Hepar Sulphur, also known as Calcium sulphide of Hahnemann, and sulphur of lime. Complete name Hepar Sulphuris Calcareum, is from an impure sulphide of Calcium. Prepared from burning the white interior of oyster shells with pure flowers of sulphur.
Hepar Sulphur is a remedy indicated for unhealthy skin conditions. Is a favorite for acne as it helps the skin to clear faster. Key remedy for teen and adult acne.
Provings have also shown symptoms of eczemas, foul smelling pus from eruptions with skin sensitive to cold and touch.
This remedy is indicated for many other ailments. Coughs and sore throats where something feels like it is stuck in the throat. Colds, earaches with discharge, swollen lymph glands with the person feeling chilly, irritable, oversensitve to surroundings, worse with cold applications. Digestive problems with smelly, offensive stools.
Person feels chilly and is sensitive to the cold.
Mental symptom of wanting to set things on fire
Physical symptom of something caught or sticking in throat
Keynote Summary:
Unhealth skin, Acne
Sensation of something caught in throat, like a fishbone
Better from:damp, wet weather warmth, wrapping ears and head, after eating
Worse from: very sensitive to the slightest touch, clothes brushing on painful area
lying on painful side,
dry, cold air, in the morning,
worse from not being covered up,
from being chills or from drafts
cold food or drink
| Useful for: | Key Symptoms: |
|---|---|
| MENTAL STATE | Oversensitivity Irritable, peevish The book, The Spirit of Homeopathic Medicines,by Grandgeorge mentions the important mental symptom of wanting to set things on fire. Mentally and physically worse from cold dry winds. Sensitive and on edge- physically & emotionally. |
| ABSCESSES | Helpful is later stages of an abscess. Hepar sulphur given at this time will often cause the abscess to come to a head and drain. |
| ACNE | Skin unhealthy, easily infected. Slow to heal acne. Teen acne. The book, Essentials of Homeopathic Therapeutics by Dewey, lists the symptoms of Hepar as skin sensitive to the open air, inflammed skin; acne and injuries that produce pus easily; sensititve eruptions; pus is foul smelling; ulcerations have small pimples around the edges. |
| STYES | Eyes & lids inflamed |
| DENTAL INFECTIONS | Dental abscesses Painful, bleeding gums |
| EAR INFECTIONS | Feels like something is sticking the ears. Stitching pains discharge from ears pain is unbearable and makes child irritable Wants to cover the ears |
| COLDS | Late stages of stuffy colds |
| HAY FEVER | Sneezing Itching eyes & throat Watery nasal discharge |
| COUGH | Hoarse, rattling Wheezing Choking cough Suffocating attacks May cough up thick yellow mucus |
| CROUP | Loose, rattling cough Deep, barking voice Follows Aconite & Spongia; may prevent recurrence |
| HOARSENESS | Loses voice, croaks |
| SORE THROAT | Splinter or plug sensation. Classic feels like something is caught in throat when swallows Pain extends to ear on swallowing Throat extremely sensitive to touch Pain on swallowing food |
| INFECTED BITES | Localizes infection, hastens healing of skin lesions |
| SWEATS | Sweats easily at night. Profuse, sour, sticky, offensive |
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