Nitricum Acidum

► Weak memory, aversion to mental exertion. ► Taciturn. ► Sadness, despondency. ► Anxious about his diseases, with fear of death ; fear of cholera. ► Vindicative ; attacks of rage, with curses and maledictions. ► Nervous, excitable, especially after abuse of mercury.

► Felt dizzy, dull, stupid. ► Vertigo, morning, must lie down. ► Congestion to head, with much heat in it.

► Head sensitive to rattling of wagons over paved streets, or to stepping hard. ► Pressing from without ; tension extending to eyes, with nausea ; worse from noise ; better on lying down or from carriage riding. ► Stitches in head, compelling one to lie down ; disturbing sleep. ► Piercing in temples. ► Violent throbbing, hammering on left side of head, coming gradually, towards morning, and going off about breakfast time.

► Pain in skull, with sensation as if constricted by a tape ; worse evening and night better from cold air and while riding in a carriage. ► Head very sensitive, even to pressure of the hat ; worse in the evening and on part lain on. ► Head feels hot. ► Inflammatory swelling on scalp, suppurating or becoming carious worse from external pressure, or when lying thereon. ► Red pimples, some brownish, on anterior border of hair and on temples. ► Humid, stinging eruption on vertex and temples, down also to whiskers ; bleeding easily when scratched, and feeling very sore when lain on. ► Single, burning, moist sores on scalp. θ Syphilis. ► Hair falls off, with humid eruptions, paining as from splinters ; or, when touched ; nervous headaches, debility and emaciation.

► Black spots before the eyes. ► Very sensitive to light. ► Double vision ; shortsightedness. ► Pupils dilated and dim. ► Eyes inflamed ; after syphilis or abuse of mercury. ► Iritis, which continually relapses ; also old cases spoiled by mercury. ► Pressure and stinging in the eyes. ► Spots on the cornea. ► Staphyloma, as a preventive. ► Eyes dim, sunken. ► Region of eyes painful, sore to the touch. ► Herpetic pannus. ► Eyelids swollen, hard, livid. ► Paralysis of upper lids. ► Fistula lachrymalis. ► Flow of irritating tears, after injury of the eye. ► Dermoid swellings of the eyes.

► One's speech echoes in the ears. ► Beating, humming in the ears. ► Cracking in the ears when masticating. ► Hardness of hearing, from induration and swelling of tonsils ; after abuse of mercury. ► Eustachian tubes obstructed. ► Terribly offensive, purulent otorrhoea. ► Throbbing in the ear. ► Auditory canal nearly closed. ► Caries of mastoid process.

► Disagreeable smell on inhaling air. ► Nosebleed, mornings ; black, clotted ; also when weeping ; blood acrid. ► Sneezing during sleep. ► Nose obstructed with dry coryza, or with dropping of water ; wings of nose swollen, burning. ► Fetid, yellow, nasal discharge. ► Ozaena, with ulcers. ► Corroding nasal discharge. ► Stitch in the nose as from a splinter. ► Tip of nose red, scurfy. ► Condylomata on nose. ► Large, soft protuberances on alae, covered with crusts. θ Syphilis. ► Dirty, bloody mucus from posterior nares. ► Green casts from the nose every morning.

► Pale, eyes sunken. ► Dark yellow about eyes, with red cheeks. ► Swelling of the cheeks. ► Bloated around the eyes on waking early. ► Rush over the face and forehead, small pimples. ► Suppurating pustules, with broad, red circumferences, forming crusts. θ Syphilis. ► Comedones. ► Freckles.

► Swollen lips. ► Under-lip dry, cracked. ► Margin of mouth covered with sores and blisters. ► Corners of mouth ulcerated. ► Painful swelling of submaxillary gland.

► Pulsating, stinging in teeth, evening in bed and all night, after abuse of mercury. ► Teeth feel elongated. ► Teeth become yellow or loose. ► Pain in hollow teeth. ► Gums white, swollen, bleeding.

► Taste : bitter after eating ; sour, with burning in the throat. ► Tongue : sensitive, even and mild food causes smarting ; white, dry, mornings ; coated green, with ptyalism, dry, fissured. ► Deep, irregular-shaped ulcers on the edge of the tongue. θ Syphilis. ► Ulceration of tongue, with tough, ropy mucus. ► Tongue white, with sore spots.

► Cadaverous smell from the mouth. ► Saliva fetid, acrid, makes lips sore. ► Saliva bloody. ► Mucous membrane of mouth swollen, ulcerated ; with pricking pains, especially after abuse of mercury. ► Tumor in the mouth, with a streak down the neck.

► Palate, tongue, inside of gums sore, with stinging pain and ulceration of corners of mouth. ► Stitches in the throat, dry coryza, hoarseness. ► Tonsils red swollen, uneven, with small ulcers thereon. ► Dry throat, heat ; gums sore. ► Diphtheritic membrane on tonsils and fauces ; extending to the nose ; terrible fetor, intermittent pulse ; swollen parotids. ► Pricking as from a splinter in the throat ; worse when swallowing.

