Sulphur Homeopathic Materia Medica

Guiding symptoms of Materia Medica

Sulphur

Another name: Flower of sulpher

Common name: Brimstone

Introduction : 

• Sulpher is a polychrest remedy
• It is a king of anti psoric
• It is a non-metallic yellow and brittle substance
• It is found in plenty in Sicily and Italy

Miasm: Psora

Temperament: Nervous temperament 

Relation with hot and cold: Hot

Diathesis: Scrofulous

Constitution:

• Suited to lean stoop-shouldered person
• who walk and stooping, walk stooping an old man
• < when standing
• Patient can not stand
• Standing position is very uncomfortable and unbearable
• A dirty and filthy look of the body
• Redness of all external orifices

Clinical use:

• Acne
• Anaemia
• Asthma 
• Biliousness 
• Boils 
• Brain complaints 
• Catarrh
• Cough 
• Diarrhoea 
• Dysentery 
• Eye affection 
• Eczema
• Emaciation 
• Enuresis
• Epilepsy 
• Eructation 
• Eruptions
• Feet burning 
• Perspiring 
• Fever 
• Gout 
• Haemorrhoids 
• Headache 
• Liver affection 
• Menopause 
• Neuralgia 
• Pleurisy 
• Pregnancy disorders 
• Skin affection 
• Rheumatism 
• Throat and lung affection 
• Vertigo 
• Worms 
• Acidity  

Mind: 

• Very forgetful
• Busy all the time
• Difficult thinking
• Delusion
• Very selfish
• Childish peevish in grown people
• Irritable
• Religious melancholy
• Aversion to business
• Imagine giving the wrong thing to people
• Depressed

Head: 

• Heaviness and fullness of head
• Pressure in temples
• Heat on top of the head
• Beating headache
• Worse stooping and with vertigo
• Periodically sick headache
• Dry scalp, falling of hair
• Tinea cavities
• < washing, itching, scratching cause burning

Eyes:

• Holo around lamp light
• Burning ulceration of lids
• The first stage of ulcer of the cornea
• Burning in eye
• Chronic ophthalmia
• Parenchymatous keratitis

Ears:

• Bad effect of suppression of an otorrhoea
• Whizzing sensation in ears
• Oversensitive to voice
• Deafness

Nose:

• Herpes around nose
• Imagine foul smells
• Scabby
• Polypus and adenoids
• Chronic dry scabs, dry catarrh and bleeding

Mouth:

• Dry lips, bright red, burning lips
• Bitter taste in mouth in the morning
• Swelling of gums
• Throbbing pain
• Tongue white with red tip
• Jerk through teeth

Throat:

• Pressure as from a lump, splinter, as of a hair 
• Burning, dryness and redness 
• The ball seems close and pharynx to rise

Stomach: 

• Complete loss of appetite
• Putrid eructation
• Food tastes salty
• Drinks much, little eat
• Aversion to milk
• Desire for sweets
• Acidity, sour eructation
• Burning, painful, pressure in the stomach
• Weak and faint at 11 am
• At 11 am must something to eat
• Nausea during acidity

Abdomen:

• < at pressure 
• An internal feeling of sourness and rawness
• Movements like something alive
• Pain and soreness in the liver
• Colic after drinking water

Rectum:

• Burning and itching in the anus
• Piles
• The frequent, hard, unsuccessful desire for knotty, insufficient stool
• Redness and itching around the anus
• Morning diarrhoea with drives out of bed and painless
• Prolapse of rectum
• Haemorrhoids

Respiratory:

• Bring and Oppression sensation in the chest
• Hard respiration; wants windows open
• Aphonia
• Heat all over chest
• Red, brown spots all over chest
• Loose cough < at talking, morning
• Greenish, purulent, sweetish expectoration
• Rattling of mucus
• Chest feels heavy
• Stitches, with heart feeling too large and palpitating
• Pleuritic exudations
• Stitching pains shooting all over the back
• Worse lying on back or breathing deeply
• Flush of heat in the chest rising to head
• Oppression, from a load on chest
• Dyspnea in middle of the night
• Relieved by sitting up
• Pulse faster in the morning than in the evening

Back:

• Drawing pain stuck between shoulders
• Hardness of nape
• Sensation like vertebra glided over each other

Extremities:

• Trembling in hands
• Hot, moist hands
• Rheumatic pain in left shoulder
• Paretic, Heaviness feeling
• Perspiration armpits, smelling like garlic
• Drawing and tearing pain in arms and hands
• Can’t walk erect
• Ganglion
• Stiffness of knees and ankles
• Burning in hands and soles at night
• Gout, with itching

Sleep:

• Jerks, talk and twitches during sleep
• Vivid dreams during sleep
• Singing wake up
• Wakes up suddenly and frequently
• Wakes up from slight noise
• can't sleep between 2 am to 5 am

Skin:

• Scaly, dry and unhealthy skin
• Every little injury suppurates easily
• Skin effects after local medication
• Pruritus
• Burning and itching worse after washing and scratching
• Pimply eruption
• Excoriation of skin in folds

Urine:

• Micturation especially at night
• Enuresis in scrofulous child
• Burning in urethra during urination
• Pus and mucus in urine
• Always hurry, sudden call to urination
• Colourless urine

Female Sexual Organs:

• Burning vagina
• Offensive perspiration
• Menses short, late, scanty and difficult
• Thick, black and acrid menses
• Menses make part sour
• Nipples smart, burn and cracked
• menses stopped suddenly by headache
• Excoriating and burning leucorrhoea
• Dysmenorrhoea

Male Sexual Organs:

• When going to bed itching in genitals
• Organ cold, powerless and relaxed
• Stitching pain in penis
• Emissions involuntary

Fever:

• Great thirst and dry skin
• Sweat on occiput and nape at night
• Sweat on a single part
• Remittent fever
• Violent heat of the whole body
• Hot flushes

Modalities:

• < When standing, at rest, warmth in bed, bathing, 11 am, night, periodically
• > Dry, lying on the right side, from drawing up affected limbs

Relationship:

• Compare: Acon often follows after sulphur in acute diseases
• Mercur and Calcarea are frequently useful after Sulphur

Dose: 

• Acts in all potencies from lowest to the highest
• Some of the best results are got from the higher, and not too frequent doses 
• The twelfth potency is perfect for starting treatment
• Higher and lower according to the susceptibility of the patient
• In chronic cases 200th and upward