Sarsaparilla

as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927

Sarsaparilla

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Mind

Despondent, sensitive, easily offended, ill humored and taciturn.

General

Renal colic; marasmus and periosteal pains due to venereal disease. Eruptions following hot weather and vaccinations; boils, and eczema. Urinary symptoms well marked.

Modalities

Worse, dampness at night, after urinating, when yawning, in spring, before menses.

Head

Pains cause depression. Shooting pain from above right 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 upper lip. Moist eruption on scalp. Crusta lactea beginning in face.

Mouth

Tongue white; aphthæ; salivation; metallic taste; no thirst. Fetid breath.

Abdomen

Rumbling and fermentation. Colic and backache at same time. Much flatus; cholera infantum.

Urinary

Urine scanty, slimy, flaky, sandy, bloody. Gravel. Renal colic. Severe

pain at conclusion of urination. Urine dribbles while sitting. Bladder distended and tender. Child screams before and while passing urine. Sand on diaper. Renal colic and dysuria in infants. Pain from right 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 right groin before menses.

Extremities

Paralytic, tearing pains. Trembling of hands and feet. Burning on sides of fingers and toes. Onychia, ulceration around ends of fingers, cutting sensation under nails. Rheumatism, bone pains; worse at night. Deep rhagades on fingers and toes; burn under nails. Tetter on hands; ulceration around ends of fingers (Psorin). Cutting sensation under nails (Petrol). Rheumatic pains after gonorrhœa.

Skin

Emaciated, shriveled, lies in folds (Abrot; Sanic), dry, flabby. Herpetic eruptions; ulcers. Rash from exposure to open air; dry, itching; comes on in spring; becomes crusty. Rhagades; skin cracked on hands and feet. Skin hard, indurated. Summer cutaneous affections.

Relationships

Complementary: Merc; Sep. Compare: Berb; Lycop; Nat m; Petrol; Sassafras; Saururus-Lizard's tail–– (Irritation of kidneys, bladder, prostate and urinary passages. Painful and difficult micturition; cystitis with strangury). Cucurbita citrellus-Water-melon. Infusion of the seed acts promptly in painful urination with constriction and backache, relieves pain and stimulates flow Antidote: Bell.

Dose

First to sixth potency.

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 Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
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. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Sarsaparilla — Mind. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/sarsaparilla. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.