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Sulphur
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Origin Mineral · Simple
ClarkePreparation Trituration of "Flowers of Sulphur." A saturated solution of Sulphur in absolute alcohol constitutes the Ø tincture.
Sources 21 entries across 18 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …

Dose Boericke
200X
Acts in all potencies from the lowest to the highest. Some of the best results are obtained from the higher, and not too frequent doses. The twelfth potency is a good one to begin treatment with, going higher or lower according to the susceptibility of the patient. In chronic diseases, 200th and upward. In torpid eruptions the lowest potencies

By regionHering
Mind ► Weak memory, particularly for names. ► Dulness ; difficult thinking ; misplaces or cannot find proper words when talking or writing. ► Foolish happiness and pride, thinks herself in possession of beautiful things ; even rags seem beautiful (also when recovering from spasms). ► Indisposed to everything (work, pleasure, talking or motion), in the evening. ► Disgust, up to nausea, about any effluvia arising from his own body. ► Melancholy mood ; dwelling on religious or philosophical speculations ; anxiety about his soul's salivation ; indifferent about the lot of others. ► Hypochondriac mood through the day ; merry in evening. ► Peevish ; irritable ; quick-tempered. ► Excitable mood, easily irritated, but quickly penitent. ► Great obstinacy, dislike to have any one near him.
Inner Head ► Tearing or stitches in forehead or temples, from within outward ; worse from eating or stooping ; better when pressing head together, and when moving about. ► Shooting in forehead from in-outward ; worse from stooping or eating ; better from pressing teeth together, and when moving head. ► Pressure in temples and tight feeling in brain when thinking or doing mental work. ► Painful tingling on vertex and in temples. ► Sensation of emptiness in occiput ; worse in open air and from talking ; better in-doors. ► Drawing and tearing through head. ► Headache every day, as though head would burst. ► Throbbing headache at night. ► Sick headache, very weakening, once a week or every two weeks ; pains generally lacerating and stupefying, numbing. ► Every step is felt painfully in head.
Eyes ► Photophobia, with stitches ; worse in sultry weather. ► Shunning light, during the sweat. ► Retinitis, caused by over-use of eyes, congestion of optic nerve. ► Obscuration of sight ; like a gauze before eyes. ► Cataract. ► Halo around gas or lamplight. ► Shortsightedness. ► Pustular inflammation of cornea, or conjunctivae, with marked lachrymation. ► Superficial and deep ulcers on cornea, intense redness of eye, great photophobia. ► Inflammation of eyes, or lids, itching, smarting, burning, feeling like from sand. ► Painful inflammation of eye, from presence of foreign body (after Acon.). ► Ulceration of margins of lids. ► Lids swollen, burn and smart, with itching ; aggravation from bathing eyes. ► Dryness of eyes in room, lachrymation in open air. ► Agglutination of lids at night. ► Lids drawn together spasmodically, in morning.
Stomach ► Sensitiveness to touch in region of stomach. ► Marked weakness about 11 A.M., empty, gone, or faint feeling. ► Pressure at stomach, also after eating.
Female Sexual Organs ► Menses : too late, of short duration ; or, suppressed ; blood thick, dark, acrid, sour smelling, makes the thighs sore. ► Before the menses : headache ; cough in evening ; nose bleed. ► During menses : nosebleed ; rush of blood to head ; weak, faint spells. ► Bearing down in pelvis, toward genitals. ► Sterility, with too early and too profuse menstruation. ► Leucorrhoea of yellow mucus, corroding, preceded by pains in abdomen. ► Burning in vagina, is scarcely able to keep still. ► Sore feeling in vagina, during coition. ► Troublesome itching of vulva, with pimples all around. ► Labor-like pain over the symphysis. ► Weak feeling in genitals.
Lungs ► Congestion of blood to chest. ► Feeling as if a lump of ice was in right chest. ► Stitches through chest, extending into left scapula ; worse lying on back and during least motion. ► Pain in chest from overlifting, or after inflammation of lungs. ► Burning in chest rising to face. ► Pain as if chest would fly to pieces, when coughing or drawing a deep breath. ► Weakness in chest ; in evening while lying down ; when talking. ► Exudation, after pneumonia.
Neck And Back ► Sensation as if vertebrae, were gliding one over the other, when turning in bed. ► Cracking in cervical vertebrae, especially on bending backward. ► Stiffness in neck of back. ► Pain in small of back, on rising from a seat. ► Gnawing pain in small of back. ► Stitches in scapulae. ► Pain in small of back, after heavy lifting and taking cold at the same time. ► Curvature of spine, vertebrae softened.
Limbs In General ► Chilblains thick and red, with cracks on joints. ► Corns, with aching and stinging pains. ► Limbs "go to sleep". ► Tearing in limbs, muscles and joints, from above downward. ► Weakness, cracking, swelling of joints. ► Gouty or rheumatic complaints, with or without swelling. ► Pain in limbs, worse when covered with feather covering.
Sleep ► Heavy, unfreshing sleep. ► Child falls asleep as soon as tenesmus ceases. ► Drowsy in afternoon and after sunset ; wakeful at night. ► Easily awakened, takes short naps. ► Sleep, with half-open eyes. ► Talks loudly while sleep. ► Jerks and twitches during sleep. ► Awakens with a start or scream. ► Dreams : vivid ; anxious.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chill : mostly internal and without thirst generally in evening, but also at other times ; external, with simultaneous internal heat and red face ; with thirst, preceded by heat ; spreading from the toes ; running up the back. ► Heat : afternoon or evening, skin dry, much thirst ; soles ; or cold feet, with burning soles, seeks a cool place for them, or puts them out of bed. ► Frequent flushes of heat, sometimes ending with a little moisture and faintness. ► Sweat : at night and in the morning hours ; profuse, sour smelling, the whole night ; in the evening, most on the hands ; at night, only on the nape and occiput.
Skin ► Voluptuous itching and tingling, with burning or soreness after scratching. ► Itching, worse in warm bed. ► Bright redness of whole body in scarlatina. ► Freckles. ► Yellow, brown, flat spots. ► Skin rough, scaly, scabby. ► Herpes, scabby and scurfy. ► Sore feeling of the skin, with disposition to excoriation. ► Soreness in folds of skin. ► Ecchymoses from a slight bruise. ► Rhagades after washing. ► Furuncles, particularly on the nates. ► Eruptions : 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, 22, 23, 24, 33, 34. ► Erysipelas, with throbbing and stinging. ► Dropsical swelling of external parts. ► Ulcers : with raised, swollen edges, bleeding easily, surrounded with pimples ; with tearing, stinging pains and discharging fetid pus.

Books*
Antidoted by Mercurius Solubilis 4, Causticum 3, Cinchona Officinalis 3 +36
Complementary Aloe Socotrina, Aconitum Napellus, Antimonium Tartaricum +7
Follows well Dysentery Co, Mercurius Solubilis, Pulsatilla Pratensis
Compare Aconitum Napellus, Bryonia Alba, Lycopodium Clavatum +44

* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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