Hepar sulphur

Common names: hahnemann's calcium sulphide; sulphuret of lime.

Bad effects from the abuse of mercury (Fluor-Ac., Nit-Ac., Sil.).

Rheumatic swellings with heat and redness and a sensation as if sprained (Bell., Rhus-T., Sulph.).

Drawing pains in the limbs (Rhus-T.).

Stitches in the joints (Bry., Kali-B., Nit-Ac., Sil.).

GREAT SENSITIVENESS OF THE AFFECTED PARTS TO TOUCH (Arn., Bell., Kali-C.).

When handling the involved areas pain is felt as from sub-cutaneous ulceration.

INFLAMMATION ENDING IN SUPPURATION (Calc-S., Merc., Sil.).

Caries (Calc-T., Fluor-Ac., Kali-B., Merc., Nit-Ac., Phos., Sil.).

Erysipelas (Apis, Ars., Bell., Calc-S., Ferr-P., Graph., Lach., Lyc., Merc., Puls., Rhus-T., Sil., Sulph.).

FAINTING (IN THE EVENING FROM TRIFLING PAINS (Lach.).

UNHEALTHY SKIN; EVERY LITTLE WOUND SUPPURATES (Sil., Sulph.) (D.).

The skin is sensitive to the open air (Sil.); inflamed skin; injuries suppurate easily; eruptions and ulcerations are sensitive, and bleed easily (Lach., Nit-Ac.), and discharge a foul-smelling excretion; around the principal ulcerations there are little pimples (Rhus-T.) (D.).

BOILS OR ABSCESSES, WHERE THERE IS MUCH THROBBING AND STICKING IN THEM (if given low it will favour suppuration, and if given high it will sometimes abort the suppurative process (it comes always after Bell.) (D.).

Desire for highly seasoned food (Bl.).

Craving for strong things, as acids, etc. (D.).

Hunger and gnawing in the stomach (Anac., Graph., Phos.) (D.).

Craves acids, condiments or stimulants (B.).

Cannot bear anything tight about the waist (Lach., Lyc., Nux-V.) (D.).

Stool difficult, although soft (Alum.) (B.).

Diarrhœa: of children with sour smell (Calc., Mag-C., Rheum, Sulph.).

CLAY-COLOURED STOOL (Aur-M-N., Berb., Calc., Card-M., Chel., Chion., Dig., Gels., Iod., Kali-B., Lach., Lept., Merc., Nat-S., Podo., Sep.) (A.).

Headache, as if a nail were being driven into the right side of the head (Ign., Nit-Ac.) (D.).

OFFENSIVE ERUPTIONS ON THE SCALP, WITH NON-EXCORIATING DISCHARGES AND GREAT TENDERNESS (D.).

Sweats profusely day and night without relief (Merc.); perspiration sour, offensive; easily, on every mental or physical exertion (Bry., Calc., Psor., Sep.) (A.).

Purulent affections about the eyes, hypo-pyon etc., worse from cold air, or cold applications (Sil.).

OVER-SENSITIVE, PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY; THE SLIGHTEST CAUSE IRRITATES HIM (A.).

Quick, hasty speech and hasty drinking (Bell.) (A.).

Is peevish, angry at the least trifle; hypochondriacal; unreasonably anxious (A.).

Suicidal disposition (Aur., Aur-M., Chin., Nat-S., Nit-Ac., Nux-V., Sep.) (K.).

Hasty, violent, irritable or dissatisfied (B.).

OTALGIA, WITH SENSITIVENESS TO EXTERNAL CONTACT, OUT OF PROPORTION TO THE ACTUAL PAIN (N.).

Useful in pneumonia during the stage of resolution, when the expectoration is purulent and abscesses are threatened; also in broncho-pneumonia, when there is much mucus in the bronchial tubes, but it is difficult to raise (Bl.).

Should be remembered in chronic hepatitis and abscesses of the liver and kidneys when there is a vent for the pus, but the toxic symptoms persist (Bl.).

Asthma worse in dry, cold air and better in damp atmosphere (reverse of Dulc., Nat-S.) (N.).

SHARP, SPLINTER-LIKE PAINS IN THE THROAT (Arg-N., Nit-Ac., Sil.), OR A SENSATION AS IF THERE WERE A LUMP IN THE THROAT (Ign., Lach., Nux-M., Phyt.) (D.).

Quinsy, when suppuration threatens (A.).

Chronic hypertrophy of the tonsils, with hardness of hearing (Bar-C., Calc., Lyc., Plb., Psor.) (A.).

Urine: flow impeded, voided slowly, without force; drops vertically; is obliged to wait awhile before it passes; bladder weak, is unable to finish, seems as if some urine always remains (Alum., Sil., Thuj.) (A.).

HAEMORRHAGE FROM THE URETHRA AFTER URINATION (Puls., Sars.) (K.).

CHRONIC OTORRHOEA (Calc., Calc-S., Merc., Nat-S., Puls., Sil., Tell.) (B.).

Excoriation and humid soreness on the genitals, and in folds between the scrotum and the thighs (Petr.) (N.).

Weakness and much rattling in the chest (Ant-T., Nat-S.) (B.).

Whistling, choking breathing; must bend the head back (B.).

Ripened colds and old catarrhs (Calc., Graph., Kali-S., Lyc., Puls.) (B.).

Cough, with expectoration during the day, no, expectoration at night (G.).

Suffocative attacks of breathing (Ant-T., Ars.; Samb.) (G.).

DEEP, ROUGH, BARKING COUGH (Spong.), WITH HOARSENESS AND RATTLING OF MUCUS; WORSE IN COLD AIR, FROM COLD DRINKS, BEFORE MIDNIGHT OR TOWARDS MORNING (A.).

The cough of Hepar is never a dry one; it has a slight loose edge; the expectoration is slight, and there is little fever (D.).

WHOOPING COUGH (Bell., Carb-V., Dros., Ipec., Kali-C., Meph., Phos., Sil.).

WEEPING BEFORE, DURING OR AFTER COUGHING (Arn., Bell.) (K.).

Cough worse at night, especially after mid-night (Dros., Kali-C.) (K.).

CROUP, WHERE THE PATIENT IS SENSITIVE TO THE LEAST DRAUGHT OF AIR (it comes in here after Acon. and Spong.) (D.).

Cough: when any part of the body is uncovered (Rhus-T.).

CROUPY, CHOKING, STRANGLING COUGH (Brom., Chlor., Iod., Spong.) (A.).

AGGRAVATION: At night, especially during the nightly chill; from lying on the painful side (Bell., Iod., Kali-C.); from cold air; from uncovering; after eating or drinking cold things; and from touching the affected parts (Arn., Lach.).

AMELIORATION: From warmth in general (Ars., Sil.); from wrapping up warmly, especially the head (Psor., Sil.), and in damp, wet weather (Caust., Nux-V.- reverse of Nat-S.).

RELATIONSHIP: Complementary to: Calend. in injuries of soft parts, and Spong. in croup.

Complementary to Hep.: Iod. and Sil.

Hepar antidotes the bad effects of Mercury and other metals, Quinine, Iodine, Iodine of Potash, and Cod-liver oil.