► Longing for : fat ; herring ; chalk ; line ; earth. ► Averse to meat and bread. ► Loss of appetite. ► Thirst violent in morning. θ Tuberculosis, suppuration of lungs.

► During and after eating, sweat. ► Chokes while eating. ► After eating ; fulness in stomach, debility from least exertion, heat, palpitation ; heavy weight in stomach. ► Fat food causes nausea and acidity. ► Milk disagrees.

► Much nausea, cannot take food ; vomits occasionally. ► Nausea, with heat in the stomach, extending to the throat. ► Nausea better from moving about or carriage riding. ► Bitter and sour vomiting, with much eructation ; vomiting yellow mucus.

► Stitches in the pit of the stomach. ► Pain in cardiac orifice on swallowing food. ► Burning distress.

► Chronic derangement of the liver ; icterus. ► Liver enormously enlarged ; clay-colored stools. ► Spleen large after yellow fever.

► Awakened at midnight, with crampy pains in small intestines ; chilly ; pain more if he moved. ► Incarcerated flatulency in upper part of abdomen worse morning and evening. ► Abdomen distended with flatulence, very tender. ► Cutting-pinching, worse in the morning in bed. ► Gurgling in left side of abdomen ; cold feet ; fetor oris. ► Pain in abdomen when walking ; must bend over ; pain settles in ileo-caecal region ; dull, sore, tender. ► Inguinal hernia ; also of children. ► Burning over whole abdomen, 2 to 3 P.M. ► Stinging soreness when touched. ► Swelling and suppuration of inguinal glands. ► Inflamed buboes.

► Desire for stool, but little passes ; feels as if it stayed in the rectum and could not be expelled. ► Ineffectual urging to stool ; colic. ► Stools hard, preceded by great pressure, followed by mucus discharges. ► Burning in rectum towards the perineum, with ineffectual urging ; straining without stool ; diphtheritic dysentery. ► Sero-croupous discharge, with much straining. ► Stools : bloody, with tenesmus ; or mucus ; putrid, mucous ; undigested ; loose, much flatulence, rumbling ; of yellow-white fluid ; loose mornings ; green, slimy acrid diarrhoea. ► Hemorrhage bright red, not clotted ; faint from least motion ; ulcers in ileo-caecal region. ► Piles : old, pendulous, ceased bleeding, but pain when touched, worse in warm weather ; slimy, fissured ; bleed after every stool. ► Fissures in rectum ; tearing, spasmodic symptoms during stool ; lancinating after, even after soft stools. ► Moisture about the anus.

► Cold when it passes ; scanty, dark brown, smelling strong like horse's urine ; turbid, looks like remains in a cider barrel. ► While urinating, smarting-burning in urethra. ► Haematuria ; urging after, and shuddering along the spine, during urination ; blood flows actively. ► Incontinence of urine. ► Spasms of the urethra ; rectal fissure. ► Ulcers in urethra ; bloody, mucous or purulent discharge.

► Sexual desire too strong. ► No desire ; want of erections. ► Painful spasmodic erections at night. ► Hard, brown nodules on scrotum, suppurating. ► Brown-red spots, peeling off on discharging. ► Gonorrhoea, with chancres, or warts. ► Small blisters on orifice of urethra and inner surface of prepuce, forming chancre-like ulcers. θ Gonorrhoea. ► Ulcers deep, fistulous, irregular, ragged ; edges often raised, lead-colored ; bleed easily when touched. θ Syphilis. ► Secondary syphilis ; 4, 5, 7, 13, 33, 46. ► Phimosis. ► Chancres after mercury, especially with exuberant granulations. ► Condylomata. ► Falling off the hair from genitals.

► After coitus, mucous lining of genitals itches voluptuously ; excrescences on uterus. ► Pressing down in hypogastrium and small of back, as though everything would protrude ; pain down thighs ; abdomen feels swollen. ► Uterine hemorrhage from overexertion of body. ► Menses : early, irregular, scanty, and like muddy water ; early and profuse ; aching from the thighs ; urine offensive. ► During menses eructations, cramp-like pain in the abdomen, as if it would burst. ► Profuse, brown, offensive discharge between the irregular menstruations. θ Cancer uteri. ► Leucorrhoea : of ropy mucus ; of green mucus ; of flesh-colored ; acrid, brown, offensive. ► Stitches up the vagina, or from without inward, when walking in the open air. ► Itching, swelling and burning of vulva and vagina. ► Excrescences on cervix uteri.

► Metrorrhagia after abortion or confinement. ► Hard nodes on mammae. ► Atrophy of the mammae.

► Hoarseness : with coryza, from long talking ; scratching and stinging in throat. ► Large, broad condylomata in the larynx.

► Awakens often all stopped up with mucus, must expectorate before he can breathe easily. ► Losses her breath and speech, she is so weak. θ Uterine displacement. ► Intermittent breathing. ► Short breath, panting during work.

