# Mercurius Sulphuricus

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Syphilitic Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
There is some confusion about the identity of this drug in books. Tur peth is correctly given 
by Allen. Hering, who proved and introduced it, calls it Turpethum and Turpeth mineral.  
The Pharmacopeia of the American Institute of Homeopathy describes the white sulphate, HgSO4, under the 
heading Mercurius sulphuricus, but says it is mentioned in Allen's Encyclopedia, v ol. 6., p. 325, whereas it is 
Turpeth, the yellow precipitate, which is there spoken. 
Merc-s. has intense dyspnea,  must sit up. Respiration rapid, short, burning in chest. Cardiac pain and 
weakness. Hydrothorax (Ars.). Debility with sleepiness. Rheumatic p ains. Most pains feel as if a dull stick 
pressed on the parts and were moving in diverse curved lines, feels as if this pain were in the bones. Edema 
of legs. 
Sneezing from direct rays of sun. Sore tip of tongue. Scanty, clear, scalding urine. Watery stool s, burning in 
anus. Diarrhea early in the morning, stool bursts out in a hot stream of yellow matter. Intense evacuations like 
rice-water.
COMMENTS - Lippe is the chief clinical authority for Merc-s. He considered it as important as Ars. in dropsies 
of the chest. The symptoms on which it has been prescribed are clinical and have been well confirmed. Among 
them is “Pain in right chest extending to scapula, he can scarcely breathe, worse 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.” 
When Merc-s. acts well, said Lippe, “it produces a profuse watery diarrhea with great relief to the patient.” It is 
particularly suited to hydrothorax depending on liver or heart disorders. 
Other confirmed symptoms include sore ness of tip of tongue.  Edema of legs. Scanty and scalding urine, but 
clear. Worse in afternoon, 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Better by profuse diarrhea (dyspnea). After diarrhea stools, there 
is numbness of legs.
Temperature - Chilliness running up back with yawning and depression of spirit, followed by dull pain in 
forehead, burning in face and ears and slight fever. Chilliness, r estlessness and heaviness in upper part of 
abdomen, frequent yawning and diminished secretion of urine, in afternoon. Coldness or burning in abdomen. Wakes at 1 a.m. with severe pains along duodenum to umbilical 
region. Soreness in inguinal glands.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Morose.
- Low-spirited with chilliness and yawning.
- Di-humor after eating.
- Morose.
- Low-spirited with chilliness and yawning.
- Di-humor after eating.

### Head
- Fullness in head with occasional stitches.
- Soreness and heaviness through head, after breakfast and 
when walking about.
- Sensation of giddiness while standing after headache.
- Violent itching of hairy scalp.

### Eyes
- Oppression over eyes.
- Eyes worse from sunlight.

### Ears
- Burning in ears and in face after a chill.

### Face
- Pale, anxious countenance.
- Swelling of parotid gland.

### Mouth
- Mouth clammy and full of mucus in morning.
- Salivation.
- Burning, smarting,  stinging pain on tip of 
tongue, left side in evening.
- Lips, gums, fauces, mouth and tongue swollen, look dry and black.
- Gums and 
palate dark bluish (black), ulcerated margins.
- Nose - Sneezing in sunshine with fluent coryza.
- Swelling and soreness of tip of nose.
- Itching of nose.

### Throat
- Heat and sensation of constriction in throat.
- Burning in mouth and throat.
- Dryness of tongue and 
throat.
- Roughness in the throat and hoarseness.
- Tongue - Tongue, greenish yellow down middle, heavily coated white.
- Tongue yellowish at root.
- Enlarged 
papilla stand up like red points with flat taste in mouth and a reduced pulse.

### Chest
- Pain in right side of chest, extending to scapula, can scarcely breathe, worse from 4 p.m.
- to 5 p.m.
- Pain in chest prevents him from breathing.
- Pressure on chest.
- Burning in chest.
- Hydrothorax from liver or heart 
disorders.
- Dyspnea in children.
- Sensation of heat in larynx.
- Increased expectoration of mu cus from larynx and 
trachea.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Pain, weight in stomach, tender ness.
- Stomach s o irritated nothing would stay on it an instant.
- Violent yellow vomiting, diarrhea.

### Urinary & Genital
- Kidneys - Diminished secretion of urine, does not  urinate frequently, but has con stant pressure.
- Increased 
secretion of urine without a sediment.
- Urine dark, becoming turbid with a scum on it.
- Urine scanty and scalding, 
but clear.
- Fullness in head with occasional stitches.
- Soreness and heaviness through head, after breakfast and 
when walking about.
- Sensation of giddiness while standing after headache.
- Violent itching of hairy scalp.
- Kidneys - Diminished secretion of urine, does not  urinate frequently, but has con stant pressure.
- Increased 
secretion of urine without a sediment.
- Urine dark, becoming turbid with a scum on it.
- Urine scanty and scalding, 
but clear.
- Gonorrhea and syphilitic diseases with great congestions to the parts.
- Swelling of testicles.
- Involuntary 
emission and lascivious dreams.

### Extremities
- Numbness in left forearm and hand, later numbness in right hand.
- Hands icy cold with blue nails.
- Stiffness in arms.
- Pain in knees and lameness, especially when walking.
- Foot-sweat with soreness at ends of 
the nails.
- Ulcers on ankles.

### Skin
- Induration of the glands.
- Psoriasis, leprosy.

### Sleep
- Frequent yawning and great sleepi ness in afternoon.
- Sleeplessness after midnight.
- Awakens with 
headache in morning.