Lacticum acidum
Lactic Acid
Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 9th ed., 1927, p. 391
Morning sickness, diabetes, and rheumatism offer a field for this remedy. Troubles in the breasts. Locally, in the tuberculous ulceration of vocal cords.
Stomach
Tongue dry, parched. Thirst; voracious hunger. Canker, copious salivation and water-brash. Nausea; morning sickness, especially in pale anemic women. Hot, acrid eructation. Nausea; better, eating. Burning, hot gas from stomach to throat, causing profuse secretion of tenacious mucus, worse smoking.
F Throat.—Fullness or lump like a puff ball. Keeps swallowing. Constricted low down.
Chest
Pain in breasts, with enlargement of axillary glands, and pain extends into hand.
Extremities
Rheumatic pain in joints and shoulders, wrists, knees, with much weakness. Trembling of whole body while walking. Limbs feel chilly.
Urine
Large quantities passed, frequently. Saccharine.
_Relationship.—Compare: Sarcolactic acid q. v. Lithia; Phos. ac.
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