SULPHUR
Sublimated Sulphur
This is incredible Hahnemannian anti-psoric. Its motion is centrifugal-from inside outward-having an optionally available affinity for the skin, where it produces warmth and burning, with itching; made worse through warmness of bed. Inertia and leisure of fiber; subsequently feebleness of tone characterizes its symptoms. Ebullitions of heat, dislike of water, dry and challenging hair and skin, purple orifices, sinking feeling at belly about eleven am, and cat-nap sleep; continually point out Sulphur homeopathically. Standing is the worst function for sulphur patients, it is usually uncomfortable. Dirty, filthy people, susceptible to pores and skin affections. Aversion to being washed. When carefully-selected treatments fail to act, specifically in acute diseases, it regularly arouses the reactionary powers of the organism. Complaints that relapse. General offensive persona of discharge and exhalations. Very pink lips and face, flushing easily. Often exquisite use in starting the therapy of continual instances and in ending acute ones.
Mind.–Very forgetful. Difficult thinking. Delusions; thinks rags lovely things-that he is immensely wealthy. Busy all the time. Childish peevishness in grown people. Irritable. Affections vitiated; very selfish, no regard for others. Religious melancholy. Averse to business; loafs-too lazy to arouse himself. Imagining giving incorrect matters to people, inflicting their death. Sulphur topics are almost constantly irritable, depressed, skinny and weak, even with desirable appetite.
Head.–Constant warmness on pinnacle of head (Cup sulph; Graph). Heaviness and fullness, strain in temples. Beating headache; worse, stooping, and with vertigo. Sick headache habitual periodically. Tinea capitis, dry form. Scalp dry, falling of hair; worse, washing. Itching; scratching reasons burning.
Eyes.–Burning ulceration of margin of lids. Halo round lamp-light. Heat and burning in eyes (Ars; Bell). Black motes earlier than eyes. First stage of ulceration of cornea. Chronic ophthalmia, with an awful lot burning and itching. Parenchymatous keratitis. Cornea like floor glass.
Ears.–Whizzing in ears. Bad results from the suppression of an otorrhoea. Oversensitive to odors. Deafness, preceded by way of particularly touchy hearing; catarrhal deafness.
Nose.–Herpes throughout the nose. Nose stuffed indoors. Imaginary foul smells. Alae pink and scabby. Chronic dry catarrh; dry scabs and without difficulty bleeding. Polypus and adenoids.
Mouth.–Lips dry, brilliant red, burning. Bitter style in morning. Jerks thru teeth. Swelling of gums; throbbing pain. Tongue white, with crimson tip and borders.
Throat.–Pressure as from a lump, as from splinter, as of a hair. Burning, redness and dryness. Ball appears to upward push and shut pharynx.
Stomach.–Complete loss of, or immoderate appetite. Putrid eructation. Food tastes too salty. Drinks much, eats little. Milk disagrees. Great wish for sweets (Arg nit). Great acidity, bitter eructation. Burning, painful, weight-like pressure. Very susceptible and faint about eleven am; have to have some thing to eat. Nausea all through gestation. Water fills the affected person up.
Abdomen.–Very touchy to pressure; inner feeling of rawness and soreness. Movements as of some thing alive (Croc; Thuj). Pain and suffering over liver. Colic after drinking.
Rectum.–Itching and burning of anus; piles structured upon belly plethora. Frequent, unsuccessful desire; hard, knotty, insufficient. Child afraid on account of pain. Redness round the anus, with itching. Morning diarrhoea, painless, drives out of bed, with prolapsus recti. Haemorrhoids, oozing and belching.
Urine.–Frequent micturition, mainly at night. Enuresis, specially in scrofulous, untidy children. Burning in urethra throughout micturition, lasts lengthy after. Mucus and pus in urine; components sore over which it passes. Must hurry, surprising name to urinate. Great portions of colorless urine.
Male.–Stitches in penis. Involuntary emissions. Itching of genitals when going to bed. Organs cold, cosy and powerless.
