Sulphuricum acidum Anhang nnmm

[Lectures on Homeopathic Materia Medica - James Tyler Kent]

The sensation of quivering all over the body and in the limbs without visible trembling STRONG symptom of Sul-ac./weakness of long standing.

The exhaustion, excitability and hurried feeling are constant factors. The hemorrhagic disposition with many complaints. Black fluid blood from all the orifices of the body.

It has many of the complaints found in old people. The -morning aggravation of symptoms is also a strong feature. Sensitive to cold and emaciation. Pain: bruised, burning, tearing, stitching,

shooting and jerking. The pain comes on slowly and departs suddenly. The discharges are dark, thin blood or blood-streaked; or thin, yellow and bloody.

The discharges are excoriating. General sweat after eating. The symptoms predominate on the right side. It is often indicated in sour-smelling babies like Hepar, and it is as sensitive to touch

and nearly as sensitive to cold. When it has cured the sensitiveness to cold the patient often becomes worse ‘and requires Pulsatilla, which is the complement and antidote.

Mind: Prostration of mind and body, with extreme sadness, weeps continuously.

Nothing can be done to please him. Fretful and irritable over the slightest cause. He cannot eat and work fast enough. No one does anything to please him; in such a hurry if doing anything/going anywhere. All things must be done at once. Unwilling to answer. Irresolution.

Vertigo: in close room. > walking in the open air/lying. Sometimes compelling him to keep his bed.

Head: Electric shocks in forehead and temples in forenoon and again in evening.

Tension in the forehead with coryza.

The brain seems loose and seems to fall to side lain on, better sitting perfectly still, worse walking. The blood flows strongly to the head and the feet become cold.

“As though a plug were being driven into the skull by strong blows”. Pain in the head come on slowly and cease suddenly. Violent headaches in debilitated people. Extreme soreness in the periosteum (syphilis). The hair falls out or turns gray. Ulceration of the scalp. Extremely sensitive eruptions.

Eyes: Lachrymation when reading.

Chronic inflammation of the eye, with enlarged veins and ulceration.

“As if foreign body in r. outer canthus”.

Soreness in the eyes with coryza.

Ears: Severe pain that increase gradually and cease suddenly.

Gradual loss of hearing.

Bloody discharge from ear.

Buzzing in the ear.

Nose: Rapid movement of the wings of nose breathing. Slowly oozing, dark, thin blood from the nose in the evening.

It cures acrid, bloody discharge from nose in feeble patients when the generals are covered by it.

Coryza dry or fluid with loss of smell and taste.

Face: Face most sickly. Pale, sickly and sometimes jaundiced. The expression of long suffering is marked. The deep lines of pain, depletion and emaciation. Tension of the face or “As if white of egg had dried on it”.

Violent neuralgic pain coming on gradually and ceasing suddenly, > warmth/lying on the painful side. Small red spots or specks on the face gradually increasing in size. Inflammation of the submaxillary gland.

Teeth: The teeth decay early. The teeth are on edge.

Violent neuralgia of the teeth, coming on slowly and ceasing suddenly.

< from cold and > from heat, < in the evening in bed.

Mouth: Loss of taste during coryza.

The sore mouth is one of its most important features. It is our most frequently indicated remedy for nursing sore mouth. The aphthous mouth of infant/mother with yellowish or whitish ulcers.

Bloody saliva from mouth; vesicles in the mouth.

Breath very offensive.

Bleeding from the mucous surfaces of mouth and gums with or without Purpura hoemorrhagica. Rapidly spreading ulcers in the mouth.

Throat: Inflammation of the throat that is aphthous or follicular.

Denuded mucous membrane.

Diphtheritic exudate yellowish or white with aphthous surroundings and bleeding from nose, gums or other parts. Diphtheria with more than ordinary exhaustion and foetor.

The uvula is oedematous. Throat full of spreading ulcers.

Painful sore throat with painful, difficult swallowing. During the throat troubles fluids drunk run out of nose.

Salivation, glands of throat swollen and there is great swelling of the tonsils, soft palate and throat in general.

Dark fluid blood from throat and mouth.

Stomach: Craves brandy and fruit.

Loss of appetite and progressive weakness are strong features. Aversion to the smell of coffee. He cannot drink cold water, “It feels so cold in the stomach and makes him chilly”. Violent, spasmodic hiccough, such as occurs in drunkards.

Chronic heart burn. Sour belching. Sour vomiting (pregnancy/drunkards in the morning/sour and very foul). The teeth are always on edge from sour eructations. Nausea and shivering.

Coughing and belching sour fluids. The stomach seems to hang down as if relaxed. Vomiting after drinking cold water. Violent, spasmodic pains in the stomach. Pain come gradually and cease suddenly. The sour vomiting is most like Rob.

