Muriaticum Acidum
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General EN
Muriaticum Acidum.
Hydrochloric acid. HCl. First dilutions with distilled water.
Clinical EN
Anus, prolapse of. Chilblains. Chorea. Deafness (cerebral). Diphtheria. Enteric fever. Ephelis. Feet, soles, pains in. Gastric disorders. Haemorrhoids. Hemiopia. Impotence. Measles. Mercurial ulceration. Mouth, aphthae; psoriasis of tongue; ulcers. Scarlatina. Scurvy. Tendo Achillis, affections of. Tongue, affections of; psoriasis of. Typhus. Varices. Whooping-cough.
Characteristics EN
The popular name of Mur. ac., "Spirit of Salt," describes at once its nature and origin. It is a colourless gas, with a pungent, suffocating odour, and acid taste, and it is manufactured from Salt (Nat. m.) by the action of sulphuric acid. It is freely soluble in water, and the saturated solution contains 43 per cent. of the gas. Teste, who did much to define the powers of Mur. ac., groups with it Agn. cast. and Hyos., and he considers its action corresponds perfectly to a typical case of typhus.
Among the common features of the group he gives; Stupefying headache. Obscuration of sight and optical illusions. Whizzing noises in the ears and hardness of hearing.
Nose-bleed and loss of smell. Rough, cracked lips, and foul breath. Scurvy of mouth. Paralysis of tongue.
Loss of taste. Distended, sensitive abdomen, pricking, bruised pain in abdominal walls. Serous, fetid diarrhoea, not very painful. Involuntary stool.
Throat pains. Paralysis of bladder. Excited sexual desire. Impotence.
Hoarseness, spasmodic cough. Stitches about heart. Fever with stinging heat, frequent, small, intermittent pulse, earthy or livid skin. Like Nit. ac., Mur. ac. is a powerful antidote to Merc., and it meets conditions caused by Mercury, and also similar conditions otherwise arising.
Like other disinfectants, it causes as well as remedies rapid decomposition of tissue, and dynamically cures low putrid conditions met with in disease. The distinctive features of Mur. ac. are: Muscular prostration from blood-poisoning going on to paralysis, finally of brain or heart. Burning is a great feature in its symptomatology, as its escharotic powers might suggest—ulcers (especially their margins), eruptions, piles, varices, stomach, and abdomen. It sours the excretions and makes them acrid.
Offensive secretions, offensive breath and body-smell; and it is indicated in fevers of all kinds, exanthematous, typhoid, puerperal as well as diphtheria, when these symptoms with the mental and paretic state are present. The mucous membranes are dry, bleeding, cracked, and ulcerated. Sordes on teeth. Burning, and burning eruptions on lips.
Piles like a bunch of grapes which look purple and burn when touched. Prolapse of rectum, whilst straining to pass water. Urination involuntary or difficult; there is straining and dribbling, and the straining causes the rectum to prolapse; it may also cause involuntary stool. This may be due to local conditions, or it may be a consequence of a low state of health.
Mur. ac. not only corresponds to low febrile states it also meets many of their sequelae. Deafness, otitis, and glandular swellings about the ears often require Mur. ac. Among the peculiar sensations of the remedy are: Hair, as if drawn upwards; as if standing on end. Brain: as if loose; beaten or tom to pieces; brain clasped by a hand, and bruised and tom.
Occiput as if filled with lead. Mouth as if glued up with insipid mucus. As if some obstruction must be pulled out of throat. Burning as if under skin of coccyx.
As if place was jammed in in tendo-Achillis. Deadness and numbness in forehead, in fingers. The tongue is shrunken; and paralysed. The parched, shrunken tongue is an indication in typhoid or other fevers. [Mur. ac. has a marked action on the tongue.
Cooper cured with it these cases: (1) Man, 52, whose sister had died of cancer, had a hard, deep, warty ulcer, size of a small bean on under surface of tongue, l. side, with much surrounding hardness and little discharge. (2) Tongue swollen, makes him talk thick, much ulcerated, especially r. side, is hard, with swelling followed by lupoid ulcer, on corresponding side of nose; had been going on ten months.] Tendency "to slide down to the foot of the bed" was noted by Hahnemann and has been amply confirmed.
