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SARSAPARILLA. – THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PURE MATERIA MEDICA By TIMOTHY F. ALLEN, A.M., M.D.

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SARSAPARILLA.


THROAT.

[220.]
► Constant hawking of mucus in the
morning; the mucus is constantly reproduced in abundance (second day), [6]. ►
Phlegm in throat all day, which she could not detach or swallow (tenth
day), [15]. ►
Tough mucus in throat, mornings; cannot be removed by hawking, for
several days, [6]. ► Mucus in throat tastes like blood
(eleventh day), [15]. ► Hoarseness in the throat, every other day
(after six days), [6]. ► Hoarseness in the throat frequently
returning (after three hours), [6].
► Constricting feeling in the throat
and chest, with difficult breathing, frequently in the day (fifth day), [6]. ►
Spasmodic constriction in the throat; he is forced to loosen his
clothes, the cravat, the shirt, in order to get sufficient breath, but
without avail (sixth day), [6]. ► Sensation of constriction in the
posterior portion of the throat, [11].
► Irritation and constriction in the
throat, [11]. [230.] ►
Roughness in the throat excites cough, [6].
► Rough, hoarse, and dry in the
throat, in the morning, on awaking, for a quarter of an hour, [6]. ►
During cough, roughness in the throat, mornings (second day), [6]. ►
Dryness in the throat and stinging on swallowing, morning (seventh day),
[6]. ►
Spasmodic urging or straining in the throat, through the whole night,
but frequently vomiting, [6]. ► When swallowing, a pain in the throat; a
feeling of rawness on the larynx, a pressing sensation moving about in
larynx, with a cough at night and in the morning, with a colorless
tasteless expectoration; when he coughs the larynx pains most, [10a]. ►
Pain in right side of throat, as if caused by a sharp spelt of barley or
wheat, up along at the side and out at the ear, only passing off in the
afternoon, after lying down (first day), [6].
► Irritation in the posterior portion
of the throat, [11]. ► Stinging from throat out of ear, [6]. ►
In fauces tickling ulcerative sensation, causing a cough, [1]. [240.] ► In the morning very much burning in the
œsophagus (fourth day), [15]. ► In the swallow acrid sensation, [8]. ►
Throat swollen, with falling down unconscious, [1]. ► At
10.30 A.M., transient tensive feeling (not pain) in region of right
submaxillary gland (thirteenth day), [16].

STOMACH.

