Sulphuricum Acidum

Sul. ac., according to Teste, was a favourite remedy of the Middle Ages, being

used extensively in dilution in the treatment of scrofulous, phagedenic, cancerous, and venereal

ulcers; as a gargle and mouth-wash for aphthz, ulceration of the gums, and diphtheria. It was

given as "Mineral Lemonade" in cases of lead poisoning. [This use I have verified, giving water

• ▸acidulated with the 3x.
• ▸—J.
• ▸H.
• ▸C.
• ▸] The "Acid Soap" of Achard was prescribed as a dissolvent in

scirrhus of the breast and calculous nephritis, obstinate intermittent fevers, visceral obstructions,

dropsy, jaundice, cachexia, and "certain tumours of the feet." Elixir of vitriol (a mixture of the

acid, alcohol and water) is a popular remedy for nervous weakness in women at the present day.

Dippel, Haller, and others each had an "Elixir," differing only in the proportions of the chief

ingredients. The elixirs were used in: Intermittent, putrid, malignant, contagious fevers;

comatose and petechial fevers, scarlatina, confluent and malignant variola; dysentery; plague,

lepra, itch, and other cutaneous diseases; nocturnal emissions; suppression of menses and piles,

• ▸calculous nephritis, and gout; pituitous phthisis; chorea.
• ▸Hahnemann proved Su/.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, and says

that it has cured affections characterised by: "tension in the eyelids in the morning,

shortsightedness; hardness of hearing; inguinal hernia; chronic looseness of the bowels profuse

menses; metrorrhagia; roughness in the throat; asthma; swelling of the feet; coldness of the feet"

• ▸(Chron.
• ▸Dis.
• ▸).
• ▸Teste gives this experience of his own:" Two or three times I have used this drug

with success against round syphilitic spots, of a bright red colour, of the size of a penny, rather

itching, running into each other, secreting a humour sometimes, and generally seated at the upper

and inner surface of the thighs, between the shoulders, on the face, and at the posterior surface of

the forearms and hands. The subjects on whom this acid seemed to act best were lymphatic, ate a

good deal, and were disposed to a constant looseness of the bowels, so that their evacuations

were rarely in shape." Hahnemann's proving with homeopathic experience has confirmed many

• ▸of the old uses of Su/.
• ▸ac.
• ▸and brought out characteristic indications.
• ▸Weakness is a keynote to

• ▸Sul.
• ▸ac.
• ▸The patient is weak and exhausted.
• ▸Su/.
• ▸ac.
• ▸is suited to cases where the weakness is out

of proportion to the disease. Weakness which seems to come from deep-seated dyscrasia. There

is as well a sense of general internal trembling; as if trembling from head to foot, but without

visible trembling. It is useful for inebriates who are "on their last legs," long after Nux had ceased

to help. Hering says the craving for liquor has been subdued by taking for two or four weeks,

thrice daily, ten to fifteen drops of a mixture of one part of Su/. ac. with three parts of alcohol.

The indications are: "Vomiting in morning; acidity in stomach; burning in cesophagus and

• ▸stomach; sour, acrid, or foul eructations.
• ▸" Su/.
• ▸ac.
• ▸has this characteristic: in spite of great thirst,

water is not tolerated; unless qualified with alcohol it chills the stomach. This is a common

• ▸symptom with hydrogenoid patients.
• ▸Su/.
• ▸ac.
• ▸has a keynote symptom in the mental sphere.

• ▸Hurry—hasty, quick, sullen, impatient; angry because things move so slowly.
• ▸Like Su/.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸ac.

is periodic and has an important place in agues and periodic neuralgias. Cooper with reason

contends that many ague cases, supposed to have been cured with Chi. sul. (Sulphate of

Quinine), were really cured by the Sulphuric acid used in dissolving it. "More-over," says

• ▸Cooper, "in all epidemic diseases—influenza, cholera, small-pox, &c.
• ▸—Sul.
• ▸ac.
• ▸is often called for

by the concomitant symptoms. In the neuralgia of influenza it has cured very severe pain over

the whole left side of the head, face, and neck, coming on from exposure to draught; in the

diarrhoeas of cholera times it certainly arrests mischief; in the diarrhoeas of emaciated children it

is often called for. A chemist in Covent Garden used to use a lotion of Sulphuric acid, well

diluted, for all the cases of itch that came before him, and they were many." There is a keynote

of Sul. ac. in respect to neuralgias which is of great service; the pains increase gradually and end

abruptly; the most characteristic kind of pain is dull pressure—as of a plug thrust in. There is

• ▸external soreness and sensitiveness.
• ▸The piles of Su/.
• ▸ac.
• ▸are external, sensitive to touch and

• ▸accompanied by itching.
• ▸Su/.
• ▸ac.
• ▸is a great hemorrhagic; there is bleeding from every orifice;

bleeding under skin (purpura); the menses are too early, too profuse, and sterility may be a

• ▸consequence of this; oozing of dark thin blood.
• ▸Many sufferings of Su/.
• ▸ac.
• ▸seem to arise from

• ▸the generative organs, especially of the female.
• ▸With Su/.
• ▸ac.
• ▸30, a dose every night, I gave great

help to a delicate woman who had nightmare, waking in a fright, before each menstrual period.

