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