Upas Tiente

• ▸Uranium belongs to the Chromium group of elements.
• ▸Ur.
• ▸nit.
• ▸was proved by

• ▸E.
• ▸T.
• ▸Blake, whose monograph on the salt forms part of the Hahnemann Materia Medica.
• ▸Blake's

proving was suggested by the observation of an old-school experimenter, Leconte, who found

sugar in the urine of dogs slowly poisoned with Ur. nit. Blake was not very successful in

producing sugar, but his proving is not any less valuable on that account, and clinical use has

• ▸filled out the picture.
• ▸Many cases of diabetes have been relieved or cured by U7.
• ▸nit.
• ▸, usually in

• ▸the lower attenuations.
• ▸In a case of diabetes insipidus of mine, in a young girl, Ur.
• ▸nit.
• ▸30 gave

more relief than any other remedy. Excessive thirst, polyuria, and dry tongue are the indications.

Glycosuria is by no means an essential part of the indications for Ur. nit. In some of the animals

experimented on by Blake the pylorus was found to be affected. With this the symptoms of the

• ▸proving correspond, and Ur.
• ▸nit.
• ▸has cured both pyloric and gastric ulcer.
• ▸One case (WN.
• ▸A.
• ▸J.
• ▸H.
• ▸,

• ▸Aug.
• ▸, 1890) in a married woman was cured with 5-gr.
• ▸doses of the 2x.
• ▸Patient was weak and

emaciated; vomited mucus mixed with blood and coffee-ground matter, and passed dark, tarry

stools; sensitive and tender over region of pylorus. Sensations are: As if blood were flowing to

head. As if he had taken cold with headache. The left side was more affected than the right.

Many symptoms were < at night. Head < walking. > Deep inspiration.

Disinclined for mental work. Irritable. Dull headache deep in brain.

• ▸Vertigo twice in evening.
• ▸—Head heavy on waking.
• ▸—Pain: in forehead; over |.
• ▸eye; in

forehead and occiput in evening; in temple; in occipital protuberances; in occiput on

• ▸walking.
• ▸—Neuralgia on posterior edge of 1.
• ▸temporal bone (formerly on r.
• ▸) from 2 till 4 p.
• ▸m.

leaving dull aching, neuralgia woke me at | a.m. that night, lasted an hour and prevented sleep,

ill from the pain during next day, two days later pain in old place (r. side) came on gradually, >

by dinner.

Pain in eyes and orbits, with conjunctivitis. Dull sunken eyes. Styes.

• ▸Stye in |.
• ▸upper lid—(CEdema of lower lids worse than usual.
• ▸).
• ▸—Lids inflamed,

• ▸agglutinated Shooting from r.
• ▸orbit to occipital protuberance in evening.
• ▸—Pain over I.
• ▸eye.

• ▸Tearings in ear cartilages.
• ▸—Twitchings in cartilage near orifice (1.
• ▸).
• ▸—Ears stuffed

without affecting hearing.

• ▸Yellow complexion.
• ▸—Face red with hot head.
• ▸—L.
• ▸side face red and hot, r.
• ▸pale and

cold.

Herpes on lips. Burning on the tongue. Pain in mouth, as from a splinter (Nit ac).

Painless ulcer, with one elevated side, in mouth opposite |. anterior upper molar, <

evening.—Acid saliva.

Eructations; tasteless; putrid at 11 and 3 o'clock.—Indigestion in afternoon a

quarter of an hour before dinner, with gnawing sinking at cardiac end of stomach, not hungry nor

faint.—Dyspepsia, flatus after food, acidity, pain from cardiac end of stomach to suprarenal

region, > movement, lasted all day, bowels slightly moved, pale clay-coloured feeces (query, if

from the drug, as I had had similar but slighter attacks), afterwards epigastric pain as above

returned, > by food, with occasional twisting-screwing feeling lower down.—(Gastric and

duodenal ulcers.—Recurring hzematemesis.)

Flatus; abdomen bloated.—Borborygmi.—Sharp colic, with tenesmus and with

raw feeling in rectum, afterwards in sleep unconscious seminal emission.—Enteritis and

peritonitis with meteorism; great prostration.

Urging in rectum and bladder, waking me at 2 a.m., borborygmi, soft stool —Stool

twice in one day.—Constipation.—Pruritus ani.

Sharp colic in rectum > passing fetid flatus; shortly after, soft stool,

preceded by, renewed colic.—Lancinations or slow pinchings in cellular tissue extending to

• ▸rectum, r.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Two soft diarrheeic stools daily.
• ▸—Stools mushy, reddish, ending with brown

jelly-like mucus.—Stool constipated, after much pressing, and, insufficient brown jelly-like

mucus after stool.

