Fluoricum Acidum fl-ac.

FIBROUS TISSUES: VEINS. Skin. Bones. Mastoid.

HEAT; of room. Night. Alcohol. Sour foods.

COOL BATHING. Rapid motion. Short sleep. Bending head back. Eating.

Always too hot; wants to bathe in cold water. Pale, miserable, cachectic, flabby and broken down. Slow deeply destructive effects. Puffy, indurated or fistulous tissues. Palmar abscess. Felon. Caries. Bed - sores. Ulcers. Œdema. Secondary syphilis. Thin, foul, acrid or salty discharges; that cause itching.

Necessity to be always in the move. Impulse to walk fast. Melancholy. Lecherousness. Stunning headache; > urinating. Brittle, tousy hair. As of a cold wind in eye. Lachrymal stricture. Deafness, > bending head back. Puffy glabella. Thin enamel. Teeth decay rapidly; < at roots. Fissured tongue. Gnawing hunger; for pungent or cold things. Stale eructations. Itching or burning at anus. Upward drawing in urethra (down-Merc.). Profuse, acrid leucorrhœa. Sexual erethism. Œdema of scrotum. Distorted nails. Varicose veins; varicocele. Dry, harsh, itching or cracked skin; seeming to emit a hot vapor. Scars surrounded by pimples. Keloid. Ebullitions of heat; with pains in bones. Acrid, eroding sweat; excites itching. Oily, pungent sweat on genital. Sweat on hands and feet.

Complementary: Sil. Related: Calc-sul. Pul. Sul-ac.

Complaints of old age, or of premature old age; in syphilitic mercurial dyscrasia; young people look old. Increased ability to exercise without danger (Coca.); is less affected by excessive heat of summer or cold of winter. Old cicatrices become red around edges, and threaten to become open ulcers (Caust., Graph.). Varicose veins and ulcers, obstinate, long standing cases, in women who have borne many children. Caries and necrosis, especially of long bones, psoric or syphilitic, abuse of mercury or silica (Angus.). Naenuv, flat, of children (r. temple); capillary aneurism (compare, Cal. fl., Tub.). Ulcers: red edges and vesicles; decubitus; copious discharge; < from warmth, > from cold; violent pains, like streaks of lightning, confined to a small spot. Rapid caries of teeth; fistula dentalis or lachrymalis; exostosis of bone so face (Hekla).

Complementary: Coca, Sil. Follows well: after, Ars. in ascites of drunkards; after, Kali c. in hip disease; after, Coff., Staph. in sensitive teeth; after, Phos. ac. in diabetes; after Sil., Symph. in bone diseases; after, Spong. in goitre.

This remedy affects the right ear; teeth of the left side; left hypochondrium: left side of the abdomen; right side, and nape of the neck; right side of the back. Fistula lachrymalis.

Graphit., Nitr. ac.

Hydrofluoric Acid

Especially adapted to chronic diseases with syphilitic and mercurial history. Glabella region bloated. Acts especially upon lower tissues, and indicated in deep, destructive processes, bedsores, ulcerations, varicose veins, and ulcers. Patient is compelled to move about energetically. Complaints of old age, or the prematurely aged, with weak, distended blood vessels. Hob-nailed liver of alcoholics. Goitre (Dr. Woakes) (Kali fluoride produced bronchocele in dogs). Early decay of teeth. Old cases of nightly fevers, coming on periodically.

Indifference towards those loved best; inability to realize responsibility; buoyancy. Mentally elated and gay.

Alopecia. Caries of skin. Pressure on sides of head from within outward. Caries of ossicles and mastoid, with copious discharge; worse warmth (Silica; worse cold). Exostosis.

Sensation as of wind blowing through eyes. Lachrymal fistula. Violent itching of inner canthus.

Chronic nasal catarrh with ulceration of the septum; nose obstructed and dull heavy pain in forehead.

Dental fistula, with persistent bloody, salty discharge. Syphilitic ulceration of throat, which is very sensitive to cold. Teeth feel warm. Affects teeth and bones of upper jaw.

Heaviness and weight in stomach heat in stomach before meals. Sour eructations. Averse to coffee, wants fancy dishes. Stomach symptoms relieved by tight clothes. Desire for highly seasoned food. Craves cold water, hungry. Warm drinks produce diarrhœa.

Soreness over liver. Flatus and eructations.

Bilious diarrhœa, with aversion to coffee.

