{"id":18178,"remedy_name":"Sulphur (Sublimated Sulphur) (HMT)","remedy_type":"Remedy","alternative_names":["Sublimated Sulphur"],"miasm":"Tubercular Miasm","temperament":"Neutral","aggravation_time":"Neutral\/Anytime","keynote_indications":"Sulphur 655\nSULPHUR\n\nSulphur is among those homoeopathic  remedies that a homoeopath\ncannot do without.  It is an ex tremely potent homoeopathic remedy,\ncapable of combating infections a nd is also a topmost anti-psoric\nremedy (for details, see under Psorinum and Mercury).  Like\nPsorinum and Mercury, Sulphur has the ability to bring out the deep\npsoric disease from glands to skin.\n\nThe human body\u2019s natural defence m echanism has the capability of\nhandling all kinds of diseases.  Co nsequently, it is the basic defence\nsystem that needs to be activated and strengthened.  Sulphur works as\na powerful antibiotic by motivating th e natural defence system of the\nbody.  Sulphur is almost always needed in the treatment of chronic\ninfectious diseases and toxaemic conditions.\n\nSulphur and Silicea behave differently in response to heat and cold.\nDespite this difference, while a pati ent is being treated with Silicea,\noccasional supplementation with Su lphur adds to the working of\nSilicea.  It does not conflict with S ilicea at all.  Apart from Silicea,\nSulphur augments the functioning of many other remedies as well.\n\nSometimes, the human body becomes habituated and addicted to\ncertain things, which it cannot give up easily.  Sulphur is a profoundly\neffective remedy against such hab its and addictions.  If a remedy,\npreviously effective, becomes ine ffective during the course of the\ntreatment, then it should be discontinued for a while and Sulphur\nshould be started.  Sulphur will restore the effectiveness of the remedy\nonce again.  By nature a typical Sulphur patient is fearless and\ndisorganized.  He hates to take a bath.  An Opium a ddict also hates\ntaking a bath.  A Sulphur patient is  extremely untidy and smelly.  The\nsweat from his armpits and his feet smells awful.  The patient does not\ncare for cleanliness at all.  Ironica lly, despite being dirty, untidy and\nsmelly himself, he cannot tolera te bad odours from others.  This\nquality is basically found in all animals.  For example, a lion can\nperceive the smell of a human be ing but does not care for the bad\nsmell of his own den. This seems strange but is understandably\nSulphur 656\nnatural. In some exceptions, a Sulp hur patient becomes disgusted of\nhis own smell and may start throwing up.\n\nAs long as he is moving around, a Su lphur patient feels okay.  But as\nsoon as he retires to bed and be comes warm, his sufferings become\nworse.  This particular nature is common to Sulphur and Mercury\nboth.  Regarding the response to heat  and cold, both are similar, but\nthere are many other symptoms different from each other.  For\nexample, the mouth of a Sulphur patient is normally wet or completely\ndry, while the mouth of a Mercury patie nt is full of saliva.  The smell\nof a Sulphur patient is similar to his natural smell, however much\nstronger.  The discharges excoriate the skin.  Leucorrhoeal discharge\nin both Sulphur and Mercury is also of similar nature.\n\nA Sulphur patient may present with any possible form of skin disease\nsuch as blistering, dry itching, wet eczem a, scaling of the skin like\nfish, bleeding from the itchy ar ea and boils of different kinds ,\namong other things.  In short, any ki nd of skin disease associated with\na burning sensation and other gene ral symptoms of Sulphur will\nrespond to the Sulphur treatment well.  In skin diseases, even in the\nabsence of all the symptoms of Sulphur, it will at least clearly\ndemarcate the disease, which can then be treated appropriately.\n\nIn Sulphur there is a burning sens ation on the scalp, in the eyes, the\nchest and the area betw een the two shoulders.  The body seems to be\non fire.   There is a burning sensation on the haemorrhoids (piles),\nskin blisters and in the stomach and throat.   Urination is also\nassociated with burning which last s for a long time afterwards.  The\nfeet also burn at night.  The patient exposes his feet out of the bed in\norder to cool them, like in Pulsatilla.\n\nIn spite of being very hungry, some  Sulphur patients can eat only a\nlittle.  This feature is most pronounced in Lycopodium.  A typical\nSulphur patient loses his morning appetite  completely.  From the\nmorning, up to eleven o\u2019 clock in th e morning, there is no appetite at\nall. At eleven o\u2019 clock, the stomach feels empty.  There is a strong\ncraving for food.  