Acetic Acid
Glacial Acetic Acid
Abdomen
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Feels as if abdomen was sinking in. Frequent watery stools, worse in morning. Tympanitic. Ascites. Hremorrhage from bowels. Urine. — Large quantities of pale urine. Diabetes, with great thirst and debility. [Phos. ac.]
Back
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Pain in back, relieved only by lying on
Compare
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Ammon, acet. (Profuse saccharine urine, patient is bathed in
Dose
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Third to thirtieth potency. Not to be repeated too often, except in croup.
Extremities
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Emaciation. (Edema of feet and legs. 8 ACETIC ACID — ACONITUM NAPELLUS
Face
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Pale, waxen, emaciated. Eyes sunken, surrounded by dark rings. Bright red. Sweaty. Epithelioma of lip. Cheeks hot and flushed.
Female
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Excessive catamenia. Ilccmorrhagcs after labor. Nausea of pregnancy. Breasts painfully enlarged, distended with milk. Milk impoverished, bluish, transparent, sour. Anaemia of nursing mothers.
Fever
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Ebullitions. Sweat profuse, cold.
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Hectic, with drenching night-sweats. Red spot on left check. No thirst in
Guiding symptoms
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/ Epithelial cancer. Sycosis with nodules and formations in the joints. (C. M. Boger.)
Head
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Nervous headache, from abuse of narcotics. Blood rushes to head with delirium. Temporal vessels distended. Pain across root of
Mind
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Irritable, worried about business affairs.
Relationships
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Acetic acid is antidotal to all anaesthetic vapors. Counteracts sausage poisoning.
Respiratory
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Hoarse, hissing respiration ; difficult breathing; cough lahcn inhaling. Membraneous croup. Irritation of trachea and bronchial tubes. False membrane in
Skin
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Pale, waxen, oedematous. Burning, dry, hot skin, or bathed in profuse
Stomach
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Sour belching and vomiting. Burning waterbrash and profu.se salivation. Violent burning pain in stomach and chest, followed by coldness of skin and cold sweat on forehead.
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Intense burning thirst. Cold drinks distress. Vomits after every kind of food. Epigastric tenderness. Burning pain as of an ulcer. Cancer of
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Salivation. Fermentation in
Sweat
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Diminished sensibility of the surface of body. Useful after stings, bites, etc. Varicose swellings. Scurvy; anasarca. Bruises; sprains.
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.) Ars.; China; Digitalis; Liatris. {General anasarca in heart and kidney disease, dropsy, and chronic diarrhoea.)
Text
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This drug produces a condition of profound anaimia, with some dropsical symptoms, great debility, frequent fainting, dyspnoea, weak heart, vomiting, profuse urination and SN^eat. Hremorrhage from any part. Especially indicated in pale, lean persons, with lax, flabby muscles. iVasting and debility. Acetic acid has the power to liquify albuminous and fibrinous deposits.
Throat
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Profuse bronchorrheea.
References
This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:
- James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
- Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain
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