Acetic Acid. acet-ac.

Adapted to pale lean persons with lax, flabby muscles; face pale, waxy (Fer.). Haemorrhage; from every mucous outlet, nose, throat, lungs, stomach, bowels, uterus (Fer., Mill.); metrorrhagia; vicarious; traumatic epistaxis (Arn.). Marasmus and other wasting diseases of children (Abrot., Iod., Sanic., Tub.). Great prostration; after injuries (Sulph. ac.); after surgical shock; after anaesthetics. Thirst; intense, burning, insatiable even for large quantities in dropsy, diabetes, chronic diarrhoea; but no thirst in fever. Sour belching and vomiting of pregnancy, burning water-brash and profuse salivation, day and night (Lac. ac., salivation < at night, Mer. s.). Diarrhoea; copious, exhausting, great thirst; in dropsy, typhus, phthisis; with night sweats. True croup, hissing respiration, cough with inhalation (Spong.); last stages. Inhalation of vapor of cider vinegar has been successfully used in croup and malignant diphtheria. Cannot sleep lying on the back (sleeps better on back, Ars.); sensation of sinking in abdomen causing dyspnoea; rests better lying on belly (Am. c.). Hectic fever, skin dry and hot; red spot on left cheek and drenching night sweats.

It antidotes anaesthetic vapors (Amyl.); fumes of charcoal and gas; Opium and Stramonium. Cider vinegar antidotes Carbolic acid. Follows well; after Cinchona, in haemorrhage; after Digitalis, in dropsy. It aggravates; the symptoms of Arn., Bell., Lach., Mer., especially the headache from Belladonna.

We are always to think of this remedy when we find a patient passing large quantities of pale urine, particularly if accompanied by intense thirst, and dry, hot skin.

Pale, waxen, emaciated. Staring, wild look of the eyes and countenance.

False membranes in the throat.

Vomits after every kind of food. Much burning and uncomfortable feeling in the stomach; complains of the stomach a great deal.

Burning, dry skin is always characteristic of this remedy. Also, profuse sweating.

With intense thirst, debility, pale waxen skin, and often passing large quantities of urine. Œdema of the lower extremities.

Diarrhœa, with great thirst, drinking large quantities with apparent impunity. Bloated abdomen, great debility, stools often undigested, pale waxen skin. Chronic diarrhœa of children with great emaciation. Constipation, with great thirst and excess of pale urine.

Male: Very weakening nightly seminal emissions; semen passes with stool. Prepuce thickened, fissured, can't be retracted and itches fearfully. Sexual passion, but feeble erection. Female: Metrorrhagia after parturition, with great thirst.

Myelitis with profuse urine; the pain in the back relieved only by lying on the abdomen.

With intense burning, unending and unquenchable thirst, and great debility.

Vinegar must be remembered as an antidote to all anæsthetic vapours--chloroform, ether, etc., also fumes of charcoal. Dip the finger in vinegar and rub on the tongue.

Glacial Acetic Acid (ACETIC ACID)

This drug produces a condition of profound anæmia, with some dropsical symptoms, great debility, frequent fainting, dyspnœa, weak heart, vomiting, profuse urination and sweat. Hæmorrhage from any part. Especially indicated in pale, lean persons, with lax, flabby muscles. Wasting and debility. Acetic acid has the power to liquefy albuminous and fibrinous deposits. Epithelial cancer, internally and locally (W Owens). Sycosis with nodules and formations in the joints. Hard chancre. The 1x solution will soften and cause formation of pus.

Irritable, worried about business affairs.

Nervous headache, from abuse of narcotics. Blood rushes to head with delirium. Temporal vessels distended. Pain across root of tongue.

Pale, waxen, emaciated. Eyes sunken, surrounded by dark rings. Bright red. Sweaty. Epithelioma of lip. Cheeks hot and flushed. Aching in left jaw-point.

Salivation. Fermentation in stomach. Intense burning thirst. Cold drinks distress. Vomits after every kind of food. Epigastric tenderness. Burning pain as of an ulcer. Cancer of stomach. Sour belching and vomiting. Burning waterbrash and profuse salivation. Hyperchlorhydria and gastralgia. Violent burning pain in stomach and chest, followed by coldness of skin and cold sweat on forehead. Stomach feels as if she had taken a lot of vinegar.

