A comprehensive analysis on Sulphur personality

Dr Merlin Liza James

ABSTRACT:
Sulphur is a dynamic and complex remedy, representing a personality that oscillates between brilliance and egotism. It is indicated for individuals with a tendency to self-centeredness, an intellectual bent, and a high degree of emotional volatility. In homeopathy, Sulphur is a go-to remedy for a wide range of physical and mental ailments, particularly those exacerbated by heat or poor assimilation, with a distinctive impact on the venous system, skin, and emotional states.

Whether dealing with chronic conditions like varicose veins or mental states like frustration and pride, Sulphur provides a holistic remedy to restore balance to those whose personalities and bodies exhibit fiery, energetic, and intense characteristics. This article deal with in depth analysis of sulphur in all the plain including physical, mental, and its characteristic particulars.

COMMON NAME: flower of Sulphur

SOURCE: derived from lava or molten red hot fiery liquid.

INTRODUCTION

      Sulfur (also spelled sulphur in British English) is a chemical element

• It has symbolS and atomic number
• Sulfur is the tenth most abundant element by mass in the universe and the fifth most abundant on Earth.
• Being abundant in native form, sulfur was known in ancient times, being mentioned for its uses in ancient India, ancient Greece, China, and ancient Egypt.
• Historically and in literature sulfur is also called brimstone, which means “burning stone”.

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY:

• This agent is diaphoretic and mild laxative
• Through the great vegetative nervous system, Sulphur acts upon every organ and tissue in the body, but selects more especially the nine following tissues:
• VENOUS S. Chronic Capillary Congest.; Exudation; Suppuration.
• PORTAL S. Chronic Congest.; Hemorrhoids; Constipation.
• LYMPHATICS. Secretions excess. Acrid, Excoriating All Parts.
• SEROUS M. Serous Effusions; Exudative Inflammation.
• MUCOUS M. Excessively Excoriating Mucorrhoea.
• SKIN. Vesicular and Pustular Inflammation; Alopecia.
• SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS S. Defective Assimilate.; Hot Flashes followed by perspiration faint feeling
• BLOOD. Fibrine Increased, Rheumatoid Affections.
• SULPHUR FUMES. Disinfectant, Deodorizing, No Animal Life Can Live in Sulphureous Acid Gas.

CONSTITUTIONS:

• Sulphur is suitable in the most troublesome “scrofulous constitution- Brocken down constitution and defective assimilation.
• THREE TYPES OF PHYSIQUE:

1. ECTOMORPH- who has tall thin frame and a large head. – especially high forehead.

They are highly intellectual, and often spiritually oriented.

2. POLYMORPH- who is fat and may be either tall or short. He is more earthy and sensual, eats a great deal, although he may also practical and intellectual.
3. MESOMORPH- firm muscular body but not always tall.
4. Sulphur people may have any COMPLEXION, but the most common are fair or red haired, with blue, green, or grey eyes and black haired with blue or grey eyes.
5. The eyes frequently appear to have a sparkling quality, and often have dreamy, faraway look. The eyebrows are frequently busy, wither curl up at both outer edges, or one end curls up and the other curls down.
6. THE FACE- generally angular, usually broad, whilst the nose is prominent and is usually quiet straight, or else hooked- called as fire nose.
7. Very often Sulphur will have a head that appear large than the body which is in keeping both with his expanded ego, and his cerebral and spiritual interests.
8. Sulphur’s chin is broad and firm- denoting self-confidence, except in the case of ectomorph intellectuals where the chin is pointed in comparison with the broad forehead.
9. DRESSING:
10. In keeping with their flamboyant personalities, Sulphur individuals will often wear flamboyant cloths. These may be chic and sophisticated like bow- tie and the cravat- like they may be eccentric.
11. FLAMBOYANT- meaning-tending to attract

Attention because of their exuberance,

Confidence and stylishness.

VOICE:

• Sulphur talks in a ROUGH AND COARSE way. His basic character of being heated easily at the physical level is also present at the mental level. He explodes easily in anger like

POSTURES : with doctrine of signature:
When one thinks of posture, Sulphur instantly pops up in our mind because of its wide use in strong aggravations of standing posture problems. Vertigo, lumbago, pain in knees, varicose veins, haemorrhoids, pain in abdomen, pain in ankles, fainting, coughing and even confusion of mind are aggravated by standing, as also orthostatic hypotension.

