====== ACETICUM ACIDUM ====== {{anchor:s1}}Aceticum Acidum. ====== Acetic Acid. C4H3O3. ====== {{anchor:s4}}Should be procured from trustworthy chemists; vinegar from the shops is generally adulterated. {{anchor:s5}}Introduced by C. Hg. See Jahr's Manual, p. 19, published in Allentown, 1838. {{anchor:s6}}Toxicological symptoms have been collected from several authors; really proved only by Berridge. {{anchor:s7}}Inflammation of bowels in dentition, Guernsey, MSS. ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s9}}Intellect clouded, can hardly express herself.\\ {{anchor:s10}}Confusion of ideas. {{anchor:s11}}~ Headache.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Fancies he has an ulcer in his stomach.\\ {{anchor:s13}}Does not recollect what has happened; knows no one, not even her own children.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Horrible attacks of anxiety with difficult breathing. {{anchor:s15}}~ Liver complaint.\\ {{anchor:s16}}Anxiety; grieves about his sickness and his children.\\ {{anchor:s17}}Apparently alarmed at everybody and everything about her (poisoning).\\ {{anchor:s18}}Irritable, with abdominal complaints.\\ {{anchor:s19}}Greatest irritability. {{anchor:s20}}~ Headache. {{anchor:s21}}~ Liver complaint.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Worse from any nervous excitement. {{anchor:s23}}~ Headache.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Dull and low-spirited.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Delirium: with distended belly and obstinate constipation, or with rumbling in bowels, bellyache and diarrhea; alternately with stupor. {{anchor:s26}}~ Typhus. ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== {{anchor:s28}}Vertigo, with feebleness and fainting.\\ {{anchor:s29}}Giddy, dull aching in forehead and top of head.\\ {{anchor:s30}}Giddiness, symptoms of cerebral congestion. {{anchor:s31}}~ Headache.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Blood rushes to head, with delirium.\\ {{anchor:s33}}Appears as if drunk, with heavy head.\\ {{anchor:s34}}Stupor only interrupted by delirious talking. {{anchor:s35}}~ Typhus.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Falls to ground insensible; foaming at mouth.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Faints. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s39}}Dull pains in forehead and vertex; giddiness.\\ {{anchor:s40}}Heaviness of head, with sense of drunkenness.\\ {{anchor:s41}}Confused dull aching over frontal region. {{anchor:s42}}~ Nervous cephalalgia.\\ {{anchor:s43}}Shooting through temples.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Nervous headache, caused by abuse of narcotic stimulants or by chronic gastric irritation.\\ {{anchor:s45}}Headache from abuse of tobacco, opium, coffee or alcohol. ====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ====== {{anchor:s47}}Dull aching on frontal protuberance; later on left.\\ {{anchor:s48}}Distension of temporal blood-vessels, increased heat of head.\\ {{anchor:s49}}Blood-vessels on temples distended.\\ {{anchor:s50}}Red patches on scalp, crusts between hair.\\ {{anchor:s51}}Hair bristles.\\ {{anchor:s52}}Child does not want its head touched. {{anchor:s53}}~ Inflammation of bowels in dentition. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s55}}Weak sight. {{anchor:s56}}~ Liver complaint.\\ {{anchor:s57}}Dilated pupils.\\ {{anchor:s58}}Protruding eyeballs.\\ {{anchor:s59}}Conjunctiva inflamed, accompanied by sour stomach.\\ {{anchor:s60}}Flow of tears. ====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ====== {{anchor:s62}}Nosebleed, especially from a fall or blow.\\ {{anchor:s63}}Liable to frequent catarrhal attacks. ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== {{anchor:s65}}Expression wild, pupils dilated.\\ {{anchor:s66}}Face pale, waxen, emaciated. {{anchor:s67}}~ Dropsy.\\ {{anchor:s68}}One cheek red, the other pale. {{anchor:s69}}~ Inflammation of bowels in dentition.\\ {{anchor:s70}}Eyes sunken and surrounded by dark rings.\\ {{anchor:s71}}Left cheek bright red with fever. {{anchor:s72}}~ Croup.