Urtica Urens a homeopathic first aid remedy for burns is one of nature’s gifts that it would behoove us all to know about. I spend a great deal of my day in the kitchen cooking for my family, and once in a while I get distracted and get one of those everyday kitchen burns. This is when I reach for the jar of Urtica urens sitting on the shelf above my cereals so that I have easy access to it when I need it. This cream relieves the pain and repercussions from the common first-degree household burn very easily. For more serious burns, I will usually combine it with Hypericum and Calendula creams, and for very serious burns I will take a dose of Cantharis 30C or Arsenicum album 30C internally to help with the pain and prevent infection.
Materia Medica of Urtica Urens
- Mind – Irritable; holds everything in contempt. Full of desires, for what they know not.
- Head – Bones of skull feel crushed or bruised. Pain extends to teeth and root of the tongue.
- Eyes – Inflamed, red. Pain through eyeballs. Profuse lachrymation. Cornea dim. Eyes tire from near vision. State of vision constantly changing. Spasm of accommodation from the irritable weakness of the ciliary muscle. Nausea from looking on moving objects.
- Face – Blue rings around eyes. Periodical orbital neuralgia, with lachrymation, photophobia, and smarting eyelids.
- Nose – Coryza, with stoppage of nose and nausea. Epistaxis.
- Stomach – Tongue usually clean. Mouth, moist; much saliva. Constant nausea and vomiting, with pale, twitching of face. Vomits food, bile, blood, mucus. Stomach feels relaxed as if hanging down. Hiccough.
- Abdomen – Amebic dysentery with tenesmus; while straining pain so great that it nauseates; little thirst. Cutting, clutching; worse, around the navel. Body rigid; stretched out stiff.
- Stools – Pitch-like green as grass, like frothy molasses, with griping at the navel. Dysenteric, slimy.
- Female – Uterine hæmorrhage, profuse, bright, gushing, with nausea. Vomiting during pregnancy. Pain from navel to the uterus. Menses too early and too profuse.
- Respiratory – Dyspnœa; constant constriction in chest. Asthma. Yearly attacks of difficult shortness of breathing. Continued sneezing; coryza; a wheezing cough. A cough incessant and violent, with every breath. Chest seems full of phlegm but does not yield to coughing. Bubbling rales. A suffocative cough; the child becomes stiff, and blue in the face. Whooping-cough, with a nosebleed, and from the mouth. Bleeding from lungs, with nausea; feeling of constriction; rattling cough. Croup. Hæmoptysis from slightest exertion (Millef). Hoarseness, especially at end of a cold. Complete aphonia.
- Fever – Intermittent fever, irregular cases, after Quinine. Slightest chill with much heat, nausea, vomiting, and dyspnœa. Relapses from improper diet.
- Sleep – With eyes half open. Shocks in all limbs on going to sleep (Ign).
- Extremities – Body stretched stiff, followed by spasmodic jerking of arms towards each other.
- Skin – Pale, lax. Blue around eyes. Military rash.
Indications of Urtica Urens
Urticaria (Hives)
- Urticaria from shellfish allergy.
- Urticaria that alternates with rheumatism.
- Itching, burning and stinging hives.
Bites and Stings
- Insect bites and stings that swell, itch and burn.
Burns
- First and second-degree burns.
Breast and Breastfeeding Problems
- Engorgement following birth.
- Swelling of breasts with burning and stinging.
- Failure of letdown reflex or deficient breast milk production.
Limb and Joint Problems
- Acute Gout.
- Rheumatism or bruised pain of the right deltoid muscle.
Allergies
- Reactions from eating shellfish.
- Skin rash due to food allergies
Others
- Agalactia
- Anemia
- Bee-stings
- Burns
- Dysentery
- Erythema
- Gout
- Hemorrhages
- Lactation
- Leucorrhoea
- Menorrhagia
- Renal colic
- Rheumatism
- Throat sore
- Uremia.
- Urticaria
- Vertigo
- Whooping-cough
Dosage of Urtica Urens
- Adult and children 2 years of age and older – Dissolve 5 pellets under the tongue 3 times a day until symptoms are relieved or as directed by a doctor.
- Adults/children – At the onset of symptoms turn upside down and twist clear cap until 3 to 5 pellets fall. Allow pellets to dissolve in the mouth. Repeat 3 times a day until relieved or as directed by a physician.
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