Muriaticum Acidum


Muriaticum Acidum signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Muriaticum Acidum is used…


      Hydrochloric acid. HCL. First dilutions with distilled water.

Clinical

Anus, prolapse of. Chilblains, Chorea. Deafness (cerebral). Diphtheria. Enteric fever. Ephelis. Feet., soles, pains in. Gastric disorders. Haemorrhoids. Hemiopia. Impotence. Measles. Mercurial ulceration, Mouth, aphthae, psoriasis of tongue, ulcers, Scarlatina. Scurvy. Tendo Achillis, affections of. Tongue, affections of, psoriasis of. Typhus. Varices. Whooping-cough.

Characteristics

The popular name of Mur. ac, “Spirit if Salt,” describes at once its nature and origin. It is a colourless gas, with a pungent, suffocating odour, and acid, taste, and it is manufactured from Salt (Natrum mur.) by the action of sulphuric acid. It is freely soluble in water, and the saturated solution contains 43 per cent. of the gas. Teste, who did much to define the powers of Mur-ac., groups with it Agn. cast, and Hyoscyamus, and he considers its action corresponds perfectly to a typical case of typhus. Among the common features of the group he gives, Stupefying headache. Obscuration of sight and optical illusions. Whizzing noises in the ears and hardness of hearing. Nose-bleed and loss of smell. Rough, cracked lips, and foul breath. Scurvy of mouth. Paralysis of tongue. Loss of taste. Distended, sensitive abdomen, pricking, bruised pain in abdominal walls, Serous, fetid diarrhoea, not very painful. Involuntary stool. Throat pains. Paralysis of bladder. Excited sexual desire. Impotence. Hoarseness, spasmodic cough. Stitches about heart. Fever with stinging heat, frequent, small, intermittent pulse, earthy or livid skin. Like nitricum acidum, Mur-ac. is a powerful antidote to Mercurius, and it meets conditions caused by Mercury, and also similar conditions otherwise arising. Like other disinfectants, it causes as well as remedies rapid decomposition of tissue, and dynamically cures low putrid conditions met with in disease. The distinctive features of Mur-ac. are, Muscular prostration from blood-poisoning going on to paralysis, finally of brain or heart. Burning is a great feature in its symptomatology, as its escharotic powers might suggest _ ulcers (especially their margins), eruptions, piles, varices, stomach, and abdomen. It sours the excretions and makes them acrid. Offensive secretions, offensive breath and body-smell, and it is indicated in fevers of all kinds, exanthematous, typhoid, puerperal as well as diphtheria, when these symptoms with the mental and paretic state are present. The mucous membranes are dry, bleeding, cracked, and ulcerated. Sordes on teeth. Burning, and burning eruptions on lips. Piles like a bunch of grapes which look purple and burn when touched. Prolapse of rectum, while straining to pass water. Urination involuntary or difficult, there is straining and dribbling, and the straining causes the rectum, to prolapse, it may also cause involuntary stool. This may be due to local conditions, or it may be a consequence of a low state of health. Mur-ac. not only corresponds to low febrile states, it also meets many of their sequel. Deafness, otitis, and glandular swellings about he ears often require Mur-ac. Among the peculiar sensations of the remedy are: Hair, as if drawn Upwards, as if standing on end. Brain: as if loose, beaten or torn to pieces, brain clasped by a hand, and bruised and torn. Occiput as if filled with lead. Mouth as if glued up with insipid mucus. As if some obstruction must be pulled out of throat. Burning as if under skin of coccyx. As if place was jammed in tendo-Achillis. Deadness and numbness in forehead, in fingers. The tongue is shrunken, and paralysed. The parched, shrunken tongue is an indication in typhoid or other fevers. (Mur-ac. has a marked action on the tongue. Cooper cured with it these cases: (I) Man, 52, whose sister had died of cancer, had a hard, deep, warty ulcer, size of a small bean on under surface of tongue, left side, with much surrounding hardness and little discharge. (2) Tongue swollen, makes him talk thick, much ulcerated, especially right side, is hard, with selling followed by lupoid ulcer on corresponding side of nose, had been going on ten months.) Tendency “to slide down to the foot of the bed” was noted by Hahnemann and has been amply confirmed. It indicates an extremely low vital condition. Mur-ac. is suited to persons of black hair and dark eyes. The skin is much affected, and is sensitive to the sun’s rays _ eczema solare and freckles. Black pocks. Blind boils frothy when touched. The symptoms are: worse By touch. The itching of anus and scrotum is not better by scratching. Warmth better, cold washing, cold drinks worse. Cold wind and open air better headache. Better Uncovering (during fever). worse Evening and night. Rest worse most symptoms. Lying on right side worse vertigo. Motion worse vertigo, better tearing pains. Worse After sleep. Worse After eating (diarrhoea). better After drinking.

