Sulphur - General symptoms - Clarke

GENERAL

General

Brimstone. Sublimed Sulphur. S. (A. W. 3l.98). Trituration of "Flowers of Sulphur." A saturated solution of Sulphur in absolute alcohol constitutes the Ø tincture.

inflammation of. Oesophagus, constriction of. Ophthalmia, acute.

scrofulous. rheumatic. Pelvic haematocele. Phimosis. Phlegmasia dolens. Peritonitis. Pleurisy. Pneumonia. Pregnancy, disorders of. Prostatorrhoea. Rectum, affections of. Rheumatic fever. Rheumatism, acute.

chronic. gonorrhoeal. Ringworm. Sciatica. Self-abuse. Sinking. Skin, affections of. Sleep, disordered. Smell, illusions of. Spinal irritation. Spine, curvature of. Spleen, pain in. Startings. Stomatitis. Taste, illusions of. Tenesmus. Thirst. Throat, mucus in. Tongue, coated. Tonsillitis. Toothache. Trachea, irritation in. Ulcers. Urticaria. Uterus, prolapse of. Vaccination. Varicocele. Varicosis. Vertigo. Warts. White swelling. Worms. Worry. Yawning.

Sulphur is an elementary substance, occurring in nature as a brittle crystalline solid, burning in the air with a blue flame, being oxidised to Sulphur dioxide (Sulphurous acid).

The reputation of Sulphur as a remedy is perhaps as old as medicine. "As early as 2,000 years ago," says Hahnemann, "Sul. had been used as the most powerful specific against the itch.

. The itch, with which the workers in wool are so much affected, causes an intolerably agreeable, tingling, itching, gnawing as of vermin.

Some designate it as an intolerably voluptuous titillating itching, ceasing as soon as the parts are scratched and commencing to burn, which burning continues after the scratching.

Sul. frequently produces in healthy persons burning-itching pimples and vesicles resembling the itch vesicles, and especially itching in the joints, and in the night." The specific power of Sul. to cure itch was abused.

It was applied externally as baths and ointments, and the skin affection was not cured but repelled, and a host of secondary affections appeared in its place.

Hahnemann found in Sul. the homoeopathic counterpart of the peculiar constitutional dyscrasia which tends to manifest in itch-like eruptions, and which he named Psora.

Sul. is the chief of the antipsoric remedies.

A proving of Sul. appears in the M. M. P., and this is amplified in the Chronic Diseases.

The domestic use of Sul. (in the familiar "Brimstone and Treacle") as a "Spring medicine" is based on its antipsoric properties. "It is one of the most popular diaphoretics of the day," says Milne, "few old women failing to use it when any eruption is supposed to be struggling through the skin." It is this property of Sul. to divert to the surface constitutional irritants which renders it the chief of Hahnemann's antipsorics.

Sul. has also an antipsoric action independently of its power of "bringing out" rashes.

The psoric poison may be present and active in a case of disease and "apparently well-indicated remedies may fail to act" in consequence.

In such cases one or two doses of Sul. will frequently antidote, as it were, the psora, and either clear up the case, or open the way for the action of other remedies.

In such cases there will almost certainly be some Sul. indications present.

Sul. is a potent antiseptic, and is one of the most certain destroyers of the acarus of itch.

The exact relation of acarus itch to psora and other itching eruptions need not be considered.

but as Sul. has the power of repressing constitutional eruptions when locally applied, as well as the power of destroying the acarus, it is best to use other means (e.g., Oil of Lavender) for the latter purpose, and give Sul. or other indicated remedies internally.

In my experience the psora of Hahnemann (which is a very real and definite dyscrasia) is generally inherited.

The symptoms of latent psora are set forth in detail in Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases, and they are for the most part almost exact reproductions of the symptoms of Sul.

But whilst Sul. is the chief of antipsorics, it is only one of many; and Sul. is in no way limited in its uses to cases of latent or declared psora.

Much more important is it to know the leading features of the drug's action, which are sure guides in any case. ($51$) A key to many of the Sul. conditions is to be found in an irregular distribution of the circulation flushes of heat.

rush of blood to head, chest, heart.

plethora from suddenly suppressed eruptions, piles, discharges.

heat and burning sensation of all parts or coldness, sweating of many parts.

These irregularities may go on to actual inflammation with effusions; and to fever of intermittent or other types.