► Dry, barking, from tickling in larynx and pit of stomach : worse at night, also in day when lying down. ► Sputa of blood mixed with clots during the day. ► Cough : dry, sputum is raised with difficulty in the morning, followed by greenish-white casts, as if from air-cells. θ Secondary syphilis. ► Sputa are yellow, acrid, bitter ; sour offensive. ► Empyema, with considerable muco-purulent sputum.

► Uneasiness in chest. ► Congestion to chest, with anxiety, heat and palpitation. ► Cramp-like pains in chest. ► Stitches in chest, right side. ► Chest sore when coughing or breathing. ► Soreness at lower end of sternum. ► Pain suddenly abates, yet pulse becomes smaller and quicker. θ Pneumonia. θ Pleurisy of cold air cachectic people. ► Lungs attacked, rattling breathing, loose cough ; sputum brown, bloody ; pulse irregular. θ Typhus. ► Threatened paralysis of the lungs. θ Typhus.

► Palpitation and anguish, on going up stairs. ► Pulse : irregular ; one normal, followed by two small rapid beats ; fourth beat intermits ; alternate hard, rapid and small beats.

► Swelling of cervical and axillary glands. ► Stitches in and between scapulae ; neck stiff. ► Pain in back and small of back ; from cold. ► Neuralgic pains up the back, particularly left side.

► Aching in right shoulder and arm ; arm feels bruised ; at times she cannot raise it. ► Rheumatic pains mostly in forearms and fingers. ► Numbness, trembling, tingling, of right forearm. ► Swelling of finger-joints, stinging pains. ► Hands go to sleep in the morning. ► Numerous large warts on back of hand. ► Herpes between fingers. ► White spots on nails.

► Hip as if sprained, with limping. ► Pain across both buttocks. ► Rheumatic pains in legs and feet. ► Soreness along the periosteum on the tibia. ► Pain in patella, impeding walking ; stiffness and stitches in knees. ► Violent cramp in calf ; at night and when walking after sitting. ► Itching of shins, bleeding when scratched ; small scabs form. ► Foul-smelling foot-sweat. ► Chilblains on the toes.

► Limbs restless in evening.

► Excessive physical irritability. ► Hysteria. ► Twitching in various parts. ► Great weakness ; trembling ; shocks on going to sleep ; depressed in spirits. ► Great debility, heaviness and trembling of limbs, especially in the morning.

► Drowsy all day from debility, with vertigo. ► Difficulty of going to sleep. ► Shocks on dropping to sleep. ► Pains felt during sleep. ► Sleeps badly latter part of night. ► On awaking feels as if he had not slept enough.

► Chill afternoon and evening, and after lying down. ► Continuous chilliness. ► Chilly, with internal heat. ► Chilly morning in bed after previous heat. ► Awakens at midnight chilly ; worse from uncovering or moving ; later hot, prickling all over as from needles. ► No thirst during cold or hot stage. ► Heat on hands and face. ► Heat dry, internal at night, wants to uncover. ► Heat in flushes, with sweaty hands. ► Heat, with sweat and debility after eating. ► Sweat sour, offensive, like urine. ► Sweat on soles of feet makes them sore. ► Copious night-sweats. ► Chill afternoon ; then short heat over whole body ; afterwards profuse sweat over whole body. ► Intermittent fever ; chill afternoon while in open air, followed by dry heat when in bed, accompanied by all sorts of fancies while in a state of half waking, without sleep ; sleep and sweat only come on towards morning. ► Chronic cases, liver diseased, patient anaemic ; general cachectic condition.

► Pricking as from splinters. ► Gnawing here and there as from ulcers forming.

► Hemorrhages bright, profuse ; or dark. ► Putrid decomposition. ► Emaciation. ► Cracking in the joints. ► Glands inflamed, swollen, suppurating. ► Caries.

► Skin dry. ► Skin dark, dirty ; brown-red spots. ► Burning hot skin ; fine miliary rash. θ Scarlatina. ► Itching nettle-rash in open air. ► Blood-boils. ► Carbuncles. ► Rhagades, deep, bleeding. ► Frost-bites, itching ; inflamed from slight degree of cold ; skin cracked. ► Ulcers bleed when touched ; stinging pains ; feeling as of a splinter ; edges hard, everted and irregular ; exuberant granulations ; after mercury or in secondary syphilis. ► Condylomata moist, like cauliflower, hard, rhagadic, or in thin pedicles.

► Dark complexioned, and old people.

► Nitr. ac. follows well after : Calc. carb., Hepar, Kali carb., Natr. carb., Pulsat., Sulphur, Thuja. ► After Nitr. ac ; Calc. carb., Pulsat., Sulphur are frequently indicated. ► Nitr. ac. : complementary to Calad. ► Antidotes to Nitr. ac., Calc. carb., Hepar, Mercur., Mezer., Sulphur. ► Nitr. ac. relieves ailments from : Calcar., Digit., abuse of mercury. ► Inimical : Laches.