“Whooping cough.” Sulphur is said to “kill” the disease if burned in the room or house.
Expectoration: Coughing up thick mucus, in morning, with sore pain in chest; at night, with soreness in trachea; jelly- like. Expectoration tasting like old catarrh; tasting of bloody saliva, with sweet taste in throat; of blood at night, with fatty, sweetish taste in mouth.
Respiration: Arrested even when talking. DYSPNOEA, in evening in bed. Difficult respiration, at night when lying on back, with pressure and anxiety in chest, and general sweat. Deep breathing, shrill whistling on inspiration, on inspiration, worse ascending stairs. Threatenings of asthma. “Chronic asthma, with suffocative fits in the forepart of the night, and with burning in the chest.” In this condition there is often found the necessity to have the windows and doors open in order to breathe.
Chest : Cracking in sternum on motion. A swollen gland on ensiform cartilage is painful to touch. Mucus, obliging hacking. Rattling at night; rattling, better expectoration, with snoring.
STICKING IN LEFT SIDE; in sternum; beneath sternum; externally in right side; in left pleura; left side in afternoon, worse walking quickly and ascending stairs. In right side or in region of heart at night on motion, when lying on back; in pectoral muscles on moving arms; beneath right breast on coughing; IN LEFT ON BREATHING. Sticking in chest, EXTENDING TO BACK; EXTENDING FROM RIGHT SIDE INTO SCAPULA; in left, extending towards heart, taking away the breath, with thirst; in right chest, through stomach and pit of stomach. Cramp at times. Shattering when coughing, and in abdomen. Pain in sternum, so that he could scarcely bend forward, better holding himself upright; pain, on moving arms; pain in sternum, with oppression of breath. Bruised pain in upper part, on deep breathing, worse forenoon, better afternoon. Lungs feel as if resting against back when coughing.
PRESSURE (Phos.), in morning better rising; at 8 A.M., so that he could hardly breath; transversely across middle, as from swallowing too large a morsel. OPPRESSION, all day; with strained pain. Constriction; on deep breathing after rising; on motion; spasmodic, beneath sternum when sitting. Heaviness.
ANXIETY (Phos.). Sensation of mucus, after the raising of which the respiration was more free. Rush of blood; in morning on waking.
Weakness at night, worse getting into bed so that he cannot lie long on one side and is eager for the morning. WEAKNESS WHEN TALKING (Phos.; Stann.); on reading aloud; with difficulty in breathing.
“Valuable in later stage of pneumonia, when the inflammatory process fails to resolve, the lung continues dull and the cough dry, the patient begins to have fever at night, hot hands and feet and hot head; a few doses of Sulphur will then generally cause the cough to loosen and the hepatization to resolve. In hydrothorax it follows Bryonia well. In the earliest stage of tuberculosis, need of fresh air, feet and head hot, hand and feet burn at night, palpitation, atonic dyspepsia, with need to eat at 11 A.M., etc.” It should be especially thought of when the patient has a history of any psoric taint, and in the majority of cases there has been a history of a previous skin eruption that was treated by some local application.
Heart : Rush of blood. “It seems as though the blood rushed to the heart, causing a gasping and need of fresh air, heart feels too large. Sometimes useful in cardiac dropsies.”.
PAIN IN PRAECORDIAL REGION; after dinner. Strange motion in praecordial region, Praecordial region; pain towards evening; sensation as if it had not room enough; hollow sensation.
PALPITATION : On lying down for midday nap; at noon after a short walk, with trembling of hands; in evening; AT NIGHT IN BED; at night on falling asleep; with anxiety as if he would faint. ANXIOUS palpitation; sudden beating in evening after turning in bed. Increased pulsations in aorta, with purring noise. Irregular action. Pulsations diminished in number.
PULSE: RAPID, in evening; and hard, full; also small, soft. Feeble and intermittent. Pulsation in left carotid.
Neck: Inflammation of a gland on nape close to hair, with itching. Painful swelling anteriorly and externally. Cracking in vertebrae; on bending head backward, with stiffness of nape. Sticking in nape on stooping. Bruised pain and tension in nape and between scapulae, which go to shoulder on moving the head. Drawing pain in right side; in nape and scapulae. Stiffness. Paralytic sprained pain in nape.
Back : Aching: at night, WITH BRUISED SENSATION IN SMALL OF BACK, PREVENTING SLEEP (Rhus t.) WITH ORGASM OF BLOOD; on stooping; worse motion, lasting till night, sprained, on a false step; as after long stooping. Bruised feeling; in single spot; in muscles of spine. Stiffness; now in back, now in hips, worse turning over in bed, forced to hold his breath.
Sticking beneath scapulae, taking away the breath, and preventing stooping. Tension between scapulae; when lying and moving; and on side of neck.
Lumbar region : STITCHES, in bones on expiration; transversely across; pulsating. Pain, above lumbar region; after long stooping; with hypochondrial discomfort; so that she could not stand erect; pain across loins; worse walking and standing; worse turning in bed; worse sitting down and rising up. BRUISED PAIN; (Rhus t.); in coccyx; worse touch. Tension, on stooping, extending over abdomen to pit of stomach and to knee in left sacral region and hip. Drawing pain; with weakness. Lumbago. Sciatica.
“Spinal irritation, with suppression of the menses or haemorrhoids, with dry heat; also with weakness of the chest and stomach, and sleeplessness. Has been used for so-called congestions of the spinal cord.” Hip-joint disease. Curvature of spine.
Extremities: Cracking in knees and elbows. Unsteadiness of joints. Trembling; worse hands. Drawing, here and there; in knees, arms and shoulders. Tension; cramp-like, on moving, in muscles of various limbs. Weakness; falling asleep of limbs on lying down.
“Synovitis, especially when there is considerable exudation, particularly in the knee. Rheumatic gout, especially beginning in the feet and extending upward, with burning heat in feet at night.”.
Upper Extremities: Swelling of axillary glands, purulent. Sticking beneath right axilla. Tearing in left, in afternoon when knitting or sewing.
Shoulder : Sticking on motion, extending into chest. Pain in right shoulder; rheumatic: RHEUMATIC PAIN IN LEFT SHOULDER, as if dislocated in joint, worse night when lying. Drawing pain in shoulder in joint and arm. Weight on walking in open air.
Arm : Cramp after midnight. TEARING IN RIGHT ARM, WITH PARALYSIS; in arms and hands, with drawing; bruised pain. Falling asleep of arm worse after work.
Upper arm : Jerking in deltoid; drawing in humerus after midnight. Weakness, Heaviness, in humerus; with tension.
Elbow: Pain on motion. Painful drawing in nerves, extending to wrists.
Forearm: Tearing in bones, sometimes better. pressure and motion. Aching boring in bones, with rigor.
Wrist : Sprained pain, better violent motion. Sensitiveness in morning, worse moving them, and in finger-joints. Stiffness worse morning better during the day. Weakness of the right wrist, which feeling of dislocation.
Hand : Swelling of veins. Hands swollen. Palms swelling of sulphur. Tremulous sensation. Anxiety, forced to grasp something. Falling asleep after immersing in water, with crawling.
Fingers : Swelling in morning. Cramp in three middle fingers. STICKING IN TIPS (Petrol.); on flexor surface of right middle finger; in tips at night; tearing, above nail of left ring-finger worse evening. DRAWING PAIN IN SINGLE SHORT JERKS IN AFTERNOON. Numbness of fingers.
Calcutta
Chief Editor, Homeopathic Herald