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40 to go to the lavatory every two hours or so. Still the feeling of passing urine may be very pressing. The patient has to run to the lavatory. It is thus necessary that the physician should look for other remedies besides Clematis, to uproot the disease. With the use of Clematis, it has been observed that the patient starts passing urine freely, though frequently. It shows that the urine problem was not due to the prostate, rather it was due to a kidney or bladder infection. Clematis cannot cure the symptoms due to the prostatic obstruction. Urinary problems in general are not always easily understood. The symptoms have to be analysed and properly evaluated before suggesting the appropriate remedies. The few distinctive symptoms should be well understood and remembered. It is not necessary that every remedy would prove effective. This is why it is very difficult to find the correct remedy. It is important to know the distinctive features of the illness. Otherwise, it is impossible for the physician to recognise the remedy for every illness. Sometimes, the patient passes foul-smelling thick turbid urine indicative of an infection in urogenital tract i. e. the kidney, bladder, urethra, testes and uterus. Treatment should be started promptly and continued long enough to control the infection. The remedies most appropriate for this condition are: Thuja, Sulphur, Pyrogenium, Psorinum, Ferrum Phos, Silicea, Arsenic Album, Conium, Cannabis Indica, Phosphorus, Merc Cor, Sabal Serrulata, Staphysagria and Chimaphila. During the study of all these remedies, more may be found cross referenced, e. g. Medorrhinum etc.