Cadmium sulphuratum
Cadmium sulphide · Cadmium sulfate. · Mineral
Cadmium belongs to the same family on the periodic table as zinc and mercury, and the Cadmium remedy shares some of the traits associated with the remedies based on those elements. When ill, these people are often chilly, exhausted, anxious, irritable, depressed, and have a fear of death. The more their illness progresses, the more they want to stay still, perhaps becoming faint on rising.
The remedy is typically used to treat stomach problems accompanied by sharp, cutting pains in the abdomen, a feeling of constriction, intense burning, and vomiting. There may be nausea so severe that the slightest touch to the lips will trigger abdominal pain and the retching of black or yellowy green vomit.
Key symptoms
- Extreme prostration with vomiting corresponding to cholera and yellow fever
- Persistent vomiting; carcinoma of stomach
- Chilliness and coldness even when near the fire
- Violent nausea and retching; patients must keep very quiet
- Ozaena; caries of nasal bones; nostrils ulcerated; nasal polyps
- Facial paralysis more on left side
- Opacity of cornea; night blindness
- Difficult swallowing; oesophagus constricted; salty taste and belching
Worse (aggravation)
Better (amelioration)
Cadmic Sulphate
Its pathogenesis gives symptoms corresponding to very low forms of disease, as in cholera, yellow fever, where, with exhaustion, vomiting, and extreme prostration, the disease runs deathward. Important gastric symptoms. Carcinoma ventriculi; persistent vomiting.
The attack is upon the stomach more especially. Patients must keep quiet. Chilliness and coldness even when near the fire.
Mind and Head
Unconscious. Vertigo; room and bed seem to spin around. Hammering in head. Heat in head.
Nose
Ozæna. Tightness at root. Nose obstructed; polypus. Caries of nasal bones. Boils on nose. Nostrils ulcerated.
Eyes
Opacity of cornea. Blue circle around eyes. One pupil dilated. Night blindness.
Face
Distortion of mouth. Trembling of jaw. Facial paralysis; more left side.
Mouth
Difficult swallowing. Œsophagus constricted (Bapt). Salty belching. Intense nausea, with pain and cold. Stringy, offensive exudation on mucous membrane. Salty taste.
Throat
Sore throat, constant tickling; gagging and nausea, worse deep breathing; chilliness and aching.
Stomach
Soreness in pit of stomach on pressure. Violent nausea; retching. Black vomit. Vomiting of mucus, green slime, blood, with great prostration, and great tenderness over the stomach. Burning and cutting pains in stomach. Carcinoma, helps the persistent vomiting. Coffee ground vomiting.
Abdomen
Sore, tender, tympanitic. Region of liver sore. Coldness. Black, offensive clots of blood from bowels. Pain in abdomen, with vomiting. Tenderness and tympanites.
Stool
Bloody, black, and offensive. Gelatinous, yellowish green; semi-fluid, with urinary suppression.
Urine
Rawness and soreness in urethra, urine mixed with pus and blood.
Heart
Palpitation, with constriction of chest.
Fever
Icy coldness (Camph; Verat; Heloderm). Yellow fever (Crotalus; Carbo).
Skin
Blue, yellow, sallow, scaly, cracking. Itching; better scratching. Chloasma, yellowish stains on nose and cheeks; worse exposure to sun and wind. Chilblains.
Sleep
Stops breathing on going to sleep. Wakes up suffocating. Fears to go to sleep again. Protracted sleeplessness.
Modalities
Worse, walking or carrying burdens; after sleep; from open air, stimulants. Better, eating and rest.
Relationship
Compare: Cadmium oxide; Cad brom (pain and burning in stomach, and vomiting); Cadmium jodat (Itching of anus and rectum felt during the day only; constipation frequent desire, tenesmus, abdomen bloated); Zinc; Ars; Carbo; Verat.
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency.
Generalities
: Cadmium sulph. has been only partially proved, so that only a limited amount of information can be given concerning it.
A medicine may be said to be thoroughly proved when it has left its impress upon all elements of man; when it has affected his memory and his intellect, when it has affected his organs and all their functions, i. e., when healthy man has taken a medicine until all these things are affected and the results are known as the effects of that medicine.
Every medicine affects in some way all these elements of man, and no medicine is well proved until it is known how all these elements are affected.
Mind
There is a dread of work; aversion to doing everything, mental and physical. Anxiety has been brought out more by cures than by the pathogenesis, so that it well enough known to be classed along with Arsenicumfor its anxiety; it may well be classed with Arsenicumfor its prostration also; it has great weakness; it might also be classed with Arsenicum, because of the organs that …
Sulphide of Cadmium. Cd S. Trituration.
Clinical
Apoplexy. Boils. Chilblains. Cholera infantum. Corneal opacity. Eyes, affections of. Facial paralysis. Indigestion. Meningitis. Nasal polypus. Ozœna. Yellow fever.
Characteristics
Cadmium is found in nature in intimate association with Zinc, which it nearly resembles in action, but Cadmium acts more powerfully. The profound action of Cad. s. on the stomach─burning and cutting pain, intense retching, gagging, bringing up tough mucus, intense nausea and vomiting─led to its being given in yellow fever with brilliant success. Black vomit is very characteristic. The least thing touching the lips will excite vomiting. Pitchy taste; food tastes like salt. Cadm. is a cross between Bry. and Ars.: it has the desire to keep quiet of Bry., with the exhaustion and stomach irritability of Ars. (Kent). Cadmium is a chilly medicine. There is icy coldness─coldness even when near a fire. Horripilation: after drinking; with hot hands. Sweat in axillæ. Effect of a …
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