Hepar Sulphuris Calcareum

William Boericke 1922

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

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Low potencies (3X–6X) traditionally in suppurative processes; high single doses for the constitutional oversensitivity.

William Boericke 1922

Discharge of fetid pus from the eais. Whizzing and throbbing in ears, with hardness of hearing. Deafness after scarlet

William Boericke 1922

Scurfs on and behind the

William Boericke 1922

Finger-joints swollen; tendency to easy dislocation. Nail of great toe painful on slight pressure.

William Boericke 1922

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

William Boericke 1922

Yellowish complexion. Middle of lower lip cracked. Vesicular erysipelas, with pricking in parts. Neuralgia of right side, extending in streak into temple. ear, ala', and lip. Pains in bones of face, especially when being touched. Ulcers in comers of

William Boericke 1922

Pustules in auditory canal and auricle. Mastoiditis.

William Boericke 1922

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

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Exquisitely chilly — uncovers nothing; sweat without relief; glands inflamed and indurated.

William Boericke 1922

Suits especially scrofulous and lymphatic constitutions who are inclined to have eruptions and glandular swellings. Unhealthy

William Boericke 1922

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

William Boericke 1922

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

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Oversensitivity everywhere — to pain, touch, cold, and offense — with tendencies to suppuration and splinter sensations.

William Boericke 1922

Anguish in the evening and night, with thoughts of suicide. The slightest cause irritates him. Dejected and sad. Ferocious. Hasty speech.

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Hasty, quarrelsome, ready to fly into rage over trifles; hypersensitive to rude remarks. Impulse to throw things; deep sadness evenings.

William Boericke 1922

IFcrse, from dry cold wunds; cool air; slightest draught; from Mercury, touch; lying on painful side. Better, in damp weather, from wrapping head up, from warmth, after eating. IlEPAR SUL. CAL. — HEPATICA — HIPPOMANES 379

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Worse: cold dry wind, touch, uncovering, lying on painful side. Better: warm wet weather, warmth generally, wrapping up.

William Boericke 1922

Shooting in jaw on opening

William Boericke 1922

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 IX will often start secretions and profuse drainage in stuffy colds.)

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Follows Silicea when suppuration threatens to stall; compare Mercurius (sweating without relief of symptoms); complementary Graphites.

William Boericke 1922

Antidotes: Bellad.; Cham.; Sil. Compar'e : Aeon.; Spongia; Staphis.; Silica; Sulph.; Calc, sulph.; Myristica. Hepar antidotes bad effects from Mcrcu7'y, Iodine, Potash, Cod-liver Oil. Removes the weakening effects of ether.

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Croupy cough with wheezing and rattling of mucus; worse cold exposure, better wrapping the head warmly; loose evening cough.

William Boericke 1922

Loses voice and coughs when exposed to dry, cold wind. Hoarseness, with loss of voice. Cough troulilcsonie 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

William Boericke 1922

every little injury suppurates. Chapped skin, with deep cracks on hands and feet. Ulcers, with bloody suppuration, smelling like old cheese. Ulcers very scn.Citivc 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 afllicted parts. Putrid ulcers, surrounded by little pimples. Great sensitiveness to slightest touch. Chronic urticaria. Small-pox. Herpes circinatus. Comstant offensive exhalation from the body.

William Boericke 1922

Abscesses; suppurating glands arc very sensitive. Papules prone to suppurate and extend. Acne in y<nith. Suppurate with prickly pain. Easily bleed. yViigioneurotic oedema. Unhealthy

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Unhealthy skin: every injury suppurates; painful pimples and deep boils; sensitive ulcers with proud flesh.

William Boericke 1922

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 re.spiratory mucous membrane, producing croupous catarrhal inflammation, profuse secretion ; also easy iierspiration. After abuse of Mercury. The tendeney to suppuration is most marked, and has been a strong guiding symptom in practice. Chilliness, hypersensitjveness. splinter-like pains, craving for sour and strong things are very characteristic. Feeling as if uind 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 antispecifle gross medication. 376

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Splinter-like pain on swallowing extending to the ear; quinsy tendency; hawking of cheesy mucus with offensive breath.