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Sulphuricum Acidum
SUL AC
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Origin Mineral · Simple
ClarkePreparation Dilution.
Sources 8 entries across 7 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Hahnemann …

Dose Boericke
2X–30X
Sulphuric acid mixed with three parts of alcohol, ten to fifteen drops three times daily for several weeks, has been successfully used to subdue the craving for liquor. For homeopathic purposes second to thirtieth potency

By regionHering
Mind ► Must do everything in a great hurry. ► Unwilling to answer ; says yes or no with difficulty, pulse very small and frequent. ► Disheartened. ► Inclined to weep. ► Irritable, restless. ► Mental excitability.
Inner Head ► Painful shocks in forehead and temples, worse in forenoon and evening. ► Headache as if a plug were thirst quickly, by increasingly severe blows, in head. ► Gradually increasing and suddenly ceasing headache.
Eyes ► Full with tears, when reading. ► Tension in eyelids in morning ; difficult to open them. ► Deep blue circle under right eye. ► Feeling as of a lump in right outer canthus ; on closing eye seems to move to inner canthus, and to return on opening. ► In chronic inflammation of eyes ; more frequently useful in beginning, later Sulphur.
Stomach ► Coldness and relaxed feeling in the stomach. ► Dyspepsia.
Female Sexual Organs ► Menses too early and too profuse. ► Distressing nightmare before the menses. ► In climaxis, spitting of blood ; costive. ► Leucorrhoea ; acrid or burning ; milky or transparent ; of sanguineous mucus, with a sensation as if the menses would appear. ► Prolapsus of vagina ; parts look greenish and smell badly.
Lungs ► Stitches in chest ; about heart. ► Sensation of great weakness in chest. ► Burning in left side of chest up to throat. ► Shooting, stinging, now in scapula, again in arm-pit, or in chest. ► Profuse hemorrhage from the lungs : tuberculosis. ► Ulcerations in different parts of lungs.
Neck And Back ► Stiffness in back on rising in morning. ► Blood-boils on the back. ► Large suppurating swelling on right side of neck.
Lower Limbs ► Knees painfully weak. ► Ankles weak, can't walk. ► Feet cold, swollen. ► Distention of veins of feet. ► Stitching in corns. ► Red itching spots on tibia. ► Blood-red, very painful scar on tibia.
Sleep ► Goes to sleep too late, wakens too early. ► During sleep twitches, especially of fingers.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Frequently chilly during day ; worse in-doors, better out-doors when exercising. ► Frequent chills, running down the body. ► Heat in evening and in bed. ► Flushes of heat, with sweat. θ Climaxis. ► Sweat : excessive, mostly on upper body ; from motion, continued after sitting down ; sour ; cold, immediately after eating warm food ; mornings ; at night profuse ; lessened by drinking wine.
Skin ► Scars turn blood-red and hurt. ► Blue spots like ecchymoses. ► Red itching blotches on skin. ► Yellow skin, livid spots. ► Gangrenous tendency after a bruise.

Books*
Antidoted by Pulsatilla Pratensis 2, Ipecacuanha, Sulfonalum
Complementary Pulsatilla Pratensis
Follows well Arnica Montana, Conium Maculatum, Pulsatilla Pratensis +2
Compare Robinia Pseudacacia, Ambra Grisea, Ammonium Carbonicum +26

* 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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