FERRUM SULPHURICUMLiquid

Ferrum sulphuricum is a potent homoeopathic medicine prepared from ferrous sulphate, known for its marked action on the digestive system, nervous system, female reproductive organs, and skin. It is especially indicated in cases involving anemia-related symptoms, diarrhoea, gastrointestinal irritation, menorrhagia, and worms. The medicine is characterized by pressing and throbbing headaches, bulimia, colicky abdominal pains, and painless, watery diarrhoea. It also affects the limbs, causing pain, weakness, and spasmodic or paralytic conditions.

Common Name: Sulphate of Iron / Green Vitriol / Copperas

SBL’s Ferrum sulphuricum can be helpful in the following conditions:

Bullimia and Gastritis

• Ferrum sulphuricum supports bulimia, where the patient cannot be satisfied, without marked thirst.
• Helps in loss of appetite and aversion to meat.
• Aids in regurgitation, acidity, and cardialgia.
• Manages symptoms of gastritis with post-meal pain and vomiting of food.
• Sensation of fermentation or purring in the stomach.

Flatulence and Worms

• Aids in colicky pains, flatulence, and discomfort in the gall-bladder region.
• Supports both diarrhoea and constipation, especially when accompanied by systemic weakness and emaciation.
• Helps in helminthiasis, especially tapeworms and ascarides.

Irregular Bowels

• Manages watery, reddish-brown, painless diarrhoea, often odorless, with associated paleness, œdema, vertigo, and bulimia.
• Aids in assisting constipation of systemic or chronic origin.

Paralytic and Contractive pain of Limbs

• Aids in shooting pain down the right side of the back.
• Manages painful limbs, especially feet and calves with distracting discomfort.
• Supports contractions and spasms in arms, hands, and feet.
• Helps in rheumatism and semi-paralysis of the right arm and shoulder.
• Manages rigidity in fingers and wrists, returning after passive extension.
• Supports paralysis of the lower limbs, with knee flexion and toe rigidity.
• Aids in pain in the sole of the left foot, with aching extending through the lower leg.

Profuse and Irregular Menses

• Helps in copious menstruation lasting 5–6 days, often accompanied by colic, headache, toothache, and flushed face.
• Manages metrorrhagia and associated leucorrhœa.

Albuminuria and Gonorrhoea

• Supports weakness related to Bright’s disease.
• Helps in bloody urine and albuminuria.
• Manages œdema of the scrotum and lower limbs.
• Aids in secondary gonorrhœa.

Headache and Vertigo

• Helps in severe vertigo, especially when accompanied by diarrhoea.
• Aids in pressing, throbbing headaches, worse in the forehead, with ringing in the ears and flushed, glowing face.
• Supports relief in headaches better in fresh open air and worse in warm rooms.
• Manages spasmodic symptoms and chorea-like movements.

Pain in Ear and Throat

• Helps in pain in the external ear canal walls.
• Supports smarting in the throat with a salty taste.

Toothache and Sore Palate

• Manages violent tearing toothache, with all teeth sound; better from cold air or application of ice.
• Ferrum sulphuricum aids in relieving soreness of the soft palate.