Squilla maritima
Remedy of violent cough with involuntary spurting of urine. Cough so violent that urine escapes with every paroxysm. Sneezing with cough. Pleurisy. Cardiac dropsy with scanty urine. Profuse acrid nasal discharge.
Source
Prepared from the fresh bulb of Drimia maritima (Asparagaceae).
Available Potencies
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Keynote Symptoms
Violent cough with involuntary spurting of urine — the hallmark. Sneezing accompanies the cough. Copious, slimy, acrid nasal discharge. Profuse mucus in bronchi. Pleurisy with stitching pains. Cardiac dropsy — edema with scanty dark urine. Acts on heart and kidneys as a diuretic.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Anxious. Fear of death. Irritable from constant coughing.
General Symptoms
Respiratory and cardiac-renal. Worse from morning, exertion, cold drinks, undressing, composing oneself to sleep. Better from sitting up, expectoration.
Physical Symptoms
Nose
Copious, acrid, watery nasal discharge. Violent sneezing. Coryza with acrid fluent discharge.
Respiratory
The keynote: violent cough with involuntary spurting of urine. Sneezing with cough. Cough morning, loose, with copious slimy expectoration. Dyspnoea. Pleurisy with stitching. Rattling mucus.
Chest
Stitching pains — pleurisy. Oppression. Cardiac failure. Dropsy.
Urinary
Involuntary urine with cough. Scanty dark urine in cardiac dropsy. Diuretic action. Frequent urging.
Extremities
Edema — cardiac dropsy. Cold feet.
Modalities
Better From
Sitting up, expectoration, warm room
Worse From
Morning, exertion, cold drinks, undressing, composing to sleep, coughing
Constitutional Type
Not constitutional. Used for cough with urinary incontinence, cardiac dropsy.
Clinical Indications
Cough with involuntary urination, pleurisy, cardiac dropsy, diuretic, bronchitis with copious expectoration, acrid coryza
Comparative Materia Medica
Causticum also has involuntary urine with cough but more from weakness. Natrum muriaticum has involuntary urine with cough or sneezing. Pulsatilla has involuntary urine with cough but in mild, weepy patients.
Safety Information
Camphora, Digitalis.
Sea squill contains cardiac glycosides (scillaren) similar to digitalis. Highly toxic in large crude doses — nausea, vomiting, cardiac arrhythmia, death. Historically used as a rat poison. Use ONLY potentised forms.
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