Sulphur

Common names: brimstone; flowers of sulphur.

The king of remedies around which centres the whole Materia Medica (Bt.).

It acts upon every organ and tissue of the body (Ars., Calc., Merc.) (D.).

Is especially applicable to chronic diseases (Sep.) (D.).

IS THE LEADING ANTIPSORIC (N.).

Adapted to persons of a scrofulous diathesis (Calc., Phos., Sil.) (A.).

Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections (Psor.) (A.).

Great weakness; sallow, pale and yellow face; with marked anæmia (Nat-M., Sep.).

Loss of vital strength (Camph., Chin., Kali-P., Phos-Ac., Zinc.).

WHEN OTHER REMEDIES FAIL TO ACT IT IS OF INESTIMABLE NEED IN RALLYING THE VITAL FORCES (Op.).

Is subject to venous congestion, especially of the portal system (Aloe, Podo., Sep.) (A.).

PUSTULAR ECZEMA OF ANY PART (Graph., Merc., Rhus-T.).

The more the eruption is scratched the more it itches and burns (D.).

The skin is rough, coarse and measly (D.).

VOLUPTUOUS ITCHING, SOMETIMES RELIEVES; AFTER IT BURNING; SOMETIMES LITTLE VESICLES (N.).

Soreness in the folds of the skin (Lyc.) (D.).

After violent scratching, aching, numbness and swelling of the skin, even ulceration (N.).

ITCHING WORSE FROM HEAT OF BED (Merc.) (A.).

Child cannot bear to be washed or bathed (Ant-C., Psor.) (N.).

All the eruptions are greatly aggravated by washing and by being wet; wetting produces burning (D.).

Eruption of yellow crusts on the scalp (Kali-S.) (D.).

The troubles of the skin are apt to alternate with some internal trouble (Graph., Rhus-T.) (D.).

Defective osseous growth (Calc.) (D.).

Rickets and curvature of the spine (Sil.) (D.).

Burning of palms and soles (Graph., Lach., Med., Sep.) (D.).

PUTS THE FEET OUT OF BED AT NIGHT TO KEEP THEM COOL (D.).

Is used often for chronic diseases, that result from suppressed eruptions (Caust., Psor.) (A.).

Contracted pupils (Aur., Bell., Calc., Euphr., Hyos., Merc-C., Op., Puls., Thuj.).

Scurfy lids (Graph., Nat-M., Sep.).

Amblyopia in youthful girls with great loss of vigour, anorexia and costive state (Puls., Sep.).

Dimness of vision, as of a veil before the eyes (Chin., Puls.) (N.).

Aversion to light (Con., Euphr., Nat-M.) (G.).

Dark points or spots floating before the eyes (Chin., Cocc., Nat-M., Phos., Physos., Sep., Sil., Tab.) (N.).

Cataract (Calc., Nat-M., Phos.) (G.).

HALO OF COLOURS AROUND THE LIGHT (Bell., Cycl., Kali-P., Lach., Nicc., Osm., Phos., Puls., Sep., Staph., Tub., Zinc.) (K.)

Sharp darting pains like pins, needles, or splinters sticking into the eye (N.).

Scrofulous ophthalmia (Calc.) (Ma. and Ht.).

Hypertrophy of the lids, with itching and smarting and purulent exudations (Sep.) (Ma. and Ht.).

CANNOT BEAR TO HAVE THE EYES WASHED (N.).

Flushes in face (Graph., Sep.) (N.).

Very red lips, particularly with children (N.).

Deafness, with roaring, itching and dampness in the ear (Hm.).

Purulent otorrhœa (Calc., Calc-S., Kali-S., Lyc., Merc., Puls., Sil.).

Stitches in the left ear (Kali-B., Merc-C., Puls., Sabad., Staph.) (N.).

Ears very red with children (N.).

Chronic, dry catarrh (Nux-V., Puls., Stict.) (D.).

Nose bleeds easily (Carb-V., Lach., Merc.) (D.).

There is a smell of old catarrh before the nose (D.).

Chronic local congestions in many parts, with burning sensation (Sep.) (N.).

Is often required to promote adsorptions of effusions (Kali-I.). (N.).

