Sarsaparilla officinalis
By Adolph von Lippe — Keynotes and Red Line Symptoms of the Materia Medica
Common name: sarsaparilla.
Useful in periosteal pain due to syphilis (Asaf., Aur., Mezer.) (Bl.).
Headache and periosteal pains from mercury, syphilis, or suppressed gonorrhœa (A.).
Dry, itch-like eruptions, prone to appear in the spring; become crusty (A.).
Herpetic eruptions on all parts of the body (A.).
Eruptions following vaccination (Sil.) (Bt.).
Eruptions looking like the roseola of syphilis and itching intolerably (Merc.) (D.).
Eruptions exuding an irritating pus (Calc-S., Merc., Rhus-T.) (D.).
USEFUL IN MARASMUS; THE NECK IS GREATLY EMACIATED AND THE SKIN ALL OVER THE BODY LIES IN FOLDS (D.)
Itching eruption on forehead during menses (Eug-J., Psor., Sang.) (A.).
Skin hard, indurated (Ant-C., Ars., Graph., Rhus-T., Sep.) (A.).
Skin cracked on hands and feet (Graph., Petr.) (A.).
RETRACTION OF NIPPLES (Carb-An., Con., Cund., Nux-M., Sil.) (K.).
Nipples are small, withered, unexcitable (Sil.). (A.).
Intolerable stench on genital organs (A.).
Bloody seminal emissions (Led., Merc.) (A.).
Excruciating pains from the right kidney downwards (Lyc.) (A.).
Gonorrhœa checked by cold, wet weather, or mercury, followed by rheumatism (A.).
Child screams before and while passing urine (Bor., Lyc.) (A.).
Hæmorrhage from the urethra after urination (Hep., Mezer., Puls., Sulph., Thuj., Zinc.) (K.).
URINE DRIBBLES WHILE SITTING, PASSES FREELY WHILE STANDING (Con.) (A.).
CAN ONLY PASS URINE WHILE STANDING (Hyper.) (K.).
Painful distension and tenderness in the bladder (Apis, Bell., Canth.) (A.).
Urine deposits white sediment (Berb., Graph., Kreos., Phos., Rhus-T., Sep.) (A.).
Excessive pain in the urethra, which may run back into the abdomen (G.).
Urine passes, toward the end, mingled with blood, after which the pain abates (G.).
IS INDICATED IN RENAL COLIC, WHEN THERE IS A SHOWER OF SMALL, LIGHT COLOURED CALCULI, AND MOST EXCRUCIATING PAIN AT THE CLOSE OF URINATION (Bl.).
Frequent discharge of pale copious urine (Kali-P., Merc., Nat-M., Phos-Ac., Sulph.) (Bt.).
Urine passes in thin, feeble stream (Clem.) (Br.).
MUCH PAIN AT THE CONCLUSION OF PASSING URINE; ALMOST UNBEARABLE WITH WOMEN (Berb., Equis., Med., Thuj.) (G.).
Turbid, scanty, slimy, clayey, and sandy urine (Bt.).
He has to get up two or three times in the night to urinate (Bar-C., Lyc., Merc., Phos-Ac., Sulph.) (Hr.).
Bloody urine (Canth., Merc-C.) (A.).
WHITE SAND IN THE URINE (Am-C., Aspar., Bell., Benz-Ac., Calc., Canth, Carb-V., Chin., Chin-S., Eup-Pur., Nat-M., Nat-S., Nit-Ac., Phos., Sec., Zinc.) (N.).
Cystitis (Bell., Canth., Merc-C.) (C.).
Moist eruption about genitals (Crot-T., Graph., Petr., Rhus-T.) (D.).
Herpes preputialis (Graph., Petr.).
Rheumatic pain, worse at night (Aur., Merc., Nit-Ac.), in damp weather (Dulc., Nat-S., Rhus-T.), or after taking cold water (A.).
Sensation as of tight band around the head and forehead, which is pery painful (G.).
Belching of wind (Carb-V., Lyc., Nux-V., Puls.) (G.).
Very sore, gouty nodes (Colch.) (B.).
Backache with colic (Lyc., Nux-V.) (B.).
Chill starts from the region of bladder (B.).
Despondent, sensitive, easily offended, ill-humoured and taciturn (Br.).
Aphthæ (Bor., Kali-M., Lach., Merc., Nat-M., Nux-V., Rhus-T., Sil.) (Br.).
Salivation (Kali-B., Merc., Nat-M.) (Br.).
Metallic taste in the mouth (Merc., Plb.) (Br.).
AGGRAVATION: In spring; at conclusion of urination; at night; in damp weather; during menses and from yawning.
AMELIORATION: From standing and from uncovering neck or chest
RELATIONSHIP: Frequently called for after the abuse of mercury.
Compare: Abrot., Bar-C., Berb., Bor., Canth., Eug-J., Equis., Iod., Led., Lyc., Med., Merc., Psor., Nat-M., Op., Phos., Sang., Sep., Sil., Sulph., Thuj.
Complementary: Merc. and Sep. (either of this follows it well).
Antidotes: Bell. and Merc.