►
Appetite and Thirst.
►
More appetite than usual, for several days, [6]. ► He
longs for his dinner, with an ardent desire, [9]. ► (Wants
nothing but juicy fruits), [10a]. ► Gnawing hungry sensation, [21]. ► No
appetite for smoking tobacco, the taste of which seems to him to be
entirely changed (fifth, sixth, and seventh days), [6]. ► All his
appetite is gone, [10a]. [250.] ►
No appetite for breakfast (sixth day), [6].
► No appetite and no hunger; food had
not enough flavor, and after a meal it seemed to him as if he had eaten
nothing; as if the stomach were without sensation, [1]. ► No
hunger or appetite; he ate but little at noon (second day), [6]. ►
Loathing at the thought of the food eaten, [1]. ► Ability
to go about all day fasting, [12].
► Thirst, even in the morning,
continuing all day, with general warmth (third day), [6]. ► Thirst,
frequently throughout the day, with one who is usually not thirsty, [6]. ►
Thirst for water, in the afternoon, 2 o’clock, after chill before dinner
(first day), [6]. ► Absence of thirst during meals, contrary
to his habit (first to fourth day), [6].
► Entire absence of thirst during the
whole proving, [6]. ► Eructations. [260.]
► First bitter and sour then empty
eructations, [6]. ► Sour eructations before and after attack,
[1]. ►
Continual eructation, with shuddering, [6].
► Eructation, with taste of the food,
after dinner (fifth day), [6]. ► Bitter eructation in the morning, after
rising, with bitter taste in the mouth (second day), [6]. ► Bitter
eructation during dinner; ceases after the meal (second day), [6]. ►
After eating the usual wasser soup, and drinking a little cold water
after it, the soup eructated with a bitter taste (fourth day), [6]. ►
Belching up of bitter sour matter, evenings; he had to spit it out three
times, [6]. ►
Belching of sour water, afternoon, [6].
► Continuous sour eructation, [1]. [270.]
► Frequent empty eructation, forenoon
and evening; evening (second day), and forenoon (fifth day), [6]. ►
Belching of bitter water, before and once after dinner (fourth day), [6]. ►
Sour eructation after breakfast, [1].
► Constant imperfect eructations, [2]. ►
Ineffectual inclination to eruct, with spasmodic twisting in stomach,
immediately after dinner, lasting one minute, [6]. ► Hiccough.
► Hiccough after dinner, three spells
(second day), [6]. ► Hiccough, 6 P.M., for a long while, [6]. ►
Hiccoughing eructation (soon), [6].
► Nausea and Vomiting. ► Constant nausea, without inclination to
vomit, afternoon (third day), [6].
► Nausea, [19]. [280.] ► Nausea, with an acrid sensation on the
tongue and in the swallow, [8]. ► It has nauseating effects, [18]. ► Much
nausea, with constant ineffectual inclination to vomit, the whole
forenoon (first day), [6]. ► Severe nausea, mornings, increased to
vomiting, with increased herbaceous taste in the mouth, [1]. ► Nausea
after breakfast, [1]. ► Nausea, with vertigo, [8]. ► Nausea,
with headache, [1]. ► Nausea, with constriction of the stomach,
[6]. ►
Nausea and exhaustion after dinner, [1].
► Nausea in the throat, caused by the
rising of a nauseous vapor into the mouth, with affection of the head, [1]. [290.]
► Nausea and inclination to vomit; it
comes up constantly (third day), [6].
► Constant inclination to vomit, [10a]. ►
Efforts to vomit, [11]. ► She has to vomit often, and each time her
nose bleeds, [10a]. ► Vomiting of bitter substances with great
efforts, [11]. ► He said it made him as sick as death and
broke all his bones, [19]. ► Sick stomach and prostration, kind of
coryza, had to lie down, and could not move; pulse somewhat retarded, [8]. ►
Vomits her breakfast after pain in the stomach, [10a]. ► Sour
vomiting, [3]; with headache, [1]. ►
Stomach.
► If he eats ever
so little, it nevertheless distends his stomach as much as if he had
eaten a great deal, [1]. [300.] ►
During menses griping in pit of stomach, extending toward the sacrum, [1]. ►
Griping in pit of stomach, extending toward the sacrum, [1]. ►
Spasmodic twisting in stomach, [6].
► Often spasmodic sensation in pit of
stomach, [1]. ► Constriction in the stomach, with nausea,
vanishing at night (ninth day), [6].
► Pressure in pit of stomach,
evening, while singing (fourth day), [6].
► Pressing pain in epigastrium and
directly under the ensiform cartilage, increased by touch, [3]. ►
Pressure in stomach, with soft stool, [7].
► Sense of weakness in the stomach, [11]. ►
It is very subject to lie heavy on the stomach and to produce
indigestion, [22]. [310.] ►
Heat and burning in the stomach (soon), [6].
► Heat in the stomach, as after
spirituous beverages, after eating a mouthful of bread (sixth day), [6].

ABDOMEN.

