Cadmium sulphuratum

as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927

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General

Cadmic Sulphate Its pathogenesis gives symptoms corresponding to very low forms of disease, as in cholera, yellow fever, where, with exhaustion, vomiting, and extreme prostration, the disease runs deathward. Important gastric symptoms. Carcinoma ventriculi; persistent vomiting. The attack is upon the stomach more especially. Patients must keep quiet. Chilliness and coldness even when near the fire. Mind and Head.––Unconscious. Vertigo; room and bed seem to spin around. Hammering in head. Heat in head.

Modalities

Worse, walking or carrying burdens; after sleep; from open air, stimulants. Better, eating and rest.

Face

Distortion of mouth. Trembling of jaw. Facial paralysis; more left side.

Eyes

Opacity of cornea. Blue circle around eyes. One pupil dilated. Night blindness.

Nose

Ozæna. Tightness at root. Nose obstructed; polypus. Caries of nasal bones. Boils on nose. Nostrils ulcerated.

Mouth

Difficult swallowing. Œsophagus constricted (Bapt). Salty belching.

Intense nausea, with pain and cold. Stringy, offensive exudation on mucous membrane. Salty taste.

Throat

Sore throat, constant tickling; gagging and nausea, worse deep breathing; chilliness and aching.

Stomach

Soreness in pit of stomach on pressure. Violent nausea; retching. Black vomit. Vomiting of mucus, green slime, blood, with great prostration, and great tenderness over the stomach. Burning and cutting pains in stomach. Carcinoma, helps the persistent vomiting. Coffee ground vomiting.

Abdomen

Sore, tender, tympanitic. Region of liver sore. Coldness. Black, offensive clots of blood from bowels. Pain in abdomen, with vomiting. Tenderness and tympanites.

Stool

Bloody, black, and offensive. Gelatinous, yellowish green; semi-fluid, with urinary suppression.

Urinary

Rawness and soreness in urethra, urine mixed with pus and blood.

Heart

Palpitation, with constriction of chest.

Skin

Blue, yellow, sallow, scaly, cracking. Itching; better scratching. Chloasma, yellowish stains on nose and cheeks; worse exposure to sun and wind. Chilblains.

Sleep

Stops breathing on going to sleep. Wakes up suffocating. Fears to go to sleep again. Protracted sleeplessness.

Fever

Icy coldness (Camph; Verat; Heloderm). Yellow fever (Crotalus; Carbo).

Relationships

Compare: Cadmium oxide; Cad brom (pain and burning in stomach, and vomiting); Cadmium jodat (Itching of anus and rectum felt during the day only; constipation frequent desire, tenesmus, abdomen bloated); Zinc; Ars; Carbo; Verat.

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency.

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Cite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Cadmium sulphuratum — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/cadmium-sulphuratum. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.