Mirza Tahir Ahmad James Tyler Kent
Sulphuric Acid contains Sulphur, which affects the human defences deeply. During indigestion, the Sulphuric acid contained in the stomach produces Hydrogen Sulphide gas, with its typical foetid odour. Every acid in the body has certain basic properties, which affect the patients accordingly. Every kind of hyperacidosis can result in a sudden severe disabling weakness of the body. Sulphuric Acid is the ideal homoeopathic remedy for hyperacidity in the stomach. By studying Sulphuric Acid, one can easily understand how the imbalance of different elements in the body results in different kinds of symptoms and signs. Sulphur is such a strong remedy that it produces a burning sensation on the body from the head to the toes. The addition of an atom of hydrogen converts it into Sulphuric Acid, which has a different nature from that of Sulphur. Its patient suffers in both the heat and cold.
One symptom of Sulphuric Acid is that the patient quivers all over. This is not due to the cold, but is a spontaneous response on the part of the body. Bleeding is of dark colour. Dark blood oozes from under the nails and the junctional areas where the skin and the mucous membranes meet (like the bleeding from snakebite). The bleeding being in the skin, tends to surface externally.
Sometimes, spontaneous red spots appear on the skin (petechiae). These spots may also be dark coloured, raw looking and ugly. A strange kind of skin condition can also develop on the face making it difficult to diagnose. Such type of haemorrhage occurring internally is found in Sulphuric Acid, but may be found in other remedies too.
Sulphuric Acid is useful in the treatment of many skin diseases. If the nature of common remedies is known, it is definitely beneficial. Some of the symptoms of Sulphuric Acid resemble those of Sulphur, such as profuse morning diarrhoea.
Some of the Arnica symptoms are also shared by Sulphuric Acid, such as bruised feeling with pain, weakness and feeling of cold. Haemorrhagic spots develop on the skin. The spots may be darker in colour or bluish. Unlike Arnica, the blood percolates to the surface of the skin, forming haemorrhagic blisters that then spread. These are indicative of a serious unexplained deep illness. Sulphuric Acid is very effective in treating this condition. If other symptoms of Sulphuric Acid are also present, a dose or two of Sulphuric Acid may suffice. A Sulphuric Acid patient becomes easily exhausted mentally and his circulatory system may be disturbed due to the slightest carelessness. Serious blood disturbance may also result. Boils develop on the skin. The patient feels very weak. His facial complexion is not normal. He becomes hypersensitive. The aches and pains intensify gradually and then suddenly get better. Potentially serious and chronic diseases developing due to an excess of Acid Sulph may sometimes abruptly get better without leaving any long lasting ill effects.
The discharges of a Sulphuric Acid patient are acidic as well as corrosive in nature. Hyperacidity in the body (acidosis) may be accompanied by a feeling of sudden severe weakness when eating food. The patient sweats profusely. Mere eating food can tire the patient. A lightning type of pain swings from one side to the other. Some patients may actually enjoy this experience, which is a peculiarity of Sulphuric Acid. The headache and body aches intensify gradually and then stop suddenly. Hearing loss progresses slowly and does not return quickly which is rather different from the overall picture of Sulphuric Acid symptoms. Hearing returns in due course of time after the pain, pus and bad odour from the ear have been gone awhile. Sometimes, secretions from the nose can block the ear from the inside and affect the hearing. Other symptoms of Sulphuric Acid being present, this condition is well within the domain of Sulphuric Acid. Toothache goes on gradually getting stronger, and then ends suddenly without leaving any aftereffects. Sores and ulcers form inside the mouth and the throat, causing difficulty in eating. Children may not be able to suck milk. Sulphuric Acid is extremely useful in the treatment of this condition. The stomach begins to fail due to the effects of hyperacidity. The breath is extremely foetid and pungent. Usually, people get constipated on eating acidic things, but the Sulphuric Acid patient develops diarrhoea instead. For example Oysters, (a kind of sea-shell) as well as raw and sour fruit, can cause diarrhoea for which Sulphuric Acid is still the treatment of choice for such patients who have abdominal pain.
In women who see dreadful dreams during their periods, one should, besides other appropriate remedies, also remember Sulphuric Acid (for details, see under Arnica and Arsenic).
Sulphuric Acid may be the ideal homoeopathic remedy to treat women who cannot conceive due to excessive menstrual bleeding, if the patient is of a Sulphuric Acid constitution. In reality, there are innumerable causes of infertility. To find the correct remedy is a very laborious job. This subject has been touched upon under the chapters on Pulsatilla, Caulophyllum, Sabina, Calcarea Carb, Ashoka and Gossypium.
In Sulphuric Acid, the patient feels weakness of the back. He wishes to keep lying down. He finds it difficult to stand up or sit down. Slow walking offers some relief. The patient sweats in the morning, which is usually due to some tuberculous matter in the body.
Sulphuric Acid is the best remedy in alcoholics. In Europe, there are many, who are given to regular drinking, which unfortunately kills them eventually. Treatment with Sulphuric Acid works wonders. A drop of Sulphuric Acid should be diluted in a whole glass of water, which should be divided into three doses to be taken in one day.
