Sulphur iodatum

A binary inorganic compound of sulphur and iodine (traditional pharmaceutical “iodide of sulphur”), prepared for homœopathic use by trituration of purified Sulphur iodatum, then potentised by serial dilution and succussion. Pharmacologically it marries the skin–vascular–reactive signature of Sulphur with the glandular, catarrhal, wasting tendencies of Iodum; toxicologic notes on iodine compounds (irritant to mucosae, trophic effect on glands) and sulphur (cutaneous reactivity) give coherence to its observed affinities for skin, mucous membranes of the upper air-passages, and lymphatic glands [Hughes], [Clarke], [Boericke]. Classical clinicians place it in scrofulous/lymphatic constitutions, acneiform dermatoses, chronic tonsillar/adenoidal hypertrophy, lingering catarrhs and hay asthma where Sulphur and Iodum traits intermingle [Clarke], [Farrington], [Boger].

Symptoms are drawn from small provings and numerous [Clinical] confirmations in the classical literature; Allen compiles pathogenetic fragments, while Hering, Clarke, Farrington and Boericke supply a clear clinical image in skin, glands, and catarrh; physiological inferences from iodine/sulphur toxicology supplement the portrait [Allen], [Hering], [Hughes], [Clarke], [Farrington]. [Proving] data are modest; the remedy is chiefly clinically evolved.

Sulphur iodatum sits precisely on the skin–mucous membrane–gland axis where heat and itch on the surface partner with burning, acrid catarrh within. The constitutional scene is heated, irritable, over-stimulated by warm rooms and bedclothes, chafed by dust and flowers, and palpably relieved by cool, moving air and the free flow of discharges. The Sulphur strand gives itching, offensiveness, late-night aggravation, intolerance of heat and occlusion, while the Iodum strand lends glandular hypertrophy (adenoids/tonsils), a tendency to wasting despite appetite in long catarrhs, and an “absorbing” action on thick secretions [Clarke], [Farrington], [Boericke]. The child is mouth-breathing, hot-headed, restless; the adolescent is acne-prone, greasy-skinned, worse from rich food, exam rooms, theatres—anywhere stuffy heat collects. Attempts to suppress the skin (heavy ointments, harsh antisepsis) or to dam the nose (decongestant abuse) drive the process inward: cough takes the stage, ears block, or digestion complains—a classic Sulphur-like eliminative protest, now shaded by iodine’s gland-mucous tropism [Hering], [Clarke].

Clinically, the essence is recognised when four chords sound together: (1) Heat/itch of the surface, worse bed/room; (2) Acrid, burning coryza with alternating obstruction, worse dust/pollen; (3) Glandular enlargement (adenoids, cervical nodes, tonsils) in a scrofulous/lymphatic habit; (4) Air-seeking amelioration with relief after discharge/expectoration. Then small yet consistent details—greasy T-zone with comedones, branny scalp scale, morning post-nasal drop, open-air craving, and relapse from rich foods—seal the identity. The prescriber should watch the direction of cure: as the nose and skin are allowed to vent, sleep cools, the child closes the mouth at night, and attention/cheerfulness improve. Here the remedy’s ethos is hygienic and expansive: air, light, cleanliness, and modest diet cooperate with the medicine to restore balance along the cutaneo-mucous axis [Clarke], [Farrington], [Hering].

• Skin—sebaceous/follicular apparatus. Acne (papulo-pustular), comedones, impetigo, pityriasis; itching and heat with Sulphur-like intolerance of warmth, yet a “drying,” absorbing action akin to Iodum [Clarke], [Boericke]. See Skin.
• Lymphatic glands—cervical/tonsillar/adenoids. Scrofulous children, chronic adenoids, enlarged tonsils, thick post-nasal mucus; soreness with tendency to recurrent colds [Hering], [Farrington]. See Throat, Nose.
• Upper air-passages—nose and naso-pharynx. Hay fever with acrid, burning discharge, sneezing, nasal obstruction alternating sides; extension to chest in the allergic subject [Clarke], [Boger]. See Nose, Respiration.
• Bronchial tree. Lingering catarrh, “loose yet difficult” expectoration mornings, tickling at sternum; thread of Iodum’s atony with Sulphur’s heat/offensiveness [Farrington], [Boericke]. See Chest, Respiration.
• Endocrine–nutritive axis. Iodum-like wasting with appetite, especially in long catarrhs or skin disease; fretful heat, worse warmth of bed (Sulphur colouring) [Clarke], [Farrington]. See Generalities, Food & Drink.
• Female pelvis. Chronic cervical catarrh, indurated glands, acne flares pre-menses; tendency to left ovarian soreness with nasal/skin relapses about the period [Clarke], [Farrington]. See Female.
• Ears (Eustachian). Thick catarrh with partial deafness in adenoid children; “snuffles,” mouth-breathing [Hering], [Clarke]. See Ears.

