Acidum Sulphuricum

Acidum Sulphuricum
Sulphuricum acidum
(sulphuric acid)
* The "debility" common to acids shows itself here, especially in the digestive tract, giving a
very relaxed feeling in the stomach, with craving for stimulants.
* Tremor and weakness; everything must be done in a hurry.
* Hot flushes, followed by perspiration, with trembling.
* Tendency to gangrene following mechanical injuries.
* Writer's cramp.
* Lead poisoning.
* Gastralgia and hypochlorrhydria.
* Purpura haemorrhagia.
Mind
- Fretful, impatient.
- Unwilling to answer questions; hurried.
Head
- Right-sided neuralgia; painful shocks; skin feels pinched.
- Sensation as if brain was loose in forehead and falling from side to side. [Bell.; Rhus.]
- Concussion of brain where skin is cold, body bathed in cold sweat.
- Compressive pain in side of occiput; relieved by holding the hands near the head.
- Pain of outer parts, as if there were subcutaneous ulceration; painful to touch.
- Thrust in right temple as if plug were pressed in.
Eyes
- Intra-ocular haemorrhage following traumatism.
- Great chemosis of conjunctiva, with aching and sharp pain.
Mouth
- Aphthae; gums bleed readily.
- Offensive breath.
- Pyorrhoea.
Stomach
- Heartburn; sour eructations; sets teeth on edge.[Robin.] Craving for alcohol. Water causes
coldness of stomach; must be mixed with liquors.
- Relaxed feeling in stomach.
- Averse to smell of coffee.
- Sour vomiting.
- Desire for fresh food.
- Hiccough.
- Coldness of stomach relieved by applied heat Nausea with chilliness.
Abdomen
- Weak feeling, with dragging into the hips and small of back.
- Feeling as if hernia would protrude, especially left side.
Rectum
- Piles; oozing dampness.
- Rectum feels as if it had a big ball.
- Diarrhoea, fetid, black, with sour odor of body,and empty faint feeling in abdomen.
Female
- Menstruation early and profuse.
- Erosion of cervix in the aged; easily bleeding.
- Acrid, burning leucorrhoea, often of bloody mucus.
Respiratory
- Respiration rapid with shooting in cervical muscles and movement of wings of nose; larynx
moves up and down violently.
- Bronchitis in children with short, teasing cough.
Extremities
- Cramp-like paralytic contraction in arms, hands;jerking of fingers while writing.
Skin
- Bad effects from mechanical injuries, with bruises and livid skin.
- Ecchymosis.
- Petechiae.
- Purpura haemorrhagica.
- Livid, red, itching blotches.
- Haemorrhage of black blood from all outlets.
- Cicatrices turn red and blue and become painful.
- Chilblains with gangrenous tendency.
- Carbuncles, boils and other staphylococcic and streptococcic infections.
Modalities
- Worse, from excess of heat or cold in forenoon and evening.
- Better, from warmth, and lying on affected side.
Relationship
- Complementary : Puls.
- Compare : Arn.; Calend.; Led.; Sep.; Calc.
Dose
- Sulphuric acid mixed with three parts of alcohol, ten to fifteen drops three times daily for
several weeks, has been successfully used to subduethe craving for liquor.
- For homoeopathic purposes second to thirtieth potency.