Sarsaparilla
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
Sarsaparilla
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Keynotes
Sarsaparilla
Wild Liquorice. Smilaceae.
For dark-haired persons, lithic or sycotic diathesis.
Great emaciation; skin becomes shriveled or lies in folds (Abrot., Iod., Nat., Sanic.).
Headache and periosteal pains generally from mercury, syphilis or suppressed gonorrhoea.
In children; face like old people; enlarged abdomen; dry, flabby skin (Bar. c.. Op.).
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 (Berb., Equis., Med., Thuja).
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 (Caust.) ; deposits white sand.
Painful distension 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 (Bor., Lyc.).
Gonorrhoea checked by cold, wet weather, or mercury, followed by rheumatism.
Neuralgia or renal colic; excruciating pains from right kidney downwards (Lyc.).
Intolerable stench on genital organs ; fluid pollutions; bloody seminal emissions (Led., Men).
Retraction of nipples; nipples are small, withered, unexcitable (Sil.).
Rheumatism, bone pains after mercury or checked gonorrhoea; pains < at night, in damp weather or after taking cold in water.
Itching eruption on forehead during menses (Eug. j., Sang., Pson).
Rhagades : skin cracked on hands and feet ; pain anol burning, particularly on sides of fingers and toes; skin hard, indurated.
which follows well.
Compare: Berb., Lyc., Nat. m., Phos.
Frequently called for after abuse of Mercury.
What the other books say about Sarsaparilla
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Sarsaparilla in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Sarsaparilla in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Sarsaparilla in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Sarsaparilla — Keynotes, pp. 254–255. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/sarsaparilla. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.