Acid Butyricum

Additional Information

Additional information about Acid Butyricum

It has been classified as a carboxylic acid. Esters of butyric acid have a powerful odor. Due to this, they are used as additives in food and perfumes and as fishing bait additives.

Acidum Butyricum therapeutic range of actions as per Boericke Materia Medica

Volatile acid is obtained chiefly from butter.

Head: A state of worry even over trifles. Suicidal thoughts with continuous fear and nervousness. Headache causes anxiety. Dull ache. Worse by motion, at night and going upstairs.

Stomach: Lack of appetite. Gas formation with cramps worse at night. Heaviness in the stomach with full feeling. Abdominal cramps and irregular stools are accompanied by pain and straining.

Back: The back feels tired with dull pain, worse by walking. Pain in ankles extending up to the back of the leg.

Sleep: Unable to sleep. Dreams of serious affairs causing an inability to relax.

Skin: Perspiration on slightest exertion. Profuse and smelly sweat of feet. Finger-nails crumble.

Modalities: Worse, at night, fast walking, going upstairs.

Thus Acidum Butyricum homeopathic medicine is of great significance to us. It is generally used in the third attenuation for various complaints like sleeplessness, crumbling fingernails, pain in the back and legs, indigestion, and headache. Its symptoms are characteristically found to get worse at night, during fast walking, and when going upstairs.