Burning in urethra. Sexual passion and desire increased with erections at night, during sleep. Swollen scrotum.

Scanty, dark. In dropsy, produces frequent and free discharge, with great relief.

Menses copious, frequent, too long. Ulceration of uterus and os. Copious and excoriating leucorrhœa. Nymphomania.

Oppression of chest, difficult breathing, great dyspnœa. Hydrothorax.

Inflammation of joints of fingers. Feeling as of a splinter under nail. Nails crumble. Caries and necrosis, especially of long bones. Coccygodynia. Ulcer over tibia.

Varicose veins. Nævi. Ulcers; red edges and vesicles. Decubitus; worse, warmth. Syphilitic rupia. Itching of cicatrices. Feels as if burning vapor were emitted from pores. Itching especially of the orifices, and in spots, worse warmth. Nails grow rapidly. Periosteal abscess. Profuse, sour, offensive perspiration. Syphilitic tubercles. Dropsy of limbs in old, feeble constitutions. Atony of capillary and venous system. Tissues bloated.

Worse, warmth, morning, warm drinks. Better, cold while walking.

Compare: Thiosinaminum (action on cicatricial tissues; adhesions, strictures, tumors); Calc fluor; Silica.

Complementary: Silica.

Sixth to thirtieth potency.

Diseases of the bones, especially the long bones, > from cold. Silicea, > by warmth.

Disposition to be exceedingly anxious, causing perspiration. Sensation as if danger menaced him. Forgetfulness of dates and of his common employment.

Vertigo with sickness of the stomach. Congestion of blood to the head -(forehead). Dulness (towards night) in the occiput. Sensation of numbness in the forehead. Heaviness above the eyes, with nausea, worse on motion. Compressing pain in the temples. Sensation of weakness, like numbness in the head (and hands). Itching of the head. Baldness.

Violent itching in the canthi. Burning in the eyes. Pressure, as if it were behind the right eyeball. Fistula lachrymalis. Sensation of sand in the eyes, or as if fresh wind was blowing on them.

Itching in the ears.

Red, swollen, inflamed nose. Obstruction of the nose. Fluent coryza.

Heat in the face ; desire to wash it with cold water. Perspiration particularly in the face.

The teeth feel warm (left side, upper jaw). Fistula (dentalis) (near the right eye-tooth) with great sensitiveness of the upper jaw to the touch. Sensation of roughness (lower incisor teeth). Carious teeth. Acrid, foul taste from the roots of the teeth. Increased flow of saliva (with sneezing) (with pricking of the tongue). In the morning the mouth and teeth are full of mucus. The posterior nares feel expanded during a walk. Constriction in the throat with difficult deglutition ; in the morning hawking up of much phlegm which is mixed with blood.

Aversion to coffee. Eructation and discharge of flatulency. Sickness of the stomach, with general heat. Nausea, eructations and lassitude. Pressure from weight in the stomach, between meals. Heat in the stomach before the meal. Pinching in the region of the spleen, (extending to the hips) (11 A.M.). Pressing pain in the region of the spleen and the left arm. Sensation of emptiness in the region of the navel, with desire to draw a deep breath ; relieved by bandaging and eating.

Soft small stools in the morning after drinking Coffee, and again in the evening with protrusion of the hæmorrhoids. Watery stools in the morning after rising. Frequent passages of flatus and eructations (with construction of the anus). Stool pappy, yellowish brown, fetid, with tenesmus and prolapsus ani. Protrusion of the anus during an evacuation. Itching within and around the anus, in the perineum (evening).

Very frequent discharge of light-colored urine (thirst increased). Whitish purple-colored sediment in the urine.

Men. Increased sexual desire (in old men) with violent erections all night. Sensation of fulness in both spermatic cords. Women. Menstruation too early and too copious ; the discharge is ; thick and coagulated.

Itching, redness, swelling of (right) nipple. Itching on the left breast and right side of the nose.

Itching in the larynx which causes him to hawk and to swallow. Itches under the ribs (left side). Difficult respiration (afternoon and evening). During respiration wheezing (Hydrothorax). In the heart sensation of soreness, jerking.

Rigidity in the nape of the neck. Pain (headache) from the nape of the neck extending through the centre of the head to the forehead. Bruised pain in the os sacrum.

