Sarsaparilla

sars

Common name: Wild LiquoriceKingdom: PlantFamily: Smilaceæ(Allen, Keynotes (1910), p. 254)

Renal colic; marasmus and periosteal pains due to venereal disease. Eruptions following hot weather and vaccinations; boils, and eczema. Urinary symptoms well marked. Read on in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, General →

These texts come from 4 classic Materia Medicas dating from 1910 to 1931, now in the public domain. They record what their authors observed and taught, as historical reference for students and practitioners of homeopathy — not current clinical evidence. Nothing on this page is medical advice: for any health problem, see a qualified doctor.

Where each author writes about Sarsaparilla

A map of the books. Each number counts the sections, or the paragraphs the author labelled himself, that one book gives a topic, and opens the first of them in that book. Kent and Farrington wrote lectures, so only what they labelled is counted.

Topic	Boger	Allen	Boericke	Kent
Keynotes	1	1	none	none
Mind	none	none	1	none
General	none	none	1	1
Modalities	2	none	1	none
Head	none	none	1	none
Mouth	none	none	1	none
Abdomen	none	none	1	none
Urinary	none	1	1	1
Male	none	none	1	none
Female	none	none	1	none
Extremities	none	none	1	none
Skin	none	none	1	none

Relationships

Complementary:: Mercurius solubilis (Boericke),; Sepia (Boericke, Boger)
Antidoted by:: Belladonna (Boericke, Boger),; Mercurius solubilis (Boger)
Compatible:: Sulphur (Allen)
Related:: Calcarea carbonica (Boger),; Petroleum (Boger)
Similar:: Berberis vulgaris (Allen)

As each book states it.

Sarsaparilla in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica

Cyrus Maxwell Boger · 1931

KeynotesThin frail, shrivelled and old looking. Marasmus. Tendency to gravel and itching eruptions. Parts feel screwed together. Nightly bone pains. Rheumatism. Very sore, gouty nodes. Sycosis. .................... Pain depresses him. Pain from occiput to eyes or root of nose, which is swelled. Painful urination, extorts screams, > standing; < before menses; passes drops of blood or white, acrid material at close.

Words in capitals are Boger's highest grade.

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Sarsaparilla in Allen's Keynotes

H.C. Allen · 3rd edition (1910) · Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel

KeynotesSarsaparilla 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.

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Sarsaparilla in Homoeopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927)

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

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Sarsaparilla in Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · 2nd edition (preface dated 1 September 1911)

LectureSarsaparilla Generalities: Sarsaparilla is suitable in low forms of chronic disease, especially in complex states resulting from mixed miasms; especially in cases of sycosis and syphilis; cases made complex by Mercury, sycosis syphilis, and psora. Weakness stamps itself on the whole economy, as in Merc., Lach. and other remedies.

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Where the repertories grade Sarsaparilla highest

Rubrics in which Sarsaparilla has the top grade (Kent’s 3, Bönninghausen’s 4). Each page lists every remedy in the rubric with its grade.

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