• I often call Sulphur as a remedy of gravitational pull. It is from the deep interior of the earth’s crust that a volcano erupts against the gravity and surfaces. Volcano is fire; it is with extreme heat that the river of lava starts flowing and destroying

Several pathologies for which Sulphur is a reputed remedy, disturbed gravity is the chief cause. Sulphur has a venous constitution, and it is a chief remedy for varicose veins and haemorrhoids. Stasis of blood in the veins is due to gravitational pull.

• A Sulphur patient is unable to walk erect; he walks stoop shouldered. This also shows that he can’t keep a balance of himself. There is aggravation also from looking down, reaching high and crossing running water.
• This shows he has to go against

PERSONALITY – KING OF ANTIPSORIC:

Key words:

• Egoistic- selfish
• Materialist/ nonmaterialistic
• Pride
• Intellectual/ nonintellectual
• Active mind- restless.
• Want of recognition
• Beno valent/optimistic
• Ragged philosopher

SELFISHNESS-EGOTISM.

• An extreme form of Sulphur’s selfishness is encountered in the blatant egoist (“EGOTISM”: HERING),
• No consideration for others. He strongly approves of people helping each other in life, provided this is not expected of him. Completely engrossed in his own world, he will not put himself out for anyone, grumbles or becomes “peevish” (Hahnemann) if asked to do even the smallest favor; yet he expects others to look after his comforts.
• Kent offers a graphic illustration of this trait: “Everything that he contemplates is for the benefit of himself … There is absence of gratitude … He will sit around, and do nothing, and let his wife take in the washing and work her fingers off taking care of him: he thinks that is all she is good for … A state of refinement seems to have gone out of [him].”
• He is the’ man who comes home to a wife laden with household cares and small children and ask her roughly, “Why didn’t you rake up the leaves as I asked you to? What do you mean you didn’t have time? What have you been doing all day?” He is convinced that nothing is difficult, fatiguing, or important to anyone but himself.
• Nor is this, true only in the home. Generally “indifferent to the welfare of others” (Kent), the selfish Sulphur is reluctant to give a minute of his time or an ounce of his energy to some communal enterprise and, even if a concerned partner, barely does his share of the work.
• He does not have to cooperate or express his gratitude because everything is owed him. Others should feel privileged to help him out.

GENEROSITY:

• Sulphur is also the child who spends his weekly allowance treating his friends to candy and comic books, generously giving away his belongings to all and sundry; or the day before examinations he will lend his textbooks and class notes to a friend, philosophically accepting the possibility that he himself will get poorer grades.

MATERIALISTIC:

• Sulphur can also be materialistic. This is manifested in a love of money and/ or possessions as well as in the attitude: “WHAT’S MINE IS MINE, AND WHAT’S YOURS IS NEGOTIABLE.“
• The quality emerges at an early age: the child can be quite ferocious in snatching away toys from others while protecting his own tenaciously. “It’s mine! … Don’t touch! … I want your ball! … ” are among the first phrases of the Sulphur
• The remedy was once successfully prescribed for this reason to an eighteen- month old boy with a complicated respiratory-tract infection: while sitting on his mother’s knees he tugged at her earrings and shouted “Mine … mine” with an angry and determined expression on his face.
• As Sulphur grows older, he begins to collect things: rocks, shells, stamps, matchboxes, locks and keys, or baseball cards. He even collects broken toys fished out of trashcans- whatever catches his fancy, regardless of worth.
• As he grows older,. The intellectual child now insists on owning his books. He is no longer content to borrow them from the library and will appropriate those he likes from the household shelves.
• He wants his “books there, on his own shelf. The youngster who likes music wants his own stereo and keeps all his favorite records in his room.
• The adult continues to amass books and records. His impressive collection may include several editions (or recordings) of any single literary (or musical) work.

AN ANTI- MATERIALISTIC:

• Total indifference to possessions may reflect a conscious ascetic determination to dispense with chattels for THE SAKE OF SPIRITUAL OR INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT
• Even the Sulphur who seeks possessions and enjoys owning them may exhibit a truly anti-materialist streak in HIS Attitude toward clothes “indifferent to personal appearance” (kent). The adolescent or young adult likes to dress in an ill-fitting sweatshirt, torn sneakers and jeans (practical, durable leans are essentially sulphur– hence their universal popularity), due less to an intrinsic lack of aesthetic sense than to his need to bang on to his belongings.
• By this, of being long with him and much worn, his clothes have become a part of himself, and how can anyone throw out a part of himself?
• Here too, however, the opposite is found. He can be highly clothes conscious, dressing nattily and expensively and seeking to impress his peers. Yet even when well-dressed, some detail will remain shabby: the shoes are worn at the heels or- scuffed at the toes: the collar is crumpled or the tie awry.

