Brimstone; Flowers of Sulphur (The Element)
- Adapted to persons of a scrofulous diathesis, subject to venous congestion; especially of portal system.
- Persons of nervous temperament, quick motioned, quick tempered, plethoric, skin excessively sensitive to atmospheric changes (Hep., Kali c., Psor.).
- For lean, stoop-shouldered persons who walk and sit stooping; walk stooping like old men.
- Standing is the worst position for Sulphur patients; they cannot stand; every standing position is uncomfortable.
- Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections (Psor.).
- Aversion to being washed; always < after a bath.
- Too lazy to rouse himself; too unhappy to live.
- Children: cannot bear to be washed or bathed (in cold water, Ant. c.); emaciated, big-bellied; restless, hot, kick off the clothes at night (Hep., Sanic.); have worms, but the best selected remedy fails.
- When carefully selected remedies fail to produce a favorable effect, especially in acute diseases, it frequently serves to rouse the reactive powers of the system; clears up the case (in chronic diseases, Psor.).
- Scrofulous, psoric, chronic diseases that result from suppressed eruptions (Caust., Psor.).
- Complaints that are continually relapsing (menses, leucorrhoea, etc.); patient seems to get almost well when the disease returns again and again.
- Congestion to single parts; eyes, nose, chest, abdomen, ovaries, arms, legs, or any organ of the body marking the onset of tumors or malignant growths, especially at climacteric.
- Sensation of burning: on vertex; and smarting in eyes; in face, without redness; of vesicles in mouth; and dryness of throat, first right then left; in stomach; in rectum; in anus, and itching piles, and scalding urine; like fire in ripples (Ars.); in chest, rising to face; of skin of whole bloody, with hot flushes; in spots, between scapulae (Phos.).
- Sick headache every week or every two weeks; prostrating, weakening (Sang.); with hot vertex and cold feet.
- Constant heat on vertex; cold feet in daytime with burning soles at night, wants to find a cool place for them (Sang., Sanic.); puts them out of bed to cool off (Med.); cramps in calves and soles at night.
- Hot flushes during the day, with weak, faint spells passing off with a little moisture.
- Bright redness of lips as if the blood would burst through (Tub.).
- Weak, empty, gone or faint feeling in the stomach about 11 a. m. (10 or 11 a. m. > by eating, Nat. c.); cannot wait for lunch; frequent weak, faint spells during the day (compare, Zinc.).
- Diarrhoea: after midnight; painless; driving out of bed early in the morning (Aloe, Psor.); as if the bowels were too weak to retain their contents.
- Constipation: stools hard, knotty, dry as if burnt (Bry.); large, painful, child is afraid to have the stool on account of pain, or pain compels child to desist on first effort; alternating with diarrhoea.
- The discharge both of urine and faeces is painful to parts over which it passes; passes large quantities of colorless urine; parts round anus red, excoriated; all the orifices of the body are very red; all discharges acrid, excoriating whenever they touch.
- Menses: too early, profuse, protracted.
- Menorrhagia, has not been well since her last miscarriage. "A single dose at new moon." - Lippe.
- Boils: coming in crops in various parts of the body, or a single boil is succeeded by another as soon as first is healed (Tub.).
- Skin: itching, voluptuous; scratching >; "feels good to scratch"; scratching causes burning; < from heat of bed (Merc.); soreness in folds (Lyc.).
- Skin affections that have been treated by medicated soaps and washes; haemorrhoids, that have been treated with ointments.
- To facilitate absorption of serous or inflammatory exudates in brain, pleura, lungs, joints, when Bryonia, Kali mur. or the best selected remedy fails.
- Chronic alcoholism; dropsy and other ailments of drunkards; "they reform", but are continually relapsing (Psor., Tub.).
- Nightly suffocative attacks, wants the doors and windows open; becomes suddenly wide awake at night; drowsy in afternoon after sunset, wakefulness the whole night.
- Happy dreams, wakes up singing.
- Everything looks pretty which the patient takes a fancy to; even rags seem beautiful.
- Movement in abdomen as of a child (Croc., Thuja).
Relations
- Complementary: Aloe, Psor.
- Ailments from the abuse of metals generally.
- Compatible: Calc., Lyc., Puls., Sars., Sep.
- Sulph., Calc., Lyc.; or Sulph., Sars., Sep. frequently follow in given order.
- Calcarea must not be used before Sulphur.
- Sulphur is the chronic of Aconite and follows it well in pneumonia and other acute diseases.
Aggravation
- At rest; when standing; warmth in bed; washing, bathing, changeable weather (Rhus).
Amelioration
- Dry, warm weather; lying on the right side (rev. of Stan.).
