Homoeopathy — Page 661
Sulphuricum Acidum 661 SULPHURICUM ACIDUM (Sulphuric Acid) Sulphuric Acid contains Sulphur, which affects the human defences deeply. During indigestion, the Sulphuric acid contained in the stomach produces Hydrogen Sulphide gas, with its typical foetid odour. Every acid in the body has certain basic properties, which affect the patients accordingly. Every kind of hyperacidosis can result in a sudden severe disabling weakness of the body. Sulphuric Acid is the ideal homoeopathic remedy for hyperacidity in the stomach. By studying Sulphuric Acid, one can easily understand how the imbalance of different elements in the body results in different kinds of symptoms and signs. Sulphur is such a strong remedy that it produces a burning sensation on the body from the head to the toes. The addition of an atom of hydrogen converts it into Sulphuric Acid, which has a different nature from that of Sulphur. Its patient suffers in both the heat and cold. One symptom of Sulphuric Acid is that the patient quivers all over. This is not due to the cold, but is a spontaneous response on the part of the body. Bleeding is of dark colour. Dark blood oozes from under the nails and the junctional areas where the skin and the mucous membranes meet (like the bleeding from snakebite). The bleeding being in the skin, tends to surface externally. Sometimes, spontaneous red spots appear on the skin (petechiae). These spots may also be dark coloured, raw looking and ugly. A strange kind of skin condition can also develop on the face making it difficult to diagnose. Such type of haemorrhage occurring internally is found in Sulphuric Acid, but may be found in other remedies too. Sulphuric Acid is useful in the treatment of many skin diseases. If the nature of common remedies is known, it is definitely beneficial. Some of the symptoms of Sulphuric Acid resemble those of Sulphur, such as profuse morning diarrhoea. Some of the Arnica symptoms are also shared by Sulphuric Acid, such as bruised feeling with pain, weakness and feeling of cold. Haemorrhagic spots develop on the skin. The spots may be darker in