Aceticum Acidum

Gbdal Acetic Acid. HC,H303. (Distilled water is used for attenuations I X and I ; very dilute spirit for 3X and up to 4 ; rectified spirit for 5 and higher.) CHaieaU — Anaemia. Anaesthetics, antidote to. Ascarides. Bums. Corns. Croup. Debility. Diabetes. Diphtheria. Dropsies. Fevers. Hydrophobia. Kaevi. Narcotics, antidote to. Phthisis. Sausage-poisoning, antidote to. Scalds. Stings. Stomach, cancer of. Varicosis. Warts.

Characteristics

The leading features of acetic acid are excessive wasting and debility ; anaemia with waxy pallor of face ; intense thirst ; burning in throat ; nausea ; retching, and sour rising as met with in cases of cancer and debility. There are gnawing, ulcerative pains in stomach ; pain and burning in abdomen. Profuse, exhausting diarrhoea. It has been used in diabetes. It corresponds to putrid and hectic fevers with night sweats ; haemorrhages, varicose swellings, and dropsies. As a type of vine effects may be mentioned ue following : A plump and blooming young woman took a small glass daily to reduce size. Soon lost flesh and colour. In a month cough set in with white concocted phlegm, fever, dyspnoea, night sweats, anorexia, dropsy, diarrhoea, death. Lungs after death were found staffed with non-suppurating tubercles. A young German, after working twelve months in a vinegar factory, was obhged to leave from indigestion, dyspnoea, and ready fatigue. It is suited to children and old people ; to lax, pale, lean persons. (Equal parts of vinegar and hot water make a refreshing sponge-down for many conditions of fever, with or without perspiration.) BftlatloiiB. — Compare: Apis, Ars. (but Acet ac. has more preponderant gastric symptoms than either) ; Carbol. ac, Lac. deal., It. ac, Uran. nit. Large doses of Acet. ac. are best antidoted by Magnesia or Calcarea either as fluid magnesia or as lime-water. Antidotes to potencies are : For depressing, agonising feeling, Tabac, Acon. ; for gastric, pulmonary and febrile symptoms, Nat. m., and afterwards Sep. It antidotes : Anaesthetics, Acon., Asar., Coffea, Euphorb., Ignat, Opium, Plumb, (colic), Sep., Stram., Tabac It counteracts sausage-poisoning. // aggravates the effects of Bell., Merc., Am., Lach. Disagrees when given after Borax, Caust., Nux v.. Ran. b., Sars. : Scilla, Colch., and Sang, have more effect in curing some diseases when prepared with Acet ac than with Alcohol.

Mind

Very doll and low-spirited; irritable. — Alternate stupor and delirium. — Confusion of ideas. — Grieves much ; sighs often.— Horrible attacks of anxiety with difficult breathing. — Vertigo with feebleness and fainting.

Head

Heaviness and dull pains in forehead and vertex. — Headache from abuse of tobacco, opium, coffee, or alcohol

Nose

Liable to frequent catarrhal attacks.— Nose-bleed, esp. from al or a blow.

Face

Expression wild, pupils dilated. — Face pale, waxen. emaciated.— Left cheek (csp.) very red during fever.— Bright red flush on both cheeks. — Sweat on forehead in spots.

Mouth p. 8

-Teeth feel dull, breath foul.— Scorbutic ulcers ; toothache. — Taste sour. — Epithelium of mouth quite white. — Tongue pale and flabby.

Throat p. 8

Children thirsty, but swallow with difficulty even a teaspoonful of water. — White false membranes in throat.

Stomach p. 8

Insatiable burning thirst. — Shrieks for water at night. — Intense thirst ; nausea, and frequent vomiting. — Disgust for salted things and cold victuals. — Cold drinks lie heavy. — Vegetables, except potatoes, disagree, also bread and butter still more. — Contents of stomach feel as if in a ferment ; violent burning pain in stomach and in chest, followed by coldness of the skin and cold sweat on forehead. — Indurations in stomach. — Scirrhus of pylorus.

Abdomen p. 8

Distension of the abdomen ; colicky pains. — Ascites. — Abdomen feels as if sunken in when lying on his back.

Stool and Anus p. 8

Diarrhoea, with great thirst, drinking large quantities with apparent impunity. — Diarrhoea, with swelling of legs and feet (phthisical subjects). — Diarrhoea, with colic pains and tenderness of the abdomen. — Haemorrhage from bowels.— Chronic constipation. — Ascarides. — Chronic diarrhoea of children with great emaciation. — Constipation, with great thirst and excess of pale urine.

Urinary Organs p. 8

Urine increased in quantity ; pale ; phosphatic ; diabetes, with intense, burning, unending and unquenchable thirst and great debility.

Male Sexual Organs p. 8

Weakening emissions; semen passes at stool. — Prepuce thickened, fissured, can't be retracted and itches fearfully. — Sexual passion, but feeble erection. lO. — Female Sexual Organs. — Metrorrhagia ; after parturition, with great thirst.

Respiratory Organs p. 8

Hoarse, with laryngeal irritation. — Lining membrane of larynx and trachea covered with a fibrinous exudation as in true croup. — Hissing respiration, with rattling in the throat. — Croup-like cough ; a hollow sound with each inhalation.— Haemoptysis.

Neck and Back p. 8

Myelitis, with profuse urine ; the pain in the back relieved only by lying on the abdomen.

Limbs p. 8

Œdematous swelling of the feet and legs.

Generalities p. 8

Convulsions. — Jumps out of bed like a madman, and crawls on the ground, howling with pain. — Great emaciation. — Skin pale and waxen. — General anasarca and dropsical affections. — Burning in inner and outer parts.

Skin p. 8

Sugillations.— Tetter-like eruptions.— Naevi ; warts ; corns.

Sleep p. 8

Sleepless.

Fever p. 8

Skin cold. — Slow fever with night sweats. — Profuse perspiration. — Hectic. — Putrid and typhous fevers.