Hepar Sulfuris Calcareum


Hepar Sulfuris Calcareum homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


Introduction

To be prepared with the white interior of oyster shells and pure flowers of Sulphur. Impure Calcium sulphide, CaS. Preparation for use, Triturations.

Mind

Emotional. Ghostly image of one who was dead, in the morning, in bed, after waking and while conscious, which frightened him; it also seemed as though he saw his neighbor’s house burning, which also frightened him. Sad mood for many hours, she has to cry bitterly. Very hypochondriac. Everything of which she only thought was disagreeable and not right. She remembers everything that has been unpleasant during her life. Depressed, sad, apprehensive. He became completely depressed from stretching out upon the sofa. Great anxiety and uneasiness in the whole body, with painful jerking up of the lower limbs, so that she was obliged to move them back and forth for several hours, after lying down at 10 P.M. two evenings in succession. Frightful anxiety for two hours in the evening; he believed that he would die, and was sad, even to suicide. Fearful concerning sickness in the family, especially when walking alone in the open air. Violent fright on slumbering, even after eating. Fretful and impatient. Extremely fretful and obstinate. Discontented with himself. Extremely discontented and fretful about his pains, and discouraged. Irritable mood; everything that she undertook was wrong; she desired to be alone (first day). Very irritable, every trifle fretted her. Peevish about trifles. Contrary mood, he does not wish to see the members of his own family. Out of humor in the morning after rising, he will not speak; but he was happy in bed. The slightest thing made him break out into the greatest violence; he could have killed some one without hesitation. Desire for nothing. Intellectual. She made mistakes easily when talking and writing. He was quite stupid, he could neither understand nor remember anything. The thoughts vanish suddenly while at his work. Great weakness of memory while peevish; he was obliged to think a long time about anything. Unconsciousness, with irrational talking, on being aroused during the chill. Frequent short attacks of unconsciousness when walking in the open air. After some time the patient lost consciousness and fell into a stupor, with somewhat contracted, irregular, scarcely perceptible pulse, sunken, pale face, extremely cold skin and extremities, vomiting and diarrhoea. Stupefaction and heaviness in the forehead.

Head

Confusion and Vertigo. Head confused; dull headache. Confusion of the whole head, with throbbing in the forehead and temples, during the cough. Vertigo, with nausea, in the evening. Vertigo during dinner, after eructations; it became black before the eyes as in faintness, but only transiently. Vertigo, when riding in a wagon, so violent that she could not stand alone on getting out. Vertigo on rising. Great vertigo in the morning an hour after rising. Dizziness and heaviness of the head. Dizziness, with faintness and rigidity, or vanishing of vision, as if he sat in though. Everything turned in a circle with her on closing the eyes for the midday nap. General Head. Pain in the head every morning, always on shaking it. Pain in the head on shaking it, with vertigo. Tensive, confused headache over the whole head (several provers). Contractive headache before menstruation. Contractive headache, grumbling, even while walking, and pressing from within against the skull, more violent in the open air, and disappearing in the room. Dull headache in the morning, in bed, relieved after rising. Burrowing headache, with nausea, for four mornings in succession, even in bed; disappearing on binding the head tight. Pressive headache in the morning on waking. Sticking in the head, with great confusion, as to bursting of the skull, waking him at night. Sticking headache. Sticking headache after deep sleep in the morning, which disappears after walking in the open air (fourth day). Stitches in the head on rising from stooping and on every slight motion, especially after walking in the open air. Stitches in the head on stooping, with a feeling as if the head would burst; the eyes close on account of the pain. Violent headache at night, as if it would tear out the forehead, with general heat, without thirst. Violent vibration in the head during the cough. Hammering in the head. Swashing in the head. Forehead. Two painless elevated swellings on the forehead. Violent sensation of heat in the forehead. Tensive headache above the nose. Headache in the forehead, like a boil, from midnight onward, in bed, with sticking, as from needles, on stooping and coughing, also externally in the forehead, a pain like a boil and sticking, as from needles, when touched, for several mornings. Sticking headache in the forehead, as from needles. Headache in the forehead, as if bruised, in the morning on waking, lasting for some time after rising; at the same time a similar quiet but very unpleasant aching in the abdomen; moving the eyes aggravated the headache. The hat is painful to the forehead. A spasmodic jerking in the frontal muscles in the afternoon on lying down; it disappears on standing up. Temples. Boring pain in the right temples, extending upward into the head. Pressure and drawing in the temples during the day. Pulsating, sticking headache in the left temple at 10 A.M. (eighth day). Painful throbbing in the right temple. Vertex. Pressive pains, with heat, upon the vertex. Pressive pain in the vertex, with palpitation of the heart, in the evening (third day). Parietals. Boring pain in a small spot on the side of the head. Pressure in the right hemisphere of the brain, at times worse, at times better. Constant pressive pain in one- half of the brain, as from a plug or nail. Sticking headache in the right parietal region on stooping, the senses vanish (seventh day). Occiput. Pressive pain externally in the right side of the occiput, which gradually extends to the nape of the neck, throat, and shoulder-blades. Severe stitches in the occiput and both temples, as if a plug or nail were being driven in (after half an hour). Pulse like stitches in the occiput and in the lower portion of it. External Head. Falling of the hair and bald spots in various places on the head. The hair falls out profusely (fifth day).

