Acidums allgemein Anhang

 

[Dr RD Jain & Dr Smita Trivedi]

Reducing agent (Organic acids: Mur-ac.); Organic acids have sycotic and tubercular miasm.

            Oxidising agent (Mineral acids).

 

Pathogenesis:

    Irritant, cathartic action. Inflammation, infection with severe pain leading to ulceration and painless condition (gangrene)

    Toxaemia, septicemia, ulceration and malignancy.

    Allergy, hypovolumic shock.

    Blood: Anemia, Leukemia, hemolytic jaundice. Metabolic acidosis.

    Slow, progressive metabolic disorders.

    Burning, bleeding, cracks, fissures, fistula.

    Fever-all types.

Constitution: Anaemic, pale, thin, bald, loss of hair. Chilly person.

Tongue: Thin, cracked, ulcerated, burning pricking sensation, blackish, brownish coating, malignancy. Sour, metallic putrid taste.

Discharges: Acrid, Corrosive, offensive, putrid, burning, haemorrhagic.

 

Acids

Introduction: An acid may be defined as a substance that can provide H+ (Proton donor). A base is a substance that can accept H+ (Proton acceptor).

Acid < = = = = = > Base + H+ (Hydrogen) ion.

 

Common Medicines of Acid Group:

Inorganic acids: Bromic-acid, Chromic-acid, Fl-ac. Hydr-ac. Mur-ac. Nit-ac. Sul-ac. Ph-ac.

Organic acids: Acet-ac. Acetyl-acetic-acid (= Aspirin), Anthranillic-acid, Benz-ac. Carb-ac. (= Phenol), Cinnamic-acid, Cit-ac. Form-ac. Lac-ac. Ox-ac. Phthalic-acid,

Pic-ac. Sal-ac. Suc-ac. Sulphanilic-acid, Ur-ac. Tart-ac.

 

Common Indications:

Ailments from: Surgical shock, injury, bad effects of bites and stings, after anaesthesia, abuse of narcotics, occupational hazards, infection-bacterial, viral etc.

Direction of action:

Mineral acids have centrifugal as well as centripetal actions. Sever acute infections and during generalized toxic conditions. During chronic disease where acidic

organ and acidic tissue are involved, mineral acids are used.

Organic acids: have centripetal as well as centrifugal action. Chronic disease. Used to antidote bad effects of increased secretion of acidic organs and tissues

where excretory organs are damaged.

Miasm:

Mineral acids cover all the miasm, more of syphilitic misam.

Constitution: Person belonging to acid group has thin, weak broken down constitution. They look pale and anaemic. Hair loss and baldness.

Pain and inflammation:

All mineral acids have inflammation leading to ulceration, gangrene or toxaemia. In initial stage of inflammation there is severe pain which remains for hours (Nit-ac.)

Advanced stage of disease is painless (Mur-ac.)

In the organic acid, lower molecular weight aliphatic acid like Ox-ac. and Acet-ac. have more pain and less inflammation.

Higher molecular weight aromatic acids like phenolic and sulphanilic-acid, have less or no pain.

 

Sphere of action:

Mineral acids have action on acidic secretions and acidic organs, hard tissues.

Organic acids have action on muscles, tendons, connective tissues, endocrine organs, soft tissues, etc.

CNS: Paralysis, sclerosis, brain fag, convulsion, etc. (Respiratory paralysis-Acid-hydrocyanic, Brain fag-Acid-picric. Multiple sclerosis-Acid-oxalic).

Used in Malignancy of Cervix: Fl-ac. Nit-ac.

Osteo-sarcoma: Fl-ac. But-ac. Acet-ac.

GIT: Hyperacidity, irritable bowel movement, ulceration.

    RS: Asthma, eosinophilia, malignancy. Nasal Polyp and adrenoid: Acid-chromic.

    CVS: Hypovolumic shock, angina

    GUT: Stone, glycosuria, albuminuria; diabetes mellitus and insipidus. Calculi, Oxaluria: Ox-ac.

    Extremities: Varicose vein and varicose ulcers; Rheumatic pain - burning, pricking needle like.

    Gout and Rheuma: Benz-ac. Carb-ac.

    Bone: caries, necrosis;

    Blood: Anaemia, leukaemia, haemolytic jaundice.

    Teeth: erosion of enamel. Sensitive to touch, biting, chewing, cold.

    Skin: Inflammation and ulceration, Sepsis   

Sensory organs: Hypersensitive and acrid discharge.

 

Depth of Action: All acids are very deep acting, they act up to pathological changes.

Mineral acids are deeper acting than organic acids.

            Tongue, Taste and Discharge: Tongue: thin, burning, cracked, ulcerated, blackish and brownish coated. Malignancy. Taste: - sour, metallic, putrid.

                Discharges: acrid, excoriating, offensive, burning and haemorrhagic. (Dark offensive: Benz-ac.

Offensive breath: Carb-ac.

Offensive discharge from throat: Acet-ac.

Offensive Urine: Nit-ac. Benz-ac.)

All acids decrease acid secretions of body and by rebound phenomena increase alkaline secretions and produce profuse salivation.

pH reaction: All have acidic pH except Carb-ac. and Ur-ac. which is neutral in reaction.

Mineral acids are more acidic than organic acid.

Thermal modality: All are chilly except Fl-ac. and Pic-ac. Even when close to fire, person feels chilly.

Sensibility and susceptibility (Reactivity): Passive, lack of reaction, susceptibility poor, immune response poor.

    Mineral acids: toxic, sepsis, ulceration and malignancy Organic acids have

        Allergic manifestations, e.g. skin and asthma < summer (Kali- bic.)

        Chronic non healing cases, lingering cases and alternating states of disease.

        Slow progressive metabolic disorder and malignancy.

 

Reversibility and irreversibility:

Mineral acids in acute inflammatory disease, either end in death or recovers.

Organic acids more useful in chronic non-reversible diseases.

Electro-magnetic forces:

Mineral acids affected by electro-magnetic forces (radiation/moon phases/sea/pressure changes/change of weather)

Organic acid are poorly affected or not affected by the electro-magnetic fields.

Food habits: Desires: Acid food, citrus fruits, tamarind, indigestible food like chalk, pencil, mud, paint, egg, meat, etc., but they aggravate.

Aversion: Heavy food, pulses, sweets, oily, fatty food, cheese, icy cold, ice cream etc.

Guiding Indications:

        Burning, extreme weakness, debility destruction, haemorrhage, ulcer, septicemia, etc.

        Cracks, fissures and fistulae (mouth/anus): Nit-ac.

Fistual dental. Lachrymal, ano-rectal: Fl-ac.

All are useful for diabetes, rheumatic complaints and hyperacidity.

        Burning of acidic organs, chest, urethra. Symptoms appear and disappear suddenly (Carb-ac. Acid-chromic. Nit-ac.).

Pain in spots < thinking of complaints: Carb-ac.

Trembling, shivering and debility after loss of vital fluids, diarrhea. Vomiting, seminal emission, lactation, profuse sweating, etc.

        Debility at both, at the level of mind (emotional and intellect) and at physical level, (except Fl-ac. which has vigor).

Physical level- Pic-ac. Ph-ac.

        Debility after acute fever: Acid-sarcolactic,

Debility after Diptheria: Carb-ac.

Debility after neurasthenia: Pic-ac. Ph-ac.

Debility associated with sex: Pic-ac. Ph-ac.

Skin: Sepsis, loss of hair and brittle nails. More marked in mineral acids than organic acids.

        Soapy, thick, stringy alkaline secretion (like water brash) from alkaline organs after burning, pricking pain of acidic organs.

        Pseudo-membrane at the surface of alkaline organs e.g. Mur-ac. Nit-ac. Gall-ac.

        Weakness with destruction tissue mineral acid.

Weakness without destruction organic acid.

        Haemorrhagic tendency and bleeding disorders. Destruction of blood, black brown non coagulable blood.

                                Mineral acids: Active bleeding e.g. epistaxis, haematemesis, malaena, haematuria, menorrhagia, injury after, petechial bleeding, etc.

                                Organic acids: Passive bleeding like slow oozing of blood in ulcer, scorbutic gums malaena, etc.

