Common name: Hepar sulph. Calcium sulfide.
Chemical formula: CaS
Hahnemann prepared this chemical compound using the middle layer of oyster shells heated with flakes of yellow sulfur. Calcium sulfide has an odor like rotten eggs. It has a quality of luminescence and is used in the preparation of luminous paints. Pure calcium sulfide is used in electron emitters. Lime sulfur spray is used as an insecticide and fungicide. Calcium sulfide is present in the mineral oldhamite, in volcanoes, and is a component in some meteorites.
When prepared as the homeopathic remedy, Hepar sulph, the white powder of Calcium sulfide is dissolved in hot hydrochloric acid and triturated with milk sugar. Its use in homeopathy is for all types of inflammation which progress to suppuration, for example in boils and abscesses, painful ear, nose, and throat infections, and glandular swellings. The suffering person is extremely sensitive to pain, touch, and cold. There is the formation of pus and sour smelling discharges smelling like old cheese.
Keynotes:
- Painful infected wounds, boils, or abscesses before they open
- Prevents the formation of pus
- Oversensitive to pain, pains are stabbing, splinter like or stitching
- Offensive smelling discharges, perspiration, stool, breath
- Tendency to suppuration and pus, thick yellow discharges
- Infections – otitis media, conjunctivitis, sinusitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis, tonsillitis, bronchitis, mastitis
- Glandular swellings
- Croup worse in the early morning, asthma, cough with thick yellow expectoration
- Loathing of food, burning in stomach, vomiting all food
- Motion sickness due to rocking motion of a car, bus, or train
- Chilly, sensitive and worse from cold, drafts, and cold dry wind
- Raynaud’s syndrome
- Irritable, angry, rude, and abusive when sick or stressed, violent impulses
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