HEPAR SULPHURIS CALCAREUM uses / HEPAR SULPH uses / Hepar uses [Hep uses]
Note: Wherever it is found, "<" denotes aggravation (worse by), ">" denotes amelioration (better by), "<->" denotes alternation (alternates with) and A/F is an abbreviation of, "Ailments from"
Oversensitiveness (mental and physical)
Strong violent impulses. Abusive
Sepsis, abscess, suppuration
Splinter-like, burning pains
Chilly. Intolerant to drafts
COMMON NAME
| - | Sulphurate of Lime |
| - | Hahnemann's Calcium Sulphide |
FAMILY
Mineral
A/F
| - | Abuse of mercury |
| - | Cold, dry winds |
| - | Injury |
| - | Suppressed eruptions |
| - | Tobacco smoking |
MODALITIES
| < | Cold air |
| < | Uncovering |
| < | Eating or drinking cold things |
| < | Touching affected parts |
| < | Abuse of mercury |
| < | Night |
| < | Lying on painful side |
| > | Warmth in general |
| > | Wrapping up warmly, especially head |
| > | Damp, wet weather |
MIND
| - | Oversensitiveness (physical or mental), to cold,
pain, touch, noise, odours, draught of air |
| - | Faints from pain |
| - | Critical, impatient |
| - | Hasty in speech, drinking |
| - | Peevish, highly impulsive. Impulse to stab or kill |
| - | Anguish in evening and night, with thoughts of suicide |
| - | Irritable and dissatisfied with oneself and others |
| - | Starting on falling asleep |
| - | Agoraphobia |
| - | Fear and dreams of fire. Wants to set things or house on fire. Throws things
into fire |
| - | Fear on hearing of violent accidents or movies; injury; dentist |
GUIDING INDICATIONS
| - | Intense sensitivity to pain |
| - | Suppuration - tendency for all inflammations to terminate in suppuration |
| - | Suppuration sudden and rapid |
| - | Here, connective tissue is affected (Graph, Merc, Sil) |
| - | Chilliness |
| - | Extreme sensitiveness to cold air |
| - | Takes cold from slightest exposure to fresh air |
| - | Can feel air if door is opened in next room (Tub) |
| - | Pains - sore, sticking, like sharp splinters (sensation of splinter in
parts) |
| - | Discharges - profuse, foul, sour, like spoiled cheese, offensive |
| - | Sourness - diarrhoea of children, perspiration |
| - | Sweat - easy, profuse, sour, but does not uncover, without relief |
| - | Periodicity - everyday, every 4 weeks (paralysis), every 4 months, winter,
spring, autumn |
| - | Persons with light hair and complexion, slow to act, muscles soft and
flabby. Yellowish complexion, middle of lower lip cracked |
| - | Head - Sensation as if a plug or nail were being driven into head |
| - | A feeling as if the eyes were being pulled backward into head |
| - | > binding head up tightly |
| - | Eyes - Iritis. Blepharitis |
| - | Corneal ulcers |
| - | Eruptions on eyelids |
| - | Ears - Severely painful otitis media, child cannot be comforted, wakes up
with pain, shrieking |
| - | Mouth – Teeth: loose, sore, sensitive to cold drinks, abscesses at roots of
teeth |
| - | G.I.T. - Craving for sour, strong things, acids, wine, vinegar, pickles,
spicy, pungent |
| - | Aversion to fat food |
| - | Diarrhoea - chronic, painless, white or clay coloured, green or undigested,
sour or decayed odour |
| - | Even soft stool is passed slowly and with difficulty |
| - | Eructations and flatus smelling like bad eggs |
| - | Rectal abscess |
| - | Respiratory system - Recurrent bronchitis from every cold |
| - | Asthma - anxious, wheezing, rattling, short, deep breathing, threatens
suffocation |
| - | > sitting up with head bent backwards |
| - | Asthma from suppressed eruptions |
| - | Cough - when any part of the body is uncovered, croupy, choking, strangling;
deep, barking cough with hoarseness < cold things, < cold air |
| - | Sensation of splinter in throat, stitches in throat extending to ear when
swallowing |
| - | Quinsy with impending suppuration |
| - | Urinary system – Urine is voided slowly with force, drops vertically, is
obliged to wait awhile before it passes, bladder weak, unable to finish it |
| - | Male genitalia - Urethral stricture |
| - | Prostatitis |
| - | Balanitis |
| - | Extremities - Paronychia |
| - | Cold extremities, Raynaud's syndrome |
| - | Skin - Tendency to suppurate |
| - | Very sensitive to touch |
| - | Unhealthy |
| - | Chapped skin, with deep cracks on hands and feet |
| - | Ulcers very sensitive to contact, burning, stinging, easily bleeding |
| - | Can't bear to be uncovered (even one part of the body), wants to be wrapped
up warmly |
| - | Chronic and recurring urticaria. Urticaria preceding or also with chill, disappears as heat begins |
KEYNOTES
NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
| - | Adapted to the psoric, scrofulous diathesis. Persons
extremely sensitive, susceptible to cold |
| - | Oversensitive to external impression, pain may cause fainting |
| - | Tendency to suppuration with (old cheesy) sour discharges |
| - | Easy sweating |
CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
CLINICAL
| - | Abscess, Acne, Adenopathy, Agoraphobia, Asthma,
Balanitis, Blepharitis, Bronchitis, Croup, Eczema, Iritis, Laryngitis,
Mastitis, Otitis media, Paronychia, Pharyngitis, Pleurisy, Pneumonia,
Prostatitis, Rectal abscess, Sinusitis, Tonsillitis, Urethral stricture,
Urethritis |
| - | It has been used for chronic malarial poisoning that has been maltreated with
calomel and quinine |
| - | In otitis media, in the adolescence, give Hepar sulph - Dr. Foubister |
REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
Complements: Acon, Arn, Bell, Lach, Merc, Nit-ac, Sil, Spong,
Zinc
Compare: Acon, Alum, Ant-c, Ant-t, Arg-n, Ars, Bell, Brom, Bry, Cact,
Calc, Calc-s, Cham, Cina, Clem, Dulc, Euphr, Fl-ac, Graph, Hep, Iod, Lach,
Mag-c, Mag-m, Merc, Nat-c, Nit-ac, Nux-m, Nux-v, Phos, Pso, Rhus-t, Sep, Sil,
Spig, Spong, Sulph, Thuj, Valer, Verat
Antidoted By: Acet-ac, Bell, Cham, Sil
It Antidotes: Calc, Iod, Kali-iod, Merc, Nit-ac
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