Materia Medica de A a Z

SULPHURICUM ACIDUM (sul-ac)

Region

DIGESTIVE TRACT. blood. Blood-vessels. Left side.

Worse

Open air. Cold. Spirits. Injuries. ODOR OF COFFEE. Climacteric. Toward evening. Excessive heat or cold.

Better

Hot drinks. Hands near head. Moderate temperature.

General

Suited to topers, old age, etc. Disproportionate weakness. TREMOR; INTERNAL; wants to be held. Sourness. Erosion. Profuse, acrid or stringy discharges. Hæmorrhage; violent; black, thin. Parts feel stiff and tight. Pain increases slowly, then suddenly ceases. Gnawing. Great painfulness. As of a blunt plug being driven in..................... Hurried, irascible, vacillating and morose. Brain feels loose. Deathly pale or wrinkled face; white of egg seems dried on it. Congestion to head. Aphthæ. Throat sore; looks white-washed. Pyrosis. Hiccough; of drunkards. Sour belching; sets teeth on edge. Nausea. Vomiting; agg. lying on l. side. Weak, sinking at stomach, agg. after stool. Drinks chill the stomach. Very foul, green, black or hacked diarrhoa. Oozing piles. Coughs, then belches; bloody expectoration. Fingers jerk when writing. Weak knees. Black and blue spots. Petechiæ. HOT flushes, then trembling or cold sweat; agg. after warm ingesta; agg. upper parts; amel. motion. Drenching sweats.

Complementary: Puls.

Related: Ars, Lach, Sep.