Another manifestation of this is found in the redness of orifices and parts near orifices red ears, red nose; red eyelids and red borders round eyelids brilliant red lips; bright red anus in children; red meatus urinarius; red vulva.

The orifices are not only red and congested, but they are sore and hypersensitive as well; the passage of all discharges or excretions is painful. (2) The other side of this feeling of fulness is a feeling of emptiness.

There is no medicine which has this symptom in a more extreme degree than Sul., and there is no single symptom that is of greater value to the homoeopathic prescriber than "Faint, sinking, all-gone sensation at 11 a.m." When that symptom is marked I give Sul. (generally 30), and get all the good I can out of the remedy before prescribing anything else, and very rarely am I disappointed.

There is no need to wait to be told the symptom, or to ask patients directly if they experience it.

I generally ask if they get hungry out of their usual mealtimes; and if they say "Yes"; I ask "What time?" The time need not be exactly eleven; though that is the most characteristic time.

People who "must have something between breakfast and dinner-time" are generally benefited by Sul.

Sulphur ravenous hunger at 11 is often associated with other Sul. symptoms, as heat at vertex; dyspepsia; portal congestion; constipation with ineffectual urging; piles; constipation alternating with diarrhoea.

When the dyspeptic gets food and relieves his hunger he begins to feel puffed up, feels heavy and sluggish, and is low-spirited, he scarcely cares to live.

The dyspepsia of Sul. is often the result of suppressed eruptions.

It is well known that drunkenness "runs in families," and the underlying disease of drunkenness is often psora.

Sul. both causes and cures craving for beer and spirits.

Gallavardin cured many apparently hopeless drunkards with Sul. 1m.

The "sinking, empty, all-gone sensation" is a common feature in the dyspepsia of drunkards.

Dyspepsia from farinaceous food.

Cannot take milk; vomits it at once; sour vomit with undigested food.

Voracious appetite is a frequent symptom of scrofula, and scrofula and psora are frequently convertible terms.

Defective assimilation; hungry yet emaciated.

Stopped catarrh; nose obstructed indoors, amel. out of doors.

The child looks dried up, a little old man; skin hanging in folds, yellowish, wrinkled, flabby.

Head large in proportion to body.

Lymphatic glands enlarged.

Defective assimilation.

When scrofula exists without particular symptoms Sul. will develop them.

Allied to scrofula is tuberculosis; in connection with which many symptoms of Sul. appear marasmus with hunger at 11 a.m.; sore, red orifices; flushes of heat.

In tuberculosis of the lungs a keynote is "body feels too hot." The patient must have windows open no matter how cold the weather may be.

The caution is usually given to repeat Sul. seldom in cases of tuberculosis; and to give it only in the early stages. (3) "agg.

By heat" is another keynote of Sul., and marks it out as the remedy in a large number of cases; the agg. is most noticeable by warmth of the bed.

Whenever a patient says he is all right till he gets warm in bed, Sul. must be examined, it will generally cover the case. (In some cases stove heat amel.) The cases of rheumatism and sciatica requiring Sul. will generally have amel. morning and agg. at night in bed. (4) "agg.

At night" is scarcely less characteristic.

Sul. is related to both the sun and the moon, which makes it one of the most important of periodics.

Cooper cured many cases of neuralgia agg. at noon or at midnight.

He regards every twelve hours as the most characteristic periodicity, but it may be multiples or divisions of twelve.

Lippe cured with "a single dose of Sul. at new moon" a case of menorrhagia, patient had not been well since her last miscarriage.

Skinner gave to a man who had paresis of the lower limbs a single dose of Sul. cm, with instructions to take it on a certain date (when the moon was full).

The man recovered almost suddenly.

Cooper has had some important experience with Sul. in intermittent fevers.

He generally gave two pilules of Sul. Ø every four hours.

Correspondents of his found this treatment preserve them from fever in India, and one, an officer, by means of it kept his regiment of sepoys in health when many others were in hospital.

One writer treated nine cases with the pilules, and arrested the fever in twenty-four hours.

One of the cases was a particularly obstinate one, and had been pronounced by the doctors to be complicated with liver affection.

Quinine had been tried before the Sul. cured.

In a case of "Chagres fever" (of West Indies), which had lasted three months, Cooper ordered a Sulphur bath as well as the Sul. pilules.