If not fed immediately, the patient may faint.\n\nIn Sulphur, the skin is very sensitive and easily grazed with the\nslightest friction.  Sulphur is one of the best treatments for eczema,\nthough not the only one.\nSulphur 657\n\nIn Sulphur patients, venous circul ation is affecte d, resulting in piles\n(haemorrhoids).  Under treatment w ith Sulphur, the piles first enlarge\nand itch before getting better.  N ux Vomica helps control the swelling\nand the itch.\n\nSometimes, the veins of the legs become distended and tortuous, a\ncondition called varicose veins .  The blood stagnates and may then\nclot inside the veins (venous thrombosis).  There are many\nhomoeopathic remedies that can relieve this condition. Sulphur is\ncertainly one of them.\n\nSulphur is also very useful in the treatment of menopausal\nsyndrome i.e. hot flushes on the face and head, as well as pressure on\nthe heart.  Pulsatilla is also used in this condition, but I have not found\nit as effective as it is claimed to  be. Pulsatilla combined with\nBelladonna proves to be much more effective.  However, if the patient\nexhibits symptoms matching Sulphu r, then Sulphur alone may bring\nabout the cure.\n\nAs in Lachesis, the symptoms of Sulphur aggravate after sleep and the\npatient wakes up agitated.  Restlessness starts becoming worse in\nthe latter part of the night.  This is due to mental anguish rather than\nbeing of a physical nature.  Th e patient wakes up confused and\nrestless.  By eleven o\u2019 clock in the morning, restlessness affects the\nstomach.  At night, the symptoms of Sulphur are aggravated due to the\nwarmth of the bed and not merely by sleeping, as in Lachesis.\n\nSometimes, after the childbirth, the placenta remains partially retained\nin the uterus, inviting severe inf ection.  There is nothing better than\nSulphur and Pyrogenium to combat  this infection.  Sulphur 200 and\nPyrogenium 200 may be useful in any chronic infection and fever\nfollowing a nasal cold usually untreatable with common remedies.\n\nSulphur is also very useful in the treatment of gout .  By taking\nSulphur, sometimes the suppressed symptoms of gout may erupt.\nBeing scared off, the patient may gi ve up using Sulphur.  In fact, the\ncontinued use of Sulphur will cure th e gout completely.  If Sulphur is\nwithheld at this stage, the gout will become suppressed and\npredisposed to other deep-seated illnesses that may be hard to treat.\n\nSulphur 658\nLike Silicea, in tuberculosis and chronic lung diseases, Sulphur should\nalso be used with the utmost care for fear of provoking a severe\nresponse from that part of the body.  The lungs, already weakened,\nmay rupture.  Sulphur exposes the causative organisms (tuberculous\nbacilli), out of the cells and their prot ective shells just as in Silicea.  If\nbacteria are abundantly present and overwhelming, then the weakened\nbody will not be able to cope with them.  Rather it will be overcome\nwith the disease.  Silicea has th e natural tendency to expel foreign\nbodies from the body, which may mere ly be a particle of sand, a\nretained bullet or a piece of glass.   Silicia will provoke a severe body\nresponse in the presence of a dvanced and well-established\ntuberculosis, the patient may even die.  It is the duty of every good\nhomoeopath to avoid giving a very high potency Silicia to such a\nweak person.  At the outset, a low potency should be administered and\nthen as the body gets acclimatised, higher potencies may gradually be\nadministered.  Additionally, Stannum may also be used to build up the\ndefensive capability of the body.\n\nIt should not be forgotten that a Sulphur patient is of a hot constitution\nand a Silicea patient is of a cold constitution.  Calcarea Carb, unlike\nSilicea and Sulphur, helps form a protective shell of calcium around\nthe bacteria which become imprisoned.  It should be remembered that\nthe administration of Sulphur imme diately after the treatment with\nCalcarea Carb can cause severe comp lications.  If Sulphur has to be\ngiven at all, Lycopodium must be us ed prior to its use. Sulphur also\nworks well in the treatment of shingles (herpes zoster).\n\nSulphur is also useful in the treatment of morning diarrhoea .  Dr.\nKent has, however, warned against the use of Sulphur in treating\nmorning diarrhoea in a patient of tuberculosis, because by suppressing\nthe diarrhoea it will badly affect th e lungs already diseased, resulting\nin serious consequences.  The diar rhoea of a tuberculosiis patient\nshould first be treated with milder remedies and then the attempt may\nbe made to cure the tuberculosis.