HOMOEOPATHIC DRUG - SULPHUR

A full drug picture of SULPHUR is given. Starting with introduction on sulphur till its remedy relationship.

1. SULPHUR Full drug picture Presented by :- Dr. Radhika Khandelwal

2. INTRODUCTION Sulphur is an elementary substance, occuring in nature as a brittle crystaline solid, burning in the air with the blue flame, being oxidised to sulphur dioxide. Great hahnemannian anti- psoric remedy Diathesis- scrofulous Temperament- nervous Constitution

3. Suppressions of mental ailments Alcohol Sun Bed-sores Over-exertion Causa TION

4. PATHOGENESIS Subjected to venous plethora. It has portal stasis manifesting as redness at the muco-cutaneous junctions e.g. nostrils, lips, anus, etc. Affecting the skin, it produces heat and burning with severe itching.

5. Sphere of action Centrifugal from within outwards. Great affinity for the skin. Mainly act on nervous system. Venous capillary system. Affects mucous membranes of eyes, bronchi, urethra and rectum.

6. Constitution Dirty filthy people prone to skin affections. Very irritable, depressed, thin and weak, even with a good appetite

7. Constitution

8. Constitution

9. Ragged philosopher

10. MIND Very forgetful Delusions Very selfish Imagines giving wrong things to people, causing their death

11. MIND

12. MIND Delusion- is a very wealthy person

13. MIND Very selfish

14. HEAD Heat on top of head Meningitis Scalp dry Worse-stooping, washing

15. HEAD Meningitis

16. HEAD Scalp dry

17. EYES Corneal ulceration Chronic ophthalmia Ulcerative blepharitis Parenchymatous keratitis

18. EYES Fig. Corneal ulceration

19. EYES Fig. Ulcerative blepharitis

20. EYES Fig. Chronic ophthalmia

21. EARS Tinnitus Catarrhal deafness Bad effects from separation of otorrhoea

22. NOSE Imaginary foul smells Chronic dry catarrah Adenoids Alae red and scaby Dry scabs which readily bleeds

23. Mouth LIPS – dry, bright red, burning TONGUE – white with a red strip and stomatitis Bitter taste in the morning Jerks through teeth

24. Mouth Fig. Stomatitis

25. Throat Pressure, as if from a lump, from a splinter, or of a hair GLOBUS HYSTERICUS - A ball seems to rise and close the pharynx

26. stomach Complete loss of or excessive appetite Food tastes too salty Milk disagrees Great desire for sweets Very weak and faint around 11 am, must have something to eat Water fills the patient up

27. ABDOMEn Very sensitive to pressure Movements as if something alive in the abdomen Pain and soreness over the liver region Colic after drinking

28. Rectum Morning diarrhoea , painless, drives him out of bed with prolapsus recti Haemorroids , oozing and belching Frequent, unsuccessfull desire, hard knotty, insufficient

29. URINARY Frequent micturation, specially at night Enuresis – in scrofulous, untidy children Urethritis Must hurry, sudden call to micturate Great quantities of colourless urine

30. URINARY Fig. Urethritis

31. Male Involuntary emissions Itching in genitals when going to bed Organs cold, relaxed and powerless Impotency

32. FEMale Pudenda itches Vagina burns Menses too late, short, scanty and difficult ; thick black, acrid, making parts sore Menses preceded by headache Nipples cracked

33. RESPIRATORY Difficult respiration ; wants windows open Bronchitis Pneumonia Oppression, as if a load was put on the chest Dyspnea in the middle of the night, relieved by sitting up Pulse more rapid in the morning then in the evening

34. RESPIRATORY Fig. Difficult respiration ; wants windows open

35. RESPIRATORY Fig. Bronchitis

36. Extremities Hot sweaty hands Burning in soles and hands at night Cannot walk erect stoop shouldered Sweat in armpits, swelling like garlic Rheumatic gout, with itching

37. sLEEP Vivid dreams Cat naps ; slightest noise awakens Cannot sleep between 2 and 5 am Wakes up singing

38. sLEEP Fig. Vivid dreams

39. FEVER Frequent flashes of heat Violent ebullistions of heat throughout the entire body Dry skin and great thirst Night sweat on the nape and occiput , disgusting sweats

40. SKIN Dry, scaly, unhealthy ; every little injury , suppurates Freckles – itching, burning ; worse scratching and washing Pimply eruptions, pustules, hang nails Skin affections after local medications Pruritus , specially from warmth, in the evening, damp weather

41. SKIN Fig. Fleckers

42. SKIN Fig. Pimply eruptions

43. SKIN Fig. Skin affections after local medications

44. Modalities WORSE – at rest, standing, warmth of bed, bathing in the morning, 11am, from alcohol BETTER – dry, warm weather, lying on right side, from drawing affected limbs

45. Modalities

46. RELATIONSHIPS COMPLEMENTARY – Aloe; Psor ., Acon ., COMPARE – Merc ., Lyc ., Pulse., Sulphur Terebinthinatum ., Sep

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