ACETICUM ACIDUM
[Acet-ac] |
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Note: Wherever it is found, "<" denotes aggravation (worse by) and ">" denotes amelioration (better by) |
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COMMON NAME |
: | Vinegar |
FAMILY |
: | Organic acid. |
SOURCE |
: | Distilled water is used for attenuation IX and I. Very dilute spirit 3x up to 4, Rectified spirit for 5 and higher. |
A/F |
: | - Anaesthetic vapours, fumes of charcoal and gas. -Stings and bites (Led). -Surgical injuries, surgical shock. -Sausage poisoning. |
MODALITIES |
: | < Cold air < Wet < Checked secretions < Fog < Night > Motion > Loose stools |
MIND |
: | -Ailments from shock 2, excitement. -Anxiety and fear, driving him from place to place, in dyspnoea, in liver complaints. -Irritability with headache and abdomen and liver complaints. -Lamenting, wailing with delirium, with swelling of abdomen. -Hystera; crawling and rolling on the floor. -Grieves about sickness and children. Worried about business. -Forgetful about what recently happened, does not know her own children. |
GUIDING INDICATIONS |
: | -Constitution -Suited to pale, lean persons with
lax flabby muscles, face pale, waxy (Fer). -Who have inherited pthisis and suffer from chronic weakness, anaemia, emaciation. -Haemorrhagic diathesis. -Marasmus and other wasting diseases of children (Abrot, Iod, Sonic, Tub) emaciation of face, hands thighs (Nash). -Great prostration after injuries, after surgical shock, after anaesthetics. -Burning thirst, insatiable, even for large quantities but no thirst in fever. -Profound anaemia with waxy pallor of the face. -Haemorrhage from all orifices. -Excessive wasting and debility. -Mouth-Profuse salivation day and night. -Stomach-Great thirst with dropsy but not in fever. -Cancer of stomach, peptic ulcer, intestinal tuberculosis where there is vomiting after every kind of food. -Vomiting after anaesthetics. -Cannot tolerate cold drinks, vegetables except potato, bread and butter. -Violent burning pain followed by coldness of skin, cold sweat on forehead. -Sleep-Cannot sleep lying on the back (Sleeps better on back Ars). -Sensation of sinking in abdomen causing dyspnoea, better lying on belly. -Fever-Hectic fever, drenching night sweats, sweat profuse and cold, otherwise skin dry and hot. -Red spot on left cheek. -No thirst during fever. |
KEYNOTES |
: | 1) Great prostration after surgical injuries, after anaesthetic. 2) Cannot sleep on back, rests better lying on belly (Am-c). 3) In fever red spot on left cheek, drenching cold night sweat. 4) No thirst during fever. |
NUCLEUS OF REMEDY |
: | -Phthisical states. -Wasting debility, with coldness of body, anaemia with waxy pallor of face. -Emaciation of face, hands, thighs. -Great thirst, insatiable. |
CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS |
: | - Pale, waxy, oedematous with burning thirst in
dropsy. |
REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS |
: | - Cider vinegar antidotes Carbolic acid. - Follows well after-Cinchona in haemorrhage, Digitalis in dropsy. -Aggravates the symptoms of Arn, Bell, Lach, Merc, especially the headache from Bell. -Antidotes-Anaesthetic vapours, fumes of charcoal and gas, Opium and Stramonium. |
CLINICAL |
: | 1)Great prostration after surgical shock after
anaesthesia, after injuries-(Dr.H.C.Allen) 2)Acetic acid relieves the parched mouth of people in the terminal stages of heart or kidney diseases. [Dr. Raj Jack] 3)For the bad effects of narcotics. 4)For the bad effects of carbon monoxide. |