Sulphur



Female

      Vulva and vagina burn, itch, and sore worse sitting; is scarcely able to keep still. Sore feeling in vagina during coition. Bearing down in pelvis towards genitals worse standing. Menses; irregular too late, short, scanty, thick, foul, black, acrid, making parts sore. Leucorrhoea; of yellow mucous, burning, excoriating. Troublesome itching of vulva with pimples all around. Sharp burning in mammae. Cutting pain in uterus during menses. Weak feeling in genitals. Nipples; cracked, around the base, smart, burn, bleed; after nursing, pain extends to back. Puerperal sepsis, with high fever, profuse sweat of whole body, tenderness of abdomen and drowsiness. Offensive genitals, with offensive sweat on thighs. Suppression of menses from slight physical or mental excitement. Amenorrhoea. Prolapse of uterus from reaching high. Cancer of breast, or uterus. Breast and uterus develops imperfectly.

Respiratory

      DIFFICULT RESPIRATION; WANTS WINDOWS OPEN; nightly suffocative air hunger. Irregular breathing. Deep hoarse voice. Cough; violent, in two or three incomplete bouts; tickling as from `down’ in larynx. Much rattling of mucus and heat in chest, worse 11 A.M. Pain backward from left nipple. As of a band or load on chest. Red, brown spots on chest. Pleuritic exudation. Pneumonia. Greenish sweetish purulent expectoration. Sensation of burning or coldness in chest; extending to face. Asthma preceded by cold everytime. Feeling of weakness in chest, while talking. Violent cough with headache worse lying on back. As of rivet through upper third of left lung. Shooting pains in chest extending to back worse coughing, lying on back and deep breathing. Neglected pneumonia.

Heart

      Seems too big. Palpitation, worse lying; at night; in bed, going up an ascent. Pulse more rapid in morning, than in the evening. Pericarditis with effusion. Sharp pains go through chest to between shoulders.

Neck and Back

      Muscles of neck weak; child cannot hold head. Boils on neck. Neck stiff. Sensation as if vertebrae glide over each other or crack on bending backwards. Aching between scapulae. Lumbar pains, to stomach; walks bent; from pain in the back, he can only straighten up after moving. Supports weight on hands when sitting. Coccyx pains, during stools. Aching in small of back worse when urinating. Curvature of Spine.

Extremities

      Heavy shoulders. Sweat in armpit smelling like garlic. Left arm numb worse lying. Numb fingers. Palms; dry, burn, crack, peel, eczema on; warts on. Tense hamstring (left). Cramp in calf (left). SOLES; BURN; WANTS THEM UNCOVERED; at night; cold, in bed; dry. Hot sweaty hands. Heaviness paretic feeling in limbs. Jerks one limb on dropping to sleep. Popliteae tight on stooping. Swelling of the joints with hydrarthrosis. Joints stiff. Tremulous sensation in hands, when writing. Tuberculosis of the knee and hip joints. Ulcers around the nails. Whitlow; with rapid swelling of the finger, redness, stiffness and excessive burning stitching. Involuntary contraction of hands as if about to grasp something. Unsteady gait.

Sleep

      Heavy, unrefreshing. Drowsy; then migraine. Sleeps in cat naps. Drowsy by day, wakeful at night. Talks, jerks and twitches during sleep. Awakes, with starts or screams. Sings during sleep or wakes up singing. Vivid dreams, remain impressed on the memory.

Fever

      Chill spreading up back. Flushes of heat. Feels too hot. Heat with general throbbing; between scapulae. Sweat on single parts; in axillae; hands and feet. Profuse sweat at night, with sulphur odour. Sweat without relief. Remittent fever. Septic; puerperal fever.

Skin

      Eruptions almost of even kind. Skin; dry, rough; wrinkled, scaly. ITCHING; voluptuous; violent, worse at night; in bed; scratching and washing. Unhealthy; BREAKS OUT; festers and would not heal. Burning when scratched; painfully sensitive to air, wind, washing etc. Eruptions alternate with other complaints, asthma etc. Crops of boils. Itch. Rhagades. Eczema. Ulcers. Creeping erysipelas. Excoriations, on folds. Suppuration, with air bubbles. Varicose veins; ulcerate, rupture and bleed.

Related

      Graph; Psor; Sel; Syphilinum

Complementary

      Acon; Aloe; Ars; Bell; Calc; Merc; Nux-v; Puls; Pyrog; Rhus-t; Sep; Sul-i.

S.R. Phatak
A pioneer of Homoeopathy in Maharashtra, Dr Shankar Raghunath Phatak was born on 6th September, 1896. He did his MBBS from Grant Medical College, in 1924. Started his practice but somehow not satisfied with Allopathic Treatment.

He was convinced about Homoeopathy while going through Sir William Osler's writings on 'History of Medicine' so switched over to an entirely Homoeopathic Practice in 1932. He also started working on Homoeopathic literature along with his Practice.

He has contributed immensely to homoeopathic literature. He was an ardent follower of Dr Boger. His Repertory is based on Boger's ''A Synoptic key to Materia Medica'.