Sulphuric Acid. HAHNEMANN. So3.
Mind
Must do everything in a great hurry.
Unwilling to answer; says yes or no with difficulty, pulse very small and frequent.
Disheartened.
Inclined to weep.
Irritable, restless.
Mental excitability.
Sensorium
Sensation in forehead as if brain was loose and falling from side to side; worse when walking in the open air; better when sitting quiet in room.
Rush of blood to head in headache.
Inner Head
Painful shocks in forehead and temples, worse in forenoon and evening.
Headache as if a plug were thirst quickly, by increasingly severe blows, in head.
Gradually increasing and suddenly ceasing headache.
Outer Head
Hair turns grey, falls out; eruption on scalp, very sore; worse in open air.
Eyes
Full with tears, when reading.
Tension in eyelids in morning; difficult to open them.
Deep blue circle under right eye.
Feeling as of a lump in right outer canthus; on closing eye seems to move to inner canthus, and to return on opening.
In chronic inflammation of eyes; more frequently useful in beginning, later Sulphur.
Ears
Hardness of hearing; feeling as of leaf lying before ear.
Buzzing in right ear. Neuralgia.
Nose
Nosebleed: oozing of dark, thin blood; evenings; worse from smelling coffee; of old people.
Coryza, alternately dry and fluent; with loss of smell and taste, hunger, sore eyes and tension in forehead.
Face
Crusta lactea, with stringy, yellow stools.
Face: deadly pale; feels as if white of an egg had dried on it. Dry, shriveled spots in face (with hemorrhoids).
Pain commencing at P.M. in ramus of lower jaw and temple of right side, better from warmth, and from lying on affected side. Comes gradually, leaves suddenly.
Lower Face
Shooting, stinging pain in red scar on lower jaw.
Lips peel off.
Teeth
Toothache; worse in evening in bed, aggravated by cold; better from heat.
Dull toothache concentrating in right eye-tooth; hurts when eating and on pressure. Pain increases slowly, ceases suddenly.
Destruction of teeth. Diabetes mellitus.
Tongue etc.
Loss of taste.
Talking difficult, as from want of elasticity of the parts.
Tongue dry.
Mouth
Sensation of dryness.
Much saliva.
Aphthous mouth and gums; yellowish and painful.
Throat
Thick yellow membrane on fauces, tonsils, teeth, lips; stick- like glue; impeded deglutition; voice thick; parotids swollen, sopor; stench from mouth.
Stringy, lemon-yellow mucus hangs form posterior nares in diphtheria.
Roughness in throat.
Lancinating in throat and chest at same time.
Constricted feeling in throat.
Desires Aversions
Desire: for fresh fruit; for brandy.
Loss of appetite and great debility. Odor of coffee aggravates;.
Eating and Drinking
Water causes a cold of the stomach if not mixed with alcoholic liquor.
Ailments: from drinking brandy (symptoms are palliated by drinking wine); from eating oysters.
After eating, pain in stomach, and rising of food by the mouthful.
When eating teeth hurt:.
After warm food: Coffee (odor of) : Cold water: Alcoholic drinks: Wine:.
Nausea and Vomiting
Belching after cough.
Chronic heart-burn, sour eructations.
Nausea with chilliness.
Sour vomit, first water, then food.
Vomiting, of drunkards.
Raising of mucus so sour that it sets teeth on edge.
Stomach
Coldness and relaxed feeling in the stomach.
Dyspepsia.
Hypochondria
Spleen enlarged, hard and painful; hurts when coughing.
Abdomen
Labor-like pains in abdomen, extending to hips and back.
Colic, with sensation as if a hernia would protrude.
Violent protrusion of an inguinal hernia.
Stool etc.
Diarrhoea with great debility.
Stools: diarrhoeic, with passage of much flatus; watery and very offensive, like rotten eggs; bright yellow, mucous looking stringy or chopped, cholera infantum; of hard, small, black lumps, mixed with blood, with violent pinching in anus.
Hemorrhoids feel damp, painful to touch, itch violently; stools cause violent burning stinging tearing pains, or the tumors prevent passage,.
Urine
Diminished secretion of brown urine, becoming turbid, like loam-water, on standing.
