About
Urtica is the great remedy for urticaria (hives) that burn and sting, exactly like nettle stings. It also has important action on the breasts, helping to increase or decrease milk flow as needed, and on uric acid metabolism making it useful in gout. The characteristic is intense burning, stinging, itching eruptions.
Keynotes
BURNING STINGING ITCHING eruptions like nettle rash. Urticaria worse from bathing, exercise, warmth. For breast milk: low potency increases, high potency decreases. Violent itching, patient driven to scratch despite making worse. Rheumatism alternating with hives.
Constitution
Anyone prone to hives and urticaria. Those with uric acid problems. Nursing mothers with milk issues. People sensitive to shellfish.
🤒Symptoms Profile
● General Symptoms
Urticaria with violent itching and burning, hives from shellfish, gout with burning joints, insufficient or excessive lactation, burns first degree with stinging, rheumatism alternating with urticaria
● Mental Symptoms
Not prominently marked. Generally irritable from the discomfort. May feel anxiety with skin symptoms.
● Physical Symptoms
Intense burning and stinging of skin. Red raised wheals. Worse bathing, exercise, touch. Joints burn and sting. Breast milk either excessive or deficient. First degree burns with stinging pain.
Uses
Acute urticaria especially from shellfish, to increase or decrease breast milk, burns with stinging, gout with itching, summer itching, insect bites that form welts, bee stings
Modalities
WORSE: Bathing, exercise, warmth, touch, cool moist air, after sleep, shellfish. BETTER: Lying down, rubbing.
💊Dosage Information
Available Potencies
6C, 30C, 200C, Mother Tincture (topically for burns)
Recommended Dosage
30C every 15-30 minutes for acute hives. To increase milk: 30C three times daily. To decrease milk: 200C twice daily. MT topically for burns.
🔗Relationships & Affinities
🫀 Organ Affinity
Skin, mammary glands, uric acid metabolism, joints
🤝 Complementary
Apis (similar eruptions but Apis less stinging more swelling)
🛡️ Antidotes
Chamomilla, Dock leaf (traditional)
⚠️Important Cautions
Identify and remove allergen causing urticaria. May need frequent repetition in acute cases.
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