She does not vomit food, but cannot eat, as it causes pain in stomach and she vomits mucus. After intermittent fever had existed some time the spleen enlarges, and is painful on coughing and

sore to touch. Stitching pains in spleen and liver. It has many times overcome the poison of lead and lead colic. Sinking, weak feeling in abdomen after stool. Weak feeling in abdomen, as though menses would come on. Labor-like pains in abdomen, extending to hips and back.

Rectum: Diarrhoea with great general weakness and sensation of trembling. With weak, sinking sensation in the abdomen after stool. Chronic diarrhoea with much suffering.

Hemorrhoids very sore, itching, painful during stool, in drunkards. Haemorrhage of dark, thin blood from the bowels.

Stool: Excoriating, burning in rectum during stool. Diarrhoea brought on from the least indiscretion in eating, after (unripe) fruit, after oysters.

Watery orange yellow, stringy, MUCOUS, Mixed with blood, greenish, black, undigested smelling like spoiled eggs. In constipation the stool is in small balls.

Bladder: Pain if the desire to pass urine is postponed. It had cured diabetes. Scanty urine. Bloody urine. Cuticle in the urine.

Women organs: The menses are too frequent and copious and the flow is dark and thin.

Many symptoms come before the menses. Nightmare before, menses. Has nightmare at the close of the menses. The vagina is prolapsed and gangrenous. Leucorrhoea bloody, acrid, milky or albuminous, yellow.

Climacteric period has many symptoms peculiar to Sul-ac. The flashes of heat, weakness, sensation of trembling, a nervous hurry in all her actions and feelings, bleeding from uterus and other

parts of blood that does not coagulate, and constipation with small, hard balls like sheep’s dung are symptoms common to the critical period. It often causes the vomiting of pregnancy.

Vomiting preceded by cough.

It has cured sterility when. it was supposed to depend upon the copious and frequent menstrual flow. Violent itching of the vulva.

Larynx and chest: Pain and soreness in the larynx. Pain in the larynx on swallowing.

Hoarseness with a dry feeling and sensation of roughness in the larynx. Weak chest and great dyspnoea. Rapid moving up and down of the larynx during the dyspnoea. Short of breath.

Except in the morning the cough is dry and hacking. Sometimes in two coughs. He coughs in the open air, either walking or riding, < from cold drinks and from the odor of coffee.

Cough followed by itching and vomiting. The irritation is felt in the chest. The expectoration is in the morning of dark, thin blood, or of thin, yellowish, blood-streaked mucus tasting sour.

Weakness in the chest with burning and stitching pain. Pressure on left side of chest. Profuse haemorrhage from the lungs of dark fluid blood, after pneumonia, and during the climacteric period.

Ulceration of lungs. Oppression of the chest and suffocation unless he lets the legs hang down. It has been a very useful remedy in the first steps of phthisis with profuse sweat and great weakness, but where given in the last stage it has appeared to bring on haemorrhage and increase of the inflammatory condition in the lungs. Stitching pains in the heart, palpitation. It has been useful in pleuritic exudation.

Spine and limbs: Great weakness in the spine, felt mostly when standing and sitting.

Pain in the lumbar region. Soreness between shoulder blades when coughing. Stiffening of the back in the morning on rising. Large abscess on the right side of the neck.

Black and blue spots on the limbs. Stitching pain in the shoulder joint on lifting the arm. Stitches in finger joints. Chafing of thighs after rising. Marked weakness in knees and ankles.

Swollen veins of feet. Chilblains of frost-bitten parts. Twitching if fingers during sleep.

Fever: It has chilliness, flashes of heat with sweat. Copious sweat, mostly on upper part of body, from motion, sour, cold, after eating warm. food. Sweats morning/night.

Typhoid fever with great prostration. Bleeding from capillaries. Dark, thin blood. Putrid forms of continued fever.

Sleep: Late falling asleep and wakens too early. Nightmare before menses.

Cadaveric countenance.

Skin: Ecchymoses, purpura haemorrhagica. Old cicatrices turn red and become painful. Itching and prickling with eruptions. Pimples. Red itching blotches on the skin. Livid spots. Contusions, bedsores. Boils and abscesses. Nodular urticarias.

Generals: It cures old indolent ulcers that bleed easily dark blood. Sensitive painful spreading ulcers. Stinging burning pain in ulcers. It has cured putrid ulcers on legs. It is useful in ulcers of drunkards, in ulcers following a low form of fever. Thin yellow or bloody discharge.

[William Boericke]

Sulphuric Acid

The “debility” common to acids shows itself here, especially in the digestive tract, giving a very relaxed feeling in the stomach, with craving for stimulants. Tremor and weakness; everything

must be done in a hurry. Hot flushes, followed by perspiration, with trembling. Tendency to gangrene following mechanical injuries. Writer’s cramp. Lead poisoning. Gastralgia and hypochlorrhydria. Purpura hæmorrhagia.

