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

William Boericke 1922

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

Ears

William Boericke 1922

Hawks mucus constantly. White patches and sharp points, as from splinters f on swallowing.

Eyes

William Boericke 1922

Double vision ; sharp, sticking pains. Ulceration of cornea.

Female

William Boericke 1922

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

William Boericke 1922

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.

William Boericke 1922

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

William Boericke 1922

Sensation of a band around

William Boericke 1922

Headache from pressure of hat; full feeling; worse from street noises. Hair falls out. Scalp sensitive. 538

Male

William Boericke 1922

Soreness and burning in glans and beneath prepuce. Ulcers; burn and sting; exude, offensive matter.

Mind

William Boericke 1922

Irritable, hateful, vindictive, headstrong. Hopeless despair.

Modalities

William Boericke 1922

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

William Boericke 1922

Putrid breath. Salivation. Bleeding of gums. Painful pimples on the sides of the

Nose

William Boericke 1922

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

William Boericke 1922

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

William Boericke 1922

Hoarseness. Aphonia, with dry hacking cough, from tickling in larynx and pit of

Skin

William Boericke 1922

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

William Boericke 1922

[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

William Boericke 1922

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

William Boericke 1922

Dry. Pain into

Tongue

William Boericke 1922

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.

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