CADMIUM SULPHURATUM
Cadmic Sulphate
Its pathogenesis offers signs corresponding to very low varieties of disease, as in cholera, yellow fever, where, with exhaustion, vomiting, and intense prostration, the sickness runs deathward. Important gastric symptoms. Carcinoma ventriculi; power vomiting.
The assault is upon the belly greater especially. Patients have to preserve quiet. Chilliness and coldness even when close to the fire.
Mind and Head.–Unconscious. Vertigo; room and mattress appear to spin around. Hammering in head. Heat in head.
Nose.–Ozaena. Tightness at root. Nose obstructed; polypus. Caries of nasal bones. Boils on nose. Nostrils ulcerated.
Eyes.–Opacity of cornea. Blue circle round eyes. One scholar dilated. Night blindness.
Face.–Distortion of mouth. Trembling of jaw. Facial paralysis; greater left side.
Mouth.–Difficult swallowing. Å’sophagus constricted (Bapt). Salty belching. Intense nausea, with pain and cold. Stringy, offensive exudation on mucous membrane. Salty taste.
Throat.–Sore throat, regular tickling; gagging and nausea, worse deep breathing; chilliness and aching.
Stomach.–Soreness in pit of belly on pressure. Violent nausea; retching. Black vomit. Vomiting of mucus, inexperienced slime, blood, with extremely good prostration, and top notch tenderness over the stomach. Burning and slicing pains in stomach. Carcinoma, helps the chronic vomiting. Coffee floor vomiting.
Abdomen.–Sore, tender, tympanitic. Region of liver sore. Coldness. Black, offensive clots of blood from bowels. Pain in abdomen, with vomiting. Tenderness and tympanites.
Stool.–Bloody, black, and offensive. Gelatinous, yellowish green; semi-fluid, with urinary suppression.
Urine.–Rawness and agony in urethra, urine blended with pus and blood.
Heart.–Palpitation, with constriction of chest.
Fever.–Icy coldness (Camph; Verat; Heloderm). Yellow fever (Crotalus; Carbo).
Skin.–Blue, yellow, sallow, scaly, cracking. Itching; higher scratching. Chloasma, yellowish stains on nostril and cheeks; worse publicity to solar and wind. Chilblains.
Sleep.–Stops respiration on going to sleep. Wakes up suffocating. Fears to go to sleep again. Protracted sleeplessness.
Modalities.–Worse, on foot or carrying burdens; after sleep; from open air, stimulants. Better, ingesting and rest.
Relationship.–Compare: Cadmium oxide; Cad brom (pain and burning in stomach, and vomiting); Cadmium jodat (Itching of anus and rectum felt all through the day only; constipation well-known desire, tenesmus, stomach bloated); Zinc; Ars; Carbo; Verat.
Dose.–Third to thirtieth potency.