\\ {{anchor:s73}}Sweat on forehead in spots. ====== LOWER FACE. [9] ====== {{anchor:s75}}Lips: become of a deep purple tint; peel off in flakes.\\ {{anchor:s76}}Aching in upper part of joint of jaw; agg. from pressure and motion. ====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ====== {{anchor:s78}}Scorbutic ulcers ; toothache. ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== {{anchor:s80}}Taste sour.\\ {{anchor:s81}}Pain across root of tongue impedes speech and motion of jaw.\\ {{anchor:s82}}Tongue: pale and flabby, with diminished appetite and no thirst; dry and cold; red, sore and burning; livid, swollen, protruding.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Glands under tongue and lower jaw swollen, sore to touch. ====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ====== {{anchor:s85}}Foul breath.\\ {{anchor:s86}}Buccal membrane whitish, like aptha.\\ {{anchor:s87}}Salivation.\\ {{anchor:s88}}White gums. ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== {{anchor:s90}}Children thirsty, but swallow with some difficulty, even a teaspoonful of water. {{anchor:s91}}~ Croup.\\ {{anchor:s92}}Has to eat very slowly, difficult swallowing.\\ {{anchor:s93}}Throat inflamed, ulcerated.\\ {{anchor:s94}}A white film low down in fauces. {{anchor:s95}}~ Croup.\\ {{anchor:s96}}False membranes in throat. ====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ====== {{anchor:s99}}Loss of appetite.\\ {{anchor:s100}}Greatest burning thirst, insatiable even by taking large quantities.\\ {{anchor:s101}}Intense thirst. {{anchor:s102}}~ Diabetes. {{anchor:s103}}~ Dropsy. {{anchor:s104}}~ Chronic diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s105}}Thirsty with dry lips, which peel off in flakes. {{anchor:s106}}~ Inflammation of bowels in dentition.\\ {{anchor:s107}}No thirst with fever. {{anchor:s108}}~ Croup.\\ {{anchor:s109}}Disgust for salted things and cold victuals. ====== EATING AND DRINKING. [15] ====== {{anchor:s111}}After a meal: vomiting.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Bread and butter disagree.\\ {{anchor:s113}}Vomits after every kind of food. {{anchor:s114}}~ Liver complaint.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Cannot drink anything cold, it lies like a load in stomach. ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== {{anchor:s117}}Hiccough and fetid belching.\\ {{anchor:s118}}Belching amel. pain in abdomen. {{anchor:s119}}~ Inflammation of bowels in dentition.\\ {{anchor:s120}}Hot eructations, heat in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s121}}Nausea and sweat; retching with anxiety; sour risings.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Towards 12 P. M. very sick; vomits a thick gruelly substance with great relief.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Vomiting: after every meal; of blood; like yeast. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s125}}Great pain in scrobiculum; cannot bear slightest pressure.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Contents of stomach feel as if in a ferment.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Violent burning pain in stomach and chest, followed by coldness of skin and cold sweat on forehead.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Heat with colicky uneasiness, as if diarrhea would follow.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Ulcerative gnawing at a single spot in stomach. {{anchor:s130}}~ Cancer.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Hypertrophy of walls of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Local indurations in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Scirrhus of pylorus. ====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ====== {{anchor:s135}}Violent local pains. {{anchor:s136}}~ Liver complaint. ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s138}}Pain in abdomen and rumbling in gastric region.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Bellyache, rumbling, diarrhea, delirium. {{anchor:s140}}~ Typhus.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Severe burning in intestines; plethora abdominalis.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Abdomen distended and sensitive to touch. {{anchor:s143}}~ Inflammation of bowels in dentition.