# Hepar Sulphuris Calcareum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Night

## Keynote Indications
Source:  Derived  from  Hepar  sulphuris  calcareum,  a  compound  prepared  by  heating  calcium. carbonate  (from  oyster  shells)  with  sulphur,  followed  by  serial  dilution  and  succussion  for. homeopathic use to eliminate toxicity and enhance therapeutic action. Traditional  Context:  Historically  employed  in  homeopathy  for  respiratory,  dermatological,. musculoskeletal, psychological, and systemic disorders , particularly those involving suppurative. infections, hypersensitivity, and irritability. It is noted for symptoms such as painful abscesses, sore. throats, extreme sensitivity to cold, and violent irritability, often aggravated by cold, touch, or slight. pain, and ameliorated by warmth, wrapping up, or moist heat. Modern  Context :  Indicated  for  respiratory  conditions  (e.g.,  tonsillitis,  bronchitis),. dermatological conditions  (e.g., abscesses, acne),  musculoskeletal conditions  (e.g., joint pain,. periostitis),  psychological conditions  (e.g., irritability, anxiety), and  systemic conditions  (e.g.,. fever,  hypersensitivity).  It  suits  patients  with  acute  or  chronic  symptoms  characterized  by. suppurative inflammation ,  extreme sensitivity ,  chilliness, or  anger, typically exacerbated by. cold, touch, or slight stimuli, and often seen in individuals with recurrent infections, chronic skin. disorders, or stress-related irritability. The remedy is particularly relevant for those with a chilly,. hypersensitive constitution, often presenting with physical symptoms like purulent discharges or. sharp pains alongside psychological symptoms like impatience or rage, commonly observed in. patients with recurrent tonsillitis, furunculosis, or adjustment disorder triggered by environmental or. sensory stressors.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from: Cold (weather, air, drinks, exposure), touch, slight pain, pressure, night,. uncovering, emotional stress, exertion, swallowing, noise, sensory overload, dry cold winds.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Mental dullness.
- Forgetful.
- Weak memory.
- Depression.
- Dejected and sad.
- Remorse.
- Bitter crying.
- Dissatisfaction with one's self and others.
- Anguish in the evening and night with thoughts of suicide.
- Delicate, oversensitive to impressions, people and places.
- Hypersensitive.
- Hasty speech and hasty drinking.
- Restlessness, desires a constant change.
- Hurried.
- Child does not laugh, and is not inclined to play or to amuse 
itself in any way.
- Children who lose their tempers and hit, kick and scream (Cham., Cina.).
- Quarrelsome.
- Extreme irritability, pee vishness.
- Abusive and vehement.
- Ferocious.
- Slightest upset 
irritates him.
- Everybody disturbs him.
- B ad tempered.
- Angry because of pain, at the least trifle.
- Impulsive.
- Impulse to do violence and to destroy, to start fires.
- Impulse to kill, to stab with a knife, especially if annoyed.
- Insanity and mania.
- Mental dullness.
- Forgetful.
- Weak memory.
- Depression.
- Dejected and sad.
- Remorse.
- Bitter crying.
- Dissatisfaction with one's self and others.
- Anguish in the evening and night with thoughts of suicide.
- Delicate, oversensitive to impressions, people and places.
- Hypersensitive.
- Hasty speech and hasty drinking.
- Restlessness, desires a constant change.
- Hurried.
- Child does not laugh, and is not inclined to play or to amuse 
itself in any way.
- Children who lose their tempers and hit, kick and scream (Cham., Cina.).
- Quarrelsome.
- Extreme irritability, pee vishness.
- Abusive and vehement.
- Ferocious.
- Slightest upset 
irritates him.
- Everybody disturbs him.
- B ad tempered.
- Angry because of pain, at the least trifle.
- Impulsive.
- Impulse to do violence and to destroy, to start fires.
- Impulse to kill, to stab with a knife, especially if annoyed.
- Insanity and mania.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo, with headache, nausea, with a tendency to fall.
- Vertigo in morn ings.
- Worse on rising, when 
shaking the head, from motion.
- COMMENTS - Guernsey noted the effects on the skin and touch, “any trouble occurring on the skin where 
there is a great sensitiveness to the slightest touch, patient can't bear to have even the clothes touch the part 
