Condensed Materia Medica.
By Constantine Hering.
Presented by .
HEPAR SULPHURIS CALCAREUM.
[Hepar s. c.]
Liver of Sulphur. Hahnemann. Sulphurets.[1] * [2]
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* [46] * [48]► Great weakness of memory, with the irritability.
► Sad mood for hours ; must cry vehemently.
► Low-spirited, even to thoughts of suicide.
► Great anxiety in the evening.
► Hypochondriacal.
► Oversensitiveness and irritability, with quick, hasty speech.
► Vertigo : mornings ; when closing the eyes,
at siesta ; evening, with nausea ; when riding in a carriage ;
when shaking the head.
► Fainting from the slightest pains, evenings.
► Boring headache : at the root of the nose, every
morning ; in right temple, from without inwards ; worse from
motion or stooping.
► Semi-lateral pressure in the head, as from a plug or dull nail, at
night or when waking in the morning ; worse when moving the eyes and
when stooping.
► Aching in the forehead, from midnight till morning.
► Lancinating headache, better when walking in open air.
► Headache when shaking the head.
► Sense of swashing in the head.
► Morning headache, worse from every concussion.
► Burning-itching on scalp, from forehead to occiput.
► Sensitiveness of the scalp to touch, with burning and itching in
the morning after rising, after abuse of mercury.
► Disposed to take cold, from uncovering the head.
► Humid eruptions feeling sore ; of fetid odor ; itching
violent on rising in morning ; burning and feeling sore on scratching ;
scabs easily torn off, leaving a raw, bleeding surface.
► Boils on the head and neck, very sore on contact.
► Nodosities on the head, sore to touch, relieved by covering the
head warmly, and from sweat.
► Falling off of the hair, with very sore, painful pimples, and
large bald spots on the scalp.
► Head bent backward, with swelling below the larynx ; violent
pulsation of the carotids, rattling breathing.
► Shunning the light.
► Eyes ache from bright daylight, when moving them.
► Objects appear to be red.
► Sight becomes dim when reading.
► Ulcers on the cornea.
► Pressure in the eyes as from sand.
► Eyes are protruded. θ
Croup.
► Pressing pain in the eyeballs, feels bruised when touched.
► Stitches in the eyes.
► Inflammation of the eyes and lids ; sore to the touch ;
lachrymation.
► Little pimples surround the inflamed eyes.
► Whizzing and throbbing in the ears, with hardness of
hearing ; cracking in the ear when blowing the nose.
► Darting pain in the ears.
► Increase of ear-wax.
► Discharge of fetid pus from the ears.
► Itching of outer ear.
► Scurfs on and behind the ears.
► Sense of smell acute also with the vertigo.
► Nosebleed. θ
After singing.
► Coryza with inflammatory swelling of the nose, painful as from a
boil ; also with cough.
► Sore pain on the dorsum of nose, when touching it.
► Itching in the nose.
► Yellow color of face, with blue rings around the eyes.
► Heat and redness of the face.
► Erysipelatous swelling of the cheeks in the morning.
► Bones of face painful to touch.
► Boils very painful to touch.
► Eruption scurfy, and very painful to touch.
► Itching around the mouth.
► Boils on the lips and chin, very painful to touch.
► Sore and smarting pimple on the vermilion border of upper lip.
► Middle of lower lip cracked.
► Eruption with sensation of heat in the corners of mouth.
► Ulcers at the corner of the mouth.
► Itching pimples on the chin.
► Gums and mouth very painful to touch bleed easily.
► Toothache, worse in warm room ; when biting teeth together.
► Looseness of the teeth.
► Hollow teeth, feel to long and painful.
► Taste : putrid ; metallic ; bitter.
► Hasty speech.
► Tip of tongue very painful, and feels sore.
► Ulcers on gums and in mouth, base resembling lard.
► Scraping in the throat when swallowing.
► Hawking up of mucus.
► Swelling of the tonsils and glands of the neck.
► Scraping sore throat, impeding speech, but not swallowing.
► Dryness of the throat.
► Stitches in throat, extending to ear, worse when swallowing food.
► Sensation as if fish bone or splinter were sticking in throat.
► Longing : for acids ; wine ; sour and
strong-tasting things.
► Unusual hunger in the forenoon.
► Much thirst.
► Aversion to fat.
► Heaviness and pressure in the stomach, after moderate
eating.
► Eructations frequent, odorless and tasteless.
