Hepar sulphur
Keywords
- Oversensitive physically, mentally.
- Every little injury suppurates.
- Horrid impulses.
Synopsis (identifying features)
- Oversensitive touchy.
- 1. General tendency to suppuration - abscesses of glands
or elsewhere.
- Even a scratch on the skin suppurates.
- 2. Sweats easily and profusely.
- Sweat does not relieve (rev. Psor.).
- 3. Chilly, agg.
cold dry air/weather.
- Wears an overcoat even in hot weather.
- Better from warmth.
- 4. Extremely sensitive physically and mentally to
- (a) Cold air, esp. dry; cannot bear to be uncovered.
- (b)Touch, faints from pain caused
by slightest touch, esp in inflamed parts; cannot
bear clothes to touch painful parts.
- (c)Noise.
- 5. Mentally oversensitive.
- Angry at trifles, irritable, dissatisfied, violent, with
murderous impulse.
- Hasty.
- Horrid impulses.
- Rage leads to violence.
- 6. Pain
- Sharp splinter-like or like fish-bone (throat - Arg. nit., Nit. ac.), in inflammation - boils, eruptions and pustules
– in chancres (Nit. ac.), in felons.
- 7. Glands become hard and suppurate - groin, axilla, mammary.
- 9. Semi-paralytic conditions :
- a.Urine
flows intermittently (Con); no force; drops vertically.
- b.Cough
loose, but cannot expectorate.
- c.Soft
stool, difficult to expel.
- d.Digestion
difficult, impeded.
Mind
- Oversensitive (mentally and physically), and irritable to
slight things.
- Quarrelsome, hard to get along with.
- Nothing pleases him.
- Dissatisfied with oneself and
others.
- Wants to kill those who offend him, even loved ones; to
set things on fire.
- Horrid impulses to kill, or throw child in the fire.
- Hasty in speech, drinking and eating, suicidal disposition
with fear of death.
Objective
- Chilly, oversensitive to COLD, to pain.
- Sweats easily and profusely; but dare not uncover.
- Every injury or hurt FESTERS, suppurates; much thick pus.
- Weakness and much rattling in chest; choking, barking
cough, but cannot expectorate.
- Body exudes a foul odour.
- Enlargement of glands.
- Chapped skin with deep cracks on hands and feet.
- Sweat profuse, sour, sticky, offensive; from least
exertion.
Causation (a.f.
)
- Suppression of skin affections asthma, diarrhoea,
dysentery; injuries; suppressed eruptions.
Modalities
- Agg.
- Cold dry weather, winter, cold wind, drafts of air.
- Part of body becoming cold.
- Least uncovering.
- Touch.
- Noise.
- Lying on painful part.
- Night.
- Periodically; everyday - four weeks - four months; every
winter.
- Amel.
- Wet weather.
- Heat.
- Warm wraps to head.
- Moist head.
- Damp weather.
- Warm wet applications.
- Physical exertion.
Food & drinks
- Appetite
- Capricious
- Desires something, but when he gets it does not like it.
- Thirst
- Drinks hastily.
- Craving
- Longing for sour pungent things; (condiments); highly seasoned
food; stimulants; vinegar.
- Aversion
- Fatty food.
Female
- Pussy leucorrhoea, smells like old cheese.
- Anteverted uterus causes painful
coition.
- Menses too erratic, scanty or copious; membranous.
Male
- Flow of prostatic fluid after urination; during stool.
- Obstinate gonorrhoea.
Child
- Smells sour.
- Very cross.
- Does not laugh or amuse itself.
- Sits silent and speechless in a corner; aversion to play;
cries before cough.
- Diarrhoea in children, green
sour stool (Calc, Mag-c).
Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics
- 1. Eyes
- Herpes following the course of the supraorbital
nerve; severe pain as if the eye would be drawn back into the head.
- 2. Ears
- Mastoiditis.
- Throbbing in ears.
- 3. Nose
- Nosebleed after singing.
- 4. Teeth
- Toothache, worse in warm room.
- 5. Throat
- Splinter-like sticking in throat extends to ear on
yawning.
- 6. Throat
- Chronic hypertrophy of tonsils, with hardness of hearing
(Bar. c, Lyc., Psor., Quinsy.
- 7. Bladder
- Atony; must wait a while for the
the urine to pass.
- Feeble, stream drops vertically; bladder can't be emptied.
- 8. Respiration
- Asthma; moist wheezing; agg. in dry cold air, better in damp.
- Rattling mucus which the child cannot raise; choking,
strangling cough spells; must sit up and bend head backward for relief of
asthma.
- 9. Respiration
- Cough from least uncovering - barking, croupy, choking; aggr. cold air, cold drinks.
- 10. Respiration
- Weakness of chest with much rattling respiration (when
Ant. t fails).
- 11. Sleep
- Sleeps on back, with head inclined backward; in sitting
position.
- 12. Dreams
- Anxious; or escaping danger; vexatious; of window broken.
- 13. Skin
- Itching of skin during jaundice.
- 14. Skin
- Nettlerash, chilly, violent
itching, stinging disappears as heat begins.
- Moist eruptions in folds of skin.
- 15. Skin
- Skin suppuration if inevitable give
low 30 or 200 to hasten suppuration.
- Higher to prevent suppuration.
- Suppurative process; Hep.s. before abscess opens, after
opening Calc. s or Sil.
- 16. Skin
- Skin unhealthy - ulcers, herpes, surrounded by little
pimples, pustules.
- They spread by coalescing.
- Violent itching.
- Carbuncles surrounded by indurated
spots.
- 17. General
- Alternations
- Asthma with eruptions.
- Constipation with diarrhoea.
- 18. General
- Discharges profuse, foul, sour-smelling like old cheese.
Cases
- 85. Hepar sulph:
- Kent's Repertory (p. 822) gives Hep., Phos.
and Sil. with
three marks for "Abscess Lungs".
- Even after taking other rubrics, we find it difficult to
clinch in favour of Hepar.
- Cough agg. cold
air (KR. 784); Cough, uncovering agg. (KR. 809); Emaciation (KR. 1357); Cold, tendency to take (KR.
1349).
- Obviously he had other indications which he has not mentioned. - (F. Bruns - H.H. 1990/370)