Feels as if abdomen was sinking in. Frequent watery stools, worse in morning. Tympanitic. Ascites. Hæmorrhage from bowels.

Large quantities of pale urine. Diabetes, with great thirst and debility (Phos ac).

Excessive catamenia. Hæmorrhages after labor. Nausea of pregnancy. Breasts painfully enlarged, distended with milk. Milk impoverished, bluish, transparent, sour. Anæmia of nursing mothers.

Hoarse, hissing respiration; difficult breathing; cough when inhaling. Membranous croup. Irritation of trachea and bronchial tubes. False membrane in throat. Profuse bronchorrhœa. Putrid sore throat (gargle).

Pain in back, relieved only by lying on abdomen.

Emaciation. Œdema of feet and legs.

Pale, waxen, œdematous. Burning, dry, hot skin, or bathed in profuse sweat. Diminished sensibility of the surface of body. Useful after stings, bites, etc. Varicose swellings. Scurvy; anasarca. Bruises; sprains.

Hectic, with drenching night-sweats. Red spot on left cheek. No thirst in fever. Ebullitions. Sweat profuse, cold.

Acetic acid is antidotal to all anæsthetic vapors. Counteracts sausage poisoning.

Compare: Ammon acet (Profuse saccharine urine, patient is bathed in sweat). Benzoin oderiferum--Spice-wood (night sweats). Ars; China; Digitalis; Liatris (General anasarca in heart and kidney disease, dropsy, and chronic diarrhœa).

Third to thirtieth potency. Not to be repeated too often, except in croup.

Glacial Acetic Acid. HC 2 H 3 O 2 . (Distilled water is used for attenuations 1x and 1; very dilute spirit for 3x and up to 4; rectified spirit for 5 and higher.)

Anæmia. Anæsthetics, antidote to. Ascarides. Burns. Corns. Croup. Debility. Diabetes. Diphtheria. Dropsies. Fevers. Hydrophobia. Nævi. Narcotics, antidote to. Phthisis. Sausage-poisoning, antidote to. Scalds. Stings. Stomach, cancer of. Varicosis. Warts.

The leading features of acetic acid are excessive wasting and debility; anæmia 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 diarrhœa. It has been used in diabetes. It corresponds to putrid and hectic fevers with night sweats; hæmorrhages, 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, dyspnœa, night sweats, anorexia, dropsy, diarrhœa, 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, dyspnœa, 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.)

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: Anæsthetics, 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.

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.

Heaviness and dull pains in forehead and vertex. — Headache from abuse of tobacco, opium, coffee, or alcohol.

Liable to frequent catarrhal attacks. — Nose-bleed, esp. from a fall or a blow.

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.

Teeth feel dull, breath foul. — Scorbutic ulcers; toothache. — Taste sour. — Epithelium of mouth quite white. — Tongue pale and flabby.

Children thirsty, but swallow with difficulty even a teaspoonful of water. — White false membranes in throat.

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.

Distension of the abdomen; colicky pains. — Ascites. — Abdomen feels as if sunken in when lying on his back.

Diarrhœa, with great thirst, drinking large quantities with apparent impunity. — Diarrhœa, with swelling of legs and feet (phthisical subjects). — Diarrhœa, with colic pains and tenderness of the abdomen. — Hæmorrhage from bowels. — Chronic constipation. — Ascarides. — Chronic diarrhœa of children with great emaciation. — Constipation, with great thirst and excess of pale urine.

Urine increased in quantity; pale; phosphatic; diabetes, with intense, burning, unending and unquenchable thirst and great debility.

Weakening emissions; semen passes at stool. — Prepuce thickened, fissured, can't be retracted and itches fearfully. — Sexual passion, but feeble erection.

Metrorrhagia; after parturition, with great thirst.

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. — Hæmoptysis.

Myelitis, with profuse urine; the pain in the back relieved only by lying on the abdomen.

Œdematous swelling of the feet and legs.

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.

Sugillations. — Tetter-like eruptions. — Nævi; warts; corns.

Sleepless.

Skin cold. — Slow fever with night sweats. — Profuse perspiration. — Hectic. — Putrid and typhous fevers.