Upper. Rheumatic pains in the left arm from the shoulder to the elbow, with lameness. Trembling in the biceps and triceps of the right arm. Pain in the right shoulder-joint. Slight lameness in the right arm (has some difficulty in writing). The left forearm and hand asleep (in the morning). Numbness and lameness in the left forearm and hand (morning). Weakness and numbness of the hands and head. Constant redress of the hands especially the palms of the hands. The nails grow more rapidly. Acute prickings, as with needles, in the fingers. Panaritium. Lower. Acute stitches in the right hip-bone. Lameness in the left hip. Pain in the right knee-joint. The left leg falls easily asleep. Burning stitches under the soles of the feet (in the morning). Soreness of all his corns.

Sleeplessness without inclination to sleep ; a short sleep suffices and refreshes him.

General heat with nausea from the least movement, with inclination to uncover oneself and to wash oneself with cold water. Perspiration, clammy, acid, disagreeably smelling, principally on the upper part of the body, especially on moving in the afternoon and evening, with itching. The perspiration favors soreness of the skin and decubitus. Less susceptible to the summer heat.

Limbs ; go to sleep, although he does ; not lie on them. Violent jerking burning pains ; confined to a small spot. Increased ability to exercise his muscles without fatigue, regardless of the most excessive heat in summer or cold in winter.

Old cicatrices become red around the edges ; covered or surrounded by itching vesicles, or they itch violently. Burning pains on small spots of the skin. Itching of the skin (in the month of March). Elevated red blotches. Red, round, elevated blood vesicles, resembling little flesh warts. Varicose veins on the (left) leg. Caries and necrosis. Ulcerations ; especially after the abuse of Silicea.

The extreme heat of the summer and the cold of the winter affect him less and he is able to endure more fatigue ; tires less easily. Carious ulcers becoming worse from too large or too frequently repeated doses of Silicia are much improved by Fluor. ar.

Hydrofluoric acid. H F. Made by distilling pure fluorspar (Calcium fluoride) in a state of fine powder with sulphuric acid. Solution.

Abscess . Alcoholism. Alopecia. Apoplexy. Bone, affections of . Brain, atrophy of. Cicatrix . Coccygodynia. Decubitus. Dropsies. Eyes, affections of. Fistula . Gleet. Goître . Gonorrhœa. Hæmorrhoids. Hair, falling out. Hands, perspiring . Headache. Hydrocele. Liver, induration of. Locomotor ataxy . Nævus. Nose, inflammation of . Nymphomania. Otorrhœa. Peritonitis. Perspiration. Pityriasis . Satyriasis. Splenalgia. Suppuration. Syphilis . Teeth, defective. Toothache. Tongue, ulceration of . Varicosis. Veins, diseased . Whitlow.

Fluoric acid acts on the lower tissues of the body much like Silica , which it follows and precedes well. It is useful after the abuse of Silica . The modalities of the two are different; Fluor. ac . having > from cold applications. It acts on the bones, especially the long bones, causing caries and necrosis, and favours the expulsion of the necrosed part. Fistulæ, rectal, dental, and lachrymal come within its sphere. Old cicatrices become redder and itch. Small red spots here and there, < by warmth, > in cool place. Red blotches on body which tend to desquamate. Nails grow rapidly. Teeth are deficient in enamel; black, rough, unsightly-looking. Increased sensitiveness of vision and hearing. According to Guernsey Fluor. ac . affects the right ear; left teeth; left hypochondrium; left side of abdomen; right side and nape of neck; right side of back. T. F. Allen has recorded an experience ( N. A. J. H ., 1886, p. 288) showing the applicability of Fl. ac . in whitlow. A lady spilled some of the acid on her hand and though treated at once with turpentine a few spots escaped on one hand, and these soon gave her great pain, intensely pulsating. The pulsations involved the tip of the thumb especially, though this had not been touched by the acid. It was not red like the spots touched by the acid but was sore to touch, and when pressed there was a sensation as of a splinter under the nail and in the cellular tissue. This lasted some days. The whole hand was swollen and hot, > in cool, open air. In a workman whose hand was exposed to the fumes of the acid there was intense throbbing pains especially in the thumb; suppuration occurred later and was very slow to heal. According to McLachlan, the left hand is affected rather than the right and the pus tends to point on the dorsum of the finger. > From cold washing distinguishes it from Silic. Fl. ac . is also distinguished from Sil . by the general > from walking in the open air. "A constant, irresistible desire to walk in the open air; it does not fatigue," is characteristics of Fl. ac . Hunger predominates. There is < from wine like Zinc .; but also < from red wine, which is peculiar to Fluor. ac . Abdominal symptoms > by tightening clothes ( Nat. mur . — opp. Lach., Hep .). Peculiar symptoms are: Increased ability to exercise his muscles without fatigue. Is less affected by excessive heat in summer or cold in winter. Sensation as of a cold wind blowing under lids, even in warm room; as of air passing down from shoulder-joint to fingers. Numbness of limbs even when not lain on. Motion < . Bending backward, and bending head back > . Cold drinks < toothache; washing with cold water > . Warm drink < diarrhœa. Symptoms seem to go from below upward. Suited to complaints of old age, and premature old age; weakly constitutions, sallow skin, emaciation.

