Cadmium Sulphuratum
(Cadmium Sulphide)
Pharmacy: cadm-s. Cadmium sulphuratum. Cadmium sulphide. Trituration.
Historical dose: Trituration and all potencies.
Clinical
- Aluminum, poisoning.
- Anorexia.
- Aphthae.
- Asthma.
- Blood poisoning.
- Boils.
- Cancers.
- Chemotherapy, effects.
- Chilblains.
- Chilliness.
- Chloasma.
- Cholera.
- Colon, cancer.
- Coma.
- Drug, overdose.
- Emaciation.
- Erysipelas.
- Facial paralysis.
- Hair, loss.
- Herpes.
- Insomnia.
- Lead, poisoning.
- Liver, damage.
- Nausea.
- Opacity, cornea.
- Ozaena.
- Poisonings.
- Polyps.
- Prostration.
- Radiation, effects.
- Stomach, cancer.
- Stomach disorders.
- Strokes.
- Toxic exposure.
- Tympanites.
- Ulcers.
- Vaccinations.
- Vertigo.
- Vomiting.
- Weakness.
- Yellow fever.
Homeopathic
The major use of Cadm-s. has been as an antidote to the severe side effects of toxic cancer therapy, especially chemotherapy and radiation treatments, which can cause weakness, emaciation, nausea, vomiting, liver damage, hair loss, anorexia, and which speeds up the time of death.
Cadm-s. chief action centers on the stomach and respiration. Important gastric symptoms. Symptoms corresponding to very low forms of disease. Useful for the last stage of diseases which run deathward. A notable anti-psoric.
Side effects of chemotherapy and radiation treatments. Stomach cancer with persistent nausea and vomiting. Cholera and yellow fever, when there is emaciation, vomiting, and extreme prostration.
Burning and cutting pain in the stomach. Intense nausea, retching, gagging, vomiting, bringing up tough mucus. Extreme exhaustion and prostration with vomiting. Black vomit. The least thing touching the lips will excite vomiting. Pitchy taste, food tastes like salt. Acts well in alcoholics.
Facial paralysis from the cold winds. Chilliness and coldness even when near the fire. Patient must keep quiet. Lies with the head low and the hands under it. Restlessness.
Skin blue, yellow, scaly, cracking, damp, suppurating herpes, and chilblains. Formication between the skin and deep tissue. Itching of skin, at night in bed, when touched when cold, better scratching, which causes a voluptuous feeling.
Cutting pains in the joints. Starting of the limbs. Numbness of parts, nose, head, etc. Paralyzed parts painful or crawling in. Weakness remaining after epileptic attacks of one arm and one leg. Weakness of affected parts with goose bumps.
Mind
Dullness of mind, unconscious. Horror of solitude and work. Apprehension at the approach of anybody. Excessive irritability. Anxiety, before stool. Effects of anxiety or fits of passion. Restlessness worse in sunlight.
Fear of others approaching him. Smiling in sleep. Moaning during sleep. Nervousness during headache. Anxiety. Vexation. Fits of passion aggravate symptoms in general. Unconsciousness between attacks of cough.
Abdomen
Sore, tender, tympanitic. Pain in abdomen with vomiting. Coldness. Stretching in the sides. Compressed feeling, pressure, bruised pain. Pulsation. Lancinations in the left hypochondria. Griping in the lower bowels.
Back
Pain in muscles of neck. Back pain as from the efforts to vomit.
Breasts
Inflamed nipples. Erysipelas of the breasts.
Causations
Chemotherapy, radiation poisoning. Vaccinations. Lead or other toxic poisoning. Grief.
Chest
Chest contracted with asthma. Drawing. Feeling of dilatation or contraction. Feeling as if the lungs adhered to the chest. Swelling of the external chest. Weakness of the chest. Rheumatic pain. Painful blows. Tingling in the chest, worse squatting.
Constitutions
Cancer miasm and toxic constitution. Broken down constitution from cancer, chemotherapy, or radiation treatments.
