Hepar Sulphuris

General

HEPAR SULPHURIS CALCAREUM. [Hepar s. c.] Liver of Sulphur. Hahnemann. Sulphurets.

Mind

► Great weakness of memory, with the irritability. ► Sad mood for hours ; must cry vehemently. ► Low-spirited, even to thoughts of suicide. ► Great anxiety in the evening. ► Hypochondriacal. ► Oversensitiveness and irritability, with quick, hasty speech.

Sensorium

► Vertigo : mornings ; when closing the eyes, at siesta ; evening, with nausea ; when riding in a carriage ; when shaking the head. ► Fainting from the slightest pains, evenings.

Inner Head

► Boring headache : at the root of the nose, every morning ; in right temple, from without inwards ; worse from motion or stooping. ► Semi-lateral pressure in the head, as from a plug or dull nail, at night or when waking in the morning ; worse when moving the eyes and when stooping. ► Aching in the forehead, from midnight till morning. ► Lancinating headache, better when walking in open air. ► Headache when shaking the head. ► Sense of swashing in the head. ► Morning headache, worse from every concussion.

Outer Head

► Burning-itching on scalp, from forehead to occiput. ► Sensitiveness of the scalp to touch, with burning and itching in the morning after rising, after abuse of mercury. ► Disposed to take cold, from uncovering the head. ► Humid eruptions feeling sore ; of fetid odor ; itching violent on rising in morning ; burning and feeling sore on scratching ; scabs easily torn off, leaving a raw, bleeding surface. ► Boils on the head and neck, very sore on contact. ► Nodosities on the head, sore to touch, relieved by covering the head warmly, and from sweat. ► Falling off of the hair, with very sore, painful pimples, and large bald spots on the scalp. ► Head bent backward, with swelling below the larynx ; violent pulsation of the carotids, rattling breathing.

Eyes

► Shunning the light. ► Eyes ache from bright daylight, when moving them. ► Objects appear to be red. ► Sight becomes dim when reading. ► Ulcers on the cornea. ► Pressure in the eyes as from sand. ► Eyes are protruded. θ Croup. ► Pressing pain in the eyeballs, feels bruised when touched. ► Stitches in the eyes. ► Inflammation of the eyes and lids ; sore to the touch ; lachrymation. ► Little pimples surround the inflamed eyes.

Ears

► Whizzing and throbbing in the ears, with hardness of hearing ; cracking in the ear when blowing the nose. ► Darting pain in the ears. ► Increase of ear-wax. ► Discharge of fetid pus from the ears. ► Itching of outer ear. ► Scurfs on and behind the ears.

Nose

► Sense of smell acute also with the vertigo. ► Nosebleed. θ After singing. ► Coryza with inflammatory swelling of the nose, painful as from a boil ; also with cough. ► Sore pain on the dorsum of nose, when touching it. ► Itching in the nose.

Face

► Yellow color of face, with blue rings around the eyes. ► Heat and redness of the face. ► Erysipelatous swelling of the cheeks in the morning. ► Bones of face painful to touch. ► Boils very painful to touch. ► Eruption scurfy, and very painful to touch.

Lower Face

► Itching around the mouth. ► Boils on the lips and chin, very painful to touch. ► Sore and smarting pimple on the vermilion border of upper lip. ► Middle of lower lip cracked. ► Eruption with sensation of heat in the corners of mouth. ► Ulcers at the corner of the mouth. ► Itching pimples on the chin.

Teeth

► Gums and mouth very painful to touch bleed easily. ► Toothache, worse in warm room ; when biting teeth together. ► Looseness of the teeth. ► Hollow teeth, feel to long and painful.

Tongue, Etc

► Taste : putrid ; metallic ; bitter. ► Hasty speech. ► Tip of tongue very painful, and feels sore.

Mouth

► Ulcers on gums and in mouth, base resembling lard.

Throat

► Scraping in the throat when swallowing. ► Hawking up of mucus. ► Swelling of the tonsils and glands of the neck. ► Scraping sore throat, impeding speech, but not swallowing. ► Dryness of the throat. ► Stitches in throat, extending to ear, worse when swallowing food. ► Sensation as if fish bone or splinter were sticking in throat.

Desires And Aversions

► Longing : for acids ; wine ; sour and strong-tasting things. ► Unusual hunger in the forenoon. ► Much thirst. ► Aversion to fat.