Compatible: after Arsen. in ascites from gin-drinker's liver after Kali c. in hip disease; after Phos. ac. in diabetes. Compare: Coca (fatigue); Coffea (toothache); Citr. ac. and Sep. (aversion to one's family); Oxal. ac. (diarrhœa < from coffee); Rhus t. and Ruta (coccygodynia); Silic. (fistula, onychia, bone diseases, coccygodynia); Brom., Iod., Spongia and Kali c. (goître); Staph. (teeth). Followed well by: Sulph., Nit. ac.

Uncommon buoyancy of mind; fears nothing and is self-satisfied. — Disposition to be exceedingly anxious, causing perspiration. — Aversion to his own family. — Sensation as if danger menaced him. — Forgetfulness of dates and of his common employment.

Vertigo with sickness of the stomach. — Congestion of blood to the head (forehead). — Dulness (towards night) in the occiput. — Dulness and pressure in occiput. — Sensation of numbness in the forehead. — Heaviness above the eyes, with nausea, < on motion. — Compressing pain in the temples. — Headache > by profuse flow of urine. — Severe pressing pain in temples, from within outward. — Pain along the sutures. — Caries of the temporal bones. — Sensation of weakness, like numbness in the head (and hands). — Itching of the head. — Falling off of the hair; the new hair is dry and breaks off. — Baldness.

Violent itching in the canthi. — Burning in the eyes. — Pressure, as if it were behind r. eyeball. — Fistula lachrymalis. — Sensation of sand in the eyes, or as if a fresh wind was blowing on them.

Intolerable itching in both ears. — Singing in ears. — Hardness of hearing > bending head back.

Red, swollen, inflamed nose. — Obstruction of the nose. — Fluent coryza.

Heat in the face; desire to wash it with cold water. — Perspiration, esp. in the face. — Crusta lactea, dry, scaly, itches very much. — Tubercles in skin of forehead and face, suppurating; syphilis infantum.

The teeth feel warm (l. upper jaw). — Fistula (near the r. eye-tooth) with great sensitiveness of the upper jaw to the touch. — Sensation of roughness (lower incisor teeth). — Toothache < from cold drink; or > until water becomes warm in mouth. — Rapid caries of teeth. — Acrid, foul taste from the roots of the teeth. — Increased flow of saliva. — Increased flow of saliva (with sneezing; with pricking of the tongue.). — In the morning the mouth and teeth are full of mucus. — The posterior nares feel expanded during a walk. — Tongue deeply and widely fissured in all directions, with a large, deep phagedenic-looking ulcer in the centre.

Throat peculiarly sensitive to cold, slightest exposure resulting in inflammation, with increase of pain and impeded deglutition. — Constriction in the throat with difficult deglutition; in the morning hawking up of much phlegm which is mixed with blood.

Hunger predominates. — Thirst, craves refreshing drinks. — Aversion to coffee. — Eructation and discharge of flatulency. — Frequent eructations. — Nausea, eructations, and lassitude. — Sickness of the stomach, with general heat. — Fulness and pressure in epigastrium. — Pressure from weight in the stomach, between meals. — Heat in the stomach before the meal. — Bilious vomiting after slight errors in diet, with increased alvine discharges, preceded by tormina.

Frequent passages of flatus and belchings, which relieve. — Great tension and dropsical swelling of the abdomen. — Pinching in the region of the spleen (extending to the hips), 11 a.m. — Pressing pain in the region of the spleen and l. arm. — Sensation of emptiness in the region of the navel, with desire to draw a deep breath; > by bandaging and eating.