Irritable, warm-blooded, and easily over-heated in close rooms; the patient becomes fretful and impatient when catarrh blocks the nose or itching drives him from bed—an affect that mirrors the worse warmth of bed/room modality [Clarke], [Boericke]. Children are peevish, head-hot, restless at night, rubbing the nose and scratching until they weep [Hering]. Anxiety rises at dusk with nasal obstruction and oppression of chest, a miniature Sulphur-Arsenicum colouring but less fear-laden, more chafed and “heated” [Farrington]. Mental dullness in the morning with heavy, dry nose and post-nasal slime; clears in cool air (cross-reference better open air) [Boger]. Schoolchildren with adenoids are inattentive, mouth-breathing, and tired; they brighten outdoors [Clarke]. The general tone is heated irritability relieved by air and discharge, consistent with the compound’s nature [Clarke], [Boger]. Case: A boy with adenoids, nightly itching eczema, and morning stupor became brisk and clear-headed after Sul-i.; nasal breathing improved as the skin desquamated [Clinical] [Clarke].

Hot, unrefreshing sleep; throws off covers; itching drives from bed after midnight (Sulphur strand) [Boericke]. Children snore, mouth-breathe, and sweat about the head; they sleep better after nasal clearance (adenoids) [Hering], [Clarke]. Dreams of heat, crowds, and suffocation in theatres—wake to open the window (cross-link better open air) [Boger]. Early morning waking with thick mucus and relief after hawking [Farrington]. Restlessness before storms/pollen seasons [Clarke].

Dreams of dusty rooms, examinations, social embarrassment from blemished face (acne consciousness); wake heated and itching [Clinical]. Dreams of pursuit in close alleys; relief when reaching an open field (symbolically echoing the modality) [Boger]. Children cry out and rub the nose in sleep [Hering].

A heated, catarrhal, cutaneous–glandular remedy: worse warmth of room/bed, worse suppression, worse dust/pollen, and better open air and after free discharge—repeatedly echoed across nose, chest, and skin [Clarke], [Boericke], [Hering]. Constitutionally suited to scrofulous/lymphatic children and adolescents with adenoids, cervical glands, and acne; also to adults with recurring hay-catarrh and greasy, itching skin. The eliminative balance is delicate: check one outlet (skin, nose) and another system protests (bronchi, gut). Management therefore favours judicious cleanliness, non-occlusive dress, free air, and avoidance of heavy foods—synergising with the medicine’s direction of cure [Hering], [Clarke], [Farrington].

Flushes in warm rooms with hot head and cool extremities; sweat breaks out with itching [Boericke]. Slight evening fever during hay season with sneezing bouts [Clarke]. Fever abates in cool air and after free nasal/bronchial discharge (again “better after discharge”) [Farrington]. Alternations of heat in face and chill down back on entering heated places [Boger].

• Chill: From draught on heated skin; sneezing and catarrh follow [Boger].
• Heat: Head/face hot in bed and indoors; itching increases [Boericke].
• Sweat: Offensive at times; axillary and facial sweat worse warmth of room; eruptions itch more after sweating [Clarke], [Boericke].

Fullness and heat of head in warm rooms; vertex and forehead feel stuffed, “as if the head must be bared” [Clarke]. Frontal headache with coryza, worse indoors and from dust/pollen, better in cool air (tallying with hay-fever sphere) [Boger], [Clarke]. Scalp itches with fine branny desquamation (pityriasis); scratching burns [Boericke]. Seborrhoeic scalp with acne at the hairline in adolescents [Clarke]. Sensation of weight over root of nose with post-nasal drop, worse on first entering a heated room [Farrington]. Headaches ease when nasal discharge becomes freer (cross-reference better after discharge/expectoration) [Clarke].

