Sulphurosum acidum
Sulfurous acid · Mineral
Sulphurosum Acidum suits conditions with marked antiseptic indications: ulcerative mouth inflammation, furious mental excitement with terror, persistent choking cough, and extreme chest constriction. It is used in tonsillitis, acne rosacea, and obstinate constipation from suppressed intestinal secretions.
Key symptoms
- Ulcerative inflammation of the mouth and stomatitis
- Violent headache better after vomiting; ringing in ears
- Extreme fury and disposition to fight; terror and anxiety
- Persistent choking cough with copious thin mucus expectoration
- Extreme tightness of the chest with difficult breathing
- Obstinate scybalous constipation with complete dryness of intestines
- Acne rosacea and pityriasis versicolor of skin
- Stiffness and pain in spine between shoulder blades after movement
Worse (aggravation)
- From inhalation of the gas or fumes
- During and after movement (spinal stiffness)
- From exertion
Better (amelioration)
- After vomiting (headache relieved)
- In open air away from fumes
Sulphurous Acid; H2 S O3
Sulphurous acid, (tonsillitis (as a spray), acne rosacea, ulcerative stomatitis, pityriasis versicolor).
Head
Anxious, furious, disposed to fight. Headache better by vomiting. Ringing in ears.
Mouth
Ulcerative inflammation of mouth. Tongue red or bluish-red. Coated.
Stomach
Loss of appetite. Obstinate constipation.
Respiratory
Persistent choking cough with copious expectoration. Hoarseness, constriction of chest. Difficult breathing.
Female
Fluor albus. Debility.
Dose
As a spray in tonsillitis. According to Ringer, ten to fifteen minims taken ten minutes before each meal will remedy pyrosis and prevent fermentation and flatulence. It also removes thrush. Homeopathically, third attenuation.
Sulphurous acid. H2SO3. Sulphurous anhydride. SO2. Sulphurous acid gas dissolves in water and constitutes 9.2 per cent. by weight of the solution.
Clinical
Acne rosacea. Colds. Constipation, scybalous. Croup. Diphtheria. Eczema marginalis. Favus. Hands, chapped. Influenza. Nipples, sore. Pityriasis versicolor. Pyrosis. Stomatitis, ulcerative.
Characteristics
Some forty years ago, when the germ theory of disease in its present form was in its infancy, Dewar, of Fife, conceived the idea that Sulphurous acid was an innocent and at the same time universal germ destroyer, and consequently universal remedy. His views met with cordial acceptance, and inhalations of Sulphurous acid given off from burning Sulphur became the fashion. Dewar's method was simple. A few red cinders were put in a kitchen shovel; this was placed in the centre of a room and flowers of sulphur sprinkled thereon. In a very short time every person in the room was sneezing violently, coughing and wheezing, and running at the eyes and …
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