It indicates an extremely low vital condition. Mur. ac. is suited to persons of black hair and dark eyes. The skin is much affected, and is sensitive to the sun's rays—eczema solare and freckles. Black pocks.
Blind boils frothy when touched. The symptoms are: < By touch. The itching of anus and scrotum is not > by scratching. Warmth >; cold washing, cold drinks <.
Cold wind and open air > headache. > Uncovering (during fever). < Evening and night. Rest < most symptoms.
Lying on r. side < vertigo. Motion < vertigo; > tearing pains. < After sleep.
< After eating (diarrhoea). > After drinking.
Relations EN
Antidoted by: Carbonates of alkalies and earths (poisoning cases); to small doses: Camph., Bry. (Teste says the surest antidote is Ipec.). It antidotes: Merc., Opium. It "cures the muscular weakness following the excessive use of Opium" (Hering).
It follows well: Bry., Merc., Rhus. Compare: In typhoid states, Bry. (Bry. has < motion), Rhus (restlessness, > by motion; Rhus has less debility), Phos. ac.
(Phos. ac. has less prostration, is apathetic, indifferent, Mur. ac. taciturn), Apis (Apis has blisters on tongue, and it catches teeth when attempt is made to protrude it), Ars. (Ars. has scanty evacuations), Bapt. (Bapt., has besotted look, tongue red on edges), Bell. (Bell. more active, hyperaemia), K. permang.
(throat symptoms, oedematous uvula), Sul. ac. (Sul. ac. has not > uncovering), Gels. (with Gels. the muscular prostration is expressed, with Mur. ac. it is unconscious), Nit. ac. (thin, excoriating discharge from nose, intermittent pulse and loss of appetite), Arum tri.
Piles during menses, Amm. c., Collins., Graph., Pho., Pul., Sul. Piles sensitive, Bell., Caust. Early morning hunger, Ant. c., Calc., Saba., Lyc. Cannot bear the thought or sight of meat, Nit. ac.
Irritable, disposed to anger and chagrin, Nux. Cracked lips; sore mouth; < after sleep, Nat. m.; coryza, Chlorum. Tendo-Achillis, affection of, Val.
Mur. ac. is a constituent of the gastric juice, and must therefore be considered as allied to the Sarcodes and proximate principle of the tissues, e.g., Cholesterin.
Causation EN
Sun.
Mind EN
Sadness
Taciturnity and reserve, anxiety, apprehension and peevishness
Indecision and inquietude
Ideas respecting recent events crowd upon the mind during labour
Disposition to be angry and to give way to passion
Unconsciousness.
Head EN
Turning vertigo;
< moving eyes; with staggering gait
Headache provoked by walking in open air, and esp. by a sharp wind
Headache, < by rising up in bed, and by moving the eyes > by moving the body), disappearing on taking exercise
Heaviness, esp. in occiput, with cloudiness of eyes, greatly < by looking intently at an object
Jerking, beating, tearing from l. half of occiput to forehead; soon same on r.—(Pressure on vertex, dimness of sight, faint feeling coming irregularly; sickish after meals, bad taste and fatigue on waking; thinks some one is walking behind, and cannot stir out alone.)
Heavy feeling in occiput, with drawing stitches, < r. side close to nape, with swollen gland tender to touch; intoxicated feeling at same time
Headache as if brain were bruised, torn, or demolished
Feeling as if brain were loose
Tearing and stitches in head, coming on in periodical shocks
Feeling of failing asleep and deadness
Tearing in r. parietal bone
Shocks, tearings, or shootings in head.
Eyes EN
Itching smarting in canthi
Itching in eyes
Stitches out of eyes
Shootings across eyes
Swelling and redness of eyelids
Vertical hemiopia.—(Neuralgia over l. eye, hemiopia and double vision, which is always followed by headache, numbness down r. arm and aphasia
R.
T.
C.)
Ears EN
Otalgia (with pressive pain), like spasmodic and acute pullings
Pulsation in ears
Insensibility of auditory tube
Scabious eruptions in ears
Hardness of hearing and deafness
Acuteness of hearing, with sensibility to noise
Ticking of watch is heard better than the voice (cerebral deafness)
Tinkling, buzzing, and whistling before the ears.
