SULPHURIC ACID

Source indications

Allen's Keynotes

  • light-haired; old people, especially women; flushes of heat in climacteric years
  • unwilling to answer questions not from obstinacy, but inaptness
  • feels in a great hurry; everything must be done quickly
  • pain of gradual and slowly-increasing intensity which ceases suddenly when at its height, often repeated
  • pain is pressure as of a blunt instrument
  • tendency to gangrene following mechanical injuries, especially of old people
  • child has a sour odor despite careful washing
  • sensation as if the brain was loose in forehead and falling from side to side
  • aphthae; of mouth, gums, or entire buccal cavity; gums bleed readily; ulcers painful; offensive breath
  • chronic heartburn, sour eructations, sets teeth on edge
  • water drunk causes coldness of the stomach unless mixed with alcoholic liquor
  • sensation as if trembling all over, without real trembling; internal trembling of drunkards
  • bad effects of mechanical injuries, with bruises, chafing and livid skin; prostration
  • ecchymosis; cicatrices turn blood-red or blue, are painful
  • petechia: purpura haemorrhagia; blue spots; livid, red itching blotches
  • haemorrhage of black blood from all the outlets of the body
  • concussion of brain from fall or blow where skin is cold and body bathed in cold sweat
  • weak and exhausted from deep-seated dyscrasia; no other symptoms