EQUISETUM

Source indications

Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

  • Pain in the kidneys
  • Pain in the bladder
  • Pain in the urinary passages
  • Constant desire to urinate
  • Passes large quantities of clear, light-coloured urine without relief
  • Pain in bladder as from distension
  • Retention of urine
  • Dysuria
  • Enuresis
  • Severe dull pain which does not lessen after urination
  • Irritation of the bladder
  • Pain in sacro-iliac joints
  • Very irritable
  • Easily fatigued
  • Severe headache with intense pain in upper part of eyes or roof of orbit
  • Headache with heat of face without redness
  • Constrictive feeling across forehead
  • Sticking darting pains changing locality
  • Constriction of whole scalp
  • Continual desire to wrinkle up forehead
  • Skin over frontal bone very tight
  • Severe pain in roof of right orbit
  • Sharp pain in outer angle of right eye
  • Dull transient pain and stiff feeling behind left mastoid
  • Confused feeling in ears
  • Confusion of sounds
  • Confused noises
  • Fearful rumbling
  • Face flushed
  • Feeling of heat in face
  • As if blood pressed into face
  • Heat and burning without redness
  • Sharp sticking in throat
  • Excessive hunger
  • Appetite greatly increased
  • Distended feeling in abdomen
  • Dull heavy pains in either side of lower abdomen and bladder
  • Frequent desire to urinate not relieved by urinating
  • Slight pain in bowels with desire for stool
  • Three thin stools during the morning
  • Frequent inclination for stool with slight pain in bowels
  • Severe pain in lower abdomen with passage of fetid flatus
  • Sharp pain in hypogastrium with sticking-like pains in anus
  • Sharp pains on either side of hypogastrium extending to middle line
  • Smarting in anus during and after stool
  • Stool with great flatulence
  • Stool with aching in anus and feeling as if rectum would protrude
  • Feeling as if some feces still remained after stool
  • Slight pain in right kidney then in left extending down left side of sacrum
  • Dull pain in right kidney with urgent desire to urinate
  • Severe dull pain in bladder not relieved by urinating
  • Tenderness in region of bladder
  • Tenderness in right side of lower abdomen extending upward from groin
  • Pain and tenderness in bladder region with soreness of testicles extending up spermatic cords
  • Excessive burning in urethra while urinating
  • Sharp cutting pain in urethra
  • Pricking in urethra a short distance back from meatus
  • Biting itching in meatus relieved by scratching
  • Great desire to urinate but only a small quantity passes
  • Urgent desire to urinate with prickling and soreness of meatus from contact and pressure
  • Obliged to rise several times at night to urinate
  • Profuse urination with burning in urethra and sharp pain at root of penis
  • Passes smaller quantities and darker urine later
  • Passed small amount of urine but felt as if he had not urinated for hours
  • Urine cloudy
  • Great excess of mucus on standing in urine
  • Enuresis nocturnal and diurnal
  • Violent erections
  • Soreness of testicles and cords worse on left
  • Sharp stitch in left breast one inch to left and over nipple
  • Sharp pain in region of heart worse by inspiration
  • Pains in back especially while sitting relieved by lying on back and walking
  • Heavy sensation like a lump in right lumbar region
  • Severe rheumatic pains in region of sacro-lumbar joint
  • Pain through left hip-joint extending down outer side of left leg ending in front three inches above knee
  • Pain in upper part of shoulders and in region of vertebra prominens worse by least motion or contact
  • Pain in right shoulder to middle of upper arm
  • Pain in left shoulder with shivering over body and great heat of head
  • Pain in right hip-joint and near knee-joint
  • Knees very weak on least exertion
  • Dull heavy pain under left patella
  • On awakening sharp pain inner side of left knee relieved after moving about a short time
  • Very sleepy
  • Eyelids heavy
  • Sleep much disturbed by tiresome dreams of many persons places and things
  • Creeping chills beginning below and creeping up back