Adapted to persons of a scrofulous diathesis, subject to venous
congestion; especially of portal system.
Persons of nervous temperament, quick motioned, quick tempered,
plethoric, skin excessively sensitive to atmospheric changes ( Hep.
, Kali c. , Psor. ).
For lean, stoop-shouldered persons who walk and sit stooping; walk
stooping like old men.
Standing is the worst position for Sulphur patients; they cannot
stand; every standing position is uncomfortable.
Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections ( Psor. ).
Aversion to being washed; always < after a bath. Too lazy to
rouse himself; too unhappy to live.
Children: cannot bear to be washed or bathed (in cold water, Ant.
c. ); emaciated, big-bellied; restless, hot, kick off the clothes
at night ( Hep. , Sanic. ); have worms, but the best selected remedy
fails.
When carefully selected remedies fail to produce a favorable effect,
especially in acute diseases, it frequently serves to rouse the
reactive powers of the system; clears up the case (in chronic diseases,
Psor. ).
Scrofulous, psoric, chronic diseases that result from suppressed
eruptions ( Caust. , Psor. ).
Complaints that are continually relapsing (menses, leucorrhoea,
etc.); patient seems to get almost well when the disease returns
again and again.
Congestion to single parts; eyes, nose, chest, abdomen, ovaries,
arms, legs, or any organ of the body marking the onset of tumors
or malignant growths, especially at climacteric.
Sensation of burning: on vertex; and smarting in eyes; in face,
without redness; of vesicles in mouth; and dryness of throat, first
right then left; in stomach; in rectum; in anus, and itching piles,
and scalding urine; like fire in ripples ( Ars. ); in chest, rising
to face; of skin of whole bloody, with hot flushes; in spots, between
scapulae ( Phos. ).
Sick headache every week or every two weeks; prostrating, weakening
( Sang. ); with hot vertex and cold feet.
Constant heat on vertex; cold feet in daytime with burning soles
at night, wants to find a cool place for them ( Sang. , Sanic. );
puts them out of bed to cool off ( Med. ); cramps in calves and
soles at night.
Hot flushes during the day, with weak, faint spells passing off
with a little moisture.
Bright redness of lips as if the blood would burst through ( Tub.
).
Weak, empty, gone or faint feeling in the stomach about 11 a. m.
(10 or 11 a. m. > by eating, Nat. c. ); cannot wait for lunch;
frequent weak, faint spells during the day (compare, Zinc. ).
Diarrhoea: after midnight; painless; driving out of bed early in
the morning ( Aloe , Psor. ); as if the bowels were too weak to
retain their contents.
Constipation: stools hard, knotty, dry as if burnt ( Bry. ); large,
painful, child is afraid to have the stool on account of pain, or
pain compels child to desist on first effort; alternating with diarrhoea.
The discharge both of urine and faeces is painful to parts over
which it passes; passes large quantities of colorless urine; parts
round anus red, excoriated; all the orifices of the body are very
red; all discharges acrid, excoriating whenever they touch.
Menses: too early, profuse, protracted.
Menorrhagia, has not been well since her last miscarriage. "A
single dose at new moon." - Lippe.
Boils: coming in crops in various parts of the body, or a single
boil is succeeded by another as soon as first is healed ( Tub. ).
Skin: itching, voluptuous; scratching >; "feels good to
scratch;" scratching causes burning; < from heat of bed
( Mer. ); soreness in folds ( Lyc. ).
Skin affections that have been treated by medicated soaps and washes;
haemorrhoids, that have been treated with ointments.
To facilitate absorption of serous or inflammatory exudates in
brain, pleura, lungs, joints, when Bryonia , [Kali mur.] or the
best selected remedy fails.
Chronic alcoholism; dropsy and other ailments of drunkards; "they
reform," but are continually relapsing ( Psor. , Tub. ).
Nightly suffocative attacks, wants the doors and windows open;
becomes suddenly wide awake at night; drowsy in afternoon after
sunset, wakefulness the whole night.
Happy dreams, wakes up singing.
Everything looks pretty which the patient takes a fancy to; even
rags seem beautiful.
Movement in abdomen as of a child ( Croc. , Thuja ).
Relations. - Complementary: Aloe , Psor.
Ailments from the abuse of metals generally.
Compatible: Calc. , Lyc. , Puls. , Sars. , Sep.
Sulph. , Calc. , Lyc. ; or Sulph. , Sars. , Sep. frequently follow
in given order.
Calcarea must not be used before Sulphur.
Sulphur is the chronic of Aconite and follows it well in pneumonia
and other acute diseases.
Aggravation. - At rest; when standing; warmth in bed; washing,
bathing, changeable weather ( Rhus ).
Amelioration. - Dry, warm weather; lying on the right side (rev.
of Stan. ).
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