Transcript of Sarsaparilla
Core
Anxiety and depression from pain.
Theme
Painfull constriction
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Chilly. Very sensitive to cold.
agg. Night.
agg. Spring [especially eruptions].
Painful urination, especially last drops.
Cracks. Shrivelled skin.
Causation
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - emotions
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - money; from losing
Mind
"Morose peevishness with inclination to work. Frequent alterations of
mood. The pains greatly affect his spirits and cause great depression."
(Boenninghausen).
Van Woensel:
- Easily offended. Anger about former vexations.
- Delusion being friendless.
- Changeable moods.
- Anxiety and depression from pain.
Severe, almost unbearable pain at conclusion of urination (Berb., Equis.,
Med., Thuja).
Vermeulen:
Very bad mood - loss of temper. Disgusted with everything; no pleasure in
anything. Extremely irritable, even the fly on the wall irritates him.
Readily insulted by a word. Cannot forget vexatious matters. [Hahnemann]
Sadness from pain.
Delusion of being friendless. Reserved; doesn't make friends easily; no
close friends. Quiet; like to be by themselves and to do things on their
own. Difficult to share things. Or: Feels left out and neglected. [These
basic syphilitic traits are in keeping with the essence of Monardes's
sarsaparilla therapy for syphilis: confinement and abstinence [from
pleasure] for 10 weeks altogether.]
KN
Urination, dribbling while sitting, urine passes freely when standing
Generals
CHILLY. Very sensitive to cold.
Tendency to gravel and itching eruptions.
Itching scaly spots, become crusty; agg. in Spring. Skin irritation [raw on
scratching and agg. washing] agg. any hot stimulating food, such as hot
soup [Borland].
Faintness during menses [2].
PAINFUL URINATION, especially LAST drops; amel. standing; agg. before
menses. [One of the main remedies for cystitis.]
Modalities
Worse: At close of micturition. Spring. Cold wet; damp weather. Mercury.
Night. Suppressed gonorrhoea. Yawning. During menses.
Better: Uncovering neck or chest. Standing.
Region
Genito-urinary system. Skin
Deep, bleeding CRACKS in hands, especially in fingers [agg. sides].
Retracted or cracked nipples.
Itching eruption on forehead during menses.
Obstinate constipation and violent urging to urinate.
Dysmenorrhoea: extreme pain in back and lower abdomen, extending
down thighs, and faintness, perspiring, vomiting and diarrhoea and "very
acute mammary sensitiveness, often one-sided [left more than right]"
[Borland].
Very sore, gouty nodes. Rheumatic pains agg. at night, agg. damp
weather.
DD
Canth, Equis, Nat-c, NIt-ac, Petr, Sep
Miasma
Psor 1
Syph 2
Syc 2
Carc 1