Sarsaparilla sars.

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

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

Uncovering neck or chest. Standing.

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, > standing; < 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, < sides. Cutting under nails. Ulcerated finger-tips. Blotchy, hard or shrivelled skin, < about neck. Itching, scaly spots. Irritating pus. Chill starts from region of bladder; to back.

Antidotes: Bell. Merc. Complementary: Sep. Related: Calc-c. Petr.

For dark-haired persons, lithic or sycotic diathesis. Great emaciation: skin becomes shriveled or lies in folds (Abrot., Iod., Nat. m., 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 syphillis. 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 distention 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 emission (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.

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

Inner semi-lateral head, either side; old neuralgic headaches. Sensation as of tight band around the head and forehead, which is very painful; as if the hat were too tight, has to remove it often and involuntarily, but without relief. Fine rash on skin of forehead.

Where the patient has gravel, and there is considerable deposit in the urine which looks like gray sand; also pus in. Great pain just as the urine ceases to flow; excessive pain in the urethra which may run back into the abdomen. Urine passes, toward the end, mingled with blood, after which the pain (when urinating) abates. Nephritic calculi.

With sand or gravel.

Belching of wind. Darting, pricking sensations in bones; exanthema like milk crust; complaints concomitant to yawning. Affections of any kind in general, appearing in the right lower extremity; right lower side.

When yawning.

Mercur. Sometimes, Bellad., Phosphor., Sepia, Sulphur.

Bellad., Mercur.

Smilax (SARSAPARILLA)

Renal colic; marasmus and periosteal pains due to venereal disease. Eruptions following hot weather and vaccinations; boils, and eczema. Urinary symptoms well marked.

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

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. Influenza. Scalp sensitive. Eruptions on face and upper lip. Moist eruption on scalp. Crusta lactea beginning in face.

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

Rumbling and fermentation. Colic and backache at same time. Much flatus; cholera infantum.

Urine scanty, slimy, flaky, sandy, bloody. Gravel. Renal colic. Severe pain at conclusion of urination. Urine dribbles while sitting. Bladder distended and tender. Child screams before and while passing urine. Sand on diaper. Renal colic and dysuria in infants. Pain from right kidney downward. Tenesmus of bladder; urine passes in thin, feeble stream. Pain at meatus.

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

Nipples small, withered, retracted. Before menstruation, itching and humid eruption of forehead. Menses late and scanty. Moist eruption in right groin before menses.

Emaciated, shriveled, lies in folds (Abrot; Sanic), dry, flabby. Herpetic eruptions; ulcers. Rash from exposure to open air; dry, itching; comes on in spring; becomes crusty. Rhagades; skin cracked on hands and feet. Skin hard, indurated. Summer cutaneous affections.

Paralytic, tearing pains. Trembling of hands and feet. Burning on sides of fingers and toes. Onychia, ulceration around ends of fingers, cutting sensation under nails. Rheumatism, bone pains; worse at night. Deep rhagades on fingers and toes; burn under nails. Tetter on hands; ulceration around ends of fingers (Psorin). Cutting sensation under nails (Petrol). Rheumatic pains after gonorrhœa.

Worse, dampness at night, after urinating, when yawning, in spring, before menses.

Complementary: Merc; Sep.

Compare: Berb; Lycop; Nat m; Petrol; Sassafras; Saururus-Lizard's tail--(Irritation of kidneys, bladder, prostate and urinary passages. Painful and difficult micturition; cystitis with strangury). Cucurbita citrellus-Water-melon. Infusion of the seed acts promptly in painful urination with constriction and backache, relieves pain and stimulates flow

Antidote: Bell.

First to sixth potency.

White sand in urine; also slimy or flaky urine.

Much pain at the conclusion of passing urine; almost unbearable.

Marasmus; neck emaciates and skin lies in folds.

Sarsaparilla is another remedy which has excruciating neuralgia of the kidneys. Renal colic and passage of gravel and formation of vesicle calculi. Dr. Hering gives many testimonials to the efficacy of this remedy to relieve the sufferings attendant on gravel, especially with rheumatic symptoms. Lycopodium has red sand with clear urine; Sarsaparilla white sand with scanty, slimy or flaky urine. They may both be very useful in chronic rheumatic troubles, with these urinary complications. The most characteristic symptom of Sarsaparilla is "much pain at the conclusion of passing urine; almost unbearable." (Berberis, Equisetum, Medorrhinum, Thuja.). There is often in this case great tenesmus of the bladder at the same time. No remedy has this symptom so strongly as Sarsaparilla. Pulsatilla has something similar, so far as tenesmus is concerned, in connection with enlarged prostrate. Natrum muriaticum has also, -"After urination burning and cutting in the urethra; spasmodic contraction in abdomen, etc." So we must be careful about prescribing on one symptom alone, be it ever so prominent. In marasmus Sarsaparilla stands alongside of Iodine, Natrum mur., and Abrotanum. In Sarsaparilla the neck emaciates and skin (in general) lies in folds. (Sanicula, Natrum mur. and Lycopodium emaciate from above downward. Abrotanum from below upward.) Iodine, general emaciation, wishes to eat all the time. Natrum mur. eats and emaciates all of the time, neck particularly. Abrotanum, general marasmus, legs most. Argentum nitricum, child looks old, dried up, like a mummy. Sarsaparilla is one of the best remedies for headache or periosteal pains generally, from suppressed gonorrhœa. I have seen great results from the 200th. It is also a good remedy for syphilitic eruptions, with great emaciation; cracks on hands and feet, especially on sides of fingers and toes.

