Urea


Urea signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Urea is used…


      Carbamide. The chief solid constituent of the urine of mammals. (White crystals.) CO(NH2)2. Trituration. Solution (also tincture or solution of the nitrate _ Urea nitrica).

Clinical

Albuminuria. Diabetes. Dropsy. Eczema, gouty. Gout. Liver, cirrhosis of. Tuberculosis. Uremia.

Characteristics

The failure of the kidneys to eliminate Urea from the blood leads to uremic intoxication, delirium, convulsions, and coma. On general indications *Urea has been used in medicine by both schools. Merck mentions that it is diuretic, and is used in cirrhosis of liver, pleurisy, renal calculus. Allen cites from Mauthner two cases of renal dropsy with symptoms of general intoxication in which *Urea mit., gr. ii., divided into three doses and given two hours apart, cured brilliantly. Burnett has

used both *Urea 6 and Uric acid 6 in gouty eczema, “where the gouty eczema has been the cutaneous outlet for the constitution.” Burnett gave *Urea in gouty cases where the urine was thin and of low specific gravity, “it thickens the urine and gives great relief to the patient.” Arthur H. Buch (*Medorrhinum Press, Aug 14, 1901) relates cases of tuberculosis cured, on the plan originated by Harper, of Nottingham, with *Urea in 20-to 30-grain doses three times a day. *Urea, Buch says, “is formed in the spleen, lymph and secreting glands, but principally by the liver.” Under the treatment, lupoid nodules disappeared, tuberculous glands disappeared, tuberculous joints improved. No ill-effects of the treatment were noticed, “on the contrary, the action has evidently been in many cases that of a nervous tonic.” Villers *F. of Hcs., iv. 403) examined the urine of an intensely neurasthenic woman, suffering from severe asthma and found 4.5 per cent. of *Urea instead of the usual 2.5. In order to find out the effect of *Urea on the healthy he took for five days *Urea 15X., five drops thrice daily. He was then compelled to stop by the severity of the symptoms. He gave the same dose to a patient, a woman. She begged after a short time to be allowed to discontinue the medicine, as it affected her so painfully, causing constant urging to urinate, much sediment in the urine, intolerable sensation in abdomen and burning of the skin. The symptoms of Villers and this patient are marked (V) in the Schema.

Relations

*Compare: Urinum, Uric acid, Thios., Urt-u. Diuresis, Thyr. Tuberculosis, Tuberculinum, Bac.

SYMPTOMS.

Head

Head very dull, as if filled with a very heavy lump (V).

Eyes

Itching and profuse watering of eyes (agg. V).

Abdomen

In right hypochondrium, a steady, dull sensation (V). Intolerable sensation in abdomen and burning of the skin (V).

Urinary Organs

Constant urging to urinate, beginning at root of penis (V). Constant urging, with much sediment in urine (V). From bladder to her groins a fatiguing, tearing pain worse standing (V), Profuse diuresis with rapid diminution of dropsy. Albuminuria, bloody urine, general dropsy, intermittent heart (boy, 7, *Urea nit. gr. ii., taken in three doses at two hours’ interval, cured). Delirium, nose-bleed, urine brown, very albuminous, oedema of pudenda, ascites, pulse small, slow, attacks of suffocation (girl, 6, *Ur. nit. as above, urine increased, swelling decreased, albumen disappeared).

Male Sexual Organs

Itching along sulcus of glans and a general tired feeling (agg. V.).

Generalities

General uneasiness, felt ill, poisoned (V). Uremia. Acted as a nervous tonic in tuberculous patients.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica