SARSAPARILLA

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

Asthma
Bladder affections
Bones affections
Breast scirrhus
Bright's disease
Calculi
Climaxis
Constipation
Dysmenia
Dyspepsia
Dysuria
Enuresis
Eruptions
Eyes affections
Faintness
Glands enlarged
Gonorrhea
Gout
Gravel
Hands chapped
Headache
Hernia
Herpes of prepuce
Hiccough
Intermittents
Marasmus
Masturbation effects of
Melancholia
Mercury abuse of
Mycosis
Nipples retracted
Plica polonica
Renal colic
Rhagades
Rheumatism gonorrheal
Seborrhea
Spermatic cords swelling of
Spermatorrhea
Strangury
Syphilis
Ulcers
Warts
Pain at end of micturition
Inability to pass water freely except in the standing position
Excessive pain in urethra which may run back into abdomen
Passage of gravel which looks like grey sand
Herpes preputialis
Spermatorrhea with swollen cords
Moist eruption in right groin before menses
Moist eruptions on scrotum and thighs of the male
Offensive odors about genitals in both sexes
Semen may be bloody
Herpetic eruptions in all parts
Tettery eruptions moist and dry
Itch-like eruptions prone to appear in spring
Itching eruption on forehead during menses
Emaciation causing the skin to be shriveled and lie in folds
Sycotic eruption little spots scarcely raised above the skin often scaling a little but looking like the roseola of syphilis and itching intolerably < in spring
Moist eruption on scalp the pus from which causes inflammation of any part it touches
Sycotic headache beginning at back of head coming forward and settling at root of nose with swelling of nose
Moist eruption about genitals or between scrotum and thighs
Nipples are soft unexcitable
Nipples are retracted and cannot be made to come out
Anxiety with trembling of the feet
Mental depression is caused by the pains anxiety also occurs after seminal emissions
Thinking about the food he has eaten = nausea
Despondency gloominess amounting to despair
Moroseness and ill-humor with inclination to work but unfitness for exertion
Irascibility and susceptibility
Fickleness changeable disposition
Impatient thinks she cannot bear the headache child cannot bear the itching
Vertigo after gazing fixedly on an object for some time
Vertigo with nausea and sour risings
Heaviness in head
Dull stupid feeling cannot keep mind fixed on study
Staggers falls forward in open air
Headache with nausea and sour vomiting
Lancinating or pressive headache or else pressive and lancinating at same time
Pressing and stitching pains in l side of head
Semilateral spasmodic pains in head as if head were squeezed in a vice with cloudiness of eyes or flickering necessity to lie down and vibration in brain at every word that is uttered
Inner semilateral head either side old neuralgic headaches
Neuralgic headache r side throbbing stitching starting from occiput
Headache which = jerking of head to one side and screaming
Sensation as of tight band around head and forehead which is very painful as if the hat were too tight has to remove it often and involuntarily but without relief
Sound in the head as if a bell were striking when talking
Throbbing pains in head
Noise and buzzing in head
Pressive and incisive or pressive lancinating drawing and tearing pains in exterior of head < by touch and by walking
Seborrhea
Sensibility of scalp
Falling off of hair
Plica polonica
Pains in eyes caused by daylight
Aching in eyes esp in evening when reading by candle-light
Shootings in eyes
Burning sensation in eyes and lids
Stinging in eyes on closing lids violent pain when closed eyes are pressed on
Quivering of r upper lid
Itch-like eruption on lids
Agglutination of lids in morning
Red stripe from cornea to outer canthus
Internal canthi blue and swollen
Cloudiness before eyes like a fog < after emissions
A red color is reflected from white paper in evening
Flickering before eyes with headache
Halo round candle
Shootings in ears
Shooting pains from l ear to root of nose
Contraction and pressure in ears
Burning itching scabs on lobes of ear
Tinkling and ringing in ears
Epistaxis
Scabious eruption upon under and in nose
Dry coryza and obstruction of nose
Very thick mucus in nose
Base of nose and eyes swollen
R nostril stopped up and scabby
Pain in nose inflamed spots on septum
Face yellow wrinkled old-looking
Pimples
Facial eruption
Itching eruption on forehead with burning sensation and oozing after having scratched
Rough pale-red spots on forehead
Thick scabs on the face like milk crust
Rigidity and tension in masseters and maxillary joints
Herpes on upper lip
Purulent and itching vesicles on chin
Toothache with drawing tearings from a cold current of air or from cold drinks
Upper teeth sensitive set on edge
Tearing in gums
Gums swollen with pain as from excoriation
Dryness of mouth
Aphthae on tongue and palate
Offensive breath
Sore throat r side with shooting pain during deglutition
Spasmodic pressure at throat like strangulation with obstructed respiration must loosen cravat
Dryness and roughness in throat esp in morning
Accumulation of viscid mucus in throat
Trichotomous ulcers after suppression of plica polonica
Want of appetite
Bitter or acid and clammy or else sweetish metallic and herbaceous taste
Bread has a bitter taste
Insipidity of food
After a meal sensation of emptiness in stomach as while fasting or else disgust when merely thinking of what has been eaten
After eating stomach has no sensation feels as if he had eaten nothing
After eating a little distended as if he had eaten much
< From warm diet > from cold
Drinking water = vomiting
Thirst esp for water also in morning
Risings and regurgitations esp during and after a meal generally bitter or sour
Belching with diarrhea
Hiccough 6 pm
Frequent or continued nausea with fruitless inclination to vomit
Sour vomitings
Constrictive pains in stomach
Aching at pit of stomach
Heat and burning sensation in stomach esp after eating bread
Contusive pain in the l hypochondrium
Shootings in the l hypochondrium
Great sensibility of the abdomen to external pressure
Constrictive and spasmodic pains in the intestines
Cutting pains esp in the umbilical region
Shootings in sides of abdomen esp in l side
Severe tension in r groin
Pinching in l groin
Hernia
Soreness in bend of r groin on appearance of menses
Sensation of coldness or heat and burning sensation in abdomen
Sensation of emptiness and borborygmi in abdomen
Rumbling and fermenting in abdomen expulsion of much fetid flatus
Inertia of intestines
Hard retarded and scanty feces often with urgent want to evacuate
Painful difficult evacuations with contractive pains in the abdomen and violent downward pressure
Obstinate constipation with frequent want to urinate
Pitchy sticky adhesive stools
Blood with stool
Loose acrid corrosive evacuations with pains in abdomen
Fainting during an evacuation
Pain as from excoriation and burning itching in anus
Wakened in night with sore pain in anus which changes into a burning itching which lasts all day
Diminished secretion of urine
Frequent discharge of pale copious urine
Tenesmus with pressure on bladder and discharge of a white and turbid matter mixed with mucus
Frequent and ineffectual want to urinate or with scanty emission
Frequent urination with hard stool
Burning while urine passes with discharge of elongated flakes
Frequent and profuse emission of pale urine day and night often without any sensation in urinary organs
Turbid urine like clay water
Fiery scanty red urine
Thread-like flakes in urine
Blood in urine towards the end of an emission after which the pain when urinating abates
Urine charged with gravel or small pebbles
Nephritic calculi
Where the patient has gravel and there is considerable deposit in the urine which looks like grey sand also pus in urine
Great pain just as the urine ceases to flow excessive pain in urethra which may run back into abdomen
The infant cries before and during micturition passes large quantities of sand
Can pass urine only when standing when he sits it dribbles
Burning sensation in urethra during every urination
Burning in urethra with incontinence of urine < in daytime < when urine is high-colored and < after drinking beer
Much scalding up urethra while urinating urine high-colored with lithates enuresis day and night
Cramps in bladder with contractive pain
Stones in the bladder
Discharge of pus from the urethra as in gonorrhea
Jerking sensation along male urethra
Pain at meatus urinarius with women
Fetid exhalation from genital organs
Inflammation and redness of glans
Blennorhea
Desire for coition with frequent and painful pollutions
