Ομοιοπαθητική ΒιβλιοθήκηAceticum Acidum
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Acetic Acid. C^ H^ 0^.
Should be procured from trustworthy chemists ; vinegar from the shops is generally adulterated.
Introduced by C. Hg. See Jahr^s Manual, p. 19, published in Allentown, 1838.
Toxicological symptoms have been collected from several authors; really I^roved only by Berridge.
^ Mind. Intellect clouded, can hardly express herself. Confusion of ideas. 6 Headache. Fancies he has an ulcer in his stomach. Does not recollect what has happened; knows no one, not
even her own children. • Horrible attacks of anxiety with diflScult hreathing. ^ Liver
complaint. Anxiety ; grieves about his sickness and his children. Apparently alarmed at everybody and everything about her
(poisoning). B Irritable, with abdominal complaints. I Greatest irritability. /? Headache. ^ Liver complaint. Worse from any nervous excitement. 6 Headache. Dull and low-spirited. B Delirium: with distended belly and obstinate constipation, or
with rumbling in the bowels, bellyache and diarrhoea ; —
alternately with stupor, d Typhus. B Delirium, violent, with colic and diarrbosa. ^Typhus. ^ Seusorium. I ' Vertigo, with feebleness and fainting. Giddy, dull aching in forehead and top of head. Giddiness, symptoms of cerebral congestion. 6 Headache. Blood rushes to the head, with delirium. Appears as if drunk, with heavy head. I Stupor only interrupted by delirious talking; with a boy set.
2. d Typhus. Falls to the ground insensible; foaming at the mouth. B Faints. ^ Inner Head. Dull pains in forehead and vertex. Heaviness of head, Aviih sense of drunkenness. Confused dull aching over frontal region, d Nervous cephal- algia. Shooting through the temples.
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Nervous headache, caused by abuse of narcotic stimulants or
by chronic gastric irritation. Headache from abuse of tobacco, opium, coffee or alcohol. ■* Outer Head. Dull aching on the right frontal protuberance ; later on the left. Distension of temporal blood-vessels, with increased heat of
Head EN
Blood-vessels on the temples distended.
Red patches on scalp, crusts between the hair.
Hair bristles. ^ Sight and Eyes.
Weak sight. 6 Liver complaint.
Dilated pupils.
Protruding eyeballs.
Conjunctiva inflamed, accompanied by sour stomach.
Flow of tears. '^ Nose.
I Nosebleed, especially from a fall or a blow.
Liable to frequent catarrhal attacks. ^ Face. Expression wild, pupils dilated.
I Face pale, waxen, emaciated. ^Dropsy.
Eyes sunken and surrounded by dark rings.
Left cheek bright red with the fever. 6 Croup.
Sweat on the forehead in spots. ^ Lower Part of Face.
Lips become of a deep purple tint.
Aching in the upper part of joint of the left jaw ; worse from pressure and motion. '" Teeth and Gums. ' l Scorbutic ulcers;
I toothache, " Taste and Tongue.
Taste sour.
Pain across the root of the tongue impedes speech and motion
of the jaw.
Tongue : pale and flabby, with diminished appetite and no thirst ; — dry and cold ; — red, sore and burning ; — livid, swollen, protruding.
Glands under tongue and on lower jaw swollen and sore to touch. '- Inner Mouth.
Foul breath.
Buccal membrane whitish, like aphthae.
I I Salivation. 13 Throat.
Children thirsty, but swallow with some difiiculty, even a teaspoonful of water, d Croup.
Has to eat very slowly, difficult swallowing.
Throat inflamed, ulcerated.
A white film low down in the fauces. 0 Croup.
I False membranes in throat.
^^ Appetite, Thirst.
Desires, Aversions.
Loss of appetite. ■ Greatest burning thirst, insatiable even by taking large quantities.
I I Intense thirst. ^Diabetes, dropsy, chronic diarrhoea.
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Shrieks for water at night, notwithstanding he has drunk co- piously.
Ko thirst with fever. 6 Croup.
Disgust for salted things and cold victuals. ^^ Eating and Drinking. After a meal : vomiting.
Bread and butter disagree.
I Vomits after every kind of food. ^ Liver complaint.
Cannot drink anything cold, it lies like a load in the stomach. ^' Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. Hiccough and fetid belching.
Hot eructations, heat in the stomach.
Nausea and sweat ; retching with anxiety ; sour risings.
Towards 12 p.m. very sick ; vomits a thick gruelly substance with great relief
Vomiting : after every meal ; — of blood; — like yeast. ^'^ Scrobiculum and Stomach. Great pain in the scrobiculum ; cannot bear the slightest pressure.
