COMMON NAMES:
SULPHATE OF LIME: PLASTER OF PARIS; GYPSUM.
Symptoms
It corresponds to the suppurative processes, abscesses, etc. (D.).
Glandular swellings (Bad., Belladonna, Bromium, Calcarea, Carb-An., Graphites, Hepar, Iodium, Kali-M., Lycopodium, Mercurius, Acid nitricum, Phosphorus, Rhus toxicodendron, Silicea, Sulphur) (Bl.).
When the abscess has broken or has been lanced and is discharging, then Calcarea sulph., comes in; the presence of pus with a vent the characteristic indication (D.).
Pus : thick, yellow, lumpy and bloody (B.).
Glands are enlarged and hard (Bad., Carb-An., Merc-I., Phytolacca) (Bl.).
Fistulae (Fluor-Ac., Hepar, Silicea) (B.).
Deafness, with discharge of matter from the middle ear, sometimes mixed with blood (Br.).
Pimples around ear (Rhus toxicodendron, Tell.) (Br.).
Edges of nostrils sore (Arsenicum, Borax, Graphites, Hepar, Kali-Ars, Acid nitricum) (C.).
Yellowish discharge from the posterior nares (Hydrastis, Kali bichromicum, Lycopodium, Nat-S.) (Br.).
One sided discharged from the nose (Alumina, Aurum, Belladonna, Hepar, Kali carb., Nux vomica, Phosphorus, Phytolacca, Platina, Rhododendron, Stann., Staphysagria) (C.).
Yellow coating at the base of the tongue (Natrum phos.) (Br.).
Pain in the region of the liver (Bryonia, Chelidonium, Digitalis, Hepar, Iodium, Lachesis, Mercurius, Podophyllum, Sepia, Sulphur) (C.).
Pus-like, slimy discharge from the bowels (Mercurius, Silicea) (Br.).
Unhealthy skin : ulcers do not heal rapidly (Hepar, Silicea, Sulphur (C.).
Profuse perspiration especially with hectic rise of temperature (China, Hepar, Kali-I., Mercurius, Natrum muriaticum, Silicea).
Suppuration of the tonsils (Belladonna, Hepar, Mercurius, Silicea) (D.).
Eczema: the eruption has yellowish scales, and there are many pimples and point of suppuration (Crot-T., Kali-S., Rhus toxicodendron) (Bl.).
Cough with purulent and sanious sputa and hectic fever (Hepar, Lachesis, Acid nitricum, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla, Sepia, Silicea) (Br.).
Inflammation of the eyes, with discharge of thick, yellow matter (Br.).
Abscess of the cornea (Hepar, Merc-C., Silicea) (D.).
Ophthalmia neonatorum (Age-N., Hepar, Pulsatilla, Silicea) (Br.).
Sees only one half on an object (Arsenicum, Aurum, Bovista, Calcarea, Causticum, Digitalis, Gelsemium) (C.).
Burning of the soles of the feet (Arsenicum, Calcarea, Carbo vegetabilis, Graphites, Lachesis, Lycopodium, Phosphorus, Sepia, Sulphur, Sulph-I., Zincum met.) (K.).
Inside of lips sore (Silicea) (C.).
Suppurative processes in the lungs (Ars-I., Calcarea, Ferr-P., Hepar, Kali-I., Lachesis, Lycopodium, Mercurius, Acid nitricum, Phosphorus, Silicea, Sulphur) (D.).
Rattling of mucus in the chest (Ant-T., Carbo vegetabilis, Hepar, m Lycopodium, Nat-S., Pulsatilla, Seneg., Stann., Sulphur).
Difficulty of breathing worse in the evening and during night; also when ascending, during cough and on lying.
AGGRAVATION :
In the evening: during night: when waking; during sleep; after dinner; during sleep; after dinner; during menses; and on rising from sitting.
AMELIORATION :
In the morning; after washing; from doubling up; and after scratching.
RELATIONSHIP:
It is deeper acting than Hepar. and acts after that remedy ceases to act; Silicea comes in before this remedy to favour or to prevent the suppuration.
COMPARE : Calcarea, Calendula, Hepar, Kali-M., Nux vomica, Silicea and Sulph.