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