IS REALLY SULPHUR NOT FASTIDIOUS?

• The same quality is found in the adult. His desk is easily recognized by the papers heaped up or scattered around, so .that It would appear impossible-to find anything.
• Yet he can in a moment locate the smallest memorandum and is distraught ( worried) if his wife or secretary suggests putting things in order: in fact, he regards clutter and messy surroundings as “comfort.
• Alternately, while he may possess a theoretical desire for neatness, and is upset by ambient dirt and mess, he will not bestir himself or lift a finger to clean up.
• Bath at home and in the office he wants others to pick up after him and is enraged when they do not (in either type, following a prescription of Sulphur, the patient may return saying, “I don’t know what happened, but after I took the remedy, I felt inspired to clean up my desk and pick up my room”).

Expression: active mind, theoretical desire, selfish- others must do.

• His desk drawers are rat’s nests, with thread, string, paper clips, and paper entangled in an undecipherable bundle (Arsenicum’s closets and drawers are as impeccable as the roam’s outward appearance).

A RAGGED PHILOSOPHER: HERING

• The Sulphur scholar, the inventor, works day and night in threadbare cloths and a battered hat; has long uncut hair and a dirty face; his study is unhealthy, it is untidy, books and leaves of books are piled up indiscriminately; there is no order.
• It seems the Sulphur produces this state of disorder, a state of untidiness, a state of uncleanliness, a state of don’t care, how things go, and a state of selfishness.
• He became a false philosopher and the more he does on in this state the more he is disappointed because the world doesnot consider him as the greatest man on earth.
• Cleanliness is not an idea with the sulphur pt.
• He is dirty; he does not see the necessity of putting on a clean collar and cuffs and a clean shirt; it does not worry him.
• Sulphur seldom indicated in cleanly people, but it is commonly indicated in those who are not disturbed by uncleanliness.
• The Sulphur pt has filthiness throughout.
• HE IS THE VICTIM OF FILTHY ODORS.
• He has filthy breath, he has intensely fetid stool. He has filthy smelling genitals, which can be smelled in the room despite his clothing and he himself smells them.
• The discharges are fetid, having strong, offensive odors.
• Despite constant washing axilla gives out a pungent smell.

It is called PRIDE OF POSSESSION

• Attachment to his old ragged clothes introduces another facet of this type’s pride of possession, described in the homoeopathic texts as:’ “fancies himself rich” (Boenninghausen), “thinks himself In possession of beautiful things; even rags seem beautiful” (Herring). He extravagantly admires whatever belongs to him and sees virtue where no virtue lies. This feeling goes beyond the child’s preference for a worn baseball card or broken tin soldier, or the adult’s particular attachment to some ragged shirt.

PRIDE

“IF IT’S MINE, IT MUST BE ADMIRABLE.”

• the parent who takes pride in the child of little intrinsic merit. Of his scheming, grabbing son, he will boast, “He will make a fine businessman someday”; of a lying, cheating daughter he will venture, with real admiration in his voice, “She is so clever-much cleverer than our other children. She is certain to succeed in life.” Of this same daughter the Sulphur mother will say, “She has real flair I other girls are dull by comparison.”

• THIS HAPPENS DUE TO STRONG ATTACHMENT TO THE THINGS AND PERSON.

 SULPHUR CHILD – EGO

• Sometimes the Sulphur child’s aggressive unwillingness to cooperate, attributed to selfishness, is actually generated more by an extreme independence and resentment of outside interference.
• “I want to do it my own way!” he insists. “By myself, by myself!” he cries angrily, pushing away help as he struggles to tie his shoelaces or attempts some other difficult task

 THE HEATED AND ERUPTIVE PERSONALITY:

• HEATED” OR ERUPTIVE NATURE CAN BE SEEN CLEARLY IN BOTH THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL SPHERES.
• HEAT AND ERUPTIVE STAGE IN PHYSICAL PLANE: AGGRESSIVE SULPHUR
• On the physical level, he is usually warm blooded, uncomfortable in the heat, and with a tendency to perspire freely- all over the body and especially on the face.
• He has warm hands, often with red or sweaty palms, and red ears which may or may not protrude from the head. If the face is not red, it easily flushes scarlet with heat, exertion, or annoyance.
• The ORIFICES OF THE MUCOUS MEMBRANES ─ lips ear canals, anus, nostrils-may be bright red, even if the rest of the skin is pale; and his skin breaks out into red, hot, itching eruptions of various kinds: eczemas, rashes, pimples, or boils
• A major guiding symptom, for example, is burning of the soles of the feet at night, to such an extent that the patient keeps them outside the bedcovers.
• Even young children “kick clothes off at night” (Hering) or unzip their pajama suits to expose their burning feet.
• The patient may exhibit areas of disturbed heat, such as warm hands but cold feet (or vice-versa); warm body but cool hands; warm head but cold body, and so on. An uneven distribution of body temperatures points strongly to this remedy
• Although sensitivity to cold should not preclude a prescription of Sulphur, as a rule this remedy likes the feel of cold air, so that even in winter he sleeps with the windows open. In cold weather he will don only a sweater and trousers, ignoring hat, gloves and jacket.
• He may suffer from “aggravation in the spring” (Kent-In whose Repertory the modality should be raised to the third degree).
• Sulphur hates being washed.
• ON MENTAL PLANE-

HEAT STAGE: ACTIVE STAGE: restlessness.

Youngsters may have to be tied to their chairs (literally) to keep them sitting through a meal.

Later in school they cannot sit quietly at their desks but squirm around or constantly jump up.

The boy practicing the piano will get up half a dozen times in half an hour, going to the bathroom, getting a drink, stretching, or for whatever other excuse he can conjure up.

• Sitting still and especially standing still, are intolerable. Even In the adult, standing is a “most disagreeable” (Hering) position, aggravating a number of symptoms.
• As the boy grows older, noise-making and movement continue to be intrinsic to his nature: slamming doors, banging things, tumbling downstairs, loud shouting, fidgeting about, and making noise for its own sake.
• Adults are constantly telling him, “Keep quiet! Be still! Sit down!” or “Stop it-whatever you’re doing, stop it!” But Sulphur needs to be active.
• He loves to be outside playing ball, riding his bicycle, and engaging in various strenuous activities.
• He is not only energetic but also inherently creative, initiating projects and seldom allowing himself to be bored.

CREATIVITY:
Some boys must be always talking. If they have nothing particular to say, they will babble or talk nonsense in order to fill the unendurable silence or attract attention. Often they are quiet only when listening to music.

The music must be stimulating, and the youngster plays it at a volume which deafens others but bothers him not at all. He may later join a school band or orchestra, or an informal jazz or rock band, as he enjoys making music in a group-the louder the better.

• The mental heat of the Sulphur adolescent is familiar to parents and teachers. At his best, he is the classic intellectual live wire: alert, imaginative, sceptical, with a talent for mimicry, eager to ask questions point out pertinent exceptions to what an adult says, and engage in verbal combat.
• He goes straight to the heart of things, his powers of concentration are excellent, albeit short-lived, and all the while he retains a buoyant attitude. Instead, of complaining when overwhelmed with schoolwork or other obligations, be will take a positive view.
• All this is good for me. At least I don’t get bored, and then: is nothing worse than being bored. Also, it keeps me out of trouble.-always an important consideration!”
• In general, his restless intellectual and physical energies require much stimulation; he is easily bored and so deliberately seeks out new challenges,

LEADERSHIP QUALITY:

• Frequently a Sulphur, He is still making waves, still asserting himself, but in a constructive way, by manifesting his leadership qualities. He energetically organizes group activities; Plans class entertainments, and works hard to carry them through, generously ensuring that there is fun and participation for all.
• The benevolent Sulphur leader does not discriminate among the members of his group. Although he may have preferences, he keeps them to himself.
• In his all-inclusiveness and high sociability he is anxious primarily to further the group’s welfare.

