priapismus, without curvature of penis.—Pollutions; profuse emission

toward morning.

Ague, esp. quotidian; marked periodicity; stages regular; acute fevers from defective

assimilation or perverted innervation, accompanied by flatulent dyspepsia.—Intermittents,

complicated with abdominal affections.—Intermittent fevers; complicating traumatic or chronic

inflammation of urethra, or even stricture.

• ▸Catheter fever.
• ▸Cystitis.
• ▸Dysuria.
• ▸Gleet.
• ▸Gonorrhoea.
• ▸Gravel.
• ▸Intermittent fever.
• ▸Night-

blindness. Priapism.

• ▸Compare: In gonorrhoea with sudden and frequent urging, Cann.
• ▸s.
• ▸, Canth.
• ▸, Merc.

• ▸Screams before urinating from irritation of mucous membrane, Aco.
• ▸, Caust.
• ▸, Borax (Sars.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸,

• ▸and Benz.
• ▸ac.
• ▸have screaming before urinating when due to gravel).
• ▸Gonorrhcea, strangury,

frequent urging to urinate; white stools, Dig. (Dig. has slow pulse; often puffed prepuce; Sul.

• ▸indurated prepuce).
• ▸Cystitis, Con.
• ▸(Con.
• ▸has intermittent urination; Petrosel.
• ▸has inflammation

that has travelled back, sudden, irresistible desire). Bubbling in back; urinary disorders, Berb.

Uric acid tendency, intermittent fevers, Urt. ur.

Compare: Apiol-the active principle of Parsley--(in dysmenorrhoea); Canth; Sars.: Cannab; Merc.

First to third potency.