Hepar sulphur

Skin.--Any trouble occurring on the skin, when there is a great sensitiveness to the slightest touch; patient can't bear to have even the clothes touch the part, or have it touched in any way. Exanthema, like nettle-rash, sore to the slightest touch. Skin hard to heal; inflammation of; sensitive soreness of. Ulcers with bloody pus; with sour-smelling pus; stinking pus; putrid (ulcers); with redness around; with little pimples around--10, 12, or even as many as 50 may surround the large ulcer, and the ulcer sometimes spreads by the little pimples joining in; painful; painful at the edge; suppurating; with pain as if sore; difficult to heal; inflamed; itching; looking like a lump of lard with a hole in it; cancerous ulcers.

Sleep.--Complaints concomitant to waking; sleep not refreshing; sleeplessness in general; anxious dreams of fire.

Chest.--Suffocative attacks of breathing (in croup where the child chokes in its coughing spells, and there is much rattling); respiration with mucous rattle; expectoration in the morning, none in the evening; cough, with expectoration during the day, no expectoration at night (in croup where there is no expectoration at night, but only in the daytime,--with the suffocative coughing spells); low, weak voice.

Urine.--Urine very acrid; complaints while passing water and after.

Sexual.--Male: Nocturnal emissions; escape of prostatic fluid at any time, and at stool, etc.; affections of sexual organs occurring on the right side.

Generalities.--Affections of the left eye; abdomen, left side; left lower extremity; hair of the head; internal and external forehead; eyeball; inguinal glands; sacrum and buttocks (may have tetters, etc.); axilla; point of the elbow (olecranon). Dimsightedness; erysipelatous color of the face; obstruction of the bowels from inactivity of the peristaltic motion; pain as if bruised in outer parts, also in bones; festering glands. Heat with thirst; perspiration in general; cold perspiration.

The great sensitiveness under this remedy must not be overlooked. It is not confined to touch merely, but the same exists in reference to a draft of air--patient can't bear the slightest draft of air on him; nor the slightest noise. Great sensitiveness in everything.

Worse.--In the night; on wakening; when blowing the nose; from cold in general; in cold air; in cold and dry weather; on single parts of the body getting cold; from getting the skin rubbed off; on uncovering the head; from surgical injuries in general; from lying on the painful side; from daylight; from pressure from without; from abuse of Mercury; during sleep; when swallowing, particularly when swallowing food (parts are so tender); while urinating; in clear, fine weather; in dry weather; in the east wind.

Better.--From wrapping the head up; from warmth in general; the air being warm; in damp and wet weather; from wrapping up the body warmly.

Remedies following:--Bellad., Bryon., Mercur., Nux vom., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sepia, Silic., Sulphur.

Antidote:--Bellad.