Intellect clouded, can hardly express herself.
Confusion of ideas. θ Headache.
Fancies he has an ulcer in his stomach.
Does not recollect what has happened ; knows no one, not even her own children.
Horrible attacks of anxiety with difficult breathing. θ Liver complaint.
Anxiety ; grieves about his sickness and his children.
Apparently alarmed at everybody and everything about her (poisoning).
Irritable, with abdominal complaints.
Greatest irritability. θ Headache. θ Liver complaint.
Worse from any nervous excitement. θ Headache.
Dull and low-spirited.
Delirium : with distended belly and obstinate constipation, or with rumbling in bowels, bellyache and diarrhœa ; alternately with stupor. θ Typhus.

Vertigo, with feebleness and fainting.
Giddy, dull aching in forehead and top of head.
Giddiness, symptoms of cerebral congestion. θ Headache.
Blood rushes to head, with delirium.
Appears as if drunk, with heavy head.
Stupor only interrupted by delirious talking. θ Typhus.
Falls to ground insensible ; foaming at mouth.
Faints.

Dull pains in forehead and vertex ; giddiness.
Heaviness of head, with sense of drunkenness.
Confused dull aching over frontal region. θ Nervous cephalalgia.
Shooting through temples.
Nervous headache, caused by abuse of narcotic stimulants or by chronic gastric irritation.
Headache from abuse of tobacco, opium, coffee or alcohol.

Dull aching on frontal protuberance ; later on left.
Distension of temporal blood-vessels, increased heat of head.
Blood-vessels on temples distended.
Red patches on scalp, crusts between hair.
Hair bristles.
Child does not want its head touched. θ Inflammation of bowels in dentition.

Weak sight. θ Liver complaint.
Dilated pupils.
Protruding eyeballs.
Conjunctiva inflamed, accompanied by sour stomach.
Flow of tears.

Nosebleed, especially from a fall or blow.
Liable to frequent catarrhal attacks.

Expression wild, pupils dilated.
Face pale, waxen, emaciated. θ Dropsy.
One cheek red, the other pale. θ Inflammation of bowels in dentition.
Eyes sunken and surrounded by dark rings.
Left cheek bright red with fever. θ Croup.
Sweat on forehead in spots.

Lips : become of a deep purple tint ; peel off in flakes.
Aching in upper part of joint of jaw ; < from pressure and motion.

Scorbutic ulcers ; toothache.

Taste sour.
Pain across root of tongue impedes speech and motion of jaw.
Tongue : pale and flabby, with diminished appetite and no thirst ; dry and cold ; red, sore and burning ; livid, swollen, protruding.
Glands under tongue and lower jaw swollen, sore to touch.

Foul breath.
Buccal membrane whitish, like aptha.
Salivation.
White gums.

Children thirsty, but swallow with some difficulty, even a teaspoonful of water. θ Croup.
Has to eat very slowly, difficult swallowing.
Throat inflamed, ulcerated.
A white film low down in fauces. θ Croup.
False membranes in throat.

Loss of appetite.
Greatest burning thirst, insatiable even by taking large quantities.
Intense thirst. θ Diabetes. θ Dropsy. θ Chronic
diarrhœa.
Thirsty with dry lips, which peel off in flakes. θ Inflammation of bowels in dentition.
No thirst with fever. θ Croup.
Disgust for salted things and cold victuals.

After a meal : vomiting.
Bread and butter disagree.
Vomits after every kind of food. θ Liver complaint.
Cannot drink anything cold, it lies like a load in stomach.

Hiccough and fetid belching.
Belching > pain in abdomen. θ Inflammation of bowels in dentition.
Hot eructations, heat in stomach.
Nausea and sweat ; retching with anxiety ; sour risings.
Towards 12 P. M. very sick ; vomits a thick gruelly substance with great relief.
Vomiting : after every meal ; of blood ; like yeast.

Great pain in scrobiculum ; cannot bear slightest pressure.
Contents of stomach feel as if in a ferment.
Violent burning pain in stomach and chest, followed by coldness of skin and cold sweat on forehead.
Heat with colicky uneasiness, as if diarrhœa would follow.
Ulcerative gnawing at a single spot in stomach. θ Cancer.
Hypertrophy of walls of stomach.
Local indurations in stomach.
Scirrhus of pylorus.

Violent local pains. θ Liver complaint.

