Homeopathy Remedy Acetic Acid


Acetic Acid homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Acetic Acid…


      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.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.