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Urtica urens

(Urtica urens · Small stinging nettle)

The remedy of the nettle sting. In the materia medica, Urtica urens is associated with hives and blotchy, burning, stinging itch, minor burns that stay on the skin's surface, and changes in breast-milk supply.

Skin | Allergies | Injury & shock

Source

The fresh flowering small stinging nettle

Kingdom

Plant

Abbreviation

Urt-u.

Home acute kit

Usually prescribed by a homeopath

The classic picture

(a remedy is chosen when the whole picture fits the person, not from a single symptom)

Raised, itchy blotches and hives with burning and stinging

Minor burns and scalds confined to the surface of the skin

Itchy rashes that may alternate with joint pain

Too little or too much breast milk; complaints that return around the same time each year

Tends to feel worse

Cool, moist air

Water and bathing

Touch

Snowy air

How it compares

(remedies that are often confused with Urtica urens)

  • Apis

    (Apis mellifica)

    Also hives with puffy, stinging swelling, but Apis is worse for heat and better for cold.

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  • Cantharis

    (Cantharis vesicatoria)

    For deeper, fiercer burns and blisters; Urtica for surface burns and stinging rashes.

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  • Rhus toxicodendron

    (Rhus toxicodendron)

    Also itchy eruptions, but blistering and better for hot water and movement.

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From the classic texts

“Itching blotches. Urticaria, burning heat, with formication; violent itching. Consequences of suppressed nettlerash. Rheumatism alternates with nettle-rash. Burn confined to skin.”

William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1901)

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