Sulphuricum Acidum

General

SULPHURICUM ACIDUM. [Sulph. ac.] Sulphuric Acid. Hahnemann. SO3.

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.

Sensorium

► Sensation in forehead as if brain was loose and falling from side to side ; worse when walking in the open air ; better when sitting quiet in room. ► Rush of blood to head in headache.

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.

Outer Head

► Hair turns grey, falls out ; eruption on scalp, very sore ; worse in open air.

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.

Ears

► Hardness of hearing ; feeling as of leaf lying before ear. ► Buzzing in right ear. θ Neuralgia.

Nose

► Nosebleed : oozing of dark, thin blood ; evenings ; worse from smelling coffee ; of old people. ► Coryza, alternately dry and fluent ; with loss of smell and taste, hunger, sore eyes and tension in forehead.

Face

► Crusta lactea, with stringy, yellow stools. ► Face : deadly pale ; feels as if white of an egg had dried on it. ► Dry, shriveled spots in face (with hemorrhoids). ► Pain commencing at 9 P.M. in ramus of lower jaw and temple of right side, better from warmth, and from lying on affected side. ► Comes gradually, leaves suddenly.

Lower Face

► Shooting, stinging pain in red scar on lower jaw. ► Lips peel off.

Teeth

► Toothache ; worse in evening in bed, aggravated by cold ; better from heat. ► Dull toothache concentrating in right eye-tooth ; hurts when eating and on pressure. ► Pain increases slowly, ceases suddenly. ► Destruction of teeth. θ Diabetes mellitus.

Tongue, Etc

► Loss of taste. ► Talking difficult, as from want of elasticity of the parts. ► Tongue dry.

Mouth

► Sensation of dryness. ► Much saliva. ► Aphthous mouth and gums ; yellowish and painful.

Throat

► Thick yellow membrane on fauces, tonsils, teeth, lips ; stick-like glue ; impeded deglutition ; voice thick ; parotids swollen, sopor ; stench from mouth. ► Stringy, lemon-yellow mucus hangs from posterior nares in diphtheria. ► Roughness in throat. ► Lancinating in throat and chest at same time. ► Constricted feeling in throat.

Desires And Aversions

► Desire : for fresh fruit ; for brandy. ► Loss of appetite and great debility.

Eating And Drinking

► Water causes a cold of the stomach if not mixed with alcoholic liquor. ► Ailments : from drinking brandy (symptoms are palliated by drinking wine) ; from eating oysters. ► After eating, pain in stomach, and rising of food by the mouthful. ► After warm food : 40. Coffee (odor of) : 7, 27. Cold water : 27. Alcoholic drinks : 29. Wine : 40.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Belching after cough. ► Chronic heart-burn, sour eructations. ► Nausea with chilliness. ► Sour vomit, first water, then food. ► Vomiting, of drunkards. ► Raising of mucus so sour that it sets teeth on edge.

Stomach

► Coldness and relaxed feeling in the stomach. ► Dyspepsia.

Hypochondria

► Spleen enlarged, hard and painful ; hurts when coughing.

Abdomen

► Labor-like pains in abdomen, extending to hips and back. ► Colic, with sensation as if a hernia would protrude. ► Violent protrusion of an inguinal hernia.

Stool, Etc

► Diarrhoea with great debility. ► Stools : diarrhoeic, with passage of much flatus ; watery and very offensive, like rotten eggs ; bright yellow, mucous looking stringy or chopped, cholera infantum ; of hard, small, black lumps, mixed with blood, with violent pinching in anus. ► Hemorrhoids feel damp, painful to touch, itch violently ; stools cause violent burning, stinging, tearing pains, or the tumors prevent passage.

Urine

► Diminished secretion of brown urine, becoming turbid, like loam-water, on standing. ► Sediment like blood and a cuticle on the urine. ► Pain in bladder if the call to urinate is postponed.

Male Sexual Organs

► Erections. ► Orchitis, right side.

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.

Pregnancy

► Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy. ► Sterility, with menses too early and too profuse.

Larynx

► Hoarseness with dryness and roughness in throat and larynx. ► Larynx painful ; feels inelastic, causing difficulty in talking.

Breathing

► Shortness of breathe.

Cough

► Dry, too short hacks ; soreness between scapulae ; tiredness ; from irritation in chest, with expectoration, in the morning, of dark blood, or of a thin, yellow, blood-streaked mucus, tasting sour ; after cough, belching ; in the open air ; worse from walking, riding, cold water, and odor of coffee. ► Cough and haemoptysis after typhus.

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.

Heart And Pulse

► Palpitation of heart, with or without fear or anxiety. ► Shooting through the heart. ► Pulse : small, feeble, accelerated ; affected by alcoholic drinks.

Outer Chest

► Sternum sore, as if beaten.

Neck And Back

► Stiffness in back on rising in morning. ► Blood-boils on the back. ► Large suppurating swelling on right side of neck.

Upper Limbs

► Stitches : in shoulder-joints on lifting the arms ; in finger-joints. ► Tension in elbow-joint. ► Chilblains on hands. ► Red swelling on back of hand, not painful. ► Blue spots on the arms. ► After erysipelas, inflamed swelling of little finger.

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.

Position, Etc

► Lying : 8. Sitting : 2. Rising : 31. Motion : 40. Exercise : 40. Walking : 2, 27, 33. Lifting arms : 32.

Nerves

► Sensation of tremor all over, without trembling. ► Debility, great exhaustion.

Sleep

► Goes to sleep too late, wakens too early. ► During sleep twitches, especially of fingers.

Time

► Morning : 5, 27, 31, 40. Forenoon : 3. Evening : 3, 7, 10, 40. 9 P.M. : 8. Day : 40.

Temperature And Weather

► Warmth : 8, 10. In bed : 10, 40. In-doors : 2, 40. Open air : 2, 4, 27, 40.

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.

Attacks

► Itching of skin every Spring ; formation of single pustules. ► Gradually coming, suddenly ceasing : 3, 8, 10.

Sides

► Pressing, stinging pains inward. ► Right : 5, 6, 8, 10, 22, 28, 29. Left : 18, 28, 29. Above downward : 40.

Tissues

► Scars become blood-red or blue, and painful. ► Painful sensitiveness of glands. ► Veins (of feet) distended. ► Weak and exhausted from some deep-seated dyscrasia. ► Hemorrhages of black blood from all the outlets of body.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Bad effects from mechanical injuries, when there are bruises, chafing, lividity of skin. ► Scratching seldom relieves itching, but changes its locality. ► Pressure : 10. Touch : 20. Riding : 27.

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.

Stages And States

► Frequently indicated for old people, particularly women. ► Child sour despite careful washing. ► Light-haired people. ► In climacteric years, flushes of heat.

Relationship

► Follows well after Arnica. ► Pulsat. is complimentary and antidotal. ► Sulph. ac. antidotes bad effects of lead water.