Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica
Sulphuricum Acidum sul-ac.
Region
DIGESTIVE TRACT. blood. Blood-vessels. Left side.
Worse
Open air. Cold. Spirits. Injuries. ODOR OF COFFEE. Climacteric. Toward evening. Excessive heat or cold.
Better
Hot drinks. Hands near head.
General
Moderate temperature.
Suited to topers, old age, etc. Disproportionate weakness. TREMOR; INTERNAL; wants to be held. Sourness. Erosion. Profuse, acrid or stringy discharges. Hæmorrhage; violent; black, thin. Parts feel stiff and tight. Pain increases slowly, then suddenly ceases. Gnawing. Great painfulness. As of a blunt plug being driven in.
Particulars
Hurried, irascible, vacillating and morose. Brain feels loose. Deathly pale or wrinkled face; white of egg seems dried on it. Congestion to head. Aphthæ. Throat sore; looks white-washed. Pyrosis. Hiccough; of drunkards. Sour belching; sets teeth on edge. Nausea. Vomiting; < lying on l. side. Weak, sinking at stomach, < after stool. Drinks chill the stomach. Very foul, green, black or hacked diarrhœa. Oozing piles. Coughs, then belches; bloody expectoration. Fingers jerk when writing. Weak knees. Black and blue spots. Petechiæ. HOT flushes, then trembling or cold sweat; < after warm ingesta; < upper parts; > motion. Drenching sweats.
Related
Complementary: Pul. Related: Ars. Lach. Sep.