All Acid Used in Homeopathy; Uses/ Indications, Side Effects

All Acid Used in Homeopathy

Arsenious acid

• Mental restlessness with physical weakness?.
• Burning pain? relieved by heat except in head.
• Fear of death
• Complaints return periodically
• Discharges are acrid, scanty, offensive, putrid, cadaverous smelling
• Thirst for small quantity of water at short intervals in acute? conditions but in chronic? conditions there is no thirst
• Excessive exhaustion from least exertion
• All symptoms are aggravated at mid day and mid night
• Chilly patient
• Fastidious
• Ailments from ice cream, cold fruits, decayed food or animal matter, ptomaine poisoning, tobacco, sea bathing.

Acetic acid

• Great prostration after injuries, anesthetics and surgical Shock?
• Great burning thirst, insatiable even for large quantities but no thirst in fever?
• Hemorrhage from every mucus outlets – nose, throat?, lungs, stomach, bowels and uterus?
• Chlorosis with waxy pallor of the face
• Chilly patient with lax, flabby muscles
• Cannot sleep lying on the back, rests better lying on belly?
• Copious exhausting diarrhea? with great thirst- in dropsy, typhus, phthisis with night sweats?
• Bad effects of surgical shock , sausage poisoning, insects stings and bites.

Benzoic acid

• Rheumatic or gouty complaints with gonorrheal or syphilitic base
• Urine dark brown and the urinous odor highly intensified
• Nocturnal enuresis in delicate children with strong characteristic odor of urine
• Exhausting diarrhea of children- stool is white, liquid –running right through the diaper, very offensive
• Left sided complaints
• Chilly patient

Boric acid

• Climacteric flushing (3x potency- Cooper)
• Renal? colic with frequent urging to urinate
• Formication of hands and feet
• Headache? with noises in ears and vertigo?

Butyric acid

• Impulsive thoughts of suicide
• Headache worse going upstairs and rapid motion
• Cramps in pit of stomach worse at night
• Pronounced sleeplessness
• Profuse , offensive foot sweat

Carbolic acid

• Pains come suddenly last for a short time and disappear suddenly
• The whole of the body is bathed in cold sweat with prostration and collapse
• Sensation of band around the forehead with dull heavy frontal headache
• Great longing for whisky and tobacco
• Ulceration all over the body with very offensive and putrid discharge
• Constipation? with horribly offensive breath
• Dysentery with stool containing substances like scrapings of intestines
• Vomiting? of drunkards or in pregnancy, in sea sickness or in cancerous condition of stomach
• General aggravation from cold

Chromic acid

• Symptoms come and go suddenly, and return periodically
• Offensive discharges
• Foul smelling sanious lochia
• Disagreeable pricking and itching? here and there , with uneasiness in limbs
• On turning to right side pain in left side goes off
• Sensation of a vacuum at heart; of emptiness in chest
• Rheumatism aggravated by least draught of air and by cold water

Flouric acid

• Profound weakness and debility
• Pain in small spots with lightening like sensation; come suddenly , lasts for a short time and disappears quickly
• Increased ability to exercise without danger
• Less effected by excessive heat of summer or cold of winter
• Premature old looking persons
• Discharges are acrid and excoriating
• Sensation of wind blowing through the eyes
• Itching especially of the orifices
• Desire for highly seasoned food, craves cold water
• Indifference to those who loved best
• Suitable for chronic disease with syphilitic and mercurial history

Formic acid

• Chronic myalgia?, muscular pains and soreness
• Gout? and articular rheumatism which appear suddenly
• Pains worse on right side, motion and better from pressure
• Failing vision
• Tremor?

Gallic acid

• Delirium at night, restless, jumps out of bed
• Pulmonary hemorrhage in Phthisis
• Painful distress along ureters? into the bladder? with cream colored urine
• Passive hemorrhage when pulse feeble and capillaries? relaxed, cold skin
• Pyrosis

Hippuric acid

• Right side is mainly affected
• General muscular soreness relieved menstrual flow
• Constant, dull pain in right eye worse in warm room
• Dryness, soreness and rawness in throat with difficulty in swallowing
• Acid rising with soreness and pressure over liver?

