Hepar Sulphur

COMMON NAMES:

      HAHNEMANN’S CALCIUM SULPHIDE: SULPHURET OF LIME

Symptoms

      Bad effects from the abuse of mercury (Fluor -Ac., Acid nitricum, Sil).

Rheumatic swellings with heat and redness and a sensation as if sprained (Belladonna, Rhus toxicodendron, Sulph).

Drawing pains in the limbs (Rhus -T).

Stitches in the joints (Bryonia, Kali bichromicum, Acid nitricum, Sil)

GREAT SENSITIVENESS OF THE AFFECTED PARTS TO TOUCH (Arnica, Belladonna, Kali-C)

When handling the involved areas pain is felt as from sub-cutaneous ulceration.

INFLAMMATION ENDING IN SUPPURATION (Calcarea sulph., Mercurius, Sil).

Caries (Calc-T., Fluor-Ac., Kali bichromicum, Mercurius, Acid nitricum, Phosphorus, Silicea)

Erysipelas (Apis., Arsenicum, Belladonna, Calcarea sulph., Ferr-P., Graphites, Lachesis, Lycopodium, Mercurius, Pulsatilla, Rhus toxicodendron, Silicea, Sulphur).

FAINTING (IN THE EVENING FROM TRIFLING PAINS (Lach).

UNHEALTHY SKIN; EVERY LITTLE WOUND SUPPURATES (Silicea, Sulphur) (D.).

There skin is sensitive to the open air (Sil); inflamed skin; injuries suppurate easily; eruptions and ulcerations are sensitive; and bleed easily; (Lachesis, Nit- Ac.), and discharge a foul -smelling exertion; around the principal ulcerations there are little pimples (Rhus -T) (D).

BOILS OR ABSCESSES, WHERE THERE IS MUCH THROBBING AND STICKING IN THEM ( if given low it will favour suppuration, and if given high it will sometimes abort the suppurative process ( it comes always after Belladonna) (D.)

Desire for highly seasoned food (BI.)

Craving for strong things, as acids, etc. (D).

Hunger and gnawing in the stomach (Anacardium, Graphites, Phosphorus) (D).

Craves acids, condiments or stimulants (B.).

Cannot bear anything tight about the waist (Lachesis, Lycopodium, Nux vomica) (D.).

Stool difficult, although soft ( Alumina) (B.)

Diarrhoea; of children with sour smell (calc., Magnesia carb., Rheum., Sulphur)

CLAY-COLOURED STOOL (Aurum mur natronatum, Berberis, Calcarea, Card-M., Chelidonium, Chion., Digitalis, Gelsemium, Iodium, Kali bichromicum, Lachesis, Lept., Mercurius, Nat-S., Podophyllum, Sepia) (A.).

Headache, as if a nail were being driven into the right side of the head (Ignatia, Acid nitricum) (D.)

OFFENSIVE ERUPTIONS ON THE SCALP, WITH NON-EXCORIATING DISCHARGES AND GREAT TENDERNESS (D).

Sweats profusely day and night without relief(Mercurius); perspiration sour, offensive; easily, on every mental or physical exertion (bry., Calcarea, Psorinum, Sepia) (A.).

Purulent affections about the eyes hypopyon etc., worse from cold air, or cold applications (Silicea).

OVER-SENSITIVE, PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY; THE SLIGHTEST CAUSE IRRITATES HIM (A.).

Quick, hasty speech and hasty drinking (Belladonna) (A.).

Is peevish, angry at the least trifle; hypochondriacal; unreasonably anxious (A.).

Suicidal disposition (Aurum, Aur-M., China, Nat-S., Acid nitricum, Nux vomica, sepia) (K.).

Hasty, violent, irritable or dissatisfied (B.)

OTALGIA, WITH SENSITIVENESS TO EXTERNAL CONTACT, OUT OF PROPORTION TO THE ACTUAL PAIN (N).

Useful in pneumonia during the stage of resolution, when the expectoration is purulent and abscesses are threatened; also in broncho-pneumonia, when there is much mucus in the bronchial tubes, but it is difficult to raise(BI.)

Should be remembered in chronic hepatitis and abscesses of the liver and kidneys when there is a vent for the pus, but the toxic symptoms persist (BI.).

Asthma worse in dry, cold air and better in damp atmosphere (reverse of Dulcamara, Nat-S.) (N.)

SHARP, SPLINTER-LIKE PAINS IN THE THROAT (Argentum nitricum, Acid nitricum, Silicea), OR A SENSATION AS IF THERE WERE A LUMP IN THE THROAT ( Ignatia, Lachesis, Nux-M., Phytolacca) (D).

Quinsy, when suppuration threatens(A.)

Chronic hypertrophy of the tonsils, with hardness of hearing (Bar-C., Calcarea, Lycopodium, Plb., Psorinum) (A.).

Urine: flow impeded, voided slowly, without force; drops vertically; is obliged to wait awhile before it passes; bladder weak, is unable to finish, seems as if some urine always remains. (Alumina, Silicea, thuja) (A.).

HAEMORRHAGE FROM THE URETHRA AFTER URINATION (Pulsatilla, Sarsaparilla) (K.).

CHRONIC OTORRHOEA (Calcarea, Calcarea sulph., Mercurius, Nat-S., Pulsatilla, Silicea, Tell.) (B.).

Excoriation and humid soreness on the genitals, and in folds between the scrotum and the thighs. (Petroleum) (N.).

Weakness and much rattling in the chest (Ant-T., Nat-S.) (B.).

Whistling, choking breathing, must bend the head back (B.).

Ripened colds and old catarrhs (Calcarea, Graphites, Kali-S., Lycopodium, Pulsatilla) (B).

Cough, with expectoration during the day, no expectoration at night (G.)

Suffocative attacks of breathing (Ant-T., Arsenicum, Sambucus) (G.).

DEEP, ROUGH, BARKING COUGH (Spongia), WITH HOARSENESS AND RATTLING OF MUCUS; WORSE IN COLD AIR, FROM COLD DRINKS, BEFORE MIDNIGHT OR TOWARDS MORNING (A).

The cough of Hepar is never a dry one; it has a slight loose edge; the expectoration is slight, and thee is little fever (D.)

WHOOPING COUGH (Belladonna, Carb-v., Drops., Ipecac., Kali carb., Meph., Phosphorus, Silicea).

WEEPING BEFORE DURING OR AFTER COUGHING (Arnica, Belladonna) (K.).

Cough worse at night, especially after mid-night (dros., Kali-c.) (K.).

CROUP, WHERE THE PATIENT IS SENSITIVE TO THE LEAST DRAUGHT OF AIR ( it comes in here after Aconite, and Spongia) (D.).

Cough: when any part of the body is uncovered (Rhus toxicodendron).

CROUPY, CHOKING, STRANGLING COUGH (Bromium, Chlorum, Iodium, Spongia) (A.).

AGGRAVATION:

      At night, especially during the nightly chill; from lying on the painful side (Belladonna, Iodium, Kali-C); from cold air; from uncovering; after eating or drinking cold things; and from touching the affected parts (Arnica, Lachesis).

AMELIORATION:

      From warmth in general (Arsenicum, Silicea); from wrapping up warmly, especially the head(Psorinum, Silicea and in damp, wet weather (Causticum, Nux vomica — reverse of Nat-S).

RELATIONSHIP:

      complementary to: Calendula in injuries of soft parts, and Spong, in croup.

complementary to Hep; Iodium and Silicea

Hepar ANTIDOTES the bad effects of Mercury and other metals, Quinine, Iodide of Potash, and Cod-liver oil.

Adolph Lippe

Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)