ORGANOPATHICS IN RENAL CASES (ELEVATED UREA AND CREATININE)

1) ABELMOSCHUS:

1. Oedema.
2. Feeling of thoracic constriction.
3. Excessive salivation with a feeling of dryness in the mouth.

Dose: Q or 6C/30C

2) APOCYNUM CANNABINUM:

1. It causes an intense sinking sensation; drowsiness and a bewildered state of mind. 
2. The dropsies of Apocynum are general dropsies with or without organic disease.
3. Hale says, kidneys are the peculiar seat of operation of the drug, and that it is in renal dropsies that it is especially curative. 
4. It has cured diabetes insipidus with “sense of sinking in pit of stomach with great debility.” 
5. The excretions are diminished, especially urine and sweat. 
6. The dropsy is characterized by great thirst and gastric irritability. 

Associated Characteristics:

1. Hydrocephalus has been cured with it: “Child lying in stupor, with constant involuntary motion of one arm and leg.” “Paralysis of left side; one eye motionless, one rolling.”
2. Hæmorrhages, especially menorrhagia, and hæmorrhages at change of life have been cured with it.
3. Hale has found it restore the menses when given in cases of dropsy.
4. Diarrhœa is < immediately after eating.
5. A diminished frequency of the pulse is a prime indication.

Dose: Q or 6C/30C

3) BOERRHAVIA DIFFUSA:

1. Dropsy.
2. Scanty, high coloured urine; strangury.

Dose: Q 

4) EUCALYPTUS GLOBOSUS:

1. Slow digestion is the characteristic. 
2. The fever may be of relapsing or intermittent type- Periodicity is marked
3. Chronic desquamative nephritis; pyelonephritis; hydronephrosis.
4. Sensation as if bladder had lost its expulsive force.
5. Burning and tenesmus on urinating, increased urea.
6. Urine smells of violets. 

Associated Characteristics:

1. Bronchitis in old and feeble persons.
2. Asthma in debilitated, anaemic subjects, with terrible dyspnoea.
3. Moist asthma in bronchitic subjects; it relieves cough and aids in expulsion of thick mucus.
4. Expectoration: white, thick, frothy mucus.
5. The provings show that it causes most of the ordinary influenzal symptoms.

Dose: Q 

5) JUNIPERUS COMMUNIS:

1. It has a very powerful action on the kidneys, and has cured cases of renal dropsy.
2.  Hale also commends it in certain coughs with scanty, loaded urine.
3. Chronic pyelitis. Weight in kidney region. 
4. Old persons, with poor digestion and scanty secretion of urine.

Dose: Q or 6C/30C 

6) KALIUM CHLORICUM:

1. Nephritiswithitching in urethra and scrotum.
2. Inability to empty bladder. 
3. Could pass only a few drops of bloody urine. 
4. Frequent micturition; with irritation about bladder and urethra. 
5. Urine: increased in evening and night; scanty; urine containing albumen, altered blood, drawn off by catheter. 
6. Albuminuria during gestation.

Associated Characteristics:

1. Stomatitis; ulcerative and follicular, mucous surface red. 
2. Mercurial stomatitis (as a mouth wash). 
3. Profuse secretion of acid saliva with fetor. 
4. Parenchymatous nephritis with stomatitis.

Dose: 6X or 30C/200C

7) KALI NITRICUM:

1. Its “diuretic” properties are utilised homœopathically in diabetes insipidus. 
2. Suppurative nephritis.
3. Its also used for incontinence of urine in children.
4. Much external sensitiveness—of scalp, abdomen and testes.
5. The mental state of K. n. is chiefly one of peevishness, fretfulness, and ennui. 
6. Gastro-intestinal inflammation, with much debility, call for this remedy.
7. Menorrhagia with flow of ink like blackness, this is very characteristic