(Nitric Acid)
Selects for its special seat of action the outlets
of the body where the mucous membrane and skin meet; these pain as from
splinters. Sticking pains. 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.] Hydrogenoid constitution. Sycotic remedy. | ||
| Mind.
Irritable, hateful, vindictive, headstrong. Hopeless despair.
Sensitive to noise, pain, touch, jar. Fear of death. | ||
| Head. Sensation
of a band around head. Headaches from pressure of hat; full feeling;
worse from street noises. Hair falls out. Scalp sensitive. | ||
| Ears. Difficult
hearing; better by riding in carriage or train. Very sensitive to
noise, as the rattle of wagons over pavements. [Coff.; Nux-v.] Cracking in ears
when chewing. | ||
| Eyes. Double
vision; sharp, sticking pains. Ulceration of cornea. Gonorrheal
ophthalmia, photophobia, constant lachrymation. Syphilitic
iritis. | ||
| Nose. Ozena.
Green casts from nose every morning. Coryza, with sore and bleeding
nostrils. Tip red. Stitches, as of a splinter in nose. Caries of
mastoid. Nosebleed, with chest affections. Chronic nasal catarrh, with
yellow, offensive, corrosive discharge. Nasal diphtheria, with
watery and exceedingly excoriating discharge. | ||
| Mouth. Putrid
breath. Salivation. Bleeding of gums. Painful pimples on the sides of the
tongue. Tongue clean, red and wet with center furrow. Teeth become
loose; gums soft and spongy. Ulcers in soft palate, with sharp,
splinter-like pains. Salivation and fetor oris. Bloody
saliva. | ||
| Throat. Dry.
Pain into ears. Hawks mucus constantly. White patches and sharp points,
as from splinters, on swallowing. | ||
| Stomach. 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. Loves fat and
salt. [Sulph.] | ||
| Abdomen. Great
straining, but little passes. Rectum feels torn. Bowels constipated, with
fissures in rectum. Tearing pains during stools. Violent cutting pains
after stools, lasting for hours. Hemorrhages from bowels, profuse,
bright. Prolapsus ani. Hemorrhoids bleed easily. Diarrhea, slimy and
offensive. After stools, irritable and exhausted. Colic relieved from
tightening clothes. Jaundice, aching in liver. | ||
| Urine. Scanty,
dark, offensive. Smells like horse's urine. Cold on passing.
Burning and stinging. Urine bloody and albuminous. Alternation of cloudy,
phosphatic urine with profuse urinary secretion in old prostatic
cases. | ||
| Male. Soreness
and burning in glans and beneath prepuce. Ulcers; burn and sting; exude,
offensive matter. | ||
| Female.
External parts sore, with ulcers. [Hep.; Merc.; Thuj.] Leucorrhea brown,
flesh colored, watery, or stringy, offensive. Hair on genitals falls out.
[Nat-m.; Zinc.] Uterine
hemorrhages. Menses early, profuse, like muddy water. With pain in back,
hips and thighs. Stitches through vagina. Metrorrhagia after
parturition. | ||
| Respiratory.
Hoarseness. Aphonia, with dry hacking cough, from tickling in larynx and
pit of stomach. Soreness at lower end of sternum. Short breath on going
upstairs. [Ars.; Calc.]
Cough during sleep. [Cham.] | ||
| Extremities.
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. | ||
| Skin. 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. | ||
| Modalities.
Worse, evening and night, cold climate, and also hot weather.
Better, while riding in carriage. [Reverse: Cocc.] | ||
| Relationship.
Complementary: Ars.; Sep. Inimical: Lach. Compare: Merc.; Kali-c.; Thuj.; Hep.; Calc. | ||
| Dose. Sixth
potency. As the Nitric acid patient begins to improve skin symptoms may
appear for a time, a favorable indication. |