Boericke William

HEPAR SULPHUR

Hahnemann's Calcium Sulphide( HEPAR SULPHURIS CALCAREUM)


  • 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 the 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, alæ, 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; Copaiva).

Male

  • Herpes, sensitive, bleed easily. 
  • Ulcers externally on prepuce similar to chancre (Nitr acid). 
  • Excitement and emission without amorous fancies. 
  • Itching of glans, fraenum, and scrotum. Suppurating inguinal glands. 
  • Figwarts of offensive odor. 
  • Humid soreness on genitals and between scrotum and thigh. 
  • Obstinate gonorrhœa "does not get well".

Female

  • Discharge of blood from uterus. 
  • Itching of pudenda and nipples, worse during menses. 
  • Menses late and scanty. 
  • Abscesses of labiae with great sensitiveness. 
  • Extremely offensive leucorrhoea. 
  • Smells like old cheese (Sanicula). 
  • Profuse perspiration at the climacteric (Tilia; Jaborandi).

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. 
  • Angio-neurotic oedema. 
  • 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. 
  • Small-pox. 
  • Herpes circinatus. 
  • Constant offensive exhalation from the body.

Fever

  • Chilly in open air or from slightest draught. 
  • Dry heat at night. 
  • Profuse sweat; sour, sticky, offensive.

Modalities

  • Worse, from dry cold winds; cool air; slightest draught, from Mercury, touch; lying on painful side. 
  • Better, in damp weather, from wrapping head up, from warmth, after eating.

Relationship

  • Antidotes: Bellad; Cham; Sil.
  • Compare: 
    • Acon; Spongia; Staphis; Silica; Sulph; Calc sulph; Myristica. 
    • Hepar antidotes bad effects from Mercury, Iodine, Potash, Cod-liver oil. 
    • Removes the weakening effects of ether.

Dose

  • First to 200th. 
  • The higher potencies may abort suppuration, the lower promote it. If it is necessary to hasten it, give 2x.





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