Nitricum acidum

Characteristic symptoms

Brown eyes and dark hairs; inflammatory pains of the periosteum ; hysteric ailments ; tearing and drawing pains, coming on and passing off quickly ; pains in the joints as if sprained, with cracking ; stitching pains, as if from splinters ; seething of blood ; a slight motion causes palpitation of the heart and sweat ; he takes cold easily; the whole body is sensitive to the open air; pains, when the weather changes; sick feeling in the whole body, with aggravation towards evening ; amelioration by riding ; excessive thinness ; want of energy of mind and body ; nervous and epileptic fits ; tremulousness ; glandular swellings : dryness of the skin ; pimples ; dark freckles ; brown-red spots on the skin and boils ; painful scars, wounds, warts, perniones and ulcers ; encysted tumors; un refreshing, restless sleep, with anguish, feels all his pains during his sleep ; nightmare ; lascivious dreams ; violent fever, with chilliness, especially in the back ; fetid night sweats ; sadness, as if oppressed with grief ; weeping mood ; excessive nervousness ; irritable disposition ; weakness of memory ; dullness of head, like loss of consciousness ; vertigo, with pulsations in the head and pressure in the middle of the brain ; headache, as if the head were surrounded by a tight bandage; bone-pains on the skull ; ulcerating eruptions on the scalp ; falling off of the hair ; suppuration of the eyes, with stitches; frequent lachrymation ; acrid humors in the eye ; spots on the cornea ; short-sightedness; hard hearing; steatoma at the lobule; roaring, throbbing, cracking in the ears ; soreness and scurf in the nose ; redness of the tip of the nose, and scurfy blisters on it ; nose bleed ; fetid smell from the nose ; paleness of the face ; yellowness around the eyes y bloatedness of the fac e around the eyes ; pimples, pustules and boils in the face ; soreness, burning and ulceration in the throat; constant thirst ; aversion to meat, desire for chalk, clay and lime ; ailments after eating, especially nausea, weakness and drowsiness; stitches and pulsations in the pit of the stomach; stitching and cutting pain in the abdomen ; flatulent colic ; excessive flatulence, inguinal hernia, putrid diarrhœa, with putrid flatulence ; old haemorrhoids, with remains figwarts and syphilis; fissura ani ; suppurating inguinal glands; chronic looseness of the bowels y itching and painful hsemorrhoids ; fetid urine; discharge of cold urine; involuntary micturition ; red spots on the gland becoming covered w ith scabs ; sycosis y chancre-like, suppurating ulcers, with flat edges ; violent erections and pollutions ; too frequent nocturnal emissions; ailments during menses ; cherry-brown and fetid leucorrhœa y hoarseness and stitches in the larynx; purulent expectoration ; shortness of breath, with panting; pains in the back and small of the back.