or have it touched in an y way.
- Exanthema like nettle rash, sore to the slightest touch.
- Skin hard to heal, 
inflammation, sensitive soreness of skin.” 
Teste added that the sensitiveness is not confined to touch.
- There is excessive sensitiveness to the air, patient 
can't bear the least draft and if a hand accidentally gets outside the bedclothes it brings on an aggravation.
- Characteristic over-sensitiveness.
- Sensitivity to touch, to pain, can suffer intensely (Cham.).
- The slightest pain 
causes fainting.
- Sensitive to the stimulation of light, noise and odors.
- Desires constant change, can't adjust to 
find comfort.
- Very chilly, particularly when sick.
- Very sensitive to drafts, even uncovering a hand or foot can bring on a 
coughing spasm (Rumx., Rhus-t.).
- Worse from air conditioning, better warmth and heat.
- Sensitiveness to cold, 
dry air (Aeon., Bry.).
- Restlessness and anxiety (Ars.).
- Anxious about pain (Ign.
- ), and worse pain, can overre act and become 
hysterical or violent (Nux-v., Cham.).
- Frenzy because of pain, impulsive.
- Very irrit able, abusive.
- Can have an 
impulse to kill or throw someone in a fire or out the window.
- Can have a desire to set fires, desire to kill her 
child.
- Swears and curses, fears they may do something violent.
- Painful, inflamed sores and wounds, slow to heal.
- Pai nful, hypersensitive boils (Bell., Tarent.), with sticking 
pains.
- Tendency to boils, painful eruptions, ulcers, abscesses and pus.
- Suppuration, inflammation and severe 
pain from foreign bodies under the skin or in eye (Sil.).
- Sensation of foreign body under the skin or in the eye.
- Abscesses anywhere in the body, with sensitivity.
- Throbbing, stabbing 
pains, splinter-like sensations.
- Splinters under the nail that abscess (Sil., Myris.).
- Sticking pains in the nails.
- Itching, particularly in affects the bends of the elbows and popliteal spaces.
- Itching in connection with jaundice.
- Pruritus, especially when of mercurial origin.
- Inflam mations, especially of respiratory organs, bowels and 
kidneys and the skin.
- Colds and flus from exposure to drafts or cold dry winds (Kali-c.).
- Chronic sinusitis or bronchitis from exposure 
to cold winds, drafts or cold dry weather.
- Sinusitis with yel low, thick discharge (Puls.) with irritability.
- Coryza, 
nose swollen and sore to the touch, especially inside the ale.
- Boring at root of nose with catarrhal symptoms 
or headaches.
- Suffocative attacks in the respiratory organs.
- Asthma.
- Whooping cough.
- Croup that's worse from dry cold (Aeon., Spong.).
- Yellow discharge.
- Dry, painful, hacking 
cough, as though a feather were in the throa t.
- Loose cough with wheezing and rattling, as if mucus would 
come up but it does not.
- Choking cough.
- Cough, worse drafts, more often in the early morning (Aeon, in 
evening).
- Inflammation of the throat.
- Painful, swol len tonsils.
- Abscessed tonsillitis.
- Disc harge from the tonsils.
- Quinsy, 
with throbbing pains, where suppuration is imminent (Calc -s.
- after it breaks).
- Sore throats with pain on 
swallowing, as though a splinter or fish bone were caught in the throat.
- Sticking pains.
- Hoarseness.
- Earaches in childr en, with night sweats that don't relieve (Merc.).
- Tearing and pressure as though it would 
burst.
- Pus.
- Side of face is sensitive, hypersensitive to noise.
- Sensitive to the least touch or draft (Caust.).
- Abscess in the ear with bloody, yellow, or pus -like discharge from the ear.
- Ear canal is very painful.
- Sticking 
pains in the ears.
- Eye disorders, likes to have eyes tightly covered.
- Toothaches, especially if there is an abscess or boil.
- Very irritable because of the sharp, dental pain.
- Food or 
drink aggravates.
- Drinking water goes to the bone.
- Desires acids and sour things.
- Semi-paralytic condition of the rectum and bladder (Alum.).
- Stools are passed with great difficulty even when 
clay-like and soft.
- Diarrhea with sour stools.
- Fetid stools with a sour body s mell in children.
- Impeded urination, obliged to wait before urine passes, then flows slowly for many days.
- Never able to finish 
urinating, seems as if some always remains in bladder.
- Urine drops vertically down.
- Acrid urine.
- Com plaints 
 
 
during urination and after.
- Nocturnal emissions.
- Escape of prostatic fluid at any time and at stool.
- Affections of the sexual organs 
occurring on the right side.
- Vaginitis with thick, cheesy, fetid dis charge.
- with a bad odor like rotten cheese 
(Kali-p., Kreos.).
- Anti-psoric.
- Marked periodicity, every day, every fourweeks (attack ofparalysis).
- Every four months (scabby 
eruptions on head).
- Whitlows every winter.
- Bilious attacks in the spring and autumn.
- In Hahnemann's article, “Medicine of Experience,” he speaks of the itch-like eruptions caused by Hep.
- and its 
corrective properties in wool-workers' itch.
- Guernsey noted that there is respira tion with mucous rattle, expiration in the morning, none in the evening, 
cough with expectoration during the day, none in the n ight (in croup no expectoration at night but only in the 
daytime with the suffocative coughing spells, low, weak voice).
- P.
- Foster distinguished between Hep., Calc -s.
- and Kali -s.
- in their action on tis sues.
- Kali -s.
- acts on the 
epidermis, Hep.
- on lymphatic  glandular system, skin and respiratory mucous membrane, Calc -s.
- acts much 
as Hep., only more deeply.
- Hep.
- acts on abscesses before they open, Calc-s.
- after.
- Foster cured a woman with Calc -s.
- of “several large ulcers in the gluteal region 3 inches in diame ter and 3/4 
inches deep, exposing the bone.” The pain ceased immediately and the cure was completed in two months.
- The relation of Hepar to the suppura tion process is very marked.
- It meets the hectic condition generally and 
the process locally.
- Clarke on ce cured with Hep.
- 6c a case of axillary abscess with a large collection of pus.
- The whole was 
absorbed without breaking.
- A case of pustular ophthalmia of the left eye was cured after Sulph.
- and Calc, had failed.
- It was better keeping 
the eye closely cover ed with some soft fabric, worse morn ings, better as the day advanced.
- Pimples 
surrounded affected eye.
- In a case of eczema pudendi in a young girl, 11, three months after puberty, the parts red and itching, Merc, 
was given and the whole body became covered with the rash.
- Hep.
- was then given and removed all symptoms 
immediately.
- “Sweats day and night without relief.” 
It antidotes the sensitiveness of Merc, to atmospheric conditions.
- In the old days of mercurialization, one of 
the chief things to be avoided by a patient under the “course” was exposure to chill.

### Head
- Boring pain in the right temple and in root of nose every morning.
- Eczema on forehead along the line 
of hair, worse after washing.
- Scalp sensitive and sore.
- Humid scald -head itching and burning.
- Cold sweat o n 
head.
- Boring pain in the right temple and in root of nose every morning.
- Eczema on forehead along the line 
of hair, worse after washing.
- Scalp sensitive and sore.
- Humid scald -head itching and burning.
- Cold sweat o n 
head.

### Eyes
- Purulent conjunctivitis with chemosis, profuse discharge, great sensitiveness to touch and air.
- Iritis with 
pus in anterior chamber.
- Ophthalmia, thick mucous discharge.
- Corneal ulcers.
- Eyes and lids red and inflamed.
- Pain in the eyes, as if pulled back into the head.
- Boring pai n in upper bones of the orbits.
- Eyeballs sore to 
touch.
- Hypopion.
- Yellow.
- Photophobia.
- Vision obscured by reading, field reduced one - half.
- Bright circles 
before eyes.
- Objects appear red and too large.

### Ears
- Otitis media, painful  (Cham.).
- Ears are sensitive to touch, wind.
- Discharge of feti d pus from the 
ears.
- Pustules in auditory canal and auricle.
- Scurfs on and behind the ears.
- Mastoiditis.
- Whizzing and throbbing 
in ears with hardness of hearing.
- Roaring.
- Deafness from Eustachian catarrh after scarlet fever.

