Common Name: Sulphuret of Lime
Constitution.-- For torpid lymphatic constitutions; persons with light hair and complexion, slow to act, muscles soft and flabby.
Indications.--For diseases from abuse of Mercury. To open abscess and hasten the healing process.
Generalities.-- The slightest injury suppurates. Suppuration seems inevitable. Oversensitive both physically and mentally. Irritability, from slightest cause. Hasty. Very sensitive to cold air. Cannot bear to be uncovered, wraps himself up to the face even in hot weather. Catches cold from slightest exposure to fresh air.
Mind.-- Irritable, easily angered at silly things. Unreasonably anxious, especially about his health.
Eyes.-- Sore eyeball, sensitive to touch. Pain as if they would be pulled back into head.
Mouth.-- Crack in middle of lower lip. Speech hasty.
Throat.-- Sensation of a splinter, fish bone or plug in the throat. Quinsy, when suppuration threatens. Chronic hypertrophy of tonsils with hardness of hearing.
Stool.-- Diarrhoea of children with sour smelling clay colored stool.
Urine.-- Urine voided with difficulty, impeded flow, voided slowly, without force, drops vertically. Should wait awhile before it passes. Bladder weak, cannot pass completely, seems as if some urine always remains.
Respiratory.-- Cough from exposure to dry west wind, from uncovering of body. Croupy, choking and strangling cough.
Asthma: breathing, anxious, wheezing, rattling, short and deep, threatens suffocation. Must bend head back and sit up for relief. Asthma from suppressed eruption.
Croup from exposure to dry cold wind, deep, rough, barking cough, with hoarseness and rattling of mucus. Croup worse in cold air, from cold drinks, before midnight or towards morning.
Skin.-- The skin and its affections are very sensitive to touch, cannot bear even clothes to touch affected parts. Ulcers, herpes, surrounded by little pimples or pustules, which spread by coalescing.
Perspiration.-- Perspiration profuse day and night without relief. Perspiration sour, offensive. Sweats easily from mental or physical exertion.
Aggravation.-- Lying on painful side; cold air; uncovering; eating or drinking cold things; touching affected parts; abuse of mercury.
Amelioration.-- Warmth in general; wrapping up warmly, especially the head; in damp, wet weather.
Relationship.-- Complementary to: Calendula in injuries of soft parts.
Hepar antidotes: bad effects of mercury and other metals, iodine, iodine of potash, cod-liver oil; renders patient less susceptible to atmospheric changes and cold air.
Compare: Skin affections of Sulphur.