Acidum sulphuricum, also known as Sulphuric Acid, this homoeopathic medicine is derived from the potent mineral acid, H₂SO₄. In its potentized form, Sulphuricum acidum acts deeply on the nervous and digestive systems, particularly in cases of exhaustion, hemorrhagic tendencies, and degenerative processes. It offers powerful support in conditions marked by weakness, restlessness, and internal trembling, especially when there is a craving for stimulants like alcohol and coffee. The medicine is suited to those who feel hurried in all tasks, are prone to bruising easily, and present with sour body odors, aphthous ulcers, and skin prone to ecchymosis or gangrene.

Common Name: Sulphuric Acid

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

Mental Restlessness & Irritability

• Aids in managing melancholic dejection, irritability, and tearfulness. Helps in cases where there’s an overwhelming urge to hurry, everything feels urgent, leading to nervous exhaustion.

• Supports those who are restless, peevish, and easily startled. Alternates between serious moods and sudden, inappropriate buffoonery. Helps individuals who avoid conversation and feel a deep disgust for life.

• Aids in relieving mental fatigue, forgetfulness, and pronounced absentmindedness. Helps in states of mistrust, anxiety, and apprehension, where mental strain is paired with weakness, tremors, dull headaches.

Headache & Neuralgia

• Acidum sulphuricum relieves right-sided neuralgia with sharp, thrusting pains.

• Aids with painful sensations as if the brain is loose or bouncing inside the skull.

• Helpful after head injuries with cold skin and sweat, especially with compressive occipital pain.

Eyes & Visual Disturbance

• Addresses intra-ocular hemorrhage post-trauma.

• Aids in relieving sharp pain, aching, and swelling of the conjunctiva.

• Supports healing where chemosis and deep eye strain are present.

Mouth, Teeth & Gums

• Treats mouth ulcers, aphthous stomatitis, and bleeding gums.

• Useful in halitosis and pyorrhea with offensive breath.

• Assists in cases where the taste is sour, teeth feel on edge, and mucosa is sore and inflamed.

Digestive Weakness & Cravings

• Supports digestion with a relaxed stomach feeling and aversion to coffee.

• Aids in managing sour eructations, nausea, vomiting, and hiccoughs.

• Especially beneficial for those craving alcohol or fresh foods, or who feel cold after drinking water.

Abdominal Dragging & Rectal Issues

• Aids in relieving griping, pinching, and shifting abdominal pains, often worse at night, with a sensation of heat centered around the umbilical region.Helps with weakness in the abdomen and sensation as if a hernia would protrude.

*Helps in cases with sharp, stitching or shooting pains in the liver and spleen areas, particularly in the hepatic region.

• Relieves diarrhea that is black, fetid, and sour-smelling with a faint feeling.

• Aids in painful piles, rectal dampness, and pressure as if from a mass.

Female Health & Menstrual Disorders

• Supports early and profuse menstruation with acrid, burning leucorrhea.

• Helps manage bleeding cervical erosion in older women.

• Aids where discharges are offensive, irritating, or blood-tinged.

Respiratory Conditions

• Useful in bronchitis of children with rapid, shallow, teasing cough.

• Assists in respiratory distress with excessive laryngeal movement and nasal flaring.

• Helpful when there is a shooting pain in neck muscles with labored breathing.

Extremities & Neuromuscular Complaints

• Relieves cramps and weakness in hands, fingers, and arms, especially while writing.

• Aids in conditions like writer’s cramp, lead poisoning, and general tremor.

• Reduces paralytic stiffness and discomfort in extremities.

Skin & Hemorrhagic Tendencies

• Supports healing of skin prone to bruising, gangrene, ecchymosis, and livid blotches.

• Useful in carbuncles, boils, and septic infections like staphylococcal or streptococcal lesions.

• Acidum sulphuricum assists in purpura hemorrhagica, petechiae, and post-injury gangrenous conditions.

• Cicatrices may turn red or blue and become sensitive—Sulphuricum acidum eases this progression.