Solidago virgaurea
The great kidney remedy. Pain in kidneys, dark, scanty, difficult urine with albumin and phosphates. Useful when well-indicated remedies fail in kidney disease. Prostatic hypertrophy. Hay fever from goldenrod.
Source
Prepared from the fresh flowering plant of Solidago virgaurea (Asteraceae).
Available Potencies
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Keynote Symptoms
Kidney affections — dark, scanty, reddish-brown urine, difficult, with albumin, phosphates, sediment. Pain in kidneys extending to bladder and abdomen. Backache from kidney origin. Useful when well-indicated remedies fail to act in kidney and urinary disease. Prostatic enlargement with difficult urination. Hay fever.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Depression from kidney disease. Apprehension. Dreads the future. Easily distracted.
General Symptoms
Kidney and urinary system primarily affected. Worse from pressure, cold, damp, walking. Better from profuse urination.
Physical Symptoms
Back
Pain in kidney region — dull, aching, extending to bladder. Backache of kidney origin. Worse from pressure.
Urinary
Urine dark, scanty, reddish-brown, thick, with heavy sediment. Albumin in urine. Phosphates. Difficult urination. Dysuria. Renal colic. Clear copious urine alternating with scanty dark urine. Prostatic enlargement.
Nose
Hay fever from goldenrod pollen. Nasal congestion. Paroxysmal sneezing.
Abdomen
Flatulence. Enlarged liver. Pain from kidneys extending to abdomen.
Male Genitalia
Prostatic hypertrophy. Difficult urination from enlarged prostate. Frequent nightly urination.
Extremities
Edema of feet and legs from kidney disease.
Modalities
Better From
Profuse urination
Worse From
Pressure, cold, damp, walking, kidney region pressure
Constitutional Type
Not strongly constitutional. Organ remedy for kidney disease. Those with chronic urinary complaints.
Clinical Indications
Nephritis, renal colic, prostatic hypertrophy, albuminuria, phosphaturia, hay fever, chronic kidney disease, when well-selected remedies fail in kidney cases
Comparative Materia Medica
Berberis also has kidney and back pains but with more radiation of pains in all directions. Cantharis has urinary burning but more acute and violent. Equisetum has dull kidney aching with full, heavy bladder.
Safety Information
Not well established.
Goldenrod is non-toxic and widely used in herbal medicine for urinary and kidney support. Unfairly blamed for hay fever (ragweed is the culprit). Safe in all potencies and mother tincture.
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