### Face
- Yellowish, sunken complexion.
- Vesicular erysipe las with pricking in parts.
- Cancer on lips.
- Middle of 
lower lip cracked.
- Ulcers in corners of mouth.
- Shooting in jaw on opening mouth.
- Neu ralgia of right side, 
extending in streak into temple, ear, ale and lip.
- Pains in bones of face, especially when bein g touched.

### Mouth
- Tongue, white, yellow, dirty, swollen, large, tabby, slimy, with imprints of teeth, feels as if scalded.
- Bitter taste.
- Aphthae.
- Ptyalism.
- Gums and mouth painful to touch and bleed readily.
- Bleeding painful cancerous 
growth on hard palate.
- Stomatitis of nursing mothers or weakly children.
- Nose - Hay fever.
- Sinusitis after coryza.
- Sneezes every time he goes into a cold, dry wind with running from 
nose, later, thick  offensive discharge.
- Stopped up every time he goes out into cold air.
- Ozaena.
- Of fensive 
discharge, smells like old cheese.
- Post nasal dripping.
- Sore, bleeds, bloody crusts.
- Soreness of nostrils with 
catarrhal troubles.
- Air feels cold in nose.
- Perspiration - Clammy, cold sweat.
- Con stant offensive exhalation from the body.
- Offensive sweats.
- Sour, 
fetid, cheesy odors.
- Profuse sweat, sour, sticky, of fensive, debilitating.
- Sweats day and night without relief, 
better from warmth, covers, worse from eating, exertion, uncovering.
- Night-sweats with tuberculosis.
- Perspira-
tion with menopause

### Throat
- Follicular pharyngitis.
- Hawks up yellow tenacious mucus.
- Quinsy with impending suppuration.
- Stitches in throat extending to the ear when swallowing.
- When s wallowing, sensation as if a plug.
- Sensation 
of a splinter in throat.
- Hoarse- 
Hepar sulphuris calcareum ness with loss of voice.

### Chest
- Sore  throat  or  tonsillitis,  with  sharp,  splinter-like  pain,  resembling  streptococcal.
- pharyngitis, worse with cold, swallowing, or touch.
- Productive cough or sticky expectoration, with a sensation of rawness or hoarseness,.
- resembling acute bronchitis or laryngitis, aggravated by cold air, night, or exposure.
- Nasal congestion or sinusitis, with thick, purulent discharge, resembling bacterial.
- sinusitis, worse with cold or pressure.
- Tendency  to  respiratory  hypersensitivity,  with  aggravation  in  infectious  or.
- inflammatory states.
- Dermatological:.
- Abscesses or boils, with intense pain, redness, or pus, resembling furunculosis or.
- cellulitis, worse with touch, cold, or slight pressure.
- Oozing eruptions or crusty lesions, with a tendency to crack or bleed, resembling.
- impetigo or eczema, aggravated by cold, scratching, or night.
- Acne or pustules, with sensitivity to touch, resembling cystic acne, worse with cold.
- or stress.
- Tendency  to  dermatological  hypersensitivity,  with  aggravation  in  suppurative  or.
- allergic states.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Stomach ulcers and cancer.
- Painful epigastric tumors with pulsations.
- Distention of stomach, 
compelling one to loosen t he clothing.
- Burning in stomach.
- Heaviness and pressure in stomach after a slight 
meal.
- Gone feeling in stomach with loathing of food or as of a sharp lump in stomach.
- Weak digestion.
- Frequent 
 