Smarting, burning lachrymation with sneezing in flowers or hay; canthi excoriated, lids puffy from rubbing [Clarke], [Boger]. Marginal blepharitis accompanies acne/eczema; scales at roots of lashes [Hering]. Photophobia and “steam on the eyes” in warm rooms; clearer outdoors [Clarke]. Itching of brows with comedones of the brow-ridge [Clinical]. Subacute conjunctival catarrh in scrofulous children, thickening at inner canthus [Farrington]. Vision blurs transiently in close, heated places, improving in cool air—again the open-air amelioration [Boger].

Eustachian catarrh with partial deafness, popping on swallowing; worse in warm rooms, with mouth-breathing at night [Hering], [Clarke]. Itching in meatus with scanty, sticky cerumen and acne about the auricle [Clarke]. Recurrent otorrhœa in adenoid children, thick and slightly offensive, lessens when nasal passages are kept open [Farrington]. Ears feel stopped on first entering a stuffy theatre, clear on going into the air [Boger]. Lancinating pains during colds that are “driven in” by ill-judged suppression of discharge [Hering].

A leading sphere. Acrid, burning coryza with frequent sneezing; obstruction alternates sides, especially in warm rooms and at night; better in open air (archetypal hay-fever modality) [Clarke], [Boger]. Nasal wings sore and raw; tip of nose red with comedones [Clarke]. Thick, yellow crusts and strings in the posterior nares with sore throat from post-nasal drop [Hering]. Adenoid “snuffles,” mouth-breathing, dry at night, fluent by day; children sleep hot, head thrown back [Clarke], [Hering]. Odourous, slightly offensive discharge when catarrh is chronic (Sulphur undertone) [Boericke]. Tendency for “colds to descend to chest” if discharges are checked (warning against suppression) [Clarke].

Greasy T-zone with acne/comedones, especially in heated rooms or after rich food; pustular lesions heal slowly with reddish staining [Clarke], [Boericke]. Cheeks flush hot in close air; cool breeze calms heat and irritability [Boger]. Eczema about nostrils and lips with fissures that smart on washing, worse warmth, better open air [Hering]. Lower jaw glands enlarged, tender before colds [Farrington]. Subacute parotid swelling in scrofulous youth with sticky nasal discharges [Clarke].

Mouth hot and slimy on waking; tongue coated, edges red and smarting after spiced food [Boericke]. Aphthous points in heated subjects, worse sweet/greasy diet, better cool rinses [Clarke]. Thick tenacious mucus in fauces on rising, hawked away with relief (cross-link better after expectoration) [Farrington]. Breath tainted in morning with posterior nasal catarrh [Clarke]. Gums bleed slightly when eruptions are suppressed [Hering].

Teeth sensitive to sweets and heat; peri-oral acne with gingival tenderness in adolescents [Clarke]. Grinding at night in hot, irritable children with adenoids [Hering]. Caries progress more rapidly during prolonged catarrh and rich diet; moderation improves [Clinical]. Toothache worse in warm bed, relieved by cool air at window [Boger]. Marginal stomatitis during hay-fever bouts [Clarke].

Chronic tonsillar/adenoidal hypertrophy; throat dry at night with constant need to swallow thick, stringy mucus from behind nose [Hering], [Clarke]. Tonsils large, easily congested on slightest chill, yet the patient is worse in warm rooms (paradox typical of the remedy) [Clarke]. Burning in fauces with rawness; cool drinks soothe transiently [Boger]. Voice hoarse on waking from post-nasal drop; clears after hawking [Farrington]. Cervical glands enlarged and tender during every cold (affinity: lymphatic system) [Hering].

Oppression in warm, close air; relief by window or open air; tickling at sternum provokes teasing cough till a little thick mucus is raised [Farrington], [Boger]. Rattling mornings with difficult loosening; easier in the open [Clarke]. Breath hot and offensive with chronic catarrh (Sulphur colouring) [Boericke]. Soreness at clavicles where glands are tender [Hering]. Disposition to “catch cold in the chest” when nasal discharge is checked (do not suppress) [Clarke].

Palpitation on going from cool air into a heated room; flushing of face and desire for air [Boger]. Pulse easily quickened by excitement in warm surroundings [Farrington]. Precordial uneasiness in hay-asthma subjects, improved by free expectoration and cool air (cross-link better after expectoration, open air) [Clarke]. Noisy, hot pulsation in bed with itching eruptions [Boericke].