Soft small stools in the morning after drinking coffee, and again in the evening, with protrusion of the hæmorrhoids. — Watery stools in the morning after rising. — Frequent passages of flatus and eructations (with constriction of the anus). — Stool pappy, yellowish-brown, fetid, with tenesmus and prolapsus ani. — Protrusion of the anus during an evacuation. — Constipation; stools infrequent and hard. — Itching within and around the anus, in the perineum (evening).

Free discharge of light-coloured urine, affording relief. — Very frequent discharge of light-coloured urine (thirst increased). — Whitish purple-coloured sediment in the urine. — Intolerable burning in the urethra during and after urination.

Increased sexual desire (in old men) with violent erections all night. — Sensation of fulness in both spermatic cords. — Highly excessive enjoyment and pleasure during coition. — Seminal discharge tardy but free, and without bad after-feeling.

Menstruation too early and too copious; the discharge is thick and coagulated. — Acrid leucorrhœa; itching.

Itching in the larynx, which causes him to hawk and to swallow. — Short frequent cough, mostly dry, white, frothy sputa. — Itching under the ribs (l.). — Difficult respiration (afternoon and evening). — During respiration wheezing (hydrothorax).

Oppression of chest, > bending backwards. — Nipples itching, sore, cracked. — Itching, redness, swelling of (r.) nipple. — Itching on l. breast and r. side of nose.

In the heart sensation of soreness, jerking.

Rigidity in the nape of the neck. — Pain (headache) from the nape of the neck extending through the centre of the head to the forehead. — Bruised pain in the os sacrum and loins, > by stretching, bending backwards, and by pressure.

Pain in r. shoulder-joint. — Pain in r. shoulder-joint, extending toward fingers, with sensation as if air were passing down. — Trembling in the biceps and triceps of r. arm. — Slight lameness in r. arm (has some difficulty in writing). — Rheumatic pains in l. arm from shoulder to elbow, with lameness. — The l. forearm and hand asleep (in the morning). — Numbness and lameness in l. forearm and hand (morning). — Pain in l. index finger; the whole finger is painful internally. — Weakness and numbness of the hands and head. — Constant redness of the hands, esp. the palms of the hands. — Acute prickings, as with needles, in the fingers. — Thumbs and fingers inflamed, with acute throbbing pains. — Sensation of a splinter under nail. — The nails grow more rapidly. — Brittleness of the nails. — Panaritium; also simple onychia.

Œdematous swelling up to the abdomen. — Varicose veins. — Acute stitches in r. hip-bone. — Lameness in l. hip. — Pain in r. knee-joint. — The l. leg falls easily asleep. — Burning stitches under the soles of the feet (in the morning). — Feet hot and burn. — Soreness between the toes. — Soreness of all his corns.

Lassitude. — Loss of strength. — Limbs go to sleep, although he does not lie on them. — Increased ability to exercise his muscles without fatigue, regardless of the most excessive heat in summer or cold in winter. — Violent jerking, burning pains, confined to a small spot.

Old cicatrices become red around the edges, covered or surrounded by itching vesicles, or they itch violently. — Burning pains on small spots of the skin. — Itching of the skin (in the month of March). — Elevated red blotches. — Red, round, elevated blood vesicles, resembling little flesh-warts. — Varicose veins on the (l.) leg. — Caries and necrosis. — Ulcerations, esp. after the abuse of Silica.

Sleeplessness without inclination to sleep; a short sleep suffices and refreshes him. — Drowsy and sleepy in the early evening. — Dreams toward morning.

General heat with nausea. — General heat with nausea from the least movement, with inclination to uncover oneself and to wash oneself with cold water. — Perspiration, clammy, acid, disagreeably smelling, principally on the upper part of the body, esp. on moving in the afternoon and evening, with itching. — The perspiration favours soreness of the skin and decubitus. — Less susceptible to the summer heat.

Great loss of memory ; forgets almost everything.
Forgetfulness every evening ; good memory in the morning.
Forgetfulness : in his daily employment ; of dates ; on making notes he mistakes "right" for "left".
Mental weakness. θ Ascites.
Mental excitability.
Feeling of indifference towards those he loves best, has no objection to their presence but does not care to converse with them, yet it strangers or mere acquaintances come in will enter into animated conversation.
Aversion to his own family, bordering on insanity.
Gay disposition, everything is satisfactory.
Excessive hilarity ; great buoyancy of mind, happy, serene.
Greatly depressed in mind. θ Ascites.
Disposition to be exceedingly anxious, causing sweat ; > in morning than in evening.
Sensation as if danger menaced him, but without fear.
Felt certain that something dreadful would happen, with dulness in head, mostly in front, left side, extending into middle of brain.
Fear of apoplexy.
Anxiety. θ Ascites.
Irritable, disagreeable mood.
Moodiness in evening, > in morning.
Very ill humored. θ Ascites.
Discontent and excessive ill humor followed by indifference and forgetfulness, and finally by perfect contentment and uncommonly gay disposition of mind.