• ▸The local "weakness" of Su/.
• ▸ac.
• ▸may amount to prolapse of vagina and uterus.
• ▸T7rauma is

• ▸another indication for Su/.
• ▸ac.
• ▸; it follows Arn.
• ▸in bruises of soft parts, Con.
• ▸in bruises of glands,

Ruta. in bruises of bones. It also removes long-lasting black and blue spots with soreness and

stiffness of the parts. Flushing is another feature (as at climacteric), and with the flushing there is

• ▸sweating.
• ▸Easy sweating is a note of Su/.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, and the sweat affects mostly the upper part of the

• ▸body.
• ▸The body odour of Su/.
• ▸ac.
• ▸is sour and cannot be washed off.
• ▸This is especially observed in

• ▸children.
• ▸Heartburn with sour eructations that set the teeth on edge.
• ▸Sul.
• ▸ac.
• ▸is suited to: (1) Old

• ▸people; especially women.
• ▸(2) Light-haired people.
• ▸(3) Pains at climacteric.
• ▸(4) When some

deep-seated dyscrasia prevails, the child is weak with no other symptoms. (5) Sour babies.

Sensations are: As if brain were loose and falling from side to side. As if one side of head filled

with smoke. As if a plug were thrust quickly into head. As from subcutaneous ulceration in

• ▸scalp.
• ▸As of a foreign body on right outer canthus.
• ▸As of a leaf lying before ears.
• ▸As if white of

egg had dried on face. As if skin of cheek and chin were pinched. As of want of elasticity of

• ▸vocal organs.
• ▸As if there were a lump in throat.
• ▸As if menses would come on.
• ▸As if hernia would

protrude. As if rectum were torn to pieces during stool. Many symptoms appear on right side, but

the left cheek and left parotid are most affected. Pain travels from left to right round

hypochondria. Other Peculiar Symptoms are: Pains felt during sleep and disappearing on waking.

Jerkings on falling asleep. Seriousness alternating with buffoonery. Pain in bladder unless call to

pass water is immediately attended to. The symptoms are: < By touch; pressure; chafing;

• ▸mechanical injuries.
• ▸Open air <.
• ▸Warmth >.
• ▸Cold <.
• ▸Rest >.
• ▸Lying on affected side > gnawing in

• ▸face.
• ▸Motion; lifting arms; rising; walking; riding <.
• ▸< Morning; (also evening and night).
• ▸<

• ▸Drinking cold water.
• ▸Wine <.
• ▸Warm food = sweat.
• ▸The cauterising property of Sul.
• ▸ac.
• ▸is of the

phagedenic order, which makes it suitable to many gangrenous conditions.

• ▸Lifting arms.
• ▸Falls.
• ▸Bruises.
• ▸Concussion (of brain).
• ▸Chafing.
• ▸Surgical operations.

Sprains.

Fretful, impatient. Unwilling to answer questions; hurried.

Mental excitability; and exaltation —Melancholy dejection.—Inclination to

• ▸weep.
• ▸—Anxious apprehension and mistrust.
• ▸—Despondency.
• ▸—A gitation, precipitation, and

impatience.—One feels in a very great hurry, feels that everything must be done in a hurry (also

• ▸Arg.
• ▸nit.
• ▸).
• ▸—Restlessness.
• ▸—Irritability, nervous fatigue, and tendency to take fright.
• ▸—Peevish

moroseness, and dislike to conversation.—Disgust to life-—Seriousness, alternating with

buffoonery.—Extraordinary absence of mind.—Dulness of intellect.

For any affections arising from general debility, as prolapsus uteri,

retroversion, any uterine trouble whatever, the patient having a sense of tremulousness all

over.—Burning darting pains in muscles; shocks as from pain; black and blue spots in body; in a

bruise (esp. if an old person) when the injured part gets black and blue, and seems as if it would

mortify.—Hemorrhages of black blood from all the outlets of the body.—Affections in, general

• ▸occurring in r.
• ▸abdominal ring; sexual organs r.
• ▸side; r.
• ▸upper side; 1.
• ▸lower side; inguinal

hernia.—< Afternoon and evening; from surgical injuries in general; in the open air; from

• ▸smelling coffee.
• ▸—Tearing pains throughout body, also in face.
• ▸—Stitches in joints.
• ▸—Cramps in

• ▸limbs.
• ▸—Pains, felt during sleep.
• ▸—Icteric sufferings.
• ▸—Jerking of the tendons.
• ▸—Appearance or < of

symptoms, morning and evening.—The patient feels < in open air—The |. side seems to be more

particularly affected —Slowly increasing but suddenly ceasing pain, as if a blunt instrument were

pressed against the part—Sensation of soreness as if bruised over the whole body.—Weakness of

the whole body, with sensation of trembling.—Extreme weakness and exhaustion, with sensation

of tremor all over the body, without trembling.—Sour odour of body.—Great weakness and

• ▸emaciation with backache in young girls (R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—General weariness in a plethoric woman

and pain in lower back, chiefly 1. sided, with weakness in lower abdomen, < at menses, furred

tongue and constipation.

