Sarsaparilla

Wild Liquorice. Smilacece.

Keynotes

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; 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 (Berb., Equis., Med., Thuja).

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 (Caust.) ; deposits white sand.

Painful distension 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 (Bor., Lyc.).

Gonorrhoea checked by cold, wet weather, or mercury, followed by rheumatism.

Neuralgia or renal colic; excruciating pains from right kidney downwards (Lyc.).

Intolerable stench on genital organs ; fluid pollutions; bloody seminal emissions (Led., Mer).

Retraction of nipples; nipples are small, withered, unexcitable (Sil.).

Rheumatism, bone pains after mercury or checked gonorrhoea; pains < at night, in damp weather or after taking cold in water.

Itching eruption on forehead during menses (Eug. j., Sang., Psor).

Rhagades : skin cracked on hands and feet ; pain and burning, particularly on sides of fingers and toes; skin hard, indurated.

Relationship p. 256

Complementary : Merc., Sep., either of which follows well. Compare: Berb., Lyc., Nat. m., Phos. Frequently called for after abuse of Mercury.