Short breath and wheeze in warm, dusty rooms; better outdoors and after hawking thick mucus [Clarke], [Farrington]. Night mouth-breathing in children with adenoids; snoring; restless, hot sleep [Hering]. Paroxysmal sneezing followed by tickling cough (hay-fever sequence) [Boger]. Morning “loosening” then easier breathing in the day [Clarke].

Appetite high with tendency to leanness during long catarrhs (Iodum note), yet rich foods aggravate skin and nose [Farrington], [Clarke]. Nausea in warm, crowded rooms; desire to get into open air (cross-link better open air) [Boger]. Eructations offensive in the Sulphur type, worse after pastry/grease [Boericke]. Craving for cold drinks during heat of head/face [Clarke]. Heartburn and sour risings in heated, irritable subjects [Boger].

Fullness and gurgling mornings; bowels active after breakfast, sometimes excoriating stools when nasal discharge is checked (surface–interior shift) [Hering], [Clarke]. Mesenteric glandularity in scrofulous children, with poor fat assimilation [Farrington]. Cutting colic in warm rooms, relieved by walking in the air [Boger]. Flatulence with heat at the umbilicus [Clarke]. Chronic tenderness in right iliac fossa during skin relapses [Clinical].

Stools can excoriate (Sulphur trait), especially when nasal/skin discharges have been suppressed; anus sore, pruritic, worse warmth of bed [Clarke], [Boericke]. Morning urgency after breakfast; relief leaves the head clearer (linked to post-nasal catarrh) [Farrington]. Periodic constipation in adolescents during exam stress with facial acne worsening [Clinical]. Haemorrhoidal itching in hot rooms [Boger].

High-colour urine in heated states; urging with urethral prickle after spices [Boger]. Turbid urine following suppression of sweat/skin eruptions (eliminative shift) [Hering]. Enuresis in adenoid children sleeping mouth-open and hot, improved as nasal breathing returns [Clarke]. Offensive urine during acne flares [Clinical].

Aversion to rich, greasy food that worsens acne/catarrh; desires light, cooling fare [Clarke]. Craves cool drinks during heat of head/face; warm milk aggravates catarrh and skin [Boger], [Clarke]. Salt and pickles at times (Iodum nuance) [Farrington]. Skin worse from sweets and pastry (acne) [Clarke].

Acne/boils on nape and back in warm-blooded youths with sexual excitement; worse warmth of bed (itching/eruption) [Clarke]. Chronic catarrh with hoarseness in singers working in hot halls [Farrington]. Left inguinal glandular tenderness before colds [Hering]. Emaciation despite appetite in chronic catarrhs (Iodum echo) [Farrington].

Pre-menstrual acne and nasal stuffiness; menses bring transient relief of congestion (discharge ameliorates) [Clarke]. Cervical catarrh, stringy and excoriating, worse warmth, better cool air [Farrington]. Left ovarian dragging with simultaneous nasal obstruction (reflex tendency) [Clarke]. Nursing women with cracked areolæ and facial acne, aggravated by rich diet [Boericke].

Itching between shoulders and at nape; acneiform papules along hairline, worse warmth of clothing [Clarke]. Cervical gland tenderness with adenoids [Hering]. Back feels hot in close rooms, compelling the patient to seek air [Boger]. Dorsal stiffness in heated auditoria, eased by walking outside [Clinical].

Itching in flexures (elbow/knee) with fine branny scaling; worse warmth of bed/clothes, better cool air [Boericke]. Hang-nails and ragged cuticles in heated subjects [Clarke]. Chilblain-like burning in hands on sudden warmth after cold air (reactive vascularity) [Boger]. Acne on upper arms with follicular plugging [Clarke].

A primary sphere. Acne (papulo-pustular) with comedones, greasy skin, slow healing, red-brown macules; flares from heat, rich food, and suppression of other discharges; improved by air, hygiene, and gentle non-occlusive care [Clarke], [Boericke]. Impetigo and pityriasis; branny desquamation at scalp, brows, flexures; itching and burning worse warmth of bed [Boericke], [Hering]. Eruptions tend to excoriation, slight offensiveness, and relapse when catarrh is checked (surface–interior reciprocity) [Clarke]. Ringworm/tinea traditions reflect old pharmaceutical use of iodide-of-sulphur ointments [Hughes], [Clarke]. The clinical leitmotif is heat–itch–catarrh with air-amelioration.

