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
- 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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