# Eryngium Aquaticum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Hot
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Acts on the mucus membranes, producing thick yellow mucus discharges  from eyes, 
ears, nose, mouth, bowels,  urethra and vagina. Cough with a sense of constriction. Hemorrhages from 
stomach and bowels. Influenza. 
It is a vulnerary, antidoting the effect of blows. Headaches, expanding sensation in forehead, dull, dragging 
pain in occiput, neck and shoulders. Seminal and prostate weakness. For spermatorrhea properly so called 
or emission of semen without erections. Strangury with nervous weakness. Sweat smells like urine, in evening.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better from heat. Worse from motion, mental exertion. Bending head forward aggravates head 
symptoms. Turning eyes causes pain in them. Most symptoms occur on left side and extend or move from part 
to part.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Thoughts are confused.
- Verysoberand depressed in spirits.
- Very dull at night.
- Not able to think steadily 
on any subject.
- Cannot concentrate on any subject, the effort causes heavy full, pain if persisted at.
- Thoughts are confused.
- Verysoberand depressed in spirits.
- Very dull at night.
- Not able to think steadily 
on any subject.
- Cannot concentrate on any subject, the effort causes heavy full, pain if persisted at.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo with an expanding sensation in frontal region above eyes, worse stooping, causing dimness 
of sight.
- COMMENTS - Ery-a.
- has two remarkable cures, reported by Dr.
- Parks.
- In the first, a married man injured his 
testicles by jumping upon a horse, this was followed by discharge of what was considered semen for fifteen 
years during which time he was treated by allopaths and homeopaths.
- The emissions were without erections, day or night, and followed by great lassitude.
- Dr.
- Parks tried a number 
of the usual remedies without permanent benefit.
- He then gave a half grain dose, three times a day of the third 
 
 
decimal trituration of the “Eryngium aquaticum.” In  five days the emissions were entirely suppressed and did 
not return.
- The second case concerned a married man who was not conscious of having sustained any injury, who was 
troubled for eight to ten years with emissions at night with erections The semen also passed by day with urine.
- The loss of semen was followed by great lassitude and depression, continuing from twelve to forty-eight hours.
- There was also partial impotence.
- He had been treated al- lopathically.
- Dr.
- Parks gave him Ph-ac.
- for two weeks without material benefit.
- He then the Ery- a., as above with the same 
excellent and prompt result.
- J.
- Whitfield cured three cases of kidney colic with stones (two left side, the other not stated) with Ery -a.
- Hale found it useful in epidemic influenza when there  was raw, smarting burning in throat and larynx, with 
constant irritating cough and expectoration of yellow mucus.
- Loss of energy and nervous weakness.
- W.
- K.
- Leonard reported the following case of a young Methodist minister, apparently healthy, who was jus t 
over his twelfth attack of kidney colic.
- The attacks had recurred at intervals of two to four weeks and lasted from one to three days.
- They were so 
weakening as to keep him incapacitated in the intervals.
- He had old-school treatment including morphine and quinine, without benefit.
- The attacks were accompanied 
with severe nervous chills and it was for these that the quinine had been prescribed.
- Ery-a.
- tincture, five drops 
three times a day, put an end to the trouble.

### Head
- Sharp, shooting pain over left eye, when sitting in stooping posture leaves eye, passes into neck and 
along muscles of shoulder and beneath scapula.
- Shoot ing in coronary region and in right side of face from 
eyes to teeth in morning.
- Dull, dragging pain in occiput, neck and shoulders, when less severe in head is worse 
in shoulder.
- Scalp sore, combing hair causes pain (Cina.).
- Kidneys - Congestion of kidneys with dull pain in back, running down the ureters and limbs.
- Pain behind 
pubes.
- Kidney pain, colic  (Berb., Pareir., Calc.).
- Spas modic stricture.
- Tenesmus of bladder and urethra.
- Difficult and frequent urination.
- Must urinate every five minutes, urine dropping away all the time and burning 
like fire.
- Stinging, burning pain in urethra, behind glans during urination.
- Irritable bladder from enlarged prostate 
gland or from pressure of uterus.
- Sharp, shooting pain over left eye, when sitting in stooping posture leaves eye, passes into neck and 
along muscles of shoulder and beneath scapula.
- Shoot ing in coronary region and in right side of face from 
eyes to teeth in morning.
- Dull, dragging pain in occiput, neck and shoulders, when less severe in head is worse 
in shoulder.
- Scalp sore, combing hair causes pain (Cina.).
- Kidneys - Congestion of kidneys with dull pain in back, running down the ureters and limbs.
- Pain behind 
pubes.
- Kidney pain, colic  (Berb., Pareir., Calc.).
- Spas modic stricture.
- Tenesmus of bladder and urethra.
- Difficult and frequent urination.
- Must urinate every five minutes, urine dropping away all the time and burning 
like fire.
- Stinging, burning pain in urethra, behind glans during urination.
- Irritable bladder from enlarged prostate 
gland or from pressure of uterus.

### Eyes
- Purulent inflammation of left eye, sticking discharge causing gumming of lids, conjunctiva granular and 
rough.
- Muscles of eyes feel stiff, pain on mov ing them quickly.
- Burning, sensitive to light.
- Effects of exposure 
to strong light, squinting, sclerotitis, watery or purulent discharges.

### Ears
- Bruised tearing pain, as if ears be ing torn off.
- Inflammation of Eustachian tube, left ear swollen in and 
out, tender to pressure, constant aching, bleeding readily, thick white, bloody, foul -smelling pus.
- Continued 
singing and ringing with creaking sound in left ear.

### Mouth
- Thick, tenacious, disagreeable mucus in mouth.
- Nose - Profuse, thick, yellow mucus discharge.

### Throat
- Chronic laryngitis.
- Smarting, raw pain along left side of throat, dry ton gue.
- Intense redness, slight 
swelling without pain, profuse secretion of thick whitish mucus.

### Chest
- Oppression of chest, feeling of fulness, inability to take a full breath.
- Oppression of chest, feeling of full ness inability to take a long breath.
- Short, hacking cough.
- Cough 
with sensation of constriction in throat.
- Smarting in throat and larynx.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Partial anorexia.
- Hollowness or emptiness in stomach with heavy, dragging pain.
- Nausea, followed 
by acrid belchings.
- Spitting of bright arterial blood, mixed with black clots, with burning in epigastrium after a 
blow on the stomach.
- Burning in stomach or esophagus after taking the drug.
- Severe colicky or cramping pains in small intestines.
- Severe pain in left groin and testicle.

### Urinary & Genital
- Discharge of prostatic fluid from slight causes.
- Desire suppressed, then excited with lewd dreams and 
pollutions.
- Seminal emissions without erections, with lassitude (Dios., Phos -ac).
- Emissions without erections, 
day and night, followed by great lassitude after injury to testicles.
- Gonorrhea with painful erec tions.
- Gleet.
- Leucorrhea.

### Neck & Back
- When headache is less severe, it is worse in neck and shoulders.
- Weakness and heavy dragging pain 
in lumbar region.