Retractions of nipple (Silicea).

Changeable disposition. Morose, with inclination to work. The mental depression is caused by the pains.

Giddiness ; when looking long at an object ; or with nausea and sour vomiting. Headache, with nausea and sour vomiting. Stinging or pressing stinging or pulsating headache. Sound in the head as if a bell were striking, when talking. Sensitiveness of the scalp ; falling off of the hair.

Stitches in the eyes. The eyes pain from the light of day. The internal corners of the eye have a blue color and are bloated. The white paper looks red in the evening. Obscuration before the eyes as from a fog.

Burning, itching scab on the lobe of the ear.

Scabby eruption on and under the nose.

Eruption on the face like milk-crust. Itching eruption on the forehead, with burning, and becoming, humid on scratching. Stiffness and tension in the muscles and articulation of the jaw. Herpes on the upper lip.

Sensitiveness of the upper front teeth. Tearing in the teeth from cold air and cold drink. Spasmodic contraction of the throat with dyspnœa. Aphthæ on the tongue and on the roof of the mouth. Dryness and roughness in the throat in the morning.

Want of appetite, the thought of food causes him disgust. Bitter eructations during and after eating. Burning in the stomach, especially after eating bread. After eating, the stomach has no sensation, feels as if he had eaten nothing. Sensation of emptiness and rumbling in the abdomen. Burning (or sensation of coldness) in the abdomen.

Difficult and painful stool, with fainting attacks. Stool retarded, hard and insufficient.

Frequent, inefficient urging to urinate. Diminished secretion of urine. Tenesmus of the bladder, with discharge of white, acrid pus and mucus. Painful constriction of the bladder. Frequent, profuse discharge of pale urine, without any sensation in the urethra. Burning in the urethra during every micturition. Urine, red fiery ; turbid, containing long flakes. At the end of micturition some blood passes. Stones in the bladder. Sand (pale) in the urine (the infant cries before and during micturition, passes large quantities of sand).

Men. Intolerable stench on the genital organs. Herpes on the prepuce. Painful seminal emissions at night. Bad effects from gonorrhœa suppressed by mercury. Women. Menstruation too late, too scanty and acrid. During menstruation urging to urinate ; soreness of the inside of the thighs.

Great shortness of breathing, compelling one to loosen the neck-cloth and vest to enable him to breathe. Dyspnœa as from a spasm.

Stitches in the back from the least motion.

Upper. Stitches in the joints of the arms, hands and fingers, principally on motion. Deep rhagades on the fingers, with burning pains. The tips of the fingers feel bruised and sore. Lower. Stitches in the legs, especially from motion. Weakness in the thighs and knees. Red spots on the calves. Icy coldness of the feet.

Arthritic pains, after taking cold in the water, from suppressed gonorrhœa, with decreased secretion of urine. The limbs are immovable, as if paralyzed. Trembling of the hands and feet. Great emaciation, the skin becomes shrivelled or it lies in folds.

Pulse accelerated (in the evening). Chilliness predominating (day and night). Frequent shuddering, mostly in the forenoon, running from the feet upwards. Heat in the evening, with ebullitions and palpitation of the heart. Perspiration during the heat in the evening only on the forehead.

Sleeplessness at night ; awakens frequently.

Dry, red pimples, only itching when exposed to the heat. Rash as soon as he goes from the warm room into the cold air. Urticaria. Herpes. Warts. Rhagades, deep, burning. Ulcers, after the abuse of mercury. Shrivelled skin.

During the chilliness the sensations are worse, and an amelioration occurs as soon as he becomes warm. Bad effects from the abuse of mercury.

Wild Liquorice. The rhizome of several species of Smilax. (The Officinal Sarsæ radix is imported from Jamaica.) N. O. Smilaceæ (by some classed as a sub-order of the Liliaceæ). Triturations and tincture of the dried rhizome.