Contents of stomach feel as if in a ferment.
Violent burning pain in stomach and chest, followed by cold- ness of skin and cold sweat on forehead.
Heat with colicky uneasiness, as if diarrhoea would follow.
Ulcerative gnawing at a single spot in the stomach. 6 Cancer.
Hypertrophy of the walls of the stomach.
I i Local indurations in the stomach.
BScirrhus of pylorus.
"Hypochondria.
I Violent local pains. ^ Liver complaint. ^^ Abdomen.
Pain in the abdomen and rumbling in the gastric region.
Bellyache, rumbling, diarrhoea, followed by delirium, d Ty- phus.
Severe burning in the intestines ; I plethora abdominalis.
I Abdomen distended with costiveness. ^Typhus.
Tympany, with difficult breathing.
I Ascites, with violent orthopnoea. Compare dropsy : 44.
I I Incarcerated hernia (as clysmata).
Abdomen sore to touch.
Abdomen feels as if sunken in when lying on the back. ^" Stool and Rectum. Liquid stools with pain.
I I Diarrhoea, with swelling of the legs and feet (phthisical sub- jects).
I I Diarrhoea in the later stages of abdominal typhus.
Chronic diarrhoea with thirst. ^Ascites.
Diarrhoea more in the morning.
I Profuse, very weakening diarrhoea (fifteen passages) on the seventeenth day. 6 Typhus.
I I Costiveness, with tympanitis and stupor.
I Chronic constipation.
Profuse hemorrhoidal bleeding.
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Hemorrhage from the bowels, after checked metrorrhagia.
I Ascarides. ^^ Urinary Organs.
Urine : increased and light-colored ; — acid, with increased sweat ; — cloudy, with phosphatic de posits.
Diabetes. ^^ Male Sexual Organs.
(Very weakening nightly emissions.
Semen passes at stool.
Male parts flush and sweat. ^^ Female Sexual Organs, s i Metrorrhagia. 24 Pregnancy and Parturition.
During pregnancy, sour belch- ing and vomiting, with profuse water-brash and salivation, day and night.
I After labor, hemorrhages (outward application of vinegar).
Breasts greatly and painfully distended with milk.
Mammary
abscesses threatening. 'Milk impoverished, bluish, transparent, strong sour taste and
odor ; deficient in caseine and butter.
Sucklings droop, lose flesh. 6 Marasmus. ^^ Voice and Larynx.
Hoarse, with laryngeal irritation.
I Hissing respiration, with rattling in the throat. ^Membran- ous croup (10 drops to a tumbler of sweetened water, a tea- spoonful every hour or two). ^^ Respiration. I Breathing : difficult from laryngeal obstruction ;
— hissing in croup; — I I hurried and laborious; loses breath on going up stairs ; — labored when lying on back.
Difficult breathing, with attacks of anxiety. 6 Liver complaint.
Must often take a deep breath, which relieves.
Heaviness, with sense of oppression. ^^ Cough.
Cough : croupy ; a hollow sound with the inhalation ;
— dry, with oppression, later moist with fever, greater dyspnoea, emaciation, diarrhoea, night sweats, oedema of feet and legs.
Cough titillating, with much purulent sputum ; oppressed
breathing ; hectic fever. Attacks of cough in the evening with coldness; at night, heat,
dry skin and delirium.
I I Haemoptysis ; coughs blood. ^^ Inner Chest and Lungs.
A^iolent pain and sensation of
burning in region of chest and stomach.
Lungs beginning to fill with tubercles. ■ Chronic bronchitis.
Hydrothorax.
Phthisis.
Many complaints apparently overcome by Borax, disappear
after the use of Acet. ac, especially the shooting in the
Chest EN
^^ Heart and Pulse. Angina pectoris.
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Heart beats more frequently.
Heart-beat cannot be felt by the hand.
Pulse EN
96 and full (poisoning) ; — accelerated and small, con- tracted ; — weak and small. ^^ Upper Limbs, Sensation of lameness in wrists and hands.
Coldness and pricking of hands.
Skin on hands dry. ^^ Lower Limbs. Weak and weary.
Lessened sensibility.
■ (Edematous swelling, with diarrhoea.
^' Position and Motion. Cannot remain long in the same posi- tion.
Springs from bed ; crawls on the ground from pain.
Lying on back : cannot sleep, labored breathing.
Lying on belly : rests better during sleep.
Ascending stairs : loses breath.
Motion: aching in jaw worse; — of jaw impeded by pain across root of tongue. ^® Nerves. Great prostration after injuries ; shock.
I Great debility, d Chronic diarrhoea, diabetes, etc.