►
Hypochondria.
► Stinging
in left hypochondriac region, particularly on bending toward the right;
continuing a long time, forenoon (first day), [6]. ► Dull
pressure in the region of the liver; she often had returns of it; felt
only in the morning on waking; better after getting up and walking
about; after Sepia high, it disappeared for ten or twelve days, [10a]. ►
The left hypochondriac region pains as if bruised, with throbbing, 1
P.M., [6]. ► Umbilicus and Sides. ► Cutting around the navel, always on
gaping (eighth day), [6]. ► Cutting in a small spot about the navel,
morning (eighth day), [6]. ► Cutting around the navel, then moving
about in the abdomen, disappearing after passage of flatus, forenoon
(eighth day), [6]. ► Painful pressure inwards and pinching in
left side of abdomen, in small spot, aggravated only by deep
inspiration, [2]. ► Pressing pain in left side of abdomen, [1]. [320.]
► Cutting pain on a narrow line of
the left side of the abdomen, transversely towards the back; then
rolling in the belly and disappearance of the pain (sixth day), [6]. ►
Stinging, now in the right, now in the left side of abdomen (seventh
day), [6]. ►
Severe stinging under the right ribs and in abdomen, one hour after
dinner (sixth day), [6]. ► Stinging in the left side of abdomen
(soon), [1]. ►
Stinging in left side of abdomen, in the morning while sitting;
vanishing while walking, [6]. ► General Abdomen. ► Great fulness in abdomen, after eating or
drinking anything, [6]. ► Distension of abdomen (sixth day), [6]. ►
Frequent discharge of flatus all day (after eight days), [6]. ►
Flatulency, with dulness in the head, [1].
► Discharge of offensive flatus, [1]. [330.]
► Discharge of flatus of fetid odor,
evenings (third day), [6]. ► Discharge of flatus upwards and
downwards, [1]. ► Rumbling in abdomen, with feeling of emptiness
in the same
, [3]. ► Rumbling and rolling in abdomen, every
day, without diarrhœa and without distension, [1]. ► Rolling
in the belly and fermentation, [6].
► Rumbling and clucking in abdomen,
with feeling of emptiness in the same, [2].
► Rumbling and growling in bowels, [6]. ►
Loud quacking in abdomen, as in spasms; remitting for a while after
eructation (twenty-first and twenty-third days), [6]. ► Abdomen
very sensitive on pressure, 10 A.M., [6].
► During the diarrhœa rolling and
fermentation in abdomen, with discharge of stinking flatus (seventh
day), [6]. [340.] ►
During menses frequent griping colic, [1].
► Colic, with diarrhœa, [6]. ►
Colicky abdominal pain in the morning (second day), [6]. ► Feels
as if empty and disembowelled in abdomen, soon after breakfast (eighth
day), [6]. ►
Frequent spasmodic sensations in abdomen, [1].
► Constriction of intestines, [1]. ►
Contracting pain of the bowels, then violent rumbling and grumbling; now
around the navel, now upward toward the chest, now again downward, as if
diarrhœa were to follow, forenoon (second day), [6]. ►
Pinching and rolling in abdomen, from 5 P.M. till midnight, preventing
sleep, [6]. ►
Pinching and rumbling in abdomen, after eating; later passing up on left
side towards the stomach, and only dispelled by doubling up, [6]. ►
Pinching colic during menses, [1].
[350.] ►
Cutting in abdomen, with scanty stool, [6].
► Violent cutting in abdomen, 5 P.M.,
then semifluid diarrhœic stools (sixth day), [6]. ► Severe
pinching in abdomen, [6]. ► Severe pinching in abdomen, and thereupon
painful contraction of sphincter ani, [2].
► Pressing drawing in abdomen, as
after cold, [3]. ► Motion in the bowels, with burning
(soon), [6]. ►
Motion in abdomen, as before diarrhœa, all day, [6]. ► Feeling
of inactivity of bowels, [1]. ► Burning and heat in abdomen, [6]. ►
Coldness and motion in abdomen (ninth day), [6]. [360.] ► Internal chilliness in the abdomen, [1]. ►
Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions.
►
Straining constriction in hypogastrium, vanishing after passage of
flatus, evening and forenoon (seventeenth and eighteenth days), [6]. ►
A moving and tossing about in lower belly, as if he had taken a
purgative, but without diarrhœa, the whole day (after forty-eight
hours), [6]. ►
Pinching in left inguinal region, [2].
► In right groin severe tension, [1]. ►
On appearance of menses, soreness in the bend of the right groin, and
urging to urinate, [6]. ► Slight soreness in right groin (sixth
day), [16]. ►
Soreness in the left groin, as the pain in the testicles and spermatic
cords got better (eighth day), [16].

