Materia Medica
Hepar Sulphuris Calcareum
Hahnemann's Calcium Sulphide
Suits especially scrofulous and lymphatic constitu- tions who are inclined to have eruptions and glandular swellings. Unhealthy skin. Blondes with sluggish char-. acter and weak muscles. Great srnsitivcncss to all im- pressions. Sweating patient pulling blanket around him. Locally, it has special affinity to the respiratory mucous membrane, producing croupous catarrhal inflammation, profuse secretion; also easy perspiration. After abuse of Mercury. The tcudcncy to suppuration is most marked, and has been a strong guiding symptom in practice. Chilliness, hypersensitiveness, splinter-like pains,
Mind
Anguish in the evening and night, with thoughts of suicide. The slightest cause irritates him. Dejected and sad. Ferocious. Hasty speech.
Head
Vertigo and headache, when shaking the head or riding. Boring pain in the right temple and in root of nose every morning. Scalp sensitive and sore. Hu- mid scald-head itching and burning.( Cold sweat on
Eyes
Ulcers on cornea. Iritis, with pus in anterior chamber; purulent conjunctivitis, with marked chemo- sis, profuse discharge, great sensitiveness to touch and air. Eyes and lids red and inflamed. Pain in the eyes, as if pulled back into the head. Boring pain in upper bones of the orbits. Eyeballs sore to touch. . Objects appear red and too large. Vision obscure by reading; field reduced one-half. Bright circles before eyes. Hy- popion.
Ears
Scurfs on and behind the ears. Discharge of fetid pus from the eais. Whizzinig and thirobbing in ears, with hardness of hearing. Deafness after scarlet
Nose
Sore, ulcerated. S Soreness of nostrils, with catarrhal troubles. Sneezes every time he goes into a cold, dry wind, with running from nose, later, thick, of- fensive discharge. Stopped up every time he goes out into cold air. Smell like old cheese. Hay-fever. (Hepar Ix will often start secretions and profuse drainage in stuffy colds.)
Face
Yellowish complexion. Middle of lower lip cracked. Vesicular erysipelas, with pricking in parts. Neuralgia of right side, extending in streak into tem- ple. ear, alx. and lip. Pains in bones of face, espe- cially when being touched. Ulcers in corners of mouth. Shooting in jaw on opening mouth.
Mouth
Ptyalism. Gums and mouth painful to touch and bleed readily.
Throat
When swallowing, sensation as if a plug and of a splinter in throat. Quinsy, zcith impending sup- puration. Stitches in thioat extending to the ear when swallowing. Hawking up of mucus.
Stomach
Longing for acids, wine, and strong-fast- ing food. Aversion to fat food. Frequent eructations, without taste or smell. Distention of stomach, com- pelling one to loosen the clothing. Burniny in stomach. Heaviness and pressure in stomach after a slight meal.
Abdomen
Stitching in region of liver when walk- ing, coughing, breathing, or touching it. [Bry.; Mlcrc.] Hepatitis, hepatic abscess; abdomen distended, tense; chroric abdominal affections.
Stool
Clay-colored and soft. Sour, white, undi- gested, fetid. Loss of power to expel even a soft stool. Urine. —- Voided slowly, without force — drops verti- cally, bladder weak. Seems as if some always remained. Greasy pellicle on urine. Bladder difficulties of old men. [Phos.; Sulph.; Copaiva.]
Male
Herpes, sensitive, lleed easily. Ulcers exter- ally on prepuce similar to chancre. [Nitr. acid.] Ex- citement and emission without amorous fancies. Itch- ing of glans, franum, and scrotum. Suppurating in- guinal glands. Figwarts of offensive odor. Humid soreness on genitals and between scrotum and thigh. a so,
Female
Discharge of blood from uterus. Itching of pudenda, worse during menses. Menses late and scanty. Abscesses of iabia with greul sensitiveness. Extremely offensive leucorrhoea. Smells like old cheese. [Sanicula.] Profuse perspiration at the climacteric. [Tilia; Jaborandi.] . Respiratory. -- Loses voice and coughs when exposed to dry, cold wind. Hoarseness, , with loss' of voice. Cough troublesome when walking. Dry, hoarse cough. Cough excited zohenevcr any part of the body gets cold or uncoz'red, or from eating anything cold. ( Croup with loose, rattling cough; worse in morning.( Choking cough. Rattling, croaking cough; suffocative attacks; has to rise up and bend head backwards. Anxious, wheezing, moist breathing, asthma worse in dry cold air; better in damp. Palpitation of heart.
Extremities
Finger-joints swollen; tendency to easy dislocation. Nail of great toe painful on slight pressure.
Skin
Abscesses; suppurating glands are very sensi- tive. Papulrs prone to suppurate and extend. Acne in youth. Suppurate e with prickly pain. Easily Mleed. Angioneurotic den:a. 1 Unhealthy skin; every little injury suppurates. Chapped skin, with deep cracks on huuds and feet. Ulcers, with bloody suppuration, smell- ing like old cheese. Ulcers very sensitive to contact, burning. stinging, easily bleeding. Sweats day and night without relief. "Cold-sores" very sensitive. Cannot bear to be uncovered; zeants to bc zerapprd up rearmly. Sticking or pricking in aflicted parts. Putrid ulcers, surroundod by little pimples. .Great sensitiveness to slighitest touch. Chronic urticaria. Small-pox. Herpes circinatus. Constant offensive exhalation from the body.
Fever
Pustules in auditory canal and auricle. Mas- toiditis. Chilly in open air or from slighitcst draughit. Dry heat at night. Profuse szecat; sour, sticky, offen- sive.
Modalities
ll'orse, from dry cold winds; cool air ; slightest draught; from Mercury, touch; lying on pain- ful side. Brttcr, in damp weather. from vrapping head up, from warmth, after eating. 379
Relationships
Antidotes : Bellad.; Chau.; Sil. Compare: Acon.; Spongia; Staphis.;: Silica; Sulph.; Calc. sulph.; Myristica. Hepar antidotes bad effects from Mercury, Iodine, Potash, Cod-liver Oil. Removes the weakening effects of ether.
Dose
First to 200th. The higher potencies may abort suppuration, the lower promote it. If it is eces- ary to hasten it, give 2x.