Prostration and lameness.
Paralyzed and giddy.
Trembling from head to foot (poisoning).
■ Apparent death. Hysterical spasm.
Spasms : with insensibility ; — with great debility.
Springs out of bed, crawls on the ground howling with pain.
\ Hydrophobia. ^^ Sleep. Cannot sleep lying on his back ; feels as if the abdo- men was sinking in, causing labored breathing ; rests better lying on the belly.
Sleep broken without known cause.
Cannot fall asleep because of distress and agony.
Sleepless, with other sufferings.
■ Sleeplessness. ^ Liver complaint.
^^ Time.
Night : heat, dry skin, delirium ; sweating.
Day and night : stomach symptoms during pregnancy.
Morning : diarrhoea.
Evening: cough.
Toward midnight : vomiting.
*" Fever, Skin cold ; bodily warmth decreased.
Flushes of heat more in outer parts, increasing the sweat.
■ Febrile heat, with a dry, hot skin; in bilious, ■putrid and
typhoid fevers.
■ ■Profuse sweating; ■night-sweats. Typhus, with delirium.
I I Hectic fevers, with cough, dyspnoea, diarrhoea, night-sweats,
oedema and emaciation.
I ■ Inflammatory fever.
Slow fever, with night-sweats.
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Bathed in sweat. Severe paroxymal headache. ^^ Attacks. ' I Lethargic paroxysms.
I Hysteric paroxysms. ^2 Locality and Direction.
Right then left : dull aching in frontal protuberances.
Left : cheek bright red in fever ; aching in upper joint of jaw.
" Sensations.
Burning on inner and outer parts.
Diminished sensibility on the whole surface of body. ^* Tissues. I Ebullitions.
Hemorrhages from nose, lungs, stomach, bowels, uterus ; also
passive hemorrhages.
Blood coagulated in the veins.
Blood-vessels contracted. 1 I Varicose swellings.
Chlorosis ; anaemia ; wasting away of the body ; great emacia- tion.
Prevents corpulency, but may superinduce fatal marasmus.
Dissolves cancer cells.
Separates sequestrum from the new
bone.
Scurvy.
I Dropsy of the abdomen and legs; anasarca; great thirst;
pale, waxen skin.
Changes gangrenous ulcers ; hospital gangrene ; prevents de- composition of animal matter. '^ Touch.
Passive Motion.
Injuries.
Touch : soreness of glands on lower jaw; soreness of abdomen.
Pressure: aching in jaw worse; pain in scrobiculum worse.
Diminished sensibility over whole surface of body.
Burns and scalds.
I Sting of wasps or other insects.
I After the bite of a mad cat, lacerated wound, upper and lower
leg swollen (externally and internally). I I Sugillations.
Bruises or sprains, if dry heat follows.
Fall or blow : nosebleed. ^^ Skin.
I I Tetter-like eruptions.
Diseased cuticle separates in flakes.
I Skin pale and waxen.
Broad, flat condylomata, dry or moist. llNgevi, warts, corns.
I Dropsy after scarlet fever, j Scarlet fever and sraall-pox.
Morbus maculosus Werlhofii. '^ Stages of Life, Constitution.
Injurious to children and the aged.
Lax, pale, lean persons. *^ Relationship.
Antidotes to Acet. ac. : large doses are best
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counteracted by Magnesia or Calcarea, according to the bodily peculiarities of the sick ; fluid magnesia or lime-water, a teaspoonful in a cup of water taken in sips. Higher pre- parations : for the depressing, agonizing feeling : Tahac, if insufficient, Aeon.; for the gastric, pulmonary and febrile symptoms : Natr. mur. may be followed by Sepia.
Aeet. ae. is an antidote to all anaesthetic vapors ; a finger dipped in vinegar, rubbed within the lips, antidotes fumes of charcoal ; further, to Aeon., Asar., Coffea, Euphorb., Hepar, \\Ignat., t Opium, Plumbum (colic), Sepia, llStramon., Tabac, Jongo and Aleohol.
May be given in cases of sausage poisoning.
It follows well after Cinehon. in hemorrhages.
The sick have an aversion to it in poisonings with Agar. emet.
Unpleasant symptoms of Bellad. are aggravated by it ; head- ache from Bellad. became unbearable.
It aggravates also the symptoms of Arnie., Laches, and Mercur.
Disagrees when given after Borax, Caustic., Niix vom.. Ban. bulb, and Sarsap.
Seilla, Colehie. and Sanguin., have had more effect in curing some diseases when prepared with Acet. ac, than with al- cohol.
What had disappeared after Borax, returned after its use.
Has been used after Digit, in dropsy.