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

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All Acid Used in Homeopathy/ Acid is a molecule or ion capable of donating a hydron (proton or hydrogen ion H+), or, alternatively, capable of forming a covalent bond with an electron pair (a Lewis acid).[rx]Acids have characteristic properties which provide a practical description of an acid.[rx] Acids form aqueous solutions with a sour taste, can turn blue litmus red, and react...

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All Acid Used in Homeopathy/ Acid is a molecule or ion capable of donating a hydron (proton or hydrogen ion H+), or, alternatively, capable of forming a covalent bond with an electron pair (a Lewis acid).[rx]Acids have characteristic properties which provide a practical description of an acid.[rx] Acids form aqueous solutions with a sour taste, can turn blue litmus red, and react with bases and certain metals (like calcium) to form salts. The word acid is derived from the Latin acidus/acēre meaning sour.[rx] An aqueous solution of an acid has a pH less than 7...

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All Acid Used in Homeopathy/ Acid is a molecule or ion capable of donating a hydron (proton or hydrogen ion H+), or, alternatively, capable of forming a covalent bond with an electron pair (a Lewis acid).[rx]Acids have characteristic properties which provide a practical description of an acid.[rx] Acids form aqueous solutions with a sour taste, can turn blue litmus red, and react with bases and certain metals (like calcium) to form salts. The word acid is derived from the Latin acidus/acēre meaning sour.[rx] An aqueous solution of an acid has a pH less than 7 and is colloquially also referred to as ‘acid’ (as in ‘dissolved in acid’), while the strict definition refers only to the solute.[rx] A lower pH means a higher acidity, and thus a higher concentration of positive hydrogen ions in the solution. Chemicals or substances having the property of an acid are said to be acidic.

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
  • pain in the head or upper neck. সহজ বাংলা: মাথাব্যথা।" data-rx-term="headache" data-rx-definition="Headache means pain in the head or upper neck. সহজ বাংলা: মাথাব্যথা।">Headache with noises in ears and vertigo

Butyric acid

  • Impulsive thoughts of suicide
  • pain in the head or upper neck. সহজ বাংলা: মাথাব্যথা।" data-rx-term="headache" data-rx-definition="Headache means pain in the head or upper neck. সহজ বাংলা: মাথাব্যথা।">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 pain in the head or upper neck. সহজ বাংলা: মাথাব্যথা।" data-rx-term="headache" data-rx-definition="Headache means pain in the head or upper neck. সহজ বাংলা: মাথাব্যথা।">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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