Sulphur

Characteristic symptoms

It must never be given at the beginning of feverish muscular rheumatism, but only when, to stitching tearing, an obtuse muscular pain follows. Pains in the limbs, with weakness and numbness, and stitching in the joints with rigidity ; drawing and tearing, becoming intolerable under a feather bed ; external heat ameliorates the pains, cold aggravates ; most pains come on during rest and go off by motion ; feels worst when standing ; aggravation at night and when the weather changes ; talking fatigues him and causes pain ; sensitiveness to wind and open air ; he is worse every eight days ; inclines to catch cold ; agitation in the blood, with distention of the veins of the hands ; tremor of the limbs, especially the hands; epilepsy after a fright or after running about ; jerking in all the limbs ; unsteady gait ; difficulty of infants to learn to walk ; excessive emaciation ; itch-like eruptions ; small-pox, particularly during the suppurating stage ; liver-spots ; moles ; rhagades ; unhealthy skin ; readily bleeding ulcers ; boils ; chilblains ; stinging and lacerating in the ulcers ; glandular affections ; diseases of the bones ; chlorosis ; jaundice ; dropsy ; drowsiness in the daytime and difficulty of falling asleep ; wakeful the whole night ; on going to sleep one leg is suddenly drawn up and shot out again, partially rousing him ; sleep disturbed by frightful dreams ; talking and muttering during sleep ; nightmare ; chilliness and coldness of the whole body ; sweats readily at the least exercise ; night-sweats ; copious perspiration* in the morning; chills and fever without reaction, stupid, constantly sinking ; melancholy, despair of one's salvation ; irritated and out of humor ; taciturn ; low-spirited, inclining to weep ; disposition to philosophic and religious meditations ; the most ordinary subjects awaken extraordinary admiration ; feeling of heaviness and dullness of the head, as if the brain would fall forwards ; drawing and lacerating through the head ; seething of the blood in the head, with frequent flushes of heat ; pain as if the brain were beating against the skull ; chronic periodical headaches ; headache, followed by fetid sweats; tinea capitis; pains of the roots of the hairs ; especially on touching them ; alopecia ; ulceration of the eyelids ; obscuration and specks on the cornea ; intolerance of the light of the sun ; weakness of sight ; pale and bloated face ; deep eyes, surrounded with blue margins ; livid complexion ; hot face, with red spots between the eye and ear; circumscribed redness of the cheeks; roughness of the skin ; black pores of the nose, lips and chin • teeth loose and elongated ; swelling of the gums ; aphthae ; sweet taste in the mouth ; voracious hunger ; acidity of the stomach ; regurgitation of the food and waterbrash ; heart burn ; pressure in the stomach, as of a lump ; spasmodically contractive colic, extending into the chest, the groin and the genital organs ; cramp-colic from piles, from flatulence, relieved by sitting bent ; pinching around the umbilicus ; constipation ; insufficient stool, with sensation as if something had remained behind ; lienteria ; red mucus in the stool, with fever, loss of appetite and cutting pains in bowels; threatening ulceration of the mucous membranes of the bowels ; copious, putrid, frothy stool, with tenesmus, or suddenly and without control, patient has hardly time to leave the bed ; slimy stools, with slight streaks of blood ; nightly diarrhœa of children ; diarrhœa some hours after midnight, or driving one out of the bed early in the morning ; tenesmus continues long after stool ; haemorrhoids ; painful micturition, with discharge of drops of bloody urine ; copious micturition after midnight ; wetting the bed ; fetid urine , fetid sweat of the genital organs ; male impotence ; emissions ; suppression of the menses ; menses too pale ; burning corrosive leucorrhœa ; much mucus in the chest and throat ; suffocating fits at night during the sleep ; feeling of heaviness in the chest, as from a lump ; rush of blood to the chest, with seething ; pains in the small of the back ; hang-nails ; cold feet ; cramps in calves and soles, particularly at night, with looseness of the bowels ; blisters on the feet and toes.