Cadmium Sulphuratum

Cadmium Sulphuratum.

Sulphide of Cadmium. Cd S. Trituration.

Apoplexy. Boils. Chilblains. Cholera infantum. Corneal opacity. Eyes, affections of. Facial paralysis. Indigestion. Meningitis. Nasal polypus. Ozoena. Yellow fever.

Cadmium is found in nature in intimate association with Zinc, which it nearly resembles in action, but Cadmium acts more powerfully. The profound action of Cad. s. on the stomach—burning and cutting pain, intense retching, gagging, bringing up tough mucus, intense nausea and vomiting—led to its being given in yellow fever with brilliant success. Black vomit is very characteristic. The least thing touching the lips will excite vomiting.

Pitchy taste; food tastes like salt. Cadm. is a cross between Bry. and Ars.: it has the desire to keep quiet of Bry., with the exhaustion and stomach irritability of Ars. (Kent). Cadmium is a chilly medicine.

There is icy coldness—coldness even when near a fire. Horripilation: after drinking; with hot hands. Sweat in axillae. Effect of a draught of cold air in checking sweat.

< From cold air; itching of skin when cold. < Sunshine. < In morning and after sleep. < Walking;

< ascending stairs. < When swallowing. < After grief. < After intoxication.

> By eating. Effects of: anxiety, or fit of passion; of cold winds (facial paralysis). Acts well in drunkards. It is a notable antipsoric.

There is much itching of skin; at night in bed; when touched; when cold; > scratching, which causes a voluptuous feeling. Skin blue; yellow; scaly, cracking, damp, suppurating herpes; chilblains. Cutting, lancinating pains are prominent; also a sense of constriction.

The nasal symptoms are very important; no remedy has served me better in cases of ozaena and polypus.

Compare: Zn. (but in Zn. the action is primarily on brain; in Cadm. primarily on stomach); in constriction across chest with palpitation, K. chlo.; weakness, nausea, vomit and burning, Ars.; black vomit, affections of drunkenness, Ars., Lach.; in nausea and retching, Asar., Bry., Crot. t., Cup., Nux, Pod., Ant. t.; in deathly nausea, Ip., Tab.; greenish gelatinous vomit, Aethusa, Ars., Bry., Ip., Ver.; gelatinous stools, Alo., Cubeb., Hell., K. bich., Pod., Rhus, Sep. (green); loss of breath on going to sleep, Carb. an., Carb. v., Op., Grind., Lach.

Followed well by: Bell. (rolling of head with open eyes in cholera infantum); Carb. v., Lob. inf. (in yellow fever);

Nit. ac.; Alet. (nausea of pregnancy). Follows well: Ip., Ars., Bell.

Sun. Draught of air. Cold wind. Alcohol.

Excessive irritability.—Horror of solitude and of work.

Sounds echo in head.

Stools, almost gelatinous, yellowish-green, semi-fluid. (Cholera infantum.)

Severe cutting in region of kidneys; urine suppressed, or scanty, or bloody.

(Too frequent seminal emissions checked by it.)