Discharge from every outlet acrid, excoriating and reddening (Kreos., Nit-Ac.) (N.).

Bitter taste in the morning (Puls.) (D.).

Sour, clammy taste in the mouth (Puls.) (Bt.).

Tongue coated white, with red tip and edges, mostly in acute diseases (N.).

CANINE HUNGER (Anac., Cina, Nat-M., Phos., Staph.).

Has to get up at night to eat (Phos., Psor.) (D.).

Eructations, with aversion to meat (Graph.), qualmishness (Nux-V., Puls.) and nausea (Cycl., Ipec., Nat-M.).

DRINKS MUCH, EATS LITTLE (N.).

WEAK, EMPTY, GONE, FAINT FEELING AT THE PIT OF THE STOMACH AT 11 A.M. (Sep.) (N.).

Cannot wait for lunch (A.).

Putrid eructations (Acet-Ac., Arn., Bell., Cocc., Graph., Mag-S., Merc., Mur-Ac., Nux-V., Psor., Puls., Sep.) (D.).

Feeling of satiety after a small quantity of food (Chin., Lyc., Plat., Sil.) (D.).

Desires for sweets, which make him sick, causing a sour stomach and heart-burn (Merc.) (D.).

Rumbling and rolling in the bowels (Aloe, Gamb., Podo.) (G.).

There is a craving for spirits (Nux-V.) (D.).

Fullness and distension of the abdomen, pressing downward towards the anus (N.).

Painful sensitiveness of the abdominal walls to touch (Apis, Arn., Bell., Lach.) (N.).

Movement in the abdomen as of a child (Croc., Thuj.) (A.).

Much pain and soreness of the liver (Lach., Merc.) (D.).

Useful in hæmorrhoids when the bowels, prove inactive (Anac., Ign., Sep.).

Both the flow of urine and discharge of fæces are painful to the parts over which they pass (N.).

DIARRHOEA SOME HOURS AFTER MIDNIGHT, OR DRIVING OUT OF BED EARLY IN THE MORNING, 5 A.M. (Aloe) (N.).

Constipation usually alternating with diarrhœa (Aloe, Nux-V.) (D.).

Exudations into serous sacs following acute inflammations (N.).

Dropsy and other ailments of drunkards (Lach., Lyc., Mur-Ac.) (A.).

Nightly suffocative attacks, wants the door and windows open (A.).

Weakness in the chest when talking (Calc., Phos-Ac., Rhus-T., Stann., Sulph-Ac.), and in the evening when lying down (N.).

Useful in cases of pneumonia where there is no tendency to recuperation and resolution; the lungs tend to break down; there are rales all over the chest, muco-purulent expectoration, and symptoms of hectic fever; all the symptoms being worse at night (D.).

Fan-like motion of the alæ nasi in pneumonia (Am-C., Ant-T., Kreos., Lyc., Phos.) (K.).

May be given in the beginning of pulmonary tuberculosis, with pain through the left chest (Phos.), heat on the head, cold feet, frequent flushes, etc. (D.).

Weeping during stool (Aeth., Bor., Cham., Cina., Phos., Rhus-T., Sil.) (K.).

Child falls asleep as soon as the tenesmus ceases, after the stool (N.).

Diarrhœa, with sensation as if the bowels were too weak to retain their contents (Aloe, Phos.) (A.).

CONSTIPATION: STOOLS HARD, KNOTTY, DRY AS IF BURNT (Bry.); LARGE, PAINFUL (A.).

Child is afraid to have the stool on account of pain, or pain compels to desist on first effort (A.).

Bloody stools (Merc., Nit-Ac.) (G.).

Much itching about the anus (Aloe, Calc., Cina, Merc., Staph.) (G.).

Diabetes mellitus; passes large quantities of colourless urine (Kali-P., Lyc., Merc.) (A.).

Incontinence of urine (Caust., Sep.) (G.).

Tenesmus for an hour after stool (Merc.) (G.).

Piles, either blind or flowing; with discharges of dark, venous blood and violent bearing down pains in the small of back, towards the anus (Ra.).

Weak and slow stream of urine (Thuj.) (Bt.).