Eye

Objective. The white of the eye becomes reddish. Very blue under the eyes. Inflammation and swelling of the eye, with redness of the white. Subjective. Pains in the eyes from the daylight.

The eyes are very painful in bright daylight if he attempts to move them. Every step hurts in the eyes. Violent pains in the eyes, as if they would be drawn into the head.

Pressure in the eyes, especially on moving them, with redness. Pressure in the eyes infrequent attacks during the day, causing lachrymation. Dull stitch in the eye. Eyes sore, agglutinated at night; secretion of hardened mucus. Tickling, causing even lachrymation (first and second days). Orbit. Boring pain in the upper wall of the orbit. Lids. Redness, inflammation, and swelling of the upper lid, with pain more pressing than sticking. She is obliged to wink after writing.

The lids are closed in the morning on waking, so that she cannot open them for a long time. Pressure in the eyelids, as if they were sleepy; they are red. Cutting pain in the external canthus. Smarting pain in the external canthus, with accumulation of hardened mucus. Bull. Pressive pain in the eyeballs, and feeling as if beaten when touched. Vision.

Obscuration of vision while reading. The eyes become dim, and he cannot see well in the evening by candlelight. Feeling of blindness before the eyes on rising and standing up after sitting bent over. Flickering and feeling as though a veil were before the eyes, he was unable to recognize any object. Flickering before the eyes, everything that she looks at seems dark, followed by great weakness.

Ear

Objective. Increased earwax. Purulent discharge from the ear. Subjective. Heat, redness, and itching of the external ears for six days. The ear is painful externally at night, when lying upon it. Violent stitches in the ear on blowing the nose. Jerking pain through the ear. Itching in the ears. Hearing. Crackling in the ear, as from electric sparks. Cracking in the ears on blowing the nose. Cracking in the right side of the head after violent blowing of the nose, after which the noises (in the ears of a deaf person) disappear, and he then hears easily (curative action). Roaring in the left ear. Murmuring in the left ear. Murmuring and throbbing before the ears in the evening after lying down, lasting till falling asleep. Whistling in the ears on blowing the nose. Whistling in the right ear on blowing the nose.

Nose

Objective. Redness and heat internally and externally in the nose, with swelling of it. Scabs in the right side of the nose. Rush of blood to the nose (immediately). Sneezing several times, at night, waking from sleep (third day). Sneezing after the paroxysms of cough. Frequent sneezing (immediately). Frequent sneezing, caused by itching of the nose. Catarrh, with inflamed swelling of the nose, which pains like a boil, with cough. Coryza, and much spitting of saliva. Coryza, with scraping in the throat. Coryza; is obliged to blow the nose every moment; therewith too great an appetite. Stopped coryza. Yellow, very glutinous water drops from one nostril. Blowing of offensive mucus from the nose, even without catarrh. Nosebleed, repeated two days. Nosebleed, after singing. Some drops of blood exude from the nose every morning (even after a quarter of an hour). Blowing of clotted blood from the nose. The mucus from the posterior nares was completely mixed with blood. Subjective. Stoppage of the nose, after a stool. Burning in the nose, lasting into the night. Contractive feeling in the nose. Drawing pain in the nose, which then extends to the eyes and becomes a biting, in the morning. Sore pain on the back of the nose, when touched. The bones of the nose are painful to touch. Ulcerative crawling in the left half of the nose, on blowing it, as from a foreign body. Tickling in the nose, causing sneezing. Smell. Very fine smell.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.