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Nitricum Acidum

NIT AC · 20 entries across 20 books
PreparationSolution. Clarke
6X
Sixth potency. As the nitric acid patient begins to improve skin symptoms may appear for a time, a favorable indicationDose · Boericke

Reason for use

Suitable in rheumatic troubles in persons who take cold very easily and who suffer from frequent diarrhea.

The pains are sharp, stabbing or pricking in character, and appear most often in those showing a syphilitic or scrofulous constitution.

The full Roberts text, by section

Heart

(Nitricum acidum)

NERVOUS PALPITATION.

PALPITATION WITH ANGUISH.

HEART BEAT INTERMITS EVERY FOURTH BEAT.

NECK AND BACK . — (Nitricum acidum)

STIFF NECK AND SORENESS OF NECK FROM LEAST COLD.

STITCHES IN AND BETWEEN SCAPULAE WITH STIFF NECK.

DRAWING PAIN IN SMALL OF BACK.

PAIN IN BACK, CAN LIE ONLY ON ABDOMEN.

NEURALGIC PAINS, ESPECIALLY BACK.

CRAMP-LIKE STIFFNESS OF BACK AND BODY.

PAINS IN BACK EXTENDING DOWN THIGHS.

Stitches in sacral region.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES . — (Nitricum acidum)

BRUISED ACHING PAIN IN RIGHT SHOULDER AND ARM.

Drawing pains in arms and hands.

RHEUMATIC PAINS IN FOREARMS AND FINGERS. SYPHILITIC RHEUMATISM OF ARMS AND FINGERS, JOINTS SWOLLEN.

RHEUMATIC PAINS IN LEFT HAND WITH A POWERLESS FEELING.

STINGING PAINS IN SWOLLEN FINGER JOINTS.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES . — (Nitricum acidum)

PAIN ACROSS BUTTOCK CAUSING LIMPING.

SPRAINED PAIN IN HIP.

Tension and pressure pain in right hip.

RHEUMATIC AND ARTHRITIC PAINS IN HIP JOINTS AFTER THE ABUSE OF MERCURY.

Deep-seated gnawing pains in bones and tendons of legs.

TEARING PAINS IN BONES OF LEGS < AT NIGHT.

STICKING AS FROM SPLINTERS < BY TOUCH.

RHEUMATIC PAINS IN LEGS AND FEET.

STIFFNESS, PAINFUL, IN KNEES AS IF LEG WERE SWOLLEN.

STITCHES IN PATELLA WITH STIFFNESS OF KNEES.

SORENESS ALONG PERIOSTEUM OF TIBIA.

SYPHILITIC NODES ON SHIN BONES WITH NIGHTLY PAINS.

Cracking in ankle when walking.

REDNESS AND HEAT IN BALL OF GREAT TOE WITH STICKING PAIN.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL — (Nitricum acidum)

Drawing pain in all the limbs.

RHEUMATIC PAINS IN LIMBS FROM TAKING COLD.

Contraction of joints with cracking in joints.

CONCOMITANTS . — (Nitricum acidum)

EMACIATION.

INFLAMMATION OF PERIOSTEUM.

SYPHILITIC BONE PAINS.

DISEASES SHOWING MARKED SYPHILITIC OR SCROFULOUS STATES OR AFTER THE ABUSE OF MERCURY.

Complete text of the Nitricum Acidum entry in Roberts - The Rheumatic Remedies; origin and preparation from Clarke. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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