Yeasty urine (Caust., Raph.).

Cloudy urine with penetrating odour (Nit-Ac.) (Bt.).

THE DIARRHOEIC STOOLS ARE CHANGEABLE IN COLOUR (Cham., Colch., Dulc., Podo., Puls., Sanic.) AND MAY CONTAIN UNDIGESTED FOOD (Arg-N., Crot-T., Ferr., Nat-M., Podo.) (D.).

Sour diarrhœa (Calc., Hep., Mag-C.) (Bt.)

The odour of the stool clings to the patient for a long time (D.).

Much soreness at the anus (Aloe, Lach., Merc., Nit-Ac.) (D.).

Pulsation in the anus after stool, which continues all day (Ra.).

PARTS AROUND THE ANUS RED, EXCORIATED (Ars., Cham., Nat-M., Petr.) (A.).

Emission of prostatic fluid with difficult stools (Nit-Ac., Phos-Ac., Sep., Sil., Staph.) (K.).

REDNESS OF THE MEATUS URINARIUS (Cann-S., Gels., Led., Nit-Ac., Thuj.) (K.).

BURNING IN THE MEATUS URINARIUS (Berb., Cann-S., Kali-S., Nat-M.) (K.).

BURNING IN THE URETHRA AFTER COITION OR WHEN SEMEN IS DISCHARGED (Berb., Canth., Sep., Sulph-Ac.) (K.).

Seminal emissions and irritability (Nat-M., Nux-V., Phos.).

Such burning in the vagina that she is scarcely able to keep still (Ars.) (N.).

Menses too early, too profuse, protracted (Calc., Sab., Sec.) (A.). Menorrhagia; has not been well since her last miscarriage (Sep.) (A.).

Seminal discharge too quick (Berb., Calad., Calc., Con., Graph., Lyc., Nat-M., Phos., Zinc.), shortly after an erection (Phos-Ac.) (K.).

Chronic gonorrhœa, with discharge of white mucus (Cop., Nat-M., Sep.) (Bt.).

Menses thick, black, and so acrid as to make the vulva and thighs sore (Kreos.) (G.).

Despondent; out of humour; weeps much (Bt.).

Peevishness and fantastic illusions (Nux-V.).

MELANCHOLIC MOOD; DWELLING ON RELIGIOUS THINGS; ANXIOUS TO SAVE HIS SOUL (Aur., Puls., Verat.) (N.).

The most ordinary objects awake extraordinary admiration (N.).

Everything looks pretty which the patient takes a fancy to; even rags seem beautiful (A.).

Dresses up in rags and imagines that they are the finest silk (D.).

" A rugged philosopher," life having been a failure (D.).

A chronic, constitutional grumbler (Nux-V.) (D.).

Too lazy to rouse himself; too unhappy to live (Aur.) (A.).

Chronic vertigo (Calc., Calc-P., Con., Kali-P., Lyc., Phos., Puls., Sep.) (Bt.).

Congestion to single parts (eyes, nose, chest, abdomen, ovaries, arms, legs, or any organ of the body, marking the onset of tumours or malignant growths, especially at climacteric (A.).

Sick headache periodically once a week or two weeks (N.).

BURNING HOT DISTRESS ON THE TOP OF THE HEAD (Graph., Lach., Phos.); THIS CONSTANT HEAT ON THE TOP OF THE HEAD IS ONE OF THE MOST PROMINENT SYMPTOMS WE HAVE FOR SULPHUR (Bt.).

Pressive pain in the vertex, as from a weight on the top of the brain (N.).

FRONTAL HEADACHE IN THE MORNING (Calc., Calc-S., Kali-B., Lach., Nux-V.).

Of great utility in the cure of idiopathic epilepsy and convulsions of both sexes (Calc., Cupr., Hyos., Lach., Nat-M., Op., Sil.).

Chills and fever; no reaction; stupid; constantly sinking (N.).

Sensation of burning in many parts (Ars., Graph., Lach., Phos., Sec., Sep.) (N.).

During fever the patient is drowsy (Apis, Bry., Gels., Nux-M.,), the skin is dry and hot, and there is no sweat (it comes in generally after Acon.) (D.).

