About
Benzoic Acid is a profound homeopathic remedy primarily affecting the kidneys, joints, and urinary system. It is renowned for its specific action on gout and rheumatism, especially when associated with highly offensive urine. The remedy picture is strongly linked to metabolic disorders and offensive bodily discharges.
Keynotes
Urine is the keynote: highly offensive, strong, like horse's urine. Sudden shifting of rheumatic pains. Cracking in joints on motion. Profuse, offensive sweat.
Constitution
Often suited to individuals with a history of gout, rheumatism, or kidney issues. May be of a melancholic, apathetic temperament.
🤒Symptoms Profile
● General Symptoms
Highly offensive urine smelling like horse's urine, rheumatic pains shifting suddenly, cracking in joints, gouty deposits, dark, strong-smelling sweat, back pain extending to thighs
● Mental Symptoms
Indifference, apathy, sadness, feels forsaken, irritable, anxious about health, fixed ideas, mental dullness
● Physical Symptoms
Joints: cracking, gouty nodes, sudden shifting pains. Urinary: dark, offensive urine, albuminuria. Back: lumbar pain extending to thighs. Sweat: profuse and offensive.
Uses
Gout, rheumatoid arthritis, renal calculi (kidney stones), cystitis, offensive urine, offensive sweat, backache, joint pains with cracking
Modalities
Worse: from motion, cold air, uncovering, thinking of symptoms. Better: from warmth, dry weather, rest.
💊Dosage Information
Available Potencies
6C, 30C, 200C, 1M, 10M
Recommended Dosage
Typically 30C to 200C potency, repeated infrequently based on symptom intensity. Higher potencies (1M) for chronic conditions.
🔗Relationships & Affinities
🫀 Organ Affinity
Kidneys, urinary tract, joints (especially small joints), liver, sweat glands
🤝 Complementary
Berberis vulgaris, Lycopodium, Sabina
🛡️ Antidotes
Camphora, Coffea cruda
⚠️Important Cautions
Should not be used without clear indication of its key symptoms, especially offensive urine. Not for simple, non-offensive urinary complaints. Use cautiously in severe renal impairment.
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