Urinary Symptoms & its Indications


Homeopathy treatment for Urinary Symptoms & its Indications from the Homeopathic Therapeutics by Lilienthal. Homeopathic remedies for the treatment of Urinary Symptoms & its Indications…


Aconite [Acon]

Skin dry and hot, great thirst unrest, nervous excitement, fear and anxiety, pain in region of bladder; retention of urine, with stitches in kidneys, frequent and violent urging to urinate, with scanty emission of red, turbid urine.

Aloe [Aloe]

Incontinence of urine, especially in old people with enlarged prostata and tendency to diarrhoea; every time on passing urine; feeling as if some thin stool would escape with it; urgent desire to urinate, he can hardly retain the urine.

Alumina [Alum]

Frequent urination at night; frequent emission of every small quantities of light colored urine with great straining, severe smarting and burning with the feeling as a if a few drops remained in urethra which could not be expelled; feeling of weakness in bladder and genitals in the evening with fear that he will wet the bed, burning during micturition, and with the discharge of urine a desire to defaecate; the stream assumes a spiral shape.

Ambra [Ambr]

Inability to retain urine after physical exertion, urging to urinate early after riding, so that often be cannot retain the urine; pain in bladder and rectum at same time; copious at night, urine of penetrating odor when standing.

Ammonium-benz [Am-be]

Black urine albuminuria; head heavy, stupid; soreness in region of right kidney.

Anantherum [Anan]

Frequent emission of urine, which is turbid or soon becomes so; sensation of numbness and obstruction in kidneys; or as if kidneys and bladder were always full and swollen, bladder cannot hold the smallest quantity of urine; difficult, painful intermittent urination it stops and commences again the same moment; fulness and distension of the bladder, with inability to urinate, urine turbid, thick and full of mucus, retention of urine with retraction of the urethral canal, urine brownish or yellowish and bloody incontinence of urine, with involuntary urination when walking, and even at night in bed during sleep, as if caused by paralysis of the neck of the bladder; tenesmus vesicae with ischuria.

Angustura [Ang]

Tenesmus of the bladder followed by profuse emission of white urine, tenesmus after micturition, one is obliged frequently to urinate, although but a few dark-yellow drops are emitted each time, causing a burning pain orange colored urine soon becomes turbid.

Apis [Apis]

Burning in the urethra before, during and after micturition; disagreeable sensation in the bladder, with a bearing down in the region of the sphincter and frequent desire to urinate; incontinence of urine, with great irritation of the parts; worse at night and when coughing almost incessant desire to pass urine; high colored or straw-colored with brickdust sediment.

Argentum-nitr [Arg-n]

Paralytic debility of lumbar region kidneys, urine passed unconsciously and uninterruptedly; when going to defaecate urine passes first, then faeces involuntarily; incontinentia urinae most of the time.

Arnica [Arn]

Affections from mechanical injuries, with retention of urine tenesmus of the neck of the bladder, and ineffectual efforts to urinate; urging the urine dropping out involuntarily; one has to stand a great while before the urine is emitted; brown urine with brick-red sediment; urine strongly acid, specific gravity increased.

Arsenicum [Ars]

Retention of urine, as if the bladder were paralyzed; scanty urine passing with difficulty, burning in the urethra during micturition; tenesmus and strangury, great desire to urinate but does not pass any; urine copious and burning hot, involuntary emission of urine in the night when sleeping; urine profuse and dark-brown, turbid, when emitting it, much sediment in the urine haematuria.

Asparagus [Aspar]

Urging to urinate, burning in the urethra; frequent urging with fine stitches in the orifice of the urethra, urine scanty and cloudy a little straw colored urine is passed, which becomes turbid immediately after being passed, after urinating burning in the urethra, with a sensation as if there were some urine yet to pass.

Asafoetida [Asaf]

Urine warm and of a pungent ammoniacal smell, spasm in bladder during and after micturition soreness in kidneys.

Aurum [Aur]

Constant desire to urinate, urine is like buttermilk, more fluid is passed than is drunk, urine ammoniacal decomposes rapidly smells like the otorrhoea.

Baryta-carb [Bar-c]

Constant urging and frequent emissions of urine every other day, in old age frequent micturition; urine clear on passing soon becomes cloudy, before urgent desire; during; burning in urethra, after renewed straining with dribbling, almost complete incontinence of urine and faces.

