HEPAR SULPHUR
Hahnemann’s Calcium Sulphide
(HEPAR SULPHURIS CALCAREUM)
Suits in particular scrofulous and lymphatic constitutions who are inclined to have eruptions and glandular swellings. Unhealthy skin. Blondes with gradual persona and susceptible muscles. Great sensitiveness to all impressions. Sweating affected person pulling blanket round him. Locally, it has exclusive affinity to the respiratory mucous membrane, producing croupous catarrhal inflammation, profuse secretion; additionally effortless perspiration. After abuse of Mercury. Infected sinus with pus forming. The tendency to suppuration is most marked, and has been a robust guiding symptom in practice. The lesions unfold by way of the formation of small papules round the aspect of the ancient lesion. Chilliness, hypersensitiveness, splinter-like pains, craving for bitter and sturdy matters are very characteristic. Feeling as if wind had been blowing on some part. The facet of the physique on which he lies at night time turns into progressively insufferably painful; he need to turn. Pellagra (material doses required). Syphilis after antispecific gross medication.
Mind.–Anguish in the nighttime and night, with ideas of suicide. The slightest motive irritates him. Dejected and sad. Ferocious. Hasty speech.
Head.–Vertigo and headache, when shaking the head or riding. Boring ache in the proper temple and in root of nostril each morning. Scalp touchy and sore. Humid scald-head itching and burning. Cold sweat on head.
Eyes.–Ulcers on cornea. Iritis, with pus in anterior chamber; purulent conjunctivitis, with marked chemosis, profuse discharge, notable sensitiveness to contact and air. Eyes and lids pink and inflamed. Pain in the eyes, as if pulled lower back into the head. Boring ache in higher bones of the orbits. Eyeballs sore to touch. Objects show up pink and too large. Vision obscured via reading; subject decreased one-half. Bright circles earlier than eyes. Hypopion.
Ears.–Scurfs on and in the back of the ears. Discharge of fetid pus from the ears. Whizzing and throbbing in the ears, with hardness of hearing. Deafness after scarlet fever. Pustules in auditory canal and auricle. Mastoiditis.
Nose.–Sore, ulcerated. Soreness of nostrils, with catarrhal troubles. Sneezes each and every time he goes into a cold, dry wind, with jogging from nose, later, thick, offensive discharge. Stopped up each time he goes out into bloodless air. Smell like historic cheese. Hay-fever (Hepar 1x will frequently begin secretions and profuse drainage in stuffy colds).
Face.–Yellowish complexion. Middle of decrease lip cracked. Vesicular erysipelas, with pricking in parts. Neuralgia of proper side, extending in streak into temple, ear, alae, and lip. Pains in bones of face, particularly when being touched. Ulcers in corners of mouth. Shooting in jaw on opening mouth.
Mouth.–Ptyalism. Gums and mouth painful to contact and bleed readily.
Throat.–When swallowing, sensation as if a plug and of a splinter in throat. Quinsy, with impending suppuration. Stitches in throat extending to the ear when swallowing. Hawking up of mucus.
Stomach.–Longing for acids, wine, and strong-tasting food. Aversion to fats food. Frequent eructations, besides style or smell. Distention of stomach, compelling one to loosen the clothing. Burning in stomach. Heaviness and stress in belly after a moderate meal.
Abdomen.–Stitching in vicinity of liver when walking, coughing, breathing, or touching it (Bry; Merc). Hepatitis, hepatic abscess; stomach distended, tense; persistent belly affections.
Stool.–Clay-colored and soft. Sour, white, undigested, fetid. Loss of energy to expel even a smooth stool.
Urine.–Voided slowly, barring force-drops vertically, bladder weak. Seems as if some constantly remained. Greasy pellicle on urine. Bladder difficulties of ancient guys (Phos; Sulph; Copaiva).
Male.–Herpes, sensitive, bleed easily. Ulcers externally on prepuce comparable to chancre (Nitr acid). Excitement and emission barring amorous fancies. Itching of glans, fraenum, and scrotum. Suppurating inguinal glands. Figwarts of offensive odor. Humid ache on genitals and between scrotum and thigh. Obstinate gonorrhoea “does now not get well”.
Female.–Discharge of blood from uterus. Itching of pudenda and nipples, worse all through menses. Menses late and scanty. Abscesses of labiae with superb sensitiveness. Extremely offensive leucorrhoea. Smells like ancient cheese (Sanicula). Profuse perspiration at the climacteric (Tilia; Jaborandi).
Respiratory.–Loses voice and coughs when uncovered to dry, bloodless wind. Hoarseness, with loss of voice. Cough difficult when walking. Dry, hoarse cough. Cough excited each time any phase of the physique receives bloodless or uncovered, or from ingesting some thing cold. Croup with loose, rattling cough; worse in morning. Choking cough. Rattling, croaking cough; suffocative attacks; has to upward shove up and bend head backwards. Anxious, wheezing, moist breathing, bronchial asthma worse in dry bloodless air; higher in damp. Palpitation of heart.
Extremities.–Finger-joints swollen; tendency to convenient dislocation. Nail of gorgeous toe painful on moderate pressure.
Skin.–Abscesses; suppurating glands are very sensitive. Papules susceptible to suppurate and extend. Acne in youth. Suppurate with prickly pain. Easily bleed. Angio-neurotic oedema. Unhealthy skin; each and every little damage suppurates. Chapped skin, with deep cracks on arms and feet. Ulcers, with bloody suppuration, smelling like historic cheese. Ulcers very touchy to contact, burning, stinging, without difficulty bleeding. Sweats day and night time besides relief. “Cold-sores” very sensitive. Cannot undergo to be uncovered; wishes to be wrapped up warmly. Sticking or pricking in stricken parts. Putrid ulcers, surrounded by using little pimples. Great sensitiveness to slightest touch. Chronic and ordinary urticaria. Small-pox. Herpes circinatus. Constant offensive exhalation from the body.
Fever.–Chilly in open air or from slightest draught. Dry warmness at night. Profuse sweat; sour, sticky, offensive.
Modalities.–Worse, from dry bloodless winds; cool air; slightest draught, from Mercury, touch; mendacity on painful side. Better, in damp weather, from wrapping head up, from warmth, after eating.
Relationship.–Antidotes: Bellad; Cham; Sil.
Compare: Acon; Spongia; Staphis; Silica; Sulph; Calc sulph; Myristica. Hepar antidotes awful consequences from Mercury, Iodine, Potash, Cod-liver oil. Removes the weakening consequences of ether.
Dose.–First to 200th. The greater potencies might also abort suppuration, the decrease promote it. If it is indispensable to hasten it, provide 2x.