RECTUM AND ANUS.

►
Ulcer on the anus of the size of a walnut, bearing a black pustule, soon
opening with pain, and discharging pus, [1].
► During the diarrhœic stool
sensation of corroding acridity in rectum, during the discharge, [1]. [370.]
► Tearing and cutting in rectum, [1]. ►
Painful contraction of sphincter ani, after pinching in abdomen, [2]. ►
Severe aching in anus, with frequent desire for stool; better after
stool, but went away very slowly; it was relieved by hard pressure
upwards in anus, at 3.30 A.M. (seventh day), [16]. ►
Soreness in the anus, wakes him at night, and then changes into a
burning itching, lasting all day, [1].
► Burning in anus after stool, after
fluid stools, [6]. ► Itching on the right side of anus,
dispelled by scratching (eighth day), [6].
► Tenesmus in anus after stool, [6]. ►
Uncontrollable urgent desire; but nevertheless only scanty soft stool,
passing with great difficulty through the seemingly contracted rectum, [1]. ►
Urgent desire, with contraction of intestines, and enormous pressure
downwards, as if contents of abdomen were to be pressed out, for several
minutes; then at last something passes with a jerk, with severe tearing
and cutting in rectum; thereupon immediately again desire to go to
stool, as if rectum were being pressed out, so that he can scarcely sit
on account of pain, [1]. ► Frequent urging to go to stool, with
scanty discharge, and with tenesmus in the anus afterwards (second day),
[6]. [380.]
► Stool accompanied with much urging
and straining in the rectum, [1]. ► Desire but no stool, [1].

STOOL.

►
Frequent diarrhœic discharges, four of five times during the day, with
colic (fifth and sixth days), [6].
► Semifluid diarrhœic stools, [6]. ►
Twice diarrhœa (fourth day), [7].
► Hurried action of bowels before
breakfast, [14]. ► Stool was semifluid toward the end (ninth
day), [6]. ►
Very soft stool, without any other complaint (second day), [6]. ►
Fluid stools, evenings, with burning in anus afterwards, [6]. ► Soft
stool, with tenesmus in anus after it (second day), [6]. [390.] ► Stool softer than usual, accompanied with
slight pressure in region of stomach, [7].
► Scanty consistent stool,
accompanied by cutting in the abdomen, [6].
► Pitchy, sticky, adhesive stool
several days, [6]. ► Stool, the first part of which was hard,
the last soft, with subsequent burning in the anus, [6]. ► Scanty
stool, preceded by evacuation of much flatus, at 3.30 A.M. (seventh
day); had had a natural stool the day before, [16]. ► Twice,
consistent stool (first day), [6].
► Soft copious stool, afternoon
(first day), [7]. ► *Very hard stool (second day), [6]. ►
Hard stool (first day); constipation (second day); at first hard and
then passages of soft fæces (third day), [4].
► Hard stool and frequent urination
(tenth day), [6]. [400.] ►
Stool and urine delayed, [6]. ► No stool (third and fourth days), [6].

URINARY ORGANS.

