এসেটিক এসিড (Acetic Acid)  

[ভিনিগার জাতীয় ] 

ফ্যাকাশে, শীর্ণ ব্যক্তি, যাদের পেশী শিথিল, থলথলে, মুখমন্ডল বিবর্ণ, মামের মত (ফেরা) ।এ্যালেনস কী নোটস্ ।রক্তস্রাব—দেহের প্রতিটি শ্লৈষ্মিক (Mucous) ঝিল্লীযুক্ত পথ যেমন— নাক, গলা, ফুসফুস, পাকস্থলী, অন্ত্র, জরায়ু হতে (ফেরাম, মিলিফো), অতিরিক্ত রজোস্রাব জরায়ু থেকে, বিকল্প ঋতুস্রাব (vicarious); আঘাত জনিত নাক হতে রক্তস্রাব (আর্নিকা) হলে উপযোগী ।

 শিশুদের পুঁয়ে পাওয়া ও শরীরের অন্য ক্ষয়কারী রোগ (এব্রোটে, আইওডি, স্যানিকি, টিউবার) ।দারুণ অবসন্নতা—আঘাতের পর (এসিড-সালফ); অস্ত্রোপচারের পরে মানসিক শক্ হলে; অনুভূতিলোপকারক ওষুধ প্রয়োগের পরে ।তৃষ্ণা প্রচুর, জ্বালাকারী, শোথরোগে, বহুমূত্ররোগে ও পুরাতন উদরাময়ে প্রচুর জলপানেও তৃষ্ণার নিবৃত্তি হয় না ।জ্বরে কিন্তু পিপাসা থাকে না ।

গর্ভাবস্থায় টক উদার ও বমন, গলা বেয়ে জলীয় পদার্থ ওঠে যাতে গলাবুক জ্বালা করে এবং দিনরাত্রি সবসময় প্রচুর লালাস্রাব (ল্যাকটিক এসি, লালাস্রাব রাত্রে বাড়ে মার্কসল) ।উদরাময় প্রচুর দুর্বলতা আনে; অত্যন্ত পিপাসাসহ;—শোথ রোগে, টাইফাস জ্বরে, যক্ষ্মারোগে—সাথে নিশাঘর্ম থাকে ।প্রকৃত কুপ—শাসক্রিয়ায় সাঁইসাঁই শব্দ, কাশি—শ্বগ্রহণকালে (স্পঞ্জিয়া); শেষ অবস্থায় প্রযোজ্য ।

সিডার ভিনিগারের বাম্প গ্রহণহেতু কুপকাশি ও সাংঘাতিক ডিপথেরিয়া রোগে সাফল্য পাওয়া গেছে । চিৎ হয়ে ঘুমাতে পারে না (চিৎ হয়ে ভাল ঘুমায়—আর্স); শ্বাসকষ্ট-উদরে শূন্যতাবোধ সহ; উপুড় হয়ে শুলে আরাম পায় (এমন-কার্ব) ।একটানা ক্ষয়কারী জ্বর, চামড়া শুকনো এবং গরম, বাঁ-গালে লাল লাল দাগ এবং নৈশঘর্মে সমস্ত দেহ ভিজে যায় ।

সম্বন্ধ-অনুভূতিলোপী বাষ্পের (এমিল-নাই); কয়লা বা গ্যাসের ধোয়ার; ওপিয়াম ও স্ট্র্যামোনিয়ামের দোষঘ্ন, সিডার ভিনিগার কার্বলিক এ্যাসিডের ক্রিয়ানাশক ।ভাল খাটে রক্তস্রাবে সিঙ্কোনার পর; শোথরোগে ডিজিটালিসের পরে।

ইহা আর্নিকা, বেল, ল্যাকে ও মার্কসলের লক্ষণসমূহ বিশেষতঃ বেলেডোনা হতে উৎপন্ন শিরঃপীড়ার বৃদ্ধি করে ।

শক্তি-৩, ৬, ৩০, ২০০।

অ্যাসেটিক অ্যাসিড 

(Acetic Acid)

গ্লেসিয়াল অ্যাসেটিক অ্যাসিড এই ঔষধটি মারাত্মক ধরনের রক্তাল্পতা তৈরী করে, তৎসহ কিছু সােথ ঘটিত লক্ষণ, প্রচন্ড দুর্বলতা, বারে বারে মূচ্ছা, শ্বাসকষ্ট, হৃদপিন্ডের দুর্বলতা, বমি, প্রচুর প্রভাব এবং

প্রচুর ঘাম জাতীয় লক্ষণ তৈরী করে। যে কোন স্থান থেকে রক্তস্রাব। ফ্যাকাশে, রােগা, থলথলে ও শিথিল পেশী যুক্ত ব্যক্তির ক্ষেত্রে বিশেষভাবে নির্দেশিত হয়। ক্ষয়িষ্ণু ও দুর্বলতা। অ্যাসিটিক অ্যাসিড অ্যালবুমিন ও ফিব্রিন যুক্ত পদার্থকে তরলে পরিণত করতে পারে। আভ্যন্তরীণ অথবা স্থানীক ত্বকের কর্কটরােগ (ওয়েন্সের মতানুসারে)। সাইকোসিস তৎসহ সন্ধিস্থানে গুটির সৃষ্টি হওয়া।কঠিন উপদংশ বা শ্যাঙ্কার। ঔষধটির ১শক্তি উপদংশ গুটি নরম করে এবং পুজোৎপত্তি ঘটায়। নি মন খিটখিটে মেজাজ, ব্যাবসা সংক্রান্ত বিষয়ে আতঙ্কগ্রস্ত।

মাথা – মাদকদ্রব্য সেবনের কুফলে স্নায়বিক বেদনা। রক্ত মাথার দিকে প্রবাহিত হয়, তৎসহ ভুলবকা। রাতের দিকের রক্ত বহানালীর প্রসারণ। জিহ্বা মূলে বেদনা। ‘

মুখমন্ডল – ফ্যাকাশে, মােমের ন্যায় চকচকে, শীর্ণ, চোখ কোঠরগত, চোখের চারিপাশে কালচে আভা। উজ্জ্বল লালবর্ণ, ঘামযুক্ত, ঠোঁটের অববুদ, গাল উষ্ণ এবং লালচে। বামদিকের চোয়ালে তীক্ষ্ণ বেদনা।