Eating And Drinking

► Heaviness and pressure in the stomach, after moderate eating.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Eructations frequent, odorless and tasteless. ► Constant sensation of water rising in the oesophagus, as if she had eaten sour things. ► Heart-burn. ► Frequent but momentary attacks of nausea. ► Attacks of nausea, with coldness and paleness. ► Inclination to vomit, with flow of saliva from the mouth. ► Vomiting every morning.

Stomach

► Stomach frequently and easily disordered. ► Pressure in the stomach, after moderate eating. ► Swelling and pressure in the region of the stomach. ► Distention of pit of stomach, has to loosen the clothing. ► Burning in the stomach.

Hypochondria

► Stitches : in region of liver ; in region of spleen, when walking.

Abdomen

► Contractive pain in the abdomen. ► Fermentation above the navel, with eructation of hot air. ► Colic, with dry, rough cough. ► Rumbling in the abdomen cough. ► Swelling and suppuration of the inguinal glands.

Stool, Etc

► Constipation : stools hard and dry ; especially with eruption in bend of elbows, or in popliteal space. ► Feces not hard, but expelled with difficulty. ► Diarrhoeic stools : white and fetid, child has a sour smell ; sour-smelling and whitish ; clay-colored ; green, slimy, of sour smell ; with tenesmus. ► Diarrhoea : worse during the day ; after eating, and after drinking cold water. ► Dysenteric stools ; difficult evacuations of soft stool or bloody mucus with tenesmus. ► Burning in the rectum. ► Protrusion of hemorrhoids. ► Hemorrhage from the rectum, with soft stool. ► Sweat on the perineum.

Urine

► Dark, red and hot ; bloody ; sharp, burning, corroding the prepuce. ► Urine passed tardily and without force, feels as if bladder could not be emptied thoroughly. ► Burning in the urethra, during micturition. ► Great soreness in the urethra, during micturition. ► Inflammation and redness of the orifice of the urethra. ► Wetting the bed at night.

Male Sexual Organs

► Sexual desire increased, erections feeble. ► Discharge of prostatic fluid, after micturition and during hard stool, also independent of either. ► Itching on the penis, and at the fraenum preputii. ► Chancre-like ulcers on the prepuce. ► Mercurialized chancres. ► Secondary syphilis.

Female Sexual Organs

► Congestion of blood to the uterus. ► Menorrhagia, in women with chapped skin and rhagades of the hands and feet. ► Discharge of blood with the menses. ► Metritis, with burning, throbbing pains. ► Uterine ulcers with bloody suppuration, smelling like old cheese ; edge of ulcer sensitive, frequently a pulsating sensation in the ulcers. ► Much itching, or little pimples around the ulcer. ► Leucorrhoea, with smarting of vulva.

Pregnancy

► Frequent momentary attacks of nausea. ► Mammae swollen, not sensitive to touch, but she cannot walk up or down stairs. ► Cancer of the breast, with stinging, burning of the edges ; smells like old cheese. ► Little pimples, or smooth ulcers, surround the scirrhus, or principal ulceration.

Larynx

► Hoarseness, roughness in the throat. ► Sensitiveness of larynx to cold air. ► Wheezing in the larynx, and painfulness of a small spot in the larynx. ► Croup : with deep, rough, barking cough, hoarseness or aphony, with slight suffocating spasms ; some rattling of mucus, after dry, cold wind ; with swelling below the larynx ; with great sensitiveness to cold air or water ; cough worse before midnight, or toward morning.

Breathing

► Rattling ; anxious, wheezing ; frequent deep breaths, like after running ; anxious, short, wheezing, threatening to suffocate, must bend the head back and sit up.

Cough

► Croupish, hoarse ; dry ; loose and choking ; with bloody expectoration ; excites vomiting ; whooping, croupish sound, pain in larynx, choking from mucus in larynx, worse in morning. ► Cough cause by : limb getting cold ; eating or drinking anything cold ; anything cold ; cold air ; lying in bed ; talking ; crying ; drinking. ► After cough : sneezing ; crying.

Lungs

► Sensation as of drops of hot water, in left chest. ► Soreness in the chest. ► Weakness of the chest ; cannot talk from weakness. ► Spasmodic constriction of the chest, after talking. ► Tenacious mucus in the chest.

Heart And Pulse

► Palpation of the heart, with fine stitches in the heart and left half of the chest. ► Pulse hard, full, accelerated ; at times intermitting.

Neck And Back

► Violent pulsation of the carotids. ► Drawing between the scapulae. ► Sensation as if bruised, in small of back and thighs. ► Stitches and rheumatic pains in the back.

