SULPHUR
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- scrofulous diathesis, subject to venous congestion; especially of portal system
- nervous temperament, quick motioned, quick tempered, plethoric, skin excessively sensitive to atmospheric changes
- lean, stoop-shouldered persons who walk and sit stooping; walk stooping like old men
- standing is the worst position; cannot stand; every standing position is uncomfortable
- dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections
- aversion to being washed; always after a bath
- too lazy to rouse himself; too unhappy to live
- children: cannot bear to be washed or bathed; emaciated, big-bellied; restless, hot, kick off the clothes at night; have worms
- when carefully selected remedies fail to produce a favorable effect, it frequently serves to rouse the reactive powers of the system; clears up the case
- scrofulous, psoric, chronic diseases that result from suppressed eruptions
- complaints that are continually relapsing; patient seems to get almost well when the disease returns again and again
- congestion to single parts; eyes, nose, chest, abdomen, ovaries, arms, legs, or any organ of the body marking the onset of tumors or malignant growths, especially at climacteric
- sensation of burning: on vertex; smarting in eyes; in face, without redness; of vesicles in mouth; dryness of throat, first right then left; in stomach; in rectum; in anus, and itching piles, and scalding urine; like fire in ripples; in chest, rising to face; of skin of whole body, with hot flushes; in spots, between scapulae
- sick headache every week or every two weeks; prostrating, weakening; with hot vertex and cold feet
- constant heat on vertex; cold feet in daytime with burning soles at night, wants to find a cool place for them; puts them out of bed to cool off; cramps in calves and soles at night
- hot flushes during the day, with weak, faint spells passing off with a little moisture
- bright redness of lips as if the blood would burst through
- weak, empty, gone or faint feeling in the stomach about 11 a. m.; cannot wait for lunch; frequent weak, faint spells during the day
- diarrhoea: after midnight; painless; driving out of bed early in the morning; as if the bowels were too weak to retain their contents
- constipation: stools hard, knotty, dry as if burnt; large, painful, child is afraid to have the stool on account of pain, or pain compels child to desist on first effort; alternating with diarrhoea
- discharge both of urine and faeces is painful to parts over which it passes; passes large quantities of colorless urine; parts round anus red, excoriated; all the orifices of the body are very red; all discharges acrid, excoriating whenever they touch
- menses: too early, profuse, protracted
- menorrhagia, has not been well since her last miscarriage
- boils: coming in crops in various parts of the body, or a single boil is succeeded by another as soon as first is healed
- skin: itching, voluptuous; scratching >; scratching causes burning; from heat of bed; soreness in folds
- skin affections that have been treated by medicated soaps and washes; haemorrhoids, that have been treated with ointments
- facilitate absorption of serous or inflammatory exudates in brain, pleura, lungs, joints
- chronic alcoholism; dropsy and other ailments of drunkards; \"they reform,\" but are continually relapsing
- nightly suffocative attacks, wants the doors and windows open; becomes suddenly wide awake at night; drowsy in afternoon after sunset, wakefulness the whole night
- happy dreams, wakes up singing
- everything looks pretty which the patient takes a fancy to; even rags seem beautiful
- movement in abdomen as of a child