SULFURICUM ACIDUM


Sulphuric Acidum 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.

Sulphuric acid, H2SO4.

Preparation: Dilutions with water.

Mind.

Delirious shortly before death. For two nights, delirious and recognized no one. Uneasiness (after twelve hours). Nervous excitement. He was roused with difficulty, and when roused resisted fiercely, saying in a hoarse muffled voice, “Let me alone, let me die.” Excessively jocose. Exaltation of mind and disposition. Great distraction of mind; she often gave inappropriate answers. Hasty mood; nothing that she does can be finished quickly enough, though she makes unusual effort.

Constant moaning. Moaning very deeply (after half an hour).

Lachrymose without cause (first day). Very sad irritable mood.

Melancholy and weary of life. Dull gloomy mood, in the morning.

Despondent morose mood. Most excessive anxiety, and burning pain and heat in the stomach. Great anxiety, with restless tossing about. Extreme anxiety and nausea, followed by vomiting of mucus (immediately). Anxious, quarrelsome, averse to answering.

Diminution of the anxious oppressed mood and of the despondency with exaltation, and therefore (as curative action) a quiet refreshed condition. Great apprehension, from morning till evening (thirteenth day). Apprehensive and grieving, with inclination to weep (second day). Depressed. Was in a state of great fright. Very fearful, despondent, fretful. Very fearful; extremely mistrustful. Ill-humor, fretfulness. Ill-humor all day; she avoids speaking to every one. Extremely peevish, in the morning on waking. Very peevish, even during the day. It frets her to talk. Aversion to talking. Fretful, peevish, impatient, if his work is not done to suit. Sedate, earnest conditions of mind. So irritable and sick that she started violently at everything. Unconsciousness. Paroxysms of stupefaction.

(Stupor). (* Revised by Hughes. *) Inclination to coma.

Head.

Vertigo. Vertigo, in the afternoon, while sewing, as if she would fall from the chair. Vertigo, even to reeling; was obliged to lie down constantly, for as soon as she rose the vertigo reappeared. Vertigo in the house, which disappears in the open air. General Head. Dull pain in the head, as if full. Pressive dulness in the head. Dulness and heaviness of the head, in the morning. Sensation of heaviness and fullness in the head; she was obliged to hold it forward. Heaviness and pain in the head, as if the bran fell forward and came up again. Weakness in the head.

Headache. Pain as if the head would burst. Pain as if the head were shattered, in the morning after waking, and yet great sleepiness. Drawing headache, in the evening. Drawing headache, especially in the right side, towards the forehead. Drawing and tension in the head. Tearing in the whole head, day and night.- Stitches here and there in the head, when walking in the open air. Dull stitch deep in the brain, above the left frontal eminence, suddenly increasing, then diminishing, and at last suddenly disappearing. Forehead. Dulness and fullness in the forehead, the whole forenoon. Pain as from a blow, near the left frontal eminence, first in-creasing, then suddenly disappearing.

A feeling in the frontal region as if the brain loose and fell back and forth. Painful sensation of soreness, above the left frontal eminence, which is always more acute in isolated jerks.

Constriction in the forehead, at first increasing, then suddenly disappearing. Pressure, as from a blow, in the right side of the forehead, first increasing, then suddenly disappearing. Frequent pressive and burning headache in the forehead and eyes. Tearing and sticking in the right side of the forehead, relieved by pressure, in the evening. Sudden painful jerking above the left frontal eminence. A violent jerk from time to time beneath the left frontal eminence, suddenly disappearing. Painful tearing in the middle of the forehead, towards the left side. Acute pain beneath the right frontal eminence, as if the brain were loose and knocked against the skull, painful on shaking the head.

Sticking pain, now in the forehead, now in the occiput. Dull stitches in the forehead, now in the right, now in the left side, extending deep into the brain. Stitches, sudden, dull, and very sensitive, like thrusts, above the left frontal eminence, extending into the brain. Temples. Grumbling from time to time in the temporal bones. Pressing inward in both temples. Drawing in the left temple, rather external and in a small spot. Thrust in the right temple, as if a plug were sticking in and constantly pressed deeper. Single shooting-thrusting jerks in the right temple. A burning pain in the temples, as from a thrust or bruise, in wavelike intermissions. A painful tearing in the left temple, while sitting during breakfast. Tearing in the right temple, towards evening. Vertex and Parietals. Pressive pain in the vertex, while standing. Sudden confusion in the right side of the head, as from smoke, while sitting. Sensation of heaviness in the left side of the head. Sensation as if the left side of the head, before the ear, were screwed in. Stupefying throbbing pain in the right side of the head, on rising after stooping.

