HEPAR SULPHURIS


An excellent compilation of symptoms of homeopathic medicine Hepar Sulphuris from the book Pearls of Homeopathy by M.E. Douglass, published in 1903….


Suitable for torpid lymphatic constitutions; persons with light hair and complexion slow to act muscles soft and flabby.

Like sulphur, Hepar is adapted to the psoric scrofulous diathesis.

In sulphur the skin affection are dry, itching and not sensitive to touch-in fact, relieved by scratching and rubbing.

In Hepar the skin is unhealthy, suppurate and maturate, and are extremely sensitive to touch, the pain often causing fainting.Diseases when suppuration seems inevitable.

Diseases where the system has been injured by the abuse of Mercury.

Patient is peevish; angry at the least trifle; hypochondriacal; unreasonably anxious; hurried speaking and drinking.

Extremely sensitive to cold air; must be wrapped up to the face even in hot weather; cannot bear to be uncovered; coughs when any part of the body is uncovered; croup or cough from exposure from exposure to dry west wind.

Eyeballs: sore to touch; pain as if they would be drawn back into head.

Sensation of a splinter, fish-bone or plug in the throat.

Constant pressive pain in one half of the brain as from a plug or nail.

Great swelling of the upper lip.

Great desire for vinegar

Abdomen distended, tense.

Stools light yellow fecal papescent green watery undigested; whitish, sour smelling green, slimy, fetid; smelling like rotten cheese clay colored soft yet passed with great with great exertion.

Urging to stool, but the large intestines are wanting in peristaltic action and cannot expel the faces, which are not hard; only a portion of the feces can be forced out by the aid of the abdominal muscles.

Very difficult passage of scanty, not hard faces with much urging.

Micturition impeded; he is obliged to wait awhile before the urine passes, and then it flows slowly, for many days.

He is never able to finish urinating; it seems as though some urine always remains behind in the bladder.

Weakness of the bladder; the urine drops vertically down, and he is obliged to wait awhile before any passes.

Leucorrhoea with smarting of the vulva.

Paroxysms of cough, as from taking could, with excessive sensitiveness of the nervous system, as soon as only the slightest portion of the body becomes cold.

Dyspnoea.

Sensitiveness to the open air.

Unhealthy, suppurating skin; even slight injuries maturate and suppurate.

Soreness and moisture in the fold between the scrotum and thigh.

Bleeding of an ulcer, even on slight wiping.

Great chilliness in open air.

Violent chill every morning at 6 to 7 o’clock, without subsequent heat.

Violent shaking chill, icy-coldness and paleness of the face, hands and feet, unconsciousness and coma.

Nettle-rash, with violent itching and stinging during chill, disappears as heat begins.

Burning febrile heat, with almost unquenchable thirst, distressing headache and slight delirium, lasting from 4 p.m. all night.

Fever-blisters around the mouth.

Sweat with flushes of heat.

Sweats profusely day and night without relief.

perspires easily on every motion however slight.

Profuse sour-smelling sweat at night.Sweat of perinaeum, groins, and inside of thighs.

Constant offensive exhalations from the body.

Melford Eugene Douglass
M.E.Douglass, MD, was a Lecturer of Dermatology in the Southern Homeopathic Medical College of Baltimore. He was the author of - Skin Diseases: Their Description, Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment; Repertory of Tongue Symptoms; Characteristics of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica.