Sulphuricum Acidum

▲   GENERAL

General

The "debility" common to acids shows itself here, especially in the digestive tract, giving a very relaxed feeling in the stomach, with craving for stimulants. Tremor and weakness; everything must be done in a hurry. Hot flushes, followed by perspiration, with trembling. Tendency to gangrene following mechanical injuries. Writer’s cramp. Lead poisoning. Gastralgia and hypochlorhydria. Purpura hemorrhagia.

Dose

Sulphuricum Acidum 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.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, from excess of heat or cold in forenoon and evening.

Better

BETTER, from warmth, and lying on affected side.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Arsenicum Album ^Ars.; Calendula Officinalis ^Calen.; Ledum Palustre ^Led.; Sepia ^Sep.; Calc Carb ^Calc.

Complementary

Complementary: Pulsatilla ^Puls.

▲   MIND

Mind

Fretful, impatient

Unwilling to answer questions; hurried.

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

irritability

mood; alternating mood

mood; changeable, variable mood; while perspiring

Hurry

while eating

in movements

cannot do things fast enough

at work

while walking

while writing

▲   HEAD

Head

Sensation as if brain was loose in forehead and falling from side to side ( Belladonna ^Bell.; Rhus Tox ^Rhus.) Concussion of brain where skin is cold, body bathed in cold sweat

Relieved by holding the hands near the head

Thrust in right temple as if plug were pressed in.

Headache

Right-sided neuralgia; painful shocks; skin feels pinched

Compressive pain in side of occiput

Pain of outer parts, as if there were subcutaneous ulceration; painful to touch

Pain, headache; sides; one side

Scalp

Skin and scalp; out-break on skin

▲   EYES

Eyes

Intraocular hemorrhage following traumatism

Great chemosis of conjunctiva, with aching and sharp pain.

▲   FACE

Face

Heat; hot flashes; at peak of disease

Skin

discoloration; black; and blue spots

discoloration; red; at peak of illness

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Offensive breath

Pyorrhoea.

Thrush (whitish flakes)

in children

Gums and teeth

Aphthae; gums bleed readily

▲   CHEST

Respiration

Respiration rapid with shooting in cervical muscles and movement of wings of nose; Larynx moves up and down violently

Bronchitis in children with short, teasing cough.

▲   COUGH

Cough

Loose; morning

▲   EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

Morning

▲   SKIN

Skin

Bad effects from mechanical injuries, with bruises and livid skin

Ecchymosis

Petechiae

Purpura hemorrhagica

Livid, red, itching blotches

Hemorrhage of black blood from all outlets

Cicatrices turn red and blue and become painful

Chilblains with gangrenous tendency

Carbuncles, boils and other staphylococcic and streptococcic infections.

Discoloration

bluish; spots

purple (purpura haemorrhagica purplish spots or patches from haemorrhage under skin)

red; spots

Out-breaks on skin; rash (see granular); red

Pain; like bruising

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Stomach; Heartburn; Sour eructations; sets teeth on edge ( Robinia Pseudacacia ^Robin.) Craving for Alcohol

Water causes coldness of stomach; must be mixed with liquors

Relaxed feeling in stomach

Averse to smell of Coffea Cruda ^Coffee

Hiccough

Coldness of stomach relieved by applied heat

Weak feeling, with dragging into the hips and small of back

Feeling as if hernia would protrude, especially left side.

Emptiness

after stool

Pain; violent

Complaints of spleen

Trembling

Sense of weakness

as if period would come on

after stool

Eating

Desire for fresh food

Nausea

Nausea with chilliness.

Vomiting

Sour vomiting

Stomach; vomiting; sour

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Piles; oozing dampness

Rectum feels as if it had a big ball

Diarrhoea, fetid, black, with sour odor of body, and empty faint feeling in abdomen.

Thrush of anus

Stool

Soft

Stringy

Yellow

orange

like saffron

▲   GENITALS ETC

Genitals

Erosion of cervix in the aged; easily bleeding

Acrid, burning leucorrhoea, often of bloody mucus.

Menses

Female; Menstruation early and profuse

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Cramp-like paralytic contraction in arms, hands; jerking of fingers while writing.

Skin

discoloration; bruising

discoloration; upper limbs; blue; blue spots, in both arms

discoloration; forearm; bluish spots

discoloration; lower limbs; bluish; spots

discoloration; ankle; purple; spots

discoloration; ankle; red; in spots

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Open air

In bed (see night and warmth)

Perspiration with heat

▲   INJURIES AND ACCIDENTS

Injuries and accidents

Bruises

Injuries in general

▲   GENERALITIES

Fatigue

Lethargic, tired

Perspiration

After eating; warm food

Generalities

Late morning

Evening

Affects of alcohol

Anaemia

Haemorrhage

Jerking; muscles

Pain; sudden, sharp; muscles; burning in muscles

Symptoms not symmetrical

symptoms on one side

crosswise, left lower and right upper

right

Temperature (felt and effects of temperature); hot feeling; flushes of heat

hot feeling

sensation of heat

from becoming cold

after becoming cold

Trembling; internally

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness)

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