Fluoric Acid
Dewey, Essentials of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 1894, p. 181
Questions
What is Fluoric acid?
It is the acid combination of Hydrogen and Fluorine; it is very excoriating and is kept in rubber bottles, since it eats glass. Give its general action. It acts principally on the bones and skin; it also has some effect on the glands.
What are its symptoms on the bones and periosteum ?
It produces caries of the long bones, with thin and excoriating discharges, relieved by cold applications.
Dental fistulae and bone felons; with offensive discharges. What are its skin symptoms ?
Roughness and harshness of the skin, with great itching in spots; worse from warmth and better from cold.
What is the relation of Fluoric acid to Silicea ?
It follows Silicea well, and is especially useful after the abuse of Silicea in suppurations.