Materia Medica de A a Z

SARSAPARILLA OFFICINALIS = SMILAX OFFICINALIS (sars)

Region

Genito-urinary organs. Skin. Right side; lower.

Worse

At close of micturition. Spring. Cold wet. Mercury. Night. Suppressed gonorrhoa. Yawning.

Better

Uncovering neck or chest. Standing.

General

Thin frail, shrivelled and old looking. Marasmus. Tendency to gravel and itching eruptions. Parts feel screwed together. Nightly bone pains. Rheumatism. Very sore, gouty nodes. Sycosis..................... Pain depresses him. Pain from occiput to eyes or root of nose, which is swelled. Painful urination, extorts screams, amel. standing; agg. before menses; passes drops of blood or white, acrid material at close. Urine dribbles while sitting. Renal colic (r). Gassy urine. Crusty urinary sediment. Sand in the stools. Moist, foul genitals. Bloody semen. Retracted or cracked nipples. Backache with colic. Deep cracks on fingers and toes, agg. sides. Cutting under nails. Ulcerated finger-tips. Blotchy, hard or shrivelled skin, agg. about neck. Itching, scaly spots. Irritating pus. Chill starts from region of bladder; to back.

Antidotes: Bell, Merc.

Complementary: Sep.

Related: Calc, Petr.