Sulphur

Ears

Bad effects from suppression of otorrhoea; hard hearing, especially if the ears are very dry; noises in the ears in general, particularly a humming.

Eyes

Affections in general of the cornea; eyeball; sclerotica; pupils contracted; eyes water, itch and feel hot; halo around a lamp-light; aversion to light; cataract.

Nose

Blood comes from the nose on blowing it; imaginary foul smells all around.

Stool And Anus

Looseness of the bowels; redness about the anus ; looseness in grown people, with soreness about the anus; obstructed evacuation, particularly if hard stools are retained. Diarrhoea, particularly where there is the red line about the anus, and the patient can't wait, must go immediately the desire is felt ; also waking early in the morning with a diarrhoea , which drives one out of bed in a great hurry; tenesmus in the same way, drives one in a great hurry; rumbling and rolling in the bowels, Stool bloody; knotty; green mucus; stinking; insufficient; with maw worms; with tape-worm; complaints during stool. Much itching about the anus; bleeding haemorrhoids; itching runs back along the perineum and adjacent parts.

Urine

Urine discharged by drops; incontinence of urine; lie awake for some time, then fall into a deep sleep in which they wet the bed. Itching about the genitals on going to bed at night.

Sexual.-- Male : Affections of the genitals in general. Female : Menses too late; too short; too scanty; suppressed, particularly in psoric individuals; delay of first menses; nipples, particularly if they are cracked around the base, and may often bleed; the nipple smarts and burns very much as soon as the infant lets go of it.

Gastric.-- Strong aversion to meat; sour taste; eructations, tasting of eggs; nausea and vomiting; vomiting of sour matter.

Chest

Oppressed respiration, particularly from congestion to the lungs; if with a sense of heat all through the chest. Cough in general with bloody expectoration, especially with heat in the chest; haemorrhage with the same sensation. Affections in general of the heart and region of the heart; palpitation of the heart; also external chest; red spots all over the chest; also brownish or butternut-colored spots.

Skin

The greatest general psoric remedy for almost every kind of itch, ulcer, etc.; very colicky babies with pimples, itch or eruption on skin, or roughness of the skin. Troubles of very long standing resulting from suppressed eruptions-- Sulphur will very often bring these out and cause their cure. Exanthema in general on any part of the body which is made worse by any heat, from getting warm at work, in bed, etc.; freckles; cancerous ulcers. Skin dry; rough; scaly; voluptuous itching--"feels so good to scratch"; ecchymosis; chapping of the skin, especially when it ulcerates; chapping of the skin after being wet; soreness of the skin in children; brown sphacelus. Tetters in general; chapped; scurfy; painful; tearing; pulsating, etc.

Sleep

One wants to sleep late in the morning; sleepy all day; sleep not refreshing; sleepiness in the afternoon. Waking frequently during the night when one becomes wide awake suddenly. Dreams many; vivid; beautiful; pleasant. Singing during sleep.

Fever

Perspiration in general of single parts; on back part of the body; great disposition to perspire; perspiration, with anxiety; compound or intermittent fevers. Thirst.

Sensations

Of heat in the chest; of heat anywhere, with any trouble; of sudden and frequent flushes of heat all over the body; of contraction of inner parts; creeping on the skin as of a mouse running over it; cutting pain in the inner parts; of fullness, or of heaviness in the inner parts, chiefly in the 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 the outer parts; as of a lump in the inner parts; of motion, as though something were moving in the inner parts; of roughness in inner parts; of tightness or stiffness in outer parts. Of sometimes being very small and then again very large.

Generalities

Affections in general, of any kind appearing in the left side; hair of the head; external front of the head; inner belly, especially on left side; back; small of the back; axilla; lumbar region; upper extremities in general; posterior and inner surface of the thigh; lower extremity in general; of the nails.

Inflammation of the mucous membranes in general; swelling of the glands. Affections of the brain from suppressed cutaneous eruptions. Very often when rash in scarlet fever will not come out; cannot bear to be washed; face pale, or reddish-yellow; diminution of saliva; back is so stiff that one cannot rise from a stooping posture, and is always worse before a storm; bleeding from inner parts in general; dropsy of inner parts, particularly in psoric persons, or resulting from a suppressed eruption; dryness of inner parts which are usually moist; emaciation in general.

Worse.-- On waking; after eating; from exertion of the body, unable to stand much exercise; from leaning against anything; after menstruation; from taking milk; during perspiration; from suppressed perspiration; from wet poultices; from abuse of mercury; on rising, from any quick motion, as running; during sleep; after a long sleep; during stool; in children whose bowels are regular but who suffer great pain at every passage (when bowels are moved causing much pain, stools hard and lumpy, Nitr. ac .); on stretching the limbs, especially the affected limb; when swallowing food; from talking; from water and washing; ascarides; worms in general; from suppressed menstruation; from vomiting; on getting warm in bed.

Better.-- From drawing up the affected limb--can't bear to have it extended.

Remedies following:-- Bellad., Bryon., Calc. carb., Lycop., Mercur., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sepia ; sometimes, Phosphor .

Antidotes

China, Mercur, Pulsat., Sepia .