Sulphur
Sublimated Sulphur · Abbrev.: SULPH
Abdomen
William Boericke 1922
Very sensitive to pressure ; internal feeling of rawness and soreness. Movements as of something alive. [Croc.; Thuj.] Pain and soreness over
Back
William Boericke 1922
~ Drawing pain between shoulders. Stiffness of nape. Sensation as if vertebrae glided over each other.
Chest
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Difficult respiration; wants windows open. Aphonia, Heat, throughout chest Red, brown spots aU over chest Loose cough; worse talking, morning, ^ jljfr^nish, purulent, sweetish expectoration. Much rat-
William Boericke 1922
Dyspnoea in middle ot night, relieved by sitting up. Pulse more rapid in morning than in evening. \Ars.\
Dose
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Single 200C doses classically as intercurrent; low potencies in skin flares.
Ears
William Boericke 1922
Bad effects from the supjiression of an otorrhoea. Oversensitive to odors. Deafness, preceded by exceedingly sensitive hearing; catarrhal deafness.
William Boericke 1922
Whizzing in
Extremities
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Trembling of hands. Hot, sweaty hands. Rheumatic pain in left shoulder. Heaviness; paretic feeling. Rheumatic gout, with itching. Burning in soles and hands at night. Sweat in armpits, smelling like garlic. Drawing and tearing in arms and hands. Stiffness of knees and ankles. Cannot walk erect ; stoop-shouldered. Ganglion.
Eyes
William Boericke 1922
Burning ulceration of margin of lids. Halo around lamp-light. Heat and burning in
William Boericke 1922
[Ars.; Bell.] Black motes before
William Boericke 1922
First stage of ulceration of cornea. Chronic ophthalmia, with much burning and itching. Parenchymatous keratitis. Cornea like ground glass.
Female
William Boericke 1922
Pudenda itches. Vagina burns. [Rerb.; Nitr. ac.J Much offensive perspiration. [Lye.; Merc.; Petrol.; Thuj.] Menses too late, short, scanty, and difficult; thick, hlack, acrid, making parts sore. [Kali c.; Lach.; Sil.] Menses preceded bv headache [Kreos.] or suddenly stopped. Leucorrhoea, burning, excoriating. Nipples cracked; smart and burn. [Agar.; Lyc.; Sil]
Fever
William Boericke 1922
Frequent flashes of heat. Violent ebullitions of heat throughout entire body. Dry skin and great thirst Night sweat, on nape and occiput. Perspiration of single parts. Disgusting sweats. Remittent type.
Generalities
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Standing worst position; heat on crown of head with cold feet; every pus infection lingers; 'never well since' suppressed eruptions.
Guiding symptoms
William Boericke 1922
This is the great Hahnemann ian anti-psoric. Its action is centrifugal — from within outward — having an elective affinity for the skin, where it produces heat and burning, with itching; made worse by heat of bed. Inertia and relaxation of fiber; hence feebleness of tone characterizes its symptoms. Ebullitions of heat, dislike of water, dry and hard hair and skin, red orifices, sinking feeling at stomach about 11a. m., and cat-nap
William Boericke 1922
iliftff of mucus. Chest feels heavy; stitches, with heart feeling too large and palpitating. Pleuritic ejiudations* Use Tinctura sulphuris. Stitching pains shooting through to the back, worse lying on back or breathing deeply. Flushes of heat in chest rising to
William Boericke 1922
painful, weight-like pressure. Krry weak and faint about 11 A. M. ; must have something to eat. Nausea during gestiition. Water fills the patient up.
William Boericke 1922
71S death. Sulphur subjects are nearly always irritable, de^- pressed, thin and weak, even with good appetite.
Head
William Boericke 1922
[Cup. sulph.; Graph.] Heaviness and fullness, pressure in temples. Beating headache; worse, stooping, and w’ith vertigo. Sick headache recurring periodically. Tinea capitis, dry form. Scalp dry, falling of hair; worse, washing. Itching; scratching causes burning.
William Boericke 1922
Constant iifat on top of
William Boericke 1922
Oppression, as of a had on
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Congestive headaches alternating with lumbar; rush of blood to head worse stooping; burning vertex; scaly scalp with itching, matting hair.