Asthma. Bladder, affections of. Bones, affections of. Breast, scirrhus of. Bright's disease. Calculi. Climaxis. Constipation. Dysmenia. Dyspepsia. Dysuria. Enuresis. Eruptions. Eyes, affections of. Faintness. Glands, enlarged. Gonorrhœa. Gout. Gravel . Hands, chapped. Headache. Hernia. Herpes ; of prepuce. Hiccough. Intermittents. Marasmus. Masturbation, effects of. Melancholia. Mercury, abuse of. Mycosis. Nipples, retracted. Plica polonica. Renal colic. Rhagades. Rheumatism ; gonorrhœal. Seborrhœa. Spermatic cords, swelling of. Spermatorrhœa. Strangury. Syphilis. Ulcers. Warts.

The dried root or rhizome of Sarsaparilla , as imported, is of the thickness of a goose quill, many feet in length, reddish brown, scentless, mucilaginous in taste, feebly bitterish, faintly acrid. According to Milne it is "diaphoretic, tonic, alterative. . . . It is given in scrofula and secondary syphilis; and the concomitants of these diseases, such as ulcers, cutaneous eruptions, nodes, indurated glands, caries, necroses, articular swellings, and rheumatism, often improve under a protracted course of it." Some, he adds, "think it a kind of restorative after an exhausting course of Mercury ." This well summarises the ancient reputation of Sars . as a "blood purifier," which Hahnemann's proving has amplified and put on a fixed scientific basis. Sars . meets the sycotic as well as the psoric (scrofulous) and syphilitic constitution; and it is "restorative" after over-dosing with Merc . because it is a homœopathic antidote to Merc . The chief localities of the action of Sars . are: The urinary organs; genitals; rectum; skin and bones; right lower extremity; right lower side; inner semilateral head. In the urinary sphere there are symptoms which are very severe and also peculiar: There is great pain at end of micturition, just as the urine ceases to flow ; inability to pass water freely except in the standing position, when sitting it only dribbles; excessive pain in urethra which may run back into abdomen; passage of gravel which looks like grey sand. Many cases of renal colic and dysuria in infants with passage of sand have been cured with Sars . Gonorrhœa and the effect of suppressed gonorrhœa have also been cured with it; herpes preputialis; spermatorrhœa, with swollen cords. In the female generative sphere it has many symptoms of painful and disordered menstruation. A peculiar symptom is "moist eruption in right groin before menses." There are moist eruptions also on scrotum and thighs of the male, and offensive odours about genitals in both sexes. The semen may be bloody. In all cases if the other symptoms are associated with the peculiar urinary symptoms of Sars ., this will be a strong corroborative indication. The skin is severely affected by Sars . One of its popular uses is for "clearing the complexion." When it succeeds it is by virtue of its homœopathicity, for I have seen a very extensive crop of blotches produced by it in a young lady. Sars . produces herpetic eruptions in all parts, and tettery eruptions, moist and dry. Rhagades. Itch-like eruptions prone to appear in spring. Itching eruption on forehead during menses. It causes great emaciation, causing the skin to be shrivelled and lie in folds. It is suited to children with faces like old people and enlarged abdomens; to dark-haired persons of lithic or sycotic diathesis. Farrington gives these indications: ( 1 ) Sycotic eruption , little spots scarcely raised above the skin, often scaling a little, but looking like the roseola of syphilis and itching intolerably, < in spring. ( 2 ) Moist eruption on scalp, the pus from which causes inflammation of any part it touches. ( 3 ) Sycotic headache , beginning at back of head, coming forward and settling at root of nose, with swelling of nose. ( 4 ) Moist eruption about genitals or between scrotum and thighs. — Sars . has many symptoms relative to the female breast, and scirrhus of the breast has been cured with it. The nipples are soft, unexcitable; they are retracted and cannot be made to come out. Retraction of the nipples is a suspicious sign even when there is no appearance of tumour; and Sars . should be helpful in patients of cancerous history when this condition is present. This shrivelling of the nipples is part of the shrivelling, withering, wrinkling, and hanging in folds which characterises the skin generally. Burnett ( H. W ., xv. 62) records the case of Miss X., 32, whom he found ill in bed and in great pain. There was vomiting of bitter matter, diarrhœa, and fainting, the initial stage of a painful period. Conjunctivæ yellow, and apparently a sharp upset of the liver. Card. m . Ø removed the pains and vomiting; Chel . 1 relieved tenderness of the liver which remained. The patient had had painful menses for twenty years, that is, continuously from the commencement, except one year when at school at Tunbridge Wells. She used to begin, generally early in the morning, with bitter vomiting; diarrhœa and fainting fits, with exceedingly cold perspiration; the pain in back, thighs, and hypogastrium she described as dreadful. She had to lie down the first day, the second day the pain continued still very bad, and went off on the third. The left nipple was considerably retracted , arising from a fall when patient was a little child, and in addition to the above-named symptoms she had severe pain in left breast extending down left arm, and the breast was so tender that she would often hold her hand in front of it to ward off any contact. Twenty-four powders, each containing Sars 30 gtt. i., were ordered, one at bedtime. The next flow was painless ; but the breast was as painful as ever. Twelve doses of Sul . 30 were given in as many days, and then Sars . 30 again. The painful menstruation remained cured, but the breast was unchanged. Twenty-four powders were now ordered, the first, twelfth, and eighteenth containing each ten globules of Sars . 100, the rest unmedicated. Patient reported: The first two or three weeks she thought she had taken a severe cold, as she had such a peculiar pain between the shoulders as if the flesh were taken hold of and twisted round. After a few days it got better, and "there has been scarcely any pain in the part since." The retraction of the nipple seemed to Burnett a little less. With the same remedy Skinner ( ibid .) cured many cases of retraction or flattening of the nipple in nursing women. On two occasions with high potencies of Sars . he enabled a lady to nurse her child when it was utterly hopeless without the simillimum. Peculiar Sensations are: As if in a dream. As of a great weight in head. 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 if something pressing on head. As if gauze spread over left eye. As if a grain of sand in eye. As of a needle pricking point of nose. Face as if bruised. Jaw as if being broken. As if he had eaten nothing. [Sars. has the "sinking" sensation of the great antipsorics.] As if diarrhœa would come on. As if bowels were pressed out. As if bound down to bed by a sort of suction. As if breath were stopped by a spasm. Breast-bone as if bruised. As if chest were too short. As if tips of fingers ulcerated, or as if salt were put on a wound. Limbs as if paralysed. There is general sensitiveness. Pains shoot in different directions. Anxiety accompanies the pains of Sars .; and the pains = depression. The symptoms are < by touch, pressure, tight clothes, scratching. Scratching = itching to begin in another place = eruption on forehead to become humid. Rest > , motion < . Lying down < asthmatic breathing. Sitting < . Standing > (difficult micturition). Stooping = pains from occiput to forehead. Walking < . < Going up (or down) stairs. Many symptoms are < on moving. < In spring. Warmth > . Warm diet < . Cold diet > . Warm room < vertigo. Entering cold air from warm room = rash. Cold air > pain in molars. Cold, wet weather < . Washing < . Chilliness < . Seminal emission < dim sight. Bread < . Yawning < .