Hot flushes during the day with weak, faint spells, passing off with a little moisture (A.).

An excellent remedy in chronic cases of ague (Ipec., Nat-M., Puls.) (Bt.).

Sorethroat with great burning and dryness (Ars.); soreness begins on the right side and goes to the left (N.).

Chronic hæmorrhages; she seems to get almost well, when it comes again and again, for weeks, with weak faint spells (Chin., Ferr.) (G.).

STANDING IS THE MOST DISAGREEABLE POSITION (N.).

Acrid leucorrhœa, making the vulva sore (Kreos., Nat-M., Nit-Ac.) (G.).

Burning in the vagina, during coition (Kreos., Lyc., Nat-M.) (K.).

After nursing, the nipple chaps and bleeds, with much smarting and burning (G.).

Does not walk erect; stoops or bends over forward in walking or sitting (N.).

SEXUAL ORGANS COLD, RELAXED AND POWERLESS (Calad., Lyc., Nat-M.) (Br.).

Itching of the genitals on going to bed (Br.).

Paraplegia of the lower limbs (Caust., Merc., Phos.) and paralysis of other parts (Alum., Arg-N., Calc., Caust., Nat-M., Op., Phos.).

Cold feet (Bell., Calc., Sep.) (N.).

HEAT IN THE SOLES OF FEET, OR COLD FEET WITH BURNING SOLES; WISHES TO FIND A COOL PLACE FOR THEM, OR PUTS THEM OUT OF BED (N.).

Cramps in the calves and soles (Ars., Camph., Podo., Sec., Verat.), particularly at night, also with looseness of the bowels (N.).

Unsteady gait, tremor of the hands or great debility and trembling, weariness, weakness and prostration (Nux-V.) (N.).

Violent, bruised pain in small of the back and in coccyx, especially when stooping, or rising from seat (N.).

Intense, persistent, long-continued fever; skin dry, hot, burning; little or no remission, day or night; patient literally been consumed with fever (A.).

Ailments from abuse of metals generally (Hep.) (A.).

Happy dreams, wakes up singing (A.).

Drowsy in the afternoon after sunset, wakefulness the whole night (Coff., Op.) (A.).

Child is restless, hot, kicks off the clothes at night (Sanic.); has worms, but the best remedy fails (A.).

Becomes suddenly wide awake at night (A.).

Finds himself at night lying on the back (N.)

"CAT-NAP" SLEEP (D.).

The slightest noise awakens (Bor.) (D.).

Vivid, frightful, vexatious, anxious dreams (Arn., Aur., Puls.) (C.).

Talks much in sleep (Puls.) (Bt.).

Jerks one limb on dropping to sleep (B.).

Slight cuts and injuries inflame and suppurate (Bor., Graph., Hep., Sil.) (C.).

Crops of boils (Kali-I., Merc., Sil.) (B.).

Sweat in the axillæ, on hands and feet (B.).

Milk disagrees (Carb-V., Sep.) (Br.).

AGGRAVATION: In the evening; after midnight in the early morning; at 11 A.M.; from warmth of bed; when standing; from touch; from bathing or washing; during rest; in changeable weather; during climacteric; after taking milk; periodically; from alcoholic stimulants; and in a closed room.

AMELIORATION: During motion; on walking; in dry, warm weather; from lying on the right side; from drawing up the affected limbs; and in the open air.

RELATIONSHIP: Compare: Aloe, Apis, Ars., Bell., Bry., Calc., Chin., Colch., Ferr-P., Graph., Hep., Iod., Kali-P., Lach., Lyc., Merc., Nat-M., Nux-V., Phos., Psor., Puls., Rhus-T., Sep., Sil., Thuj., Urt., Verat., Zinc.

ANTIDOTES: Acon., Camph., Cham., Chin., Merc., Puls., Rhus-T., Sep. and Sil.

Sulphur antidotes: Chin., Iod., Merc., Nit-Ac., Rhus-T. and Sep.

Complementary: Aloe, Calc. and Psor.

N.B. - Calc. must not be used before Sulph.

Sulph., Calc., Lyc., or Sulph., Sars. and Sep. frequently follow in given order.