Hepar sulphuris calcareum

Hepar sulphuris calcareum is a homeopathic remedy that is also known as 'Hepar Sulph'. It is an important remedy developed by Hahnemann by heating together flowers of sulphur and the lime from oyster shells.

The homeopathic remedy hepar sulphuris calcareum is used to help conditions of the nervous system, and also respiratory problems.

Examples of conditions for which this remedy is sometimes used include:

• abscesses and boils - especially if infected and slow to heal
• athlete's foot
• coldness, particularly around the head
• dry coughs, especially when accompanied by yellow mucus
• earache
• eye inflammation (ophthalmia)
• extreme irritability
• heavy sweating / perspiration
• mastitis and cracked nipples due to breastfeeding
• oversensitivity
• toothache

More about the substance used to prepare hepar sulphuris calcareum homeopathic remedy:

The homeopathic remedy hepar sulphuris calcareum is prepared by peeling and then powdering the inside layer of oyster shells and mixing the resulting finely ground powder with 'flowers of sulfur', which are yellow flakes of the chemical element sulphur*. This mixture is then heated inside an airtight container and subjected to a series of chemical processes before the dilutions and succussions involved in the preparation of remedy can begin.

*Sulfur used to be written 'sulphur' in British English until 1992 when the Nomenclature Committee of the Royal Society of Chemistry adopted the spelling sulfur instead.

Homeopathic preparations are usually supplied in either liquid or pill form. Regardless of the physical form in which the remedy is taken, its preparation will have involved a series of dilutions during which the original substance was repeatedly diluted and succussed (shaken) in a solvent such as water and/or alcohol.