► Constant sensation of water rising in the œsophagus, as if she
had eaten sour things.
► Heart-burn.
► Frequent but momentary attacks of nausea.
► Attacks of nausea, with coldness and paleness.
► Inclination to vomit, with flow of saliva from the mouth.
► Vomiting every morning.
► Stomach frequently and easily disordered.
► Pressure in the stomach, after moderate eating.
► Swelling and pressure in the region of the stomach.
► Distention of pit of stomach, has to loosen the clothing.
► Burning in the stomach.
► Stitches : in region of liver ; in region of
spleen, when walking.
► Contractive pain in the abdomen.
► Fermentation above the navel, with eructation of hot air.
► Colic, with dry, rough cough.
► Rumbling in the abdomen cough.
► Swelling and suppuration of the inguinal glands.
► Constipation : stools hard and dry ;
especially with eruption in bend of elbows, or in popliteal space.
► Feces not hard, but expelled with difficulty.
► Diarrhœic stools : white and fetid, child has a sour smell ;
sour-smelling and whitish ; clay-colored ; green, slimy, of sour
smell ; with tenesmus.
► Diarrhœa : worse during the day ; after eating, and
after drinking cold water.
► Dysenteric stools ; difficult evacuations of soft stool or
bloody mucus with tenesmus.
► Burning in the rectum.
► Protrusion of hemorrhoids.
► Hemorrhage from the rectum, with soft stool.
► Sweat on the perineum.
► Dark, red and hot ; bloody ; sharp, burning,
corroding the prepuce.
► Urine passed tardily and without force, feels as if bladder could
not be emptied thoroughly.
► Burning in the urethra, during micturition.
► Great soreness in the urethra, during micturition.
► Inflammation and redness of the orifice of the urethra.
► Wetting the bed at night.
► Sexual desire increased, erections feeble.
► Discharge of prostatic fluid, after micturition and during hard
stool, also independent of either.
► Itching on the penis, and at the frænum preputii.
► Chancre-like ulcers on the prepuce.
► Mercurialized chancres.
► Secondary syphilis.
► Congestion of blood to the uterus.
► Menorrhagia, in women with chapped skin and rhagades of the hands
and feet.
► Discharge of blood with the menses.
► Metritis, with burning, throbbing pains.
► Uterine ulcers with bloody suppuration, smelling like old cheese ;
edge of ulcer sensitive, frequently a pulsating sensation in the ulcers.
► Much itching, or little pimples around the ulcer.
► Leucorrhœa, with smarting of vulva.
► Frequent momentary attacks of nausea.
► Mammæ swollen, not sensitive to touch, but she cannot walk up or
down stairs.
► Cancer of the breast, with stinging, burning of the edges ;
smells like old cheese.
► Little pimples, or smooth ulcers, surround the scirrhus, or
principal ulceration.
► Hoarseness, roughness in the throat.
► Sensitiveness of larynx to cold air.
► Wheezing in the larynx, and painfulness of a small spot in the
larynx.
► Croup : with deep, rough, barking cough, hoarseness or
aphony, with slight suffocating spasms ; some rattling of mucus,
after dry, cold wind ; with swelling below the larynx ; with
great sensitiveness to cold air or water ; cough worse before
midnight, or toward morning.
► Rattling ; anxious, wheezing ; frequent deep
breaths, like after running ; anxious, short, wheezing, threatening
to suffocate, must bend the head back and sit up.
► Croupish, hoarse ; dry ; loose and choking ;
with bloody expectoration ; excites vomiting ; whooping,
croupish sound, pain in larynx, choking from mucus in larynx, worse in
morning.
► Cough cause by : limb getting cold ; eating or drinking
anything cold ; anything cold ; cold air ; lying in bed ;
talking ; crying ; drinking.
► After cough : sneezing ; crying.
► Sensation as of drops of hot water, in left chest.
► Soreness in the chest.
► Weakness of the chest ; cannot talk from weakness.
► Spasmodic constriction of the chest, after talking.
► Tenacious mucus in the chest.
► Palpation of the heart, with fine stitches in the heart
and left half of the chest.
► Pulse hard, full, accelerated ; at times intermitting.
► Violent pulsation of the carotids.
► Drawing between the scapulæ.
► Sensation as if bruised, in small of back and thighs.
► Stitches and rheumatic pains in the back.
► Suppuration of the axillary glands.
► Offensive sweat in the axilla.