• ▸Right-sided neuralgia; painful shocks; skin feels pinched.
• ▸Sensation as if brain was loose in forehead and falling from side to side (Bell; Rhus).
• ▸Concussion of brain where skin is cold, body bathed in cold sweat.
• ▸Compressive pain in side of occiput; relieved by holding the hands near the head.
• ▸Pain of outer parts, as if there were subcutaneous ulceration; painful to touch.
• ▸Thrust in right temple as if plug were pressed in.

Semilateral confusion of head, as if the part contained smoke.—Vertigo when seated,

disappearing in the open air.—Sensation as if brain were loose in forehead, and was falling from

one side to the other; < when sitting quiet in the room.—Headache, which at first increases, then

suddenly disappears.—Sensation of weakness in head.—Headache, as if brain were

• ▸lacerated.
• ▸—Rush of blood to head.
• ▸—Throbbing headache during menses, with sweating.
• ▸—Pressive

headache.—Sensation of heaviness and fulness in brain, as if head would burst.—Sensation of

constriction in head.—Painful shocks in forehead and temples, < in forenoon and

evening.—Headache as if a plug was thrust quickly by increasingly severe blows in

• ▸head.
• ▸—Shocks and blows in the head.
• ▸—Violent jerk beneath 1.
• ▸frontal eminence, suddenly

disappearing.—Headache, with dull lancinations, or drawings and tearings.—Sensation of

wavering of the brain.—Sensation in exterior of head as if suppurating, or ulcerated, painful to

touch.—Itching and eruption in scalp.—Hair turns grey and falls off—Pimples on forehead and

side of nose.

Intra-ocular haemorrhage following traumatism. Great chemosis of conjunctiva, with aching and sharp pain.

Burning aching in eyes, in open air, or when fixing eyes on an object in a

room.—Tension in lids in morning.—Smarting, burning sensation in eyes, and lachrymation, esp.

• ▸when reading.
• ▸—Sensation of a foreign body in r.
• ▸outer canthus, in morning when walking.
• ▸—Eyes

• ▸red, with photophobia.
• ▸—Chronic inflammation of eyes.
• ▸—Difficulty in opening eyelids.
• ▸—Myopia.

• ▸Tearing in ears.
• ▸—Tearing and shaking in r.
• ▸ear —Violent tickling in concha.
• ▸—Dysecoia,

as if there were a band over the ears, or as if a leaf were before them.—Rhythmical roaring in

ears.—Ringing of bells before ears Humming in ears, in evening.

Epistaxis in evening.—Dry coryza, with loss of smell and taste.—Coryza: thin, lemon-

coloured discharge.—Pimples on side of nose.—Flow of water from nose, with obstruction of one

nostril.

Paleness of face —Contusive pain in zygomatic process.—Tearing of bones of

face.—Dry shrivelled spots on face.—Sensation as if face were swollen, and as if it were covered

with the white of eggs dried.—Lips are cracked, and exfoliate.—Lips swollen, red, painful to

touch.—Pain, as from excoriation, in commissures of lips.—Inflammation and swelling of

submaxillary glands.

Aphthae; gums bleed readily. Offensive breath. Pyorrhea.

Aphthez in mouth; in children.—Sensation of dryness in mouth—Tongue

dry.—Tongue; horribly swollen; swallowing impossible; covered with wrinkled white skin; tip

and edges red; denuded at tip and intensely red. —Ulcers on inflamed tongue.—Talking difficult as

• ▸from want of elasticity in parts.
• ▸—Breath very offensive.
• ▸—Profuse salivation.
• ▸—Hemorrhage from

mouth.

Toothache, more violent in evening, in bed, < by cold air, > by warmth, generally

with tearing digging, or gnawing.—Bluntness of teeth Toothache with tenderness and pain

• ▸along side of head and down spine (R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Teeth on edge.
• ▸—Swelling and easy bleeding of

gums.—Ulceration of gums.

Sore throat during deglutition, with lancinating pain, esp. in evening (swollen as if a

lump were in it; < on 1. side).—Thick yellow membrane on fauces, sticks like glue—Swelling of

uvula and roof of palate —Swelling and inflammation of submaxillary glands.—Roughness in

throat—Mucous membrane of palate and pharynx swollen, injected and ulcerated.—Stringy,

lemon-yellow mucus hangs from posterior nares, in diphtheria.

• ▸Heartburn; sour eructations; sets teeth on edge (Robin).
• ▸Craving for alcohol. Water causes coldness of stomach; must be mixed with liquors.
• ▸Relaxed feeling in stomach.
• ▸Averse to smell of coffee.
• ▸Sour vomiting.
• ▸Desire for fresh food.
• ▸Hiccough.
• ▸Coldness of stomach relieved by applied heat Nausea with chilliness.

Putrid taste—Bread has a bitter taste, and is heavy on stomach.—Bulimy, with

rumbling and borborygmi in abdomen.—Desire for fresh fruits (plums); brandy.—Loss of appetite

and great debility—Chronic alcoholism, vomiting in morning; acidity of stomach; burning in

cesophagus and stomach; sour, acrid or foul eructations.—A fter eating; pain in stomach and rising

of food by mouthfuls.—After warm food, sweat.—After a meal, agitation, gripings, and digging in

abdomen, or excessive inflation of stomach.—Cold perspiration, immediately after hot

food.—Lassitude and flatulence after drinking milk. —AlII drinks chill the stomach, if a little spirit

is not added to them.

Empty or bitter risings—Acid, bitter, salt, or else sweetish regurgitations.—Sour

• ▸eructations, violent heartburn.
• ▸—Violent hiccough.
• ▸—Pyrosis.
• ▸—Nausea in the stomach, with

shivering.—Vomiting, first of water, then of food —Vomiting of drunkards.—Very painful

sensitiveness of region of stomach.—The water (or every drink) causes cold of the stomach; if not

mixed with some alcoholic liquor.—Fulness and pressure in stomach.—A contracting sensation in

stomach in evening, as from a chill.—Con traction in stomach and scrobiculus (< from hard

• ▸food).
• ▸—Cuttings round stomach.
• ▸—Sensation of coldness or burning in stomach.
• ▸—Cold, relaxed

feeling in stomach.

Weak feeling, with dragging into the hips and small of back. Feeling as if hernia would protrude, especially left side.

Lancinations in spleen.—Spleen enlarged: hard and painful; hurts when

coughing; after intermittent fever.—Stitches in liver and spleen.—Shootings in the hepatic

region.—Shooting in loins.—Colic in abdomen, like labour pains, extending into hips and

loins.—Movements, gripings, and pinchings in abdomen, sometimes at night.—Sensation of heat

in umbilical region.—Jerking throughout hypogastrium, esp. at surface —Throbbing, tearings, and

• ▸shootings, in inguina.
• ▸—Smarting in inguinal region.
• ▸—Inguinal hernia, much protruded.
• ▸—Flatulent

colic in the hypogastrium, with grumbling and borborygmi, and sensation as if a hernia were

about to descend.—Weak feeling as if menses would appear.

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.

Tenesmus.—Ineffectual urging to go to stool Evacuations retarded, hard,

• ▸knotty, and black.
• ▸—Feces of a very large size.
• ▸—Chronic relaxation of abdomen.
• ▸—Loose

evacuations, of consistence of pap (yellowish-white; partly solid, partly liquid), greenish, and

watery.—Watery diarrhea, very offensive.—Diarrheea, of frothy slime only, with burning

sensation in rectum.—Diarrheea, with great debility.—Soft stool, followed by a sensation of

emptiness in abdomen.—Evacuations of mucus, streaked with blood.—The child frequently has a

stool as if chopped, saffron yellow, stringy, slimy.—Very fetid stools of a putrid

smell.—Discharge of blood during the evacuation.—Sanguineous congestion in

rectum.—Hemorrhoid at excrescences in anus, with shootings, burning sensation, itching and

oozing. —Heemorrhoids feel damp and are painful to touch; itch violently; pain at stool as if

rectum were torn to pieces; stools like sheep's dung; piles in hard drinkers.—Pressing in anus

during and after pasty stool.

Diabetes; lassitude; debility; despondency.—Diminished secretion of

urine, with burning sensation when urinating.—Emission of urine at night.—Urine watery (brown,

diminished secretion of) and as if it contained earth (or loam).—Slimy sediment in the

urine.—Sediment like blood in the urine, which is covered with a fine pellicle-—Pain in the

bladder, when the want to urinate is not immediately satisfied.

Menstruation early and profuse. Erosion of cervix in the aged; easily bleeding. Acrid, burning leucorrhoea, often of bloody mucus.

Strong desire for coition, from irritation of the external genital

organs (in females).—Catamenia premature and too profuse.—Catamenia of too long

• ▸duration.
• ▸—Metrorrhagia.
• ▸—Nightmare before menses.
• ▸—During menses, lancinations in abdomen

and vagina.—After menses; great desire for, or else great aversion to, coition.—Sterility, with

catamenia premature and too profuse.—Acrid and burning, or milklike leucorrhoea.—Discharge of

sanguineous mucus from vagina.—Prolapse of vagina; parts look greenish and smell

badly.—Climacteric age with constant hot flushes, and a feeling of tremor all over body, with

great debility, and as if everything must be done in a hurry; spitting of blood; constipation;

symptoms are < by smelling (not drinking) coffee—Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy;

never vomited food, but could not eat because of increased distress in stomach and vomiting of

mucus.

Excessive heat in genital parts and testes—Emission of semen,

without voluptuous sensation.—Itching pain in upper margin of glans ——Scrotum

relaxed.—Orchitis (r.).

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.

Hoarseness, with dryness, and roughness in throat and larynx.—Pain

in larynx, with embarrassed speech, as if the parts were not sufficiently elastic —Larynx

excessively sensitive; to pressure.—Cough, excited by open air—Cough < from walking, riding,

cold water, and when smelling coffee.—Dry, short, panting cough, sometimes in the morning,

• ▸after rising.
• ▸—Moist cough, with slimy expectoration.
• ▸—Long-continued hemoptysis.
• ▸—Cough,

with hemoptysis.—Cough with expectoration in morning, without expectoration in

evening.—Cough from irritation in the chest, with expectoration in morning of dark blood, or of a

thin, yellow, blood-streaked mucus, generally of a sourish taste.—After the cough,

eructations.—Profuse hemorrhage from the lungs.—Risings and regurgitation of food after

coughing.

• ▸Dyspnoea.
• ▸—Great weakness in the chest, with difficult speech.
• ▸—Aching in the 1.
• ▸side

of chest, and in scrobiculus.—Cutting pain in front of 1. axilla—Pains along sternum; beneath

• ▸sternum; cutting, burning.
• ▸—Sternum sore as if beaten.
• ▸—Dull stitches in 1.
• ▸side of sternum by

• ▸costal cartilages.
• ▸—Dull tension in |.
• ▸side of chest.
• ▸—Stitches from chest to 1.
• ▸scapula.
• ▸—Pneumonia

• ▸1.
• ▸side of chest and in pit of stomach.
• ▸—Dulness of base of r.
• ▸lung, pneumonia, collapse,

• ▸death —(Many cases of poisoning by Su/.
• ▸ac.
• ▸are followed by pneumonia.
• ▸).
• ▸—Slight pulsating,

• ▸twitching beneath 1.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Lancinations in chest.
• ▸—Violent sticking in r.
• ▸breast; frequent and

continuous; when pressing on it pain extended deeper.

Palpitation of heart (with or without anxiety).—Lancinations across

heart.—Preecordial region very painful.

• ▸Neck swollen.
• ▸—L.
• ▸neck painful on pressure.
• ▸—Large suppurating swelling 1.

side of neck.—Sensation, as from excoriation, and as of a fracture, in the back and

• ▸loins.
• ▸—Drawing in the back and loins.
• ▸—Pain in small of back.
• ▸—Boring in small of

• ▸back.
• ▸—Furunculi on back.
• ▸—Stiffness of back several mornings; on rising.
• ▸—Painful sensibility and

swelling of axillary glands.

Heaviness of the arms.—Spasmodic, paralytic contractions in

• ▸arms.
• ▸—Shootings in joint of shoulder, on lifting arm.
• ▸—Tensive pain in elbow-joint.
• ▸—Bluish spots

on forearm, as from ecchymosis.—Cramps in hands.—Shocks and blows in bones of hand, when

• ▸writing.
• ▸—Eruption on hands, and between fingers.
• ▸—Lancinations in joints of fingers.
• ▸—Chilblains

on fingers.

Inner surface of thighs red, sore, excoriated after riding.—Heaviness of

• ▸legs.
• ▸—Torpor and numbness of legs.
• ▸—Want to stretch and retract limbs.
• ▸—Tearing in varices of

legs.—Painful weakness of knees, with dull lancinations, shocks, and blows in those parts.—Red,

• ▸itching spots on tibia.
• ▸—Stiffness of ankles.
• ▸—Coldness in feet—Swelling of feet.
• ▸—Tearing and

lancinations in corns and feet.

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

• ▸Bad effects from mechanical injuries, with bruises and livid skin.
• ▸Ecchymosis.
• ▸Petechiae.
• ▸Purpura haemorrhagica.
• ▸Livid, red, itching blotches.
• ▸Haemorrhage 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.

Bad effects from mechanical injuries, as from bruises, falling, knocking, pressure of

blunt instruments, and contusions (esp. in old women).—Gangrenous tendency after a

bruise.—Itching over whole body.—Red, itching spots on skin, or small, red, livid, and bluish

spots, as from ecchymosis.—Excoriation of skin, also with ulceration like gangrene (becomes

• ▸easily chafed when walking or riding).
• ▸—Furunculi.
• ▸—Gnawing (eating pain in the) ulcers.
• ▸—Painful

• ▸sensitiveness of glands.
• ▸—Chilblains.
• ▸—Corns in feet, with tearings and shootings.
• ▸—Warts.

Retarded sleep and early waking.—Sleepiness.—Sleeplessness from mental

• ▸excitement.
• ▸—Jerkings during sleep.
• ▸—Anxious dreams.
• ▸—Jerking of fingers during

sleep.—Nightmare before menses.

Chilliness during the day, < in room, > when exercising in open air.—Frequent chills

running down body.—Heat in evening and after lying down in bed.—In evening frequent flushes

• ▸of heat, esp.
• ▸when exercising.
• ▸—Flushes of heat with perspiration (in climacteric years).
• ▸—Heat

predominates.—Small, feeble (accelerated) pulse.—Perspiration on least movement (which

continues for a long time after sitting down).—Profuse perspiration in morning.—Perspiration at

night—Cold perspiration as soon as one eats warm food.

• ▸Acidity.
• ▸Alcoholism, chronic.
• ▸Aphthee.
• ▸Back, stiffness of.
• ▸Bowels, looseness of.
• ▸Brain,

• ▸concussion of.
• ▸Breath, offensive.
• ▸Cancer.
• ▸Cancrum oris.
• ▸Chafing.
• ▸Chilblains.
• ▸Climaxis,

• ▸sufferings of.
• ▸Constipation.
• ▸Corns.
• ▸Diabetes.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Diphtheria.
• ▸Dyspepsia.
• ▸Erythema

• ▸nodosum.
• ▸Flushing.
• ▸Gangrene.
• ▸Gastralgia.
• ▸Glossitis.
• ▸Hair, grey; falling out.
• ▸Heartburn.
• ▸Hernia,

• ▸inguinal.
• ▸Hiccough.
• ▸Impotence.
• ▸Intermittents.
• ▸/rritation.
• ▸Liver, affections of.
• ▸Menorrhagia.

• ▸Metrorrhagia.
• ▸Myopia.
• ▸Nightmare.
• ▸Esophagitis.
• ▸Paralysis, lead.
• ▸Perspiration, excessive.

• ▸Phthisis.
• ▸Pneumonia.
• ▸Pregnancy, sickness of.
• ▸Purpura.
• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸Scurvy.
• ▸Spleen, affections

• ▸of.
• ▸Sterility.
• ▸Ulcers.
• ▸Uterus, prolapse of.
• ▸Vagina, prolapse of.
• ▸Varicosis.
• ▸Warts.

• ▸Antidoted by: Puls.
• ▸Antidote to: Lead poisoning.
• ▸Complementary: Puls.
• ▸Follows

• ▸well: In injuries, Arn.
• ▸, Con.
• ▸, Rut.
• ▸Compare: Cough followed by belching wind from stomach,

• ▸Ambr.
• ▸, Ver.
• ▸Dyspepsia of drunkards, Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸(Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸is a putrid remedy; Sul.
• ▸ac.
• ▸more sour).

• ▸Acidity sets teeth on edge, Rob.
• ▸Weakness and giving way of ankles, Caust, Sul.
• ▸, Sil.
• ▸Scarlatina,

• ▸blue spots, diphtheritic membrane, Mur.
• ▸ac.
• ▸(Mur.
• ▸ac.
• ▸has > uncovering).
• ▸Sprains, Am.
• ▸c.
• ▸(hot

• ▸and painful).
• ▸Falls easily, Nat.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Caust.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸Pains increase gradually, end suddenly (Bell.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸,

pains begin and end suddenly; Stn., pains begin and decline gradually; Col., begin suddenly and

• ▸end gradually).
• ▸Aphthee, Sul.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Borax, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸, K.
• ▸chl.
• ▸Piles, Nit.
• ▸ac.
• ▸Drinks chill the stomach,

• ▸Elaps.
• ▸Flushing at menopause, Lach.
• ▸(Sul.
• ▸ac, with sweating).
• ▸Throbbing headache at menses,

• ▸Lach.
• ▸(Sul.
• ▸ac, with sweating).
• ▸Inguinal hernia, Lyc.
• ▸(Lyc.
• ▸right, Sul.
• ▸ac.
• ▸left).
• ▸Sour children,

• ▸spite of washing, Hep.
• ▸, Mg.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Rhe.
• ▸Sensation of brain loose in forehead and falling from side to

• ▸side, Bell.
• ▸, Bry.
• ▸, Rhe.
• ▸, Spi.
• ▸Prostration, Acet.
• ▸ac.
• ▸Heemorrhages of black blood from all outlets,

• ▸Crotal.
• ▸, Mur.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Nit.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Tereb.
• ▸Weak and exhausted from deep-seated dyscrasia, no other

• ▸symptoms, Pso.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸Weakness, Pic.
• ▸ac.
• ▸Sensation of white of egg on face, Alm.
• ▸Sensation of

• ▸subcutaneous ulceration, Puls.
• ▸Alcoholism, Querc.
• ▸Prolapse of vagina, Staph.
• ▸Larynx sensitive,

Lach. Warmth of genitals (Sul. coldness).

Complementary: Puls.

Compare: Arn; Calend; Led; Sep; Calc.

Sulphuric acid 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.