Hydrobromic acid

• Throat dry and puckering
• Constriction in pharynx? and chest
• Waves of heat over face and neck
• Pulsating tinnitus? with nervous irritability
• Heaviness of arms – seemed as if parts did not belong to them

Hydrocyanic acid

• Convulsions and paralysis? expresses the action of the remedy
• Suddenness of the attacks and prostration are leading indications
• Sinking sensation at the epigastrium
• Drinks rumbles through throat and stomach
• Fears everything and fear of imaginary troubles
• Stage of collapse especially in cholera

Lactic acid

• Copious salivation water-brash and morning sickness? especially in pale anemic women
• Nausea better by eating
• Burning pain in stomach worse from smoking
• Pain in breasts with enlargement of axillary glands and pain extends into hand

Muriatic acid

• Patient becomes so weak he slides down in bed, lower jaw hangs down
• Offensive secretions and offensive breath from the mouth in fevers of all kinds
• The patient cannot bear the sight or thought of meat
• The tongue is coated at edges; shrunken, dry, leather-like and paralyzed; beefy tongue
• Pulse intermits every third beat
• Hemorrhoids protrude while the person urinates and involuntary stools while passing urine
• Cannot bear the least touch not even of the bed sheet on the rectum
• Vertigo when lying on the right side.

Nitromuriatic acid

• Oxaluria
• Constant drooling (salivation) at night
• Metallic taste in the mouth
• Sour eructations with empty hungry feeling in stomach

Nitric acid

• Extreme sensitiveness; nervous trembling and Irritability
• Urine is very pungent and strong smelling like horse’s urine
• Splinter-like pain; comes suddenly and goes suddenly
• Ailments from loss of sleep, overexertion of body and mind, from loss of a dearest friend
• The tendency to take cold easily
• Great anxiety about the disease, morbid fear of cholera

Oxalic acid

• Pain in small spots, pain is aggravated by thinking of them
• Acts especially on the left side of the body
• Ailments from coffee, wine, sour fruit and sugar
• Nervous aphonia alternates with heart symptoms
• Sharp lancinating pains through the lower lobe of the left lung

Phosphoric acid

• The patient is listless, apathetic and indifferent to the affairs of his own life; prostrated and stupefied with grief
• Ailments from loss of vital fluids, sexual excess, violent acute diseases, chagrin or long continued mental emotions like disappointed love
• Frequent, profuse and debilitating emissions
• Painless non-debilitating diarrhea
• Phosphaturia

Picric acid

• Burning pain along the spine and great weakness of spine and back with softening of cord
• Heaviness, numbness, Formication, and weakness are the keynotes
• Burns of first and second degree
• Headaches and brain fag of students, teachers and overworked businessmen, from grief or depressing emotions
• Priapism from spinal diseases
• Pernicious anemia

Salicylic acid

• Meniere’s disease with roaring and ringing in ears
• Fermentative dyspepsia with hot, sour belching
• Complaints from suppressed foot sweat
• Gastrointestinal disturbances in children with frog’s spawn like stools

Sarcolactic acid

• Epidemic influenza with violent retching and great prostration
• Dyspnoea with myocardial weakness

Silicic acid

• Bad effects of vaccination especially convulsions and suppuration
• Every little injury suppurates
• Scrofulous rachitic children with large head and open fontanel’s and sutures, much sweating about the head
• Obstinate constipation, stool recedes back after being partially expelled, constipation before, during after menses
• Desires cold food and drinks
• Very offensive sweat of hands, toes, feet, and axilla and there are complaints from suppressed foot sweat
• Chilly patient

Sulfurous acid

• A headache better from vomiting
• Ulcerative stomatitis
• A persistent cough with copious expectoration

Sulphuric acid

• Hot flushes followed by perspiration with trembling
• The tendency to gangrene following mechanical injuries
• Sour eructations; sets teeth on edge
• Craving for alcohol, water causes coldness of stomach; must be mixed with liquors
• Sensation as if a hernia would protrude, especially in the left side of the abdomen
• Purpura hemorrhagica
• Cicatrices turn red and blue and become painful
• Worse from an excess of heat and cold; better from the warmth and lying on affected side

Tannic acid

• Obstinate nervous cough
• Obstinate constipation
• Intestines can be felt like cylindrical enlargements
• Offensive perspiration

Tartaric acid

• Coffee ground colored diarrhea with dry and brown tongue
• Dark – green vomiting with burning in throat and stomach
• Pain around umbilicus and region of loins

Uric acid

• Gout and gouty eczema( the cutaneous outlet for the constitution)
• Lipoma

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