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Mental depression caused by the pains.
Anxiety with the pains.
Morose, with inclination to work.
Gloomy, desponding without known cause ; debility.
Irritable, impatient or changeable ; very easily vexed, cannot forget the cause.
Thinking about the food he has been eating makes him sick.
Desponding, gloomy disposition, amounting to despair, without any known cause ; great debility, with acid, raw, slimy taste in mouth, particularly after breakfast.
She thinks she cannot bear the headache.
Child cannot bear the itching, very impatient.

Dull, stupid feeling ; cannot keep the mind on his study.
Heaviness in head.
Vertigo : while standing at window he suddenly fell backward on floor unconscious, at same time throat was swollen, sour eructations before and afterward, severe perspiration in night ; with nausea in morning while gazing long at one object ; while sitting and
walking, head inclined to drop forward.
Staggers, falls forward, in open air.

Headache, with nausea and sour vomiting.
Pressure, or pressure with stitches, in left side of forehead and head.
Headache like pressure of a great weight in head, which is inclined to sink forward.
Pressing and itching deep in right half of head, morning.
Throbbing in top of head ; < from walking, even when sitting down afterward, now and then aching through temples, forehead or occiput.
Violent throbbing in right side of head, deep in brain.
A kind of buzzing in head, as if a large bell had been struck.
Dull tremor (wuwwern) with a waving in head.
Beating and sounding in right side of head, deep in brain.
Very warm in head during dinner, with sweat on forehead.
Shooting in right parietal bone forward to temple or face.
Pressing in vertex, increasing and decreasing slowly.
Mercurial syphilitic affections of head.
Shooting in right parietal bone forward to temple or face ; staggering and falling forward in open air. θ Mercurial syphilitic affection.
Shooting back of head to front with violent itching, after syphilis and mercurialization.
Darting from occiput to eyes with nausea, determination of blood to head, feet and hands cold. θ Nervous headache.
Suffering severely all day, pains becoming more violent as evening approached, causing him to jerk his head to one side and scream with every paroxysm ; pains confined to right side principally, even pulsative and stitching in character, extending from occiput upward and forward
over ear, around to temple and across forehead.
Dull aching pain in head, mostly in forehead, < in evening ; vertigo, especially in warm room ; stupid feeling ; prostration ; great drowsiness in evening, but unable to sleep quietly through night ; nocturnal emissions from one to three times a week,
occurring in connection with lascivious dreams ; tired feeling in morning with bitter taste in mouth ; pain in small of back extending down spermatic cords. θ Spermatorrhœa.
Dull, stupid feeling in head, inability to keep his mind on his studies, sometimes a feeling as if something were pressing upon head ; at times anguish of mind ; unable to read at night on account of a mist or smoky appearance before eyes ; great weakness and prostration,
render him unfit for work ; soft, flabby muscle ; least excitement caused ejaculation of semen without sexual feeling ; obstinate constipation, seminal losses since puberty from masturbation ; emissions with lascivious dreams.

