For use, prepare dilutions with distilled water.
General Action
This acid produces directly gastro enteritis and also (in one case, at least) membranous laryngo-tracheitis. Its remote effects are a profound anaemia, with diarrhoea, night-sweats, feeble pulse, emaciation and cough.
Generalities
Emaciation. Attacks of faintness. General oppression and heaviness. Weakness. General trembling. (Convulsions, with insensibility.)
Mind
Irritability. Nervousness. Anxiety. Alarm. Excitement. Delirium Confusion. Inertia. Unconsciousness.
Head
Vertigo. Heaviness. Dull pain in forehead and vertex. Dull aching in r. frontal eminence. then in l. In the temples distention of blood vessels Shooting P. through temples.
Eyes
Sunken, surrounded by dark circles. Pupils dilated. Lachrymation.
Face
Red, hot and perspiring, with flushed cheeks. Pale waxy. Expression wild.
Mouth and Stomach
Salivation. Tongue pale and flabby; dry and cold. Thirst. Eructations, hot. Loss of appetite; aversion to cold food; to salt food. Nausea;; vomiting; vomiting after eating. In the stomach, pain, burning, gnawing, ulcerative. Heat. Soreness. Fermentation with distress. Cold drinks cause distress. Soreness in one spot as from an ulcer, with gnawing; with agony and vomiting of thick, yellow matter, like yeast. Epigastrium painful to pressure.
Abdomen
Burning pain. Distention. Griping. Rumbling. Feeling as if it would sink in, which caused dyspnoea. Relief by lying on abdomen.
Stools
Watery, with colic. Bloody.
Urine
Increased and light-colored.
Mother’s Milk
impoverished, bluish, deficient in caseine and butter; the child drooped, had diarrhoea, and died of marasmus; the mother was pale, emaciated, and had chronic hemorrhages.
Respiratory Organs
Voice lost. Croup, with hissing respiration, rattling, formation of false membrane in windpipe. Cough dry, then moist, with fever; dyspnoea, emaciation, oedema and diarrhoea. Respiration difficult, feeble, hurried.
Chest
Burning pain. (Chronic inflammation.)
Pulse
Rapid, small, weak.
Extremities
Weak. Wrist and hand feel paralyzed. Hands cold, prickling dry. OEdema of lower extremities. Diminished sensibility of feet.
Skin
Pale and waxy. Red and burning. Desquamation.
Fever
Temperature diminished, with cold feet. Flushes of heat, with perspiration. Hectic, emaciation, diarrhoea, night-sweats, dyspnoea, and swelling of lower extremities. Low fever, with delirium, diarrhoea, tympanitis, constipation; also with stupor. Sweats profuse, cold, nocturnal.
Clinical General anaemia, with a waxy skin, anasarca, emaciation and sweats. Delirium in low fever, with profuse sweats and diarrhoea. Membranous croup, with bright-red face and perspiration. It should be given in anaemia of nursing women. (See above.