Acetic Acid. acet-ac.

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

H. C. Allen · Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Medi-T HTML text; edition not stated by the mirror (first edition 1898, Allen d. 1909)

Keynote

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.

Relations

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.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

Henry N. Guernsey · Key-Notes to the Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Guernsey d. 1885; public domain)

General

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.

Face

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

Throat

False membranes in the throat.

Gastric

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

Skin

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

Dropsy

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

Stool

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.

Sexual

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.

Back

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

Diabetes

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.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Glacial Acetic Acid (ACETIC ACID)

General

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.

Mind

Irritable, worried about business affairs.

Head

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

Face

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

Stomach

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.

Abdomen

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

Urine

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

Female

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

Respiratory

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).

Back

Pain in back, relieved only by lying on abdomen.

Extremities

Emaciation. Œdema of feet and legs.

Skin

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.

Fever

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

Relationship

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).

Dose

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

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

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.)

Clinical

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.

Characteristics

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.)

Relations

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.

Mind

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

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

Nose

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

Face

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

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

Throat

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

Stomach

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

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

Stool and Anus

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.

Urinary Organs

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

Male Sexual Organs

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

Female Sexual Organs

Metrorrhagia; after parturition, with great thirst.

Respiratory Organs

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.

Back

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

Limbs

Œdematous swelling of the feet and legs.

Generalities

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

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

Sleep

Sleepless.

Fever

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

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

Mind

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.

Sensorium

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.

Inner head

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.

Outer head

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.

Sight and eyes

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

Smell and nose

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

Upper face

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.

Lower face

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

Teeth and gums

Scorbutic ulcers ; toothache.

Taste, speech, tongue

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.

Inner mouth

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

Palate and throat

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.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

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.

Eating and drinking

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, belching, nausea and vomiting

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.

Scrobiculum and stomach

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.

Hypochondria

Violent local pains. θ Liver complaint.

Abdomen and loins

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.

Stools and rectum

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.

Urinary organs

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

Male sexual organs

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

Female sexual organs

Metrorrhagia.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

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.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

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).

Respiration

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

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.

Inner chest and lungs

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.

Heart, pulse and circulation

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

Upper limbs

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.

Lower limbs

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

Rest. position. motion

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.

Nerves

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.

Sleep

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.

Time

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

Fever

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.

Attacks, periodicity

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

Locality and direction

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.

Sensations

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.

Tissues

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. passive motion. injuries

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.

Skin

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.

Stage of life, constitution

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.

Relations

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.

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Séror HTML text (Kent d. 1916; public domain)

Introduction

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.

Generals

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.

Mind

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.

Abdomen

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.

Urines

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.

Genital

Weakness with seminal losses; relaxed genitals and swollen feet.

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

Larynx and chest

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.

Extremities

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.