Benzoic Acid

General action :

Produces symptoms of a uric acid diathesis ; pains in joints and tendons ; great change in the quality of the urine.

Tearing, stitching pains, especially in the great toe joints.

Pains, shifting from place to place.

General weariness.

Diarrhoea, offensive, light colored, of a pungent, urinous odor ; stools like soapsuds, very copious, odor is similar to that of the urine, which is dark and of very strong odor.

Urine brownish, extremely offensive.

Respiratory organs :

Asthma, especially in rheumatic persons.

Inflammation of bronchi and lungs, with great tenderness of the chest, cough < night, lying on right side.

Heart and Pulse :

Constriction in the region of the heart.

Intermittent action of the heart.

Gout and rheumatism, with swelling of joints, with the peculiar urinary symptoms.

Valuable in rheumatic gout of the fingers ; nodes very painful, with the urinary symptoms.

Gouty deposits in wrists.

Swellings of the wrist (ganglion).

Gout of great toe.