That single bath seemed to alter the whole condition; from being an unhealthy, anaemic, bilious-looking man, the patient rapidly became the picture of health.

Cooper recalls the fact that workers in Sulphur mines, though in malarial districts, enjoy a complete immunity from intermittent fevers.

The power of Sul. in acute inflammatory conditions is allied to its action in intermittent fevers.

Sul. is the chronic of Aconite ^Acon. in the effects of chills; and if Aconite ^Acon. does not promptly solve the difficulty, Sul. will be required.

In the acute inflammations of the high South African plateau, where the variations of temperature are extreme, and chills and their consequences are Very common, Van den Heuvel tells me that for the pain, fever, and anxiety before physical signs have appeared, Aconite ^Acon. is his first remedy.

But if the fever does not yield in twenty-four to forty-eight hours, Sul. will clear it up. "Chill" is "suppression" in another form.

Sul. is a remedy of such universal power that it may be misleading to speak of it as more related to one side than to another.

Taken altogether there are more symptoms on the left side than the right.

It acts strongly on the left side of the chest "Sharp stitching pains through left lung to back, agg. lying on back. agg. by least motion," is characteristic.

In a case of left pleuro-pneumonia following a violent haemoptysis, Sul. 30 rescued a patient of mine from a condition which seemed desperate.

Sul. acts on the whole respiratory tract, from the nose to the lung tissues.

It causes a condition often met with in scrofulous patients, nasal catarrh where the nose is stopped indoors and free out of doors.

All the features of asthma are produced in the pathogenesis, and Sul. has the alternation between skin irritation and asthma often met with in asthmatics.

Villers (H. R., xv. p. 563) relates the case of a girl, 22, afflicted since three years old with eczemas of the most varied form, mostly moist, the chief seat being the region about the pudenda, armpits, fold behind ear; but the whole body was defaced, the only parts which had remained white and normal being the breasts.

She had been continuously under treatment for the nineteen years, the worst effects resulting when external applications had been used to dry up the eruption.

Then most frightful asthma occurred, which lasted till the corrosive, ill-smelling eruption appeared again.

She had recently come under the care of a homoeopath, who gave Arsenicum Iodatum ^{Ars. iod.}. 3. From this there resulted a condition of which the patient said, "I cannot describe it, but I felt as if I was being killed." Her doctor then sent her to Villers, who sent her for three months to a water-cure before he would commence treatment.

Her general health was somewhat improved thereby, but the skin remained the same.

He then thought of some very high potencies he possessed, and gave a few pellets of Sul. cm.

Three days later he was sent for in a great hurry late one evening, and on arrival found the patient had torn off all her clothes, was rolling about on the floor of her room, continually trying to rub her back and her legs on the legs of chairs or the edge of the door.

Then she jumped up, brought a knife from the kitchen and scraped her whole body; would eat nothing and only drank enormous quantities of cold beverages.

Sulphur lasted five days, after which she slept for two full days.

Then this happened The eruption dried up completely and scaled as after scarlatina.

The girl had always had very weak menses; the next three were increasingly strong and intolerably fetid.

There was very disagreeable discharge from the ears, corrosive secretion from the eyelids, and a dreadfully tormenting and burning discharge from the pudenda, strongly exciting to voluptuousness.

Under the action of the single dose steady improvement occurred, and in four months she was a youthfully blooming maiden in the full flow of all her functions, and the skin in perfect condition.

To test this Villers made the patient wear rough wool; dip her hands in first hot and then cold water; and for two weeks he made her rub her body daily with pretty coarse sea-salt.

The only effect of these measures was to make the skin improve in texture.

forehead,  vertex, and occiput.

It is the remedy for a large number of periodical  headaches; headaches occurring every week; every month.

Sick-headache. The headaches are  accompanied by red face and hot head; are amel. in warm  room; at rest; agg. in open air; agg. from stooping.

There is also a headache on coughing.

I have  cured a severe occipital headache agg. on coughing with Sul. 30.

Among the characteristics of Sul.  are ($51$) Aversion to be washed, always agg. after a bath. (2)  Complaints that are always relapsing (menses, leucorrhoea, &c.).

patient seems to get  almost well when the disease returns again and again. (3)  Congestions to single parts eye.

nose. chest. abdomen. ovaries.

arms. legs. or any organ of  the body, marking the onset of tumours or malignant growths, especially at climacteric. (4) Chronic alcoholism.

dropsy and other ailments of drunkards.

 they reform but are continually relapsing. (5) Sensation  of burning on vertex.

and smarting in eyes. of vesicles in mouth and dryness of throat,  first right then left.

in stomach. in rectum in anus, and itching piles, and scalding urine.

 like fire on nipples in chest rising to face of skin of whole body, with hot flushes.

in  spots below scapulae burning soles, must find a cool place for them at night. (6) Hot head with cold feet.