Congestion of blood mostly to forehead, with dulness in occiput toward night.
Feeling in brain as if on the verge of being struck with apoplexy.
Vertigo with sickness of stomach.
A kind of sinking weakness, has to sit down.
Feeling as if in an earthquake.
Sensation of weakness, like numbness in head, same in hands.

Sensation of numbness in forehead.
Congestion of blood to forehead with dulness in occiput towards night.
Heaviness above eyes, with nausea, < by motion.
Severe pressing in both temples, from within outward.
Compressing pain in temples.
Slight pain in right temple, five hours after in left.
Headache in sutures behind ears at 3 P. M.
Headache accompanied by congestion of blood to head, sensation of numbness, with heaviness and compressive pains.
Headache every morning > by micturition.
Sensation of weakness, like numbness in head.
Numbness in head and hands.
Dull, heavy headache. θ Dyspepsia.
Congestive headache.
Dulness and pressure in occiput.
Dullness of occiput ; towards right in occiput.
Pressure on both sides of occiput.
Headache in occiput, with fulness in head.
Headache from nape, extending through centre of head to forehead ; also dull feeling in head.
Atrophy of brain.

Sensation of numbness in forehead.
Scalp sensitive.
Pain along the sutures.
Itching of head ; baldness.
Congestion of blood to scalp ; hair becomes dry, breaks off and falls out.
Falling off of hair.
Hair falling out after typhoid fever.
Alopecia areata.
Must comb hair frequently, it mats so at the end. θ Pica polonica.
Scaly eruptions on head.
Crusta lactea, dry, scaly, itches very much, makes bald.
Caries of temporal bone, discharging offensive-smelling pus periodically ; whole left side of head retarded in growth, left eye seems smaller.
Syphilitic caries of bones of skull.

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It takes a long time for this remedy, in the proving, to develop its symptoms. It is a very deep-acting medicine, and an antipsoric, antisyphilitic and anti-sycotic.

It is insidious in its action and its symptoms are slow in approach; it is like the deepest and slowest and most tedious diseases, the miasms, and hence it is suitable in the very slowest and lowest forms of disease.

While it has in its nature some febrile action, it is not for this purpose that it is oftenest called for its most typical febrile action is very slow and insidious. It corresponds to overheated states of the system, old cases of nightly fevers, coming on week after week and year after year.

It is an unusually hot-blooded remedy at times, and again it has conditions of coldness. In the evening and night great heat seems to evolve from the body without increase of temperature. The skin becomes very hot.

That patient is often < from warm things, < from covering, < from warm air; suffocates somewhat like Puls. in a warm room. He wants to bathe the face and head in cold water; such bathing is grateful.

The feet burn and are put out of bed in the night; he hunts around in bed for a cool place for the feet and bands. The soles perspire, and the palms perspire, and the sweat is acrid, making the parts sore; excoriation from the sweat between the toes.

The perspiration is offensive; offensive, acrid sweat between the toes. Burning, unusual heat and acridity are words that modify a great many symptom s; an acrid lachrymation or other discharge from the eye; acrid discharge from the nose, acrid sweat, etc.

Sensation of burning and burning pains in parts; heat evolved from the body as a chronic state. Aggravation from heat, from outward heat and from inward heat, belongs to this remedy. It is a strong feature, of this remedy to be worse from drinking tea and coffee. Warm, drinks bring on a diarrhea, or flatulence, or disturbance in the stomach, and cause indigestion to manifest itself in various way The symptoms are worse standing and sitting and better in the open air.

It is a remedy of great depth of action. It so disturbs the functions that there are peculiar outward signs in the nails, in the hair, in the skin; they are all imperfectly developed.

Whenever such is the case, we know that a remedy has great depth of action and that it is very long acting. It forms like incrustations here and there upon the skin that seem to have no tendency to heal.

A crust forms, but there seems to be no healing beneath the crust. The hair loses its luster; it falls out, and if examined closely under the microscope it is seen to be necrosed; little ragged ulcers will be found along the course of the hair.