পাকস্থলী – লালাক্ষরণ। পেটের ভিতর খাদ্যবস্তু গেঁজে ওঠে। প্রচন্ড জ্বালাকর পিপাসা। ঠান্ডা পাণীয় কষ্ট দায়ক। যে কোন প্রকার খাদ্যবস্তু, খাবার পর বমি। পেটের উপর অংশে হাত দিয়ে টিপলে ব্যাথা। জ্বালাকর যন্ত্রণা, যে রকমটা পাকস্থলীর ক্ষতে দেখা যায়। পাকস্থলীর ক্যান্সার বা কর্কটরােগ। টক ঢেকুর ও বমি। মুখের ভিতর জ্বলাকর জল ওঠা এবং প্রচুর লালাক্ষরণ। পাকস্থলীতে ও বুকে তীব্র জ্বালাকর যন্ত্রণা এবং এর পরেই শরীরের চামড়া ঠান্ডা হয়ে আসে ও কপালে ঠান্ডা ঘাম। রােগীনির মনে হয় সে প্রচুর পরিমানে ভিনিগার খেয়েছে।

উদর – উদর নীচের দিকে নেমে আসার ন্যায় অনুভূতি। বারে বারে জলের মত পায়খানা, সকালে বৃদ্ধি। পেটের ভিতর বায়ু জমা হওয়া। পেটে জল জমা। অন্ত্র থেকে রক্ত ক্ষরণ। এ প্রস্রাব – প্রচুর পরিমানে ফ্যাকাশে প্রস্রাব। বহুমূত্র রােগ, তৎসহ প্রচুর পিপাসা এবং প্রচন্ড দুবর্বলতা (ফসফরিক অ্যাসিড)।

স্ত্রী রােগ – প্রচুর পরিমানে ঋতুস্রাব। প্রস্রাবের পর রক্ত স্রাব। গর্ভকালে বমি বমি ভাব। দুধ জমা হওয়ার ফলে স্তন দ্বয়ের যন্ত্রণাদায়ক ভাবে স্ফীত হওয়া। স্তন দুগ্ধ বিকৃত, নীলচে, স্বচ্ছ, টক, স্তন্যদায়িনী মায়ের রক্তাপ্লতা।

শ্বাস–প্রশ্বাস স্বরভঙ্গ, শ্বাস–প্রশ্বাসের সময় হিসহিস শব্দ;কষ্টকর শ্বাস–প্রশ্বাস ; শ্বাস নেবার সময় কাশি ; ঘুংড়ি কাশি, শ্বস নলী ও বায়ুনলীর অস্বস্তি। গলার ভিতর । কৃত্রিম ঝিল্লী। প্রচুর শ্লেষ্মস্রাব, পচা গলক্ষত (এই ঔষধের সাহায্যে গার্গল করা হয়)।

পিঠ – পিঠের দিকে যন্ত্রণা, পেটের উপর চাপা দিয়ে শুলে কেবলমাত্র যন্ত্রণার উপশম হয়।

অঙ্গ–প্রত্যঙ্গ –শীর্ণতা। পা ও পায়ের পাতার সােথ।

চামড়া ফ্যাকাশে, মােমের মত, শােথ যুক্ত। জ্বালাকর, শুষ্ক, উষ্ণ চর্ম অথবা প্রচুর ঘামে চামড়া ভিজে যায়। শরীরের উপরিভাগের অনুভূতির হ্রাস পাওয়া। হুল ফোটানাে, কামড়, প্রভৃতি ভাল কাজ করে। শিরা স্ফীতি। স্কার্ভি, সর্বাঙ্গীণ শােথ, আঘাত লেগে রক্ত জমা হওয়া, মচুকিয়ে যাওয়া।

জুর — হেটিক জাতীয়, তৎসহ প্রচুর রাত্রিকালীন ঘাম। বামদিকের গালে লাল দাগ। জুরে পিপাসা হীন। ঘাম প্রচুর, ঠান্ডা।

সম্বন্ধ – অ্যাসেটিক অ্যাসিড সকল প্রকার স্পর্শলােপ কারক ঔষধের অ্যান্টিডােট হিসাবে কাজ করে। অ্যাসিডবিষক্রিয়া নষ্ট করে থাকে। তুলনীয় ঃ অ্যামােন এসেট (প্রচুর পরিমানেশর্করা যুক্ত প্রস্রাব, রােগী ঘামে ভিজে যায়। বেজ্ঞােয়িন ও ডেরিফেরাম–স্পাইস – উড (রাত্রি কালীন ঘাম)। আর্সেনিক; চায়না ; ডিজিট্যালিস্ ;লিয়েট্টিস। (সব্বাঙ্গীন শােখ, হৃদপিন্ড এবং কিডনীর রােগে, শােথ, এবং পুরাতন উদরাময়)।

শক্তি – ৩য় থেকে৩০ শক্তি। খুব ঘন–ঘন পুনঃ প্রয়ােগ নিষেধ, কেবলমাত্র ঘুংড়ি। কাশি ব্যতীত।

এসােটক এসিড (Acetic Acid)

এই ঔষধটি পান্ডুর, রােগা ব্যক্তিগণের পক্ষে উপযােগী। তাহারা বহু বৎসর যাবৎ দুৰ্বল এবং বংশগত যক্ষ্মারােগের অধিকারী হয়। শীর্ণতা, দুর্বলতা, রক্তশূন্যতা, ক্ষুধাহীনতা, প্রবল  তৃষ্ণা এবং প্রচুর বিবর্ণ মূত্রপাতের একত্র সমাবেশ—এসেটিক এসিডের প্রয়ােগক্ষেত্র। রক্তোচ্ছ্বাসের ন্যায় একবার আসিতেছে আবার চলিয়া যাইতেছে—এরূপ উত্তাপবােধ, যুবতীদিগের হরিৎ পান্ডুরােগ, সাধারণভাবে শােথরােগ, হুলফোটা ও দংশনের কুফল—এই ঔষধ দ্বারা আরােগ্য হইয়াছে। ক্লোরােফৰ্ম্মের কুফল নিবারণে ভিনিগার একটি প্রাচীন ঔষধ। ইহা রক্তস্রাবী কোষ্ঠবদ্ধতায় উপযােগী। বিভিন্ন শ্লৈষ্মিক ঝিল্লী, নাসিকা, পাকস্থলী, সরলান্ত্র, ফুসফুস এবং ক্ষত হইতে রক্তস্রাব। রােগী ঠান্ডায় অনুভূতি–সম্পন্ন।

মানসিক বিশৃঙ্খলা অবস্থা; নিজের সন্তানদিগকে চিনিতে পারে না; অল্প দিন পূর্বে যাহা ঘটিয়াছে, তাহা ভুলিয়া যায়; মানসিক উদ্বেগ;—সৰ্ব্বদা কষ্ট ডাকিয়া আনে, মনে করে কিছু যেন ঘটিতে চলিতেছে; খিটখিটে স্বভাব, সব কিছুতেই অসন্তোষ।