 
belch- ings without taste or smell.
- Apt to vomit all food, reta ining only milk or water, mixed.
- Cannot eat bread 
or vegetables.
- Temperature - Chilly in open air.
- Chilly from slightest draft.
- Chills and shi verings.
- Heat alternating with chill.
- Hectic fever.
- Dry, burning heat at night.
- Intermittent fever.
- Malaria.
- Typh oid, yellow fever.
- Catarrhal fever.
- Eruptive fever, measles, smallpox.
- Fever with teething.
- Distended, tense, chronic abdominal disorders.
- Pain in the groins as if sprained.
- Atrophy, cancer 
of liver.
- Baek - Neuralgia of neck.
- Dull, dragging, heavy pain across lumbar region, uses arms to raise himself from a 
seat.
- Breasts - Pain in right breast on sneezing.
- Breasts cancer.
- Retracted, sore nipples, cracked in nursing women.
- Causations - Cold, dry winds.
- Injuries.
- Suppressed eruptions.
- Abuse of mercury.
- Desire for acids, pickles, vinegar, sour food.
- Desires wine, fruit, spicy and strong -tasting food, warm 
drinks.
- Better from spicy foods.
- Aversion to fat food, butter, cheese, which aggravate.
- Worse from alcohol, 
brandy, whiskey, tea, sweets, cold food, drinks and ice.

### Urinary & Genital
- Obstinate gonorrhea “does not get well.” Herpes, sensitive, bleed eas ily.
- Figwarts of offensive odor.
- Ulcers externally on prepuce similar to chancre (Nit -ac.).
- Suppurating inguinal glands.
- Humid soreness on 
genitals and between scrotum and thigh.
- Itching of glans, frenum and scrotum.
- Excitement and emission 
without amorous fancies.
- Menorrhagia and metrorrhagia with fibroids.
- Menses late and scanty.
- Pru ritus vul vae with profuse 
leucorrhea with sexual excitement.
- Thick, acrid, yellow, ropy leucorrhea.
- Leucorrhea smells like old cheese 
(Sanie.).
- Vagina sore during sex, bleeding after.
- Itching of pudenda and nipples, worse during menses.
- Abscesses 
of labia with great sensitiveness.
- Profuse perspiration at the menopause (Til., Jab.).
- Erosion of cervix.
- Removes the tendency to habitual adherent placenta.
- Hot, watery, discharge from uterus.

### Extremities
- Joint pain or stiffness, with sharp, cutting sensations, resembling rheumatoid arthritis.
- or gout, worse with cold, pressure, or motion.
- Bone  pain  or  periosteal  sensitivity,  with  a  sensation  of  soreness  or  throbbing,.
- resembling periostitis, aggravated by cold, touch, or night.
- Muscle soreness or cramps, with a tendency to aggravation after exertion, resembling.
- myalgia, worse with cold or rest.
- Tendency  to  musculoskeletal  hypersensitivity,  with  aggravation  in  painful  or.
- inflammatory states.
- Psychological:.
- Irritability or rage, with a tendency to overreact to slight provocations, resembling.
- intermittent explosive disorder, worse with cold, touch, or emotional stress.
- Anxiety or nervousness, with a sensation of inner tension or fear of pain, resembling.
- generalized anxiety disorder, aggravated by cold, night, or sensory stimuli.
- Depression  or  low  mood,  with  a  tendency  to  feel  easily  offended,  resembling.
- adjustment disorder, worse with cold or fatigue.
- Hepar sulphuris calcareum (Calcium Sulphide) 1006.
- Tendency to psychological hypersensitivity, with aggravation during inflammatory or.
- painful flare-ups.
- Systemic:.
- Fever or chills, with a sensation of coldness or shivering, resembling sepsis or acute.
- infection, worse with cold, exposure, or night.
- Fatigue or weakness, with a sensation of heaviness or prostration, resembling chronic.
- fatigue syndrome, aggravated by cold, exertion, or emotional stress.
- Hypersensitivity to external stimuli (e.g., cold, touch, noise), resembling sensory.
- processing disorder, worse with cold environments or fatigue.
- Tendency to systemic irritability, with aggravation in infectious or inflammatory.
- states.

### Skin
- Fever or chills, with a sensation of coldness or shivering, resembling sepsis or acute.
- infection, worse with cold, exposure, or night.
- Fatigue or weakness, with a sensation of heaviness or prostration, resembling chronic.
- fatigue syndrome, aggravated by cold, exertion, or emotional stress.
- Hypersensitivity to external stimuli (e.g., cold, touch, noise), resembling sensory.
- processing disorder, worse with cold environments or fatigue.
- Tendency to systemic irritability, with aggravation in infectious or inflammatory.
- states.