Ears
Pressure behind the ears. Lacerating pain. Lancinating pain in ears. Abnormal hearing, alternating with abnormal vision. Sounds echo in the head. Clucking noises in the ears.
Eyes
Hollow eyes. Opacity of cornea from injuries or inflammation. Blue circle around eyes. Lachrymation, hot blenorrhea. One pupil dilated, the other contracted. Swelling of conjunctiva. Scrofulous inflammation of eyes. Idiopathic chronic conjunctivitis. Night blindness. Cannot read small type.
Face
Gloomy countenance. Vexed look. Grayish complexion. Drawing pain in face. Facial paralysis, left side, worse cold air, cannot close the eyes, difficult talking and swallowing, distortion of the mouth. Crawling sensation in the face. Trembling of lower jaw. Spasmodic motion of the upper lip. Swelling of the lips. Yellow spots on the cheeks and nose.
Food
Thirst, with heat in bed at night. Craves little drinks of cold water that are vomited at once. Nausea and vomiting after eating.
Head
Inflammation of the brain. Strokes. Heat in head. Lancinations, hammering, digging pains. Drawing pains in head. Tingling in head. Heat in head. Pulsation in the temples. Pain in the vertex. Congestion to head, with pains cutting like knives. Rolling of head, with open eyes, in cholera infantum. Inflammation of brain. Apoplexy. Herpes on temples.
Heart
Palpitation with constriction of chest.
Kidneys
Rawness and soreness in urethra. Urine mixed with pus and blood. Griping in the region of the kidneys.
Limbs
Rheumatism. Boring and digging. Suppuration of the axillary glands. Stretching of the arms. Swelling of the arm bones. Tension in the forearm. Gnawing in the hands. Tearing pain in the metacarpal joints. Jerking of the fingers.
Lancinations in the joints and in the toes. Numbness of the thighs. Trembling in the knee. Pressure in the knee. Tearing pain in the legs. Cramp of the calf. Pain, as if sprained. Heaviness of the feet. Chilblains.
Liver
Region of liver sore.
Lungs
Suffocation on dropping to sleep. Cough with loss of consciousness. Cough with agitation, red face, pain in the stomach or vomiting of bile. Interrupted breathing during sleep. On waking, want of air.
Modalities
Better eating and rest. Worse from raising up. Worse least motion. Worse carrying burdens. Worse ascending stairs. Worse walking. Worse swallowing. Worse after sleep. Worse in morning. Worse from stimulants. Worse after intoxication. Worse from vexation. Worse in sunshine. Worse open air. Worse cold, cold air. Worse itching of skin when cold.
Mouth
Difficult swallowing. Salty, pitchy taste. Salivation. Aphthae on the lips. Stringy and offensive exudation on mucus membrane. Tongue, dirty brown or black. The symptoms of the mouth are aggravated during deglutition. Salty belching.
Nose
Tightness at the root of the nose. Obstruction of the nose by swelling. Numbness of the nose. Ozaena. Nosebleed. Polyps, boils. Caries of the nose. Lacerating pain in the nose. Nostrils ulcerated. Decay of nasal bones. Ulcerative, cancerous smell.
Rectum
Clots of blood from bowels. Bloody, black, and offensive stools, gelatinous, yellowish green, semi-fluid with urinary suppression.
Skin
Blue, yellow, sallow, scaly, cracking. Chloasma, yellowish stains on nose and cheeks, worse exposure to sun and wind. Itching when touched and during cold, ameliorated by scratching, which excites a voluptuous feeling. Chilblains. Goose bumps after drinking, with hot hands, heartburn.
Sleep
Sleeps with open eyes. Somnolence with broken dreams. Moaning and smiling during sleep. Nightmares. While asleep, the feet are agitated by shocks. Stops breathing on going to sleep, wakes up suffocating. Fears to go to sleep again.