Skin—acne/follicular

• Sulphur: Hot, itching, worse washing and heat; more general offensive reactivity. Sul-i. adds glandular/adenoid catarrh and open-air amelioration [Boericke], [Clarke].
• Kali-br.: Nodulo-cystic acne with bluish induration; mental dulness; less catarrh/open-air keynote than Sul-i. [Farrington].
• Hepar-s.: Acne suppurates easily, exquisite touch-sensitivity, chilly; Sul-i. is hotter and less touch-sore, with hay-fever links [Hering], [Farrington].
• Nat-m.: Greasy T-zone, sun-triggered eruptions; more dryness/cracking and grief-state; Sul-i. is itch-hot with catarrh [Kent], [Clarke].

Hay fever / naso-pharyngeal catarrh

• Allium-cep.: Profuse acrid coryza with bland tears; strong onion modality; Sul-i. has heat-itch, acne, glandular element and better open air [Clarke].
• Sabadilla: Violent sneezing, chilliness, odours aggravate; less skin/gland tie-in than Sul-i. [Boger].
• Ars.: Burning coryza with anxiety and great prostration; desires warmth; Sul-i. is less anxious, more “air-seeking,” with itchy skin [Hering], [Farrington].

Adenoids/tonsils (children)

• Baryta-c.: Chronic tonsillar hypertrophy with mental immaturity/timidity; Sul-i. is more heated, irritable, with acne and hay-catarrh [Kent], [Clarke].
• Calc-phos.: Adenoids in thin, growing children with bone pains; less heat/itching than Sul-i. [Farrington].
• Tuberculinum: Recurrent colds, restlessness, travel desire; broader tubercular stamp; Sul-i. picture is more local catarrh + skin [Clarke], [Farrington].

“Suppression-sensitive” cutaneo-mucous axis

• Graphites: Oozing, honey-like crusts, fissures, chilly; Sul-i. is hotter, more acrid, and air-ameliorated [Hering].
• Psorinum: Filthy, intolerable itching, chilly, worse bathing; Sul-i. has less despair/filth, more hay-asthma and open-air relief [Kent], [Boericke].

• Complementary: Kali-iod. in chronic catarrhs with glandular swelling; Kali-iod. is colder, more bone/periosteal pains; Sul-i. covers the heated, itchy, acneous type [Clarke], [Farrington].
• Complementary: Calc-s. (Calc-sulph.) where suppuration lingers after Sul-i. clears the heated surface [Hering], [Boericke].
• Follows well: Sulphur when pure Sulphur reactivity cools yet catarrh/gland traits persist [Clarke].
• Follows well: Iodum after wasting/deep gland work, to steady the heated surface axis [Farrington].
• Precedes well: Hepar-s. if suppuration declares, or Graphites if fissured oozing predominates [Hering], [Farrington].
• Antidotes (functional): Camph. to undue cutaneous over-reaction in over-heated rooms [Hering].
• Inimicals/compare: Avoid alternating Ars. and Sul-i. on mere burning without full picture; modalities diverge (Ars. seeks warmth; Sul-i. seeks air) [Clarke].

• Indications: Acne with hay fever; adenoids/tonsillar hypertrophy in hot-sleeping children; pityriasis/impetigo in heated subjects; chronic post-nasal catarrh with morning hawking; “colds driven inward” after suppressions [Clarke], [Boericke], [Hering].
• Potency & dosing: For cutaneous and catarrhal chronicities, 6C–30C once daily to 2–3× weekly, adjusting to reactivity; intercurrent 200C may be used when eliminative balance (skin↔nose↔chest) is stuck [Farrington], [Hering]. Reduce frequency as discharges free and heat lessens.
• Adjuncts: Ventilation, cool sleeping, non-occlusive skin care, nasal saline/steam, and dietary lightness (avoid rich/greasy sweets) reinforce the remedy’s modalities and help prevent suppressive detours [Clarke], [Hering].
• Pearls:
  • Exam-room hay acne: adolescent worse in warm hall, sneezing with burning tears, forehead acne—clears with Sul-i.; relapse with pastry/late nights [Clarke].
  • Adenoid child: hot, snoring, mouth-breathing; morning hawking; eczema behind knees—breathes nasally and sleeps cooler as skin desquamates [Hering], [Farrington].
  • Suppressed eruption → bronchitis: cough loosened and skin returned as Sul-i. re-opened the natural outlet [Clarke].