Pain in abdomen and rumbling in gastric region.
Bellyache, rumbling, diarrhœa, delirium. θ Typhus.
Severe burning in intestines ; plethora abdominalis.
Abdomen distended and sensitive to touch. θ Inflammation of bowels in dentition.
Abdomen distended, with costiveness. θ Typhus.
Tympany, with difficult breathing.
Ascites, with violent orthopnea. Compare dropsy, 44 .
Incarcerated hernia (clysmata).
Abdomen sore to touch.
Abdomen feels as if sunken in when lying on back.

Liquid stools with pain.
Passages green and slimy come with an explosion of odorless wind. θ Inflammation of bowels in dentition.
Diarrhœa : with swelling of legs and feet (phthisis) ; in later stages of abdominal typhus ; chronic with thirst (ascites) ; more in morning ; profuse, very weakening (fifteen passages) on seventeenth day (typhus).
Costiveness, with tympanitis and stupor ; chronic constipation.
Profuse hemorrhoidal bleeding.
Hemorrhage from bowels, after checked metrorrhagia.
Ascarides.

Urine : increased and light-colored ; acid, with increased sweat ; cloudy, with phosphatic deposits.
Diabetes.

Very weakening nightly emissions.
Semen passes at stool.
Male parts flush and sweat.

Metrorrhagia.

During pregnancy, sour belching and vomiting, with profuse water-brash and salivation, day and night.
After labor, hemorrhages (outward application of vinegar).
Breasts greatly and painfully distended with milk.
Mammary abscesses threatening.
Milk impoverished, bluish, transparent, strong sour taste and odor ; deficient in caseine and butter.
Sucklings droop, loose flesh. θ Marasmus.

Hoarse, with laryngeal irritation.
Hissing respiration, with rattling in throat. θ Membranous croup (10 drops to a tumbler of sweetened water, a teaspoonful every hour or two).

Breathing : difficult from laryngeal obstruction ; hissing in croup ; hurried and laborious ; loses breath on going up stairs ; labored when lying on back.
Difficult breathing, with attacks of anxiety. θ Liver complaint.
Must often take a deep breath, which relieves.
Heaviness, with sense of oppression.

Cough : croupy ; a hollow sound with inhalation ; dry, with oppression, later moist with fever, greater dyspnœa, emaciation, diarrhœa, night sweats, œdema of feet and legs ; titillating, with much purulent sputum ; hectic fever ; attacks in
evening with coldness ; at night, heat, dry skin and delirium.
Hæmoptysis ; coughs blood.

Violent pain and sensation of burning in region of chest and stomach.
Lungs beginning to fill with tubercles.
Chronic bronchitis ; phthisis.
Hydrothorax.
Rattling of phlegm in chest. θ Inflammation of bowels in dentition.
Many complaints, apparently overcome by Borax, reappear after use of Acet. ac., especially shooting in chest.

Angina pectoris.
Heart beats : more frequent ; cannot be felt by hand.
Pulse : 96 and full (poisoning) ; accelerated and small, contracted ; weak and small.

Sensation of lameness in wrists and hands.
Coldness and pricking of hands.
Skin on hands dry. θ Inflammation of bowels in dentition.
Restlessness of hands in sleep. θ Inflammation of bowels in dentition.

Weak and weary.
Lessened sensibility.
Œdematous swelling, with diarrhœa.

Cannot remain long in same position. θ Inflammation of bowels in dentition.
Child wants to be carried. θ Inflammation of bowels in dentition.
Springs from bed ; crawls on ground from pain.
Lying on back : cannot sleep ; labored breathing ; abdomen feels sunken.
Lying on belly : rests > during sleep.
Ascending stairs : loses breath.
Motion : aching in jaw < ; of jaw impeded by pain across root of tongue.

Great prostration after injuries ; shock.
Great debility. θ Chronic diarrhœa, diabetes, etc.
Prostration and lameness.
Paralyzed and giddy.
Trembling from head to foot (poisoning).
Apparent death.
Spasms : with insensibility ; with great debility ; hysterical.
Springs out of bed, crawls on ground howling with pain.
(OBS :) Hydrophobia.

Cannot sleep lying on his back ; feels as if abdomen was sinking in, causing labored breathing ; rests > lying on belly.
Sleep broken without known cause.
Cannot fall asleep because of distress and agony.
Sleepless, with other sufferings.
Sleeplessness. θ Liver complaint.

