Sulphuric Acid
Dewey, Essentials of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 1894, p. 187
Questions
What is the chief action of Sulphuric acid ?
It acts especially upon mucous tissues, alimentary canal and the respiratory tract.
What are the stomach characteristics?
Extreme sourness of all vomited matters; the stomach feels cold and relaxed, and the patient desires a stimulating drink, such as brandy; the stomach is so weak that all food is vomited. Stomach troubles of inebriates with these symptoms are greatly benefited by the remedy.
How does the debility of the remedy show itself?
As a tremor ; there is a sense of tremor accompanied by objective trembling; it is a debility which occurs at the change of life or in drunkards.
What peculiar symptom has Sulphuric acid about the face?
A sensation as if the white of an egg had dried on the face.
How is the appearance of the throat ?
There is a white membrane in the throat, and it looks as if it was whitewashed.
What are our principal uses of Acetic acid ?
In dropsies, standing midway between Arsenic and Apis, distinguished from both in the characteristic thirst, and the predominance of the the gastric symptoms. Give the principal Homoeopathic indications for Hydrocyanic acid. In convulsions simulating epilepsy, tetanus with stiffness about the jaws and neck; another symptom indicating its use is a gurgling which extends from the throat to the stomach when swallowing; it has also been used in the dry, hacking cough of consumptives.
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