        Septicemia, allergic, immune disorders.

                                Mineral acids: Acute infection like Typhoid, typhus relapsing fever, asthma, urticaria etc.

                                Organic acids: Chronic infections, auto-immune disorders.

        Ulceration with sloughing, starts with painful to painless.

                                           Mineral acids: Hard and soft tissues. (Bones and periosteum: Fl-ac. Ph-ac. Caries of nasal bone: Nit-ac. Fl-ac. Ph-ac.).

                                Organic acids: Soft tissues (tongue: Benz-ac. vocal cord: Lac-ac.

Mineral acids: Action and behavior disorders predominant. Toxaemia, delirium, hallucination and impulsive behavior.

Over sensitive to external stimuli at mental as well as physical level: to noise: Nit-ac. To pain: Mur-ac. To light exercise shaving: Carb-ac. Ox-ac. To smell: Carb-ac.

To light: Gall-ac.

Mind (Acids): Persons belonging to 'Acid Group' are introvert and have anti-social activities. They are least involved at emotional, lesser at intellectual level but

much affected at their action and behavior. Integrity of intellectual faculty and higher centres of brain are damaged or disturbed. His perceiving power is decreased.

Their understanding and interpretations are wrong.

All the painful complaints turn painless.

They are dependent on family members for nursing and care. weary of life and despair of recovery. Nature- coward, malicious, jealous and suspicious and loquacious.

Persistent thoughts of suicide. Behaves foolishly. Memory is weak and lack in self-confidence. He has a confused state of mind and lacks concentration. He has vacant

look and wants to be quiet and does want to be disturbed or answer or argue. He must be occupied in some work otherwise physical complaints increases < when free or thinking of complaints. Person is in extremes of dual state of mind.

    Schizophrenia or insanity.

    Delirium. Both the states lead to alter action and behavior.

Schizophrenia or insanity: In this phase he is exhilarated in his own word. A contradictory state of mind develops. His actions are irrelevant to the situation. He laughs at serious matter and becomes serious at laughable matter or on trifles. Vindictive ideas and behaviors. He has different gestures and grimaces on his face.

    Person has disorientation of time, space and identity. He does not recognize his relatives. He always requires supervision for his care. He cannot be left alone as he may harm himself or others.

He has an aversion to company. He does not participate in any pleasurable events. He is anxious and excited and becomes angry when upset. He is obstinate. He develops obsessive compulsive neurosis.

He dwells constantly on sex and exposes his genitals and wants to be naked. He has lewd thoughts and lascivious mania. Nymphomania. He develops addiction and enjoys troubling others.

On withdrawal of the drug he moves recklessly. Mania-o-potu. He feels he is under super natural power. Free mind is evil's mind. He is a nuisance in the family and in the society.

    State of delirium develops after loss of function and structures of the body after accumulation of toxins. He is drowsy with muttering and moaning constantly. He has altered action and behavior.

His speech is irrelevant and incoherent. He has various delusions. He constantly complaints about seriousness of the disease, For him contradiction is intolerable. He is constantly buried in negative thoughts.

He has abundant ideas. He wants to fulfill his desires urgently, as his disease is fatal. He loses all hopes of recovery. He loses control over eliminating discharges like urine and stool etc. He is violent, furious and impulsive then he goes into mania. He has repeated impulse to kill.

<: Night/exertion/cold food and drink/loss of vital fluids/loss of sleep/mental tension anxiety/after eating; >: discharge like profuse urination, etc.

 

Remedy Relationship:

Complementary and antidoted by: Weak acids, weak base, and strong alkali; organic acids after mineral acids. Weak organic acids and weak base for strong organic acids.

Inimical: Mineral acids after organic acids.

 

Most acids:

Colourless or light coloured

Corrosive in nature

Sour in taste

Mostly odorless but some having peculiar odour

Evaporates when heated

Combine easily with other elements to form compounds

The word acid comes from Latin, acious = sour

An acid may be defined as a substance that can provide H+ ion, proton donor, or any substance that liberates hydrogen ion in a solution.

Most acids derived from mineral kingdom, few from vegetable (Lac-ac.)

Used in manufacture of fertilizers, chemicals, explosives, bactericides

Waste water processing

Acids are dehydrating agents (in preparation of dry fruits)

 

Classification mainly two types

Organic - weak or vegetable acids- slow, progressive action producing deep pathology

Inorganic- strong or mineral acids- rapid, acute action producing deep pathology

 

[Vithoulkas]

There are many of the acids, many more in fact than have been placed on the board. There are not many of them with which we are thoroughly acquainted, and there are

but few facts that may be stated with reference to others. The very idea of acid, you will at once understand, implies that they are more or less electro-negative.

They all combine very readily with the electro-positive substances, as potassium and sodium.

You must rid yourself of the impression that the term "acid" necessarily implies that these substances are sour, for all acids are not sour nor do all acids redden litmus paper.

It was formerly supposed that all acids contained oxygen and that oxygen was one of their necessary ingredients. This has been disproved, for certain acids (Fl-ac./Mur-ac.) contain no oxygen. These acids are derived from the mineral and vegetable kingdoms. Of those derived from the former, we use in medicine Fl-ac./Mur-ac. obtained from

the halogens; Nit-ac a combination of nitrogen and oxygen; Sul-ac. Ph-ac. Sil. existing as sand in nature and is by no means sour. And Ars.

Then we have derived from organic chemistry Hydr-ac. (= Prussic acid). Exists in a great variety of plants.

Then here is Oxalic acid. Many of you who have tasted the "sorrel grass" know how sour the leaves are. It is Oxalic acid which gives them their acidity. It exists also in the rhubarb. Rhubarb, either the medicinal or the edible variety, may or may not be poisonous. When raised on new ground it is very apt to contain an undue amount of Ox-ac

and thus may make some persons very sick.

Malic and Citric acid are derived from the vegetable kingdom.

Malic acid found more particularly in apples and pears and also in raspberries.

Cit-ac. found chiefly in oranges and lemons.

Acet-ac. an organic acid and is the principal ingredient of vinegar.

Lac-ac. derived from sour milk.

They decrease the acid secretions of the body and increase the alkaline. If, for instance, a quantity of acid, such as Citric acid, is taken into the stomach, it will diminish the secretion of the gastric juice. On the other hand, it will increase the secretion of the saliva. The practical value of this hint is hygienic rather than therapeutic, and yet in that degree it is of great use.

We know how intolerable, at times, thirst is in fevers. Now this thirst may be due, at least in part, to lack of secretion from the salivary glands. The mouth is parched and dry; the tongue cleaves to the roof of the mouth.

In such cases as this, acidulated drinks, by acting reflexly, increase the flow of saliva, and will give your patient great relief. For instance, you may give lemonade, providing, of course, it is not antagonistic to your indicated remedy, for there are some medicines which Citric acid will antidote and some which will disagree with it. Again, if you are giving Bell., you would not think of using vinegar, as vinegar retards the action of that drug.

But when giving Bell. you may use lemonade, as that aids the action of the remedy. Ant-c. will not tolerate acids, but you may use tamarind water. Now if you find the mouth or throat sore in fever, the "edge" must be taken off the acid by the admixture of some mucilaginous substance to the drink. You may use gum Arabic, but that interferes with digestion somewhat. Irish moss, Iceland moss and slippery-elm are too medicinal. They act powerfully on the lungs and you might induce medicinal symptoms if you employ them. Flaxseed has some medicinal effect, but not sufficient to make its use inappropriate. Another substance which may be used is gelatin, that is, if you know that it is made properly. Some of it is made from the refuse of the tanner; some from fish-bones, and that is quite palatable; but best of all is that made from calves' feet. This last may be

used in water to relieve this sharpness.

Acids may be useful in dyspepsia, not as remedies, for we are now speaking of their hygienic applications. You may give them, for instance, in sour stomach. You then administer the acid before eating. Allow the patient to drink lemonade before meals and you will often find that the usual heartburn and sour risings after eating are thus diminished. Pepsin, which is often used as an adjuvant in the treatment of dyspepsia, is perfectly allowable, as it does not interfere with the action of any medicine and is not itself a medicine, and is often aided in its action by some kind of acid, particularly in the digestion of nitrogenous articles of food.