Lutze (N. A.  J. H., xv. 286) finds that Sul. 1m will make  feet that have been cold for years comfortably warm. (7)  Cramp in calves and soles at night. (8) Hot flushes  during day, with weak, faint spells, passing off with a little moisture. (9) Diarrhoea after midnight.

painless. driving out of bed early  in morning.

as if bowels were too weak to contain their contents. (10)  Constipation Stools hard, dry, knotty, as if burnt.

large, painful, child is afraid to have  stool on account of pain.

or pain compels child to desist on first effort.

alternating with  diarrhoea. (11) Boils coming in crops in various parts,  or a single boil is succeeded by another as soon as the first is healed. (12) Skin itching, voluptuous.

scratching amel. ("feels good to scratch").

scratching = burning. agg. from heat of  bed.

soreness in folds. (13) Skin affections that have  been treated by medicated soaps and washes.

haemorrhoids that have been treated by  ointments. (14) Nightly suffocative attacks, wants doors  and windows open.

becomes suddenly wide awake at night.

drowsy in afternoon after sunset,  wakefulness the whole night. (15) Happy dreams, wakes up  singing. (16) Everything looks pretty which patient  takes a fancy to.

even rags seem beautiful. (17)  Ailments from the abuse of metals generally. (18)  Offensive odour of body despite frequent washing. (19)  Red nose agg. by cold the colder the redder. (20) Cutting, stabbing pain in right eye. (21) Poor breakfast eaters. (22)  Worried by trifles. (23) White, frothy expectoration. (24) Empty sensation (head; heart; stomach; abdomen).  Sul. is a great resorbent, and is frequently needed after acute illnesses which  do not entirely clear up.

Peculiar Sensations are As if  a band were tied tightly round forehead; round cranium.

Vertigo as if swinging.

As if bed  were not large enough to hold him.

As if one stood on wavering ground.

As if hair on vertex  stood on end.

As from a weight pressing on top of brain and a cord tied around head.

As if  head soft; brains bashed in.

As if brain were beating against skull.

As if eyes were pressed  down.

As if he had taken too much alcohol.

As if hair would be torn out.

As if head would  burst.

As if head were enlarged.

As if she would sneeze.

As if head had been beaten.

As if  top of head were being pressed against wall.

Occiput as if hollow. As if flesh of scalp were  loose.

As if scalp had been beaten.

As if cornea had lost its transparency.

As if eye were  gone and a cool wind blew out of socket.

As if eyes had been punctured.

As if a needle or  splinter were sticking in eye.

As if a thick veil were before eyes.

As if eyeballs were dry.  As if balls rubbed against lids.

As if eyes were rubbed against  spicules of glass; eyeballs dry; salt in eyes; cornea covered with fine dust;  lids would become inflamed.

As if sounds did not come through ears but forehead.

As of water  in ears. As if he smelt perfume.

As if nose were swelled.

Nostrils as if sore. As if lower  jaw would be torn out.

As if air just in front of her were hot.

Teeth as if too long; as of  a hot iron in teeth.

As of a hard ball rising in throat.

As if swallowing a piece of meat.  As of a lump in throat.

As of a hair in throat.

As if throat too narrow.

Stomach as if  puffed up; as if torn with pincers.

Intestines as if strung in knots.

As if hernia would  form.

As if muscles of abdomen and peritonaeum had been bruised.

As if obliged to urinate,  in urethra.

As if something in larynx.

As of a lump of ice in (r.) chest.

As if lungs came  in contact with back.

As if strained in chest.

As if he had fallen upon chest.

As if chest  would fly to pieces when coughing or drawing a deep breath.

Heart as if enlarged. As if  muscles of neck and back were too short.

As if vertebrae gliding one over the other.

Small  of back as if beaten.

Left shoulder and hip as if luxated (dislocated).

Like a weight on shoulder.

As if  something heavy hanging on upper arm.

Arms as if beaten. As of a mouse running up arms and  back.

