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Hepar sulphur

Hahnemann's calcium sulphide

37 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • Suits especially scrofulous and lymphatic constitutions who are inclined to have rashes and glandular swellings.
  • Unhealthy skin.
  • Blondes with sluggish character and weak muscles.
  • Great sensitiveness to all impressions.
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  • Sweating patient pulling blanket around him.
  • Locally, it has special affinity to the respiratory mucous membrane, producing croupous with mucus inflammation, profuse secretion; also easy perspiration.
  • After abuse of Mercury.
  • Infected sinus with pus forming.
  • The tendency to pus formation is most marked, and has been a strong guiding symptom in practice.
  • The lesions spread by the formation of small papules around the side of the old lesion.
  • Feeling cold, hypersensitiveness, splinter-like pains, craving for sour and strong things are very characteristic.
  • Feeling as if wind were blowing on some part.
  • The side of the body on which he lies at night becomes gradually insufferably painful; he must turn.
  • Pellagra (material doses required).

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Mind & mood

  • Anguish in the evening and night, with thoughts of suicide.
  • The slightest cause irritates him.
  • Dejected and sad.
  • Ferocious.
  • Hasty speech.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

From dry cold windsCool airSlightest draughtFrom MercuryTouchLying on painful side

Better

In damp weatherFrom wrapping head upFrom warmthAfter eating

Symptoms by body part

Head

Dizziness and headache, when shaking the head or riding. Boring pain in the right temple and in root of nose every morning. Scalp sensitive 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, great sensitiveness to touch and air. Eyes and lids red and inflamed. Pain in the eyes, as if pulled back into the head. Boring pain in upper bones of the orbits. Eyeballs sore to touch. Objects appear red and too large. Vision obscured by reading; field reduced one-half. Bright circles before eyes. Hypopion.

Ears

Scurfs on and behind the ears. Discharge of fetid pus from the ears. Whizzing and throbbing in the ears, with hardness of hearing. Pustules in auditory canal and auricle. Mastoiditis.

Nose

Sore, ulcerated. Soreness of nostrils, with with mucus troubles. Sneezes every time he goes into a cold, dry wind, with running from nose, later, thick, offensive discharge. Stopped up every time he goes out into cold air. Smell like old cheese. Hay-fever. (Hepar 1x will often start secretions and profuse drainage in stuffy colds.)

Face

Yellowish complexion. Middle of lower lip cracked. Vesicular erysipelas, with pricking in parts. Neuralgia of right side, extending in streak into temple, ear, alae, and lip. Pains in bones of face, especially when being touched. Ulcers in corners of mouth. Shooting in jaw on opening mouth.

Mouth

Excess saliva. Gums and mouth painful to touch and bleed readily.

Throat

When swallowing, sensation as if a plug and of a splinter in throat. Quinsy, with impending pus formation. Stitches in throat extending to the ear when swallowing. Hawking up of mucus.

Stomach

Longing for acids, wine, and strong-tasting food. Aversion to fat food. Frequent belching, without taste or smell. Distention of stomach, compelling one to loosen the clothing. Burning in stomach. Heaviness and pressure in stomach after a slight meal.

Abdomen

Stitching in region of liver when walking, coughing, breathing, or touching it. Hepatitis, hepatic abscess; abdomen distended, tense; chronic abdominal affections.

Stool

Clay-colored and soft. Sour, white, undigested, fetid. Loss of power to expel even a soft stool.

Urine

Voided slowly, without force-drops vertically, bladder weak. Seems as if some always remained. Greasy pellicle on urine. Bladder difficulties of old men.

Male

Herpes, sensitive, bleed easily. Excitement and emission without amorous fancies. Itching of glans, fraenum, and scrotum. Suppurating inguinal glands. Figwarts of offensive odor. Humid soreness on genitals and between scrotum and thigh.

Female

Discharge of blood from uterus. Itching of pudenda and nipples, worse during menses. Menses late and scanty. Abscesses of labiae with great sensitiveness. Extremely offensive white vaginal discharge. Smells like old cheese. Profuse perspiration at the climacteric.

Respiratory

Loses voice and coughs when exposed to dry, cold wind. Hoarseness, with loss of voice. Cough troublesome when walking. Dry, hoarse cough. Cough excited whenever any part of the body gets cold or uncovered, or from eating anything cold. Croup with loose, rattling cough; worse in morning. Choking cough. Rattling, croaking cough; suffocative attacks; has to rise up and bend head backwards. Palpitation of heart.

Extremities

Finger-joints swollen; tendency to easy dislocation. Nail of great toe painful on slight pressure.

Skin

Abscesses; suppurating glands are very sensitive. Papules prone to suppurate and extend. Acne in youth. Suppurate with prickly pain. Easily bleed. Angio-neurotic swelling. Unhealthy skin; every little injury suppurates. Chapped skin, with deep cracks on hands and feet. Ulcers, with bloody pus formation, smelling like old cheese. Ulcers very sensitive to contact, burning, stinging, easily bleeding. Sweats day and night without relief. "Cold-sores" very sensitive. Cannot bear to be uncovered; wants to be wrapped up warmly. Sticking or pricking in afflicted parts.

Fever

Chilly in open air or from slightest draught. Dry heat at night. Profuse sweat; sour, sticky, offensive.

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