Nose EN
Ulceration of nostrils
Sore nostrils with stinging pain
Obstruction of nose
Coryza, with thick yellow, or serous and corrosive mucus
Continuous bleeding from nose
Coryza, with itching, tickling, and sneezing.
Face EN
Heat in face, with burning redness of cheeks, when walking in open air, without thirst
Ephelis
Eruption of scabious pimples on face, forehead, and temples; whole face red; every summer
Furuncules on temple
Burning in lips
Puffiness of lower lip, it feels heavy and burns
Eruptions on lips, sometimes covered with scabs.
Teeth EN
Odontalgia, with pulsative pain, < by cold drinks, > by heat
Toothache, with sensation of pressing asunder
Tingling in teeth
Scorbutic gums, swollen, easily bleeding and ulcerating.
Mouth EN
Dryness of mouth, with paralysis of tongue
Profuse accumulation of saliva
Heaviness of tongue, when speaking, as if it were made of lead, which prevents him from talking
Deep-seated ulcers (with black base), vesicles, or pustules on tongue
Small tumours r. side of tongue
The tongue becomes sore and bluish
The tongue dwindles (atrophy of tongue).—(Psoriasis of tongue.)
Mucous lining of the lips, and mouth inflamed, red, raw, painful, dotted with whitish points; fetid breath; stomatitis
Parched tongue.
Throat EN
Sore throat, with pain as from excoriation, rawness, and smarting in throat and palate
Dry throat with burning in chest
Mucous lining of throat and fauces deep dark red, swollen and burning; covered with greyish-white diphtheritic-like deposits
Swelling of uvula; of tonsils
Much saliva that must be swallowed
Attempting to swallow produces violent spasms and choking.
Appetite EN
Taste of rancid grease in throat
Acrid and putrid taste (like rotten eggs, with ptyalism) in throat
All food has a sweetish taste, and esp. beer, which is disliked
Bulimy and excessive thirst
Dislike to meat
Appetite lost.
Stomach EN
Risings, putrid or bitter
Hiccough (before and after dinner)
Vomiting of food
Vomiting of bile, at night, with nausea and eructations
Uneasiness in stomach, as indicating serious illness
Sensation of emptiness in the stomach and oesophagus, not > by eating
Contractive pain in stomach, with sensation as if it were retracted
Pressive tension and cramp-like pain in hypochondria.
Abdomen EN
Uneasiness in abdomen, as in serious illness
Fulness and inflation of the abdomen; from small quantities of food
Cramp-like pains in abdomen, with cuttings and pinchings, extending from umbilical region into sides, accompanied by borborygmi
Sensation of emptiness in abdomen
Lancination in groins.
Stool And Anus EN
Difficult evacuations of faeces, as from inactivity of rectum
Faeces of too small a size
Diarrhoea, with smarting and burning in rectum and anus
Stercoral diarrhoea
Involuntary evacuation of liquid and serous faeces when urinating
Discharge of blood during stools
Prolapsus recti, when urinating
Itching in anus
Haemorrhoids protruding like a bunch of grapes
Swollen and bluish haemorrhoidal excrescences, with burning pain as from excoriation;
< by touch
Bleeding haemorrhoids.
Urinary Organs EN
Tenesmus of bladder
Frequent want to urinate, with abundant emission
Immoderate emission of aqueous urine
Slow emission of urine
Weakness of bladder
Involuntary discharge of urine
Relaxation of bladder, and of neck of bladder.
Male Sexual Organs EN
Excoriation of prepuce
Soreness in the margin of prepuce
Itching of scrotum not > by scratching
Suppression of sexual desire
Feeling of weakness in genital organs, penis relaxed
Impotence.
Female Sexual Organs EN
Sensation of a bearing down towards genital organs, as if preparatory to catamenia
During menses sad and taciturn
Ulcers in genitals, with putrid discharge, much sensitiveness and general weakness
Cannot bear the least touch even of sheets on genitals
Too early catamenia, and too profuse.
Respiratory Organs EN
Hoarseness, with sore feeling in chest
Chronic hoarseness
Violent and sobbing cough, followed by a gurgling in bottom of chest
Breathing deep and groaning; moaning.