 

Vinegar has been used as an antidote for intoxication.

Lac-ac. is a very corrosive acid. It will eat into every tissue of the body. In fact, it will dissolve the enamel of the teeth, so that great care must be used in its administration. When prescribed in material doses, it is usually administered through a tube, which prevents it from touching the teeth. Dr. Hering was in the habit of recommending that the teeth be washed occasionally with cream that had become sour by keeping 24 hours.

Mur-ac. and Lac-ac. favor digestion. Some persons greatly > by drinking sour milk.

Sul-ac. must be avoided in any form whatever, because it tends to make the food insoluble by combining with its albuminous constituents. Sulphuric acid is not used in dietetics, except by children in the "sour-balls," which are acidulated almost exclusively with this acid.

Hydr-ac. aids digestion. There are some persons who have been cured of dyspepsia by eating peach-kernels, which contain this acid.

There is a distinction between the mineral acids on one side and the organic acids on the other. The mineral acids as a class all produce an irritability of fibre together with weakness and prostration.

I am now speaking of their medicinal effects. You will find them to produce an irritable weakness -the pulse is weak and irritable- whereas the vegetable acids produce weakness without irritability. The acids, too, as a class, check haemorrhages.

This is a quality that belongs to nearly all of them. We all know that Acet-ac. is useful in checking haemorrhage. When I have a patient who is subject to haemorrhage,

I am in the habit of instructing the nurse in case haemorrhage sets in before I can be called, to dip a cloth in vinegar and place it over the pubes. In many cases, this will be successful. We all know, too, that Citric acid will produce and cure haemorrhage. A child, after eating too freely of lemons, had haemorrhages from every orifice of the

body, even from the conjunctiva. We shall see that Ph-ac. Sul-ac. Ars. all produce and all check haemorrhages. It is said that they all do this by reason of their astringency.

But how can this be so when they act favorably even in the C 200 potency?

Another quality of the acids is their tendency to produce pseudo-membranes. Thus we find some of them indicated in diphtheria; Mur-ac. Ph-ac. Sul-ac. Nit-ac.

Here again caution is necessary. As these acids, particularly the vegetable acids, may cause croupous deposits, do not permit a child convalescing from croup to partake of

acid fruits. When the child is so susceptible, any one of these acids may tend to produce this disease again.

We find that all the acids cause a peculiar debility. This is not a simple functional weakness, such as might result from a rather exhausting diarrhoea, such as you find under Cinchona, or such a functional weakness of the nerves as will be curable by Zinc, but it is a debility which arises from defective nutrition, particularly from blood disease.

Thus we find them called for in very low types of disease, disease in which blood poisoning is a prominent feature, in typhoid states and in scarlatina, particularly when of

a low type, in conditions of exhaustion from abuse of various organs of the body. Thus drunkards who have long been indulging in liquors to excess may be relieved by

Sul-ac. Ph-ac. Ars.

We find them indicated, too, in diabetes mellitus. The principal acids for this condition are Ph-ac. Lac-ac.

We find, too, that many of the acids are useful in scurvy, particularly when it has arisen from a diet of salty food with deprivation of vegetables. So much for our general review of the acids.

 

[Farrington]

General characteristic features of acid group

1) Acids produce weakness, debility & prostration

The mineral acids, as a class, all produce an irritability of fibre together with weakness and prostration. Whereas the vegetable acids produce weakness without irritability.

2) All the acids cause a peculiar debility. Not a simple functional weakness, such as might result from a rather exhausting diarrhoea, such as you find under CINCHONA,

or such a functional weakness of the nerves as will be curable by ZINC, but it is a debility which arises from defective nutrition, particularly from blood disease.

Thus we find them called for in very low types of disease, disease in which blood poisoning is a prominent feature, in typhoid states and in scarlatina (low type).

In conditions of exhaustion from abuse of various organs of the body. Drunkards, who have long been indulging in liquors to excess, may be relieved by Sul-ac. Ph-ac. Ars.

3) The acids check haemorrhages: Acet-ac. Cit-ac. Ph-ac. Ars.

4) Tendency to produce pseudomembranes. some of them indicated in diphtheria: Mur-ac. Ph-ac. Sul-ac. Nit-ac.

As these acids, particularly the vegetable acids, may cause croupous deposits, do not permit a child convalescing from croup to partake of acid fruits. When the child is susceptible, any one of these acids may tend to produce this disease again

5) Indicated in diabetes mellitus. The principal acids for this condition are PH-AC. and LAC-AC.

6) Many of the acids are useful in scurvy, particularly when it has arisen from a diet of salty food with deprivation of vegetables.

 

Constitution: Lean, thin, tubercular constitution with stooped shoulder and premature old look.

Thermal - Chilly- except fluoric acid & picric acid

Diathesis

Haemorrhagic

Mineral acids - active bleeding

Organic acids - passive bleeding

Miasm

Acids have all the miasms, but predominantly syphilitic

Inorganic acids - predominantly syphilitic

Organic acids - sycotic & tubercular

Sphere of action

I. mucous membranes-.inflammation; destructive ulceration.

II. glandular system - congestion; inflammation.; fetid discharges salivation

III. skin.- pustular ulceration; fungoid growths; perspiration.

IV. blood. -broken-down, septic condition, anaemia, haemorrhage

V. CEREBRO-SPINAL SYSTEM. Prostration, from Loss of Nutrition.

VI. DIGESTIVE ORGANS. Atony of the whole Apparatus.

VII. BONES .Rachitis and Caries., syphilitic affections

 

1. They decrease the acid secretions in the body and increase the alkaline secretions of the body. For example; if a quantity of citric acid is taken into the stomach

it will diminish the secretion of gastric juice.

On other hand it will increase the secretion of saliva which is alkaline in nature.

2. Antidotal and complimentary action to certain drugs.

Example;

a) Vinegar retards the action of Belladonna, but lemonade aids the action of the remedy.

b) Antimonium crudum will not tolerate acids but you may use tamarind water.

3. Dyspepsia:

Vegetable acids are useful in dyspepsia.

            Example; Allow the patient to drink lemonade before meals and we can find that the usual heart burn and sour rising after eating are diminished.

Some persons are greatly relieved by drinking sour milk (Lactic acid).

Mur-ac. and Hydr-ac. favor digestion. Some persons have been cured of dyspepsia by eating peach kernels which contain these acids.

4. Antidote for intoxication.

Vinegar (acetic acid) has been used as an antidote for intoxication.

5. Corrosive action:

Discharges are acrid and excoriating .

Example; Lactic acid: It will eat into every tissues of the body . It will dissolve enamel of teeth. Dr. Hering was in the habit of recommending that the teeth be washed occasionally with milk cream that had become sour by keeping 24 hours.

 

Common Mental Features

Basic themes of acid group

1) Exhaustion

The most common characteristic of the Acids is exhaustion. Vithoulkas (1991 b, page 251) describes mental exhaustion of Pic-ac., emotional exhaustion of Ph-ac. and physical exhaustion of Mur-ac.

Physiologically exhaustion + Acid imbalance.

2) Activeness, hurriedness

Prior to this exhaustion there will be the exact opposite, i.e. an overdose of activity. The Acidums want to do a lot. They exhaust themselves, they use their energy at a very high rate. They don’t necessarily have any complaints yet at this stage, they are merely overactive.

This gives us the next characteristic of the Acidums: hurriedness. This is well known in Sul-ac, one of the most hurried remedies, but the other Acidums have this trait as well. Hurriedness is a symptom that is often + tiredness or exhaustion, the primary symptom of the Acidums.

3) Lively, fresh, extrovert

The Acidums have a certain freshness about them (in the beginning). They are extroverts and talk easily and openly. Allen: Ph-ac: ‘lively, vivacious mood’. Their sexual desire is high.

They have a tendency to be perfectionists, they have a great desire to have everything ‘just so’. This rather forced attitude often makes the opposite happen in their lives.

4) Aggression, fighting. The overactivity goes together with a certain aggressiveness.

This aggressive side expresses itself physically in the rather biting, etching character of the complaints, as in aphthae, ulcers and fissures.

