SARSAPARILLA
Source indications
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
