Nitric Acidum
Nitric acid · Abbrev.: NIT-AC
Dose
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6C to 200C; constitutional fissuring states respond traditionally to infrequent repetition.
Introduction
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Splinter-like pains, unhealthy fissuring at every orifice, and anxious concern about one's illness shared with everyone.
Mind
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Anxious about health, dwelling on it and telling everybody; hatred and revenge after long-suppressed grievances; irritable, headstrong.
Modalities
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Worse: touch, jarring (even a passing carriage shakes the ulcer), milk, evening. Better: riding in a carriage paradoxically soothes backache; warmth.
Mouth
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Affections of mucous membranes where they join skin: fissures, ulcers with zigzag edges, sticking pains as from splinters; bleeding easily.
Rectum
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Fissure ani with agonizing stool-pain lasting hours; bleeding haemorrhoids with pricking; diarrhoea worse milk.
Relationships
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Compare Thuja (sycotic overlap), Sepia; complementary Arsenicum, Thuja; follow well after Mercury in gum troubles.
Throat
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Splinter pain on swallowing radiating to ears; ulcers at tonsil corners; offensive breath without salivation.
Urine
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Scalding urine with offensive odour, resembling horse's urine; catching pains in the urethra.
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
Published by Gentle Pills under CC0 1.0 — original wording, dedicated to the public domain. Not a substitute for the primary texts.
Reminder: this information is published for qualified practitioners. Patients must not self-medicate — homeopathic prescribing depends on the complete individual symptom picture, which only a doctor can evaluate. Please visit a homeopathy doctor.