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Sulphur Iodatum

Iodide of Sulphur
24 sectionsBoericke · 4Clarke · 20

At a glance

Cardinal features · auto-extracted from Boericke · Clarke
  • barber's itch

Essence

Prologue
Boericke

Iodide of Sulphur

Obstinate skin affections, notably in barber's itch and acne. Weeping eczema.

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Keynotes

Characteristics
Clarke
  • Su/.
  • tereb.
  • is referred to in the Hon.
  • Robert Boyle's works (Shaw's edition, vol.
  • iii.
  • 584).
  • A 1x dilution cured a most obstinate case of St.
  • Vitus's dance, and has often relieved

pain in chronic rheumatic arthritis (Cooper).

Mentals

Symptoms — Mind
Clarke

Doubtful—Anxious.—Unsteadiness of ideas.—Apathy and inaptitude for

business.—Dread of exertion.

Generals

Symptoms — Generalities
Clarke

Prostration, with difficulty of expanding chest on inspiration Weakness as

from influenza.—Faint and sick.—Much < on waking in morning; sleepy; leaning forward; rising

or ascending stairs.

Head

Symptoms — Head
Clarke

Headache; frontal, tightness Shooting and throbbing in temples; when

  • stooping.
  • —Sides of head ached; as if squeezed in a vice.
  • —Scalp sore; on vertex.
  • —Hair feels as if

erect.

Eyes

Symptoms — Eyes
Clarke

Eyes bleared; esp. |.—Inclination to close eyes, as if to press out tears —Lids

heavy.—Eyes: water much; dim.

Ears

Symptoms — Ears
Clarke

Itching, tingling, and buzzing in ears.—Singing in ears; with feeling of tightness above

eyes, as if a band was drawn tightly over forehead; with sore throat, with heat above pit of

stomach.

Nose

Symptoms — Nose
Clarke

Coryza.—Thick green mucus in nostrils—Acrid discharge.—Burning tickling in r.

nostril every time handkerchief is used; strong odour of Jodine perceived.—All the agonies of

"grippe.".—Excoriation of nostrils—Acuteness of smell.

Face

Symptoms — Face
Clarke

Face dry, hot and yellowish.—Erythematous eruption in upper lip with yellowish

pustules, painful, sore and tender, quickly disappearing in dry scabs.—Erythema on chin.

Mouth

Symptoms — Mouth
Clarke

Teeth felt soft to tongue and were coated with dark fur.—Tongue dry and hard, furred

at root, red at point.—Taste: bitter; nasty and fetid breath.

Throat

Symptoms — Throat
Clarke

Throat dry and painful to touch, feeling as if swelled —Sore throat in

morning.—Drawing, creeping sensation at back of throat——Uvula and tonsils slightly enlarged

and red.—Constant disposition to swallow saliva: throat and gullet parched; the saliva did not

allay the dryness.

Throat
Boericke
  • Uvula and tonsils enlarged and reddened.
  • Swollen.
  • Tongue thick.
  • Parotid hypertrophied.

Stomach

Symptoms — Stomach
Clarke

Anorexia; desire for acids, pickles, leomonade.—Thirsty.—Sensation of heat about

pit of stomach.—Soreness and sinking in epigastrium.

Urinary

Symptoms — Urinary Organs
Clarke

Itching in urethra—Frequent micturition, esp. mornings —Ardor

  • urinze.
  • —Urine smells like raspberries.
  • —(Stricture.
  • —Pains in kidneys shooting down

ureters.—Urine thick, whitish, creamy.)

Respiratory

Symptoms — Respiratory Organs
Clarke

Accumulation of dark, purulent mucous in trachea, continued

inclination to swallow saliva, which does not moisten it; mucus removed with difficulty and by

violent, hacking, coughing and straining.—Tickling in larynx.—Sensation of dryness in trachea;

thick, hard clots of mucus collected about top of windpipe difficult to detach, and which caused

tickling and irritation of larynx and cough.—Much troubled with cough during early part of night,

accompanied by a nasty taste in mouth and fetid breath.—Inclined to expand chest, and take a

  • deep inspiration; leaving a fluttering sensation.
  • —_(Hay asthma, with sneezing, catarrh, &c.
  • —R.
  • T.

C.)

Chest

Symptoms — Heart
Clarke

Boring pain as if in heart, with some difficulty of respiration.—Sensation of heat in

region of heart—Palpitation.

Neck & Back

Symptoms — Back
Clarke

Weakness of spinal column with pain in loins as if bruised, with weakness of spine.

Lower Limbs

Symptoms — Lower Limbs
Clarke

Weakness of knees and joints.—Legs ache and feel weak.—Tickling in calves

and feet—Trembling and aching of ankle-joints—Soles of feet ache and burn and are sore when

standing.

Skin

Skin
Boericke
  • Itching on ears, nose, and in urethra.
  • Papular eruption on face.
  • Cold-sores on lips.
  • Boils on neck.
  • Barber's itch.
  • Acne.
  • Lichen planus.
  • Arms covered with itching rash.
  • Hair feels as if erect.
Symptoms — Skin
Clarke

Pustules on upper lip.—Erythema on skin.—Itching rash, like nettlerash on

  • arms.
  • —Acne punctata (specific in dilution.
  • —R.
  • T.
  • C.
  • ).

Sleep

Symptoms — Sleep
Clarke

Sleepy by day, restless at night.—Sleep unrefreshing; confused dreams; awakened by

fright; sleep with mouth open.

Fever

Symptoms — Fever
Clarke

Occasional chills —Febrile excitement.—Dry heat.

Sulphur Terebinthinatum.

Terebinthinated Sulphur. [One part of purified Sulphur is dissolved by heating in one

hundred parts of Turpentine.| Dilutions.

Relations

Relations
Clarke
  • Compare: Band across forehead, Manc.
  • Difficult expectoration, K.
  • bi.
  • Heat in heart,
  • Lachn.
  • , Rhod.
  • Sleepy by day, restless at night, Staph.
  • Acne, Bellis, K.
  • bro.
  • , Arct.
  • 1.

Posology

Dose
Boericke

Third trituration.

Classical Posology

Acute
  • 30C or 200C · repeat every 1–4 h depending on intensity
  • Stop on improvement · reassess in 24–48 h
  • For sensitive / elderly / paediatric: prefer LM1 or 30C
Constitutional
  • 200C or 1M single dose · wait 4 weeks
  • Alternative: LM1 daily × 10 days · ascend on retest
  • Hering's-Law follow-up adapts the next script
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