Mind: Fretful, impatient. Unwilling to answer questions; hurried.

Head: Right-sided neuralgia; painful shocks; skin feels pinched. “As if brain was loose in forehead and falling from side to side”. Concussion of brain where skin is cold, body bathed in cold sweat. Compressive pain in side of occiput; > holding the hands near the head. Pain of outer parts, “As if there were subcutaneous ulceration”; painful to touch.

Thrust in right temple “As if plug were pressed in”.

Eyes: Intra-ocular hæmorrhage following traumatism. Great chemosis of conjunctiva, with aching and sharp pain.

Mouth: Aphthæ; gums bleed readily. Offensive breath. Pyorrhea.

Stomach: Heartburn; sour eructations; sets teeth on edge (Robin). Craving for alcohol. Water causes coldness of stomach; must be mixed with liquors. Relaxed feeling in stomach.

Averse to smell of coffee. Sour vomiting. Desire for fresh food. Hiccough. Coldness of stomach relieved by applied heat Nausea with chilliness.

Abdomen: Weak feeling, with dragging into the hips and small of back. Feeling as if hernia would protrude, especially left side.

Rectum: Piles; oozing dampness. Rectum feels as if it had a big ball. Diarrhœa, fetid, black, with sour odor of body, and empty faint feeling in abdomen.

Female organs: Menses early and profuse. Erosion of cervix in the aged; easily bleeding. Acrid, burning leucorrhœa, often of bloody mucus.

Respiratory organs: Respiration rapid with shooting in cervical muscles and movement of wings of nose; larynx moves up and down violently.

Bronchitis in children with short, teasing cough.

Extremities: Cramp-like paralytic contraction in arms, hands; jerking of fingers while writing.

Skin: Bad effects from mechanical injuries, with bruises and livid skin. Ecchymosis. Petechiæ. Purpura hæmorrhagica. Livid, red, itching blotches. Hæmorrhage of black blood from all outlets. Cicatrices turn red and blue and become painful. Chilblains with gangrenous tendency. Carbuncles, boils and other staphylococcic and streptococcic infections.

Modalities: < heat or cold in forenoon and evening; > warmth/lying on affected side.

[William Boericke]

Sulphuric Acid

The “debility” common to acids shows itself here, especially in the digestive tract, giving a very relaxed feeling in the stomach, with craving for stimulants. Tremor and weakness; everything must be done in a hurry. Hot flushes, followed by perspiration, with trembling. Tendency to gangrene following mechanical injuries. Writer’s cramp. Lead poisoning. Gastralgia and hypochlorrhydria. Purpura hæmorrhagia.

Mind: Fretful, impatient. Unwilling to answer questions; hurried.

Head: Right-sided neuralgia; painful shocks; skin feels pinched. Sensation as if brain was loose in forehead and falling from side to side. Concussion of brain where skin is cold, body bathed in cold sweat. Compressive pain in side of occiput; relieved by holding the hands near the head. Pain of outer parts, “As if there is subcutaneous ulceration; painful to touch”. Thrust in right temple

“As if plug were pressed in”.

Eyes: Intra-ocular hæmorrhage following traumatism. Great chemosis of conjunctiva, with aching and sharp pain.

Mouth: Aphthæ; gums bleed readily. Offensive breath. Pyorrhea.

Stomach: Heartburn; sour eructations; sets teeth on edge (Robin). Craving for alcohol. Water causes coldness of stomach; must be mixed with liquors. Relaxed feeling in stomach.

Averse to smell of coffee. Sour vomiting. Desire for fresh food. Hiccough. Coldness of stomach > by applied heat Nausea with chilliness.

Abdomen: Weak feeling, with dragging into the hips and small of back. Feeling “As if hernia would protrude (left side)”.

Rectum: Piles; oozing dampness. Rectum feels as if it had a big ball. Diarrhœa, fetid, black, with sour odor of body, and empty faint feeling in abdomen.

Female organs: Menses early and profuse. Erosion of cervix in the aged; easily bleeding. Acrid, burning leucorrhœa, often of bloody mucus.

Respiratory organs: Respiration rapid with shooting in cervical muscles and movement of wings of nose; larynx moves up and down violently. Bronchitis in children with short, teasing cough.

Extremities: Cramp-like paralytic contraction in arms, hands; jerking of fingers while writing.

Small red spots enlarging rapidly to resemble Purpura hoemorrhagica. Blue-black spots on the skin from slight injury.

Blood-red spots on the skin like those on a brook trout sometimes after injuries. Chafing easily, followed by ulceration. Boils and bedsores.

Modalities: < from excess of heat or cold in forenoon and evening. > warmth/lying on affected side.

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