\n\nSulphur is also very useful in the treatment of measles.  If the burning\nsensation and restlessness aggravat e, but the typical rash does not\nappear and there is a fear that the disease could affect the internal\nlinings, then besides Sulphur, Arseni c may also be used.  In Sulphur,\nrestlessness is not as profound as in Arsenic, though the feeling of\nintense burning is similar to Arsenic.\nSulphur 659\n\nSulphur, like a few other homoe opathic remedies, may also control\nthe side effects of vaccination.\n\nA Sulphur patient is philosophical in nature and some indeed happen\nto be so.  If this desire amounts to a frenzy, then a dose or two of\nSulphur in high potency will make th em feel well. Some of them are\n\u201ceconomic philosophers\u201d who simply  present economic schemes all\nthe time, but do not do anything pract ical.  Even if they put their\nscheme into practice, they lose a ll their assets. They are extremely\nlazy.  They cannot put their heart into  anything.  They remain lost in\ntheir own ideas.  These pe ople should also be tr eated with Sulphur in\nhigh potency.\nA Sulphur patient frequently suffers from headache, at least once a\nweek.  Unlike other symptoms of Sulphur, which get worse in a\nheated bed and a warm room, the headache gets better with the\napplication of heat and hot fomentation.\n\nThey have flashing lights before their eyes. Sometimes, on lifting the\nhead up, the patient sees stars. He may see spots of different colours\nbefore his eyes.  Usually these sy mptoms occur before the onset of\nheadache.  Sulphur given at the outset will prevent the headache.\nSulphur is also useful in the treatment of eczema and chronic\nitching as well as chronic cold associated with a bad smell from the\nnose.  The patient is aware of this bad smell himself, whereas\nnormally he is not aware of his own smell.\n\nSulphur is also very useful in the treatment of neuralgic pain on right\nside of the face.  Sulphur is also a good homoeopathic remedy for the\nlips becoming fissured and ulcerated.  Sulphur can also be helpful in\nthe treatment of chronic enlargement of the glands,  as well as the\nserial enlargement of the neck glands both on the right and left\nside.\n\nIf other symptoms of Sulphur are present, then it can also cure\nswollen gums and loose teeth .  If only one tooth hurts, then some\nother remedies should be looked for, instead of Sulphur.\n\nFlatulence and distension of the abdomen with gas can benefit from\nmany remedies, though a pr ecise remedy is difficul t to find.  In case\nSulphur 660\nother remedies have failed, Sulphur may be useful, especially if the\ngas is offensive.\n\nSulphur is very important in the treatment of cholera .  During an\nepidemic, Sulphur should be used  extensively as a preventive\nmeasure.  Sulphur 200 once a day for a few days can protect against\ncholera in the absence of other common remedies.  Sulphur alone may\nsuffice.  Sulphur is very deeply related to cholera.\n\nSulphur has a profound effect on the prostate gland .  For a better\nresult, it should be given combined w ith Thuja.  If ot her symptoms of\nSulphur such as foul smelling sweat from the feet and armpits,\nsymptoms of the scalp, hands and feet, do not resemble that of\nSulphur, then Sulphur will not be effective.  In other words, the mere\npresence of urinary symptoms is not enough to necessitate treatment\nwith Sulphur.\n\nSulphur is beneficial in the treatment of sexual weakness in men as\nwell as in women .  It is also very effective in the treatment of\ninfertility in women.\n\nThe mental symptoms of Sulphur are pronounced: a weak memory,\ndifficulty in concentrating, a headache getting worse on lowering the\nhead, constant recurrent headache,  and dandruff causing the hair\nto fall, are also indicative of Sulphur.\n\nA Sulphur patient feels pressure and a burning sensation over the area\nof the heart and breathing becomes laboured.  The patient likes to be\nin the open air.  He feels suffocated at night, with a feeling of pressure\non the chest.  The Sulphur ailments become worse on resting, standing\nup, by the warmth of the bed, on taking a bath and in the morning.\nThe patient feels relieved by lying on the right side and in hot weather.\n\nIn people working in coal mines or related to the coal industry in any\nway, Sulphur is a very usef ul and essential remedy to prevent the\ndiseases of the lungs.\n\nAdjuvants: Aloe, Psorinum, Aconite, Arnica, Stannum, Pyrogenium\nand Thuja, etc.\nPotency: 30 and higher","modalities":"","symptoms_by_system":[],"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}