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Sarsaparilla is suitable in low forms of chronic disease, especially in complex states resulting from mixed miasms; especially in cases of sycosis and syphilis; cases made complex by Mercury, sycosis syphilis, and psora. Weakness stamps itself on the whole economy, as in Merc., Lach. and other remedies.

The tissues become flabby, refuse to heal when injured, ulcerate from slight causes. After an injury an open sore remains and is indolent or becomes phagedenic and spreads like. Ars., Lach and Merc. cor.

Weakness over the whole body; a paralytic feeling. In the mental sphere it manifests itself in a dazed state, he is unable to comprehend, the mind is slow, it is a weakness bordering on imbecility, which in the end it may reach. Weakness of the mind and the tissues.

All the organs are slowed down, weak, sluggish, become congested. Weakness and dilatation of the veins, tendency to form varices in the limbs, varicose ulcers, hemorrhoids, varicose veins of the face and body.

The face is often red and discolored in patches. When the circulation is feeble the parts turn blue, over the shin bones; on the backs of the feet, toes; blue spots like approaching senile gangrene, Useful in old age when black and blue spots appear on the backs of the hands and elsewhere.

Moist, itching, scurfy, and scabby eruptions. The skin of the backs and the palms of the hands becomes thick and indurated with a bran like scurf resembling psoriasis, intermingling with blue spots.

This remedy has many features as to cold and heat. The use of heat internally aggravates all complaints, but there is an external coldness relieved by heat; taking warm food and drink aggravates; wants cold food, but heat applied externally is grateful.

Secale also produces great weakness of tissue, with venous stasis ulceration and gangrene. But the two remedies, though similar in appearance, differ in regard to heat and cold.

The stomach is in a most miserable condition. Flatulence, continuous nausea, eructations and vomiting of sour food. Always complaining of fermentation and uneasiness of the stomach as if he had overeaten or as if the food had spoiled; digestion is slow and feeble.

Organs become tumid and congested. The throat, tongue, and mouth look as if about to ulcerate; purple spots look as if they would break down, but remain intact for weeks and months.

Oedema of tissues, of lower extremities, pitting on pressure dropsical conditions; Bright's disease. Suitable in old syphilitics whose complaints have been suppressed by Mercury; mind and body in a state of prostration; paralytic weakness of the lower extremities, no endurance; the heart palpitates on exertion; suffocation on the least exertion; always tired; ulcers here and there on the body; the skin is flabby and full of distress at night. Bone-pains worse at night. Sars. antidotes the Merc. and establishes reaction.

Marasmus of children from hereditary syphilis; emaciation about the neck; dry, purple, copper-like eruptions; no assimilation.

The child is always passing sand in its diaper, yellowish, or whitish like chalk; the child screams when it is about to urinate, because it remembers how painful the passing of urine is. Sometimes at the close of urination it gives forth an unearthly yell. This symptom is found in old broken down constitutions, a clutch in the bladder just as it shuts down causes him to carry out; pain at the end of urination.

Old debauches, enfeebled by wine and women, with weak heart, lungs, brain, and bladder, emaciated and shrivelled. Prematurely old, a man of forty looks to be eighty, feet swollen, totters about on a staff. Nux will palliate in early periods of breakdown, but the time comes when he is weak in body and mind and must have such remedies as Sars., Lach., Secale , etc.

Children emaciated; face looks like old people; big belly; dry, flabby skin; mushy passages. Eruptions appear in the Spring. All the venous remedies are braced up by Winter and go down in the Spring, as Lach., Secale and Hamam.

Catarrh of the bladder and kidneys.

Involuntary urination of children at night in bed, in feeble children. There is a spasmodic condition of the sphincter when sitting to urinate, which makes the act impossible in that position, but when he stands up the urine flows freely.

This is especially important when the symptom occurs in women, because they have great difficulty in urinating while standing. Copious urine at night; he floods the bed, but during the day be can pass it only when standing.

