The urine has the odor or violets.

Tongue: smooth, glossy, red, as if deprived of papillae, or as if glazed ( Pyr. ); elevated papillae; coating peels off in patches leaving bright red spots, or entire coating cleans off suddenly (in exanthemata); dry and red; burning in tip (compare, Mur. ac. ).

Abdomen: extremely sensitive to touch; distention, flatulence, excessive tympanitis; meteorism ( Colch. ).

Diarrhoea: stool, watery, greenish, mucous; frequent, profuse, fetid, bloody; burning in anus and rectum, fainting and exhaustion, after ( Ars. ).

Worms: with foul breath, choking ( Cina , Spig. ); dry, hacking cough; tickling at anus; ascarides, lumbrici, tapeworm segments passed.

Haematuria: blood thoroughly mixed with the urine; sediment, like coffee-grounds; cloudy, smoky, albuminous; profuse, dark or black, painless.

Congestion and inflammation of viscera; kidneys, bladder, lungs, intestines, uterus; with haemorrhage, and malignant tendency.

Purpurea haemorrhagica; fresh ecchymosis in great numbers from day to day ( Sulph. ac. ).

Ascites with anasarca, in organic lesions of kidneys; dropsy after scarlatina ( Apis , Hell. , Lach. ).

Haemorrhages; from bowels, with ulceration; passive, dark, with ulceration or epithelial degeneration.

Violent burning and drawing pains in kidney, bladder and urethra ( Berb. , Can. , Canth. ).

Violent burning and cutting in bladder; tenesmus; sensitive hypogastrium; cystitis and retention from atony of fundus.

Albuminuria; acute, in early stages, when blood and albumin abound more than casts and epithelium; after diphtheria, scarlatina, typhoid.

Urine rich in albumin and blood, but few if any casts; < from living in damp dwellings.

Strangury; spasmodic retention of urine.

Relations. – Compare: [Alumen], Arn. , Ars. , Canth. , Lach. , Nit. ac.

Is recommended as a prophylactic in malarial and African fevers.