Compare
Aceticum acidum and Arsenicum album and Ferrum metallicum
[Sylvain Cazalet]
Aceticum acidum adapted 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:
1.
Intense,
burning, insatiable thirst, even after drinking large quantities of water.
2.
Passing
large quantities of clear, watery urine, both day and night.
3.
Profuse
night sweats with great debility and marked emaciation.
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.
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 sour 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.