SULFURICUM ACIDUM



Sleep.

Sleepiness. Frequent yawning, after dinner. Very sleepy, in the morning after waking, as if he had not slept at all. Disposition to doze (after ten hours). Sleep light and seldom.

Sleeplessness. Could not fall asleep for a long time, in the evening, and slept well. Very restless night (first night).

She falls asleep late, sleeps uneasily, and wakes frequently.

Falls asleep late in the evening, and wakes easily, at night.

Frequent starting from sound sleep. Wakeful all night. He woke at night after two hour, wide awake, as if he had slept enough.

Woke, after midnight, without cause (second night). Woke, after midnight, with heat, dryness of the throat, and thirst; she could not tolerate the covering. Jerking in sleep, causing starting up, and accumulation of saliva. Dreams. Anxious dreams, of fire, of dead persons, of dangers. Anxious dream, even to crying out.

Frequent, but unremembered dreams (first night). Dream by a woman that she had coition twice, and orgasm twice, at night. Dream in a woman of desire for coition, and on waking, a violent, tumultuous desire therefore, which was especially seated in the clitoris (after forty hours). Nightmare two days before the menses; something heavy seemed lying upon her; she could not speak, it seemed as though someone were holding her by the throat, and she woke in perspiration.

Fever.

Chilliness. Chilliness all day. Chilliness, in the morning in the house, less in the open air (after twelve days). Chilliness; she constantly wishes to sit by the stove (twentieth day).

Momentary shivering, as from chilliness, with gooseflesh, immediately. Constant shivering down the trunk, without chilliness. Icy cold. Whole body icy cold. From time to time, transient shivering through the trunk, rather internal, without affecting other parts of the body. Pale and cold (after two hours). Surface of the body cold and clammy (in two hours). Skin cold. Skin cold and perspiring. Coldness of the whole body.

Surface of the body cold and clammy. Shivering fit, preceded by vomiting, and followed by continued, by ineffective retching. Skin cold, particularly that of extremities. Feet and forehead perfectly cold (in two hours). Face and hands cold.

Extremities cold etc. Extremities constantly cold. Extremities cold and nails livid. Extremities cold and cyanotic. The extremities and face became cold (after four hours). Hands and feet cold. Heat. Fever. Fever, with delirium and great excitement. High fever, with very small, rapid pulse. Excessive fever, with rapid, hard, small pulse. Great fever and chilliness, alternating with heat. Very high fever, with violent pain and swelling of the organs of deglutition. Five hours after taking the acid, fever came on, respiration became rapid, the skin hot, pulse 130, respiration very difficult, movements of the larynx as in croup, the face remained pale. Febrile symptoms. Febrile attacks from time to time. Excessive internal heat, with external chilliness, and great prostration. Heat over the whole body, with a full, hard pulse; afterward, violent fever, with raving, after which the pulse became soft and small, then rapid, skin covered with cold sweat. Skin hot and dry. Excessive heat, extending from the throat along the back. Heat during or after dinner, with good appetite. Dry heat, in the evening after a journey of eight hour, with great thirst, till 7 o’clock, with burning in the eyes, and once also creeping chilliness (seventh day). Overpowering warmth of the body, with icy-cold hands. Great warmth over the whole body, in the evening after lying down (third day). Constantly feels more warm than cold, while usually it was the reverse. Increased, even agreeable warmth over the whole body (second and third days). Sweat. Profuse perspiration, in the morning (after twenty hours). Sweat over the whole body, with scarcely perceptible pulse. Bathed in constant sweats. Whole body covered with watery sweat. She perspired greatly, while sitting, especially on the upper part of the body. Perspiration is easily excited during the day. Inclined to perspire on every motion. Cold perspiration, especially on the forehead and face, and also on the rest of the body, immediately on taking anything warm. Cold sweat. Skin clammy and cold. Cold sweat on the forehead. Sour sweat, in the morning, followed by hoarseness.

Conditions.-Aggravation.

(Morning), Dull and gloomy mood; on waking, peevishness; dulness and heaviness of the head; pain in head; on walking, sensation of a foreign body in eye; eyes agglutinated; dimness of vision; rumbling about umbilicus; in bed, anxious feeling in abdomen; forcing outward in inguinal region; loose cough; oppression of chest; stiffness of back; in bed, tearing in varicose veins on right thigh.

(Afternoon), Vertigo; toward evening, tearing in right temple.

(Evening), Drawing headache; tearing and sticking in right side of forehead; roaring in ears; after lying down, toothache; clawing in stomach; rumbling about umbilicus.

(Night), During menses, tearing in left eyetooth; hiccough; griping in abdomen; oppressed breathing; after midnight itching of eruption on hands.

(Open air), Pain in eyeball; cough; the symptoms.

(Coffee), Weakness and trembling.

(After coition), Burning in the urethra.

(Cold), Toothache.

(After dinner), The symptoms.

(After drinking), Hiccough. (After eating), Qualmishness; discomfort in stomach; vomiting; colic; weakness.

(Going into house from open air), Stitches in sternum.

(In the house), Vertigo.

(Inspiration), Stitch in the left flank; stitches in the right and left chest.

(Leaning to right side), Stitch in left hypochondrium.

(Looking intently), Pressure in eyeball.

(During menses), Thirst and dry tongue; stitches in abdomen and vagina; tearing in limbs.

(Motion), Stitches in left side of lower abdomen; pain in back.

(External pressure), Pain in larynx.

(Rising from stooping), Pain in right side of head.

(While sitting), Vertigo; confusion in the right side of forehead; burning in hypochondria; pain in small of back; pain in calves.

(Standing), Pain in vertex; pain in small of back; weakness of knees.

(During stool), Griping in abdomen.

(Stooping), Pain in back.

(Swallowing), Pain in throat; sore throat; sticking in side of throat.

(Talking), Pain along throat; pain in larynx; stitch in left side.

(Turning body), Pain in throat.

(After vomiting), Thirst.

(Walking), Pain under left arm; falling asleep of left leg; stiffness of ankles.

(Walking in open air), Stitches in head; cutting in umbilical region.

(Cold water), Tearing beneath nail of index finger.

(Cold wet weather), Sufferings.

Amelioration.

(Open air), Vertigo; weariness, with headache in the forehead; pressure on chest.

(Pressure), Tearing and sticking in right side of forehead; pain in epigastrium; stitch in left hypochondrium.

(Holding hands toward head), Pain in occiput.

(Rubbing), Tearing in thigh.

(Vomiting), Pressure and pains in epigastric region.

(Warmth), Toothache.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.