Sulphur iodatum
Sulfur iodide · Mineral
Sulphur Iodatum suits persons with obstinate skin infiltrations, glandular enlargements and thickenings after inflammation, combined with debilitating weakness as after influenza. It is especially indicated in barber's itch, suppurating acne, and chronic tonsil and parotid hypertrophy with marked prostration and dread of exertion.
Key symptoms
- Obstinate skin affections, especially barber's itch and acne
- Weeping eczema with dark red, swollen, intensely itching surface
- Hair feels as if standing erect
- Chronic hypertrophy of tonsils and parotid glands
- Weakness as from influenza; faint and sick
- Sleepy during the day, restless at night
- Desire for acids and pickles
- Scalp soreness; frontal headache with feeling of tight band
- Urine smells like raspberries; kidney pains shooting down ureters
Worse (aggravation)
- In the morning on waking
- From exertion, even slight
- From heat
- When stooping or leaning forward
- On rising or ascending stairs
- Before storms
- At night
- Lying on the right side
Better (amelioration)
- From cool air
- After expectoration
- In winter
- From standing
- After sundown (headache)
Iodide of Sulphur
Obstinate skin affections, notably in barber's itch and acne. Weeping eczema.
Throat
Uvula and tonsils enlarged and reddened. Swollen. Tongue thick. Parotid hypertrophied.
Skin
Itching on ears, nose, and in urethra. Papular eruption on face. Cold-sores on lips. Boils on neck. Barber's itch. Acne. Lichen planus. Arms covered with itching rash. Hair feels as if erect.
Dose
Third trituration.
Iodide of Sulphur. S2I2. Trituration.
Clinical
Acne; punctata. Barber's itch. Coryza. Ears, noises in. Eczema, weeping. Gonorrhœa. Hay asthma. Influenza. Kidneys, pain in. Lichen planus. Lip, upper, eruption on. Parotid glands, hypertrophy of. Prostate, affections of. Scalp, soreness of. Spine, weakness of. Stricture, urethral. Tongue, thickening of. Tonsils, chronic hypertrophy of.
Characteristics
Sul. iod. was proved by Kelsall on himself and some others. Hale has used it in "obstinate skin diseases, notably barber's itch, for which it is almost a specific." The provings indicate this in "pustular eruption on upper lip" and "erythema on chin." Hale used the 3x trit. internally and applied a cerate (of one or two grains of Sul. iod. to an ounce of Cosmoline). It is also useful, Hale says, in large and painful suppurating acne. Dr. Berlin (quoted H. W., xxxi. 216) treated with Sul. iod. two cases of "weeping eczema" associated with varicose veins of the leg and pronounced itching. Also a child with …
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