দুৰ্বল ও রক্তহীন ব্যক্তির মূৰ্ছার আক্রমণ, শিরঃপীড়া, পান্ডুর ও মােমের ন্যায় মুখমন্ডল, নাসাপথে রক্তস্রাব, এক গন্ড পান্ডুর এবং অপর গন্ডস্থল লাল, গলা অথবা কণ্ঠনালীর ডিপথেরিয়া, অদম্য তৃষ্ণা, পাকস্থলীতে স্পর্শকাতরতা, রক্ত ও ভক্ষিত সমস্ত খাদ্য বমন, পাকস্থলীতে ক্ষত, গরম ও টক ঢেকুর, ফেনা ফেনা বমন, কামড়ান বেদনা, পাকস্থলীর স্ফীতি, তৎসহ অবিরত পেটডাকা, পাকস্থলী এবং উদরে জ্বালা,উপুড় হইয়া শুইলে উহার উপশম।

| উদরে অত্যন্ত যন্ত্রণা, স্ফীতি, বায়ুসঞ্চয় ও শােথ থাকে; স্পর্শ করিলে ব্যথা লাগে; উদরাময়—পাতলা, রক্তাক্ত বা তাজা রক্তযুক্ত; অর্শ হইতে প্রচুর রক্তপাত; পুরাতন উদরাময় ।

প্রভূত জলবৎ প্রস্রাব। প্রচুর তৃষ্ণা, দুর্বলতা, পান্ডুরতা এবং মাংসক্ষয় থাকিলে, ইহা দ্বারা শর্করাযুক্ত অথবা শর্করাবিহীন বহুমূত্র রােগ আরােগ্য হইয়াছে।

শুক্রক্ষয়জনিত দুর্বলতা, ইন্দ্রিয়ের শিথিলতা এবং পায়ের পাতার স্ফীতি। {> জরায়ুর রক্তস্রাব, প্রচুর ঋতুস্রাব অথবা জলবৎ ঋতুপ্রবাহ; স্বল্প রজঃ, তৎসহ হরিৎ পান্ডুরােগ।

স্বরযন্ত্রের দুর্বলতা, ক্রুপ কাশি, ডিপথেরিয়া। ইহা স্বরযন্ত্র সংক্রান্ত ডিপথেরিয়ার বহু রােগীকে আরােগ্য করিয়াছে। বিবর্ণ শ্লৈষ্মিক ঝিল্লীসহ স্বরভঙ্গ; দুৰ্বল পান্ডুর ব্যক্তি, যাহারা বংশগত যক্ষ্মারােগের অধিকারী হইয়াছে তাহাদের পুরাতন, শুষ্ক, খকখকে কাশি, তৎসহ হস্তপদের শােথ; উদরাময়, শ্বাসকৃতা অথবা নৈশ–ঘৰ্ম্ম, ফুসফুস হইতে রক্তস্রাব; বক্ষে এবং পাকস্থলীতে জ্বালা, বুকে ঘড়ঘড় শব্দ, পুরাতন ব্রঙ্কাইটিস।

হস্ত–পদের দুর্বলতা এবং খঞ্জতা, তৎসহ বাতজনিত অথবা শােথজনিত স্ফীতি, উদরাময়ের সহিত অঙ্গ–প্রত্যঙ্গের শােথ। [ ইহা একটি দীর্ঘক্রিয় ধাতুদোষ–সংশােধক ঔষধ এবং ভালভাবে অধ্যয়ন করিলে বিশেষ উপযােগী বলিয়া বিবেচিত হইবে। ভিনিগার, কফি, সাধারণ লবণ প্রভৃতি বহু পদার্থ খাদ্যরূপে অপব্যবহৃত হইলেও, উহারাই শক্তিশালী ঔষধ হইয়া থাকে। দুর্দম্য পুরাতন ব্যাধিগুলির জন্য এইগুলির দিকে আরও বেশী দৃষ্টি দেওয়া উচিত।

✅ আমাদের সফল চিকিৎসার প্রমাণ দেখতে লিংকে ক্লিক করুণ।

Acet-ac : Aceticum Acidum

Emaciation, wasting diseases, marasmus; haemorrhages, anaemic, waxy pale.

Dropsy.

COMMON NAME:
Vinegar

FAMILY:
Organic acids.

SOURCE:
Distilled water is used for attenuation IX and I.

Very dilute spirit 3x up to 4, Rectified spirit for 5 and higher.

A/F:
-Anaesthetic vapours, fumes of charcoal and gas.

-Stings and bites (Led).

-Surgical injuries, surgical shock.

-Sausage poisoning.

MODALITIES:
< Cold air

< Wet

< Checked secretions

< Fog

< Night

> Motion

> Loose stools

MIND:
-Ailments from shock, excitement.

-Anxiety and fear, driving him from place to place, in dyspnoea, in liver complaints.

-Irritability with headache and abdomen and liver complaints.

-Lamenting, wailing with delirium, with swelling of abdomen.

-Hysteria; crawling and rolling on the floor.

-Grieves about sickness and children. Worried about business.

-Forgetful about what recently happened, does not know her own children.

GUIDING INDICATIONS:
-Constitution-Suited to pale, lean persons with lax flabby muscles, face pale, waxy (Ferr).

-Who have inherited pthisis and suffer from chronic weakness, anaemia, emaciation.

-Haemorrhagic diathesis.

-Marasmus and other wasting diseases of children (Abrot, Iod, Sanic, Tub) emaciation of face, hands, thighs (Nash).

-Great prostration after injuries, after surgical shock, after anaesthetics.

-Burning thirst, insatiable, even for large quantities, but no thirst in fever.

-Profound anaemia with waxy pallor of the face.

-Haemorrhage from all orifices.

-Excessive wasting and debility.

-Mouth-Profuse salivation day and night.

-Stomach-Great thirst with dropsy but not in fever.

-Cancer of stomach, peptic ulcer, intestinal tuberculosis, where there is vomiting after every kind of food.

-Vomiting after anaesthetics.

-Cannot tolerate cold drinks, vegetables except potato, bread and butter.

-Violent burning pain followed by coldness of skin, cold sweat on forehead.

-Sleep-Cannot sleep lying on the back (Sleeps better on back-Ars).

-Sensation of sinking in abdomen causing dyspnoea, better lying on belly.

-Fever-Hectic fever, drenching night sweats, sweat profuse and cold, otherwise skin dry and hot.

-Red spot on left cheek.

-No thirst during fever.

KEYNOTES:
1. Great prostration after surgical injuries, after anaesthetic.

2. Cannot sleep on back, rests better lying on belly (Am-c).

3. In fever red spot on left cheek, drenching cold night sweat.

4. No thirst during fever.

NUCLEUS OF REMEDY:
-Phthisical states.

-Wasting debility, with coldness of body, anaemia with waxy pallor of face.

-Emaciation of face, hands, thighs.

-Great thirst, insatiable.

CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS:
– Pale, waxy, oedematous with burning thirst in dropsy.

REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS:
Follows Well : Cinch, Dig.