The sensation of quivering all over the body and in the limbs without visible trembling is a very strong symptom of Sulphuric acid, and

especially if it is associated with weakness that has been of long standing. The exhaustion, excitability and hurried feeling arc constant

factors. The haemorrhagic disposition with many complaints. Black

fluid blood from all the orifices of the body. Small red spots enlarging rapidly to resemble purpura haemorrhagica. Blue-black spots on

the skin from slight injury. Blood-red spots on the skin like those on

a brook trout sometimes after injuries. Chafing easily, followed by

ulceration. Boils and bedsores. It has many of the complaints found

in old people. The morning aggravation of symptoms is also a strong

feature. Sensitive to cold and eniaciation. The pains are bruised,

burning, tearing, stitching, shooting^ and jerking. The pain comes on

slowly and departs suddenly. The discharges are dark, thin blood or

• ▸blood-streaked ; or thin, yellow and bloody.
• ▸The discharges are excoriating.
• ▸General sweat after eating.
• ▸The symptoms predominate

on the right side. It is often indicated in sour-smelling babies like

Hepar, and it is as sensitive to touch and nearly as sensitive to cold.

When it has cured the sensitiveness to cold the patient often becomes

worse and requires Pulsatilla, which is the complement and antidote.

Prostration of mind and body, with extreme sadness, weeps continuously. Nothing can be done to please him. Fretful and irritable over

the slightest cause. He cannot eat and work fast enough. No one

does anything to please him ; in such a hurry if doing anything or

going anywhere. All things must be done at once. Unwilling to

answer. Irresolution.

Vertigo in close room. Better walking in the open air. Better

lying. Sometimes compelling him to keep his bed.

Tension in the forehead with coryza.

The brain seems loose and seems to fall to side lain on, better sitting

perfectly still, worse walking. The blood flows strongly to the head

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and the feet become cold. Electric shocks in forehead and temples in

forenoon and again in evening. Sensation as though a plug werd

being driven into the skull by strong blows. The pains in the head

come on slowly and cease suddenly. Violent headaches in debilitated

people. Extreme soreness in the periosteum such as is found in

syphilis. The hair falls out or turns gray. Ulceration of the scalp.

Extremely sensitive eruptions. Lachrymation when reading. Chronic

inflammation of the eye, with enlarged veins and ulceration. Sensation of foreign body in right outer cantluis. Soreness in the eyes with

coryza.

• ▸Severe ear pains that increase gradually and cease suddenly.
• ▸Gradual loss of hearing.
• ▸Bloody discharge from ear.
• ▸Buzzing in the ear.

Slowly oozing, dark, thin blood from the nose in the evening. It

cures acrid, bloody discharge from nose in feeble patients when the

generals are covered by it. The coryza is dry or fluid with loss of

smell and taste.

The face of the Sulphuric acid patient is a most sickly one. Pale,

sickly and sometimes jaundiced. The expression of long suffering is

marked. The deep lines of pain, depiction and emaciation. Tension

of the face or a sensation as though white of egg had dried on it.

Violent neuralgic pains of the face coming on gradually and ceasing

suddenly, ameliorated by warmth and lying on the painful side. Small

red spots or specks on the face gradually increasing in size. Inflammation of the submaxillary gland.

The teeth decay early. Violent neuralgia of the teeth, coming on

slowly and ceasing suddenly. Wo rse from cold and bet ter f rorj^i ,„heat,.

worse in the evening in bed. The teeth arc on edge. Loss of tastq

during coryza. The sore ipn?irh is onp_ of its most importan t features.

It is our most frequently indicated rem e dy fo il, n ursmg sor e mg utji .

Th^^j O^hthous^ j^uth of infant or^ jnthpr wi^b or wKitigh

ukergg^Bloody saliva from mouth ; vesicles in the mouth. Breath

very offensive. Bleeding from the raucous surfaces of mouth and

gums with or without purpura hccmorrhagica. Rapidly spreading ulcers in the mouth.

Inflammation of the throat that h aphthous or follicular. Denuded

mucous membrane. Diphtheritic exudate yellowish or white with

aphthous surroundings and bleeding from nose, gums or other parts.

Diphtheria with more than ordinary exhaustion and foetor. The uvula

is oedematous. The throat is full of spreading ulcers. Painful sort

throat with painful, difficult swallowing. During the throat troubles

fluids drunk run out of nose. Salivation, glands of throat swollen and

there is great swelling of the tonsils, soft palate and throat in general.

Dark fluid blood from throat and mouth.

He craves brandy and fruit. Loss of appetite and progressive weaksxjtmmic ACID

ness arc strong features. Aversion to the smell of coffee. He cannot drink cold water, as it feels so cold in the stomach and makes him

chilly. Violent, spasmodic hiccough, such as occurs in drunkards.

• ▸Chronic heart burn.
• ▸Sour belching.
• ▸Sour vomiting.
• ▸The teeth are

• ▸always on edge from sour eructations.
• ▸Sour vomiting during pregnancy.
• ▸Vomiting of drunkards in the morning.
• ▸(Compare Arsen-^

nicum) Sour and very foul. Nausea and shivering. Coughing and

belching sour fluids. The stomach seems to hang down a.s if relaxed.

Vomiting after drinking cold water. Violent, spasmodic pains in the

stomach. The gains come gradually and cease suddenly. The sour

vomiting is most like Robinia,

She does not vomit food, but cannot eat. as it causes pain in stomach

and she vomits mucus.

