ACETICUM ACIDUM

ACETICUM ACIDUM. [Acet. ac.] Vinegar. C. Hering. C4 H3 O3.

► Alternate stupor and delirium. ► Violent delirium, with distention of belly and obstinate constipation. ► Very dull and low-spirited. ► Anxiety ; grieves about his sickness and his children. ► Extreme irritability of temper. θ With abdominal complaints.

► Vertigo, with feebleness and fainting. ► Appears as if drunken, with heavy head.

► Headache from abuse of tobacco, opium, coffee or alcohol.

► Red patches on scalp, crusts between the hair. ► Hair bristles.

► Conjunctiva inflamed, accompanied by sour stomach. ► False membrane, dense, yellow, white, tough, closely adherent ; 48. ► Flow of tears.

► Nosebleed. ► Liable to frequent catarrhal attacks.

► Anxious, wild expression of countenance. ► Left cheek very red, with the fever. θ Croup. ► Pale, waxen, emaciated.

► Lips become of a deep purple tint. ► In upper part of joint of left jaw, aching ; increases on pressure and with motion.

► Teeth feel dull.

► Pain across root, impedes speech and moving jaw ; scarcely able to walk. ► Glands under tongue and on lower jaw swollen ; sore to touch.

► Foul breath.

► Children swallow with some difficulty, even a teaspoonful of water. θ Croup. ► Difficult swallowing, has to eat very slowly. ► Inflamed sore throat, ulcerated. ► Indications of a white film, low down in fauces.

► No thirst, with fever. θ Croup. ► Great thirst. θ Dropsy, Diabetes, 21.

► Hot eructations, heat in stomach. ► Nausea and sweat ; retching or anxiety. ► Vomiting after every meal, with great thirst. θ Cancer.

► Contents of stomach feel as if in a ferment. ► Violent burning pain in stomach and in chest, followed by coldness of skin and cold sweat on forehead ; burning worse lying on back.

► Bellyache, with rumbling in bowels, diarrhoea and violent delirium. Irritable. See 1. ► Ascites. See dropsy.

► Diarrhoea liquid or undigested, with swelling of legs and feet. θ Phthisis. ► Diarrhoea in the later stages of abdominal typhus. ► Costiveness with tympanitis and stupor. ► Profuse hemorrhoidal bleeding. ► Hemorrhage from bowels. θ After checked metrorrhagia.

► Passes large quantities of pale urine. θ Diabetes mellitus, 21.

► Very weakening, nightly emissions.

► During pregnancy, sour belching and vomiting, with profuse water-brash and salivation, day and night. ► After labour, hemorrhages (outward application of vinegar). ► Also when cold, pale, with difficult breathing. See 48. ► Breasts greatly and painfully distended with milk. θ Mammary abscesses threatening. ► Milk impoverished, bluish, transparent, of strong, sour taste and odor ; deficient in caseine and butter. ► Sucklings droop, lose flesh, get marasmus.

► Hoarseness, with laryngeal irritation. ► Lining membrane of larynx and windpipe covered with fibrinous exudation. ► Croup, especially when the face is bright red. (Diluted in water, ten drops in a tumbler of water with some sugar, a teaspoonful every hour or two).

► Difficult breathing, from laryngeal obstructions. ► Hissing, rattling in throat. ► Hurried and laborious breathing.

► Croup-like sound ; a hollow sound with each inhalation.

► Pulse : 96 and full ; full and irregular ; accelerated and small, contracted ; very weak and small.

► Must lie on the abdomen to relieve pain in the spine. θ Myelitis.

► Sensation of lameness in wrists and hands.

► Weak and weary. ► Lessened sensibility. ► Oedematous swelling with diarrhoea.

► Motion, 9, 11. Lying, 17, 31.

► Sleeplessness, with other sufferings. ► Sleep much broken, without any known cause.

► Diarrhoea more in the morning. ► Day and night : 24. Night : 22, 40.

► Skin cold. ► Flushes of heat more in outer parts, increasing the sweat. ► Febrile heat, with a dry skin ; in bilious, putrid and typhoid fevers. Typhus with delirium. ► Profuse sweating ; night-sweats. ► Hectic fevers with cough, dyspnoea, night-sweats, diarrhoea oedema and emaciation.

► Left cheek red ; maxillary joint aches.

► Burning on inner and outer parts. ► Diminished sensibility on the whole surface of body.

► Hemorrhages from nose, lungs, stomach, bowels, uterus. ► Wasting away, great emaciation. ► General anasarca and dropsical affections of abdomen and legs, with great thirst.

► Touch : 11. Pressure : 9. ► After bruising and spraining, if dry heat follows. ► Burns and scalds. ► Stings of wasps. ► After the bite of a mad cat, lacerated wound, swollen upper and lower leg (externally and internally).

► Diseased cuticle separates in flakes. ► Skin pale and waxen. θ Dropsy. ► Broad, flat, condylomata, dry or moist. ► Naevi, warts, corns.

► Antidotes to Acet. ac. : Large doses are best counteracted by Magnesia or Calcar. ; fluid magnesia or lime-water, a tea-spoonful in a cup of water taken in sips. Higher preparations : for the depressing, agonizing feeling : Tabac. ; if insufficient : Acon. ; for the gastric, pulmonary and febrile symptoms : Natr. mur., high ; may be followed by Sepia. It follows China in hemorrhage, 24. Compare with Kali bich. (but membrane on eye in latter more easily detached). ► Acet. ac. is an antidote to all anaesthetic vapors ; further to Acon., Asar., Coffea, Euphorb., Hepar, Ignat., Opium, Stramon., Tabac. and Alcohol. ► The sick have aversion to it poisonings with Agar. emet. ► Symptoms of Bellad., Mercur. and Laches. are aggravated by it. ► It follows well after Cinchon. in hemorrhages. ► Disagrees when given after Borax, Caustic., Nux vom., Ran. bulb., Sarsap.