Acetic Acid


Acetic Acid homeopathy medicine, complete details of homeopathic remedy Acetic Acid. from Keynotes and Characteristics by H C Allen…


Acetic Acid adapted to pale lean persons with lax, flabby muscles; face pale, waxy (Ferrum). Haemorrhage; from every mucous outlet, nose, throat, lungs, stomach, bowels, uterus (Ferrum, Millefolium); metrorrhagia; vicarious; traumatic epistaxis (Arnica). Acetic Acid has Marasmus and other wasting diseases of children (Abrotanum, Iodium, Sanicula, Tuberculinum). Great prostration; after injuries (Acid Sulphuricum); after surgical shock; after anaesthetics. Thirst; intense, burning, insatiable even for large quantities in dropsy, diabetes, chronic diarrhoea; but no thirst in fever. Acetic Acid has Sour belching and vomiting of pregnancy, burning water-brash and profuse salivation, day and night (Acid Lacticum, salivation < at night, Mercurius s.). Diarrhoea; copious, exhausting, great thirst; in dropsy, typhus, phthisis; with night sweats. True croup, hissing respiration, cough with inhalation (Spongia); last stages. Inhalation of vapor of cider vinegar has been successfully used in croup and malignant diphtheria. Cannot sleep lying on the back (sleeps better on back, Arsenicum); sensation of sinking in abdomen causing dyspnoea; rests better lying on belly (Ammonium carb.). Hectic fever, skin dry and hot; red spot on left cheek and drenching night sweats.

Acetic Acid Relationship. It antidotes anaesthetic vapors (Amyl.); fumes of charcoal and gas; Opium and Stramonium. Cider vinegar antidotes Carbolic acid. Follows well; after Cinchona, in haemorrhage; after Digitalis, in dropsy. It aggravates; the symptoms of Arnica, Belladonna, Lachesis, Mercurius, especially the headache from Belladonna.

H. C. Allen
Dr. Henry C. Allen, M. D. - Born in Middlesex county, Ont., Oct. 2, 1836. He was Professor of Materia Medica and the Institutes of Medicine and Dean of the faculty of Hahnemann Medical College. He served as editor and publisher of the Medical Advance. He also authored Keynotes of Leading Remedies, Materia Medica of the Nosodes, Therapeutics of Fevers and Therapeutics of Intermittent Fever.