Sarsaparilla Officinalis

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Sarsaparilla Officinalis Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Syphilitic Miasm The Syphilitic miasm leads to destruction on both physical and mental levels. It presents as ulceration, bone decay, severe depression, and self-destructive tendencies.
GENERAL
  • Hahnemann proved Sars., confirming many of the historical uses.
  • Sars is “restorative ” after over-dosing with Merc., because it is a homeopathic antidoteNeutralizing substance or remedyA remedy or substance that stops, counteracts, or neutralizes the action of a previously taken remedy. to Merc.
  • It covers the syphilitic, sycotic and psoric constitutions.
  • Affinity for the genito -urinary organs, skin, bones, and lower right extremity.
  • Ma rasmus, emaciation.
  • Kidney colicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants..
  • Marked urinary symptoms.
  • Moist eruptions about the genitals or between the scrotum and thighs.
  • Periosteal pains due to venereal disease.
  • Retraction of nipples in those of cancerous inheritance or constitution.
  • Clears the complexion.
  • Eruptions follow ing hot weather and vaccinations, boils and eczemaItchy, inflamed skin conditionAn inflammatory skin rash causing dry, red, itchy, and sometimes cracking or blistered skin patches..
  • Fig warts.
  • Scratching causes itching to begin in another place, causes eruption on forehead to become humid.
  • Parts feel screwed together.
  • Nightly bone pains shoot in different directions and are accompanied by depression and anxiety.
  • As if salt were put upon the wound.
  • Very sore, gouty nodes.
  • RheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues.
MODALITIES ETC
  • Better from uncovering neck and chest, warmth.
  • Standing improves difficult urination.
  • Worse at the close of urination.
  • Worse from cold, wet, dampness, spring, at night.
  • Worse from touch, pressure, tight clothes.
  • Worse motion, sitting, going up and down stairs.
  • Worse scratching, yawning.
  • Worse after urinat ing, before menses, from suppressed gonorrhea
MIND
  • Depression and anxiety from pain.
  • Despondent, gloomy without any cause.
  • Ill humored and taciturn.
  • Sensitive, easily offended.
HEAD
  • Itching and humid eruption of forehead.
  • Moist eruption on scalp sensitive.
  • Crusta lactea beginning in face.
  • Shooting pain from above right temporal region.
  • Pains from occiput to eyes or to root of nose.
  • As of a painful tight band around the head.
  • Periosteal pains due to venerea l disease.
  • Pains cause depression.
  • Kidneys - Pain from right kidney down ward.
  • Kidney colic and painful urination, in infants.
  • Child screams before and while passing urine.
  • GravelSmall sand-like deposits in urineSmall, sandy or stony deposits passed in the urine, causing painful urination or colic..
  • Gravel
EYES
  • Foggy vision, worse seminal emission.
  • Itch like eruptions on eyelids
EARS
  • Words reverberate in ear to the root of nose
FACE
  • Yellow, wrinkled, old looking.
  • Eruptions on face and upper lip, worse during menses
MOUTH
  • AphthaeSmall painful mouth ulcers (canker sores)Small, painful, shallow ulcers that develop inside the mouth, on the tongue, cheeks, or gums., salivation.
  • Offensive breath.
  • Metallic taste, no thirst.
  • White tongue.
  • Pain in jaw, worse bending head back.
  • Nose - Stoppage for years.
  • Swelling at the root of nose
ABDOMEN
  • Sensation of emptiness after a meal as while fasting, or else nausea or disgust when thinking of what has been eaten.
  • Drinking water causes vomiting.
  • Temperature - Chill starts from region of bladder to back.
  • InfluenzaViral infection of the respiratory tract (flu)A highly contagious viral infection of the respiratory passages causing fever, severe aching, and catarrh..
  • COMMENTS - Sars chiefly affects the urinary organs, genitals, rectum, skin and bones, right lower extremity, right lower side inner, and one -sided head.
  • General “sin king” sensation of the great anti -psorics.
  • General sensitiveness.
  • Acute and chronic bladder infections.
  • Kidney stones, and the tendency to form kidney stones.
  • Acute kidney stone colic (Berb.).
  • CystitisInflammation of the urinary bladderInflammation of the urinary bladder, typically caused by a bacterial urinary tract infection, causing painful urination..
  • Bladder infections in children, the child screams when they feel the urge because they anticipate the pain (Petros.).
  • Cannot pass urine freely except when standing, dribbles when sitting.
  • Excessive pain in urethra that runs back into abdomen.
  • Great pain and burning at end of urination (Equis.).
  • TenesmusPainful urge to empty bladder or bowelsA distressing, constant, and ineffectual urge to evacuate the bowels or bladder, accompanied by pain..
  • Urine is turbid, full of flakes and mucus or gravel, red or gray sand, or particulate matter.
  • Urine with mucus or blood.
  • Gonorrhea, and the effect of suppressed gonorrhea.
  • Herpes.
  • Moist eruptions on scro tum and thighs.
  • SpermatorrheaInvoluntary seminal dischargeAn abnormal, involuntary discharge of semen without orgasm or sexual stimulation, often due to nervous weakness. with swollen cords.
  • The semen may be bloody.
  • Offensive odor about genitals in both sexes.
  • “Moist eruption in right groin before menses.” Painful and disordered menstrua tion.
  • Nipples are soft, unexcitable, retracted, inverted.
  • Cracked nipples (Cast -eq.), as sociated with cancer (A ster., Phyt.).
  • Breast abscesses (Phyt.), with inverted nipples.
  • Scirrhus of the breast.
  • Helpful in patients of cancerous history with retracted nipples.
  • Herpetic eruptions in all parts.
  • Moist and dry tettery eruptions.
  • Cracks.
  • Itch -like eruptions, prone to appear in spring.
