Muriaticum acidum

This acid has an elective affinity for the blood, producing a septic condition similar to that found in low fevers with high temperature and great prostration. Patient becomes so weak she slides down the bed. Decomposition of fluids. Involuntary stools while passing urine. Hemorrhages. Mouth and anus chiefly affected.

Mind

Irritable and peevish; fretful. Loud moaning. Great restlessness. Sad, taciturn; suffers in silence.

Head

Vertigo; worse lying on right side; occiput heavy as if filled with lead. Sound of voice is intolerable. Pain as if brain were crushed.

Nose

Hemorrhage; much sneezing.

Face

Lower jaw fallen; pimples and freckles; lips raw, dry, cracked.

Mouth

Tongue, pale, swollen, dry, leathery, paralyzed. Deep ulcers on tongue. Hard lumps in tongue. Epithelioma; edges bluish-red. [Carbol. ac.] Aphthous mouth. Gums and glands swollen. Fetid breath. Sordes on teeth.

Throat

Uvula swollen. Ulcers and false membrane. Œdematous, dark, raw. Attempted swallowing produces spasm and choking.

Stomach

Cannot bear sight or thought of meat. At times, ravenous appetite and constant desire to drink. Achlorhydria and fermentation of food.

Rectum

Tendency to involuntary evacuations while urinating. Hemorrhoids most sensitive to all touch; even sheet of toilet paper is painful. Anal itching and prolapsus ani while urinating. Hemorrhoids during pregnancy; bluish, hot, with violent stitches.

Heart

Pulse rapid, feeble, and small. Intermits every third beat.

Urine

Cannot urinate without having bowels move at same time.

Female

Menses appear too soon. Leucorrhœa. During menses, soreness of anus. Ulcer in genitals.

Extremities p. 450

Heavy, painful, and weak. Tottering gait. Pain in tendo-Achilles.

Skin p. 450

Papular and vesicular eruptions, with great itching. [Rhus.] Carbuncles; foul-smelling ulcers on lower extremities. Scarlet fever, livid, with petechiæ; scanty eruption. Eczema on back of hands.

Fever p. 450

Cold extremities. Heat without thirst. Typhoid types, stupid. Hemorrhages. Restlessness. Involuntary discharges. Bed-sores. Pulse rapid and feeble. Excessive prostration.

Modalities p. 450

Worse, in damp weather, before midnight. Better, lying on left side.

Relationship p. 450

Compare: Phos. ac.; Ars.; Bapt. Follows well after Bry. and Rhus.

Antidote: Bryonia.

Dose,—First to third potency.