Aceticum Acidum
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General EN
Aceticum Acidum.
Glacial Acetic Acid. HC2 H3 O2. (Distilled water is used for attenuations 1x and 1; very dilute spirit for 3x and up to 4; rectified spirit for 5 and higher.)
Clinical EN
Anaemia. Anaesthetics, antidote to. Ascarides. Burns. Corns. Croup. Debility. Diabetes. Diphtheria. Dropsies. Fevers. Hydrophobia. Naevi. Narcotics, antidote to. Phthisis. Sausage-poisoning, antidote to. Scalds. Stings. Stomach, cancer of. Varicosis. Warts.
Characteristics EN
The leading features of acetic acid are excessive wasting and debility; anaemia with waxy pallor of face; intense thirst; burning in throat; nausea, retching, and sour rising as met with in cases of cancer and debility. There are gnawing, ulcerative pains in stomach; pain and burning in abdomen. Profuse, exhausting diarrhoea. It has been used in diabetes.
It corresponds to putrid and hectic fevers with night sweats; haemorrhages, varicose swellings, and dropsies. As a type of vinegar effects may be mentioned the following: A plump and blooming young woman took a small glass daily to reduce size. Soon lost flesh and colour. In a month cough set in with white concocted phlegm, fever, dyspnoea, night sweats, anorexia, dropsy, diarrhoea, death.
Lungs after death were found stuffed with non-suppurating tubercles. A young German, after working twelve months in a vinegar factory, was obliged to leave from indigestion, dyspnoea, and ready fatigue. It is suited to children and old people; to lax, pale, lean persons. (Equal parts of vinegar and hot water make a refreshing sponge-down for many conditions of fever, with or without perspiration.)
Relations EN
Compare: Apis, Ars. (but Acet. ac. has more preponderant gastric symptoms than either); Carbol. ac., Lac. defl., Lact. ac., Uran. nit. Large doses of Acet. ac. are best antidoted by Magnesia or Calcarea either as fluid magnesia or as lime-water.
Antidotes to potencies are: For depressing, agonising feeling, Tabac., Acon.; for gastric, pulmonary and febrile symptoms, Nat. m., and afterwards Sep. It antidotes: Anaesthetics, Acon., Asar., Coffea, Euphorb., Ignat., Opium, Plumb. (colic), Sep., Stram., Tabac. It counteracts sausage-poisoning.
It aggravates the effects of Bell., Merc., Arn., Lach. Disagrees when given after Borax, Caust., Nux v., Ran. b., Sars.: Scilla, Colch., and Sang. have more effect in curing some diseases when prepared with Acet. ac. than with Alcohol.
Mind EN
Very dull and low-spirited; irritable
Alternate stupor and delirium
Confusion of ideas
Grieves much; sighs often
Horrible attacks of anxiety with difficult breathing
Vertigo with feebleness and fainting.
Head EN
Heaviness and dull pains in forehead and vertex.—Headache from abuse of tobacco, opium, coffee, or alcohol.
Nose EN
Liable to frequent catarrhal attacks.—Nose-bleed, esp. from a fall or a blow.
Face EN
Expression wild, pupils dilated
Face pale, waxen, emaciated
Left cheek (esp.) very red during fever
Bright red flush on both cheeks
Sweat on forehead in spots.
Mouth EN
Teeth feel dull, breath foul
Scorbutic ulcers; toothache
Taste sour
Epithelium of mouth quite white
Tongue pale and flabby.
Throat EN
Children thirsty, but swallow with difficulty even a teaspoonful of water.—White false membranes in throat.
Stomach EN
Insatiable burning thirst
Shrieks for water at night
Intense thirst; nausea, and frequent vomiting
Disgust for salted things and cold victuals
Cold drinks lie heavy
Vegetables, except potatoes, disagree, also bread and butter still more
Contents of stomach feel as if in a ferment; violent burning pain in stomach and in chest, followed by coldness of the skin and cold sweat on forehead
Indurations in stomach
Scirrhus of pylorus.
Abdomen EN
Distension of the abdomen; colicky pains
Ascites
Abdomen feels as if sunken in when lying on his back.
Stool And Anus EN
Diarrhoea, with great thirst, drinking large quantities with apparent impunity
Diarrhoea, with swelling of legs and feet (phthisical subjects)
Diarrhoea, with colic pains and tenderness of the abdomen
Haemorrhage from bowels
Chronic constipation
Ascarides
Chronic diarrhoea of children with great emaciation
Constipation, with great thirst and excess of pale urine.
Urinary Organs EN
Urine increased in quantity; pale; phosphatic; diabetes, with intense, burning, unending and unquenchable thirst and great debility.
Male Sexual Organs EN
Weakening emissions; semen passes at stool
Prepuce thickened, fissured, can't be retracted and itches fearfully
Sexual passion, but feeble erection.
Female Sexual Organs EN
Metrorrhagia; after parturition, with great thirst.
Respiratory Organs EN
Hoarse, with laryngeal irritation
Lining membrane of larynx and trachea covered with a fibrinous exudation as in true croup
Hissing respiration, with rattling in the throat
Croup-like cough; a hollow sound with each inhalation
Haemoptysis.
Back EN
Myelitis, with profuse urine; the pain in the back relieved only by lying on the abdomen.
Limbs EN
Oedematous swelling of the feet and legs.
Generalities EN
Convulsions.—Jumps out of bed like a madman, and crawls on the ground, howling with pain.—Great emaciation.—Skin pale and waxen.—General anasarca and dropsical affections.—Burning in inner and outer parts.
Skin EN
Sugillations
Tetter-like eruptions
Naevi; warts; corns.
Sleep EN
Sleepless.
Fever EN
Skin cold
Slow fever with night sweats
Profuse perspiration
Hectic
Putrid and typhous fevers.