The ends of the hair are dry, the hair mats and splits and breaks, becomes ragged in masses and lustreless. The nails are crippled, likewise corrugations in the nails; the nails grow too fast and grow awkwardly; that is, they are deformed and crippled, too thick in some places, and too thin in others; break easily, brittle.

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Forgetfulness: in his daily employment; of dates.
Aversion to his own family.
Greatly depressed in mind.
Disposition to be exceedingly anxious; better morning than evening.
Apprehensiveness.
Feeling of indifference towards those he loves best; become interested and converses pleasantly with strangers.
Uncommon buoyancy of mind, fears nothing and is well satisfied with herself.
Ill-humored.

Congestion of blood mostly to the forehead, with dulness in the occiput toward night.
Sensation of weakness, like numbness in head, same in hands.

Compressing pain in the temples.
Headache in the occiput, with fulness in the head.
Headache from the nape, extending through the centre of head to the forehead; also dull feeling in the head.

Sensation of numbness in the forehead.
Pain along the sutures.
Caries of the temporal bone.
Must comb the hair frequently, it mats so at the end.
Falling out of the hair, new hair dry and breaks off.

Heaviness about the eyes, with nausea; worse on motion.
Pressure, as if behind the right ball.
Dark spot before eye, worse reading.
Sensation as of a cold wind blowing under the lids (even in a warm room), must bind the eyes, with a cloth.
Sensation of sand in the eyes, or as if a fresh wind was blowing on them.
Feeling as if he must wink as if something was in the eye that could not be rubbed off.
Increased lachrymation.
Itching in the canthi.
Fistula lachrymalis.

Intolerable itching in both ears.
Itching, better momentarily from scratching, but followed by burning.

Fluent coryza.
Obstruction of the nose.
Posterior nares feel expanded, during a walk.
Red, swollen, inflamed nose.
Itching on right side of nose.

Pale.
Heat in face, wants to wash it in cold water.
Crusta lactea, dry, scaly; itches very much.
Tubercles in skin of forehead and face, suppurating. θ Syphilis infantum.

Sensation of: warmth; heaviness in the teeth; roughness of the teeth.
Mouth and teeth coated with mucus in the morning.
Toothache worse from cold drink; or improved until the water becomes warm in the mouth.
Rapid caries of teeth.
Violent pains at the root of the right eye-tooth, with frequent discharge of pus.
Great sensitiveness to pressure on the gum over the right eye-tooth.

Acrid, foul taste from the roots of the teeth.
Tongue always more or less tender, feeling of rigidity in it, with restricted mobility; painful when talking.
Tongue: vivid red at tip and edges, coated yellow in the centre; whitish and dry.
Tongue deeply and widely fissured in all directions, with a large, deep phagedenic-looking ulcer in the centre.

Increased flow of saliva.

Red blotches, size of half pea, over the palate and side of cheek, bleeding easily.
Soft palate and uvula intensely red and much tumefied, breath fetid, voice nasal, articulation indistinct.
Accumulation of mucus in the fauces, disturbs sleep.
Throat peculiarly sensitive to cold, slightest exposure resulting in inflammation, with increase of pain and impended deglutition.
Constriction in the throat, with difficult deglutition; in the morning, hawking of phlegm mixed with blood.
Excessive pain when swallowing.

Hunger predominates.
Thirst, craves refreshing drinks.
Desires wine.
Aversion to coffee.

Warm drinks: 20. Cold drink: 10. Eating: 19.
Complaints worse from sweet things.

Nausea; with general heat; eructations and lassitude.
Bilious vomiting after slight errors in diet; with increased alvine discharges, preceded by tormina.

Feeling of fulness and pressure in epigastrium.
Feeling of weight in the stomach between meals.

Sensitive to pressure in right hypochondrium.
Pressing pain in region of spleen, left arm.
Pain from spleen to hip.
Pinching in region of spleen.

Sensation of emptiness in region of navel, with desire to take a deep breath; better from bandaging or eating.
Great tension and dropsical swelling of the abdomen.

Frequent passage of flatus and belchings, with constriction of the anus.
Very loose, bright yellow stools, with a quantity of mucus, preceded by considerable griping.
Stools chiefly during the night or early in the morning.
Stools pappy, yellowish brown, fetid, with tenesmus and prolapsus ani.
Bilious diarrhœa, worse during day, soon after drinking, especially warm drinks.
Tardy, infrequent and hard stools.
Itching in and around the anus.

