Hepar sulphuris calcareum

Characteristic symptoms

Drawing, tearing and stitching in the limbs and joints, especially on waking early in the morning ; increase of pain during his nightly fever, especially the cold stage ; nervous irritability, with pain to the touch and increased sensitiveness to fresh air ; faints easily at the slightest pain ; chronic suppurations ; glandular swellings, with suppuration ; erysipelas, rhagades, unhealthy skin, fetid ulcers and cutaneous affections generally ; great tendency to perspire ; sweats day and night without relief; disagreeable acid-smelling perspiration; cancer; hot and red swelling, with strained feeling ; sore and bruised pain when touching the parts ; much and convulsive yawning ; nightly sleeplessness, or disturbed sleep by thoughts passing through the head like clouds ; nightly chill, with increase of pain, or dry night heat, with headache, thirst and delirium ; hypochon dria; dejected, sad, fearful ; the slightest cause irritates him; pimples on the hairy scalp, sore to the touch ; falling off of the hair and many bald places ; erysipelatous ophthalmia, nightly spasms of the eyelids ; scabs on and behind the ears ; puriform fetid otorrhœa ; yellow complexion, with blue borders around the eyes ; flushes of heat in the face and head ; ulcerated corners of the mouth ; ptyalism, also after abuse of mercury ; painful sensation as of a plug in the throat, or stitching as from a splinter ; dyspepsia, with pressure, swelling and tension in the stomach ; putrid taste, metallic taste ; desire for wine and sour things ; bloatedness and painful sensitiveness of the abdomen, cannot bear anything tight around the waist ; slow stool, as from inaction of the bowels ; green slimy diarrhœa with a sour smell ; sour-smelling diarrhœa in children ; dysentery, with discharges of bloody mucus ; weakness of the bladder, with slow discharge of urine ; wetting the bed at night ; the urine looks flocculent and turbid ; greasy pellicle on the urine ; soreness of the pudendum ; diminished sexual instinct ; feeble erections ; weakness of the larynx with hectic fever ; weakness of the vocal organs ; accumulation of phlegm in the throat ; dry cough, with spasmodic retching and vomiting, or moist cough, with mucous rattling in the chest ; anxious wheezing breathing, with danger of suffocation when lying down; night cough; anxious feeling about the heart, with palpitation, in hypertrophy ; swellings on the hands and feet, disposed to suppurate ; hang nails and ring-arounds.