5) Desire for unification

Behind the aggression of the Acidums lies one very strong desire: that is the desire to become one with everything and everyone. This aspect comes out very clearly in pure hydrogen.

6) Isolation, apathy

But hydrogen also has the opposite feeling: a deep feeling of isolation, of being separated from your fellow beings and loved ones. Hydrogen has a feeling of total unification and a sensation of total isolation.

The Acidums have a similar theme, each one expressing it in their specific area. Ph-ac, for instance, has the desire for total communication, the way in which twins can often do this.

 

Irritability

Over sensitiveness

Syphilitic qualities like: Hateful Vindictive

Irritable Destructive qualities / activities

“Self” egoism and attention towards pleasure seeking inputs

Poor memory, lack of concentration and destruction of all thinking power.

Depression, listless, dejection.

Apathetic, indifferent

 

General physical features

Right sided.

Complaints come and go suddenly. eg: Fl-ac. (opposite Sul-ac.)

Desires: fat, spicy, alcohol, fruit (2), sour (2), refreshing things. Aversion: bread. meat;.

Physical: >: lying down; <: exertion/climbing stairs/touch;

Pain burning and biting.

Accidents and sprains.

Discharges are watery, acrid, sour and stained with blood, excoriating;

Useful in typhoid fevers

GI symptoms - diarrhea, dyspepsia, increased salivation

Skin: ulcers, fistula. Naevi.

Useful for treatment of drunkards: Example: Sulphuric acid

 

Phosphoricum acidum (Ph-ac.) - Glacial phosphoric acid. HPO3.

Best suited to persons of originally strong constitutions, who have become debilitated by loss of vital fluids, sexual excesses (Cinch.); violent acute diseases; chagrin,

or a long succession of moral emotions, as grief, care, disappointed affection.

Ailments: from care, chagrin, grief, sorrow, homesickness (Ign.); sleepy, disposed to weep; night-sweats towards morning.

Pale sickly complexion, eyes sunken and surrounded by blue margins. (Puls.).

Listless, apathetic; indifferent to the affairs of life; prostrated and stupefied with grief, to those things that used to be of most interest (debility and emaciation).

Delirium: muttering, unintelligible; lies in a stupor, or a stupid sleep, unconscious of all that is going on around him; when aroused is fully conscious, answers slowly and correctly and relapses into stupor.

In children and young people who grow too rapidly (Calc. Calc-p.); pains in back and limbs as if beaten.

Headache of school girls from eye-strain or overuse of eyes (Calc-p./Nat-m.); of students who are growing too fast.

Interstitial inflammation of bones, scrofulous, sycotic, syphilitic, mercurial; - Boring, drawing, digging pains in nerves of limbs; necrosis in stump after amputations (All-c.).

Diarrhoea: painless/not debilitating/white or yellow/watery/from acids/involuntary/with flatus (Aloe/Nat-m.); choking, from fear.

Urine: looks like milk mixed with jelly-like, bloody pieces; decomposes rapidly; profuse urination at night of clear, watery urine, which forms a white cloud at once (phosphates in excess, nerve waste).

Onanism; when patient is greatly distressed by the culpability of the act (compare Dios., Staph.).

Emissions: frequent, profuse, debilitating; after coitus; most desire, after; several in one night; abashed, sad, despair of cure (with irresistible tendency to masturbate, Ust.).

Chest: weak from talking or coughing (Stan.); in phthisis; nervous from loss of vital fluids, too rapid growth, depressing mental emotions.

Cerebral typhoid or typhus; complete apathy and stupor; takes no notice, “lies like a log, ” utterly regardless of surrounding; intestinal haemorrhage, blood dark

<: From mental affections/loss of vital fluids (seminal)/self abuse/sexual excesses/talking causes weakness in chest (Stann-met.).

 

Sulphuricum acidum - Sulphuric acid. (Sul-ac.) H2SO4.

Adapted to the light-haired; old people (women) - flushes of heat in climacteric years..

Feels in a great hurry; everything must be done quickly (Arg-n.).

Pain of gradual and slow increasing intensity which ceases suddenly when at its height, often repeated (Puls.).

The pain is pressure as of a blunt instrument. Tendency to gangrene following mechanical injuries (old people)

Sensation as if the brain was loose in forehead and falling from side to side (Bell./Bry./Rhus-t./Spig.).

Aphthae; of mouth, gums, or entire buccal cavity; gums bleed readily; ulcers painful; offensive breath (Borx.).

Chronic heartburn, sour eructations, sets teeth on edge (Rob.).

Water drunk causes coldness of the stomach unless mixed with alcoholic liquor.

“As if trembling all over”, without real trembling; internal trembling of drunkards.

Bad effects from mechanical injuries, with bruises, chafing and livid skin; prostration (Acet-ac.).

Ecchymosis; cicatrices turn blood-red or blue, are painful (turn green Led.).

Petchia: purpura haemorrhagica; blue spots; livid, red, itching blotches.

Haemorrhage of black blood from all the outlets of the body (Crot./Mur-ac./Nit-ac./Ter.).

Relations. Complementary: Puls./Ailments, from brandy drinking.

[Hering]

Sulphuric acid, 1 part with 3 parts of alcohol, 10 to 15 drops, 3x daily for 3 or 4 weeks, has been successfully used to subdue the craving for liquor

 

Muriaticum acidum - Hydrochloric acid. (Mur-ac.) HCl.

Adapted to persons with black hair, dark eyes, dark complexion.

Irritable, peevish, disposed to anger and chagrin (Nux-v.); restlessness and vertigo.

Great debility: as soon as he sits down his eyes close; lower jaw hangs down; slides down in bed.

Mouth and anus are chiefly affected; the tongue and sphincter ani are paralyzed.

Malignant affections of mouth; studded with ulcers, deep, perforating; having a black or dark base; offensive, foul breath; intense prostration; diphtheria, scarlatina, cancer.

Cannot bear the thought or sight of meat (Nit-ac.).

Haemorrhoids: swollen, blue, sensitive and painful to touch; appear suddenly in - Diarrhoea: stool involuntary while urinating; on passing wind (Aloe); and bowels move at

the same time.

Urine passes slowly; bladder weak, must wait a long time; has to press so that anus protrudes.

Cannot bear least touch, not even of sheet on genitals (Murx).

Typhoid or typhus; deep stupid sleep; unconscious while awake; loud moaning or muttering; tongue coated at edges; shrunken, dry, leather-like, paralyzed; involuntary foetid stools

while passing urine; sliding down in bed; pulse intermits every third beat.

Palpitation of heart is felt in the face.

Freckles: eczema solaris.

Follows well after: Bry./Merc./Rhus-t.

Cures the muscular weakness following excessive use of opium and tobacco.

 

Fluoric acid (Fl-ac.)

Mainly a male remedy.

A materialist - a man of the world.

Enjoy life to its full extent - not bothered about spiritual development, awareness, discipline, etc.

Crude energy - makes itself known early in life by a driving force for sexual intercourse. Often begins at age 13-14 and has to have sex every day.

Not easy to discern. May come with falling of hair, or sleeplessness, or anxiety beyond their control.

Destructiveness is the keynote of this acid. Fl-ac. produces slow deeply destructive effects, decay of long Bones, ulcerations, bedsores, varicose veins. Acts especially upon lower tissues and indicated in deep, destructive processes, bedsores, ulcerations, varicose veins and ulcers.

Especially adapted to chronic diseases with syphilitic and mercurial history. Glabella region bloated.

Patient is compelled to move about energetically. Complaints of old age or the prematurely aged with weak, distended blood vessels. Hob-nailed liver of the alcoholics.

Early decay of Teeth. Old cases of nightly fevers, coming on periodically. Goiter. Always feels too hot, wants to bathe in cold water. Tissues are puffy indurated and fistulous.

Discharges thin, foul, acrid or salty, causing itching. Edema. Felon. Nevi.

Secondary syphilis. Numbness of the part not lain on in brain diseases, spinal disorders. Calcareous degeneration. Nevus, flat. Suffering, if the call for evacuation is not immediately attended to.

Dropsy with numbness or without.

