• Icy coldness even when near a fire
• Least touch on lips will induce vomiting
• Sleeps with open eyes

Introduction and History: Cadmium sulphuricum is found in nature in intimate association with zinc, which nearly resembles in action, but Cadmium acts more powerfully. Cadm-s is a cross between Bry and Ars. It has the desire to keep quiet like Bry with the exhaustion and stomach irritability of Ars. The major use of Cadm-s has been as an antidote for several side effects of cancer therapy, especially chemotherapy and radiation treatments, which can cause weakness, emaciation, nausea, vomiting, liver damage, hair loss, anorexia and which speeds up the time of death.

Preparation and Parts Used: It is prepared by triturating Cadmium sulphate.

Constitution and Physiognomy: It is suited to the cancer miasm and a toxic constitution. Broken down constituition from cancer, chemotherapy or radiation treatments.

Seat of Action (Pharmacodynamics): It acts on the stomach, gastrointestinal tract, skin, central nervous system, joints, locomotor system, hair, etc.

Ailments From: ill-effects of radiation and chemotherapy, toxic poisoning, lead poisoning, vaccination, grief.

Physio-pathological Changes (Pathology)

1. Cadmium’s chief action centers on the stomach and respiration.
2. It’s proving gives symptoms corresponding to very low forms of disease.
3. It has facial paralysis from cold winds.
4. It acts well in alcoholics.
5. It is a notable antipsoric.

Characteristic Mental Symptoms (Psychology)

1. There is horror of solitude and work.
2. There is dullness of mind.
3. Patient is unconscious, anxiety before going to stool. Apprehension if anybody approaches.
4. There is excessive irritability.
5. It has helped the effects of anxiety and fits of passion.

Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms

Stomach cancer: Black, coffee ground-like vomiting.

Pains: Burning, cutting pains; intense retching and gagging in the stomach.

Nausea and vomiting: Intense nausea, retching; vomiting of mucous, green slime and blood with great prostration and marked tenderness over the stomach.

Facial paralysis: Distortion of the mouth from facial paralysis. Trembling of the lower jaw. Left sided facial paralysis, worse by cold air, cannot close the eyes, difficult talking and swallowing.

Thirst: Patient craves small drinks of cold water, which are vomited at once.

Respiratory: Suffocation on dropping off to sleep, cough with loss of consciousness, agitation, red face, pain in the stomach or vomiting of bile.

Decay: Caries of nasal bone. Nostrils ulcerated, obstructed nose with a cancerous smell.

Chilblains: Chilblains itch when touched and during cold; better scratching, which excites a voluptuous feeling.

Opacity: Opacity of cornea from injuries or inflammations; cannot read small type.

Rheumatism: Boring, digging and tearing pain at the metacarpal joints, fingers and toes.

Sleep: Somnolence with broken dreams, moaning and smiling during sleep; nightmares.

Vertigo: Faintness on rising, in a room. Bed seems to spin around.

Dysphagia: Sore throat, constant tickling, gagging and nausea; worse deep breathing.

Yellow fever: Icy coldness of the body, goose bumps after drinking with hot hands. Worse before midnight with sweat in axilla and palms. Sensation as if lungs adhered to the chest. Swelling of external chest, chest contracted with asthma, worse squatting. Inflammation of brain with tingling, digging and drawing in the head. Skin is blue, yellow, sallow, scaly, cracking.

Important Characteristic Features

Stomach and stomach cancer: It is the indicated remedy for stomach cancer with persistent nausea and vomiting. There is extreme exhaustion and prostration with vomiting. The disease runs deathward. There are burning, cutting pains with intense retching and gagging. Bringing up of mucous with intense nausea and vomiting. Lancinating pains in the left hypochondria, stitching pain in the sides of the abdomen. There is black, coffee ground vomiting. Least things touching the lips will excite nausea and vomiting. There is a pitch taste, food tastes like salt. It is especially indicated in chemotherapy and radiation poisoning. Worse when swallowing, after intoxication, carrying burden after sleep, from stimulants. Better rest.

Skin: Commonly indicated remedy for chilblains. Skin is blue, yellow, scaly, cracking, damp, suppurating. Herpes, chilblains. Patient must keep quiet. There is chloasma and yellow stains on the nose and cheeks, worse on exposure to sun and wind. There are chilblains, goose bumps after drinking with heartburn. Itching when touched and during cold, better by scratching which excites a voluptuous feeling. Worse exposure to sun and wind in chloasma, better rest.

General Modalities

Aggravation: From rising up, least motion, carrying a burden after sleep, from stimulants, open air, sunshine, vexation, from cold air, itching of skin when cold, in the morning after sleep, when walking, when ascending stairs, when swallowing, after intoxication.

Amelioration: By eating, rest.

Remedy Relationships

Followed well by: Carc, Bell, Carb-v, Lob, Hydr, Ars, Nit-ac, Alet.

Dosage: 6 to 200c.

Repetition: May be repeated till response is noted.

Therapeutic Value: Asthma, Blood poisoning, Cancer; Chemotherapy side effects, Cholera, Chilblains, Emaciation, Facial paralysis, Hair loss, Nausea, Poisonings, Radiation side effects, Stomach cancer; Strokes, Toxic exposure, Vomiting, Yellow fever: