Sulphur

1 . Scrofulous, plethoric persons with very red lips ; subject to skin eruptions especially acne ; hasty in temper and motion ; often untidy and dirty - "ragged philosopher" - spare, stoop-shouldered, slack, shiftless, sensitive, sedentary. Emaciated children with big bellies, intolerant of bathing and covering ; often dirty habits.

2 . Mental and physical inertia ; selfish, self-important, obstinate ; chronic grumbler ; melancholy yet often full of daydreams (even illusions) producing a foolish kind of happiness ; lack of concentration ; weak memory especially for names and recent events ; over sensitiveness to bad odours.

3 . Burnings everywhere , especially vertex, palms and soles at night ; puts feet out of bed ; > cold.

4 . All discharges burning, excoriating and generally offensive.

5 . Local congestions especially at climaxis ; flashes of heat, faintness followed by sweating ( Sepia, Lachesis ) ; often assoc. with sinking, all-gone sensation in the forenoon ( Phosphorus, Sepia ).

6 . Gastro-intestinal disorders ; marked hunger and thirst yet stays thin ; or drinks much, eats little ; much flatulence with borborygmus and emissions of gas ; < milk ; liking for sweet things ; usually constipation with piles ; stools large and painful (makes child afraid to go to stool) ; acute attacks of diarrhoea especially in the morning ; urgent , driving out of bed ( Aloe ).

7 . Skin dirty, diseased ; every injury suppurates ; eruptions of every kind especially pustular ; < warmth, especially of bed at night, washing ; must scratch but leaves burning ; boils in crops ; chronic ailments with history of suppressed eruptions.

8 . Catnap sleep ; slightest noise awakens then difficulty in getting to sleep again ; sleepy yet always wakes up unrefreshed.

9 . Complaints constantly relapsing ; also arouses defective reaction especially in acute diseases ; facilitates absorption of serous and inflammatory exudations ; when paucity of symptoms often serves to bring out the true drug picture.

10 . Modalities ; < heat (except headache) must have air yet may be sensitive to cold ; < warmth of bed ; slightest change of temperature especially skin symptoms ; midday and midnight ; standing still ; bathing.

Notes : Chronic of Aconite .

Most used remedy in dark-skinned races.

Prescribe with caution in phthisical patients.

Sulphur and Lycopodium do not follow one another well ; remember Sulphur, Calcarea carbonica, Lycopodium order.

Syphilinum (Luesinum)

1 . Subjects with specific history whose chancres-have been treated by local means resulting in many years of suffering, especially with skin and throat troubles ; also congenital syphilis.

2 . Weakness or loss of memory, especially for names ; feels as if going insane ; terrible dread of the night season owing to aggravation of all symptoms then ; despairs of recovery.

3 . In syphilitic affections when best selected remedy fails to relieve or permanently improve.

4 . Great falling of the hair .

5 . Pains increase and decrease gradually ; shift locality < night .

6 . Craving for alcohol in any form ; hereditary tendency to alcoholism ; constipation the rule.

7 . Eruptions of the skin ; dull red, copper-coloured spots becoming blue when patient is cold.

8 . Leucorrhoea ; profuse, soaks through napkin and runs down to the heels ( Alumina ).

9 . Rheumatic complaints especially of shoulder or at insertion of deltoid, < raising arm laterally.

10 . Modality : always < twilight to daylight (rev, Medorrhinum ).