Inimical : Arn, Bell, Caust, Lach, Merc, Nux-v, Ran-b, Sars.

Compare : Apis, Ars, Carb-ac, Lac-ac, Lac-d, Uran-n.

Antidoted By : Acon, Nat-m, Sep, Tab.

It Antidotes : Acon, Asar, Coff, Euph, Ign, Op, Plb, Sep, Stram, Tab.

Duration Of Action : 14-20 Days.

ACETICUM ACIDUM [Acet-ac]

+ Acetic Acid. C4 H3 O3.

Introduction

Should be procured from trustworthy chemists; vinegar from the shops is generally adulterated.

Introduced by C.Hg. See Jahr’s Manual, p.19, published in Allentown, 1838.

Toxicological symptoms have been collected from several authors; really proved only by Berridge.

Inflammation of bowels in dentition, Guernsey, MSS.

Mind

Intellect clouded, can hardly express herself.

Confusion of ideas. Headache.

Fancies he has an ulcer in his stomach.

Does not recollect what has happened; knows no one, not even her own children.

Horrible attacks of anxiety with difficult breathing. Liver complaint.

Anxiety; grieves about his sickness and his children.

Apparently alarmed at everybody and everything about her (poisoning).

Irritable, with abdominal complaints.

Greatest irritability. Headache. Liver complaint.

Agg. from any nervous excitement. Headache.

Dull and low-spirited.

Delirium: with distended belly and obstinate constipation, or with rumbling in bowels, bellyache and diarrhoea; alternately with stupor. Typhus.

Sensorium

Vertigo, with feebleness and fainting.

Giddy, dull aching in forehead and top of head.

Giddiness, symptoms of cerebral congestion.

Headache.

Blood rushes to head, with delirium.

Appears as if drunk, with heavy head.

Stupor only interrupted by delirious talking. Typhus.

Falls to ground insensible; foaming at mouth.

Faints.

Inner Head

Dull pains in forehead and vertex; giddiness.

Heaviness of head, with sense of drunkenness.

Confused dull aching over frontal region. Nervous cephalalgia.

Shooting through temples.

Nervous headache, caused by abuse of narcotic stimulants or by chronic gastric irritation.

Headache from abuse of tobacco, opium, coffee or alcohol.

Outer Head

Dull aching on frontal protuberance; later on left.

Distension of temporal blood-vessels, increased heat of head.

Blood-vessels on temples distended.

Red patches on scalp, crusts between hair.

Hair bristles.

Child does not want its head touched. Inflammation of bowels in dentition.

Sight and Eyes

Weak sight. Liver complaint.

Dilated pupils.

Protruding eyeballs.

Conjunctiva inflamed, accompanied by sour stomach.

Flow of tears.

Nose

Nosebleed, especially from a fall or blow.

Liable to frequent catarrhal attacks.

Face

Expression wild, pupils dilated.

Face pale, waxen, emaciated. Dropsy.

One cheek red, the other pale. Inflammation of bowels in dentition.

Eyes sunken and surrounded by dark rings.

Left cheek bright red with fever. Croup.

Sweat on forehead in spots.

Lower part of Face

Lips: become of a deep purple tint; peel off in flakes.

Aching in upper part of joint of jaw; worse from pressure and motion.

Teeth and Gums

Scorbutic ulcers; toothache.

Taste and Tongue

Taste sour.

Pain across root of tongue impedes speech and motion of jaw.

Tongue: pale and flabby, with diminished appetite and no thirst; dry and cold; red, sore and burning; livid, swollen, protruding.

Glands under tongue and lower jaw swollen, sore to touch.

Inner Mouth

Foul breath.

Buccal membrane whitish, like aphthae.

Salivation.

White gums.

Throat

Children thirsty, but swallow with some difficulty, even a teaspoonful of water. Croup.

Has to eat very slowly, difficult swallowing.

Throat inflamed, ulcerated.

A white film low down in fauces. Croup.

False membranes in throat.

Appetite, Thirst, Desires, Aversions

Loss of appetite.

Greatest burning thirst, insatiable even by taking large quantities.

Intense thirst. Diabetes. Dropsy. Chronic diarrhoea.

Thirsty with dry lips, which peel off in flakes.

Inflammation of bowels in dentition.

No thirst with fever. Croup.

Disgust for salted things and cold victuals.

Eating and Drinking

After a meal: vomiting.

Bread and butter disagree.

Vomits after every kind of food. Liver complaint.

Cannot drink anything cold, it lies like a load in stomach.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Hiccough and fetid belching.

Belching amel. pain in abdomen. Inflammation of bowels in dentition.

Hot eructations, heat in stomach.

Nausea and sweat; retching with anxiety; sour risings.

Towards 12 P.M. very sick; vomits a thick gruelly substance with great relief.

Vomiting: after every meal; of blood; like yeast.

Scrobiculum and Stomach

Great pain in scrobiculum; cannot bear slightest pressure.

Contents of stomach feel as if in a ferment.

Violent burning pain in stomach and chest, followed by coldness of skin and cold sweat on forehead.

Heat with colicky uneasiness, as if diarrhoea would follow.

Ulcerative gnawing at a single spot in stomach.

Cancer.

Hypertrophy of walls of stomach.

Local indurations in stomach.

Scirrhus of pylorus.

Hypochondria

Violent local pains. Liver complaint.

Abdomen

Pain in abdomen and rumbling in gastric region.

Bellyache, rumbling, diarrhoea, delirium. Typhus.

Severe burning in intestines; plethora abdominalis.

Abdomen distended and sensitive to touch.

Inflammation of bowels in dentition.

Abdomen distended, with costiveness. Typhus.

Tympany, with difficult breathing.

Ascites, with violent orthopnoea. Compare dropsy, 44.

Incarcerated hernia (clysmata).

Abdomen sore to touch.

Abdomen feels as if sunken in when lying on back.

Stool and Rectum

Liquid stools with pain.

Passages green and slimy come with an explosion of odorless wind.

Inflammation of bowels in dentition.

Diarrhoea: with swelling of legs and feet (phthisis); in later stages of abdominal typhus; chronic with thirst (ascites); more in morning; profuse, very weakening (fifteen passages) on seventeenth day (typhus).

Costiveness, with tympanitis and stupor; chronic constipation.

Profuse haemorrhoidal bleeding.

Hemorrhage from bowels, after checked metrorrhagia.

Ascarides.

Urinary Organs

Urine: increased and light-colored; acid, with increased sweat; cloudy, with phosphatic deposits.

Diabetes.

Male Sexual Organs

Very weakening nightly emissions.

Semen passes at stool.

Male parts flush and sweat.

Female Sexual Organs

Metrorrhagia.

Pregnancy and Parturition

During pregnancy, sour belching and vomiting, with profuse water- brash and salivation, day and night.

After labor, hemorrhages (outward application of vinegar).