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Abdomen distended, with costiveness. {{anchor:s145}}~ Typhus.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Tympany, with difficult breathing.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Ascites, with violent orthopnea. {{anchor:s148}}Compare dropsy, 44.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Incarcerated hernia (clysmata).\\ {{anchor:s150}}Abdomen sore to touch.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Abdomen feels as if sunken in when lying on back. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s153}}Liquid stools with pain.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Passages green and slimy come with an explosion of odorless wind. {{anchor:s155}}~ Inflammation of bowels in dentition.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Diarrhea: with swelling of legs and feet (phthisis); in later stages of abdominal typhus; chronic with thirst (ascites); more in morning; profuse, very weakening (fifteen passages) on seventeenth day (typhus).\\ {{anchor:s157}}Costiveness, with tympanitis and stupor; chronic constipation.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Profuse hemorrhoidal bleeding.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Hemorrhage from bowels, after checked metrorrhagia.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Ascarides. ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s162}}Urine: increased and light-colored; acid, with increased sweat; cloudy, with phosphatic deposits.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Diabetes. ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== {{anchor:s165}}Very weakening nightly emissions.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Semen passes at stool.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Male parts flush and sweat. ====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ====== {{anchor:s169}}Metrorrhagia. ====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ====== {{anchor:s173}}During pregnancy, sour belching and vomiting, with profuse water-brash and salivation, day and night.\\ {{anchor:s174}}After labor, hemorrhages (outward application of vinegar).\\ {{anchor:s175}}Breasts greatly and painfully distended with milk.\\ {{anchor:s176}}Mammary abscesses threatening.\\ {{anchor:s177}}Milk impoverished, bluish, transparent, strong sour taste and odor; deficient in caseine and butter.\\ {{anchor:s178}}Sucklings droop, loose flesh. {{anchor:s179}}~ Marasmus. ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== {{anchor:s182}}Hoarse, with laryngeal irritation.\\ {{anchor:s183}}Hissing respiration, with rattling in throat. {{anchor:s184}}~ Membranous croup (10 drops to a tumbler of sweetened water, a teaspoonful every hour or two). ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== {{anchor:s186}}Breathing: difficult from laryngeal obstruction; hissing in croup ; hurried and laborious ; loses breath on going up stairs; labored when lying on back.\\ {{anchor:s187}}Difficult breathing, with attacks of anxiety. {{anchor:s188}}~ Liver complaint.\\ {{anchor:s189}}Must often take a deep breath, which relieves.\\ {{anchor:s190}}Heaviness, with sense of oppression. ====== COUGH. [27] ====== {{anchor:s192}}Cough: croupy; a hollow sound with inhalation; dry, with oppression, later moist with fever, greater dyspnea, emaciation, diarrhea, night sweats, edema of feet and legs; titillating, with much purulent sputum; hectic fever; attacks in evening with coldness; at night, heat, dry skin and delirium.\\ {{anchor:s193}}Haemoptysis; coughs blood. ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== {{anchor:s195}}Violent pain and sensation of burning in region of chest and stomach.\\ {{anchor:s196}}Lungs beginning to fill with tubercles.\\ {{anchor:s197}}Chronic bronchitis; phthisis.\\ {{anchor:s198}}Hydrothorax.\\ {{anchor:s199}}Rattling of phlegm in chest. {{anchor:s200}}~ Inflammation of bowels in dentition.\\ {{anchor:s201}}Many complaints, apparently overcome by Borax, reappear after use of Acet. ac., especially shooting in chest. ====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ====== {{anchor:s203}}Angina pectoris.