Ferrum Sulphuricum

Ferula has been proved, but I am not aware of any clinical experience with it.

Heat and burning are produced in most parts, and sensations of coldness in others. Stiffness and

constriction were also prominent. Violent sexual excitement in women. A cough was complained

of, < in damp or cold weather.

Burning in head.—Icy coldness in occiput during day.—Lancinations, pricking, pulling

pains in occiput.

Pain apparently in walls of meatus auditorius externus.

7, 8. Teeth and Mouth.—Violent tearing toothache; teeth all sound; > from cold air or

application of ice on cheek; headache.—Very troublesome soreness of soft palate.

Decreased appetite; urgent thirst—Bitter eructations.—Spitting up of bile—Slow

digestion, with bitter eructations.—Heat and cutting pains in stomach; < after eating.

Lancinating, pulling in r. hypochondrium.—Inflation and tension of

• ▸abdomen.
• ▸—Colic before and during stool.
• ▸—Constant burning in abdomen.
• ▸—Heat and weight in

hypogastrium.

Hemorrhoids, with itching, burning, lancinating, and prickings at

anus.—Diarrhoea day and night, but worse by day; stools light-yellow and watery, with smarting

and burning at anus.

Watery, reddish-brown, odourless, painless diarrhoea, with great

paleness of skin, emaciation, vertigo, oedema of scrotum and lower limbs, bulimy without thirst,

venous murmurs.—Constipation.—Helminthiasis; tape worms; ascarides.

Menses several days early, more profuse, thin or thick, with heat

and itching of vulva.—Violent sexual excitement (in females only).

Difficult breathing —Fetid breath —Cough dry or loose, < in damp or

cold weather, with thick yellow expectoration.

Numbness of thighs.—Cold feeling along sciatic nerves; felt soon after rising

up.—Lancination along nerves of thighs and legs.

Redness and subcutaneous swelling.—Small red pimples and incessant itching.—Red

pimples with white tips in beard and whiskers.—Pricking and violent itching in many parts, < at

night.

Limbs very painful, esp. feet and calves, where the pain is distracting.—Contractions

in arms, hands, and feet.