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Information about Dr. Reckeweg Acid Nitricum
Acidum Nitricum In homeopathy, Acidum Nitricum is used for a wide range of therapeutic applications.
Acidum Nitricum is a primarily syphilitic remedy, which in homeopathic language means that it has an affinity for destructive, ulcerating, and excoriating processes. All the body discharges under this remedy are offensive. Blisters and ulcers which bleed easily are common.
Product Origin: Germany
Key uses/benefits:
- It is suitable when patient is marked by irritability, hopelessness, and an irrational fear of death, specifically dreading cancer and seeking opinions from various doctors.
- It is indicated in heightened sensitivity to stimuli like noise, pain, and touch is evident in the individual.
- It is used in discharges from bodily orifices are thick, fetid, and accompanied by splinter-like pains.
- It also addresses craving for indigestible substances like chalk and earth is observed.
- It is helpful in painful hemorrhoids with fissures, constipation, and enduring cutting pains post-stool passage are noted.
- It is suitable when urine is strong and offensive, causing a burning sensation.
- Additional symptoms include loss of voice, a dry hacking cough, and shortness of breath.
- It also treats ulcers with irregular edges, offensive discharges, and splinter-like pains coexist with the appearance of warts.
Additional information about Acid Nitricum
This remedy has a specific action on the outlets of the body where the mucous membrane and skin meet with pain as if from splinters, which appears and disappears quickly. It is indicated for blisters and ulcers in mouth, tongue and genitals which bleed easily. The discharges from the body are very offensive, especially urine, feces, and perspiration.
Acidum Nitricum therapeutic range of actions as per Boericke Materia Medica
Selects for its special seat of action the outlets of the body where the mucous membrane and skin meet; these pain as from splinters. Sticking pains. Marked improvement of all symptoms while riding in a carriage. Acts best on the dark complexioned and past middle life. Syphilis, after abuse of Mercury. Pains appear and disappear quickly (Bell). Hydrogenoid constitution. Sycotic remedy.
Blisters and ulcers in mouth, tongue, genitals; bleed easily. Fissures, with pain during stool, as if rectum were torn. All discharges very offensive, especially urine, feces, and perspiration. Persons who have chronic diseases, and take cold easily and disposed to diarrhœa. Excessive physical irritability. Cachexia, due to syphilis, scrofula, intermittent fever with liver involvement and anæmia, etc. Gravel; arthritis. Capillary bleeding after curettage.
Mind.–Irritable, hateful, vindictive, headstrong. Hopeless despair. Sensitive to noise, pain, touch, jar. Fear of death.
Head.–Sensation of a band around head. Headache from pressure of hat; full feeling; worse from street noises. Hair falls out. Scalp sensitive.
Ears.–Difficult hearing; better by riding in carriage or train. Very sensitive to noise, as the rattle of wagons over pavements (Coff; Nux). Cracking in ears when chewing.
Eyes.–Double vision; sharp, sticking pains. Ulceration of cornea. Gonorrhœal ophthalmia, photophobia, constant lachrymation. Syphilitic iritis.
Nose.–Ozæna. Green casts from nose every morning. Coryza, with sore and bleeding nostrils. Tip red. Stitches, as of a splinter in nose. Caries of mastoid. Nosebleed, with chest affections. Chronic nasal catarrh, with yellow, offensive, corrosive discharge. Nasal diphtheria, with watery and exceedingly excoriating discharge.
Mouth.–Putrid breath. Salivation. Bleeding of gums. Painful pimples on the sides of the tongue. Tongue clean, red and wet with center furrow. Teeth become loose; gums soft and spongy. Ulcers in soft palate, with sharp, splinter-like pains. Salivation and fetor oris. Bloody saliva.
Throat.–Dry. Pain into ears. Hawks mucus constantly. White patches and sharp points, as from splinters, on swallowing.
Stomach.–Great hunger, with sweetish taste. Longing for indigestible things-chalk, earth, etc. Pain in cardiac orifice. Dyspepsia with excess of oxalic acid, uric acid and phosphates in urine and great mental depression. Loves fat and salt (Sulph).
Abdomen.–Great straining, but little passes, Rectum feels torn. Bowels constipated, with fissures in rectum. Tearing pains during stools. Violent cutting pains after stools, lasting for hours (Ratanh). Hæmorrhages from bowels, profuse, bright. Prolapsus ani. Hæmorrhoids bleed easily. Diarrhœa, slimy and offensive. After stools, irritable and exhausted. Colic relieved from tightening clothes. Jaundice, aching in liver.
Urine.–Scanty, dark, offensive. Smells like horse’s urine. Cold on passing. Burning and stinging. Urine bloody and albuminous. Alternation of cloudy, phosphatic urine with profuse urinary secretion in old prostatic cases.
Male.–Soreness and burning in glans and beneath prepuce. Ulcers; burn and sting; exude, offensive matter.
Female.–External parts sore, with ulcers (Hep.: Merc; Thuja). Leucorrhœa brown, flesh-colored, watery, or stringy, offensive. Hair on genitals falls out (Natr m, Zinc). Uterine hæmorrhages. Menses early, profuse, like muddy water, with pain in back, hips and thighs. Stitches through vagina. Metrorrhagia after parturition.
Respiratory.–Hoarseness. Aphonia, with dry hacking cough, from tickling in larynx and pit of stomach. Soreness at lower end of sternum. Short breath on going upstairs (Ars; Calc). Cough during sleep (Cham).
Extremities.–Fetid foot-sweat, causing soreness of toes, with sticking pain; chilblains on toes. Sweating of palms, hands; cold, blue nails. Offensive sweat in axillæ at night.
Skin.–Warts, large jagged; bleed on washing. Ulcers bleed easily, sensitive; splinter-like pains; zigzag, irregular edges; base looks like raw flesh. Exuberant granulations. Black pores on face, papules worse on forehead.
Modalities.–Worse, evening and night, cold climate, and also hot weather. Better, while riding in carriage (Reverse: Cocculus).
Relationship.–Complementary: Ars; Calad; Lac can; Sepia.
Inimical: Lach.
Compare: Merc; Kali; Thuja; Hepar; Calc
