Plant

Sarsaparilla

Smilax

Repertory abbreviation: Sars.

Eruptions following vaccinations; boils, and eczema. Urinary symptoms well marked.

Mind

Despondent, , sensitive, easily offended, ill humored and taciturn.

Head

Pains cause depression. Shooting pain from above right temporal region.Pains from occiput to

Eyes

Words reverberate in ear to the root of nose. Periosteal pains due to venereal disease.1 Influenza. Scalp sensitive. Eruption on face and upper lip. Moist eruption on scalp. Crusta lactea beginning in face.

Mouth

Tongue white; aphtha; salivation; metallic taste; no thirst. Fetid breath.

Abdomen

Rumbling and fermentation. Colic and backache at same fine. Much flatus: cholera infantum.

Urinary

Urine scanty, slimy, faky, sand, bloody. Gravel. Renal colic. Severe pain at conclusion of urination. Urine dribbles while sitting. Bladder dis- tended and tender. Child screams before and while passing urine. Sand on diaper. Renal colic and dysuria in infants. Pain from right kidney dovnvard. Tenes- mus of bladder; urine passes in thin, feeble stream. Pain at meatus.

Male

Bloody, seminal emissions. Intolerable stench on genitals. Herpetic eruption on genitals. Itching on scrotum and perineum. Syphilis; squamous eruption and bone pains.

Female

Nipples small, withereu, ret/utlcd. Be- fore menstruation, itching and humid eruption of fore- ad. Menses late and scanty. Moist eruption in right groin before menses.

Extremities

Paralytic, tearing pains. Trembting of hands and feet. Burning on sides of fingers and loes. Onychia, ulceration around ends of fingers, cut- ting sensation under nails. Rheumatism, bone pains; worse at night. Deep rhagades on fingers and toes; burn under ails. Tetter on hands; ulceration around ends of fingers. [Psorin.] Cutting sensation under nails. Petrol.] Rheumatic pains after gonorrhocea.

Skin

Emaciated, shrwelcd, lies in folds [Abrot.; k$ani.], dry, flabby. Herpetic eruptions; ulcers. Rash 665 from exposure to open air: dry, itching; comes on in spring: becomes crusty. Rhagades; skin cracked on hands and feet. Skin hard, indurated.

Modalities

Worse, dampness at night, after urinat- ing, when yawning, in spring, before menses.

Relationships

Complementary : Merc.; Sep. Compare: Berb.; Lycop.; Nat. m.; Petrol.; Sassafras; Saururus —- Lizard's tail -- (Irritation of kidneys, blad- der, prostate and urinary passages. Painful and diffi- cult micturition; cystitis with strangury).( Cucurbita citrcllus—Watermelon. (Infusion of the seed acts promptly yin painful urination with constriction and backache, relieves pain and stimulates flow.) Antidote: Bell.

Dose

First to sixth potency.

Source: Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 8th ed. by William Boericke (1922), p. 658. Public domain.

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