Relations

*Antidoted by: Carbonates of alkalies and earths (poisoning cases), to small doses: Camph., Bryonia (Teste says the surest antidote is Ipecac.). It *antidotes: Mercurius, Opium. It “cures the muscular weakness following the excessive use of Opium” (Hering). *It follows well: Bryonia, Mercurius Rhus. *Compare: In typhoid state Bryonia (Bryonia has worse motion), Rhus (restlessness, better by motion, Rhus has less debility). Phos-ac. (Phos-ac. has less prostration, is apathetic, indifferent, Mur-ac. taciturn), Apis (Apis has blisters on tongue, and it catches teeth when attempt is made to protrude it), Arsenicum (Arsenicum has *scanty evacuations), Baptisia (Baptisia has besotted look, tongue red on edges), Belladonna(Belladonna more active, hyperaemia), Kali-permang. (throat symptoms, oedematous uvula), Sul-ac. has not better uncovering), Gelsemium (with Gelsemium the muscular prostration is *expressed, with Mur-ac. it is unconscious), Nit ac., (thin, excoriating discharge from nose, intermittent pulse and loss of appetite), Arum tri. Piles during menses, Am-c., Collins., Graphites, Pho., Pul., Sul. Piles sensitive, Belladonna, Causticum Early morning hunger, Ant c., Calcarea, Saba., Lycopodium Cannot bear the thought or sight of meat, nitricum acidum Irritable, disposed to anger and chagrin, Nux-v., Cracked lips, sore mouth, worse after sleep, Natrum mur., coryza, Chlorum. Tendo- Achillis, affection of, Val, Mur, ac. is a constituent of the gastric juice, and must therefore be considered as allied to the Sarcodes and. proximate principles of the tissues, e.g., Cholesterine.

Causation

Sun.

SYMPTOMS.

Mind

Sadness. Taciturnity and reserve, anxiety, apprehension and peevishness. Indecision and inquietude. Ideas respecting recent events crowd upon the mind during labour. Disposition to be angry and to give way to passion. Unconsciousness.

Head

Turning vertigo, worse moving eyes, with staggering gait. Headache provoked by walking in open air, and especially by a sharp wind. Headache, worse by rising up in bed, and by moving the eyes ( better by moving the body), disappearing on taking exercise. Heaviness, especially in occiput, with cloudiness of eyes, greatly worse by looking intently at an object. Jerking, beating, tearing from left half of occiput to forehead, soon same on right _ (Pressure on vertex, dimness of sight, faint feeling coming irregularly, sickish after meals, bad taste and fatigue on waking, thinks some one is walking behind, and cannot stir out alone.) _ Heavy feeling in occiput, with drawing stitches, worse right side close to nape, with swollen gland tender to touch, intoxicated feeling at same time. Headache as if brain were bruised, torn, or demolished. Feeling as if brain were loose. Tearing and stitches in head, coming on in periodical shocks. Feeling of falling asleep and deadness. Tearing in right parietal bone. Shocks, tearings, or shootings in head.

Eyes

Itching smarting in canthi. Itching in eyes. Stitches out of eyes. Shootings across eyes. Swelling and redness of eyelids. Vertical hemiopia. (Neuralgia over left eye, hemiopia and double vision, which is always followed by headache, numbness down, right arm and aphasia. (R.T.C.).

Ears

Otalgia (with pressive pain), like spasmodic and acute pullings. Pulsation in ears. Insensibility of auditory tube. Scabious eruptions in ears. Hardness of hearing and deafness. Acuteness of hearing, with sensibility to noise. Ticking of watch is heard better than the voice (cerebral deafness). Tinkling, buzzing, and whistling before the ears.

Nose

Ulceration of nostrils, _ Sore nostrils with stinging pain. Obstruction of nose. Coryza, with thick yellow, or serous and corrosive mucus. Continuous bleeding from nose. Coryza, with itching, tickling, and sneezing.

Face

Heat in face, with burning redness of cheeks, when walking in open air, without thirst. Ephelis. Eruption of scabious pimples on face, forehead, and temples, whole face red, every summer. Furuncles on temple. Burning in lips. Puffiness of lower lip, it feels heavy and burns. Eruptions on lips, sometimes covered with scabs.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica