ALCOHOLUS SULPHURIS

ALCOHOLUS SULPHURIS

(Liquor Lampadii)

PHARMACY - alco-s. Alcoholus sulphuris. Liquor lampadii. Carburet of Sulphur.

Historical dose: All potencies.

HOMEOPATHIC - Homoeopathic Proving by James W. Metcalf, M. D. It may prove useful in some forms of sick headache, especially when the pain commences in the forehead, and extends to one or the other temples. Scrofulous affections of the eyes and lids. Twitching of the eyes and lids. such as occurs in scrofulous, nervous, and verminous children. Some rheumatic and neuralgic affections of the face.

Chronic rheumatism. prurigo, and impetigo. Chrome pharyngitis. Irritation of the pharynx, with much hawking and spitting. Gagging cough from the irritation of an elongated uvula, especially when these symptoms occur in bilious and dyspeptic subjects.

Chronic irritation of the pharynx and larynx. with constant desire to hawk and spit. with hoarseness and short cough. May prove helpful in the first stage of tubercular disease of the lungs. It may prevent the tendency to 1rritat1on and congestion of the upper parts of the lungs which to readily lead to the fresh deposit of tubercles in consumptive patients Pyrosis. heartburn. And various dyspeptic and bilious derangements. Flatulence. Bilious and colic, and congestion of the liver. It is one of the few drugs which seem to exerts specific action upon the cecum.

Cured a case of chronic diarrhea. appearing every four or six weeks. attended with colic, the evacuations were liquid, frothy, yellowish sour, and attended with tenesmus.

Abdomen - Great inflation of the abdomen, with rumbling of wind and tearing colic. Colic pains after eating. Slight wind-colic from time to time, with desire to urinate. Colic pains with loose stool and flatulence. Paroxysm of disagreeable pain in the left lobe of the liver. Soft stool. preceded by pain in the left lobe of the liver, and followed by pains in the cecal region.

Chest - Sensation of heat in the chest. congestion in the upperpart of the lungs. Oppression. fullness in the chest. Slight stitches and pains about the chest.

Ears- Pain in the ears as if someone were striking upon the tympanum with a dull instrument.

Eyes - Burning and itching of the lids. Pustules on the lids, lasting four days. Dilatation of the pupils. with quickness of the pulse. Abundant secretion of whitish yellow mucus in the eyes. Lachrymation of the eyes. Twitching and trembling of the muscles of the eyes and lids.

Face - Redness and puffiness of the face, heat of the face and hands. Lancinating and tearing pains in the cheeks, extending up to the temples and lasting two months.

Fever - Great internal heat, with coldness of the hands and feet. General heat, headache, quick pulse, cramps in the calves of the legs and toes. without much thirst, and no perspiration.

Head - Pain in the forehead, which draws towards the left temple and remains there for two hours. Pressive frontal headache, lasting almost all day, and accompanied with transient pains in the temple. Drawing and tearing pain. stretching from the forehead to the temples, lasting all day, more severe in the room and during rest, relieved by walking in the open air. Dull pain in the frontal region, with nausea and heaviness of the whole head. Thumping pain in both temples. Violent pressive pain in the right temple, with malaise, desire to vomit. and rumbling of wind in the bowels.

Larynx - Heat and irritation of the larynx. hoarseness and irritation of the larynx. with continual desire to hawk. Cough provoked by a tickling at the bifurcation of the bronchi. Slight dry cough.

Limbs - Pains in and eruption upon the arms and legs.

Mouth - Dryness of the lips and mouth, irritation of the cavity and isthmus of the pharynx, followed by a sensation of contraction in the larynx. with gagging cough and quick breathing. Gum boils. Pasty, disagreeable taste in the mouth, with foul taste of the pharyngeal mucus. Bitter sharp taste in the mouth, or very repulsive acrid taste, or sweetish putrid taste. Great accumulation of saliva, with sweetish taste. Very frequent spitting. Pale red swelling of the uvula and vellum Burning and scraping in the pharynx and esophagus.

Skin - Sharp itching and stinging in different Part of the skin, as if from nettles. Itching in various part of the skin, much aggravated by scratching. Bleeding and burning of eruptions when scratched(prurigo). Eruptions of impetigo on the back of the hands, the pustules are seated on the inflamed red base, contain a yellowish cloudy serum, and form thick yellowish scabs.

Sleep - Sleeplessness from headache, dryness of the skin and general unpleasant heat, so that he is obliged to rise and bathe himself.

Stomach - Stomach. Very abundant eructation, sour burning, acrid regurgitations (pyrosis) occurring one or two hours after eating. Continual acid regurgitations. Regurgitations of air with nausea, discharge of flatulence upwards and downwards. Burning in the stomach and hepatic region. Heat in the epigastric region, which ascends and occupies the whole chest. Violent heat, ascending from the stomach to the head. Fullness in the stomach, with eructation, yawning. desire to vomit, and dizziness.

Stool - Liquid stools. Slimy, watery diarrhea, with violent pain in epigastrium. Sudden diarrhea, after having dined with good appetite. Violent diarrhea, with tenesmus and sour evacuations.

COMMENTS - Larnpadius, in 1796, while distilling a mixture of pyrites and charcoal, procured a clear liquid in the receiver, which he named Alcoholus sulphuris, or the Alcohol of Sulphur. It consists of one equivalent of Carbon and two of Sulphur.

REFERENCES - Jahar. Marcy.