Occiput. Compressive pain in the sides of the occiput, relieved by even holding the hands towards the head without touching it. Pressure and sticking in the left side of the occiput. External Head. The hair becomes gray and falls out. Much eruption on the head, face, and nape of the neck. Small pimples on the forehead and side of the nose. External pain over the whole head, as from suppuration, also painful to touch. Violent itching on the head. Violent itching on the scalp.

Eye.

Objective. Redness of the eyes, and constant lachrymation and photophobia. Eyes and face ghastly. Eyes protruding. The eyes fixed, and with the pupils slightly contracted, but not very sensitive to light (in two hours). Eyes sparkling. Eyes lusterless and watery. They immediately felt a severe burning sensation, especially in the eyes. On admission into the hospital, their eyes were much inflamed, the lids were swollen, and the right eye of the father looked dull and opaque. On the fourth day the conjunctiva of the right eye of the father acquired a jellylike consistence, and on the eighth day the cornea, which all along had been opaque, sloughed away, giving exit to the lens and a portion of the vitreous humor. For more than a week this eye continued inflamed, and it discharged large quantities of purulent matter. At the present time the eye is still suppurating and gradually wasting away. Eyes sunken and expressive of suffering (sixteenth day). Subjective. Sensation of a foreign body in the right outer canthus, in the morning when walking, disappearing in the house. Burning and lachrymation of the eyes, while reading in the commencing twilight. Frequent violent burning in the eyes (sixth day). Biting burning and lachrymation in the left eye, while reading during the day.

Frequent biting in the right eye (first day). Orbit. Tearing on the margin of the right orbit, extending towards the temples, as if under the skin. Pain as from a plug thrust in just above the left orbit, at first increasing, then suddenly disappearing. A dull thrust, from within outward, just above the margin of the right eyelid on every paroxysm of cough. Lids. Eyes agglutinated, in the morning. Twitching in the right inner canthus. The eyelids sink down and he cannot open them. Pressure in the outer canthus.

Sticking itching on the lower lid; he is obliged to rub it.

Lachrymation. Lachrymation. Ball. Burning pressure in the anterior portion of the left eyeball, in the open air; in the house the pain ceased, and there was pain only on looking intently, so that she was obliged to abstain from using the eyes.

Pupil. Eyes mostly closed, but pupils were small and piercing.

Pupils greatly dilated, with lusterless eyes. Pupils contracted and not obedient to the stimulus of light. Vision. Photophobia (fourth week). Dimness of vision, in the morning. Twitching sensation before the vision, with weakness.

Ear.

Violent tickling in the concha. Tearing in front of the left ear and up into the temple. Tearing deep into the left ear, followed by crawling in it. Jerking in the right ear, preceded by the exit of agreeable warmth. Tearing and sticking in the right ear, rather external. Drawing from within outward in the right meatus. Hearing. Diminished hearing, as if a leaf were laid before the ears. Clear sounds of bells in the right ear.

Rhythmical roaring in the ears. Roaring in the left ear on opening the mouth, as from a waterfall, during dinner. Roaring in the ears, in the evening. Roaring in the ears, (fourth week).

Great roaring in the ears, lasting four hours.

Nose.

Violent coryza, with sore eyes. Coryza with loss of smell (fourth and fifth days). Fluent coryza (fourth day). Much water runs from the nose, with stoppage of one nostril. Obstinate dry coryza. Violent dry catarrh; at times he could get no air through one or the other nostril. Bleeding of the nose, in the evening, while sitting and standing. Dark-brown froth issuing from the nostrils. Ineffectual inclination to sneeze. Fine stinging prickling in the right side of the nose, so that he was obliged to rub it. A vapor mounted through the nose, followed by incessant sneezing twenty times and then stoppage of the nose.

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.