Many alcoholics who were considered incurable, recovered within a week of this treatment, and never touched alcohol again. In the field of remedy, there is nothing better than this therapy.
Adjuvant: Pulsatilla
Potency: Mother tincture Q
by Mirza Tahir Ahmad
SULPHURICUM ACIDUM
The sensation of quivering all over the body and in the limbs without visible trembling is a very strong symptom of Sulphuric acid, and especially if it is associated with weakness that has been of long standing.
The exhaustion, excitability and hurried feeling are constant factors. The hemorrhagic disposition with many complaints. Black fluid blood from all the orifices of the body. Small red spots enlarging rapidly to resemble Purpura hoemorrhagica. Blue-black spots on the skin from slight injury.
Blood-red spots on the skin like those on a brook trout sometimes after injuries. Chafing easily, followed by ulceration. Boils and bedsores. It has many of the complaints found in old people. The -morning aggravation of symptoms is also a strong feature. Sensitive to cold and emaciation. The pains are bruised, burning, tearing, stitching, shooting and jerking. The pain comes oil slowly and departs suddenly. The discharges are dark, thin blood or blood-streaked; or thin, yellow and bloody.
The discharges are excoriating. General sweat after eating. The symptoms predominate on the right side. It is often indicated in sour-smelling babies like Hepar, and it is as sensitive to touch and nearly as sensitive to cold. When it has cured the sensitiveness to cold the patient often becomes worse 'and requires Pulsatilla, which is the complement and antidote.
Mind: Prostration of mind and body, with extreme sadness, weeps continuously.
Nothing can be done to please him. Fretful and irritable over the slightest cause. He cannot eat and work fast enough. No one does anything to please him; in such a hurry if doing anything or going anywhere. All things must be done at once. Unwilling to answer. Irresolution.
Vertigo in close room. Better walking in the open air. Better lying. Sometimes compelling him to keep his bed.
Tension in the forehead with coryza.
The brain seems loose and seems to fall to side lain on, better sitting perfectly still, worse walking. The blood flows strongly to the head and the feet become cold.
Head: Electric shocks in forehead and temples in forenoon and again in evening.
Sensation as though a plug were being driven into the skull by strong blows. The pains in the head come on slowly and cease suddenly. Violent headaches in debilitated people. Extreme soreness in the periosteum such as is found in syphilis. The hair falls out or turns gray. Ulceration of the scalp. Extremely sensitive eruptions.
Eyes: Lachrymation when reading.
Chronic inflammation of the eye, with enlarged veins and ulceration.
Sensation of foreign body in right outer canthus.
Soreness in the eyes with coryza.
Ears: Severe ear pains that increase gradually and cease suddenly.
Gradual loss of hearing.
Bloody discharge from ear.
Buzzing in the ear.
Nose: Slowly oozing, dark, thin blood from the nose in the evening.
It cures acrid, bloody discharge from nose in feeble patients when the generals are covered by it.
The coryza is dry or fluid with loss of smell and taste.
Face: The face of the Sulphuric acid patient is a most sickly one.
Pale, sickly and sometimes jaundiced. The expression of long suffering is marked. The deep lines of pain, depletion and emaciation. Tension of the face or a sensation as though white of egg had dried on it.
Violent neuralgic pains of the face coming on gradually and ceasing suddenly, ameliorated by warmth and lying on the painful side. Small red spots or specks on the face gradually increasing in size. Inflammation of the submaxillary gland.
Teeth: The teeth decay early.
Violent neuralgia of the teeth, coming on slowly and ceasing suddenly.
Worse from cold and better from beat, worse in the evening in bed.
The teeth are on edge.
Mouth: Loss of taste during coryza.
The sore mouth is one of its most important features.
It is our most frequently indicated remedy for nursing sore mouth.
The aphthous mouth of infant or mother with yellowish or whitish ulcers.
Bloody saliva from mouth; vesicles in the mouth.
Breath very offensive.
Bleeding from the mucous surfaces of mouth and gums with or without Purpura hoemorrhagica. Rapidly spreading ulcers in the mouth.
Throat: Inflammation of the throat that is aphthous or follicular.
Denuded mucous membrane.
Diphtheritic exudate yellowish or white with aphthous surroundings and bleeding from nose, gums or other parts.
Diphtheria with more than ordinary exhaustion and foetor.
The uvula is oedematous.
The throat is full of spreading ulcers.
Painful sore throat with painful, difficult swallowing.
During the throat troubles fluids drunk run out of nose.
Salivation, glands of throat swollen and there is great swelling of the tonsils, soft palate and throat in general.
Dark fluid blood from throat and mouth.
Stomach: He craves brandy and fruit.
Loss of appetite and progressive weakness are strong features. Aversion to the smell of coffee. He cannot drink cold water, as it feels so cold in the stomach and makes him chilly. Violent, spasmodic hiccough, such as occurs in drunkards.
Chronic heart burn. Sour belching. Sour vomiting. The teeth are always on edge from sour eructations. Sour vomiting during pregnancy. Vomiting of drunkards in the morning. (Compare Arsenicum.) Sour and very foul. Nausea and shivering. Coughing and belching sour fluids. The stomach seems to hang down as if relaxed. Vomiting after drinking cold water. Violent, spasmodic pains in the stomach. The pains come gradually and cease suddenly. The sour vomiting is most like Robinia.
She does not vomit food, but cannot eat, as it causes pain in stomach and she vomits mucus. After intermittent fever had existed some time the spleen enlarges, and is painful on coughing and sore to touch. Stitching pains in spleen and liver. It has many times overcome the poison of lead and lead colic. Sinking, weak feeling in abdomen after stool. Weak feeling in abdomen, as though menses would come on. Labor-like pains in abdomen, extending to hips and back.
Diarrhoea with great general weakness and sensation of trembling. With weak, sinking sensation in the abdomen after stool. Chronic diarrhoea with much suffering. Excoriating stools, burning in rectum during stool. Diarrhoea brought on from the least indiscretion in eating, after fruit, especially if unripe, after oysters. Stool watery orange yellow, stringy, MUCOUS, Mixed with blood, greenish, black, undigested smelling like spoiled eggs. Hemorrhoids very sore, itching, painful during stool, in drunkards. In constipation the stool is in small balls.
Pain in the bladder if the desire to pass urine is postponed. It had cured diabetes. Scanty urine. Bloody urine. Cuticle in the urine.
Women: The menses are too frequent and copious and the flow is dark and thin.
Many symptoms come before the menses. Nightmare before, menses. Has nightmare at the close of the menses. The vagina is prolapsed and gangrenous. Leucorrhoea bloody, acrid, milky or albuminous, yellow.
The woman at the climacteric period has many symptoms peculiar to Sulphuric acid. The flashes of heat, weakness, sensation of trembling, a nervous hurry in all her actions and feelings, bleeding from uterus and other parts of blood that does not coagulate, and constipation with small, hard balls like sheep's dung are symptoms common to the critical period. It often causes the vomiting of pregnancy. Vomiting preceded by cough.
It has cured sterility when. it was supposed to depend upon the copious and frequent menstrual flow. Violent itching of the vulva.
Larynx and chest: Pain and soreness in the larynx. Pain in the larynx on swallowing.
Hoarseness with a dry feeling and sensation of roughness in the larynx. Weak chest and great dyspnoea. Rapid movement of the wings of nose like Lycopodium. Rapid moving up and down of the larynx during the dyspnœa. Short of breath.
Except in the morning the cough is dry and hacking. Sometimes in two coughs. He coughs in the open air, either walking or riding, worse from cold drinks and from. the odor of coffee. Cough followed by itching and vomiting. The irritation is felt in the chest. The expectoration is in the morning of dark, thin blood, or of thin, yellowish, blood-streaked mucus tasting sour.
Weakness in the chest with burning and stitching pain. Pressure on left side of chest. Profuse haemorrhage from the lungs of dark fluid blood, after pneumonia, and during the climacteric period.
Ulceration of lungs (compare Kali carb.). Oppression of the chest and suffocation unless he lets the legs hang down. It has been a very useful remedy in the first steps of phthisis with profuse sweat and great weakness, but where given in the last stage it has appeared to bring on haemorrhage and increase of the inflammatory condition in the lungs. Stitching pains in the heart, palpitation. It has been useful in pleuritic exudation.
Spine and limbs: Great weakness in the spine, felt mostly when standing and sitting.
Pain in the lumbar region. Soreness between shoulder blades when coughing. Stiffening of the back in the morning on rising. Large abscess on the right side of the neck.
Black and blue spots on the limbs. Stitching pain in the shoulder joint on lifting the arm. Stitches in finger joints. Chafing of thighs after rising. Marked weakness in knees and ankles. Swollen veins of feet. Chilblains of frost-bitten parts. Twitching if fingers during sleep.
Late falling asleep and wakens too early. Nightmare before menses.
It has chilliness, flashes of heat with sweat. Copious sweat, mostly on upper part of body, from motion, sour, cold, after eating warm. food. Morning sweats. Night sweats. Typhoid fever with great prostration. Bleeding from capillaries. Dark, thin blood.
Haemorrhage of dark, thin blood from the bowels. Putrid forms of continued fever. Cadaveric countenance.
Ecchymoses, purpura haemorrhagica. Old cicatrices turn red and become painful. Itching and prickling with eruptions. Pimples. Red itching blotches on the skin. Livid spots. Contusions, bedsores. Boils and abscesses. Nodular urticarias.
It cures old indolent ulcers that bleed easily dark blood. Sensitive painful spreading ulcers. Stinging burning pain in ulcers. It has cured putrid ulcers on legs. It is useful in ulcers of drunkards, in ulcers following a low form of fever. Thin yellow or bloody discharge.
by James Tyler Kent