Sulphur - Mecca of our Materia Medica
NATIONAL JOURNAL HOMOEOPATHY 1993 Mar / Apr VOL II No 2.
Dr Sarla Sonawala.
` Sulph.
Ancients burnt brimstone as incense to purify air.
Also as a remedy primordial to purify blood .
In ailments innumerable that human skin was heir to
From allergy to abscess, eczema to ulcer, leucoderma to leprosy
Sulphur has witnessed human evolution from stone age to jet age
To create history of primary itch-Psora that afflicted manking.
Sulphur potentised reigns supreme as king of antipsorics And steps right
into the centre of wide polarities of symptoms Skeletons hidden seek their way out at its
dynamic touch
Until all inconsistencies fall into harmony of health restored
A most versatile remedy-a fire and a volcano
That burns and purifies all that is morbid within man
So be its patient, vibrant a live wire
Man of extremes that brook no compromise
He walks along the path angels fear to tread
To invite in consequence, reverence as well as disdain
Elite company of learned, misfit in midst of worldiness
But never to be passed by unnoticed, unrecognised
A halo of intellect, vision in those far-looking eyes His profile of
nobility-even in rags-expresses wisdom
Thro word uttered, more so thro word unuttered
Mystic and recluse, poet or philosopher, even easychair socialist
Arrogantly unmindful of what the world thinks of him
Concerned only with what he thinks of the world.
Eternally unwashed, clad in tattered clothes
Sulphur is the antithesis of Arsenic with gold-headed cane
Dreamer happy with none of the pessimism of twin brother Psorinum
Sans pragmatism, even miserliness, that Lyco possesses
No cosy Calc, no Phos charm, no spineless Kan, no placid Mag
Not even steeped in eternal grief as Natrum alone can be
Head in clouds, thoughts of enternity as real life passes by
Wife toils in drudgery while children starve and beg
Selfish? Yes, if you say so, but for his ideals and beliefs
Worldly with his last shirt to cover the old and sick
Worldly success, riches and fame, lure him not
Alas, world will be a place poorer without him nonetheless
Rembrandt died in penury while his paintings earned immortality Vincent
Van Gough cut off his ear but painted "sunflowers" wild
Paracelsus claimed his beard and buckles wiser and learned
Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, Karl Marx of communist cult Pray, Hahnemann as well who
dared to be wise while scratched his foot
Each had within him, spark and carpice, of Sulphur brand
Conversely, a hobo or a tramp, or sweeper from the next street
Trumpet blowing chatterbox who makes nuisance of his self
Yet a personality so colourful that it hits you in the face
As Alfred Doolite of Barnard Shaws "Pygmallion"
Why not that incorrigible aristocrat Prof Higgins, of ditto play?
Sulphur cuts across wide section of humanity-sordid and sublime
No itch no Sulphur, no heat no sulphur
No dirt no Sulphur, no thought never Sulphur
Man must pass thro the fire of this universal remedy
Until the last trace of disease falls off
Sulphur indeed is Mecca and Madina, Kaba and Kashi
Of healing art of holistic medicine called HOMOEOPATHY!