Symptoms.--The urine is passed more frequently, sometimes the desire to pass the urine is almost constant. The distress is relieved for only a few minutes by passing the urine; sometimes only a few drops are passed, and it gives no relief from the desire for passing urine. The straining is extremely severe. Sometimes the patient will lean over the vessel quivering with the muscular effort to pass urine. The bowels often move at the same time from the straining. The urine becomes thick with much mucus, then scanty, and then tinged with blood. [KIDNEY AND BLADDER 163] BLADDER TROUBLE. Mothers' Remedies. 1. English Oil of Sandal Wood for.--"Get one ounce of the pure English oil of sandal wood, take four drops three times a day in a little water. As you urinate more freely reduce the dose. This is a splendid remedy." 2. Bladder Trouble, Effective Herb Teas for.--"Make a tea of half ounce of buchu leaves, half ounce of uva ursi leaves (barberry leaves), one pint of boiling water. Dose: Two or three tablespoonfuls three times a day, or may drink quite freely." A tea made of cornsilk is a common and standard remedy. Treatment.--Remove cause if possible. Fomentations of hops, smartweed, wormwood are good, even hot water over the bladder. Hot hip bath is good, and also the warm foot bath. The bowels should be kept open with saline laxatives. Buchu tea is very good. Use about one-half ounce of the leaves to a pint of warm water and let it steep, not boil. Drink freely of this. Pumpkin seed tea or watermelon seed tea is good, also flaxseed tea. Dr. Hare recommends the following at the beginning if there is fever: Tincture of Aconite 3 drams Sweet Spirits of Nitre 1 ounce Solution of Citrate of Potash enough to make 6 ounces Mix. Give a dessertspoonful every four hours until all fever ceases and the pulse is quiet. The patient should be kept quiet. Diet.--Should be milk only. CHRONIC INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER.--Causes.--It follows repeated attacks; partial retention of urine in the bladder, decomposing there; Bright's disease, inflammation of the urethra, injury, etc.