Hep, Hepar Sulphur
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Sankran view
- It is a syphilitic remedy.
- It was first prepared by Hahnemann
- But he feels that people upon whom he depends for support push him down, treat him badly, humiliate him.
- He becomes very violent, so much so that he wants to set things on fire, wants to kill.
- He is very hurried, esp in speech, quarrelsome and very dissatisfied, nothing pleases him.
- Great touchiness.
- Feeling of being terribly offended that precedes a violent revolution
- Feeling of being terribly Insulted/ Offended by the person who is supposed to look after you (e.g. the king). In such a revolution, things are set on fire and people are slaughtered: arson and murder.
Calc, Sul, Calc-s
- Like Calc, the Hep person has a tremendous fear of being alone and is very concerned about the health of relatives.
- Like Sul, Hep is also concerned very much with appearance.
- He feels unappreciated like Calc-s. But the feelings are much more intense, as seen by comparing the symptom “Sits and meditates” of Calc-s to that of Hep “Dementia with complete stupidity, sits silent and speechless in a corner”, “Sad mood for hours, must cry vehemently”.
- Calc is fearful, Hep has “violent fright” as is seen in the symptoms:
- Frightful visions of fire and dead persons.
- Violent fright on slumbering
The irritability of Sul is present but again in a violent form:
- Violent, passionate, fretfulness.
- Wrathful irritability even to the most extreme violence, threatening to end in murder and arson.
- Besides oneself
Physical concomitants
- Desires: fats, sour, spices
- Abscess / Suppuration, boils,
- Touchy, Extremely tender in touch
- Eruptions ameliorated by heat.
- Very offensive odor of discharges.
- Oversensitive to noise, pain and draught of air.
- Pains are splinter-like.
- Hasty speech.
- Violent from pain.
- Extremely chilly
Sinusitis
- Contrary to expectations, Hep is less commonly used in sinusitis
- But more commonly used in Thick / Yellow secretions of Sinuses / Nose.
- Pain in the nostrils due to burning secretions
- Over Sensitivity of ducts to cold air
- Sensitivity of the scalp to touch
Headache
- Boring severe headache
- Their problem started with sneezing
- Headache + Sinusitis and it seems as if a nail is inserted in his head or his head is cracking
- Agg by shaking, driving, pushing the hat, bending and moving the eyes