SULPHUR


Respiratory symptoms of homeopathic remedy Sulphur, described by Van Denburg in his book, Therapeutics of Respiratory system, cough & coryza, published in 1916….


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CORYZA.

FLUENT CORYZA-

Fluent, clear, watery, acrid coryza; fluent in the open air, stopped indoors.

Frequent sneezing.

Fluent, watery coryza, with chilliness and sneezing, (acute).

Offensive smell before the nose.

Dry coryza with rawness of chest; throat dry.

Chronic coryza, with loss of taste and smell.

DISCHARGES-

Watery, acrid, burning.

Yellow, glutinous, fetid. (Chronic.)

Itching and burning in nostrils as if sore; also inflamed and swollen. (Chronic coryza.).

COUGH.

DRY COUGH-

Dry cough at night, from dryness of throat; with constant desire to swallow to moisten the throat.

Dry cough, with hoarseness and dryness in throat, and watery coryza (acute); headache as if torn or bruised.

Short, hard, racking, dry cough, in paroxysms, from tickling. Dry cough, evening and night; becomes loose in morning.

Severe, acute, dry cough, from itching in bronchi; accompanied by retching, hot flashes, cold feet, and faintness, about 10 A.M.

CHRONIC, DRY COUGH-

Chronic, dry cough, long time in the evening in bed, preventing sleep.

Scanty, chronic cough, evening before going to bed; scanty mucus.

CHRONIC, LOOSE COUGH-

Loose, chronic cough; with copious, purulent, blood-streaked mucus; fever, and night sweats; exposure to cold draft gives feeling of ice in chest.

Hollow, hard, racking, chronic cough, in paroxysms.

Chronic cough; only when lying down in the daytime; ending in easy, scanty sputa.

SPUTA-

None at night; only in the morning and by day, with stitching pains under left shoulder-blade.

Yellow, greenish, purulent, or milk-white mucus.

Salty, sourish, flat, offensive, or purulent tasting.

Greenish lumps of sweetish taste: Copious, purulent, blood-streaked mucus.

WORSE-

Evening; at night; midnight till 2 A.M.

From cold; cold air; damp weather.

After sleep.

Eating acids; eating highly seasoned foods.

Exposure to cold drafts gives feeling of ice in chest.

During day; and evening, lying down; scanty cough; sputa, whitish.

From least atmospheric change.

At night, dry; loose by day; night and morning, dry cough.

When going to sleep; with hot face and cold hands.

Keeping awake a long time.

CHEST AND RESPIRATION-

Stitches in left chest through to scapulae (acute pleurisy).

Oppression, heaviness, and pressure on chest.

Feels suffocated; wants doors and windows open, especially at night.

Burning in chest, rising to face.

Shortness of breath from talking too much.

Asthmatic attacks from suppressed eruptions, especially chronic eruptions.

SENSATIONS-

Oppression; constriction; burning; stitches, in chest.

Stitching pains under left shoulder blade.

Rawness and burning in throat; with hoarseness and aphonia.

Scraping and hawking in throat.

Hoarseness; gradually increasing to complete loss of voice; chronic hoarseness.

As of ice in chest; from exposure to cold or draft.

Tickling, itching, burning in one spot, or at one point, in throat or chest; or, Diffused tickling and itching, causing violent cough.

Tickling in larynx as of down; or tickling, itching, and pricking on left side of larynx.

SPECIAL-

Chronic cough; secondary conditions in chest affections.

M.W. Van Denburg
M. W. (Marvin W.) VAN DENBURG, A.M., M.D.
Author of "A homoeopathic materia medica on a new and original plan ... A sample fascicle containing the arsenic group."
"Therapeutics of the respiratory system, cough and coryza, acute and chronic : repertory with index, materia medica with index"