Homoeopathy — Page 376
Hepar Sulphuris Calcareum 376 resistance being very low, a homoeopathic remedy given in high potency may produce serious adverse effects or may even prove fatal. Since Hepar Sulph contains Sulphur, it has some similarities with Sulphur. Sulphur has the capability of curing the old scars of tuberculosis in the lungs. If the bacteria form tiny little lesions in the lungs (miliary Tuberculosis), Sulphur helps to destroy them. One should not give Silicea in this condition. Sulphur attenuates the tuberculous bacteria, which then become expectorated with cough. It is important to know that one should never administer Sulphur in high potency unless and until one is sure that there are no enlarged glands near the arteries in the lungs. Tuberculosis patients, who have such lumps in the lungs, may bleed from ruptured blood vessels in the lungs as a reaction to Sulphur or Silicea, given in high potency. In this kind of patient Sulphur works as potently as Silicea. The better way to treat these patients is that first of all, Sulphur should be given in moderate potency for some period and then the patient should be put on Calcarea Carb. Calcarea Carb helps to make protective shells around the tuberculous lesions, like the shell around the egg. The bacteria become imprisoned in these protective shells. Hepar Sulph is very useful for the treatment of tuberculosis of the lungs, intestines or anywhere else in the body. Hepar Sulph will be found effective irrespective of the site of the tuberculous infection. Hepar Sulph has elements of Sulphur and Calcarea both. The element of Sulphur is more dominant. So, it shares a similarity to Silicea, like Sulphur. Hepar Sulph is effective against all sorts of skin wounds. They may have started to discharge pus and bleed, or have become putrid with new boils forming around them, or have become like a non-relenting abscesses that do not heal. Hepar Sulph is effective against all of them. But Hepar Sulph and Nitric Acid are similar in the way that the small wounds or sores may develop individually or in the form of clusters, which spread out from one side. Both Hepar Sulph and Nitric Acid can be used for the treatment of ulcers in the intestines. Mercury is similar to both remedies in the treatment of the intestinal ulcers.