Hydrangea arborescens, Seven-barks.

Please read the introduction to Boericke's tinctures.

A remedy for gravel, profuse deposit of white amorphous salts in urine. Calculus, renal colic, bloody urine. Acts on ureter. Pain in lumbar region. Dizziness. Oppression of chest.
Urine.--Burning in urethra and frequent desire. Urine hard to start. Heavy deposit of mucus. Sharp pain in loins, especially left. Great thirst, with abdominal symptoms and enlarged prostate (Ferr pic; Sabal). Gravelly deposits. Spasmodic stricture. Profuse deposit of white amorphous salts.
Relationship.--Compare: Lycopod; Chimaphil; Berberis; Pareira; Uva; Sabal; Oxydendron;
Geum
.Water Avens-(Severe jerking pains from deep in the abdomen to end of urethra; affections of bladder, with pains in penis; worse, eating; relaxed mucous membranes, with excessive and depraved secretions; imperfect digestion and assimilation).
Polytrichum.Haircap moss-(according to Dr. A. M. Cushing in mother tincture or infusion for enlarged prostateprostatitis).
Dose.--Tincture.


Boericke's Materia Medica, 1901, was written by William Boericke. Excerpt: The Tinctures.