Compare Aceticum
acidum and Arsenicum album
and Ferrum metallicum
[Sylvain Cazalet]
Aceticum acidum. dapted to persons of lax
muscular fibre; pale, anæmic, chlorotic,
with more or less rapid wasting of the body.
Hæmorrhages
active or passive: nose, bronchi, lungs, stomach, bowels, genitalia.
Diarrha:
profuse, exhausting; in ascites, diabetes, typhoid,
typhus, tuberculosis.
In any
affections, the characteristic indications for will be found in the following:
These are
the 3 points of support for this remedy; it matters little what the name of the
disease is, a host of minor ailments revolving about them as satellites about a
planet, will often be promptly dissipated by a few doses
of this
medicine.
In the marasmus which occurs during the first summer of teething
children, we have found Acetic acid exceedingly useful.
Loss of
appetite, the child drinks much and often, pain in stomach and abdomen, diarrha with stool of undigested food restless or
sleepless nights and great emaciation, with sometimes swollen dematous legs. To this
picture add
the characteristics of the remedy and an apparently desperate case will be
promptly restored. Here a comparison with Arsenicum
or Iodine maybe necessary.
In myelitis, or cerebro-spinal
meningitis, when the pain in the back only > lying prone, this remedy should
always be thought of.
Acetic acid
causes and cures menorrhagia. In some parts of the
west the servant girls are in the habit of taking a tablespoonful of strong
vinegar to check the menstrual flow, if the unwelcome "visitors",
should occur when
"a
party" or other festivity is to be attended. It will promptly check the
flow for a few hours or days, as the case may be, when a menorrhagia
wilt take place of the normal flow, or nature may find relief in a hæmorrhage of
the lungs,
stomach or bowels.
The gastric
symptoms are often valuable ; violent burning pain in stomach ; cannot bear the
slightest pressure ; sensation as if an ulcer were in the stomach, or as if its
contents were in a constant ferment. This may be +
sour eructations soar vomiting, profuse salivation and water
brash day and night and call for its use in morning sickness, gastric ulcer,
etc., and provided the three characteristics are present, prompt and permanent
relief may follow.
Ars.:
usually thought of and generally given in many of the before mentioned affections,
instead of Acetic acid; and we are often astonished at our failure. A careful
comparison would have promptly excluded it.
Ars. has
emaciation, great prostration, marked debility and intense, burning thirst, and
while in these particulars there is striking correspondence.
Difference:
The thirst of Ars. almost invariably "little and
often" and when a large quantity is taken it is almost certain to be
rejected or to produce nausea and vomiting, which never occurs under Acetic
acid. The mental restlessness of the debilitated Arsenic patient is not found in
Acetic acid.
Arsenic diarrha: different: like the thirst of Arsenic the uterine
discharge is scanty; it is painful and followed by great prostration;
Acetic acid:
profuse, watery, painless.
Ferr-met.:
has the ashy pale face of the anæmic or chlorotic patient (ext. to the lips, tongue and mucous
membrane of entire buccal cavity/rarely found under
Acetic acid).
The earthy
pale face is subject to congestions, becomes easily flushed and bright red,
from mental emotion, pain or other symptoms, which is never found under Acetic acid.
Ferrum
has watery, painless, even involuntary diarrha; or diarrha of undigested food; < at or after a meal/drinking
cold water; while that of Acetic acid is not affected by eating or drinking. It
has profuse, debilitating, long-lasting sweat; clammy, stains yellow, strong
smelling, fetid on going to sleep, < motion, may occur by day as well as
night and always < when sweating.
Vorwort/Suchen. Zeichen/Abkürzungen. Impressum.