Mind

• Irritability, heat aggravates; wants cool air. — Heated, fretful state [Clarke].
• Aversion to crowded, warm rooms. — Seeks open air [Boger].
• Dullness, morning, catarrhal. — Clears after discharge [Farrington].
• Restlessness at night from itching. — Sulphur strand [Boericke].
• Children, peevish, mouth-breathing. — Adenoid habit [Hering].

Head

• Head—heat, vertex, in warm room. — Bares head for relief [Clarke].
• Headache, frontal, with coryza, warm room aggravates, open air ameliorates. — Hay-fever profile [Boger].
• Scalp—pityriasis, branny scales, itching, worse warmth. — Skin affinity [Boericke].
• Sensation of weight at root of nose. — Post-nasal drop [Farrington].
• Comedones along hairline. — Follicular sphere [Clarke].

Nose

• Coryza, acrid, burning, sneezing paroxysms; alternating obstruction. — Keynote [Clarke].
• Hay fever, worse warm room/dust; better open air. — Modality hallmark [Boger].
• Posterior nares, thick mucus; hawking in morning. — Catarrh [Farrington].
• Crusts in nostrils, excoriating. — Irritant discharge [Hering].
• Adenoids; mouth-breathing in sleep. — Lymphatic glands [Clarke].

Throat/Ears

• Tonsils enlarged, chronic; adenoids. — Lymphatic affinity [Hering], [Clarke].
• Post-nasal catarrh, stringy; hoarseness morning. — Better after hawking [Farrington].
• Eustachian catarrh with deafness, warm room aggravates. — Indoor worsening [Clarke].
• Cervical glands swollen on taking cold. — Glandular tie-in [Hering].

Respiration/Chest

• Oppression, warm, close room aggravates; open window ameliorates. — Air craving [Boger].
• Cough, tickling at sternum, mornings, better after expectoration. — Discharge relief [Farrington].
• Bronchial catarrh after suppressed coryza/eruption. — Direction of disease [Clarke].
• Hoarseness from post-nasal drop. — Morning clearing [Farrington].

Skin

• Acne, papulo-pustular, comedones, greasy skin, warmth aggravates. — Chief sphere [Clarke], [Boericke].
• Impetigo; crusts honey-yellow, excoriating. — Pyoderma tendency [Boericke].
• Pityriasis; branny scaling and itching in flexures. — Desquamation [Hering].
• Itching, night, warmth of bed aggravates. — Sulphur echo [Boericke].
• Eruptions relapse after dietary excess/suppression. — Management cue [Clarke].

Generalities

• Warmth of bed/room aggravates (general). — Global modality [Boericke].
• Open air ameliorates (general). — Axis of relief [Clarke].
• Discharges, better after (nose/chest/skin). — Eliminative law [Farrington].
• Suppression of eruptions/discharges aggravates internal symptoms. — Clinical warning [Hering], [Clarke].
• Scrofulous/lymphatic constitution; enlarged glands. — Suitability [Farrington].

Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura (1821–34): methodological standard; comparative guidance for Sulphur-family traits.
Hering — The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–91): clinical confirmations—adenoids, suppression phenomena, night heat/itch.
Allen, T. F. — Encyclopaedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–79): compiled pathogenetic fragments; catarrhal/skin notes.
Hughes, R. — A Manual of Pharmacodynamics (1875): toxicology and pharmaceutical notes on iodine/sulphur compounds; rationale of affinities.
Clarke, J. H. — A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica (1900): primary clinical portrait—acne, adenoids, hay catarrh, modalities.
Boericke, W. — Pocket Manual of Homœopathic Materia Medica (1901): keynotes—skin (acne, impetigo, pityriasis), heat aggravation, catarrh.
Boger, C. M. — Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica (1915): modalities (warm room worse, open air better), hay-fever cues.
Farrington, E. A. — Clinical Materia Medica (1887): glandular/catarrhal relationships; discharge-relief principle; adolescent acne ties.
Kent, J. T. — Lectures on Homœopathic Materia Medica (1905) & Repertory: comparative analysis—Sulphur, Iodum, Ars., Nat-m., Baryta-c.
Phatak, S. R. — Materia Medica of Homœopathic Medicines (1977): concise pointers on skin/catarrh modalities and relationships.
Tyler, M. L. — Homœopathic Drug Pictures (1942): comparative emphasis on Sulphur/Iodum blend in catarrh and skin.
Nash, E. B. — Leaders in Homœopathic Therapeutics (1899): differential cues among catarrhal/skin remedies; warnings on suppression.