\\ {{anchor:s204}}Heart beats: more frequent; cannot be felt by hand.\\ {{anchor:s205}}Pulse: 96 and full (poisoning); accelerated and small, contracted; weak and small. ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s207}}Sensation of lameness in wrists and hands.\\ {{anchor:s208}}Coldness and pricking of hands.\\ {{anchor:s209}}Skin on hands dry. {{anchor:s210}}~ Inflammation of bowels in dentition.\\ {{anchor:s211}}Restlessness of hands in sleep. {{anchor:s212}}~ Inflammation of bowels in dentition. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s214}}Weak and weary.\\ {{anchor:s215}}Lessened sensibility.\\ {{anchor:s216}}Edematous swelling, with diarrhea. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s220}}Cannot remain long in same position. {{anchor:s221}}~ Inflammation of bowels in dentition.\\ {{anchor:s222}}Child wants to be carried. {{anchor:s223}}~ Inflammation of bowels in dentition.\\ {{anchor:s224}}Springs from bed; crawls on ground from pain.\\ {{anchor:s225}}Lying on back: cannot sleep; labored breathing; abdomen feels sunken.\\ {{anchor:s226}}Lying on belly: rests amel. during sleep.\\ {{anchor:s227}}Ascending stairs: loses breath.\\ {{anchor:s228}}Motion: aching in jaw agg.; of jaw impeded by pain across root of tongue. ====== NERVES. [36] ====== {{anchor:s230}}Great prostration after injuries; shock.\\ {{anchor:s231}}Great debility. {{anchor:s232}}~ Chronic diarrhea, diabetes, etc.\\ {{anchor:s233}}Prostration and lameness.\\ {{anchor:s234}}Paralyzed and giddy.\\ {{anchor:s235}}Trembling from head to foot (poisoning).\\ {{anchor:s236}}Apparent death.\\ {{anchor:s237}}Spasms: with insensibility; with great debility; hysterical.\\ {{anchor:s238}}Springs out of bed, crawls on ground howling with pain.\\ {{anchor:s239}}(OBS:) Hydrophobia. ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== {{anchor:s241}}Cannot sleep lying on his back; feels as if abdomen was sinking in, causing labored breathing; rests amel. lying on belly.\\ {{anchor:s242}}Sleep broken without known cause.\\ {{anchor:s243}}Cannot fall asleep because of distress and agony.\\ {{anchor:s244}}Sleepless, with other sufferings.\\ {{anchor:s245}}Sleeplessness. {{anchor:s246}}~ Liver complaint. ====== TIME. [38] ====== {{anchor:s248}}Night: heat, dry skin, delirium; emissions; sweating.\\ {{anchor:s249}}Day and night: stomach symptoms during pregnancy.\\ {{anchor:s250}}Morning: diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s251}}Evening: cough.\\ {{anchor:s252}}Toward midnight: vomiting. ====== FEVER. [40] ====== {{anchor:s254}}Skin cold; bodily warmth decreased.\\ {{anchor:s255}}Flushes of heat more in outer parts, increasing sweat.\\ {{anchor:s256}}Febrile heat, with a dry, hot skin: in bilious, putrid and typhoid fevers; inflammation of bowels in dentition.\\ {{anchor:s257}}Profuse sweating ; night-sweats.\\ {{anchor:s258}}Typhus with delirium.\\ {{anchor:s259}}Hectic fevers, with cough, dyspnea, diarrhea, night-sweats, edema and emaciation.\\ {{anchor:s260}}Inflammatory fever.\\ {{anchor:s261}}Slow fever, with night-sweats. ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== {{anchor:s263}}Severe paroxysmal headache.\\ {{anchor:s264}}Lethargic paroxysms.\\ {{anchor:s265}}Hysteric paroxysms.\\ {{anchor:s266}}Frequent catarrhal attacks. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s268}}Right then left: dull aching in frontal protuberances.\\ {{anchor:s269}}Left: cheek bright red in fever; aching in upper joint of jaw.\\ {{anchor:s270}}In spots: sweat on forehead. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s272}}As if drunk with heavy head; like a load in stomach after cold drinks; as if contents of stomach were in a ferment; abdomen feels as if sunken in.\\ {{anchor:s273}}Shooting: through temples.\\ {{anchor:s274}}Pricking: of hands.\\ {{anchor:s275}}Burning: of tongue; with thirst; in stomach; in chest; in inner and outer parts; of skin.\\ {{anchor:s276}}Gnawing: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s277}}Aching: in forehead and top of head; in upper part of joint of left jaw.