Female.–Pudenda itches. Vagina burns. Much offensive perspiration. Menses too late, short, scanty, and difficult; thick, black, acrid, making components sore. Menses preceded with the aid of headache or all of sudden stopped. Leucorrhoea, burning, excoriating. Nipples cracked; clever and burn.
Respiratory.–Oppression and burning sensation in chest. Difficult respiration; desires home windows open. Aphonia. Heat, in the course of chest. Red, brown spots all over chest. Loose cough; worse talking, morning, greenish, purulent, sweetish expectoration. Much rattling of mucus. Chest feels heavy; stitches, with coronary heart feeling too giant and palpitating pleuritic exudations. Use Tinctura sulphuris. Stitching pains taking pictures via to the back, worse mendacity on returned or respiration deeply. Flushes of warmth in chest rising to head. Oppression, as of a load on chest. Dyspnoea in center of night, relieved by way of sitting up. Pulse extra speedy in morning than in evening.
Back.–Drawing ache between shoulders. Stiffness of nape. Sensation as if vertebrae glided over every other.
Extremities.–Trembling of hands. Hot, sweaty hands. Rheumatic ache in left shoulder. Heaviness; paretic feeling. Rheumatic gout, with itching. Burning in soles and arms at night. Sweat in armpits, smelling like garlic. Drawing and tearing in palms and hands. Stiffness of knees and ankles. Cannot stroll erect; stoop-shouldered. Ganglion.
Sleep.–Talks, jerks, and twitches in the course of sleep. Vivid dreams. Wakes up singing. Wakes frequently, and turns into huge unsleeping suddenly. Catnaps; slightest noise awakens. Cannot sleep between two an 5 am.
Fever.–Frequent flashes of heat. Violent ebullitions of warmness at some point of whole body. Dry pores and skin and brilliant thirst. Night sweat, on nape and occiput. Perspiration of single parts. Disgusting sweats. Remittent type.
Skin.–Dry, scaly, unhealthy; each little damage suppurates. Freckles. Itching, burning; worse scratching and washing. Pimply eruption, pustules, rhagades, hang-nails. Excoriation, specifically in folds (Lyc). Feeling of a band round bones. Skin affections after neighborhood medication. Pruritus, mainly from warmth, is evening, regularly recurs in spring-time, in damp weather.
Modalities.–Worse, at rest, when standing, warmness in bed, washing, bathing, in morning, eleven am, night, from alcoholic stimulants, periodically. Better, dry, heat weather, mendacity on proper side, from drawing up affected limbs.
Relationship.–Complementary: Aloe; Psorin; Acon; Pyrarara (a fish caught in the Amazon, clinically used for a variety of pores and skin affections). Lepra, tuberculides, syphilides, varicosities, etc.
Compare: Acon (Sulph regularly follows in acute diseases); Mercur and calcarea are regularly beneficial after Sulphur, no longer before. Lyc; Sep; Sars; Puls; Sulphur hydrogenisatum (delirium, mania, asphyxia); Sulphur terebinthinatum (chronic rheumatic arthritis; chorea); Tannic acid (Nasal haemorrhage; elongated uvula; gargle; constipation). Magnes artificialis (great starvation in evening, profuse sweat on face, bruised ache in joints, rectal constriction after stool).
Magnetis polus Articus (anxious, coldness of eyes as if a piece of ice lay in orbit, extended go with the flow of saliva, constipation, sopor, trembling, belly flatulence).
Magnetis polus Australis (dryness of lids, convenient dislocation of ankle, ingrowing toe-nails, aching in patella, capturing in soles).
Compare in adenoids: Agraphis.
Dose.–Acts in all potencies from the lowest to the highest. Some of the great consequences are bought from the higher, and no longer too time-honored doses. The twelfth efficiency is a desirable one to commence remedy with, going greater or decrease in accordance to the susceptibility of the patient. In continual diseases, two hundredth and upward. In lethargic eruptions the lowest potencies.
