SARSAPARILLA OFFICINALIS
Smilax (SARSAPARILLA)
Renal colic; marasmus and periosteal pains due to venereal disease. Eruptions following warm climate and vaccinations; boils, and eczema. Urinary signs nicely marked.
Mind.–Despondent, sensitive, effortlessly offended, unwell humored and taciturn.
Head.–Pains motive depression. Shooting ache from above proper temporal region. Pains from occiput to eyes. Words reverberate in ear to the root of nose. Periosteal pains due to venereal disease. Influenza. Scalp sensitive. Eruptions on face and higher lip. Moist eruption on scalp. Crusta lactea commencing in face.
Mouth.–Tongue white; aphthae; salivation; metal taste; no thirst. Fetid breath.
Abdomen.–Rumbling and fermentation. Colic and backache at equal time. Much flatus; cholera infantum.
Urinary.–Urine scanty, slimy, flaky, sandy, bloody. Gravel. Renal colic. Severe ache at conclusion of urination. Urine dribbles whilst sitting. Bladder distended and tender. Child screams earlier than and whilst passing urine. Sand on diaper. Renal colic and dysuria in infants. Pain from proper kidney downward. Tenesmus of bladder; urine passes in thin, feeble stream. Pain at meatus.
Male.–Bloody, seminal emissions. Intolerable stench on genitals. Herpetic eruption on genitals. Itching on scrotum and perineum. Syphilis; squamous eruption and bone pains.
Female.–Nipples small, withered, retracted. Before menstruation, itching and humid eruption of forehead. Menses late and scanty. Moist eruption in proper groin earlier than menses.
Skin.–Emaciated, shriveled, lies in folds (Abrot; Sanic), dry, flabby. Herpetic eruptions; ulcers. Rash from publicity to open air; dry, itching; comes on in spring; will become crusty. Rhagades; pores and skin cracked on palms and feet. Skin hard, indurated. Summer cutaneous affections.
Extremities.–Paralytic, tearing pains. Trembling of fingers and feet. Burning on aspects of fingers and toes. Onychia, ulceration round ends of fingers, reducing sensation underneath nails. Rheumatism, bone pains; worse at night. Deep rhagades on fingers and toes; burn below nails. Tetter on hands; ulceration round ends of fingers (Psorin). Cutting sensation below nails (Petrol). Rheumatic pains after gonorrhoea.
Modalities.–Worse, dampness at night, after urinating, when yawning, in spring, earlier than menses.
Relationship.–Complementary: Merc; Sep.
Compare: Berb; Lycop; Nat m; Petrol; Sassafras; Saururus-Lizard’s tail–(Irritation of kidneys, bladder, prostate and urinary passages. Painful and challenging micturition; cystitis with strangury). Cucurbita citrellus-Water-melon. Infusion of the seed acts right away in painful urination with constriction and backache, relieves ache and stimulates flow
Antidote: Bell.
Dose.–First to sixth potency.