\\ {{anchor:s278}}Pain: across root of tongue: in scrobiculum; in liver; in abdomen; with liquid stools; in chest.\\ {{anchor:s279}}Lameness: in wrists and hands.\\ {{anchor:s280}}Heat: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s281}}Coldness: of skin; of hands. ====== TISSUES. [44] ====== {{anchor:s283}}Ebullitions.\\ {{anchor:s284}}Hemorrhages from nose, lungs, stomach, bowels, uterus; also passive hemorrhages.\\ {{anchor:s285}}Blood coagulated in veins.\\ {{anchor:s286}}Blood-vessels contracted.\\ {{anchor:s287}}Varicose swellings.\\ {{anchor:s288}}Chlorosis; anemia; wasting away; great emaciation.\\ {{anchor:s289}}Prevents corpulency, but may superinduce fatal marasmus.\\ {{anchor:s290}}Dissolves cancer cells.\\ {{anchor:s291}}Separates sequestrum from new bone.\\ {{anchor:s292}}Scurvy.\\ {{anchor:s293}}Dropsy of abdomen and legs; anasarca; great thirst; pale, waxen skin.\\ {{anchor:s294}}Changes gangrenous ulcers; hospital gangrene; prevents decomposition of animal matter. ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== {{anchor:s298}}Touch: soreness of glands on lower jaw; soreness of abdomen; head sensitive.\\ {{anchor:s299}}Pressure: aching in jaw agg.; pain in scrobiculum agg.\\ {{anchor:s300}}Diminished sensibility over whole surface of body.\\ {{anchor:s301}}Burns and scalds.\\ {{anchor:s302}}Sting of wasps or other insects.\\ {{anchor:s303}}After bite of a mad cat, lacerated wound, upper and lower leg swollen (externally and internally).\\ {{anchor:s304}}Sugillations.\\ {{anchor:s305}}Bruises or sprains, if dry heat follows.\\ {{anchor:s306}}Fall or blow: nosebleed. ====== SKIN. [46] ====== {{anchor:s308}}Burning dry skin. {{anchor:s309}}~ Inflammation of bowels in dentition.\\ {{anchor:s310}}Tetter-like eruptions.\\ {{anchor:s311}}Diseased cuticle separates in flakes.\\ {{anchor:s312}}Skin pale and waxen.\\ {{anchor:s313}}Broad, flat condylomata, dry or moist.\\ {{anchor:s314}}Nevi, warts, corns.\\ {{anchor:s315}}Dropsy after scarlet fever.\\ {{anchor:s316}}(OBS:) Scarlet fever and smallpox.\\ {{anchor:s317}}Morbus maculosus Werlhofii. ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== {{anchor:s319}}Injurious to children and the aged.\\ {{anchor:s320}}Lax, pale, lean persons.\\ {{anchor:s321}}A boy, aet. 14 mos.; inflammation of bowels in dentition.\\ {{anchor:s322}}A boy, aet. 2; typhus. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s324}}Antidotes to Acet. ac.; large doses are best counteracted by Magnesia or Calcarea, according to bodily peculiarities of sick; fluid magnesia or lime-water, a teaspoonful in a cup of water taken in sips. {{anchor:s325}}Higher preparations: for depressing, agonizing feeling: Tabac., if insufficient, Acon.; for gastric, pulmonary and febrile symptoms: Natr. mur., may be followed by Sepia.\\ {{anchor:s326}}Acet. ac. is an antidote to all anesthetic vapors; a finger dipped in vinegar, rubbed within the lips, antidotes fumes of charcoal; further, to Acon., Asar., Coffea, Euphorb., Hepar, Ignat., Opium, Plumbum (colic), Sepia, Stramon., Tabac., Tongo and Alcohol.\\ {{anchor:s327}}May be given in cases of sausage poisoning.\\ {{anchor:s328}}It follows well after Cinchon., in hemorrhages.\\ {{anchor:s329}}The sick have an aversion to it in poisonings with Agar. emet.\\ {{anchor:s330}}Unpleasant symptoms of Bellad. are aggravated by it; headache from Bellad. became unbearable.\\ {{anchor:s331}}It aggravates symptoms of Arnica., Laches. and Mercur.\\ {{anchor:s332}}Disagrees when given after Borax, Caustic., Nux vom., Ran. bulb, and Sarsap.\\ {{anchor:s333}}Scilla, Colchicum. and Sanguin. have had more effect in curing some diseases when prepared in Acet. ac. than with alcohol.\\ {{anchor:s334}}What had disappeared after Borax returned after its use.\\ {{anchor:s335}}Has been used after Digit. in dropsy. ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 01, 1879 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r341|Aceticum acidum]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r341|Aceticum acidum]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C. | ^ Year: | 1879 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}