Protracted sleeplessness (Care., Cocc.). Sleepiness in the forenoon. Drowsiness when sitting.
Stomach
Intense nausea with pain and cold. Burning and cutting pain with retching and gagging. Violent nausea, retching. Black vomit, like coffee grounds. Vomiting of mucus, green slime, blood, with great prostration and tenderness over the stomach. Least thing touching lips will excite nausea and vomiting. Stomach symptoms worse carrying burden, better quiet. Stomach cancer, with persistent vomiting.
Temperature
Icy coldness (Camph., Verat., Helo.), goose bumps after drinking or with hot hands. Coldness, even when near the fire, with heat in the hands. Coldness after sleeping and after walking. Fever, before midnight. Yellow fever (Crot-h., Carb-v.). Sweat in the axilla and the palms.
Throat
Chilliness and aching. Sore throat, constant tickling, gagging, and nausea, worse from deep breathing. Dysphagia. Esophagus is constricted (Bapt.).
Vertigo
Faintness on rising. Vertigo, room and bed seem to spin around.
Comments
Cadmium sulphuratum is found in nature in intimate association with Zinc, which it resembles in action, but it acts more powerfully. Cadm-s. is a cross between Bry. and Ars. It has the desire to keep quiet of Bry. with the exhaustion and stomach irritability of Ars.
A major cancer remedy. Affinity for cancers of the GI tract, cancers of the esophagus, the stomach, the liver, and the colon (Cadm-met. for bone cancers, Cadm-i. for glandular cancers). Nausea and vomiting in cancer cases. For the ill effects of radiation and chemotherapy. Extreme prostration and fatigue after chemotherapy or radiation, emaciation, sunken features, cachexia.
Nausea, intensified by motion. Vomiting of acid or yellow substances. Black vomit occurs in severe zymotic diseases. Vomit like coffee grounds. Vomiting during pregnancy, when other remedies fail. Pernicious forms of vomiting, of black blood from chronic ulcers or cancer of the stomach. Nausea and vomiting with cold perspiration bathing the face and cutting pains in the abdomen.
Ulceration of the stomach in alcoholics (Ars.). Beer aggravates the gastric complaints. Salivation with bitter burning in the mouth and throat. Fetid breath. Ulcers with dryness and burning constriction of the throat.
Characteristic coldness, all complaints are made worse from becoming cold or from cold changes in the weather. Icy coldness even when near a fire. Goosebumps, with hot hands or after drinking. Sweat in axilla. Effect of a drought or cold air in checking sweat.
Weakness and tiredness, accompanied by a cachectic state that stimulates the cachexia of advanced cancer cases or pernicious anemia. Increased irritability. Horror of solitude and of work.
Ozaena and polyps. Cutting, sharp pains. Sense of constriction. Opacity of the cornea, loss of vision. Protracted sleeplessness. Insomnia. Sleeps with eyes open, stops breathing on going to sleep. Awakens suffocating after sleep.
Relations
Followed well by: Care., Bell.
Rolling of head with open eyes in cholera. Carb-v., Lob. inf. In cancer - Hydr., Ars. In yellow fever - Nit-ac. In nausea of pregnancy - Alet. Compare: (1) Cadm-ox., Cadm-br. - pain and burning in stomach and vomiting. (2) Cadm-i. - itching of anus and rectum felt during the day only, constipation, frequent desire, tenesmus, abdomen bloated.
(3) Zinc., Ars., Carb-v., Verat. (3) Zinc, but in Zinc the action is primarily on the brain; in Cadm. primarily on the stomach. (4) In constriction across chest with palpitations. Kali-chi. (5) Weakness, nausea, vomit, and burning, An. (6) Black vomit, disorders of alcoholism, Ars., Lach. in nausea and retching. Asar., Bry., Crot., Cupr., Nux-v., Podo., Ant-I. in deathly nausea, Ip., Tab., greenish gelatinous vomit.
References
Bocricke, Clarke, Grimmer, Murphy.