 

Nitricum acidum - Nitric acid. (Nit-ac.) HNO3.

Especially suited to thin persons of rigid fibre, dark complexions, black hair and eyes the brunette rather than the blonde- nervous temperament.

Pains: sticking, pricking as from splinters; suddenly appearing and disappearing; on change of temperature or weather; during sleep: gnawing here and there as from ulcers forming.

Sensation: of a band around head, around the bones (Carb-ac./Sulph); of a splinter in affected parts, ulcers, piles, throat, ingrowing toe nail < on slightest contact.

Ailments: which depend on some virulent poison; from mercury, syphilis, scrofula; in broken-down cachectic constitutions.

After continued loss of sleep, long-lasting anxiety, over- exertion of mind and body from nursing the sick (Coc.); anguish from the loss of his dearest friend; indifference; tired of life; sadness before menses.

Great anxiety about his disease; constantly thinking about his past troubles; morbid fear of cholera (Ars.); depressed and anxious in the evening.

Irritable, headstrong; hateful and vindictive; inveterate, ill-willed, unmoved by apologies.

Hardness of hearing >> by riding in carriage or train (Graph.).

Very sensitive to rattle of wagons over paved streets; headache from pressure of hat (Calc-p., Carb-v. Nat-m.).

Ozaena: green casts from the nose every morning.

Fissures in rectum; tearing, spasmodic pains during stools; lancinating, even after soft stools (Alumen/Nat-m./Rat.).

Urine: scanty, dark-brown, strong-smelling, “like horse’s urine”; cold when it passes; turbid, looks like remains of a cider barrel.

Ulcers: easily bleeding; in corners of mouth (Nat-m.); splinter-like pains, especially on contact (Hep.); zig-zag, irregular edges; base looks like raw flesh; exuberant granulations;

after mercury or syphilis or both, engrafted on a scrofulous base.

Discharges: thin, offensive, acrid; of a brown or dirty yellowish green color; rarely laudable pus.

Haemorrhage: from bowels in typhoid or typhus (Crot., Mur-ac.); after miscarriage or post-partum; from overexertion of body; bright, profuse, or dark.

Cracking: in ears, on masticating; of the joints on motion (Coc-i./Graph.).

Warts, condylomata: sycotic or syphilitic; large, jagged, pedunculated; bleeding readily on washing; moist, oozing; sticking pain (Staph./Thuja).

Affects especially the mucous outlets of the body where skin and mucous membrane join; mouth, nose, rectum, anus, urethra, vagina (Mur-ac.).

Inimical: Lachesis.

Often difficult to distinguish from Merc.; but is adapted to black-haired people, while Merc. is more useful in light-haired persons.

Relieves ailments resulting from abuse of mercury (erethism); bad effects of repeated does of Digitalis.

<: Evening and at night/after midnight/contact/change of temperature or weather/during sweat/walking;

>: Riding in a carriage (reverse of Cocc.);

 

Lacticum acidum- (Lactic acid) (Lac-ac.)

Morning sickness, diabetes, and rheuma offer a field for this remedy.

Pain in breasts, with enlargement of axillary glands, pain ext. hand.

Locally, in the tuberculous ulceration of vocal cords.

Stomach

Tongue dry, parched.

Thirst; voracious hunger.

Canker, copious salivation and water-brash. Nausea; morning sickness, (pale anaemic women).

Hot, acrid eructation.

Nausea; > eating.

Burning, hot gas from stomach to throat, causing profuse secretion of tenacious mucus, < smoking.

 

Benzoicum acidum (Benz-ac.)

A gouty, rheumatic diathesis engrafted on a gonorrhoeal or syphilitic patient.

Gouty concretions; arthritis vaga; affects all the joints, especially the knee, cracking on motion; nodosities (Berb./Lith-c./Lyss.).

Urine dark brown, and the urinous odor highly intensified.

Enuresis nocturna of delicate children; dribbling urine of old men with enlarged prostate; strong characteristic odor; excesses of uric acid.

Catarrh of bladder after suppressed gonorrhoea.

Diarrhoea of children; white, very offensive, exhausting liquid stools running “right through the diaper” (Pod.); urine offensive and of a deep red color.

Cough; with expectoration of green mucus (Nat-s.); extreme weariness, lassitude.

Pains tearing, stitching, in large joints of big toe; redness and swelling of joints; gout < at night..

Incompatible: wine, < urinary, gouty and rheumatic affections.

 

Oxalicum acidum (Ox-ac.) (Sorrel acid)

Although certain oxalates are constant constituents of vegetable food and of the human body, the acid itself is a violent poison when taken internally, producing gastro-enteritis,

motor paralysis, collapse, stupor and death.

Influences the spinal cord, and produces motor paralysis.

Pains very violent, in spots (Kali bich.) worse, motion, and thinking of them. Periodical remissions.

Spasmodic symptoms of throat and chest.

Tuberculosis.

 

Picricum acidum - Picric acid (Pic-ac.)

Is often restorative of a wasted and worn-out system; a fair picture of “nervous prostration” (Kali-p.).

Progressive, pernicious, anaemia; neurasthenia.

Headache: of students, teachers and overworked business men; from grief or depressing emotions; in occipital-cervical region (Nat-m./Sil.); < or brought on by slightest

motion or mental exertion.

Priapism, with spinal disease; erections violent, long-lasting; profuse seminal emissions; satyriasis (Canth./Phos.).

Small boils in any part of body, but not especially in external auditory canal.

Weariness, progressing from a slight feeling of fatigue on motion to complete paralysis.

DD.: Arg-n./Gels./Kali-p./Ph-ac./Phos./Petr./Sil.

>: cold air/cold water;

<: Least mental exertion/motion/study/wet weather;

Definition

An acid is traditionally considered any chemical compound that, when dissolved in water produces a hydrogen-ion activity greater than water i.e. a pH less than 7.0.

In simpler terms acids are any of a class of substances whose aqueous solutions are characterized by a sour taste, the ability to turn blue litmus red, and react with bases and certain metals to form salts.

 

Background

Many biologically important functions depend upon acid molecules including:

Nucleic acids such as  DNA and RNA which contain the genetic code that determines much of an organism's characteristics, and is passed from parents to offspring. Hundreds of thousands of proteins exist inside each one of us to help carry out our daily functions. These proteins are produced locally, assembled piece-by-piece to exact specifications.

An enormous amount of information is required to manage this complex system correctly. This information, detailing the specific structure of the proteins inside of our bodies, is stored in a set of molecules called nucleic acids.

Amino acids are the building blocks for proteins. The 20 amino acids that are found within proteins in the human convey a vast array of chemical information predetermined by the encoded DNA molecule. 

The precise content, sequencing and arrangement of each amino acid determines the biological activity of the protein.

Humans can metabolise 10 of the 20 amino acids. The other 10 which the body is unable to metabolise are termed Essential Amino Acids (EAAs) and need to be supplied via the food. Essential amino acids must be supplied in the diet on a continuous daily basis as they are not stored in the body for later use like fats and starch..

Fatty acids.x

Essentail Fatty Acids refer to the two fatty acids (Omega-3 and Omega-6) which cannot be metabolized by the body from the diet and are consequently called Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs).

Required to support the cardiovascular, reproductive, immune and nervous systems, cell membranes maintenance, the production of prostaglandins, regulation of heart rate, blood pressure, blood clotting, fertility, conception and immune function. It is worth noting that most Western diets are deficient in Omega-3 and consequently supplementation is necessary.

Gastric : In humans and many other animals contains hydrochloric acid (secreted within the stomach) the function of which is to help hydrolyze proteins and polysaccharides as well as facilitate pepsin production.

Acid-Base Equilibrium

This refers to the pH balance (the degree of acidity/ alkalinity) of the body. This is measured on a pH scale which ranges from 1.0 to 14.0 such that an acid solution has a pH value below 7.0, values above 7.0 are alkaline. Solutions with a pH value in the middle of the scale (ie pH 7.0) are considered neutral.