Breasts greatly and painfully distended with milk.

Mammary abscesses threatening.

Milk impoverished, bluish, transparent, strong sour taste and odor; deficient in casein and butter.

Sucklings droop, loose flesh. Marasmus.

Voice and Larynx

Hoarse, with laryngeal irritation.

Hissing respiration, with rattling in throat.

Membranous croup (10 drops to a tumbler of sweetened water, a teaspoonful every hour or two).

Respiration

Breathing: difficult from laryngeal obstruction; hissing in croup; hurried and laborious ; loses breath on going upstairs; labored when lying on back.

Difficult breathing, with attacks of anxiety.

Liver complaint.

Must often take a deep breath, which relieves.

Heaviness, with sense of oppression.

Cough

Cough: croupy; a hollow sound with inhalation; dry, with oppression, later moist with fever, greater dyspnoea, emaciation, diarrhoea, night sweats, oedema of feet and legs; titillating, with much purulent sputum; hectic fever; attacks in evening with coldness; at night, heat, dry skin and delirium.

Haemoptysis; coughs blood.

Inner Chest and Lungs

Violent pain and sensation of burning in region of chest and stomach.

Lungs beginning to fill with tubercles.

Chronic bronchitis; phthisis.

Hydrothorax.

Rattling of phlegm in chest. Inflammation of bowels in dentition.

Many complaints, apparently overcome by Borax, reappear after use of Acet. ac., especially shooting in chest.

Heart and Pulse

Angina pectoris.

Heart beats: more frequent; cannot be felt by hand.

Pulse: 96 and full (poisoning); accelerated and small, contracted; weak and small.

Upper Limbs

Sensation of lameness in wrists and hands.

Coldness and pricking of hands.

Skin on hands dry. Inflammation of bowels in dentition.

Restlessness of hands in sleep. Inflammation of bowels in dentition.

Lower Limbs

Weak and weary.

Lessened sensibility.

Oedematous swelling, with diarrhoea.

Rest, Position and Motion

Cannot remain long in same position. Inflammation of bowels in dentition.

Child wants to be carried. Inflammation of bowels in dentition.

Springs from bed; crawls on ground from pain.

Lying on back: cannot sleep; labored breathing; abdomen feels sunken.

Lying on belly: rest amel. during sleep.

Ascending stairs: loses breath.

Motion: aching in jaw worse; of jaw impeded by pain across root of tongue.

Nerves

Great prostration after injuries; shock.

Great debility. Chronic diarrhoea, diabetes, etc.

Prostration and lameness.

Paralyzed and giddy.

Trembling from head to foot (poisoning).

Apparent death.

Spasms: with insensibility; with great debility; hysterical.

Springs out of bed, crawls on ground howling with pain.

Hydrophobia.

Sleep

Cannot sleep lying on his back; feels as if abdomen was sinking in, causing labored breathing; rests amel. lying on belly.

Sleep broken without known cause.

Cannot fall asleep because of distress and agony.

Sleepless, with other sufferings.

Sleeplessness. Liver complaint.

Time

Night: heat, dry skin, delirium; emissions; sweating.

Day and Night: stomach symptoms during pregnancy.

Morning: diarrhoea.

Evening: cough.

Toward midnight: vomiting.

Fever

Skin cold; bodily warmth decreased.

Flushes of heat, more in outer parts, increasing sweat.

Febrile heat, with a dry, hot skin: in bilious, putrid and typhoid fevers; inflammation of bowels in dentition.

Profuse sweating; night-sweats.

Typhus, with delirium.

Hectic fevers, with cough, dyspnoea, diarrhoea, night-sweats, oedema and emaciation.

Inflammatory fever.

Slow fever, with night-sweats.

Attacks

Severe paroxysmal headache.

Lethargic paroxysms.

Hysteric paroxysms.

Frequent catarrhal attacks.

Locality and Direction

Right then left: dull aching in frontal protuberances.

Left: cheek bright red in fever; aching in upper joint of jaw.

In spots: sweat on forehead.

Sensations

As if drunk with heavy head; like a load in stomach after cold drinks; as if contents of stomach were in a ferment; abdomen feels as if sunken in.

Shooting: through temples.

Pricking: of hands.

Burning: of tongue; with thirst; in stomach; in chest; in inner and outer parts; of skin.

Gnawing: in stomach.

Aching: in forehead and top of head; in upper part of joint of left jaw.

Pain: across root of tongue: in scrobiculum; in liver; in abdomen; with liquid stools; in chest.

Lameness: in wrists and hands.

Heat: in stomach.

Coldness: of skin; of hands.

Tissues

Ebullitions.

Hemorrhages from nose, lungs, stomach, bowels, uterus; also passive hemorrhages.

Blood coagulated in veins.

Blood-vessels contracted.

Varicose swellings.

Chlorosis; anaemia; wasting away; great emaciation.

Prevents corpulency, but may superinduce fatal marasmus.

Dissolves cancer cells.

Separates sequestrum from new bone.

Scurvy.

Dropsy of abdomen and legs; anasarca; great thirst; pale, waxen skin.

Changes gangrenous ulcers; hospital gangrene; prevents decomposition of animal matter.

Touch, Passive motion, Injuries

Touch: soreness of glands on lower jaw; soreness of abdomen; head sensitive.

Pressure: aching in jaw worse; pain in scrobiculum worse Diminished sensibility over whole surface of body.

Burns and scalds.

Sting of wasps of other insects.

After bite of a mad cat, lacerated wound, upper and lower leg swollen (externally and internally).

Suggillation.

Bruises or sprains, if dry heat follows.

Fall or blow: nosebleed.

Skin

Burning dry skin. Inflammation of bowels in dentition.

Tetter-like eruptions.

Diseased cuticle separates in flakes.

Skin pale and waxen.

Broad, flat condylomata, dry or moist.

Naevi, warts, corns.

Dropsy after scarlet fever.

Scarlet fever and smallpox.

Morbus maculosus Werlhoffii.

Stages of Life and Constitution

Injurious to children and the aged.

Lax, pale, lean persons.

A boy, age 14 mos.; inflammation of bowels in dentition.

A boy, age 2; typhus.

Relationships

Antidotes to Acet-ac.: large doses are best counteracted by Magnesia or Calcarea, according to bodily peculiarities of sick; fluid magnesia or limewater, a teaspoonful in a cup of water taken in sips. Higher preparations: for depressing, agonizing feeling: Tabac., if insufficient, Acon.; for gastric, pulmonary and febrile symptoms: Nat-m., may be followed by Sepia. Acet-ac. Is an antidote to all anaesthetic vapors; a finger dipped in vinegar, rubbed within the lips, antidotes fumes of charcoal; further, to Acon., Asar., Coff., Euphr., Hepar, Ign., Opium , Plumbum (colic), Sepia, Stram., Tab., Tongo and Alcohol.