ANGER:

• The disposition can be fiery and pugnacious.
• When angry, these boys sometimes resemble little bullocks: their eyes get red and small, their faces darken, and they act as if “seeing red.”
• The maturing lively boy may turn his creative energies to troublemaking, with a most disruptive influence on the class. he is usually open and straightforward, “up front” even in his negative behaviour.
• He disrupts by overtly bullying others, causing commotion, or displaying the persistent aggressiveness of the show-off.
• Continually striving for effect, he brags loudly or tells obvious lies about imaginary feats.
• He might steal money, penknives, or mechanical pencils from ‘his classmates’ desks or lockers or from stores in order to boast about these, “macho” accomplishments to his peers.
• At worst the adolescent is irritable, uncooperative, critical, and dissatisfied (“censorious”: Kent), even when others are trying to please him
• Loudly and aggressively, he proclaims his universal discontents: unfair teachers, non- understanding parents, too much responsibility, and too little recognition.
• He loafs around the house, seeking quarrels everywhere, refusing to do his chores, and pulling a disappearing act when most needed.
• If pressed to do his share of work, he spends so much time arguing disagreeably that it is easier to do it for him (“I like being argumentative and aggressive,” he freely admits).
• The onset of middle age generates a resumption or increase of the emotional heat. The male, especially, grows more critical and belligerent: “the mood is quarrelsome and contentious about everything” (Hahnemann).
• In the home he is unreasonably irritated over minutiae (Lycopodium, Nux vomica) and prone to raise his voice when things do not go his way
• . He can be bullying and abrasive with colleagues and subordinates, blustering and bombastic with friends and acquaintances.

ERUPTIVE STAGE: 

REACTION: SHOWN AS ANGER AND IRRITABLE

• This brings up the topic of the Sulphur At any stage of life he erupts easily. The temper outbursts are strong but not lasting. “Quick to anger, quick to subside,” was Hering’s way of putting it like a volcano which blows its top and spews its sulphur but is then quiet again. Minutes after his outburst he has already forgotten it.
• He loves to frequently provoke fights, but rarely feels distressed or resentful afterwards.
• He himself bears no hard feelings once the internal pressure has been relieved and the steam has escaped (“excitable mood; easily irritated but quickly penitent”: Herring). In fact, he looks forward to the next one and remembers with pleasure the more exciting discussions and arguments of his life.
• Possibly he gets over his quarrels easily because they remain largely intellectual. While he may become momentarily emotional, his feelings are seldom deeply affected. His love of contention-as both mental exercise and exchange of ideas-overcomes any wound.

IMPATIENCE:

• His eruptiveness is seen in his impatience. He does not suffer delays or fools gladly. He cannot tolerate physical impediments to his projects (“cannot get quickly enough what he wants”: Hahnemann) and is impatient with those who are slow to understand his meaning or to appreciate his innovative ideas
• In dealing with others, he can be blunt-and at times hard-hitting, expecting them to be equally energetic and productive.
• Generating big ideas, he then. needs others to carry them out, and surrounds himself with people who are willing to work fourteen hours a day at the menial, monotonous or ignoble tasks (the drudgery) to implement his magnificent plans-while he is already onto a new idea, devising ways of setting others to work on this one, and has little patience for repeating or explaining, as is often needful when leading others

As Whitmont puts it, “The Sulphur personality, acting as a catalyst, always feels he must keep things and people on the move; he must always take the initiative, lest things become stagnant.”

• Thus, his strong’ ego can be Intimidating, making others feel insecure, slow, and dependent. This is encountered in father-son, husband-wife, teacher-student, master-disciple relationships, and the like, where the dominant member of the pair is Sulphur

BENEVOLENT” SULPHUR –
MOST OPTIMISTIC.

• Sometimes this remedy is appropriate for patients who yield no negative mental symptoms or characteristics: the well-disposed serene man without emotional hang- ups or chips on his shoulder, the ‘jolly, cheerful woman who is well-Inclined toward the whole world (“uncommon cheerfulness; lively and good-humoured disposition” Allen).
• The very act of throwing a party, bringing disparate and incongruous personalities together into a harmonious and successful whole, gives him immense satisfaction.
• This overflowing benevolence may sometimes appear unmanageable─ and too indiscriminate.
• Like an enthusiastic but inexperienced cook, he insistently combines the most incompatible ingredients (persons) into a common pot (social ventures), sanguine that a delicious dish will result (a good time will be had by all).
• Not only does this buoyant, optimistic individual from time to time lose himself in pleasant daydreams (“reveries”: Boenninghausen) of grandeur, greatness, happiness, and fulfilment, these same themes recur during sleep.
• His dreams are “happy” (Herring), marked by action, adventure, colour, and imagined accomplishments.
• He flies through the air, observes exciting battles, travels to unknown places, and finds himself in such funny situations that he laughs in his sleep (Lycopodium) and sometimes wakes up singing (Herring). He is what Boger calls a “hopeful dreamer” who realizes many of his wishes in his sleep;
• Sulphur, too, is the spontaneously. generous man or woman whom everyone instinctively approaches for help: money for refugees, room and board over a prolonged period for some lost soul, or the expenditure of time and energy on some charitable cause,
• Other constitutional types, to be sure, contain individuals who are equally kind, but Sulphur’s irrepressibly sanguine outlook, healthy geniality, cheerfulness, and robust kindness