Night : heat, dry skin, delirium ; emissions ; sweating.
Day and night : stomach symptoms during pregnancy.
Morning : diarrhœa.
Evening : cough.
Toward midnight : vomiting.

Skin cold ; bodily warmth decreased.
Flushes of heat more in outer parts, increasing sweat.
Febrile heat, with a dry, hot skin : in bilious, putrid and typhoid fevers ; inflammation of bowels in dentition.
Profuse sweating ; night-sweats.
Typhus with delirium.
Hectic fevers, with cough, dyspnœa, diarrhœa, night-sweats, œdema and emaciation.
Inflammatory fever.
Slow fever, with night-sweats.

Severe paroxysmal headache.
Lethargic paroxysms.
Hysteric paroxysms.
Frequent catarrhal attacks.

Right then left : dull aching in frontal protuberances.
Left : cheek bright red in fever ; aching in upper joint of jaw.
In spots : sweat on forehead.

As if drunk with heavy head ; like a load in stomach after cold drinks ; as if contents of stomach were in a ferment ; abdomen feels as if sunken in.
Shooting : through temples.
Pricking : of hands.
Burning : of tongue ; with thirst ; in stomach ; in chest ; in inner and outer parts ; of skin.
Gnawing : in stomach.
Aching : in forehead and top of head ; in upper part of joint of left jaw.
Pain : across root of tongue : in scrobiculum ; in liver ; in abdomen ; with liquid stools ; in chest.
Lameness : in wrists and hands.
Heat : in stomach.
Coldness : of skin ; of hands.

Ebullitions.
Hemorrhages from nose, lungs, stomach, bowels, uterus ; also passive hemorrhages.
Blood coagulated in veins.
Blood-vessels contracted.
Varicose swellings.
Chlorosis ; anemia ; wasting away ; great emaciation.
Prevents corpulency, but may superinduce fatal marasmus.
Dissolves cancer cells.
Separates sequestrum from new bone.
Scurvy.
Dropsy of abdomen and legs ; anasarca ; great thirst ; pale, waxen skin.
Changes gangrenous ulcers ; hospital gangrene ; prevents decomposition of animal matter.

Touch : soreness of glands on lower jaw ; soreness of abdomen ; head sensitive.
Pressure : aching in jaw < ; pain in scrobiculum <.
Diminished sensibility over whole surface of body.
Burns and scalds.
Sting of wasps or other insects.
After bite of a mad cat, lacerated wound, upper and lower leg swollen (externally and internally).
Sugillations.
Bruises or sprains, if dry heat follows.
Fall or blow : nosebleed.

Burning dry skin. θ Inflammation of bowels in dentition.
Tetter-like eruptions.
Diseased cuticle separates in flakes.
Skin pale and waxen.
Broad, flat condylomata, dry or moist.
Nevi, warts, corns.
Dropsy after scarlet fever.
(OBS :) Scarlet fever and smallpox.
Morbus maculosus Werlhofii.

Injurious to children and the aged.
Lax, pale, lean persons.
A boy, æt. 14 mos. ; inflammation of bowels in dentition.
A boy, æt. 2 ; typhus.

Antidotes to Acet. ac . ; large doses are best counteracted by Magnesia or Calcarea , according to bodily peculiarities of sick ; fluid magnesia or lime-water, a
teaspoonful in a cup of water taken in sips. Higher preparations : for depressing, agonizing feeling : Tabac., if insufficient, Acon . ; for gastric, pulmonary and febrile symptoms : Natr. mur ., may be
followed by Sepia .
Acet. ac . is an antidote to all anesthetic vapors ; a finger dipped in vinegar, rubbed within the lips, antidotes fumes of charcoal ; further, to Acon., Asar., Coffea, Euphorb., Hepar , Ignat .,
Opium , Plumbum (colic), Sepia , Stramon ., Tabac., Tongo and Alcohol .
May be given in cases of sausage poisoning.
It follows well after Cinchon ., in hemorrhages.
The sick have an aversion to it in poisonings with Agar. emet .
Unpleasant symptoms of Bellad . are aggravated by it ; headache from Bellad . became unbearable.
It aggravates symptoms of Arnica., Laches . and Mercur .
Disagrees when given after Borax, Caustic., Nux vom., Ran. bulb , and Sarsap .
Scilla, Colchicum . and Sanguin . have had more effect in curing some diseases when prepared in Acet. ac . than with alcohol.
What had disappeared after Borax returned after its use.
Has been used after Digit . in dropsy.