Sore pain in vesical region in evening.—Urine contained bile —Urine

high-coloured, a few lithates on standing.—It produces acute parenchymatous nephritis; sugar is

found in the urine, this generally does not come on until after albumen has appeared; glycosuria

is very characteristic and persistent; it also produces at times a large amount of oxalate of

• ▸lime.
• ▸".
• ▸—Profuse nocturnal urination.
• ▸—Urination profuse, painful, pale milky.
• ▸—Acute and chronic

• ▸diseases of adults.
• ▸—Diabetes insipidus.
• ▸—Diabetes mellitus —Nocturnal enuresis.
• ▸—Urine greenish

and smelling fishy.

During menses: vertigo; faint; flushing of upper part of body.—No

menstrual flow during diabetic attack; pale, anaemic; craves raw ham and tea.—Excessive

secretion of milk.

Desire increased, with loss of power. Dull backache, as after excessive coitus.

Bronchitis, with copious mucous expectoration and much emaciation;

chronic colds.—Cough with purulent discharge from 1. nostril; lung infiltrated with grey tubercle.

Lancinating pain throughout right lung toward the liver, stopping breathing. Violent palpitation; sensation of heaviness in stomach.

After going to bed, severe palpitation and pulsation all over from vertex, where it is

pulsative headache, to finger-tips—While writing, severe palpitation and feeling as if r. tonsil

swollen (which it is not).—Pulse: frequent; weak, small, slow.

Painful stiffness of posterior muscles of neck, morning.—Pain in r.

• ▸trapezius.
• ▸—Burning in r.
• ▸side of nape.
• ▸—Feeling of stretching along spine.
• ▸—Pressive and beaten

feeling in spinal column, most in region opposite stomach.

• ▸Pinching along back of nerves of 1.
• ▸arm.
• ▸—Drawings in r.
• ▸wrist-joint.
• ▸—Painful

drawing in joint of 1. middle ring-finger—Sharp, deep-seated lancinating pains in palmar surface

of 1. middle finger.

Pinching back of |. thigh along track of sciatic nerve.—Pains in knees; under

• ▸patellze, now one now the other.
• ▸—Lancinations in |.
• ▸calf-—Sudden cutting in |.
• ▸tendo Achillis

when stooping.—Violent and dull lancinations in |. os calcis—Dull pains in heels, chiefly

|.—Sharp pains in r. great toe-joint.

24. Generalities—Clonic spasms of muscles of nape of neck or extremities, which were at one

time extended, at another flexed, frequently repeated spontaneously on the slightest irritation,

muscles relaxed completely in intervals.—Sudden jerking of whole body, followed by violent

stitches in extensors and drawing back of head.—Great weakness after a paroxysm.—Uneasiness:

in morning; in afternoon.—Increased sensitiveness to cold; pale face.

Numb hands and feet. Hangnails inflamed; itching and redness of roots of nails.

Feels chilly very easily, passing shivers.—Shivering; burning in palms after

dark.—Shivering along spine and both arms.—Flashes of heat and redness of face and hands,

evening after a meal, with drowsiness.—Night-sweat.

Uranium Nitricum.

• ▸Nitrate of Uranium.
• ▸Uranyl Nitrate.
• ▸U022NO36H20.
• ▸Solution in distilled water.

Trituration.

• ▸Albuminuria.
• ▸Anus, pruritus of.
• ▸Diabetes, mellitus and insipidus.
• ▸Duodenum, ulcer of.

• ▸Enuresis, nocturnal.
• ▸Gastric ulcer.
• ▸Impotence.
• ▸Milk, excessive secretion of.
• ▸Ophthalmia.

• ▸Phosphaturia.
• ▸Seminal emissions.
• ▸Sleeplessness.
• ▸Stomatitis.
• ▸Stye.
• ▸Urine, fishy odour of;

incontinence of.

Compare: Elemental relatives; gastro-duodenal affections, Chrom., and K. bi.

• ▸Diabetes, Ph.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Syzyg.
• ▸, Thyr.
• ▸, Lac def.
• ▸, Lact.
• ▸ac.
• ▸Sinking immediately after meals, Ars.
• ▸, Cin.
• ▸,

• ▸Lyc.
• ▸, Sil.
• ▸, Stp.
• ▸Craves tea, Selen.

• ▸Compare: Upas antiaris-resinous exudation of Antiarus toxicaria, (a deadly poison to the muscular system.
• ▸It suspends both voluntary muscular action and that of the heart without causing convulsions.
• ▸Used in Java as an arrow poison (Merrell).
• ▸Differs in producing clonic spasms, violent vomiting, diarrhoea, great prostration).
• ▸Oxal ac. Upas when Bryonia fails (typhoid).

Antidote: Curare.

Third to sixth potency.

Upas-tree-Strychnos Tiente (UPAS TIENTE)

Produces tonic spasms, tetanus, and asphyxia.