► Tearing in arms, extending toward the suppuration in breast.
► Pain as if bruised in the os humeri.
► Encysted tumor at the point of the elbow.
► Itching in the palms.
► Itching, rough, dry, scaling skin of the hands.
► Fingers as if dead.
► Tingling in the tips of fingers.
► Panaritium.
► Left hip pains as if sprained, when walking in the open
air.
► Buttocks and posterior thighs painful, when sitting.
► Bruised pains in muscles of anterior thighs.
► Swelling of the knee.
► Knee pains as if bruised.
► Cramps in the calves in soles and toes.
► Swelling of feet around the ankles, with difficult breathing.
► Pricking in both heels.
► Tingling in the toes.
► Burning, stinging pains on the toes.
► Cracked skin of the feet.
► Coldness of the feet.
► Drawing pains in the limbs, especially in the morning,
when awaking.
► Weakness in the limbs ; they feel bruised.
► Motion : 3, 40.
Moving eyes : 3, 5. Shaking the
head : 3. Walking : 18 ;
in open air : 3, 33 ; up or
down stairs : 24. Sitting : 33 ;
with head bent back : 26. Stooping : 3.
Lying in bed : 27, 43.
► Trembling weakness, after tobacco smoking.
► Fainting from slight pains.
► Spasms after injury, as of pressure on the head ; trismus of
the newborn : 48.
► Sleepiness during the day, worse toward evening ;
with frequent, almost spasmodic yawning.
► Excess of thoughts prevent sleep, after midnight.
► Violent starts, when falling asleep.
► Start from sleep, feeling as if about to suffocate.
► Wakes at night, with erection and desire to urinate.
► Dreams : anxious ; of fire.
► Morning : 2, 3, 4,
8, 16, 27, 34,
40. Forenoon : 14. Toward evening :
37. Evening : 1, 2,
40. Night : 3, 21,
40. Before midnight : 25. After
midnight : 25, 37. Midnight till
morning : 3. Day : 20, 37,
40. Day and night : 40.
► Warm room : 10. Covering head
warmly : 4. Uncovered head : 4.
Open air : 40. Cold air : 25,
27. Dry cold winds : 25.
► Chill during the day, alternating with heat and
photophobia.
► Chill about 6 or 7 P.M.
► Nightly chill in bed, with aggravation of all complaints.
► Chill, then thirst ; one hour later, much heat, with
interrupted sleep.
► Great chilliness in the open air.
► Dry, burning heat, with redness of the face and violent thirst,
all night.
► Flushes of heat, with sweat.
► Sweats day and night, without relief ; or first can’t sweat
at all, and then sweats profusely ; easily by even slight motion.
► Night or morning sweat, thirst.
► Cold, clammy, frequently sour, or offensive-smelling sweat.
► Right : 3. Left : 28,
29, 33. Without inward : 3.
► Painful sore feeling on the side on which he lies, at
night ; must change position.
► Caries.
► Glands inflame, swell and suppurate.
► Rheumatic swelling, with heat, redness and sensation, as if
sprained.
► Hard, burning nodosities.
► Touch : 4, 5, 7,
8, 10, 24, 46.
Pressure : 10. Scratching : 46.
Concussion : 3.
► Yellowness of the skin.
► Burning-itching on the body, with white vesicles, after
scratching.
► Humid soreness on the genitals, scrotum, and the folds between the
scrotum and the thigh.
► Eruptions very sensitive, sore to touch.
► Miliary rash in circles.
► Itching rash in bends of knees and elbows.
► Nettle-rash.
► Dry, pimply eruptions.
► Eczema, spreading by means of new pimples appearing just beyond
the old parts.
► Unhealthy skin ; slight injuries suppurate.
► Ulcers : discharge bloody pus, smelling like old cheese ;
edges very sensitive, and have a pulsating sensation ; discharge
corroding.
► Stinging, burning of edges of ulcers.
► Hepar is frequently
indicated after ; Bellad., Laches., Silic.,
Spongia, Zincum, Arnic. (traumatic spasms).
► After Hepar the frequently
indicated : Bellad, Mercur., Nitr ac.,
Spongia, Silic.
► Hepar s. c. antidotes :
mercurial or other metallic preparations ; also iodine, and
particularly the iodide of potassium and cod liver oil.
► Antidotes to Hepar s. c. : Acet.
ac., Bellad., Chamom., Silic.
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