Body fluid concentration must be maintained in conditions of mild alkalinity (ie a pH of 7.35 to 7.4) for optimal function. A deviation from the level of mild alkalinity whether higher (alkalosis) or lower (acidosis) will result in severe malfunctions. When due to acidic conditions these malfunctions are manifested by slower enzyme reactions and reduced vitamin/ protein/ ATP/ energy synthesis. The major effect of acidosis is thus depression of the central nervous system. Conversely the major effect of alkalosis is extreme nervousness and over-excitability of the central nervous system leading to convulsions, spasms, and tetany.

Classification of Acids

The classification of acids depends upon whether they are derived from either of the respective organic or mineral kingdoms. There are many acids in nature but only a few of them have impacted homeopathy.

Some of them are listed below.

Organic Acids

Acet-ac.

Benz-ac.

Cit-ac.

Gall-ac.

Hydrocyanic

Lactic

Oxalic

Picric

Mineral Acids

Fluoric

Muriatic

Nitric

Phosphoric

DD.: Mineral acids produce an irritability of fibre together with weakness and prostration or what might be termed an irritable weakness

Organic acids produce weakness without irritability.

 

Acid Characteristics

A. Mentals & Generals

1. Weakness

This is not a simple muscular weakness as a result of strain or such as might result from a loss of body fluids following a bout of acute diarrhoea or a general tiredness

as a result of overwork. Rather acid weakness is a debility of the mind, emotions and body which arises from a disease situation in which blood poisoning and/ or organ

affectation feature prominently such as the exhaustion which follows a prolonged indulgence in drink or drugs or the prostration of a chronic convalescent or the

malaise associated with intense emotional trauma.

2. Depression

Mental collapse, inertia, dullness, lethargy, listless, wistfulness.

3. Restlessness

Physically overactive. Exhausted yet wants to do a lot. In turn this only exacerbates weakness.

4. Extrovert

Emotionally aware, extrovert, optimistic with an aura of freshness, talkative

5. Frustration

The depressed mental symptoms contrast with those of the emotional and physical resulting in acute frustration and on occasions displays of anger.

6. Isolation, Apathy

The net result is that people and friends stay their distance not understanding the vagaries of the patients moods. In turn the patient feels isolated, separated and unloved.

7. Generalities:

Location: right side

Temperature: cold

Physique: fair, thin

 

Acid Characteristics

B. Particulars

1. Anti dyspeptic

Acids decrease acid secretions. Citac- and Hydr-ac. will diminish symptoms of excess gastric juice and reduce the feeling of sourness, nausea, acid reflux and heartburn.

2. Saliva Enhancement

At the same time Citric acid will increase alkalinity by increasing saliva secretion. For example at times of fever the mouth is parched and dry the tongue cleaves to the

palate. In such cases an acidulated drink will increase saliva and provide great relief.

3. Anti Haemorrhagic

Haemorrhage resolution is a quality that belongs to nearly all acids.

Acetic acid: useful in checking haemorrhages (after child birth). A cloth dipped in vinegar and placed over the pubes will in many cases be successful. Citric acid will

both produce and cure haemorrhage as also Ph-ac., Sul-ac. and Arsenious acids (= Ars.).

4. Respiratory Conditions

Inflammatory conditions of lungs. Hoarseness, dryness of mucus membranes, in spite of profuse mucus discharge.

5. Other Physical Characteristics:

Gouty conditions, with inflammation of synovial membranes.

Anaemic conditions.

Increased sexual desire.

Complaints of a Sycotic or Tubercular nature.

 

The Hydrogen Connection

During the 21st century clearly about to witness one of the most crucial changes in the history of man.

Traditional fossil fuels will be replaced by renewable ones like Hydrogen. Hydrogen has already been harnessed as a source of powering the automotive industry where millions have been invested in development of Hydrogen powered vehicles.

There is a parallel with Hydrogen and Homeopathy which has been the subject of recent provings by Jeremy Sheer/Dynamis team proving a finger print for this first of all elements. Our definition of an acid has already established the connection of Hydrogen in that an acid is considered any chemical compound that when dissolved in water produces a hydrogen-ion activity grater than water.

Hahnemann some 200 years ago established the principle of potentised remedies based on dilution with water. The Hydrogen molecule contained in these Homeopathic dilutions provides the vitality and energy for each remedies healing function. This principle of Hahnemann remains valid today just as much as it did 200 years ago and

forms the bed rock of modern Homeopathy. It will become evident as we compare Homeopathic acids with reference to the Materia Medica of Hydrogen that this prime element has left its own indelible but distinct imprint on each acid.

 

SUMMARY

In short there are 2 conflicting symptom sets. One of intense joy and loving oneness and the other of suffering/ loss/ separation and fall from grace.

 

 

pH range             Description             Colour

< 3             Strong acid             Red

3–6             Weak acid             Orange or yellow

7             Neutral             Green

8–11             Weak alkali             Blue

> 11             Strong alkali             Violet or Indigo

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Most of acids are colourless or light coloured

Corrosive in nature

Sour in taste

Mostly odorless but some having peculiar odour

Evaporates when heated

Combine easily with other elements to form compounds

 

The word acid comes from Latin , Acious- sour

An acid may be defined as a substance that can provide H+ ion, proton donor, or any substance that liberates hydrogen ion in a solution.

Most acids derive from mineral kingdom, few from vegetable eg: lactic acid

 

Uses

 

Used in manufacture of fertilizers, chemicals, explosives, bactericides

Waste water processing

Acids are dehydrating agents, so used in preparation of dry fruits

 

Classification of acids- mainly two types

 

Organic- weak or vegetable acids- slow, progressive action producing deep pathology

Inorganic- strong or mineral acids- rapid , acute action producing deep pathology

General characteristic features of acid group( farrington)

 

1) Acids produce weakness, debility & prostration

 

The mineral acids, as a class, all produce an irritability of fibre together with weakness and prostration. Whereas the vegetable acids produce weakness without irritability.

 

2) All the acids cause a peculiar debility.

 

This is not a simple functional weakness, such as might result from a rather exhausting diarrhoea, such as you find under CINCHONA, or such a functional weakness of the nerves as will be curable by ZINC, but it is a debility which arises from defective nutrition, particularly from blood disease.

 

Thus we find them called for in very low types of disease, disease in which blood poisoning is a prominent feature, in typhoid states and in scarlatina, particularly when of a low type.

 

In conditions of exhaustion from abuse of various organs of the body. Thus drunkards, who have long been indulging in liquors to excess, may be relieved by Sulphuric, Phosphoric and Arsenious acids.

 

3) The acids check haemorrhages- ACET AC, CITRIC AC, PHOS AC, ARS AC

 

4) Tendency to produce pseudomembranes. so some of them indicated in diphtheria- MURIATIC, PHOSPHORIC, SULPHURIC AND NITRIC ACIDS.

 

As these acids, particularly the vegetable acids, may cause croupous deposits, do not permit a child convalescing from croup to partake of acid fruits. When the child is susceptible, any one of these acids may tend to produce this disease again

 

5)Indicated in diabetes mellitus. The principal acids for this condition are PHOSPHORIC AND LACTIC ACIDS.

 

6) Many of the acids are useful in scurvy, particularly when it has arisen from a diet of salty food with deprivation of vegetables.

 

Constitution: Lean, thin, tubercular constitution with stooped shoulder and premature old look.

 

Thermal – Chilly- except fluoric acid & picric acid

 

Diathesis

 

Haemorrhagic

Mineral acids- active bleeding

Organic acids—passive bleeding

 

Miasm

 

Acids have all the miasms , but predominantly syphilitic

Inorganic acids - predominantly syphilitic

Organic acids- sycotic & tubercular

 

Sphere of action

 

I. Mucous membranes –.inflammation; destructive ulceration.

 

II. Glandular system – congestion; inflamation.; fetid discharges., salivation

 

III. Skin – pustular ulceration; fungoid growths; perspiration.

 

IV. Blood – broken-down, septic condition, anaemia, haemorrhage

 

V. CEREBRO-SPINAL SYSTEM. Prostration, from Loss of Nutrition.

 

VI. DIGESTIVE ORGANS. Atony of the whole Apparatus.

 

VII. BONES. Rachitis and Caries., syphilitic affections

 

1. They decrease the acid secretions in the body and increase the alkaline secretions of the body. For example; if a quantity of citric acid is taken into the stomach

it will diminish the secretion of gastric juice. On other hand it will increase the secretion of saliva which is alkaline in nature.

