Squilla Maritima – A Homeopathic Remedy

Squilla was given in the olden times in all lung, bronchial, and kidney affections; pneumonia, asthma, scanty urine, and dropsical affections.

Common Name: Sea Onion

Sphere of action: Red sea onion affects the serous and mucous membranes of the respiratory and digestive tract and acts also on the kidneys, heart, and spleen. Valuable in chronic bronchitis of old people with mucous rales, dyspnśa, and scanty urine.

Guiding Symptoms:

• It is a slow-acting medicine and is useful for those conditions which require several days to reach their maximum.
• Exudations and profuse secretions.
• Dropsy; with profuse urine.
• Gurglings.
• Cardio-urinary effects.
• During the heat redness of the face, followed by paleness, without coldness.
• Chilliness towards the evening when walking, not while sitting.
• Heat of the whole body, with cold hands and feet, with aversion to be uncovered.
• Insatiable appetite.
• Thirst for cold water, but the dyspnoea compels her to take but a sip at a time.

Particulars:

Respiratory:

1. Fluent coryza; margins of nostrils feel sore. Sneezing; throat irritated; short, dry cough; must take a deep breath.
2. Cough worse morning and evening.
3. In asthma drinks in sips; and stitches in chest (left).
4.  Cough provoked by taking a deep breath or cold drinks, from exertion, change from warm to cold air.
5. Loose morning cough is more severe than dry evening cough.
6. Pleurisy. Broncho- pneumonia.
7. Sneezing with coughing.
8. About 2 A. M. to 12 or 2 P. M. there is the most dyspnoea from filling up of the chest with mucus; this same feeling returns during the hour, but it is from cardiac weakness.
9. Nasal discharge acrid, corroding, worse in the morning; violent sneezing.
10. Expectoration; easy, heavy; difficult; in small round balls; of sweetish taste; white or reddish; offensive.

Urinary:

• Frequent urging to urinate, with profuse discharge of pale urine.
• Continuous, painful pressure on the bladder.
• Inability to retain the urine.

Eyes:

• Feel irritable; child bores into them with fists.
• Sensation as if swimming in cold water.

Worked By: Sunitha Asir (Final BHMS)