  • Itching eruption on forehead during menses.
  • Emaciation, causing the skin to be shriveled and lie in folds.
  • Pains shoot in different directions.
  • Anxi ety accompanies the pains, and can cause depression.
  • Warmth generally relieves.
  • Warm diet aggravates, cold diet relieves.
  • Warm room aggravates vertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement..
  • Washing, bread and yawning aggravates.
  • Grimmer wrote, “Ulcers, cutaneous eruptions, nodes indurated glands, decay, necroses, joint swellings and rheumatism often improve under a persistent course of this remedy.” One of Sars popular uses was for “clear ing the complexion.” When it succeeds it is by virtue of its similarity, for Clarke saw a very extensive crop of blotches it produced in a young woman.
  • Farrington offered several indications fo r Sars., including sycotic eruptions with little spots scarcely raised above the skin, often scaling a little, but looking like the roseola of syphilis and itching intolerably, worse in spring.
  • Moist eruption on scalp, the pus from which causes the inflammation of any part it touches.
  • Sycotic headache, beginning at back of head, coming forward and settling at root of nose with swelling of nose.
  • Moist eruption about genitals or between the scrotum and thighs.
  • With Sars., Skinner cured many cases of retractio n or flattening of the nipple in nurs ing women.
  • On two occasions with high potencies of Sars he enabled a woman to nurse her child when it was utterly hopeless.
  • ELATIONS - Antidoted by: Bell., Merc.
  • It antidotes: Merc.
  • Compare: (1) Berb., Lyc., Nat-m., Petr., Sass.
  • (2) Saur.
  • - Lizard’s tail - irritation of kidneys, bladder, prostate and urinary passages.
  • Painful and difficult urination, cystitis with strangurySlow, painful, drop-by-drop urinationA painful condition characterized by the slow, spasmodic discharge of urine drop-by-drop, accompanied by a constant urge..
  • (3) Cuc - c.
  • - Watermelon, infusion of the seed acts promptly in painful urination with constriction and backache, relieves pain and stimulates flow.
  • Compatible: Hep., All-c., Phos., Rhus-t., Sulph., Sep.
  • ComplementaryAssisting or completing remedyA remedy that naturally follows and completes the action of another remedy, helping it work better.: Merc., Sep.
  • Rumbling with sensation of emptiness.
  • Much flatus, rumbling and fermentation.
  • Colic and backache at the same time, with diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day..
  • Cholera infantum
GENITALS ETC
  • Genitals moist and offensive.
  • Itching on scrotum and perineum.
  • Herpetic eruption on genitals.
  • Syphilis, squamous eruption and bone pains.
  • Intolerable stench on genitals.
  • Bloody semen.
  • Spermatic cord painful after emission, swollen after unrequited sexual excitement.
  • Jerking along urethra.
  • Moist eruption and soreness in right groin before menses late and scanty.
  • DysmenorrheaPainful menstruation with abdominal crampsPainful menstruation, typically involving abdominal cramps., with retracted nipples or sore breast
EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Rheumatism, bone pains, worse at night.
  • RheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues. pains after gono rrhea (Thuj.).
  • Paralytic, tearing pains.
  • Affections of any kind in general in right lowerlimb.
  • Trembling of hands and feet.
  • Burning on sides of fingers and toes, under nails.
  • Deep cracks on fingers and toes, worse sides.
  • Cutting sensation under nails (Pet r.).
  • Tetter on hands, ulceration around ends of fingers (Psor.)
BACK AND NECK
  • Emaciation of neck.
  • Backache with colic.
  • Pain from small of back down the spermatic cord after emission.
  • Bladder distended and tender.
  • Tenesmus of bladder.
  • Urging to urinate before menses.
  • Pain at meatus, in urethra going back to abdomen.
  • Jerking along the urethra.
  • Can pass urine only when stand ing, urine dribbles while sitting.
  • Urine passes in thin, feeble stream.
  • Urine scanty, slimy, flaky, sandy, pus, bloody.
  • Air passes from bladder during urination.
  • Crusty urinary sediment.
  • Sand on diaper.
  • Severe pain at conclusion of urination.
  • Breasts - Sore, shriveled breasts.
  • Nipples retracted or cracked, small and shriveled.
  • Nipples retracted before menses.
  • Constitutions - Anti-syphilitic and anti - sycotic.
  • Suited to children with faces like old people and enlarged abdomens, to thin, frail, shriveled, old looking persons.
  • To dark -haired persons, and to lithic or sycotic diathesis
SKIN
  • Emaciated, shriveled, skin lies in folds (Abrot., Sanie.).
  • Dry, flabby skin hard, indurated.
  • Cracks on hands and feet.
  • New skin cracks and burns.
  • Itching, scaly spots.
  • Dr y, itching rash from exposure to open air, comes on in spring, becomes crusty.
  • Summer cutaneous disorders.
  • Herpetic eruptions, ulcers.
  • Irritating pus.
  • Copper-colored eruptions.
  • Ecchymoses in old age.
  • EdemaSwelling caused by excess fluid in tissuesA condition characterized by an excess of watery fluid collecting in the cavities or tissues of the body.
SLEEP
  • Yawning.
  • Complaints concomitant to yawning.
  • Worse when yawning.
  • Sleep early in evening.
  • Nocturnal sleeplessness and frequent waking.
  • Frightful dreams
GENERALITIES
  • As if in a dream.
  • Buzzing as if a large bell had been struck in head.
  • As if he had been hit with a hammer on top of head.
  • As of a great weight in head.
  • As if breath were stopped by a spasm.
  • Breastbone as if bruised.
  • As if chest were too short.
  • Limbs as if paralyzed.
  • As if fingertips ulcerated or as if salt were put on a wound

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
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