PERSONAL RECOGNITION:

• Strong need for personal recognition and to be at the centre of things
• He enjoys boasting loudly and at length of his future plans, his complex projects, and his varied achievements.
• Usually he thinks highly of himself, but, not surprisingly, the opposite is also encountered. he can be carried away and aggrandize his accomplishments.
• He will claim to be in superb physical condition when he actually only runs, an occasional lap with much panting and sweating.
• He will boast of giving up smoking when it has been for a very short period of time; by resuming it and dropping it over and over again he repeatedly gets credit for a strong will.
• Or he brags of all the important people he knows, when he might just have exchanged a few formalities with them

INTELLECTUALISM:

• Sulphur’s third prominent aspect is intellectualism.
• Whether blue collared worker or high-level executive, artist or physician, he displays a scholarly or philosophical slam of mind. He loves theorizing, rationalizing, weaving abstract or hypothetical systems, and the storage and retrieval of practical or statistical data.
• At an early age they begin to read newspapers, magazines, and such improving works as encyclopedias, dictionaries, military histories, and, especially, the Guinness Book of World Records.
• Even in fiction their taste will incline toward the historical or scientific; they like their fiction full of facts.
• Sometimes they possess an “amazing aptitude for languages” (Borland) and are fascinated by them.
• When an adult patient knows (or claims to know) four or five languages well, Sulphur is invariably strong in the picture.

MEMORY:

• He may possess a prodigious memory. Once some bit of information lodges there, it stays and accumulates interest as surely and safely as money in a bank, to be brought out whenever some expenditure is needed.
• If a lecturer makes an error in quoting a literary or historical reference, it is a Sulphur who will catch it and correct the speaker

PSEUDO- AND ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM:

• Recognized as Sulphur- the “Lazy” “averse to business; aversion to work; too lazy to rouse himself; sits .around all day doing nothing.”
• Instead of earning the family’s bread, he reclines in an armchair and thinks his great thoughts or indulges in grand but empty pseudo-intellectual speculation.
• This is also the individual who seeks recognition without feeling any need to exert himself for it.
• He awaits some surprise benefactor who will recognize his hitherto unappreciated talent and raise him to the heights of fame; then he is disappointed at the world’s failure to recognize his greatness.

( LAZINESS + SOMEONES HAS TO RECOGNISE HIM+ GET EVERYTHING IN AN EASY MANNER)

• Even though this Sulphur can absorb .massive amounts of information, his ability to use it appropriately is deficient.
• He may understand the separate components of a situation, discipline, or method without being able to put them all together.

Example:

• The less experienced sulphur homoeopath, for instance, will take a case accurately and extract the major guiding symptoms, but will still not hit on the obvious constitutional remedy.

JAN SHOULTEN- SULPHUR: (EVALUTION THROUGH RELATIONSHIP)

PICTURE OF SULPHUR

• Essence: seduction of relations: partner.
• Seducing into a relationship: partner

They feel they have a right to have a relationship, but although this right used to be taken for granted, they are now in a state where they must do something for it. They must ask for it or seduce the other person into agreeing to give them their love.

SEDUCED INTO LOVE: MARRIAGE

• The most typical situation is that of two people who are married. They have a mutual understanding of giving and taking, which has to be balanced.
• If it isn’t, they get into problems because one of them lives too much on the efforts of the other, or one expects too much of the other.
• SEDUCED INTO A RELATIONSHIP
• One method to get someone to start a relationship with you is
• to try and SEDUCE HIM OR HER.
• give the other person little presents, flowers, jewels, perfume These presents are usually things that will make their loved one feel even more beautiful.
• They hope that this will put them into a good mood and make them consider starting a relationship.