2. Antidotal and complimentary action to certain drugs.

Example;

a) Vinegar retards the action of Belladonna, but lemonade aids the action of the remedy.

b) Antimonium crudum will not tolerate acids but you may use tamarind water.

3. Dyspepsia :

Vegetable acids are useful in dyspepsia.

Example: Allow the patient to drink lemonade before meals and we can find that the usual heart burn and sour rising after eating are diminished.

Some are greatly relieved by drinking sour milk ( Lactic acid). Muriatic acid and Hydrocyanic acid favor digestion. Some persons have been cured of dyspepsia

by eating peach kernels which contain these acids.

4. Antidote for intoxication.

Vinegar ( acetic acid) has been used as an antidote for intoxication.

5. Corrosive action:

Discharges are acrid and excoriating .

Example: Lactic acid: It will eat into every tissues of the body . It will dissolve enamel of teeth.

[Dr. Hering] recommended the teeth be washed occasionally with milk cream that had become sour by keeping 24 hours.

 

Common Mental Features

Basic themes of acid group

1) Exhaustion

The most common and well known characteristic of the Acids is exhaustion. Vithoulkas (1991 b, page 251) describes the mental exhaustion of Pic-ac,

the emotional exhaustion of Ph-ac, and the physical exhaustion of Mur-ac.

Physiologically exhaustion is accompanied by an Acid imbalance.

2) Activeness, hurriedness

Prior to this exhaustion there will be the exact opposite, i.e. an overdose of activity. The Acidums want to do a lot. They exhaust themselves, they use their energy

at a very high rate. They don’t necessarily have any complaints yet at this stage, they are merely overactive.

The next characteristic of the Acidums: hurriedness. This is well known in Sul-ac, one of the most hurried remedies, but the other Acidums have this trait as well.

Hurriedness is often accompanied by tiredness or exhaustion, the primary symptom of the Acidums.

3) Lively, fresh, extrovert

The Acidums have a certain freshness about them (in the beginning). They are extroverts and talk easily and openly.

[Allen] Ph-ac has ‘lively, vivacious mood’. Their sexual desire is high.

They have a tendency to be perfectionists, they have a great desire to have everything ‘just so’. This rather forced attitude often makes the opposite happen in their lives.

4) Aggression, fighting.

The overactivity goes together with a certain aggressiveness.

This aggressive side expresses itself physically in the rather biting, etching character of the complaints, as in aphthae, ulcers and fissures.

5) Desire for unification

Behind the aggression of the Acidums lies one very strong desire: that is the desire to become one with everything and everyone. This aspect comes out very clearly

in pure hydrogen.

6) Isolation, apathy

Hydrogen also has the opposite feeling: a deep feeling of isolation, of being separated from your fellow beings and loved ones. Hydrogen has both a feeling of total

unification and a sensation of total isolation. The Acidums have a similar theme, each one expressing it in their specific area. Ph-ac, for instance, has the desire for total

communication, the way in which twins can often do this.

 

Irritability

Over sensitiveness

Syphilitic qualities like Hateful Vindictive

Irritable Destructive qualities / activities

“Self” egoism and attention towards pleasure seeking inputs

Poor memory, lack of concentration and destruction of all thinking power.

Depression, listless, dejection.

Apathetic, indifferent

 

General physical features

Location: right sided.

Complaints come and go suddenly. eg:fluoric ac (opp to Sul-ac.)

Desires: fat, spicy, alcohol, fruit (2), sour (2), refreshing things. Aversion: bread., meat .

Physical: > lying down (2), <: exertion/climbing stairs/touch;

Pains are burning and biting.

Accidents and sprains.

Discharges are watery, acrid, sour and stained with blood. Discharges are acrid and excoriating .

Useful in typhoid fevers

GI symptoms- diarrhea, dyspepsia, increased salivation

Skin: ulcers, fistula. Naevi.

Useful for treatment of drunkards: Example: Sulphuric acid

 

Phosphoricum acidum – Glacial phosphoric acid. HPO3.

Best suited to persons of originally strong constitutions, who have become debilitated by loss of vital fluids, sexual excesses (Cinch.); violent acute diseases; chagrin,

or a long succession of moral emotions, as grief, care, disappointed affection.

Ailments: from care, chagrin, grief, sorrow, homesickness (Ign.); sleepy, disposed to weep; night-sweats towards morning.

Pale sickly complexion, eyes sunken and surrounded by blue margins. (Puls.).

Is listless, apathetic; indifferent to the affairs of life; prostrated and stupefied with grief, to those things that used to be of most interest, especially if there be debility

and emaciation.

Delirium : muttering, unintelligible; lies in a stupor, or a stupid sleep, unconscious of all that is going on around him; when aroused is fully conscious, answers slowly

and correctly and relapses into stupor.

In children and young people who grow too rapidly (Calc., Calc-p.); pains in back and limbs as if beaten.

Headache of school girls from eye-strain or overuse of eyes (Calc-p., Nat-m.); of students who are growing too fast.

Interstitial inflammation of bones, scrofulous, sycotic, syphilitic, mercurial; – Boring, drawing, digging pains in nerves of limbs; necrosis in stump after amputations

(All-c.).

Diarrhoea: painless; not debilitating; white or yellow watery; from acids, involuntary; with the flatus (Aloe, Nat-m.); choking, from fear.

Urine: looks like milk mixed with jelly-like, bloody pieces; decomposes rapidly; profuse urination at night of clear, watery urine, which forms a white cloud at once

(phosphates in excess, nerve waste).

Onanism; when greatly distressed by the culpability of the act (compare Dios., Staph.).

Emissions: frequent, profuse, debilitating; after coitus; most desire, after; several in one night; abashed, sad, despair of cure (with irresistible tendency to masturbate: Ust.).

Chest: weak from talking or coughing (Stann-met.); in phthisis; nervous from loss of vital fluids, too rapid growth, depressing mental emotions.

Cerebral typhoid or typhus; complete apathy and stupor; takes no notice, “lies like a log”, utterly regardless of surrounding; intestinal haemorrhage, blood dark

<: From mental affections/loss of vital fluids (seminal); self abuse; sexual excesses; talking causes weakness in chest (Stann-met.).

 

Sulphuricum acidum- Sulphuric acid. H2SO4.

Adapted to the light-haired; old people, especially women; – flushes of heat in climacteric years..

Feels in a great hurry; everything must be done quickly (Arg-n.).

Pain of gradual and slow-increasing intensity which ceases suddenly when at its height, often repeated (Puls.).

The pain is pressure as of a blunt instrument. Tendency to gangrene following mechanical injuries, especially of old people.

Sensation as if the brain was loose in forehead and falling from side to side (Bell., Bry., Rhus, Spig.).

Aphthae; of mouth, gums, or entire buccal cavity; gums bleed readily; ulcers painful; offensive breath (Bor.).

Chronic heartburn, sour eructations, sets teeth on edge (Rob.).

Water drunk causes coldness of the stomach unless mixed with alcoholic liquor.

Sensation as if trembling all over, without real trembling; internal trembling of drunkards.

Bad effects from mechanical injuries, with bruises, chafing and livid skin; prostration (Acet. ac.).

Ecchymosis; cicatrices turn blood-red or blue, are painful (turn green, Led.).

Petchia : purpura haemorrhagica; blue spots; livid, red, itching blotches.

Haemorrhage of black blood from all the outlets of the body (Crot., Mur. ac., Nit. ac., Ter.).

Relations. Complementary : Puls.

Ailments, from brandy drinking.

Sulphuric acid, one part, with three parts of alcohol, 10 to 15 drops, 3x daily for 3 or 4 weeks, has been successfully used to subdue the craving for liquor.-HERING.

 

Muriaticum acidum – Hydrochloric acid. Hcl.

Adapted to persons with black hair, dark eyes, dark complexion.

Irritable, peevish, disposed to anger and chagrin (Nux); restlessness and vertigo.

Great debility: as soon as he sits down his eyes close; lower jaw hangs down; slides down in bed.