May be given in cases of sausage poisoning.

It follows well after Cinched. in hemorrhages.

The sick have an aversion to it in poisonings with Agar-em.

Unpleasant symptoms of Bell. are aggravated by it; headache from Bell. became unbearable.

It aggravates symptoms of Arn., Lach. and Merc.

Disagrees when given after Borax, Caust., Nux-v., Ran-b, and Sars.

Squilla, Colch. and Sang. have had more effect in curing some diseases when prepared in Acet. ac. than with alcohol.

What had disappeared after Borax returned after its use.

Has been used after Digit. in dropsy.

Acetic Acid [Acet-ac]

Introduction

Pure Glacial Acetic Acid, C2H4O2. (Density 1.064 above 60 0 F.; below that degree crystalline).

Preparation: Prepare the lower dilutions with distilled water.

Mind

Hydrophobia. Slight and transient delirium. Irritability of temper. Nervous and excitable mood. Very great anxiety. Confusion of ideas. Diminished intellectual power. Disinclination to exert the mind. She is hardly able to express herself. She is unconscious of all around her.

Head

Giddiness. Heaviness in head, with sense of intoxication. Indications of vascular excitement in brain. Dull pains in forehead and vertex. Confused dull aching over frontal regions (nervous cephalalgia). Dull aching in right forehead, at a spot near the ossific center, externally, and afterwards slightly on the left side. Shooting pains through the temples. Distension of temporal blood vessels, with increased heat of head.

Eyes

Eyes sunken and surrounded by a dark circle. Great flow of tears.

Pupils dilated.

Face

Wildness of countenance. Face pale and waxen. Bright red flush on both cheeks and spots of perspiration on the forehead (from drinking vinegar). Bright flush and heat on both cheeks, especially on the left (from drinking vinegar).

Mouth

Tongue pale and flabby. Epithelium of the mouth quite white (chemical action).

Stomach

Diminished appetite. Adipsia. Intense thirst. (Eructations fetid, and hiccough). Nausea. Retching. Vomiting soon after eating.

Frequent vomiting. Violent pain and sensation burning in the region of the chest and stomach. Severe burning pain in stomach and in abdomen. Heat in the stomach, with slight colicky uneasiness in small intestines, as of approaching diarrhoea. Heat in the stomach, with slight hot eructations. Gastrodynia. She complains of her stomach. Chronic derangements of the gastro intestinal canal. Sensation as if the contents of the stomach were in a state of ferment, with horrible tormenting agony. Pain, as of ulcerative gnawing at a spot in the stomach, following after depression and agony. He fancies there is an ulcer in his stomach, which seems sore in one spot, with gnawing; he does not suffer pain, but his agony is distressing, preventing his falling asleep, or remaining long in the same position; towards midnight he feels very sick, and vomits some thick, gruelly substance, which relieves him, and he then falls asleep; in the morning the ejected substance is seen to be yellow, thick matter, like yeast, without froth or bubbles, and in quantity about three tablespoonfuls unfortunately, it was not more minutely examined; the depressing, agonizing feeling still continues throughout the second day, and is removed by tobacco., (Scirrhus of the pylorus). Great pain at the scrobiculus cordis.

Abdomen

Abdomen distended. Tympanitis, with difficulty of breathing (from large doses); rumbling in abdomen. Severe burning pain in abdomen and stomach. Griping pain in bowels. Chronic derangements of gastro intestinal canal. Slight colicky uneasiness in small intestines, as of approaching liquid diarrhoea; with heat in stomach.

Stool and Anus

Diarrhoea. Watery diarrhoea. Liquid diarrhoea. diarrhoea, with swelling of the feet and legs. Diarrhoea, with colic pains and tenderness of the abdomen to touch. Diarrhoea of phthisical subjects. Diarrhoeic stools. Bloody discharges from bowels.

Urinary Organs

Urine increased. Urine increased in quantity and of a lighter color. The secretions smell of the drug. (Urine cloudy).

Respiratory Apparatus

Irritation of windpipe and chest. (Hoarseness from irritable larynx). Croup; hissing respiration, with rattling in the throat; lining membrane of windpipe is found covered with fibrinous membrane, exactly as in true croup. (Foul breath). He can scarcely speak. Dry cough, attended with increased respiration, succeeded by a moist cough, with fever, increased difficulty of breathing, emaciation, night sweats, oedema of feet and legs, diarrhoea and death. Respiration feeble, difficult. Respiration hurried, laborious. (Bronchial hemorrhage).

Heart and Pulse

Pulse full, 96. Pulse lower. Pulse very weak and small, contracted or diminished.

Chest

Violent pain and burning sensation in regions of chest and stomach. All the lobes of the lungs filled with tubercles somewhat like a bunch of grapes. Chronic inflammation of the lungs.

Upper Extremities

Diminished muscular power of arms and hands. Paralytic sensation in wrists and hands. Coldness and prickling in hands. Skin of hands dry.

Lower Extremities

Lassitude of the limbs. Impaired muscular power of legs. Swelling of the feet and legs, with Diarrhoea. Oedematous swelling of feet and legs. Diminished sensibility of feet. Coldness of the feet.

Generalities

He jumps out of bed like a madman, and crawls on the ground, howling with pain (immediately). He rolls about in agony. He lies on the ground, writhing in excruciating agony. Strong convulsions. Convulsions and insensibility. Violent fatal convulsions, with pain in stomach. Spasms with great debility.

Trembling from head to foot. Paralysis. Prostration of strength.

Fainting fits. Sense of oppression and heaviness. Leanness. Her body wastes. Atrophy. Hemorrhage. General anasarca. Diminished sensibility of the surface of the body. She appears as if intoxicated.

Skin

Skin pale and waxen. The cuticle peels off. Redness and burning sensation.

Fever

Temperature of skin below natural standard. Flushes of heat in the external parts, with increased perspiration. Slow fever, with night sweats. Hectic fever, with emaciation, cough, night sweats, diarrhoea, dyspnoea, and troublesome swelling of the feet and legs. Typhus fever, with violent delirium, diarrhoea, pain in the abdomen, rumbling in the gastric region; also typhus with stupor, tympanitic abdomen, and obstinate constipation. Cold perspiration. Profuse perspiration. He was bathed in perspiration. Profuse night sweats.

2.0 Acet-ac : Aceticum Acidum

Some Cases of Acids

Book

NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY by Vishpala Parthasarathy.

Volume

1995 Nov / Dec VOL VI NO 6

Author

Kulay F M.

Subject

Cases

Remedy

Hydr-ac / Acet-ac / Ph-ac / Pic-ac.