There is either diarrhea or constipation; with the latter he is rheumatic, with the former he is at his best, as when the diarrhea slacks up he is full of suffering.

The diarrhea is his great relief, like Natrum sulph. and Zincum.

Sharp pains here and there, but especially in ovaries and joints.

This remedy is, useful in complaints of pale, sickly people.

Patients who have been weak for many years, who have inherited phthisis, Emaciation, weakness, anaemia, loss of appetite, burning thirst and copious pale urine are a combination calling for Acetic acid.

Sensation of heat with pulsation coining and going, like orgasms; chlorosis in young girls; dropsical conditions in general; bad effects from stings and bites, have been cured by this remedy.

Vinegar is an old remedy for bad effects from chloroform. It is useful in the hemorrhagic constipation. Bleeding from various mucous membranes, nose, stomach, rectum, lungs and from ulcers. Sensitive to cold.

Confusion of mind does not know her own children; forgets what has recently happened attacks of anguish; constantly borrows trouble thinks something is going to happen; peevishness, complaining.

Fainting spells in weak, anaemic subjects; headaches; face pale and waxy; epistaxis; one cheek pale and the other red; diphtheria in throat or larynx, unquenchable thirst; sensitive stomach; vomiting blood, and all food taken; ulceration of stomach; hot, sour eructations; frothy vomiting; gnawing pain; distension of stomach, with a constant commotion; burning in stomach and abdomen, ameliorated by lying on the stomach.

In the abdomen there is great pain, distension, flatulence or dropsy, sore to touch; diarrhea, thin, bloody or pure blood; profuse bleeding from piles; chronic diarrhea.

Copious watery urine. It has cured diabetes, with sugar in the urine or without, where there is great thirst, weakness and pallor and loss of flesh.

Weakness with seminal losses; relaxed genitals and swollen feet.

Uterine haemorrhage; copious menses, or watery menstrual flow scanty menses with chlorosis.

Weakness of larynx; croup; diphtheria. It has cured many cases of laryngeal diphtheria; hoarseness, with pale mucous membranes; chronic dry, hacking cough in sickly, pale persons, such as have inherited phthisis, with oedema of extremities, diarrhea and dyspnoea, or night sweats; haemorrhage from the lungs; burning in chest and stomach; rattling in chest; chronic bronchitis.

Weakness and lameness in extremities, with swelling, rheumatic or oedematous; dropsy of limbs, with diarrhea.

It is a deep-acting, constitutional remedy, and when well studied will be very useful.

All substances abused as food become great remedies, such as vinegar, coffee, common salt, etc. We should look to them oftener than we do for the stubborn chronic cases.

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, diarrhœa and violent delirium. Irritable. See 1.
Ascites. See dropsy.

Diarrhœa liquid or undigested, with swelling of legs and feet. θ Phthisis.
Diarrhœa 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.
Œdematous swelling with diarrhœa.

Motion, 9, 11. Lying, 17, 31.

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

Diarrhœa 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, dyspnœa, night-sweats, diarrhœa œdema 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.
Nævi, 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 anæsthetic 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.

For use, prepare dilutions with distilled water.

This acid produces directly gastro-enteritis, and also (in one case, at least) membranous laryngo-tracheitis. ▶ Its remote effects are a profound anæmia, with diarrhœa, night-sweats, feeble pulse, emaciation and cough.

Emaciation. ▶ Attacks of faintness. ▶ General oppression and heaviness. ▶ Weakness. ▶ General trembling. ▶ (Convulsions, with insensibility.).

Irritability. ▶ Nervousness. ▶ Anxiety. ▶ Alarm. ▶ Excitement. ▶ Delirium. ▶ Confusion. ▶ Inertia. ▶ Unconsciousness.

Vertigo. ▶ Heaviness. ▶ Dull pain in forehead and vertex. ▶ Dull aching in right frontal eminence, then in left. ▶ In the temples distention of bloodvessels. ▶ Shooting P. through temples.

