Back.-Sulphur is a principal remedy for lumbago. The pain is worse when the patient straightens himself up from stooping or sitting, so that he stands and walks bent and leans forward in his chair.
Sleep.-Chronic sleeplessness is often relieved by sulphur, when sleep is prevented by orgasms of blood which make the patient restless, the feet burn so that he wants to put them out of bed, he goes to sleep but wakes up frequently in a nightmare and finds himself lying on his back. Dreams are of many kinds but are mostly of anxious, frightful or horrible character, sometimes with a presentiment concerning future events.
Fever, &c.-The fever of sulphur is not a definite rise of temperature as measured by the thermometer, but consists of surgings of heat to various parts of the body, to the head, face hands, feet; it is often associated with coldness or chilliness of other parts. The sweats are also mostly local or partial, though they may become general. The perspiration in the axillae is offensive. Sweat, after waking in the morning, is a symptom strongly indicative of sulphur. Speaking generally it is a medicine for conditions where heat and burning, and aggravation from heat, are conspicuous, but it has many states in which cold predominates.
The hair is dry and falls off, corns are easily induced, and are painful on pressure, skin eruptions occur on all parts of the body, and are accompanied with itching, formication and burning, the folds of the skin are sore, washing aggravates the itching and burning, scratching relieves the itching, but causes soreness. Sulphur is useful for boils, as well as for all kinds of skin eruptions.
It is unnecessary to add more regarding the therapeutic applications of sulphur than to say that it is a most useful remedy in any disease whatsoever and wherever situated, provided the general symptoms of the drug correspond to those of the patient. It is “the chronic” of aconite and follows it well in acute diseases.
LEADING INDICATIONS.
(1) Burning sensations in any part of the body or all over.
(2) Heat on the vertex, with cold feet.
(3) Hot, burning feet in bed.
(4) Aggravation of symptoms from warmth of bed.
(5) Discharges and evacuations cause burning as they pass through the orifices.
(6) Congestions, with burning of single parts.
(7) Itching skin eruptions. Boils.
(8) Redness and vascular engorgement of muco-cutaneous orifices.
(9) Complaints arising from suppressed eruptions and discharges.
(10) Cramps in calves and soles at night.
(11) Time aggravations: midnight and after, midday, 11 a.m.
(12) Sinking, hungry sensation at 11 a.m.
(13) Drinks much, eats little; or ravenous appetite. Constipation with hard knotty stools.
(14) Desires sweets and alcohol, which disagree.
(15) Early morning diarrhoea, driving out of bed.
(16) Foul odour from the body.
(17) Sweat in the morning after waking.
(18) Persons who are depressed and dwell much on religious and philosophical speculations.
(19) Dislike to washing and bathing and aggravation of complaints from it.
(20) Flushes to head, starting from chest.
(21) Frequent weak, faint spells.
(22) Desire for cold air and open windows (respiratory symptoms).
(23) Complaints that are constantly relapsing.
(24) Cannot stand long.
(25) Persons subject to venous and portal congestions.
(26) Persons with fair or red hair, thin, stooping.
AGGRAVATION:
From touch, pressure, standing, stooping, rising, ascending, talking, 11 a.m., 12 noon, 12 midnight, after midnight, morning, draught of air, warmth, sun (headache), washing, cold, damp weather, cold food and drink, before a storm, after sleep, milk, sweets and alcohol, after eating, before, during and after menses (headache and leucorrhoea), looking down, raising the arms.
AMELIORATION:
From lying on the right side, motion (pains in head, hips, knees, haemorrhoids), open air (respiratory affections), cold water (head and eyes), warm food.
Edwin Awdas Neatby founded the Missionary School of Homeopathy and the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1903, and run by the British Homeopathic Association. He died in East Grinstead, Sussex, on the 1st December 1933. Edwin Awdas Neatby wrote The place of operation in the treatment of uterine fibroids, Modern developments in medicine, Pleural effusions in children, Manual of Homoeo Therapeutics,