Dr. Sherazi Foundation

Cadmium sulphuratum
(cadmic sulphate)
* Its pathogenesis gives symptoms corresponding tovery low forms of disease, as in cholera,
yellow fever, where, with exhaustion, vomiting, andextreme prostration, the disease runs
deathward.
* Important gastric symptoms.
* Carcinoma ventriculi; persistent vomiting.
The attack is upon the stomach more especially.
Patients must keep quiet.
Mind and head
- Unconscious.
- Vertigo; room and bed seem to spin around.
- Hammering in head.
- Heat in head.
Nose
- Ozaena.
- Tightness at root.
- Nose obstructed; polypus.
- Caries of nasal bones.
- Boils on nose.
- Nostrils ulcerated.
Eyes
- Opacity of cornea.
- Blue circle around eyes.
- One pupil dilated.
- Night blindness.
Face
- Distortion of mouth.
- Trembling of jaw.
- Facial paralysis; more left side.
Mouth
- Difficult swallowing.
- Oesophagus constricted. [Bapt.]
- Salty belching.
- Intense nausea, with pain and cold.
- Stringy, offensive exudation on mucous membrane.
- Salty taste.
Throat
- Sore throat, constant tickling; gagging and nausea, worse deep breathing; chilliness and
aching.
Stomach
- Soreness in pit of stomach on pressure.
- Violent nausea; retching.
- Black vomit.
- Vomiting of mucus, green slime, blood, with great prostration, and great tenderness over the
stomach.
- Burning and cutting pains in stomach.
- Carcinoma, helps the persistent vomiting.
- Coffee ground vomiting.
Abdomen
- Sore, tender, tympanitic.
- Region of liver sore.
- Coldness.
- Black, offensive clots of blood from bowels.
- Pain in abdomen, with vomiting.
- Tenderness and tympanites.
Stool
- Bloody, black, and offensive.
- Gelatinous, yellowish green; semi-fluid, with urinary suppression.
Urine
- Rawness and soreness in urethra, urine mixed with pus and blood.
Heart
- Palpitation, with constriction of chest.
Fever
- Icy coldness. [Camph.; Verat.; Heloderm.] Yellowfever. [Crotalus; Carbo.]
Skin
- Blue, yellow, sallow, scaly, cracking.
- Itching; better scratching.
- Chloasma, yellowish stains on nose and cheeks; worse exposure to sun and wind.
- Chilblains.
Sleep
- Stops breathing on going to sleep.
- Wakes up suffocating.
- Fears to go to sleep again.
- Protracted sleeplessness.
Modalities
- Worse, walking or carrying burdens; after sleep;from open air, stimulants.
- Better, eating and rest.
Relationship
- Compare : Cadmium oxide; Cad. brom. (pain and burning in stomach, and vomiting)
- ; Cadmium jodat. (Itching of anus and rectum felt during the day only; constipation frequent
desire, tenesmus, abdomen bloated)
- ; Zinc.; Ars.; Carbo; Verat.
Dose
- Third to thirtieth potency.