EDITOR: The Acid Issue was completed in a record time of three weeks. Later we still had an overflow of acid cases, some of which have been included in this issue. But we request readers to please send articles in time)

Ideal prescriptions for various reasons, are quite rare. In acutes especially, one prescribes in a short time on the basis of a few symptoms, or on the phone in a few seconds. Most of us repertorise our cases when necessary. Key-note prescribers do not often have such good results as they suppose. The most successful prescribers, especially in acutes, as also in chronic cases, are undoubtedly those who are masters of Materia Medica and who have grasped remedy-essences; yet they of course refer to repertories to confirm. They do not fail to identify Alumina or Cenchris or Paris-q or Sinapis-n, and so forth. When they report cases, it is often difficult to understand their basis for prescription, but a little effort reveals the secret of the reasons for the remedy they prescribed. In one case, a patient complained, among other things, that he felt his scalp fitted tightly, and also one of his eyes felt as if fitted tightly in the socket, though these were not his main complaints. It is mentioned in the Materia Medica of Paris-q. “Sensation as if head is enlarged,”. It was easy for Dr. Kent to “see” in the patients language, the image of the Materia Medica language. Only a larger thing can fit tightly in a container.

CASE 1:

A friend of mine has a chest box of Homoeopathic drugs. He frequently consults me on phone and quite often he benefits. Once, he was suffering from cough. I kept on prescribing on phone, wrongly. After 10-12 days, he began to feel exhausted; he had been a strong-built, sturdy man. “Acid” flashed across my mind. I told him to have a blood-test (for Eosinophils) and come over the next day. The count was 14 percent. In addition. So he was given Hydrocyanic-acid 200, 1 dose, and advised to have a blood- test again. He complained of choking in the throat.

The new report showed 2 percent Eosinophils, while he improved. That was 8-10 years ago.

CASE 2:

This refers to January, 1992. I had a chamber then in Dentomania Polyclinic in Yari Road. Dr. S.C. Bhagwat used to come there as an anaesthetist. Generally healthy, 31 year old, with 2 children then. Complaint? Green mucus from nose almost every hour with headache. Eight months ago, surgery for Sinusitis, and no headaches since. Either, he says, can be smelt by anybody if he yawns. He adds, “you cant sit in my car for five minutes, for my car always carries the dead-ending kit of course, I cant feel it any more. “I thought of giving him Acetic-acid more so in order to learn but I took the case nevertheless. Nothing of prescribing value emerged from this healthy young anesthetist. The only pertinent symptom I could elicit was “Sleeps on abdomen”, and now looking at the records I regret I didnt ask “since when?” He improved greatly under Acetic-acid (200 , 1M given in single dose two months apart.) He became a friend and I told him to make vinegar a part of his diet in the form of salad, etc. He has shifted to Pune permanently. I hope he is well.

CASE 3:

From the experience of behaviour-patterns of chronic disease, I disapprove of reporting recent cases, I have seen physicians reporting a case on the basis of the first “good” report. A physician of international “repute” published the result in his Book of an “acute” as cured by Lyssin because the patient (a case of malaria) never came back. The patient went worse, and I was called in on the 35th day or so, when I prescribed China 200. 1 dose (no thirst during chill and after, but as fever began to establish itself, thirst began). The next day by 6 p.m. he was fine and went out to play. He was a young boy, son of an eminent doctor.

The following case, therefore, is being reported not to show success, but to explain th e difficulties of the first prescription – the most important artistic duty.

Mr. SAM – 18 years – illiterate boy from the UP working in Bombay.

Rashes – all over – last one year – red – itching. Face, scalp, arms, especially.

Confluent and become one. One satisfactory stool – strains. Occasional : diarrhoea from cereals. Urethral burning during urination.

Pain stomach, occasional. Not much thirst – takes lukewarm tea. Likes: milk, egg, sweets, Not fond of fish.

Feels very weak – occasional non-descript vertigo.

Eyes burn. Lethargy – Moderately warm?

The following rubrics were selected

1) KR 1310 – Skin, Eruptions, confluent

2) KR 530 – Stomach, Thirstlessness

3) KR 675 – Urethra: Pain, burning, urination, during.

4) SR II 242 – Aversion fish.

Phosphoric acid takes 2-3-1-0 marks, (Phos takes two marks in the last rubric). Add weakness in a lad of 18.

Prescription: Phos-ac 200, 3 doses to be taken in one day.

A week after: Skin better. No urethral burning. Stools same.

After another week – Skin better. No urethral burning. Stool same.

Some significance can be attached to “stool same”.

Once I had a case of a young girl whose chief complaints was constipation.

On the basis of the symptoms which I cannot recall, I gave her Phos-ac 200, one dose. Never since did she complain of constipation. I feel “stool same” is not really discouraging. A diarrhoeic drug did not worsen it then it is good enough. May be, in course of time, the constipation (generally a chronic state) may also go.

Some PICRIC-ACID cases of Dr. J.T. KENT: (collected from Kents Minor Writings – Ed by K.H. Gysper M.D.)

CASE 1:

A woman passing through menopause. Burning heat in the back, in paroxysms like flushes, brought on or made worse by mental exertion or excitement. Cold extremities. Face cold and pale. Heat in head. Violent occipital headaches. Heaviness of limbs, especially the lower. “Picric-acid 10M produced a marvellous constitutional improvement in the case”. (pg. 455). (emphasis added).

CASE 2:

A busy lawyer had brain-fag. Pain in forehead and temples extending to occiput and down between the shoulders. Nausea, Tongue loaded with yellow fur. Often clay-coloured diarrhoea, stool mixed with greenish slime. Great exhaustion after motion and mental effort, better rest in recumbent posture and open air. “After many remedies apparently indicated, had failed, Picric- acid 9x improved all symptoms from the first dose”. (Pg.24) (emphasis added).

CASE 3:

A lad of four, after cerebro-spinal meningitis (cured) was left with paralysis of lower extremities. Usual remedies failed. “Picric-ac 12X improved from the beginning, and in six weeks he was well”. (Pg. 240) (emphasis added).

CASE 4:

30 year male staggering gait, weakness of lower extremities, aggravated right – Anesthesia of both limbs from knees down, aggravated left – could not walk with eyes closed – Had suffered from painful erections, that it seemed as if his penis would burst. “He took Picric-acid and made a good recovery”. (Pg. 24) (emphasis added).

In the above cases of Dr. Kent, I have added the emphasis to make the essence of Picric-acid “stand out” so that one can see its image in widely different problems – Menopause, Locomotor ataxia, paraplegia, sexual hyper-excitability in a debilitated person, children woefully poor in mental work (school) with unaccountable leg pains and so forth.