It is fifteen years since I reported the following case and the man has remained well ever since:

"A man, aet. 52, addicted to whiskey for years, had a copious flow of blood from the bowels some four months ago; the exertion of walking a few blocks causes suffocation; after the loss of blood, feet began to swell, both limbs to middle of thigh very oedematous, has had two or three nondescript chills; a few months ago, sudden paralytic weakness of left arm and leg, passed off in three hours leaving a numbness in left hand and a tearing pain in left side of face and head; no appetite; bloody discharge with stools; feels as if in a dream all the time; loss of memory; face covered with varicose veins and very red; general venous stasis; feeling on the top of the head as if struck with a hammer; must pass urine several times in a night; urine thick and cloudy after standing; but clear when first passed; has bad much worry from financial troubles; cannot pass urine, when sitting at stool, but flows freely when he is standing, albumen in the urine."

When Sars. can take such a man, 52 years old, and restore him to health it is worth considering.

"Jerking sensation along the male urethra."

"Each time she makes water, air passes out of the urethra with a gurgling noise."

This symptom is common in catarrh of the bladder; it is caused by fermentation of the mucus and consequent formation of gas.

"Frequent ineffectual urging to urinate with diminished secretion,"

This medicine has many times dissolved a stone in the bladder; it so changes the character of the urine that it is no, longer possible for the stone to build up, and it grows smaller by the continual dissolving off from the surface.

I have seen the high colored, bloody, and mucous urine cleared up after the administration of Sars., but on standing, the sand would appear. When the urine again becomes cloudy, it is time for another dose. The urine holds in solution, that is, actually dissolves the substance of the stone.

Some years ago there was an old man upon whom a surgeon was expected to operate. They had sounded his bladder and said that he had a stone, but he came to the conclusion that he would not permit the operation. In spite of their warnings he sent for me and I took charge of his case. His symptoms called for Sars. The enormous amount of sand he passed in the next year was wonderful. It mitigated the catarrh and kept the bladder comfortable. At the end of a year, after a night of great suffering, he passed a stone the size of a pea. He passed several small stones after that and then returned to health.

A young man passed so much crusty deposit that I ordered him to use one commode and let it settle, pouring off the urine. At the end of a month there was a layer a sixteenth of an inch thick. This patient under Sars. had no stone. The sand continued to pass, but was held in solution and deposited only on cooling. In the course of time it disappeared. He was of a gouty nature and this was relieved.

Sars. has gouty nodes with extreme soreness. After the remedy has been given, there is a deposit of sand in the urine, which shows the good action of the remedy and should not be stopped.

"Obstinate constipation with violent urging to urinate; urging top stool with contraction of the intestines; excessive pressure from above downward, as if the bowels were pressing out; during stool, violent tearing, cutting, in the rectum.

Stool small, with much bearing down."

"Old, dry, sycotic warts remaining after Mercurial treatment for gouty pains."

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nausea when thinking of food.

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

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.

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.

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

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.
Leucorrhœa on walking; pain at meatus urinarius after urinating.
Nipple withered, small, retracted.

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

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

Stitches from back through to chest with every motion.

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

Breast-bone feels as if bruised.

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.

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

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 immovable, as if paralyzed.
Trembling of hands and feet.
Hands and feet peculiarly weary.
Rheumatism, bone pains, after mercury or checked gonorrhœa; pains worse at nights, in damp weather or after taking cold in the water.

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.

Fainting attacks, difficult stool.
Paralysis, muscles atrophied.

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

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.

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.

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.

Increasing and decreasing slowly: 3.

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

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

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

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.

Dark hair.
Sycosis.

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

A tincture is made of the dried root of the Smilax officinalis, H. and B. (from Honduras).

Trembling of whole body, with anxiety; T. of hands and feet in forenoon, with tearing in forehead and pinching in abdomen. ▶ Mobility of whole body, hands and feet feel very light. ▶ Racking effects. ▶ Stinging now in head, now in right ear, now in left ; in forehead and left side of chest, mornings on walking out-doors. ▶ Lightning-like tensive pains here and there in body and about head. ▶ Sensation in all bones as if breaking. ▶ Drawing pain in scapulæ and legs. ▶ Pain partially waking her at night without knowing where, but in morning she thought it must have been in abdomen (the day before menstruation). ▶ Feeling of strength. ▶ No exertion seemed to tire. ▶ Weakness; in forenoon, amel. a meal; agg. thighs, knee and feet, also during menses; with torpor, which induced him to lie on the ground, with unwillingness to move. ▶ Faintness in evening during stool. ▶ Aggravation from vinegar. ▶ Amelioration out of doors; A. from smelling camphor.

Bone-pains following gonorrhœa, or after the use of mercury, agg. dampness. ▶ Marasmus, with sore mouth, whit sand in the urine, emaciation and shrivelled skin.

▶ Cheerful. ▶ Lively and happy. ▶ Merry; all day, and full of fun. ▶ Changeable mood. ▶ Ill humor; all day, amel. evening; in morning, with heaviness of head; in forenoon, with inclination to weep; in afternoon; with disposition to work; with indisposition to work and heat in face; without disinclination to work. ▶ Easily vexed and cannot forget the cause of vexation. ▶ Silent moroseness. ▶ Aversion to everything in forenoon. ▶ Inclination to work in afternoon. ▶ Anxiety, with fear and palpitation; A., with constriction in throat; A. in head in forenoon, then in whole body, with trembling, agg. feet. ▶ Sadness; on account of pains, with moans; with sluggishness; and absorbed in himself. ▶ Thinks that she cannot bear the headache. ▶ Inactive and awkward. ▶ Absent-minded. ▶ Inaptitude for mental application. ▶ Stupor, with weakness of head.

Sticking, so that he shudders. ▶ Pain like lightning. ▶ Tearing here and there, agg. motion and walking; T. deep in brain on talking and walking. ▶ Hammering pain evenings, agg. night, with nausea and sour vomiting. ▶ Pain; agg. touching or walking; with unconsciousness and inability to speak; with blackness before eyes; with flickering before eyes; with cough; or lightness; slowly increasing and decreasing, agg. upper part; as if screwed together at 2 P.M.; externally, like compressions and incisors. ▶ Throbbing till towards noon. ▶ Tingling as if a large bell had been stuck, towards noon. ▶ Heaviness at 11 A.M., with stupidity, sometimes as if temples would be compressed together; H. agg. moving it, with tension in right side of neck; with inclination to sink forward; with toothache. ▶ Dullness in forenoon, with stupidity; D. after sitting long, with mist before eyes, lassitude of limbs, stoppage of nose and gloomy mood; D. amel. towards evening; with flatulency. ▶ Weakness as after a fever, with stupor. ▶ Waving sensation at 2 P.M., with dull tremor. ▶ Vertigo frequently in forenoon; V. on gazing long at an object; when sitting and walking, with inclination of head to drop forward; when standing at a window he fell back unconscious, with swelling of throat, sour eructations before and afterwards, with pressure upon chest, and at night sweat; with unsteady gait; with general heat as from close air (on a cold, rainy day).

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Paralytic, tearing pains; gout-like pains after taking cold from wet (and from suppressed gonorrhœa), with decreased secretion of urine.
Trembling of the hands and feet.
Paralytic immobility of the limbs.
Emaciation, so that the skin became wrinkled.
Weakness and even faintness in the evening during stool.

The pains seem to affect the mind and cause depression.
Frequent changeable mood.

Shooting or throbbing headache, with nausea and sour vomiting.
Sensitiveness of the scalp.
Pain in the left side of the forehead.

Dimness of vision; paper looks red in the evening.

Eruption like milk crust.
Eruption on the upper lip.

Dryness and rawness of the mouth and throat.
Bitter taste in the morning.

Loss of appetite; nausea, if only thinking of food.
Food is tasteless.
Bitter eructations.

Frequent, ineffectual urging to urinate.
Diminished secretion of urine; or copious, pale urine, frequently evacuated.
Tenesmus of bladder, with discharge of white, acrid urine, containing mucus.
Burning in the urethra during micturition.
Urine contains blood and pus.

Clinical:
Cystitis, with bloody urine, pain in the neck of the bladder at the close of micturition and chills from bladder to back.
Gravel and even calculus in the bladder and kidneys.
Urine decomposes in the bladder, with the development of gas.
Urine bloody in suppressed gonorrhœa.

Erections, with sexual dreams.
Disagreeable odor of the genital organs.
(Herpetic eruption on the genitals.)

Pain in the lower part of the back, extending around the pelvis to the genitals; < night and motion, especially on stooping.
Numerous pains in the extremities and joints, < motion, with weakness.

Clinical:
Pains from suppressed gonorrhœa, syphilitic or after taking Mercury, aggravated by night and damp weather, especially after taking cold in water.

Dry, papular eruption, itching, < warmth, evenings in bed and scratching.
Moist eruptions, with excoriating discharge and tendency to ulceration.

Chilliness day and night, especially in the forenoon; cold, even when near a stove, except the face; heat in the evening, with rush of blood, palpitation, sweat on the forehead.

SARSAPARILLA. SASSAPARILLA.