Thigh as if broken. As if too short in popliteal space.

Skin as if denuded and sore.  Sweat may occur on one side of the body only; or on neck only.

Sul.  is Suited to ($51$)  Lean, stoop-shouldered persons, who walk and sit stooped.

standing is the most uncomfortable  position. (2) Persons of nervous temperament,  quick-motioned, quick-tempered, plethoric, skin excessively sensitive to atmospheric  changes. (3) Dirty, filthy people, with greasy skin, and  long, straight, matted hair, prone to skin affections. (4)  Children who cannot bear to be washed or bathed.

emaciated. big-bellied.

restless, hot, kick  off clothes at night.

have worms. (5) Persons of  scrofulous diathesis, subject to various congestions, especially of portal system. (6) Lymphatic temperaments, nervous constitutions disposed to  haemorrhoids, with constipation or morning diarrhoea.

diseases caused especially by,  suppressed eruptions, peevishness, sudden and frequent flushes of heat all over body,  followed by perspiration, hot palms, soles, and vertex.

faintness in epigastrium in  forenoon. (7) Children, emaciated, old-looking faces,  big bellies, dry, flabby skin. (8) Full-blooded persons  with great irritability, restlessness, and hastiness. (9)  Old people. (10) People with hot, sweaty hands. (11) "Ragged philosophers".

dirty-looking persons who  are always speculating on religious or philosophical subjects. (12)  Freckled people. (13) Light-complexioned people. (14) Red-haired people. (15)  Dark-complexioned people.

negroes. (16) People who refer all their sufferings to the  epigastrium "everything affects me there." The symptoms are agg.

By touch. agg. Pressure  (pressure amel. pain in head when coughing).

Rest agg. Standing agg.

Stooping  agg. Lying on (r.) painful side amel.

Motion amel. pains in  head, hips, knee, haemorrhoids; agg. other symptoms.  Moving arms agg.

Every step agg.  Rising agg.

Ascending agg.  Talking = fatigue of whole body.

Vivacious talking = hammering headaches. agg.  11 a.m.; 12 noon; midnight; morning; evening; night; after midnight.

Wants doors and windows  open.

Susceptible to temperature; warm things feel hot.

Indoors =  nose stopped up; amel. emptiness in occiput.

Open air agg. Draught of air agg.  Raw air agg.

Warmth agg.  Sun agg. (headache).

Washing agg.  Cold, damp weather agg.

Cold food and drink agg. thirst.

Cold water amel.  head; left eye; whitlow. agg.

Before a storm. agg. After sleep. agg.

From  milk; sweets; alcohol. amel.

By eating; agg. after. agg.

Before  eating. amel. By warm food. agg.  Before, during, and after menses (headache; leucorrhoea). agg.  Looking down. agg.

Crossing running water. agg.

Raising arms. Hearing is agg.  eating and blowing nose.

Injuries to eyes, Aconite ^Aco. (Sul. follows).

Early-morning diarrhoea, Bryonia ^Bry. (as soon as he moves), Natrum Sulphuricum ^{Nat. s}. (with much flatus), Rx. c., Podophyllum Peltatum ^Pod. (stools changeable; go on all day, though agg. at noon; Sul. raw, sore anus), Diosc. (colic flying to other parts).

Defective reaction, Psorinum ^Pso., Cuprum Metallicum ^Cup., Laurocerasus ^Lauro., Val., Ambra Grisea ^Ambr., Carbo Veg ^{Carb. v}.

Flushes at climaxis, Lachesis ^Lach., Sul. ac., Amyl., Kali Bich ^{K. bi.}.

Intermittent fever and neuralgia, Chininum Sulphuricum ^Chi., Arsenicum Album ^Ars., Baptisia Tinctoria ^Bapt.

Ravenous hunger with heat at vertex, Calc Carb ^Calc., Phosphorus ^Pho.

Tuberculosis, Bac., Calc Carb ^Calc., Phosphorus ^Pho.

Itch, Merc Viv ^Merc., Sepia ^Sep., Causticum ^Caust.

Dyspepsia, Nux Vomica ^Nux, Sepia ^Sep. Excessive venery, masturbation, Nux Vomica ^Nux, Calc Carb ^Calc.

Yellow-brown spots, Sepia ^Sep., Lycopodium ^Lyc., Curar.