Introduction
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The ragged philosopher: theoretical, selfish-ish, heat-aggravated, with burning soles wanting them out of bed and skin that itches when warmed.
Liver
William Boericke 1922
Colic after drinking. Stool. — Frequent, unsuccessful desire; hard, knotty, insufficient. Child afraid on account of pain. Redness around the anus, with itching. Morning diarrhoea, painless, drives out of bed, with prolapsus recti. Hsemorrhoids, oozing and belching. Urine. — Frequent micturition, especially at night. Enuresis, especially in scrofulous, untidy children. Burning in urethra during micturition, lasts long after. Mucus and pus in urine ; parts sore over which it passes. Must hurry, sudden call to urinate. Great quantities of colorless urine.
Male
William Boericke 1922
Stitches in penis. Involuntary emissions. [.Vttjr; Calc.] Itching of genitals when going to bed. Organs cold, relaxed and powerless.
Mind
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Speculative theorist preferring theory to practice; selfish regarding comfort; foolish optimism about health and finances; forgetful, difficult arithmetically.
William Boericke 1922
Very forgetful. Difficult thinking. Delusions; thinks rags beautiful things — that he is immensely wealthy. Busy all the time. Childisli peevishness in gro\^Ti people. Irritable. Affections vitiated; very selfish, no regard for others. Religious melancholy. Averse to business; loafs — too lazy to arouse himself. Imagining giving wrong things to people, causing their
Modalities
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Worse: warmth of bed, bathing, 11 a.m., standing, suppression of skin disease. Better: dry warm weather, lying on right side.
William Boericke 1922
Wofsc, at rest, when standing, warmth 718
Mouth
William Boericke 1922
Lips dry, bright red, burning. Bitter taste in morning. Jerks through
Nose
William Boericke 1922
Nose^ stuffed indoors. Imaginary foul smells. Ala red and scabby. Chronic dry catarrh; dry scabs and readily bleeding, Ikilypus and adenoids.
William Boericke 1922
Herpes across the
Rectum
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Morning diarrhoea driving out of bed about 5 a.m., painless, offensive; piles oozing and itching; redness around the anus like a ring.
Relationships
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Complementary Aconite, Psorinum, Calcarea; the grand chronic intercurrent of the tradition; compares with Psorinum (lack of reaction vs Sulphur's excess).
Respiratory
William Boericke 1922
Oppression and burning sensation in
Skin
William Boericke 1922
Dry, scaly, unhealthy; every little injury suppurates. Freckles. Itching, burning; worse scratching and washing. Pimply eruption, pustules, rhagades, hangnails. Excoriation, especially in folds. [Lyc.] Feeling of a band around bones. Skin affections after local medication. Pruritus, especially from warmth, in evening, often recurs in spring-time, in damp weather.
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Dry, scaly, unhealthy skin; itching violently when warm in bed, from washing; burning soles at night wanting them uncovered; orifices red.
Sleep
William Boericke 1922
Talks, jerks, and twitches during
William Boericke 1922
always indicate Sulphur homoeopathically. Standing is the worst position for sulphur patients, it is always uncomfortable. Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections. Aversion to being washed. When carefully’- selected remedies fail to act, especially in acute diseases, it frequently arouses the reactionary powers of the organism. Complaints that relapse. General offensive character of discharge and exhalations. Very red lips and face, flushing easily.
William Boericke 1922
Vivid dreams. Wakes up singing. Wakes frequently, and becomes wide awake suddenly. Catnaps; slightest noise awakens. Cannot sleep between 2 and 5 a. m.
Stomach
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Morning hunger with faintness at 11 a.m. needing food; burning in stomach; aversion to meat and fat; milk worsens.
William Boericke 1922
Complete loss of, or excessive appetite. Putrid eructation. Food tastes too salty. Drinks much, eats little. Milk disagrees. Great desire for sweets. [Arg. ni/.] Great acidity, sour eructation. Burning, 716
Teeth
William Boericke 1922
Swelling of gums; throbbing pain. Tongue white, with red tip and borders.
Throat
William Boericke 1922
Pressure as from a lump, as from a splinter, as of a hair. Burning, redness and dryness. Ball seems to rise and close pharynx.
References
This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:
- James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
- Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain
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