While on the subject of PICRIC-ACID, it would be worth our while to look at the inimitable conciseness of Dr. C.M. Boger in his Materia Medica (Synoptic key) in which no sentence or verb appears – only eloquent phrases

Under Picric-acid, his chart reads:

Region; Brain; Worse, Exertion – Mental or Physical

Nerves; Occiput Cord, Lumbar region, Seminal losses. Heat. Better

Kidneys; Rest, Cold, Bandaging

Sexual organs; In Sun

Then follows a nine-line disjointed-looking, yet meaningful Materia Medica. For one who knows already Materia-medica a more time-saving account of old drug-pathogenesis is hard to find elsewhere.

I have, however, not found the rubric “Better in Sun”, nor “Better in WHAT? IN Sun?” Dr. S.R. Pathak mentions it under “Better” but does not mention it in the Materia MEdica that follows. Perplexing for Picric-acid is “worse heat” in the italics in the chart above. I shall be obliged to have a clarification from anyone.

PRACTICAL NOTES

Book

Medical Advance

Volume

1882-1883 Vol XIII No 5

Author

1. C. Allen

Subject

Cases

Remedy

Acet-ac / Psor / Ther

1. Acetic Acid.-In some parts of the country young girls wishing to attend “a party” during menstruation, are in the habit of taking a spoonful of strong vinegar. It promptly suppresses the unwelcome visitor.

Suppressio Mensium : occurring during course of chronic Laryngitis, Bronchitis, or in the later stages of tuberculosis with hectic, night sweats, etc., may be benefited by its administration.

Haemorrhage : from nose, lungs, stomach, bowels, uterus.

1. Psorinum.-Vomiting of pregnancy. In psoric, cachectic constitutions; nervous, restless, easily startled; when Lactic ac. only relieves, and the most carefully selected remedy fails to permanently improve.

Psorinum Headache : is always very hungry before or during attack; increased or brought on during change of weather; preceded by dimness of sight or black spots before the eyes; indicated remedy fails to act.

The following typical case by W.P. Wesselhoeft, M.D., is characteristic of its action 

Mrs. D.–, aet. 47; blue eyes, light complexion, strong, muscular; mother of four children. Feb. 13, 1870. Headache for 20 years, worse last three or four years. Pain begins over left eye, and goes to the right, increasing from hour to hour; then diarrhoea and nausea; finally, bloody vomiting; vertigo obliges her to lie down; sight blurred and blue stars before eyes; veins of temples much distended; the day before the headache had inordinate appetite, and also during first hours of pain.

Headache aggravated and brought on by change of weather, os that, even in the middle of the night, she is awakened by pain, and always knows there has been a change in the weather; soreness of stomach, sensitive to touch and pressure of clothes; catamenia perfectly regular. Psorinum 200 (Dunham), in water, morning and evening, a table spoonful for four days.

March 8. -Reports has had no headache; stomach less sensitive. Sac. lac.

April 5. -No headache; has not been so long without headache for twenty years; change of weather still produces unpleasant tenderness in pit of stomach. Sac. lac.

May 7. -No headache; no effects of change of weather; sensitive stomach has nearly disappeared.

III. Theridion.-In scrofulosis, after Calcarea and Lycopodium have improved the case, but not completed a cure.

Dr. Baruch says : “In cases of scrofulosis, where the best chosen remedies fail, I always interpolate a dose of Theridion, which must be allowed to act for several days; and I have seen the most surprising results from it, particularly in caries, necrosis, rachitis. In above-mentioned diseases, I depend chiefly on Theridion, which, although it does not seem to affect the external scrofulous symptoms, apparently goes to the root of the evil, and effectually destroys the cause of the disease”. This is endorsed by Constantine Hering

1. Thuja.-Perspiration on the parts of the body which are uncovered, with dry heat of the covered parts.

No other remedy has this symptom. The perspiration of other remedies occurs under circumstances just the reverse of this, viz.; on covered parts. Symptoms occurring thus are usually “guiding symptoms”” and will often suffice to alone work rapid and brilliant results. The following cure of Boenninghausen is worthy of reproduction :

“Towards the latter end of March, 1833, I was attacked with ileus. The seat of the painful trouble was in the right lower part of the abdomen (Typhlitis). The disease lasted two weeks. Four Homoeopathic physicians, (of which number, but one, our honoured friend, Dr. Aegidi, is a living witness to the truth of our statement), came to aid. They consulted in vain. In the middle of the 14th night, which was one of unspeakable torment, I had the good fortune to discover the right remedy myself, one never before given in this disease. It was Thuja, and the symptom leading to it, sweat only on uncovered parts, while covered parts were dry and hot. This is a symptom of no other remedy. One globule Thuja 30, relieved the pain in five minutes; after ten minutes, a copious stool, followed by sound sleep, from which I awoke next morning feeling as if new-born.

When my friends entered the apartment next morning, they found me enjoying a hearty breakfast; Their astonishment increased on learning the name of the remedy. In a few days I communicated this case to our honoured Hahnemann, whose reply was received somewhat late, April 19, on account of his having been dangerously ill with an asthmatic catarrh. From his answer, which comprises six pages, I quote the following almost prophetic words : “Should I give you further advice to restore the activity of your intestines, I should call your attention to Conium and Lycopodium, and daily walks in the open air.

Praiseworthy that you do justice to the great polycrest, Thuja, by setting so excellent an example”. It is wonderful how this advice corresponded with the reality. It had been followed to the letter, before it reached me. Two days after sending my letter to Hahnemann, a change of symptoms indicated Conium, and the evening before receiving his answer, Lycopodium. No other remedies were taken, and none other were needed to complete the cure. The ileus completely disappeared, and no trace of it has since made its appearance, after a space of thirty years.

DIARRHOEA OF CONSUMPTIVES

Book

Homeopathic Physician

Volume

1889 Vol IX No 5

Author

1. L. Griffith

Subject

Cases

Remedy

Acet-ac

Consumption, diarrhea

Mrs.–, age twenty-two, in the last stage of consumption, was attacked in June last with a most weakening diarrhoea. She had been under the care of allopaths for several months, till last August, when I was called. Her friends knew the case was hopeless and expected her to die in the fall, but they were very desirious of having the troublesome and weakening diarrhoea stopped. I gave Sulph. cm, Podo. 200, Lyc. cm, I gave these three drugs from August to October, one dose of each about a mouth apart, without effect, yet they each at various times seemed indicated. About the middle of October they were expecting her to die every day, and I had given up all hopes, till one day in carefully looking over my interleaved Lippe, I noticed a line, viz.: “Diarrhoea of consumptives-Acetic acid.” I determined immediately to try it. I gave three powders of the 30cm potency, to be taken dry, one each night, till the three were used; it acted marvelously; it not only stopped the diarrhoea, but gave her a natural and regular action. The patient got stronger and lived till February 15th. She was not troubled any more till a couple of days before her death. I had copied the idea from Dr. Kent’s interleaved repertory, and have proved it in one case most effectually. I could not see, in the provings of Acetac., anything similar to my case, but it must certainly seems to act in this disease where the indicated remedy fails.