Rheumatism, paralysis, Rhus Tox ^Rhus.

Sour stools, sore anus, Chamomilla ^Cham.

Pneumonia, restoration imperfect, Sanguinaria Canadensis ^Sang.

Paralysis from cold, Aconite ^Aco., Causticum ^Caust., Rhus Tox ^Rhus.

Accumulation of flatus, sour and bitter taste, Lycopodium ^Lyc. (with Sul. patient refers accumulation to left groin, region of sigmoid flexure).

Bad effects of mental exhaustion; of seminal losses, Selenium ^Selen. (Selenium ^Sel. is a cognate element of Sul. and close analogue; Selenium ^Sel. agg. from tea; Sul. agg. from coffee; Selenium ^Sel. has "tingling in spots").

Morning aphonia, Carbo Veg ^{Carb. v}. (Carbo Veg ^{Carb. v}. also evening).

Edges of eyelids, Graphites ^Graph., Bac.

Congestion of lumbar spine, Pic. ac.

Atrophy of infants, Arsenicum Album ^Ars.

Sinking agg. 11 a.m., Na. m., Phosphorus ^Pho., Indm., Na. c., Zincum Metallicum ^<">Zincum Metallicum ^Zn. (nervous symptoms, Argentum Nitricum ^{Arg. n}.).

Prophylactic of cholera, Cup.

Weak from talking, Stan., Cocculus Indicus ^Cocc., Ver., Calc Carb ^Calc.

Falls easily, Na. c. Hasty speech and action, Belladonna ^Bell., Lachesis ^Lach., Dulcamara ^Dulc., Hep Sulph Calc ^Hep. Weak ankles, Sul. ac., Causticum ^Caust. amel.

Open air; desire to be uncovered, Pulsatilla ^Pul., Lycopodium ^Lyc.

Wetting bed in deep sleep, Belladonna ^Bell. (in first sleep, Sepia ^Sep.).

Effects of losses of fluids, Arsenicum Album ^Ars., Calc Carb ^Calc., Chininum Sulphuricum ^Chi., Fer.

Persistent speck before left eye (right Selenium ^Sel.).

Vision mostly green, Sanguinaria Canadensis ^Sang.

Rhagades of hands, Na. c. Hard, horny hands, Na. m., Graphites ^Graph. (opp. Calc Carb ^Calc.).

Left to right, Lachesis ^Lach.

Stitches up vagina, Sepia ^Sep., Phosphorus ^Pho., Nitric Acid ^{Nit. ac}. (also down and out), Alm., Berberis Vulgaris ^Berb., Pulsatilla ^Pul. (Sul. stitches go to head).

Left ovarian and left inframammary pain, Lil., Lachesis ^Lach., Caulo., Viburnum Opulus ^Vib. o., Pulsatilla ^Pul., Ustil.

Bearing-down pains, Belladonna ^Bell., Sepia ^Sep., Gossyp., Pulsatilla ^Pul., Secale Cornutum ^Sec. agg.

On awaking, Lachesis ^Lach., Na. m. Alarmed about soul's salvation, Ver. agg.

Hearing water run, Hfb.

Violent movements of foetus, Op., Crocus Sativus ^Croc., Thuja ^Thuj.

Dread of losing mind, Calc Carb ^Calc., Lycopodium ^Lyc., Nux Vomica ^Nux.

Hollow sensation in region of heart (Lil. as if heart empty).

Earthy complexion, Na. m. Tall, slender people, Phosphorus ^Pho. (Sul. with stoop).

Aversion to, be washed, Antimonium Crudum ^{Ant. c.}, Clematis Erecta ^Clem., Hep Sulph Calc ^Hep., Rhus Tox ^Rhus, Sepia ^Sep., Spi. (Pulsatilla ^Puls. baby likes being washed).

Fear of ghosts, Aconite ^Aco., Arsenicum Album ^Ars., Bro., Carbo Veg ^{Carb. v}., Cocculus Indicus ^Cocc., Lycopodium ^Lyc., Phosphorus ^Pho., Pulsatilla ^Pul., Ran. b., Sepia ^Sep., Zincum Metallicum ^<">Zincum Metallicum ^Zn. (I have been frequently asked by patients taking Sul. not to give them "that medicine" again as it made them "see faces," generally described as horrible). agg.