►
Painful constriction of the bladder, without urging, [1]. ► The
urine only dribbles away when sitting, the bladder when in that posture
feeling bent forwards upon itself; on standing, the urine passes freely;
this lasted three or four days (after seven days), [17]. ►
Discharge of yellow pus from the urethra, with redness and inflammation
of the glans, and fever in the evening, with rigors (seventh day), [7]. ►
Thin, powerless stream of urine, [7].
► Pain in urethra, on waking
(fourteenth night), [16]. ► *Burning while the urine passes, with
discharge of elongated flakes, [5].
► Sharp cutting pins in the urethra,
after some hours, [1]. ► Burning with urination, [7]. [410.] ► Burning in the whole urethra always on
passing water, [1]. ► During passage of urine, scratching
scraping in the whole urethra (after twelve hours), [1]. ► Desire
to urinate wakes him from sleep every morning, [4]. ► Urging
to urinate ceases with the perfect discharge of menses, [6]. ► *Frequent
desire to urinate, with scanty discharge, accompanied by burning

(first day), [6]. ► Urging to urinate on appearance of
menses, [6]. ►
Nearly all day he has urgent desire to urinate, but little urine passes,
[1]. ►
Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty but painless discharge, [6]. ►
Frequent desire to urinate, discharging only a few drops, without
straining, as usually before menstruation, and again at the end of
menstruation (fourteenth and fifteenth days), [6]. ► When
sitting in the seat after stool had a desire to urinate, but could not;
afterwards when standing, could urinate freely, at 3.30 A.M. (seventh
day), [16]. [420.] ► He
has to get up two or three times in the night to urinate
, and
passes a great quantity; he thinks he can never finish, at first with
burning, then without, for two weeks (after two and four days), [6]. ►
Frequent urination (first day), [6].
► Frequent urination, with hard
stool, [6]. ►
Wakes up in the night to make water, [9].
► He urinates oftener and more than
usual, without burning, (sixth day), [6].
► Without particular thirst, the
urine passes more frequently than usual, becoming more copious daily, [4]. ►
Frequent copious urination (after four hours), [2]. ►
Abundant diuresis, [21]. ► Discharge of much watery urine, with
burning in urethra (first and second days), [6]. ► Frequent
discharge of pale copious urine
, growing turbid on standing,
like clay-water (fifth day), [6]. [430.] ►
No urine in the forenoon; in the afternoon, three times in succession,
discharge of pale urine, then again none, [6].
► Passes urine but once during the
whole day, with burning during the discharge, but in sufficient quantity
(first day), [6]. ► Copious urination lessens (sixth day), [6]. ►
Straining, with scanty discharge of urine (second day), [6]. ►
Strangury, with pressure in the bladder, yet the urine will not come,
and when it comes there is cutting pain, [1].
► Severe strangury, as in case of
stone, with discharge of white acrid turbid matter, with mucus, [5]. ►
Urine becomes abundant again on the ninth day; he has to get up nights
to urinate, [6]. ► Morning urine increases in quantity to a
quite unusual amount, [9]. ► Pale urine, in the afternoon; he has to
urinate frequently and passes much, [6].
► Pale urine, voided in a thin
powerless stream, with flakes in the urine, [7]. [440.] ► *Urine turbid immediately after its passage,
like clay-water, and scanty
(sixth day), [6]. ► Urine
passes without sensation in the passage, [4].
► Urine frequently voided, does not
get turbid, but deposits a cloud (seventh day), [6]. ► Urine
and stool much delayed, not often and scanty (second day), [6]. ►
Urine very scanty and frequently stopping, with frequent straining and
burning (fourth day), [6]. ► The deep yellow urine deposits a thin
cloud (eighth day), [6]. ► Urine becomes turbid on standing, and
deposits much clay-colored sediment, for several days (after forty-eight
hours), [6]. ►
Iridescent pellicle on the urine, [9].
► Very fiery urine, but without
burning (second day), [6]. ► Red scanty urine, mornings (fourth day), [6]. [450.]
► High-colored, apparently increased
urine, during menstruation (sixteenth day), [6]. ► Urine
passes towards the end mingled with blood, then with the discharge of
pus, also blood, and after this the pain when urinating abates, [7]. ►
The scanty urine passed, amid frequent urging, is clear and red (first
day), [6]. ►
Urine is turbid already while passing, with burning (third day), [6].

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