After intermittent fever had existed some time the spleen enlarges,

and is painful on coughing and sore to touch. Stitching pains in

spleen and liver. It has many times overcome the poison of lead and

• ▸lead colic.
• ▸Sinking, weak feeling in abdomen after stool.
• ▸Weak feeling in abdomen, as though menses would come on.
• ▸Labor-Iikc pains

in abdomen, extending to hips and back.

Diarrhoea with great general weakness and sensation of trembling.

With weak, sinking sensation in the abdomen after stool. Chronic

diarrhoea with much suffering. Excoriating stools, burning in rectum

during stool. Diarrhoea brought on from the least indiscretion in eating, after fruit, especially if uni^pe, after oysters. Stool watery

orange yellow, stringy, mucous, mixed with blood, greenish, black,

undigested smelling like spoiled c^s. Hiemorrhoids very sore, itching, painful during stool, in drunkards. In constipation the stool is in

small balls.

Pain in the bladder if the desire to pass urine is postponed. It has

• ▸cured diabetes.
• ▸Scanty urine.
• ▸Bloody urine.
• ▸Cuticle in the urine.

The menses are too frequent and copious and the flow is dark and

thin. Many symptoms come before the menses. Nightmare before

menses. Has nightmare at the close of the menses. The vagina is

• ▸prolapsed and gangrenous.
• ▸Leucorrhoea bloody, acrid, milky or albuminous, yellow.
• ▸The woman at the climacteric period has many symptoms peculiar to Sulphuric acid.
• ▸The flashes of heat, weakness, sensation of trembling, a nervous hurry in all her actions and feelings,

bleeding from uterus and other parts of blood that does not coagulate,

and constipation with small, hard balls like sheep^s dung are symptoms

common to the critical period. It often causes the vomiting of pregnancy. Vomiting preceded by cough.

It has cured sterility when it was supposed to depend upon the copious and frequent menstrual flow. Violent itching of the vulva.

Pain and soreness in the larynx. Pain in the larynx on swallowing.

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Hoarseness with a dry feeling and sensation of roughness in the larynx.

Weak chest and great dyspnoea. Rapid movement of the wings of

nose like Lycopodium. Rapid moving up and down of the larynx

during the dyspnoea. Short of breath.

Kxcept in the morning the cough is dry and hacking. Sometimes

in two coughs. He coughs in the open air, either walking or riding,

worse from cold drinks and from the odor of coffee. Cough followed

by itching and vomiting. The irritation is felt in the chest. The expectoration is in the morning of dark, thin blood, or of thin, yellowish, blood-streaked mucus tasting sour.

Weakness in the chest with burning and stitching pain. Pressure

on left side of chest. Profuse haemorrhage from the lungs of dark

• ▸fluid blood, after pneumonia, and during the climacteric period.
• ▸Ulceration of lungs (compare Kali carb.
• ▸).
• ▸Oppression of the chest and

suffocation unless he lets the legs hang down. It has been a very useful remedy in the first steps of phthisis with profuse sweat and great

weakness, but where given in the last stage it has appeared to bring

on haemorrhage and increase of the inflammatory condition in the

lungs. Stitching pains in the heart, palpitation. It has been useful

in pleuritic exudation.

Great weakness in the spine, felt mostly when standing and sitting.

Pain in the lumbar region. Soreness between shoulder blades when

coughing. Stiffening of the back in the morning on rising. Large

abscess on the right side of the neck.

Black and blue spots on the limbs. Stitching pain in the shoulder

joint on lifting the arm. Stitches in finger joints. Chafing of thighs

after rising. Marked weakness in knees and ankles. Swollen veins of

feet. Chilblains of frost-bitten parts. Twitching if fingers during sleep.

Late falling asleep and wakens too early. Nightmare before

menses.

It has chilliness, flashes of heat with sweat. Copious sweat, mostly

on upper part of body, from motion, sour, cold, after eating warm

• ▸food.
• ▸Morning sweats.
• ▸Night sweats.
• ▸Typhoid fever with great

prostration. Bleeding from capillaries. Dark, thin blood.

Haemorrhage of dark, thin blood from the bowels. Putrid forms of

continued fever. Cadaveric countenance.

Echymoses, purpura haemorrhagica. Old cicatrices turn red and

become painful. Itching and prickling with eruptions. Pimples.

Red itching blotches on the skin. Livid spots. Contusions, bedsores.

Boils and abscesses. Nodular urticarias. It cures old indolent ulcers

that bleed easily dark blood. Sensitive painful spreading ulcers.

Stinging burning pain in ulcers. It has cured putrid ulcers on legs.

It is useful in ulcers of drunkards, in ulcers following a low form of

fever. Thin yellow or bloody discharge.

Convulsive movements of arms and legs.—Pains in joints felt during sleep,

• ▸disappear on waking.
• ▸—Tearing in all limbs during menses, esp.
• ▸in evening.
• ▸—Inclination to cramp

in hands and feet.—Wrists and other large joints painful and swollen, but not red—Limbs

livid —Twitching of tendons.