Nitricum Acidum
Nitric Acid
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William Boericke 1922
Merc.; Kali c.; Thuja; Hepar; Calc. 540 NIT. ACID — NITftI SPIR. DUL. — NITRO-MUR. ACID.
Dose
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Sixth potency. As the nitric acid patient begins to improve skin symptoms may appear for a time, a favorable indication.
Ears
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Hawks mucus constantly. White patches and sharp points, as from splinters f on swallowing.
Eyes
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Double vision ; sharp, sticking pains. Ulceration of cornea.
Female
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Externa! parts sore, with ulcers. [Hep.; Merc.; Thuja.] Leucorrbcea brown, flesh-colored, watery, or stringy, offensive. Hair on genitals falls out. [A^a/r. m.; Zinc.] Uterine haemorrhages. Menses early, profuse, like muddy water. Metrorrhagia after parturition.
Guiding symptoms
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Elars. — Difficult hearing; better by riding in carriage or train. Very sensitive to noise, as the rattle of wagons over pavements. [Coff,; Nux.] Cracking in ears when chewing.
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Urine. — Scanty, dark, offensive. Smells like horse’s urine. Cold on passing. Burning and stinging. Urine bloody and albuminous.
William Boericke 1922
Selects for its special seat of action the outlets of the body where tlie mucous membrane and skin meet; these pain as from splinters. 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] 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, faeces, and perspiration. Persons who have chronic diseases, and take cold easily and disposed to diarrhoea. Excessive physical irritability. Cachexia, due to syphilis, scrofula, etc. Gravel; arthritis. Capillary bleeding after currcttage.
Head
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Sensation of a band around
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Headache from pressure of hat; full feeling; worse from street noises. Hair falls out. Scalp sensitive. 538
Male
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Soreness and burning in glans and beneath prepuce. Ulcers; burn and sting; exude, offensive matter.
Mind
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Irritable, hateful, vindictive, headstrong. Hopeless despair.
Modalities
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Worse, evening and night, cold climate, and also hot weather. Better, while riding in carriage. [Reverse: Cocculus.] Rdationship. — Complementary: Ars.; Calad,; Lac can. Inimical : Lach.
Mouth
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Putrid breath. Salivation. Bleeding of gums. Painful pimples on the sides of the
Nose
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Caries of mastoid. Nosebleed, with chest affections. Chronic nasal catarrh, with yellow, offensive, corrosive discharge. Nasal diphtheria, with watery and exeedingly excoriating discharge.
William Boericke 1922
'Ozaena. Green casts from nose every morning. Coryza, with sore and bleeding nostrils. Tip red. Stitches, as of a splinter in
Rectum
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Tearing pains during stools. Violent cutting pains after stools, lasting for hours. [Ratanh.] Haemorrhages from bowels, profuse, bright. Prolapsus ani. Haemorrhoids bleed easily. Diarrhoea, slimy and offensive^ After stools, irritable and exhausted. Colic reifeved from tightening clothes.
Respiratory
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Hoarseness. Aphonia, with dry hacking cough, from tickling in larynx and pit of
Skin
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Warts, large jagged; bleed on washing. Ulcers bleed easily, sensitive; splinter -like pains; zigzag, irregular edges; base looks like raw flesh. Exuberant granulations. Black pores on face, papules worse on forehead.
Sleep
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[Chant.] Extremitites. — Fetid foot-sweat, causing soreness of toes, with sticking pain; chilblains on toes. Sweating of palms, hands ; cold, blue nails. Offensive sweat in axillae at night.
Stomach
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Great hunger, with sweetish taste. Longing for indigestible things — chalk, earth, etc. Pain in cardiac orifice. Dyspepsia with excess of oxalic acid, uric acid and phosphates in urine and great mental depression. Abdomen, — Great straining, but little passes. Rectum feels torn. Bowels constipated, with fissures in
William Boericke 1922
Soreness at lower end of sternum. Short breath on going upstairs. [Ars.; Calc.] Cough during
Throat
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Dry. Pain into
Tongue
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Tongue clean, red and wet with center furrow. Teeth become loose; gums soft and spongy. Ulcers in soft palate, with sharp, splinier4ike pains. Salivation and fetor oris. Bloody saliva.
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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