Mouth and anus are chiefly affected; the tongue and sphincter ani are paralyzed.

Malignant affections of mouth; studded with ulcers, deep, perforating; having a black or dark base; offensive, foul breath; intense prostration; diphtheria, scarlatina, cancer.

Cannot bear the thought or sight of meat (Nit-ac.).

Haemorrhoids: swollen, blue, sensitive and painful to touch; appear suddenly in – Diarrhoea: stool involuntary while urinating; on passing wind (Aloe); cannot urinate

without having the bowels move at the same time.

Urine passes slowly; bladder weak, must wait a long time; has to press so that anus protrudes.

Cannot bear least touch, not even of sheet on genitals (Murex).

Typhoid or typhus; deep stupid sleep; unconscious while awake; loud moaning or muttering; tongue coated at edges; shrunken, dry, leather-like, paralyzed; involuntary foetid stools while passing urine; sliding down in bed; pulse intermits every third beat.

 

Palpitation of heart is felt in the face.

Freckles: eczema solaris.

Relations. Follow well: after, Bry., Mer., Rhus.

Cures the muscular weakness following excessive use of opium and tobacco.

 

Fluoricum Acidum

Mainly a male remedy.

A materialist – a man of the world.

Enjoy life to its full extent – not bothered about spiritual development, awareness, discipline, etc.

Crude energy – makes itself known early in life by a driving force for sexual intercourse. Often begins at age 13-14 and has to have sex every day.

Not easy to discern. May come with falling of hair, or sleeplessness, or anxiety beyond their control.

Destructiveness is the keynote of this acid. Fl-ac. produces slow deeply destructive effects, decay of long Bones, ulcerations, bedsores, varicose veins.

Acts especially upon lower tissues and indicated in deep, destructive processes, bedsores, ulcerations, varicose veins and ulcers.

Especially adapted to chronic diseases with syphilitic and mercurial history. Glabella region bloated.

Patient is compelled to move about energetically. Complaints of old age or the prematurely aged with weak, distended blood vessels. Hob-nailed liver of the alcoholics.

Early decay of Teeth. Old cases of nightly fevers, coming on periodically. Goiter. Always feels too hot, wants to bathe in cold water. Tissues puffy indurated and fistulous. Discharges are thin, foul, acrid or salty, causing itching. Edema. Felon. Nevi.

Secondary syphilis. Numbness of the part not lain on in brain diseases, spinal disorders. Calcareous degeneration. Nevus, flat. Suffering, if the call for evacuation is not immediately attended to. Dropsy with numbness or without.

 

Nitricum acidum – Nitric acid. HNO3.

 

Especially suited to thin persons of rigid fibre, dark complexions, black hair and eyes the brunette rather than the blonde- nervous temperament.

Pains: sticking, pricking as from splinters; suddenly appearing and disappearing; on change of temperature or weather; during sleep: gnawing here and there as from ulcers forming.

Sensation : of a band around head, around the bones (Carb. ac., Sulph); of a splinter in affected parts, ulcers, piles, throat, ingrowing toe nail < on slightest contact.

Ailments : which depend on some virulent poison; from mercury, syphilis, scrofula; in broken-down cachectic constitutions.

After continued loss of sleep, long-lasting anxiety, over- exertion of mind and body from nursing the sick (Coc.); anguish from the loss of his dearest friend; indifference; tired of life; sadness before menses.

 

Great anxiety about his disease; constantly thinking about his past troubles; morbid fear of cholera (Ars.); depressed and anxious in the evening.

Irritable, headstrong; hateful and vindictive; inveterate, ill-willed, unmoved by apologies.

Hardness of hearing >> by riding in carriage or train (Graph.).

Very sensitive to rattle of wagons over paved streets; headache from pressure of hat (Cal. p., Carbo, Nat.).

Ozaena : green casts from the nose every morning.

Fissures in rectum; tearing, spasmodic pains during stools; lancinating, even after soft stools (Alumen, Nat., Rat.).

Urine : scanty, dark-brown, strong-smelling, “like horse’s urine”; cold when it passes; turbid, looks like remains of a cider barrel.

Ulcers : easily bleeding; in corners of mouth (Nat.); splinter-like pains, especially on contact (Hep.); zig-zag, irregular edges; base looks like raw flesh; exuberant granulations;

after mercury or syphilis or both, engrafted on a scrofulous base.

Discharges : thin, offensive, acrid; of a brown or dirty yellowish green color; rarely laudable pus.

Haemorrhage : from bowels in typhoid or typhus (Crot., Mur. ac.); after miscarriage or post-partum; from overexertion of body; bright, profuse, or dark.

Cracking : in ears, on masticating; of the joints on motion (Coc., Graph.).

Warts, condylomata : sycotic or syphilitic; large, jagged, pedunculated; bleeding readily on washing; moist, oozing; sticking pain (Staph., Thuja).

Affects especially the mucous outlets of the body where skin and mucous membrane join; mouth, nose, rectum, anus, urethra, vagina (Mur. ac.).

Inimical : to, Lachesis.

Often difficult to distinguish from Mer.; but is adapted to black-haired people, while Mer. is more useful in light-haired persons.

 

Relieves ailments resulting from abuse of mercury, especially if there be erethism; bad effects of repeated does of Digitalis.

 

<: Evening and at night/after midnight; contact; change of temperature or weather; during sweat; while walking.

>: riding in a carriage (reverse of Coc.);

 

Lacticum acidum- (Lactic acid)

Morning sickness, diabetes, and rheumatism offer a field for this remedy.

Pain in breasts, with enlargement of axillary glands, and pain extends into hand.

Locally, in the tuberculous ulceration of vocal cords.

Stomach

Tongue dry, parched.

Thirst; voracious hunger.

Canker, copious salivation and water-brash. Nausea; morning sickness, especially in pale anaemic women.

Hot, acrid eructation.

Nausea; better, eating.

Burning, hot gas from stomach to throat, causing profuse secretion of tenacious mucus, worse smoking.

 

Benzoicum acidum

A gouty, rheumatic diathesis engrafted on a gonorrhoeal or syphilitic patient.

Gouty concretions; arthritis vaga; affects all the joints (knee), cracking on motion; nodosities (Berb., Lith-c., Lys.).

Urine dark brown and the urinous odor highly intensified.

Enuresis nocturna of delicate children; dribbling urine of old men with enlarged prostate; strong characteristic odor; excesses of uric acid.

Catarrh of bladder after suppressed gonorrhoea.

Diarrhoea of children; white, very offensive, exhausting liquid stools running “right through the diaper” (Pod.); urine offensive and of a deep red color.

Cough; with expectoration of green mucus (Nat-s.); extreme weariness, lassitude.

Pains tearing, stitching, in large joints of big toe; redness and swelling of joints; gout < at night..

Incompatible: wine, which aggravates urinary, gouty and rheumatic affections.

 

Oxalicum acidum- (Sorrel acid)

Although certain oxalates are constant constituents of vegetable food and of the human body, the acid itself is a violent poison when taken internally,

producing gastro-enteritis, motor paralysis, collapse, stupor and death.

Influences the spinal cord, and produces motor paralysis.

Pains very violent, in spots (Kali-bi.) < motion, and thinking of them. Periodical remissions.

Spasmodic symptoms of throat and chest.

Tuberculosis.

 

Picricum acidum – Picric acid

Is often restorative of a wasted and worn-out system; a fair picture of “nervous prostration” (Kali-p.).

Progressive, pernicious, anaemia; neurasthenia.

Headache: of students, teachers and overworked business men; from grief or depressing emotions; in occipital-cervical region (Nat-m., Sil.);

< or brought on by slightest motion or mental exertion.

Priapism, with spinal disease; erections violent, long-lasting; profuse seminal emissions; satyriasis (Canth., Phos.).

Small boils in any part of body, but not especially in external auditory canal.

Weariness, progressing from a slight feeling of fatigue on motion to complete paralysis.

Relations. Compare :Arg-n., Gels., Kali-p., Ph-ac., Phos., Petr., Sil.

>: From cold air and cold water;

<: Least mental exertion/motion/study/wet weather;

 

 

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