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Sarsaparilla Officinalis

30CSarsaparilla
Smilax · Wild Sarsaparilla · "The Painful End Urination Remedy"
sars.PlantUncommonPsoric
🎯 A remedy primarily indicated for severe urinary tract issues, including and painful urination, often associated with skin eruptions or pains.
📖 Boericke writes:
(SARSAPARILLA)
; and periosteal pains due to venereal disease. Eruptions following hot weather and vaccinations; boils, and eczema. Urinary symptoms well marked.
👤 Constitution
•The patient is often emaciated, with skin that is shriveled and hangs in folds. They are typically despondent, sensitive, easily offended, and ill-humored.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Pains cause depression.
head
Eruptions on face and upper lip.
head
and backache at same time.
abdomen
Severe pain at conclusion of urination.
urinary
Urine dribbles while sitting.
urinary
Child screams before and while passing urine.
urinary
Pain from right kidney downward.
urinary
Before , itching and humid eruption of forehead.
female
Emaciated, shriveled, lies in folds (Abrot; Sanic), dry, .
skin
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Useful for patients who are emotionally sensitive, easily offended, and prone to despondency.
Despondent, sensitive, easily offended, ill humored and taciturn.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

1X to 6X
Decimal
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
Sepia Officinalis →Mercurius Solubilis →
🚫 Antidotes
Belladonna →
🔄 Compare With
Natrium Muriaticum →Lycopodium Clavatum →Petroleum →Berberis Vulgaris →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

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Sarsaparilla Officinalis is listed in 129 rubrics across 14 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 41 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Urinary System40Skin21Male Sexual System19Locomotor System15Generalities7Head5Abdomen5Mind4Mouth3Modalities3Nose2Face2Female Sexual System2Stomach1

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