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..
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.
Mineral Acids
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
[???]
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.
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;
Vorwort/Suchen Zeichen/Abkürzungen Impressum