SEDUCING THROUGH APPEARANCE: CLOTHES

They start to pay a lot of attention to their appearance, dressing up in beautiful clothes  & parading in front of their loved one to try and impress them.( CONSTANT EFFORT)

They love beauty and harmony and order, beautiful colours and nice smells, flowers and perfumes

They hate ugliness and things that smell bad: these literally revolt them.

INDIFFERENT TOWARDS RELATIONS

they may neglect their relationship.  They don’t have to make any effort to maintain or improve it.

They become lazy and indifferent, the time they bought little presents is long gone and they don’t care about their appearance anymore.

They simply don’t understand that their partner would like some attention from time to time.

It is difficult for them to give love the place it deserves. They become SELF CENTRED and expect their partner to make all efforts.

NEGLECTED IN THE RELATIONSHIP: JEALOUSY

• But they get very jealous if their partner starts to go somewhere else to try and get some love.
• THEY FEEL THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO RECEIVE ALL THE LOVE THEIR PARTNER HAS TO GIVE.

Any contact between their partner and  another person is seen as a threat.

A glance at a beautiful man or woman, a meaningful look is enough to send them into a fit of jealousy.

• They start to claim their partner for themselves and in extreme circumstances forbid him or her to talk to anyone else.

LOSS OF PRESENTATION: UGLY

• The jealousy gets stronger the more they feel they are not so attractive anymore themselves. A mere trifle, like a little wart on the face or a stain on their suit can make them think they are not attractive anymore.

LOSS OF LOSS

• If they have lost a loved one, either by their own selfish behaviour, or through other circumstances, they feel terribly alone.
• They may feel that they were not meant to have a happy love life and feel hopeless of ever getting it again.
• they feel abused and decide to spend the rest of their life alone.

They begin to neglect themselves, becoming too lazy to bathe  take care of their body and their clothes. If nobody loves them anyway.

( INDOLANT + LAZY + CARELESS)

A GAME OF FANTASY: THEORISING

• They are inclined to fantasise about life. How it works and what people do and why.
• They like pondering about all sorts of things, their family, friends, loved ones etc. But their ponderings have a slightly nostalgic tinge. They like to think about how it used to be and how it could have been.

SANKARAN- THE THEME OF SULPHUR:

• The main feeling of Sulphur is that of BEING SCORNED, suppressed, put down, criticized.
• The person is made to FEEL HUMILIATED; his PRIDE is hurt.
• EMBARRASSMENT is one of the main feelings in Sulphur.
• Thereforeà there is CONSTANT EFFORTS, A STRUGGLE to come up againà to be someone, to know something, to earn respect.
• He feels that HE IS EXPECTED TO BE GOOD IN HIS APPEARANCE, his relationships and in his business (which include knowledge, talent, capabilities.)
• the STRUGGLE IS FOR EGO + HONOR (main them)
• The effort + feeling of hopefulness are psora.
• The task for him is not too bigà he is OPTIMISTIC.
• Sulphur pt has a desire for busciness, they have desire to make money and to be financially stable.
• There is a feeling of being poor so he constantly make an effort to make money.
• In the failed state: there is INDOLENCE+ LACK OF INTEREST+ LAZINESS+ DELUSION, OLD RAGS AREAS FINE AS SILK”
• There is no more action to try and get out of the situation.
• “Fear of poverty”

EXPRESSIONS :

• FEARS: heights, poverty, ugliness, dirt.
• DREAMS: clothes, partner, marriage; nightmares agg. lying on the back.
• MOOD: hasty, impatient, indifferent, gloomy.
• CAUSES: loss of loved ones, friends or relations, insults, humiliation, shame.

BAILEY: 2 TYPE OF SULPHUR PERSONALITY

• Earthy sulphur
• Airy/ ethereal sulphur.

MIASMATIC UNDERSTANDING

CHRONIC DISEASE:

• PSORA IS THE MOST ANCIENT, MOST UNIVERSAL, MOST DESTRUCTIVE AND MOST MIS APPREHENDED, CHRONIC MIASMATIC DISEASE which for many thousands of years has disfigured and tortured mankind, and which during the last centuries has become the mother of all the thousands of incredibly various ( acute ), chronic ( non- veneral) diseases, by which the whole civilized human race on the inhabited globe is being more and more afflicted.
• PSORA OR ITCH DISEASE- OLDEST& HYDRA- HEADED OF ALL THE CHRONIC MAISMATIC DISEASE.
• Three stages of miasma:

1. Frist- time of infection
2. Second- period during which the whole organism is being penetrated by the disease infused, until it has developed within.
3. breaking out of the external ailments throughout the organism.

