(Hahnemann's Calcium Sulphide)
Suits especially scrofulous and lymphatic
constitutions who are inclined to have eruptions and glandular swellings.
Unhealthy skin. Blondes with sluggish character and weak muscles. Great
sensitiveness to all impressions. Sweating patient pulling blanket
around him. Locally, it has special affinity to the respiratory mucous
membrane, producing croupous catarrhal inflammation, profuse secretion;
also easy perspiration. After abuse of Mercury. Infected sinus with pus
forming. The tendency to suppuration is most marked, and has been a
strong guiding symptom in practice. The lesions spread by the formation of
small papules around the side of the old lesion. Chilliness,
hypersensitiveness, splinter-like pains, craving for sour and strong things
are very characteristic. Feeling as if wind were blowing on some
part. The side of the body on which he lies at night becomes gradually
insufferably painful; he must turn. Pellagra (material doses
required). Syphilis after antispecific gross medication. | ||
| Mind. Anguish
in the evening and night, with thoughts of suicide. The slightest cause
irritates him. Dejected and sad. Ferocious. Hasty speech. | ||
| Head. Vertigo
and headache, when shaking the head or riding. Boring pain in the right
temple and in root of nose every morning. Scalp sensitive and sore. Humid
scald-head itching and burning. Cold sweat on head. | ||
| Eyes. Ulcers
on cornea. Iritis, with pus in anterior chamber; purulent
conjunctivitis, with marked chemosis, profuse discharge, great
sensitiveness to touch and air. Eyes and lids red and inflamed. Pain in the
eyes, as if pulled back into the head. Boring pain in upper bones of the
orbits. Eyeballs sore to touch. Objects appear red and too large. Vision
obscured by reading; field reduced one-half. Bright circles before eyes.
Hypopion. | ||
| Ears. Scurfs on
and behind the ears. Discharge of fetid pus from the ears. Whizzing and
throbbing in ears, with hardness of hearing. Deafness after scarlet fever.
Pustules in auditory canal and auricle. Mastoiditis. | ||
| Nose. Sore,
ulcerated. Soreness of nostrils, with catarrhal troubles. Sneezes every
time he goes into a cold, dry wind, with running from nose, later, thick,
offensive discharge. Stopped up every time he goes out into cold air.
Smell like old cheese. Hay fever. (Hepar 1X
will often start secretions and profuse drainage in stuffy
colds.) | ||
| Face. Yellowish
complexion. Middle of lower lip cracked. Vesicular erysipelas, with
pricking in parts. Neuralgia of right side, extending in streak into
temple, ear, alae, and lip. Pains in bones of face, especially when being
touched. Ulcers in corners of mouth. Shooting in jaw on opening
mouth. | ||
| Mouth.
Ptyalism. Gums and mouth painful to touch and bleed readily. | ||
| Throat. When
swallowing, sensation as if a plug and of a splinter in throat.
Quinsy, with impending suppuration. Stitches in throat extending to
the ear when swallowing. Hawking up of mucus. | ||
| Stomach.
Longing for acids, wine, and strong tasting food. Aversion to fat food.
Frequent eructations, without taste or smell. Distention of stomach,
compelling one to loosen the clothing. Burning in stomach. Heaviness and
pressure in stomach after a slight meal. | ||
| Abdomen.
Stitching in region of liver when walking, coughing, breathing, or touching
it. [Bry.; Merc.] Hepatitis,
hepatic abscess; abdomen distended, tense; chronic abdominal
affections. | ||
| Stool.
Clay colored and soft. Sour, white, undigested, fetid. Loss
of power to expel even a soft stool. | ||
| Urine. Voided
slowly, without force: drops vertically, bladder weak. Seems as if some
always remained. Greasy pellicle on urine. Bladder difficulties of old men.
[Phos.; Sulph.] | ||
| Male. Herpes,
sensitive, bleed easily. Ulcers externally on prepuce similar to chancre.
[Nit-ac.] Excitement and emission without amorous
fancies. Itching of glans, frenum, and scrotum. Suppurating inguinal
glands. Figwarts of offensive odor. Humid soreness on genitals and between
scrotum and thigh. Obstinate gonorrhea "does not get well." | ||
| Female.
Discharge of blood from uterus. Itching of pudenda and nipples, worse
during menses. Menses late and scanty. Abscesses of labia with great
sensitiveness. Extremely offensive leucorrhea. Smells like old cheese.
Profuse perspiration at the climacteric. | ||
| Respiratory.
Loses voice and coughs when exposed to dry, cold wind. Hoarseness, with
loss of voice. Cough troublesome when walking. Dry, hoarse cough. Cough
excited whenever any part of the body gets cold or uncovered, or
from eating anything cold. Croup with loose, rattling cough; worse in
morning. Choking cough. Rattling, croaking cough; suffocative
attacks; has to rise up and bend head backwards. Anxious, wheezing, moist
breathing, asthma worse in dry cold air; better in damp. Palpitation of
heart. | ||
| Extremities.
Finger joints swollen; tendency to easy dislocation. Nail of great toe
painful on slight pressure. | ||
| Skin.
Abscesses; suppurating glands are very sensitive. Papules prone to
suppurate and extend. Acne in youth. Suppurate with prickly pain. Easily
bleed. Angioneurotic edema. Unhealthy skin; every little injury
suppurates. Chapped skin, with deep cracks on hands and feet.
Ulcers, with bloody suppuration smelling like old cheese. Ulcers very
sensitive to contact, burning, stinging, easily bleeding. Sweats day
and night without relief. "Cold sores" very sensitive. Cannot bear
to be uncovered; wants to be wrapped up warmly. Sticking or pricking
in afflicted parts. Putrid ulcers, surrounded by little pimples.
Great sensitiveness to slightest touch. Chronic and recurring
urticaria. Smallpox. Herpes circinatus. Constant offensive exhalation
from the body. | ||
| Fever. Chilly
in open air or from slightest draft. Dry heat at night. Profuse
sweat; sour, sticky, offensive. | ||
| Modalities.
Worse, from dry cold winds; cool air; slightest draft; from
Mercury, touch; lying on painful side. Better, in damp weather, from
wrapping head up, from warmth, after eating. | ||
| Relationship.
Antidote: Bell.; Cham.; Sil. Compare: Acon.; Spong.; Staph.; Sil.; Sulph. Hepar antidotes bad effects from Mercury, Iodine, Potash, Cod-liver Oil. Removes the weakening effects of Ether. | ||
| Dose. First to
two hundredth. The higher potencies may abort suppuration, the lower
promote it. If it is necessary to hasten it, give 2X. |