Sarsaparilla Officinalis

General

SARSAPARILLA. [Sarsap.] A root from South America. Hahnemann. Smilaceae.

Mind

► Mental depression caused by the pains. ► Anxiety, with the pains ; also after seminal emissions. ► Morose, with inclination to work. ► Gloomy, desponding, without known cause ; debility. ► Irritable, impatient or changeable. ► Thinking about the food he has been eating makes him sick.

Sensorium

► Dull, stupid feeling, cannot keep the mind on his study. ► Staggers, falls forward, in the open air. ► Vertigo while looking steadily, with nausea, mornings.

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.

Outer Head

► Sensitiveness of scalp ; falling off of the hair. ► Mercurio-syphilitic affections of the head.

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.

Ears

► Words reverberate in ear. ► Sound in head when talking as if a bell was striking. ► Burning-itching scab on ear-lobe.

Nose

► Stoppage of nose for years. ► Scabby eruption on and under the nose.

Face

► Eruption like milk-crust ; child cries, is restless. ► Itching eruption on forehead, with burning ; becoming humid on scratching. ► Pimples of various sizes on face. ► Heat of face ; sweat on forehead, in evening in bed.

Lower Face

► Stiffness and tension in muscles and articulation of jaw. ► Herpes on upper lip.

Teeth

► Sensitiveness of upper front teeth. ► Tearing in teeth, from cold air and cold drink.

Tongue, Etc

► Taste of food bitter. ► Taste : bitter in the morning ; sweetish. ► Tongue coated white. ► Mercurial aphthae on tongue and roof of mouth.

Throat

► Spasmodic contraction of throat, with dyspnoea, must loosen cravat. ► Dryness and roughness of throat in morning. ► Ulcers on the soft palate.

Desires And Aversions

► Want of appetite, the thought of food disgusts him. ► Want of thirst.

Eating And Drinking

► Burning in stomach, especially after eating bread. ► After eating : bitter eructations (also during) ; feels as if he had eaten nothing ; diarrhoea. ► After eating : 1, 20. After eating bread : 15. Cold drinks : 10.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Nausea when thinking of food.

Abdomen

► Rumbling, with sensation of emptiness in the abdomen. ► Burning, or cold feeling in abdomen. ► External abdomen very sensitive to touch.

Stool, Etc

► Constipation, violent urging to urinate, stool small, with much bearing down. ► Stool with much wind, colic and backache ; also after any food which disagrees. ► Blood with the stool.

Urine

► Tenderness and distention over region of bladder. ► Passes gravel or small calculi blood with last of urine. ► Tenesmus of bladder, with discharge of white acrid pus and mucus. ► Urging ineffectual ; urging with the constipation. ► Painful retention of urine. ► Urine : bright and clear, but irritating ; often and copious, must rise at night ; scanty, slimy, flaky, sandy ; copious, passed without sensation. ► Sand in urine or on diaper ; child screams before and while passing it. ► During urination air passes from bladder. ► Urine passes in a thin, feeble stream, or in drops without pain. ► Severe pain at conclusion of urination.

Male Sexual Organs

► Seminal emissions, lascivious dreams, with backache, prostration, vertigo. ► The least excitement causes an emission, even without sexual feeling. ► Bloody pollutions. ► Spermatic cords swollen, sexual excitement makes them ache and sensitive. ► Offensive odor about the genitals. ► Herpes on the prepuce. ► Gonorrhoea checked by cold, wet weather, or by mercury, followed by rheumatism.

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.

Breathing

► Shortness of breath, he must loosen the neck cloth and vest. ► Stoppage of breath, as if by a spasm, with constriction of throat.

Cough

► From a tickling in chest, or with rattling on chest.

Lungs

► Stitches from back through to chest with every motion.

Heart And Pulse

► Palpitation of heart without fear ; mostly during day. ► Ebullition of blood and protruding veins. ► Pulse accelerated (in the evening), slow in the morning.

Outer Chest

► Breast-bone feels as if bruised.

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.

Upper Limbs

► Stitches in joints of arms, hands and fingers, on motion. ► Deep rhagades on fingers, with burning pains. ► Finger-tips feel as if ulcerated.

Lower Limbs

► Stitches in legs, especially from motion. ► Weakness in thighs and knees. ► Red spots on calves. ► Icy-coldness of feet before going to bed. ► Burning in tips of toes, which are sensitive to pressure. ► Rheumatic pains at night, in the feet.

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.

Position, Etc

► Worse from moving the diseased part or from bodily exertion. ► Motion : 28, 31, 32, 33. Walking : 3, 23. Must rise : 21. Lies on back : 37.

Nerves

► Fainting attacks, difficult stool. ► Paralysis, muscles atrophied.

Sleep

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

Time

► Morning : 2, 11, 13, 29. Forenoon : 40. Evening : 5, 8, 29, 40. Day : 5, 29. Night : 21, 22, 33, 34, 37. Day and night : 40.

Temperature And Weather

► Better in open air, as long as one does not move about. ► Worse is Spring and Summer ; eruptions. ► Warm room : 46. Heat : 47. In bed : 8. Open air : 2, 46. Cold air drink : 10, 46. Cold wet weather : 22, 34. Getting wet : 34.

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.

Attacks

► Increasing and decreasing slowly : 3.

Sides

► Right : 3. Behind forward : 3, 5. Above downward : 20, 31. Below upward : 40.

Tissues

► Scrofulous diseases. ► Great emaciation, skin becomes shriveled, or lies in folds.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Touch : 19. Pressure : 33 ; of clothing : 26.

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.

Stages And States

► Dark hair. ► Sycosis.

Relationship

► Sarsap. is frequently used after abuse of mercury. ► Antidotes to Sarsap. : Bellad., Mercur. ► Vinegar appears, at first, to increase the effect of Sarsap.