Sulphuret of Lime (CaS)
- For torpid lymphatic constitutions; persons with light hair and complexion, slow to act, muscles soft and flabby.
- The slightest injury causes suppression (Graph., Merc.).
- Diseases where the system has been injured by the abuse of Mercury.
- In diseases where suppuration seems inevitable, Hepar may open the abscess and hasten the cure.
- Oversensitive, physically and mentally; the slightest cause irritates him; quick, hasty speech and hasty drinking.
- Patient is peevish, angry at the least trifle; hypochondriacal; unreasonably anxious.
- Extremely sensitive to cold air, imagines he can feel the air if a door is open in the next room; must be wrapped up to the face even in hot weather (Psor.); cannot bear to be uncovered (Nux - cannot bear to be covered, Camp., Sec.); take cold from slightest exposure to fresh air (Tub.).
- Urine: flow impeded; voided slowly, without force, drops vertically; is obliged to wait a while before it passes; bladder weak, is unable to finish, seems as if some urine always remains (Alum., Sil.).
- Cough: when any part of the body is uncovered (Rhus); croupy, choking, strangling; from exposure to dry west wind, the land wind (Acon.).
- Asthma: breathing, anxious, wheezing, rattling; short, deep breathing, threatens suffocation; must bend head back and sit up; after suppressed eruption (Psor.).
- Croup: after exposure to dry cold wind (Acon.); deep, rough, barking cough, with hoarseness and rattling of mucus; < cold air, cold drinks, before mid-night or toward morning.
- Sensation of a splinter, fish bone or plug in the throat (Arg. n., Nit. ac.); quinsy, when suppuration threatens; chronic hypertrophy, with hardness of hearing (Bar., Lyc., Plumb., Psor.).
- The skin is very sensitive to touch, cannot bear even clothes to touch affected parts (Lach. - sensitive to slightest touch, but can bear hard pressure, Cinch.).
- Skin affections extremely sensitive to touch, the pain often causing fainting.
- Ulcers herpes surrounded by little pimples or pustules and spread by coalescing.
- Middle of lower lip cracked (Am. c., Nat. m. - cracks in commissures, Cund.).
- Eyeballs: sore to touch; pain as if they would be pulled back into head (Olean., Paris).
- Diarrhoea: of children with sour smell (Cal., Mag. c. - child and stool have a sour smell, Rheum); clay colored stool (Calc., Pod.).
- Sweats: profusely day and night without relief; perspiration sour, offensive; easily, on every mental or physical exertion (Psor., Sep.).
Relations
- Complementary: to, Calendula in injuries of soft parts.
- Hepar antidotes: bad effects of mercury and other metals, iodine, iodide of potash, cod-liver oil; renders patient less susceptible to atmospheric changes and cold air.
- Compare: The psoric skin affections of Sulphur are dry, itching, > by scratching, and not sensitive to touch; while in Hepar the skin is unhealthy, suppurating, moist, and extremely sensitive to touch.
Aggravation
- Lying on painful side (Kali c., Iod.); cold air; uncovering; eating or drinking cold things; touching affected parts; abuse of mercury.
Amelioration
- Warmth in general (Ars.); wrapping up warmly, especially the head (Psor., Sil.); in damp, wet weather (Caust., Nux - rev of, Nat. s.).