Chest EN
Deep respiration with groans
Lancinating pains in chest, during a violent movement, and during inspiration
Tensive pain in sternum
Incisive shocks in chest, with dull pressure on posterior part of chest, and with oppression
Oppression across chest (evening).
Heart And Pulse EN
Stitches in chest, and on heart, when taking a long breath and on violent motion
Pulse rapid and very feeble; and small
Shootings in region of heart
Shock in heart at night, so violent that it is felt in face.
Back EN
Aching pain in back, as from having been bent double for a long time, or from a strain
Shootings in shoulder-blades
Furunculi in back.
Upper Limbs EN
Paralytic weakness, and wrenching pain in shoulder
Heaviness of arms, esp. the forearms
Tearing, aching, and pulling in arms
Drawing tension in elbow-joint
Cramp-like drawings and heaviness in forearm
Incisive tearing in forearm, hands, and fingers
Voluptuous itching and tickling, and lancinating, in palms
Scabby eruption on back of hand, and upper part of fingers
Cramp-like pain in fleshy part of thumb when writing
Swelling of extremity of fingers, with burning
Nocturnal torpor and paleness of fingers, which are as if dead.
Lower Limbs EN
Tearing and cramp-like pulling in thighs
Wavering gait from weakness of the thighs
Itching, tettery spots on thighs
Swelling of knees
Drawing tension in calf of leg, and in tendo-Achillis, when walking
Lancinations in tendo-Achillis, day and night, which hinder walking and sleeping
Putrid, painful ulcers in legs, with burning in their circumference
Coldness of feet
Swelling and redness of extremity of toes, with burning.
Generalities EN
[This remedy is often called for in cases where the patient cannot urinate without having the bowels moved at the same time; in typhus or low grades of fever where we find this symptom with great prostration; patient may think he is going to pass a little wind, when urine will come away also Haemorrhoids very tender to the touch, so much so that he can scarcely bear to use paper after an evacuation; after confinement, haemorrhoids protrude so that the pressure of a sheet can scarcely be borne
In low types of fever the patient often slips down toward the foot of the bed, and must be lifted up every little while Cannot bear the sight or thought of meat, it is so distasteful Urine too copious, both night and day Affections in general, of any kind, appearing in the tendo-Achillis; the soles of the feet
Scurvy, particularly if the parts affected are very sore and tender to the touch Itching of the skin > by scratching Putrid ulcers H.
N. G.] Tearing and incisive (rheumatic) pains in limbs, during repose, > during movement Restlessness; frequent changing of position
Contusive pains in all joints Painful sensibility of periosteum of bones, as in intermittent fever Coldness of extremities Dropsical swellings
Indolence and dread of movement, with inclination to remain seated Excessive depression; on sitting down, the eyelids close; the lower jaw hangs down, he slides down in bed Tottering gait, from weakness of thighs and knees Great sensitiveness to damp weather
Paralysis of tongue and sphincter ani.
Skin EN
Itching, voluptuous and lancinating tickling, with want to scratch
Scabious eruptions, which itch in heat of bed
Furunculi, with shooting pain when they are touched
Putrid and painful ulcers, with burning at margins
Fetid odour of ulcers; also they are covered with a scurf
Black pustules.
Sleep EN
Great drowsiness during day, which disappears on taking exercise
Sleeplessness before midnight
Before midnight, continued snoring, groaning, tossing, talking, and tendency to slide downwards in bed
Frequent and early waking, caused by a coldness that is felt in bed
Anxious dreams.
Fever EN
Predominant sensation of cold
Shivering, with yawning and stretching, without thirst, and not followed by heat
Chill in the evening, with coldness in back, with external warmth and burning in face
Shuddering over whole body, with hot cheeks and cold hands
Burning heat, esp. in palms and soles
Night and morning sweat
In evening, the perspiration is first cold on the feet
Typhus fever, lower jaw hangs down, atrophy of tongue, involuntary watery stools when passing urine, great debility, with sliding down in bed, loud moaning
Heat without thirst, with agitation, and desire to throw off clothes at night
Pulse weak and slow
Intermittent pulse, every third beat
Nocturnal sweat, on going to sleep in evening, or before midnight, esp. on head and back.