Habitat The Officinal Sarsae radix is imported from Jamaica

ClarkePreparation Triturations and tincture of the dried rhizome.

Sources 15 entries across 13 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …

Inner Head ► Headache, with nausea and sour vomiting. ► Pressure, or pressure with stitches, in left side of forehead. ► Pains from occiput darting forward to eyes. ► Shooting from right parietal region to temple or face. ► Throbbing in top of head, worse from walking ; aching in forehead, occiput or temples. ► Pressing in vertex, increasing and decreasing slowly.

Eyes ► White paper looks red in evening. ► Obscuration before eyes as from a fog ; mist when reading ; worse after seminal emissions. ► Eyes pain from light of day. ► Stitches in eyes. ► Internal canthi bluish and bloated ; headache ; from behind forward ; abuse of mercury. ► Ophthalmia after checked tetter. ► Itch-like eruption on eyelids.

Female Sexual Organs ► Menses too late and scanty, preceded by urging to urinate ; itching eruption on forehead ; flow acrid ; soreness inside of thighs. ► During menses, griping in pit of stomach, in direction of small of back. ► Leucorrhoea on walking ; pain at meatus urinarius after urinating. ► Nipple withered, small, retracted.

Lungs ► Stitches from back through to chest with every motion.

Neck And Back ► Neck emaciated ; marasmus of children. ► Cervical glands indurated ; abuse of mercury. ► Stitches in back from the least motion. ► Pains from small of back down spermatic cords ; after emissions. ► Pain down a part of spine, across hips, and down thighs ; difficult urination.

Limbs In General ► Limbs immovable, as if paralyzed. ► Trembling of hands and feet. ► Hands and feet peculiarly weary. ► Rheumatism, bone pains, after mercury or checked gonorrhoea ; pains worse at nights, in damp weather or after taking cold in the water.

Sleep ► Sleepiness at night ; awakens frequently. ► Dreams : lascivious, without erections ; of fatal accidents. ► Sleeps lying on the back.

Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chilliness predominating (day and night). ► Frequent shuddering, mostly in forenoon, running from feet upward. ► Worse during chilliness ; better as he becomes warm. ► Heat in evening, with ebullitions and palpitation of heart. ► Sweat on forehead, during evening heat.

Skin ► Rash as soon as he goes from warm room into cold air. ► Dry, red pimples, only itching when exposed to heat. ► Rhagades deep, burning. ► Base of eruption is much inflamed ; child cries much, and is very uneasy ; crusts become detached in open air, and the skin adjoining chapped. ► Herpetic ulcers, extending in a circular form, forming no crusts ; red, granulated bases, white borders ; skin appears as after the application of a warm compress, serous, reddish secretions. ► Ulcers after of mercury. ► Shriveled skin.

Complementary Mercurius Solubilis, Sepia Officinalis

Follows well —

Compare Natrum Muriaticum, Berberis Vulgaris, Lycopodium Clavatum +33