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Zincum Sulphuricum

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Zincum Sulphuricum · Sulphate of Zinc · "The Corneal Opacity Clearer"
MineralUncommonPsoric
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🎯 It acts primarily on the nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, producing states of intense prostration, cramping, and specific types of neuralgic pain.
📖 Clarke writes:
White Vitriol. Sulphate of Zinc. Zincic Sulphate. ZnSO47H2O. Solution. Trituration.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
Specific relationship to the eyes; used as an eye lotion in solution
Cures corneal opacities in homoeopathic attenuations
Induces severe gastric and dysenteric symptoms
Indicated chiefly in subacute cases of dysentery
Pains confined to the sides of the abdomen, probably to the colon
Temperament & Physical Profile
Milk-like pallor of the surface
Sensation as if the blood could scarcely struggle through the veins
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
Burning, acute pain in head
Sensation as if a strong electric shock passed through head, with expectation that brains would burst through skull
Abdomen contracted
Titillation all over, with an irresistible desire to laugh
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Milk-like pallor of the skin.
Clarke
Sensation of an electric shock passing through the head.
Clarke
Frightful visions during headaches, such as seeing loved ones injured.
Clarke
Obstinate dysentery with bloody stools and emaciation.
Clarke
Titillation all over the body with an irresistible desire to laugh.
Clarke
Sensation as if blood could scarcely struggle through the veins.
Clarke
Burning, acute pain in the head.
Clarke
Corneal opacities and obstinate keratitis.
Clarke
Intolerable thirst with a dry mouth.
Clarke
Severe abdominal contractions and colic.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Use for states of great nervous anxiety, depression, and frightening hallucinations during headaches.
Delirium.
Great nervous anxiety and depression.
Frightful visions during headache
saw her child with its head shattered (cured with the headache).
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Menses
headache
burning and weakness in spine
📚 Sources & References
Kent's Materia MedicaClarke's DictionaryAllen's EncyclopediaBoericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraPhatak's Concise MM

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