Write down the urinary symptoms of terebinthina.

Urinary Symptoms of Terebinthina

Terebinthina is prepared from the oleoresin of Pistacia terebinthus (and related species like Pinus palustris / Terebinthinae oleum). It has a strong affinity for the urinary tract, producing inflammation, hemorrhage, and strangury.

Key Urinary Symptoms

Pain & Strangury
1. Burning, cutting pain in the urethra, especially during and after urination
2. Strangury, painful, difficult urination with tenesmus
3. Violent burning in the region of the kidneys
Dull, heavy, pressive pain in the kidneys (often with hematuria)
4. Dragging, drawing pain along the ureters

Urine Characteristics
1. Smoky, turbid urine looks like coffee grounds or mixed with blood (a *keynote*)
2. Bloody urine (hematuria) often with dark, passive bleeding
3. Urine scanty, suppressed, or entirely bloody
4. Urine smells of violets (a characteristic symptom of turpentine)
5. Thick, ropy, mucous sediment

Bladder
1. Inflammation of the bladder (cystitis) with burning and tenderness
2. Tenesmus of the bladder constant urging, passes only drops
3. Distension and soreness in the hypogastrium

Kidney Region
1. Nephritis, acute inflammation with burning, drawing pains
2. Congestion and pressure in the kidneys
3. Worse from pressure, lying on the affected side

Concomitants
1. Drowsiness / stupor (with urinary suppression
2. Nausea and vomiting
3. Coldness of the lower limbs
4. Tongue smooth, glossy, red

Modalities
1. Worse: from lying on the affected (painful) side, from pressure, from cold
2. Better: from warmth, from motion (in some cases)

Clinical Indications
1. Hematuria (especially passive, dark bleeding)
2. Acute nephritis and Bright’s disease
3. Cystitis with strangury
4. Gonorrhea with bloody urine and burning
5. Strangury from cantharides poisoning
6. Post-surgical urinary retention with blood