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Nitricum Acidum
NIT AC
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Origin Mineral · Simple
ClarkePreparation Solution.
Sources 20 entries across 18 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …

Dose
6X
Sixth potency. As the nitric acid patient begins to improve skin symptoms may appear for a time, a favorable indication.

Reason for useBoericke

Selects for its special seat of action the outlets of the body where the mucous membrane and skin meet; these pain as from splinters. Sticking pains. Marked improvement of all symptoms while riding in a carriage. Acts best on the dark complexioned and past middle life. Syphilis, after abuse of Mercury. Pains appear and disappear quickly (Bell). Hydrogenoid constitution. Sycotic remedy. Blisters and ulcers in mouth, tongue, genitals; bleed easily. Fissures, with pain during stool, as if rectum were torn. All discharges very offensive, especially urine, feces, and perspiration. Persons who have chronic diseases, and take cold easily and disposed to diarrhoea. Excessive physical irritability. Cachexia, due to syphilis, scrofula, intermittent fever with liver involvement and anaemia, etc. Gravel; arthritis. Capillary bleeding after curettage.


▲ Worse evening and night, cold climate, and also hot weather
▼ Better while riding in carriage (Reverse: Cocculus)

By regionBoericke
Mind Irritable, hateful, vindictive, headstrong. Hopeless despair. Sensitive to noise, pain, touch, jar. Fear of death.
Head Sensation of a band around head. Headache from pressure of hat; full feeling; worse from street noises. Hair falls out. Scalp sensitive.
Eyes Double vision; sharp, sticking pains. Ulceration of cornea. Gonorrhoeal ophthalmia, photophobia, constant lachrymation. Syphilitic iritis.
Stomach Great hunger, with sweetish taste. Longing for indigestible things-chalk, earth, etc. Pain in cardiac orifice. …
Female External parts sore, with ulcers (Hep.: Merc; Thuja). Leucorrhoea brown, flesh-colored, watery, or stringy, offensive. …
Respiratory Hoarseness. Aphonia, with dry hacking cough, from tickling in larynx and pit of stomach. Soreness at lower end of sternum. …
Extremities Fetid foot-sweat, causing soreness of toes, with sticking pain; chilblains on toes. Sweating of palms, hands; cold, blue nails. …
Skin Warts, large jagged; bleed on washing. Ulcers bleed easily, sensitive; splinter-like pains; zigzag, irregular edges; base looks like raw flesh. …

Books*
Antidoted by Calcarea Carbonica 2, Conium Maculatum 2, Hepar 2 +15
Complementary Arsenicum Album, Caladium Seguinum, Lac Caninum +1
Follows well Calcarea Carbonica, Kali Carbonicum, Pulsatilla Pratensis +9
Compare Calcarea Carbonica, Mercurius Solubilis, Graphites +39

* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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