Itch disease is the most contagious of all chronic miasma than other 2.

Miasma of the itch needs only to touch the general skin.

As soon as the miasma of itch eg: touches the hand, in the moment when it taken effects, it no more remains local.

Henceforth- all washing& cleansing of the spot avail nothing. ‘there is no eruptions or itching to be noticed on the body during these days, not even on the spot infected.

The nerve which first affected by the miasma will communicate the invisible disease to the rest of the body.

• It takes 6,7,10 perhaps 14 days from the moment of infection before the transformation of the entire internal organism into psora.
• Sever chill in the evening and general heat, followed by perspiration in the following night.
• first in the region of the spot first infected and indeed, accompanied with a voluptuously, tickling itching which may be called unbearly agreeable.
• Scratch the vesicle of itch, that if a person restrains himself forcibly from rubbing or scratching, a shudder passes over the skin of the whole body.
• This rubbing and scratching – satisfies for a moment, but there then follows immediately a long continued burning of part affected.
• Late in the evening and before midnight this itch is most frequent and most unbearable.

WHEN SULPHUR INDICATED:

1. When there is paucity of symptoms- (psora should be in background)
2. There is also a wide-spread practice of administering a dose of Sulphur in high potency when other ‘seemingly well indicated’ remedies fail, to arouse reaction. (It helps the older medicine to act)
3. Sulphur is very useful, when the pt doesnot react after prolonged disease- when condition in the economy is psora.
4. When pt is drawing near the end of acute disease he becomes weak and prostrated (when inflammatory state ends in suppuration and infiltration- the pts is in a state of weakness, much fatigued, and prostrated and has night sweats.)

CAUSATION:

• Suppressions from cold, from drugs or even sulphur.
• Sprains, Over exertion, falls, blows, bed sore.

WHEN SULPHUR SHOULD NOT BE PRESCRIBE:

• Sulphur cures asthmatic bronchitis, it has violent cough, it seems that the head will fly off, pain in the head when coughing dur to tis jarring.
• In case of pneumonia- especially hepatization calls for this remedy.
• SULPHUR IS A DANGEROUS REMEDY TO GIVE WHERE THERE IS STRUCTURAL DISEASE IN ORGANS THAT ARE VITAL, ESPECIALLY IN LUNGS. SULPHUR WILL OFTEN HEALS OLD FISTULOUS PIPES AND TURN OLD ABSCESS INTO A NORMAL STATE. IT WILL OPEN ABSCESS THAT ARE VERY SLOW. DURING NOTHING, IT WILL REDUCE INFLAMMED GLANDS AND ABOUT TO SUPPURATE, WHEN THE SYMPTOMS AGREE. BUT IT IS DANGEROUS MEDICIEN TO ADMINISTER IN ADVANCED CASE OF PHTHISIS.
• A REMDY THAT IS DANGEROUS IN ANY CASE OUGHT NOT TO BE CONSIDERED AS INDICATED EVEN THOUGH THE SYMPTOMS ARE SIMILAR

GIST THROUGH A DRUG PICTURE:

RELATIONS.

• Complementary: Aloe, Psor.Acon
• Ailments from the abuse of metals generally.
• Compatible: Calc., Lyc., Puls., Sars., Sep., Calc., Lyc.; or Sulph., Sars. and Sep. frequently follow in given order.
• Calcarea must not be used before Sulphur. Mercur. and calcarea are frequently useful after Sulphur, not before
• Sulphur is the chronic of Aconite and follows it well in pneumonia and other acute diseases.

REFERENCE:

1. Dr samuel hahnemann- chronic disease
2. Jt kent- lectures of homoeopathic materia medica
3. Philip m bailey- homoeopathic psychology
4. Ml tyler- homoeopathic drug picture
5. Shankaran- soul of remedies.
6. Chatherin caulter- portraits of homoeopathic medicine
7. William burt-physiological materia medica
8. clark-dictionary of practical materia medica
9. Alexander goth- homoeopthic remedy picture.
10. Dr kulkarni- body language.
11. Jan shoulten- all minerals- sulphur pg- 1403.

Dr Merlin Liza James
Dept. of Homoeopathic Materia Medica
Guide: Dr Srinath C Rao
Fr.Muller Homoeopathic Medical college and Hospital.
Email: drmerlinlizajames@gmail.com