Muriaticum Acidum

► Unconsciousness. ► Moaning. ► Sitting quiet, sad and silent, with anxious care about the future. ► Irritable, disposed to anger and chagrin. ► Peevishness. ► Restlessness, frequently changing position.

► Vertigo : worse moving the eyes ; slightly worse walking, though this relieves headache with tottering gait. ► Dizzy, nauseated, 1 A.M., worse lying on right side or back. ► Heaviness in occiput, with obscure sight worse with effort to see ; also, with swollen glands.

► Headache in spells regularly every day, from 9 A.M. until 1 P.M. ; begins with soreness over left eye ; then in eyeball and left half of nose, forehead and temple, to back of head. ► Headache, as if the brain were torn or beaten to pieces ; worse moving the eyes or sitting up in bed ; better from moderate exercise. ► Headache, as if brain were clasped by a hand and was being twisted and torn. ► Steady, sharp pain in back part of head, with a heavy feeling, as if occiput were filled with lead. ► Headache from walking in open air, especially in cold wind. ► Distant talking causes headache.

► Stiff and sore : in occiput, worse when touched ; on left side of head and down spine, worse on lying. ► Tearing in the right parietal bone. ► Heat on top of head. ► Feels as if hair were standing on end.

► Perpendicular half sight. ► Obscured sight ; pain in occiput. ► Pupils contracted. ► Itching, smarting in canthi. ► Lids red, swollen. ► Stitches out of the eyes. ► Worse from light, better in the dark.

► Hardness of hearing ; loud cracking sounds during the night ; no cerumen ; dryness, peeling off in scales ; worse right ear. ► Distant sounds cause headache ; sound of voice unbearable. ► Want of feeling in the internal meatus. ► Tingling, humming, whizzing in the ear. ► Beating or knocking in the ear. ► Otalgia, with pressing pain. ► Tingling, creeping, cold pain, running from ears up to top of head, sharp boring in temporal regions. ► Dark ear-wax, with buzzing.

► Long-lasting nosebleed. ► Nosebleed. θ Whooping-cough. ► Coryza thin, acrid, making parts sore. ► Coryza, with thick yellow discharge. ► Discharge of thin pus from nose, excoriating the parts. ► Nose stopped up.

► Heat in face, glowing red cheeks when walking in open air ; no thirst. ► Sudden red face, with coma. θ Scarlatina. ► Red pimples on forehead, cheeks and around mouth, whole face red ; every summer. ► Scabs on face, forehead, temples. ► Pimples ; freckles.

► Lower jaw hangs down. ► Pimples around the mouth form a scurf. ► Burning lips. ► Bloated lower lip ; feels heavy, burns. ► Pain below left half of lower lip, from 4 P.M. till midnight.

► Toothache (pulsating) from cold drinks ; toothache, with earache. ► Tingling toothache ; better from warm applications. ► Gums swollen, bleeding, ulcerating. ► Teeth rise from their sockets.

► Everything tastes sweet. ► Taste acrid and putrid, like rotten eggs, with ptyalism. ► Tongue heavy as lead, hinders talking ; feels lame, sore. ► Tongue dwindles. ► Tongue sore, bluish ; contains deep ulcers : with black bases and vesicles.

► Stomacace of nursing children ; patch on right side of tongue, large and irregular, but very deep ; fetid breath. ► Stomatitis, with extreme dryness, swollen gums, great adynamia. ► Foul breath. θ Scarlatina. ► Mouth as if glued up with insipid mucus ; much saliva. ► Salivary glands tender, swollen.

► Rawness and smarting of fauces ; burning. ► Dry throat, with burning in the chest. ► Dark, bluish-red fauces in scarlet fever : 46.

► Excessive hunger and thirst. ► Aversion to meat. ► Morbid longing for alcoholic drinks. ► Thirst : 40.

► Hiccough (before and after dinner). ► Better after drinking. ► After eating : worse ; diarrhoea. ► Cold drinks : 40.

► Eructations : bitter, putrid. ► Vomiting, with belching, coughing ; involuntary swallowing ; gulping up of contents of stomach into oesophagus, sometimes going down again.

► Empty sensation in stomach extending through whole abdomen, but no hunger ; weak feeling in the stomach from 10 A.M. until evening.

► Pressing and tension in the hypochondria.

► Fulness and distention of abdomen, from small quantities of food. ► Rumbling and feeling of emptiness. ► Cramps in abdomen. ► Hernia.

► Stool : difficult, as from inactivity of the bowels ; too thin, but round ; thin, watery, involuntary, while urinating ; greenish in typhoid. ► Dysentery, blood and slime separated. ► Diarrhoea, with much wind ; worse morning and evening ; with intolerable anal itching, not relieved by scratching ; smarting and burning in anus. ► As soon as he begins to move, strong urging compelling haste ; stools profuse, dark, brown, greenish, gelatinous ; followed by dragging, heavy sensation in abdomen. ► Piles, suddenly, in children ; protruding, reddish-blue, burning ; too sore to bear the least touch. ► Prolapsus ani while urinating.