Belladonna [Bell]

Difficult micturition; the urine being passed guttatim with frequent urging, constant dribbling of urine; sharp stitches low down in the abdomen, in the direction of the perineum, pains come on suddenly and cease in the same way; feeling in the back as if it would break; paralysis of the sphincter vesicae; enuresis with profuse perspiration; urine yellow and turbid; sometimes depositing a reddish sediment.

Benzoic-acid [Benz-ac]

Vesicular catarrh; irritability of the bladder; nocturnal enuresis in children, too frequent desire to evacuate the bladder, urine being normal decrease of the quantity of urine, which is thick and bloody urine has strong odor like that of horse and contains excess of hippuric acid (Nitr-ac) urine brownish, cloudy, alkaline or dark-reddish, high specific gravity and acid reaction, sometimes of a putrid cadaverous smell; morbid condition of urine, as in persons with calculous or gouty diathesis dysuria senilis, when gravel is trifling and the irritable state of bladder and pains are induced by other causes, with too frequent desire to urinate, though urine appears normal.

Berberis-vulg [Berb]

Violent stitching pain in the bladder extending from the kidneys into the urethra, with urging to urinate, frequent recurring crampy pain in the bladder; cutting constrictive pain in the bladder when full of empty; burning pain in urethra, stitching pain in the female urethra beginning in the bladder, violent stitches in the bladder, which compel one to urinate; urine dark- yellow, red becoming turbid, copious mucous sediment mixed with a whitish-gray, and later a reddish mealy sediment, slowly becoming clear, but retaining its blood-red color, symptoms of urinary organs accompanied with pains in the loins and hips (Pareira brava, pain in thighs) renal gravel and calculi (urates, rheumatoid arthritis); worse from slight fatigue; the aggravation increasing as the fatigue increases.

Borax [Bor]

Worse before urination, desire to urinate without being able to pass a drop, violent, urgent desire to urinate, can scarcely hold the urine, frequent micturition preceeded by cries, smarting in urethra after urinating; infant screams before urinating urine hot with peculiar pungent, foetid odor (Petroselinum)

Brachyglottis-repens [Brach]

Constant inclination to urinate, with pains in bladder and renewed desire immediately after the act, as if the bladder were not emptied; sense of swashing in bladder.

Cactus-grand [Cact]

Desire to urinate; after he had desired to do so for a long time he at last succeeds to pass water abundantly constriction at neck of bladder, which at first prevents the passage of urine; but after great straining he urinates as usual; frequent and profuse urination.

Calcarea-carb [Calc]

Pain in the bladder and cutting on urinating; burning in the urethra before and after urinating fine tickling stitches through the urethra, much sour-smelling urine passed at night; trickling of urine after micturition; involuntary passage of urine on every motion during menstruation, nocturnal enuresis, urine very dark colored, without sediment; urine has a pungent odor, is clear and pale, offensive dark brown urine, with a whitish sediment; the urine soon becomes turbid, and deposits a whitish flaky sediment; a fatty pellicle forms on the surface strangury always brought on by standing on a cold damp pavement.

Camphora [Camph]

Diminished power of the bladder, retention of urine, with urging to urinate, tenesmus of the neck of the bladder, painful urination; burning urine, strangury; the urine passes in a thin stream, as if the urethra were contracted, yellowish-green turbid urine of a musty odor, brown urine red urine, the urine on standing becomes very turbid and thick of a whitish green color, without deposits of sediment urine contains mucus without sediment; urine with white or red sediment; urine profuse; colorless, frequent or scanty.

Cannabis-ind [Cann-i]

Inflammation of the bladder, burning, scalding, stinging pain, before, during and after micturition, urging to urinate, with much straining, copious discharge of clear, bright-colored urine, the urine passes freely at times, then again in small quantities, with burning and biting; urine dribbles out after the stream ceases, aching in the kidneys, thick red urine.

Cannabis-sat [Cann-s]

Enuresis, paralysis of the bladder drawing pain in the region of kidneys, extending into the inguinal glands, with nauseous sensation at pit of stomach, burning while urinating, but especially afterwards, stitches along the urethra when not urinating, white or red, turbid urine, urine full of fibres with mucus or pus.

Samuel Lilienthal
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal (1815-1891) was from Germany, and became a pioneer homeopath in America. He received his Doctor of Medicine Degree from the University of Munich in 1838. After he moved to the United States, he was hired as Professor of Clinical Medicine at New York College for Women, and also as Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases at the New York Homeopathic College.
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal was the author of many great books including “Homeopathic Therapeutics”. For many years, with the support of Dr. Constantine Hering, he was the editor of the North American Journal of Homeopathy. Dr. Lilienthal passed away on February 2nd 1891 in San Francisco.