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Adapted to pale lean persons with lax, flabby muscles; face pale,
waxy (Fer.). Haemorrhage; from every mucous outlet, nose, throat,
lungs, stomach, bowels, uterus (Fer., Mill.); metrorrhagia; vicarious;
traumatic epistaxis (Arn.). Marasmus and other wasting diseases
of children (Abrot., Iod., Sanic., Tub.). Great prostration; after
injuries (Sulph. ac.); after surgical shock; after anaesthetics.
Thirst; intense, burning, insatiable even for large quantities in
dropsy, diabetes, chronic diarrhoea; but no thirst in fever. Sour
belching and vomiting of pregnancy, burning water-brash and profuse
salivation, day and night (Lac. ac., salivation < at night, Mer.
s.). Diarrhoea; copious, exhausting, great thirst; in dropsy, typhus,
phthisis; with night sweats. True croup, hissing respiration, cough
with inhalation (Spong.); 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, Ars.); sensation
of sinking in abdomen causing dyspnoea; rests better lying on belly
(Am. c.). Hectic fever, skin dry and hot; red spot on left cheek
and drenching night sweats.
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 Arn., Bell.,
Lach., Mer., especially the headache from Belladonna.
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