Sunken, surrounded by dark circles. ▶ Pupils dilated. ▶ Lachrymation.

Red, hot and perspiring, with flushed cheeks. ▶ Pale, waxy. ▶ Expression wild.

Salivation. ▶ Tongue pale and flabby; dry and cold. ▶ Thirst. ▶ Eructations, hot. ▶ Loss of appetite; aversion to cold food; to salt food. ▶ Nausea; vomiting; vomiting after eating. ▶ In the stomach, pain, burning, gnawing, ulcerative. ▶ Heat. ▶ Soreness. ▶ Fermentation, with distress. ▶ Cold drinks cause distress. ▶ Soreness in one spot as from an ulcer, with gnawing; with agony and vomiting of thick, yellow matter, like yeast. ▶ Epigastrium painful to pressure.

Burning pain. ▶ Distention. ▶ Griping. ▶ Rumbling. ▶ Feeling as if it would sink in, which caused dyspnœa. ▶ Relief by lying on abdomen.

Watery, with colic. ▶ Bloody.

▶ Urine increased and light-colored.

▶ Mother's Milk impoverished, bluish, deficient in caseine and butter; the child drooped, had diarrhœa, and died of marasmus; the mother was pale, emaciated, and had chronic hæmorrhages.

Voice lost. ▶ Croup, with hissing respiration, rattling, formation of false membrane in windpipe. ▶ Cough dry, then moist, with fever; dyspnœa, emaciation, œdema and diarrhœa. ▶ Respiration difficult, feeble, hurried.

Burning pain. ▶ (Chronic inflammation.).

Rapid, small, weak.

Weak. ▶ Wrist and hand feel paralyzed. ▶ Hands cold, prickling, dry. ▶ Œdema of lower extremities. ▶ Diminished sensibility of feet.

Pale and waxy. ▶ Red and burning. ▶ Desquamation.

Temperature diminished, with cold feet. ▶ Flushes of heat, with perspiration. ▶ Hectic, emaciation, diarrhœa, night-sweats, dyspnœa, and swelling of lower extremities. ▶ Low fever, with delirium, diarrhœa, tympanitis, constipation; also, with stupor. ▶ Sweats profuse, cold, nocturnal.

General anæmia, with a waxy skin, anasarca, emaciation and sweats. ▶ Delirium in low fever, with profuse sweats and diarrhœa. ▶ Membranous croup, with bright-red face and perspiration. ▶ It should be given in anæmia of nursing women. (See above.).

This acid, more positively than other organic acid, produces a profound anæmia followed by general malnutrition, emaciation, cough, night sweats, etc. It seems also to produce an immediate inflammation of some mucous membranes characterized by a membranous (or plastic) exudation (larynx, bronchi, uterus).

Salivation; tongue pale and flabby.
Vomiting of food.
In the stomach gnawing and burning.
General aggravation by cold drinks.
Epigastrium sore.

Watery, with colic, sore abdomen, etc.
Bloody.

Croup, membranous, with prostration, coldness, etc. (later stages).
Membranous, bronchitis.
Respiration difficult, hurried.

Coldness.
Hectic fever with emaciation, night sweats.

Acet. a. / Achsa.

Acetic acid leads the way
When Phthisis hold oppressive sway:
With hot dry skin and hectic flush,
Nocturnal sweats and faecal gush,
And loss of blood. And when o'erflow
Of urine hold the vitals low,
And when Anaemia shows its blight
By countenance of deathly white.
And when the operator's knife,
With anaesthetics threaten life.
And veritable croup we find,
With breathing of a hissing kind.
And drooling, while the stomach turns
With acid, that within it burns.
And ease from pain is only known
By lying on the belly prone.

Ascha has Consumption.

Achsa, Phos., the Creole Baptist Maid, and her brother Jo, the drover, sang for the Caliph and the Arabs.

This Achsa, who is subject to death-like pallor, is in China with Bishop Plum, dying of fever.

Consumption - Phthisis: Acet. a., Phos., Kreo., Bap., Ustil., Brom., Iod., Dro., Sang., Cal. p., Ars. bro., Ars. iod.

Death-like Pallor: Acet. a., Chin., Bism., PB., Dig., Apis, Fer., Verat. a. (Waxy-white, Apis, Fer., Phos.)