Heat of bed at night, Bryonia ^Bry., Merc Viv ^Merc., Pulsatilla ^Pul., Chamomilla ^Cham. (toothache), Drosera Rotundifolia ^Dros., Led., Sbi., Apis Mel ^Apis.

Laughing alternately with weeping, Aurum Metallicum ^Aur., Pulsatilla ^Pul., Lycopodium ^Lyc., Crocus Sativus ^Croc., Phosphorus ^Pho., Ver.

Vertigo looking down, Olean. (Calc Carb ^Calc. turning head, Pulsatilla ^Pul. looking up).

Throbbing headache, Glo., Calc Carb ^Calc., Pulsatilla ^Pul.

Phimosis, Can. s., Merc Viv ^Merc., Nitric Acid ^{Nit. ac}., Sepia ^Sep., Thuja ^Thu., Rhus Tox ^Rhus, Sbi.

Hunger at night, Chininum Sulphuricum ^Chi. s., Psorinum ^Pso., Phosphorus ^Pho. (with febrile heat, unappeasable), Lycopodium ^Lyc., Ignatia ^Ign.

Hot breath, Calc Carb ^Calc., Rhus Tox ^Rhus.

Sharp splinter sensation on slightest touch, Argentum Nitricum ^{Arg. n}., Hep Sulph Calc ^Hep., Nitric Acid ^{Nit. ac}.

Throat, right then left, Lycopodium ^Lyc., Bar. c., left side, Lachesis ^Lach., Sul.

Freckles, Adrenalinum ^Adren.

Weak chest when speaking, Calc Carb ^Calc.

Acid smell from mouth, Nux Vomica ^Nux.

Taste of blood, Hamamelis Virginica ^Ham. Sensation of hair in throat, Kali Bich ^{K. bi.}., Silicea ^Sil.

Intolerance of pressure of clothes, Lachesis ^Lach.

Blackish stools, Lept.

Burning between scapulae, Phosphorus ^Pho., Lycopodium ^Lyc.

Vividly remembered dreams, Chininum Sulphuricum ^Chi.

Mistakes time of day, Merc Viv ^Merc., Lachesis ^Lach.

Boils, Anthracinum ^Anthrac.

Vaccination effects, Thuja ^Thu., Malan..

Red lips, red borders round eyelids, Bac.

Offensive body smell; checked eruptions and discharges, Med.

Excessively sensitive to atmospheric changes, Hep Sulph Calc ^Hep., Kali Carb ^{K. ca.}, Psorinum ^Pso. (Psorinum ^Pso. is generally extremely chilly, Sul. hot).

Restless, hot, kicks off clothes at night, Hep Sulph Calc ^Hep., Sanic.

Wants to find cool place for feet, Sanic.

Relapsing alcoholism, Psorinum ^Pso., Bac.

Causation.

Vertigo and staggering, esp. when seated, or after a meal, or when exercising in open air, when stooping, looking down, walking, going up an ascent, rising from a seat, lying on back, passing over running water, and also in morning, in evening, or at night, and often with nausea, syncope, weakness, and bleeding at nose (with inclination to fall to l. side; with vanishing of sight).

Cholera asiatica. as prophylactic, a pinch of the powdered milk of Sulphur worn in stockings in contact with soles of feet.

diarrhoea commencing between midnight and morning, vomiting at same time.

numbness of limbs, cramp in calves and soles, blue under eyes, cold skin, indifference.

during convalescence, red spots, furuncles, &c.

susceptibility to temperature, warm things feel hot.

nerve symptoms (Hering).

Sensations of heat in chest.

of heat anywhere. with any trouble.

of sudden and frequent flushes of heat all over the body.

of contraction of inner parts, chiefly in abdomen, with feeling as if it should be bandaged up or supported.

of a hoop or band around the parts.

buzzing or vibration in the body.

of knocking or throbbing in outer parts.

as of a lump in inner parts.

of roughness in inner parts.

of tightness or stiffness in outer parts.

of sometimes being very small and then again being very large.

Characteristics

Sul., when indicated, will cause absorption of effusions, pleuritis (plastic, or hydrothorax), hydrocephalic, or synovial. I have frequently cured ganglion of the wrist with Sul. cm and lower, given on general indications. In the rheumatism of Sul. the affection begins below and spreads upwards. (This is analogous to the "from without inwards" direction of the psoric complaints which Sul. meets and reverses.) Sul. acts on the right eye and on all regions of the head