Bloody pollutions spermatic cords swollen sexual excitement makes them ache and sensitive
Swelling of cords from unrequited sexual excitement
Bad effects from gonorrhea suppressed by mercury
Old dry sycotic warts remaining after mercurial treatment for gouty pains
Catamenia retarded scanty and acrid very copious even to hemorrhage in an old maid
During menses want to urinate excoriation between thighs pinchings in abdomen and squeezing as if by a claw in loins and pit of stomach
Dysmenorrhea began in morning with bitter vomiting diarrhea and fainting fits with exceedingly cold sweats l breast so tender held her hand in front of it to avoid contact
Mucous leucorrhea
Leucorrhea on walking pain at meatus urinarius after urinating
Climaxis asthma < lying down back pains < by pressure
Suppuration of breasts
Nipples retracted shriveled insensitive not irritable
Violent cough from a tickling sensation of ulceration in gullet or from a roughness in throat
Short and obstructed respiration
Violent dyspnea and choking from a sensation of constriction in throat and which forces the removal of all clothing from throat and chest
Spasmodic oppression of chest
Frequent recurrence of deep respiration
Sensation as if a foreign body had stopped in the back on taking a full inspiration
Pressure on chest often with shortness of breath
Pressive pain on sternum < by touching it
Shooting in sides of chest which often forces patient to bend double
Tensive pain in exterior of chest as from contraction on rising up
Palpitation of the heart
Painful pressure and tension in back and nape of neck with lancinations on least movement of trunk or head
Lancinations between shoulder-blades and in muscles of neck
Stitches in back through into chest on least motion
Swelling on one side of neck painful to touch
Contusive pain in loins esp while stooping and afterwards
Pains from small of back down spermatic cords < at night and from motion after emissions
Tingling in loins
Tensive pain from loins to hips on least movement
Paralytic tearing in all joints and limbs often accompanied by trembling of hands and feet painful tearings in head and pinchings in abdomen
Rigidity and immobility of limbs
Lassitude in the hands and feet
Tearings and pressive shootings in arms forearms and joints of hands and fingers principally on motion
Sweating of hands
Herpes on hands
Numbness of fingers
Pain in tips of fingers bruised and sore as from subcutaneous ulceration
Purulent vesicles on fingers
Deep rhagades in skin of fingers with burning pains
Affections of any kind in general appearing in r lower extremity r lower side
Pressive tearing and shooting in thighs knees and legs
Lassitude in thighs and knee-joints
Swelling and stiffness of knees with shootings
Red herpetic spots on calves
Rigidity of legs as from contraction
Cramps in legs and calves of the legs
Drawing tearing in r big toe
Painful pressive throbbing and throbbing-shooting inner side r sole later on whole sole when sitting
Painful sensibility of soles
Tension and swelling of feet with heat and redness
Coldness of feet esp before going to bed
Shooting tearing pressive pains
Darting pricking sensation in bones
Arthritic pains after taking cold in the water from suppressed gonorrhea with diminished secretion of urine
Hot and dense swellings
Great lassitude esp in lower limbs
Emaciation
The pains cause depression of spirits
Itching sometimes over whole body esp in evening in bed and in morning when rising
Red and dry pimples which itch only when body is warm
Miliary eruption on going into fresh air from a warm room
Nettle-rash
Fine rash on skin of forehead
Exanthema like milk crust
Purulent vesicles
Ulcers after abuse of mercury
Skin slow to heal
Herpes on almost all parts of body esp on prepuce
Horses lose hair with eruptions
Shriveled skin
Deep burning painful rhagades on fingers
Complaints concomitant to yawning
< When yawning
Sleep early in evening
Nocturnal sleeplessness and frequent waking
Frightful dreams with frequent starts
Shiverings night and day
Chilliness predominating day and night
Coldness even near the fire over whole body except face and chest but principally in feet
Rigor mostly in forenoon running from feet upwards
Heat in the evening with ebullition of blood palpitation of heart and perspiration only on forehead

Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

low forms of chronic disease
complex states resulting from mixed miasms
sycosis and syphilis
cases made complex by Mercury
sycosis, syphilis, and psora
weakness over the whole body
paralytic feeling
dazed state
unable to comprehend
slow mind
weakness bordering on imbecility
weakness of the mind and the tissues
organs slowed down, weak, sluggish, congested
weakness and dilatation of the veins
tendency to form varices in the limbs
varicose ulcers
haemorrhoids
varicose veins of the face and body
red and discolored face in patches
feeble circulation
parts turn blue over the shin bones
blue spots on the backs of the feet and toes
blue spots like approaching senile gangrene
black and blue spots on the backs of the hands and elsewhere in old age
moist, itching, scurfy, and scabby eruptions
thick and indurated skin on the backs and palms of hands with bran-like scurf resembling psoriasis
intermingling blue spots
heat internally aggravates all complaints
external coldness relieved by heat
warm food and drink aggravates
wants cold food
heat applied externally is grateful
flatulence
continuous nausea
eructations
vomiting of sour food
fermentation and uneasiness of the stomach
slow and feeble digestion
organs become tumid and congested
throat, tongue, and mouth look as if about to ulcerate
purple spots look as if they would break down
oedema of tissues
oedema of the lower extremities pitting on pressure
dropsical conditions
Bright's disease
old syphilitics whose complaints have been suppressed by Mercury
mind and body in a state of prostration
paralytic weakness of the lower extremities
no endurance
heart palpitates on exertion
suffocation on the least exertion
always tired
ulcers here and there on the body
skin is flabby
distress at night
bone-pains worse at night
marasmus of children from hereditary syphilis
emaciation about the neck
dry, purple, copper-like eruptions
no assimilation
child always passing sand in its diaper
yellowish or whitish urine like chalk
child screams when it is about to urinate
pain at the end of urination
old debauches, enfeebled by wine and women
weak heart, lungs, brain, and bladder
emaciated and shriveled
prematurely old
feet swollen
totters about on a staff
children emaciated, face looks like old people, big belly, dry, flabby skin, mushy passages
eruptions appear in the Spring
catarrh of the bladder and kidneys
involuntary urination of children at night in bed, in feeble children
spasmodic condition of the sphincter
inability to urinate when sitting
copious urine at night
floods the bed
urine thick and cloudy after standing
feeling on the top of the head as if struck with a hammer
must pass urine several times in a night
albumen in the urine
jerking sensation along the male urethra
air passes out of the urethra with a gurgling noise
frequent ineffectual urging to urinate with diminished secretion
gouty nodes with extreme soreness
obstinate constipation with violent urging to urinate
urging to stool with contraction of the intestines
excessive pressure from above downward as if the bowels were pressing out
during stool, violent tearing, cutting in the rectum
stool small, with much bearing down
old, dry, sycotic warts remaining after Mercurial treatment for gouty pains

Allen's Keynotes

for dark-haired persons, lithic or sycotic diathesis
great emaciation: skin becomes shriveled or lies in folds
headache and periosteal pains generally from mercury, syphilis or suppressed gonorrhoea
in children; face like old people; enlarged abdomen; dry, flabby skin
herpetic eruptions on all parts of body; ulcers, after abuse of mercury, in syphilis
rash from exposure to open air; dry, itch-like eruptions, prone to appear in spring; become crusty
severe, almost unbearable pain at conclusion of urination
passage of gravel or small calculi; renal colic; stone in bladder; bloody urine
urine: bright and clear but irritating; scanty, slimy, flaky, sandy, copious, passed without sensation; deposits white sand
painful distention and tenderness in bladder; urine dribbles while sitting, standing, passes freely; air passes from urethra
sand in urine or on diaper; child screams before and while passing it
gonorrhoea checked by cold, wet weather, or mercury, followed by rheumatism
neuralgia or renal colic; excruciating pains from right kidney downwards
intolerable stench on genital organs; fluid pollutions; bloody seminal emission
retraction of nipples; nipples are small, withered, unexcitable
rheumatism, bone pains after mercury or checked gonorrhoea; pains worse at night, in damp weather or after taking cold in water
itching eruption on forehead during menses
rhagades: skin cracked on hands and feet; pain and burning particularly on sides of fingers and toes; skin hard, indurated

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