Sulphuricum Acidum
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General EN
Sulphuricum Acidum.
Sulphuric acid. H2SO4. Dilution.
Clinical EN
Acidity. Alcoholism, chronic. Aphthae. 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. Irritation. Liver, affections of. Menorrhagia.
Metrorrhagia. Myopia. Nightmare. Oesophagitis.
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.
Characteristics EN
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 aphthae, 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 Sul. 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 Sul. ac. and brought out characteristic indications. Weakness is a keynote to Sul. ac. The patient is weak and exhausted. Sul. 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 Sul. ac. with three parts of alcohol.
The indications are: "Vomiting in morning; acidity in stomach; burning in oesophagus and stomach; sour, acrid, or foul eructations." Sul. 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. Sul. ac. has a keynote symptom in the mental sphere. Hurry—hasty, quick, sullen, impatient; angry because things move so slowly.
Like Sul., 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 Sul. ac. are external, sensitive to touch and accompanied by itching. Sul. ac. is a great haemorrhagic; 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 Sul. ac. seem to arise from the generative organs, especially of the female.
With Sul. 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 Sul. ac. may amount to prolapse of vagina and uterus. Trauma is another indication for Sul. 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 Sul. ac., and the sweat affects mostly the upper part of the body. The body odour of Sul. 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.
Relations EN
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). Aphthae, 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. Haemorrhages 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).
Causation EN
Lifting arms. Falls. Bruises. Concussion (of brain). Chafing. Surgical operations. Sprains.
Mind EN
Mental excitability; and exaltation
Melancholy dejection
Inclination to weep
Anxious apprehension and mistrust
Despondency
Agitation, 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.
Head EN
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 l. 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.
Eyes EN
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.
Ears EN
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.
Nose EN
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.
Face EN
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.
Teeth EN
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.
Mouth EN
Aphthae 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
Haemorrhage from mouth.
Throat EN
Sore throat during deglutition, with lancinating pain, esp. in evening (swollen as if a lump were in it;
< on l. 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.
Appetite EN
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 oesophagus and stomach; sour, acrid or foul eructations
After 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
All drinks chill the stomach, if a little spirit is not added to them.
Stomach EN
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.
Abdomen EN
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.
Stool And Anus EN
Tenesmus
Ineffectual urging to go to stool
Evacuations retarded, hard, knotty, and black
Faeces 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 diarrhoea, very offensive
Diarrhoea, of frothy slime only, with burning sensation in rectum
Diarrhoea, 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
Haemorrhoid at excrescences in anus, with shootings, burning sensation, itching and oozing
Haemorrhoids 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.
Urinary Organs EN
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.
Male Sexual Organs EN
Excessive heat in genital parts and testes
Emission of semen, without voluptuous sensation
Itching pain in upper margin of glans
Scrotum relaxed
Orchitis (r.).
Female Sexual Organs EN
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.
Respiratory Organs EN
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 haemoptysis
Cough, with haemoptysis
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 haemorrhage from the lungs
Risings and regurgitation of food after coughing.
Chest EN
Dyspnoea
Great weakness in the chest, with difficult speech
Aching in the l. side of chest, and in scrobiculus
Cutting pain in front of l. axilla
Pains along sternum; beneath sternum; cutting, burning
Sternum sore as if beaten
Dull stitches in l. side of sternum by costal cartilages
Dull tension in l. side of chest
Stitches from chest to l. scapula
Pneumonia l. side of chest and in pit of stomach
Dulness of base of r. lung, pneumonia, collapse, death.—(Many cases of poisoning by Sul. ac. are followed by pneumonia.)
Slight pulsating, twitching beneath l. side
Lancinations in chest
Violent sticking in r. breast; frequent and continuous; when pressing on it pain extended deeper.
Heart EN
Palpitation of heart (with or without anxiety)
Lancinations across heart
Praecordial region very painful.
Neck And Back EN
Neck swollen
L. neck painful on pressure
Large suppurating swelling l. 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.
Limbs EN
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.
Upper Limbs EN
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.
Lower Limbs EN
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.
Generalities EN
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 Haemorrhages 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; l. 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 l. 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 l. sided, with weakness in lower abdomen, < at menses, furred tongue and constipation.
Skin EN
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.
Sleep EN
Retarded sleep and early waking
Sleepiness
Sleeplessness from mental excitement
Jerkings during sleep
Anxious dreams
Jerking of fingers during sleep
Nightmare before menses.
Fever EN
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.