Sediment like blood and a cuticle on the urine.
Pain in bladder if the call to urinate is postponed.
Male Sexual Organs
Erections.
Orchitis, right side.
Female Sexual Organs
Menses too early and too profuse.
Distressing nightmare before the menses.
In climaxis, spitting of blood; costive.
Leucorrhoea: acrid or burning; milky or transparent; of sanguineous mucus, with a sensation as if the menses would appear.
Prolapsus of vagina; parts look greenish and smell badly.
Pregnancy
Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy.
Sterility, with menses too early and too profuse.
Larynx
Hoarseness with dryness and roughness in throat and larynx.
Larynx painful; feels inelastic, causing difficulty in talking.
Breathing
Shortness of breathe.
Cough
Dry, too short hacks; soreness between scapulae; tiredness; from irritation in chest, with expectoration, in the morning, of dark blood, or of a thin, yellow, blood-streaked mucus, tasting sour; after cough, belching; in the open air; worse from walking, riding, cold water, and odor of coffee.
Cough and haemoptysis after typhus.
Lungs
Stitches in chest; about heart.
Sensation of great weakness in chest.
Burning in left side of chest up to throat.
Shooting, stinging, now in scapula, again in arm-pit, or in chest.
Profuse hemorrhage from the lungs: tuberculosis.
Ulcerations in different parts of lungs.
Heart Pulse
Palpitation of heart, with or without fear or anxiety.
Shooting through the heart.
Pulse: small, feeble, accelerated; affected by alcoholic drinks.
Outer Chest
Sternum sore, as if beaten.
Neck Back
Stiffness in back on rising in morning.
Blood-boils on the back.
Large suppurating swelling on right side of neck.
Upper Limbs
Stitches: in shoulder-joints on lifting the arms; in finger- joints.
Tension in elbow-joint.
Chilblains on hands.
Red swelling on back of hand, not painful.
Blue spots on the arms.
After erysipelas, inflamed swelling of little finger.
Lower Limbs
Knees painfully weak.
Ankles weak, can’t walk.
Feet cold, swollen.
Distention of veins of feet.
Stitching in corns.
Red itching spots on tibia.
Blood-red, very painful scar on tibia.
Position etc.
Mental excitability: Lying on affected side: Closing eyes: Sitting quiet: Rising: Motion: exercise: Reading: Talking: Riding: Walking: Lifting arms;.
Nerves
Sensation of tremor all over, without trembling.
Debility, great exhaustion.
Sleep
Goes to sleep too late, wakens too early.
During sleep twitches, especially of fingers.
Time
Morning: Forenoon: Evening:, 9 P.M.: Day: Night:.
Temperature and Weather
Warmth:. In bed:, In-doors: Open air: Cold:; Water, Spring:
Chill Fever Sweat
Frequently chilly during day; worse in-doors, better out-doors when exercising.
Frequent chills, running down the body.
Heat in evening and in bed.
Flushes of heat, with sweat.;Climaxis.
Sweat: excessive, mostly on upper body; from motion, continued after sitting down; sour; cold, immediately after eating warm food; mornings; at night profuse; lessened by drinking wine.
Attacks
Itching of skin every Spring; formation of single pustules.
Gradually coming, suddenly ceasing:.
Sides
Pressing, stinging pains inward.
Right:,, Left:, Above downward:.
Tissues
Scars blood-red or blue, and painful.
Painful sensitiveness of glands.
Veins (of feet) distended.
Weak and exhausted from some deep-seated dyscrasia.
Hemorrhages of black blood from all the outlets of body.
Contact Injuries etc.
Bad effects from mechanical injuries, when there are bruises, chafing, lividity of skin.
Scratching seldom relieves itching, but changes its locality.
Pressure:. Touch: Riding:.
Skin
Scars turn blood-red and hurt. Blue spots like ecchymoses.
Red itching blotches on skin. Yellow skin, livid spots.
Gangrenous tendency after a bruise.
Stages and States
Frequently indicated for old people, particularly women.
Child sour despite careful washing.
Light-haired people.
In climacteric years, flushes of heat.
Relationship
Follows well after Arnica.
Pulsat. is complimentary and antidotal.
Acid Sulphuricum antidotes bad effects of lead water.