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Sulphuricum acidum (Sul‑ac.)

Sulphuricum acidum (Sul‑ac.) appears in 392 rubrics in the Repertory. Of these, 14 are single-remedy rubrics in which only this remedy is listed, and 16 are small rubrics with at most two other remedies. The emphasis lies on Hurry, and further on Answering, Confusion, Stupefaction and rapid mood changes. These yield the picture of a person driven by inner haste without reaching a goal, whose mood tips between opposites.

Haste without Goal

Hurry is the dominant motif. The rubrics on Hurry, haste and bustle record that the person cannot do anything fast enough, not even in his movements, that he hurries over trifles, and that his hurry remains aimless. As a single-remedy rubric stands the Delusion that everyone must hurry. The haste produces confusion, and so the state appears more as being driven than as vigor.

Alternation of Opposites

The mood has no fixed place. Silly behavior and Seriousness alternate, Exhilaration alternates with Discouragement and with Timidity, Eccentricity with Fearfulness. A single-remedy rubric reads: "Anxiety, full of cares - yet gentle."

Answering, Confusion and Stupefaction

In conversation reserve shows itself. The answers are reluctant and consist, as a single-remedy rubric, of the sentence that one says with effort just yes or no, or they are inappropriate. The confusion has its imagery: Stupefaction as from smoke in the brain, as a delusion the smoke in the head that is said to have caused the confusion, and scratching on the right side of the head.

Weakness, Delirium and Sexuality

Listed are Delirium tremens in chronic form, Stupefaction after pollutions and Nymphomania after the menses. In children stand Weakness without cause and Unconsciousness in diphtheria; Moaning and groaning are listed in diphtheria and on being lifted.

Summary

Sulphuricum acidum appears in the Repertory as a remedy of haste that finds no direction. From being driven follow confusion, terse defensiveness and a mood change that swings in both directions without gaining footing.

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