Upper Limbs

► Suppuration of the axillary glands. ► Offensive sweat in the axilla. ► Tearing in arms, extending toward the suppuration in breast. ► Pain as if bruised in the os humeri. ► Encysted tumor at the point of the elbow. ► Itching in the palms. ► Itching, rough, dry, scaling skin of the hands. ► Fingers as if dead. ► Tingling in the tips of fingers. ► Panaritium.

Lower Limbs

► Left hip pains as if sprained, when walking in the open air. ► Buttocks and posterior thighs painful, when sitting. ► Bruised pains in muscles of anterior thighs. ► Swelling of the knee. ► Knee pains as if bruised. ► Cramps in the calves in soles and toes. ► Swelling of feet around the ankles, with difficult breathing. ► Pricking in both heels. ► Tingling in the toes. ► Burning, stinging pains on the toes. ► Cracked skin of the feet. ► Coldness of the feet.

Limbs In General

► Drawing pains in the limbs, especially in the morning, when awaking. ► Weakness in the limbs ; they feel bruised.

Position, Etc

► Motion : 3, 40. Moving eyes : 3, 5. Shaking the head : 3. Walking : 18 ; in open air : 3, 33 ; up or down stairs : 24. Sitting : 33 ; with head bent back : 26. Stooping : 3. Lying in bed : 27, 43.

Nerves

► Trembling weakness, after tobacco smoking. ► Fainting from slight pains. ► Spasms after injury, as of pressure on the head ; trismus of the newborn : 48.

Sleep

► Sleepiness during the day, worse toward evening ; with frequent, almost spasmodic yawning. ► Excess of thoughts prevent sleep, after midnight. ► Violent starts, when falling asleep. ► Start from sleep, feeling as if about to suffocate. ► Wakes at night, with erection and desire to urinate. ► Dreams : anxious ; of fire.

Time

► Morning : 2, 3, 4, 8, 16, 27, 34, 40. Forenoon : 14. Toward evening : 37. Evening : 1, 2, 40. Night : 3, 21, 40. Before midnight : 25. After midnight : 25, 37. Midnight till morning : 3. Day : 20, 37, 40. Day and night : 40.

Temperature And Weather

► Warm room : 10. Covering head warmly : 4. Uncovered head : 4. Open air : 40. Cold air : 25, 27. Dry cold winds : 25.

Chill, Fever And Sweat

► Chill during the day, alternating with heat and photophobia. ► Chill about 6 or 7 P.M. ► Nightly chill in bed, with aggravation of all complaints. ► Chill, then thirst ; one hour later, much heat, with interrupted sleep. ► Great chilliness in the open air. ► Dry, burning heat, with redness of the face and violent thirst, all night. ► Flushes of heat, with sweat. ► Sweats day and night, without relief ; or first can't sweat at all, and then sweats profusely ; easily by even slight motion. ► Night or morning sweat, thirst. ► Cold, clammy, frequently sour, or offensive-smelling sweat.

Sides

► Right : 3. Left : 28, 29, 33. Without inward : 3.

Sensations

► Painful sore feeling on the side on which he lies, at night ; must change position.

Tissues

► Caries. ► Glands inflame, swell and suppurate. ► Rheumatic swelling, with heat, redness and sensation, as if sprained. ► Hard, burning nodosities.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Touch : 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 24, 46. Pressure : 10. Scratching : 46. Concussion : 3.

Skin

► Yellowness of the skin. ► Burning-itching on the body, with white vesicles, after scratching. ► Humid soreness on the genitals, scrotum, and the folds between the scrotum and the thigh. ► Eruptions very sensitive, sore to touch. ► Miliary rash in circles. ► Itching rash in bends of knees and elbows. ► Nettle-rash. ► Dry, pimply eruptions. ► Eczema, spreading by means of new pimples appearing just beyond the old parts. ► Unhealthy skin ; slight injuries suppurate. ► Ulcers : discharge bloody pus, smelling like old cheese ; edges very sensitive, and have a pulsating sensation ; discharge corroding. ► Stinging, burning of edges of ulcers.

Relationship

► Hepar is frequently indicated after ; Bellad., Laches., Silic., Spongia, Zincum, Arnic. (traumatic spasms). ► After Hepar the frequently indicated : Bellad, Mercur., Nitr ac., Spongia, Silic. ► Hepar s. c. antidotes : mercurial or other metallic preparations ; also iodine, and particularly the iodide of potassium and cod liver oil. ► Antidotes to Hepar s. c. : Acet. ac., Bellad., Chamom., Silic.