► Frequent and scanty urination. ► Frequent and profuse urination. ► Slow emission of urine ; bladder weak ; must wait a long time before urine will pass ; has to press so that anus protrudes. ► Urine involuntary. ► Urine red, violet ; milk-like. ► Burning, cutting, while urinating ; straining in urethra afterwards.

► Organs weak, penis relaxed. ► Impotency ; desire weak. ► Watery, blood gleet. ► Scrotum bluish red. ► Itching of scrotum, not relieved by scratching. ► Margin of prepuce sore.

► Pressing on genitals, as if menses would appear. ► Menses too early and profuse ; dejection of spirits ; silent, as if she would die ; colic ; sore piles. ► Ulcers on genitals, with putrid discharge, much sensitiveness and general weakness. ► Cannot bear least touch, not even of sheet on the genitals. ► Leucorrhoea with backache, sore anus from piles.

► Puerperal fever.

► Hoarseness : with sore feeling in the chest, with whooping-cough.

► Breathing deep, groaning ; moaning ; deep sighing. ► Breathing seems to come from the stomach. ► Short breath, with rattling after drinking, talking or coughing. ► Dyspnoea and constriction of chest. θ Whooping-cough. ► Oppression across the chest (evening).

► Rough, with rattling in chest, followed by cramp in the stomach ; short breath ; with heat in the face. ► Whooping-cough ; after the attacks, audible rumbling, gurgling down the chest. ► Whooping-cough excited by tickling in chest ; in afternoon and evening without, in morning, with a slight dislodgment of a yellow or watery mucus of a fatty taste, and which must be swallowed ; sometimes with expectoration of dark blood.

► Stitches in chest, and at heart, when taking a long breath and on violent motion ; burning stitches. ► Tension and pain on the sternum. ► Bursting pain in chest ; pain as if beaten.

► Palpitation of the heart felt in the face. ► Stitches in heart. ► Pulse slow and weak, sometimes intermitting ; slow during day, more frequent at night.

► Pressing pain in back, as from a sprain, or as if he had stopped long. ► Pressing, drawing, tired pain in lumbar region. ► Os coccyx pains.

► Heaviness of the arms, especially forearms. ► Scabby eruption on back, hands and fingers. ► Numbness, coldness and deadness of fingers at night. ► Swelling and burning of tips of finger. ► Itching of palms.

► Wavering gait from weakness of thighs. ► Pain in right thigh, with itching in anus. ► Oedematous swelling of lower limbs, with shooting pain. ► Lower limbs darker-colored. ► Putrid ulcers on lower extremities, with burning around them. ► Cold feet. ► Blue feet. θ Scarlatina. ► Chilblains (the acid in rum applied externally). ► Swelling, redness and burning of tips of toes.

► Tearing pains in limbs during rest, better from motion. ► All the joints as if bruised. ► Pressive drawing in upper arms and knees.

► Prostration and drowsiness all day ; she wants to lie about. ► Great debility ; as soon as he sits down his eyes close ; the lower jaws hang down ; he slides down in bed. ► Paralysis generally one-sided. ► Paralyzed tongue and sphincter ani.

► Sleepy during day, going off as soon as one moves about. ► Sleepless before 12 P.M. delirious tossing, sliding down in bed. ► Restless after going to bed, could not sleep before 12 P.M. ; groaning, snoring, talking in sleep. ► Worse on waking.

► More chill than heat. ► Chill awakens him in the morning. ► Evening chill, with coldness in back, external warmth and burning face. ► Shivering all over, with hot cheeks and cold hands. ► Chill and heat without thirst, rarely, there is thirst in cold stage. ► Internal heat, wants to uncover ; bodily restlessness. ► Heat at night, with palpitation of the heart. ► Burning, mostly in palms and soles. ► Sweat during first sleep until 12 P.M., worse head and back. ► Night and morning sweats. ► Cold sweat on the feet, evening in bed. ► Worse when sweating ; taciturn ; wants to uncover. ► Intermittent fever, with periosteal pains. ► Typhus : stupid sleep ; while awake unconscious ; loud moaning ; lower jaw dropped ; tongue shrunken, dry, like leather ; involuntary stools while passing urine ; sliding down in bed ; bleeding from anus ; pulse intermits every third beat.

► Regularly every day from 9 A.M. till 1 P.M. : 3.

► Loss of bodily irritability. ► Tearing and stitches through whole body.

► Touch : 4, 20, 23, 46. Scratching : 20, 22.

► Painful putrid ulcers (lower legs), with burning at their circumference. ► Eruption of pimples, forming scurfs on forehead, outer ear, lips hands or back of fingers ; itching when getting warm in bed. ► Blood-boils, pricking when touched. ► Ulcers painful, deep, putrid ; covered with scurf. ► Black pocks. ► Scarlatina : redness intense and rapidly spreading ; eruption scanty, interspersed with petechiae ; skin purplish.

► Black eyes, dark hair.

► Follows well after Rhus, Bryon. ► Mur. ac. antidotes : Opium. Cures the muscular weakness following excessive use of opium. ► Antidotes to Mur. ac. Large doses : carbonate of soda, potassa, lime or magnesia ; also, sapo, medicinalis, small doses : Camphor., Bryon.