When Syphilis was being cured by immoderate doses of Mercury (even 300 years ago), the long, thin root of Smilax Sarsaparilla was casually discovered by the common people in South America to be of great use in the great derangement of health resulting thence. This has since been imitated in Europe in similar cases, but it is always ordered by the physicians in a boiled form. It was, therefore, necessary, in order to get an effective medicine, frequently to use an ounce and more of this expensive root every day, an expense which only rich patients could afford ; especially, when the treatment had to be continued for years, as was sometimes the case. It was, as may be seen, not perceived, even in the course of several centuries, that the root, which in itself is very strong, loses almost all its effective parts by boiling. It was therefore no great loss for the patient, when the apothecary mixed in or substituted for the very expensive sarsaparilla root, the similar long and thin roots of the sea-zeed-grass (carex arenaria) which had no medicinal virtures at all, drawing an immense profit from the transaction. For a long time even the physicians supposed that the root of the carex arenaria might with propriety be substituted for the sarsaparilla, because it also was a long, thin root, and probably of similar virtues. This was an arbitrary action of the fabricators of the common Materia Medica, having no foundation in fact, as they also decreed, that the bark of Salix and of Æsculus hippocastanum was of like medicinal virtue as the cinchona bark. The truth is, that the genuine sarsaparilla, especially the brown kind which grows on Hayti (San Domingo), is a drug which is very powerful even in a small dose ; but it must be given to the patient in some other from, and not as a decoction, as it thereby, as before mentioned, loses nearly all its virtue. Homœopathy only uses the most genuine medicines (it needs but a small quantity of each), and it uses them in their most effective form. The tinctures drawn out with alcohol from all the dry drugs, do not contain all of their medicinal virtues. I have become convinced of this by experience now for several years. We therefore scrape off one grain of the bark from a small piece of good sarsaparilla root which has not been kept on hand too long ; the same is triturated for homœopathic use with ninety-nine grains of sugar of milk to the hundred fold powder-attenuation, and so on to the millionth powder-attenuation ; one grain of this is solution is then potentized further, as taught at the end of the first part of this work. In cases where Sarsaparilla was homœopathically indicated, it also removed the following ailments, if they happened to be present : Nauseas, blood with the stool ; cold feet before going to sleep ; perspiration on the forehead, in the evening in bed ; stuffed coryza of many years standing ; bruised weariness of the hands and the feet. Smelling of Camphor is an antidote ; Vinegar seems to aggravate the ailments in the beginning. The abbreviations are Br. Brunner ; Htm, Hartmann ; Hrm., Hermann ; Ng., Anonymous ; Tth. Teuthorn ; Sr., Dr. Schréter. [*].

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Mores peevishness with inclination to work. Frequent alternations of mood. The pains greatly affect his spirits and cause great depression.

Vertigo when looking a long time at a single object.

Throbbing or sticking ache with nausea and sour vomiting. Vibrations, like the striking of a bell when talking. Sensitive scalp. Falling of hair.

Sticking in. Pain, in the daylight. Blue swelling in inner canthi. Dim vision, as though' in a fog. Paper has a red appearance in evening.

Eruption, like milk crust. Stiffness and tension in masseter muscles and maxillary joint. Herpes on upper lip.

Sensitive upper incisors. Tearing in, from cold air or cold drinks.

Dryness and roughness in, early in morning. Spasmodical constriction of, with respiratory complaints.

Taste: Bitter, in mouth. Food is tasteless.

Burning in, especially after eating bread. Loss of feeling in after eating, as though' he had eaten nothing at all.

Appetite: Loss of, even the thought of food disgusts him.

Eructations: Bitter or sour, during and after eating.

Sensation of emptiness and rumbling in. Sticking in (left) side of. Burning or cold sensation in.

Hard scanty, retarded. Difficult, painful, nearly causing fainting.

Frequent, ineffectual urging to urinate. Diminished discharge. Ischuria with discharge of a white, acrid material and mucus. Profuse discharge of pale u. Painful constriction of bladder. Calculi of bladder and kidneys.

Excessive stomach about. Suppressed gonorrheal discharges after abuse of mercury.

Great tightness of r., which necessitates loosening the neck band and vest in order to breathe Oppression as from spasm impeding the breathing. He frequently takes a deep breath.

Stitches, from the least motion.

Stitches in arm, hand and finger joints, also in legs, especially from every motion. Deep cracks on fingers, with burning pains. Festering pain in finger lips.

Weariness in thighs and in knee joints. Red herpes on calves. Extraordinary cold feet.

Paralytic tearing in all limbs and joints. Chronic, gouty pains with diminished secretion of urine, after taking cold from getting wet (and stoppage of gonorrhea). Trembling of hands and feet. Immobile limbs, as from paralysis. Emaciation on great that the skin shrivels and fells into folds.

Dry, pimply eruption, which itches in warmth only Miliary rash as soon as he goes from a warm room into cold air. Ulcers (from the abuse of mercury) deep cracks in.

Nightly sleeplessness with frequent awaking. Frightful dreams.

Pulse: somewhat accelerated, with violent ebullition, mostly toward evening. Chill: Predominates by day and night. Numerous shiverings running upward mostly in forenoon. Coldness of whole body, with exception of face and chest, most on feet, even near a warm stove. He is always at his worst during the chill. Heat: In evening, with ebullition and palpitation. Warm feeling in evening with increased sense of well being. Sweat: In evening during the heat, but only forehead.

Allied Remedies: Bell., CALC-C., Merc., sul.