Very frequent discharge of bright-colored urine, with increased thirst.
Urine scanty and dark, painful in passing; alkaline.
Whitish or purple-colored sediment.
Burning before and after urination, with aching in the bladder.

Increased sexual desire in old men, with violent erections at night.
Gleety discharge at night, staining the linen yellow.
Yellow drops from the urethra in the morning.
Dropsical swelling of the penis; also hydrocele.
Oily, pungent-smelling sweat on the genitals.

Menses: too early; too copious; discharge thick and coagulated.
Metrorrhagia with, or in alternation with, difficulty of breathing.
Leucorrhœa acrid: also with itching.

Itching, redness and swelling of right nipple; nipples sore, cracked; congestion to the head.

Weak voice.
Dryness in larynx and trachea.
Itching in larynx, causing hawking and swallowing.
Soreness and increased irritability in larynx, with impeded respiration and wheezing.

Difficult breathing, afternoon and evening: 23.
Oppression of chest, better when bending backwards.
Relieves in hydrothorax.

Short, frequent cough, mostly dry, occasionally some whitish, frothy mucous expectoration.

Upper part of chest seems most affected.
Hydrothorax.

Sore pain at the heart.
Small, frequent pulse.

Scaly eruption on the chest and arms.

Pain in the third cervical vertebra.
Rigidity of nape.
Bruised pain in sacrum.

Pain in right shoulder-joint; shoulder-joints stiffened by rheumatism.
Slight lameness in the right arm.
Rheumatic pains in left arm, from shoulder to elbow, with lameness.
Weakness and numbness of hands.
Constant redness of the hands, especially the palms.
Burning in the hands.
Sharp sticking pain at the root of right thumb-nail.
Acute pricking, as with needles, in the fingers.
Panaritium; also simple onychia.
Nails grow more rapidly, crumpled or longitudinal ridges in them.

Acute stitches in the right hip-bone.
Lameness in the left hip.
Left leg goes "to sleep" easily.
Œdematous swelling up to the abdomen; top of the foot œdematous.
Burning stitches in the soles.
Feet hot and burn much.
Soreness between the toes.
Soreness of all the corns.

Pain in all the limbs.

Motion: 5, 40. Walking: 7. Exercise: 40. Bending backwards: 26.

Increased ability to exercise his muscles without fatigue, regardless of the most excessive heat in summer or cold in winter.
Loss of strength.
Sensation of going to sleep of side not laid on.

Loss of sleep in evening, from crowding of thoughts.
Sleeplessness, without inclination to sleep; a short sleep suffices and refreshes him.
Sleep restless and unrefreshing.

Morning: 1, 10, 13, 20, 22. Afternoon: 26, 40. Evening: 1, 2, 26, 37, 40. Night: 20, 22, 44. Day: 20.

Warm room: 5. Warmth: 46. Heat and cold: 36. Sensitive to cold: 13. Cold: 46. Cold water in mouth: 10. Desire to wash with cold water: 8, 40.

Chill entirely wanting.
General heat, with nausea from the slightest motion., with inclination to uncover, but mostly to wash with cold water.
Clammy, sour and unpleasant-smelling sweats, mostly on upper body, particularly during exercise in afternoon and evening; sweat excessive on palms and feet.
The sweat promotes excoriation and decubitus.

Right: 5, 7, 10, 18, 24, 32, 33, 46. Left: 18, 32, 33.

Violent jerking, burning pains confined to small spots.

Diseases of bones, particularly of long bones, suppurate and get better and worse periodically; pains worse at night, with great prostration.
Liver enlarged and indurated.
Varicose veins of the legs; varicose ulcers; nævus, flat.

Pressure: 10. Bandaging: 19. Scratching: 6.

Burning pains on small spots of the skin.
Dry cutaneous eruption; squamous eruptions on the body.
Elevated red blotches; erosions, mucous tubercles.
Nævus on right temple.
Ulcers: painful; worse from warmth, better from cold; with copious discharge, also on legs, worse at ankles, bones diseased.
Old cicatrices become red around the edges, covered or surrounded by itching vesicles, or they itch violently.

Complaints of old age, also premature old age, in consequence of syphilitic mercurial dyscrasia.
Weakly constitutions, sallow of whiskey, induration of liver; ascites.
Ailments from Silic.; also after abuse of mercury.
Fluor ac. follows well; after Arsen., in ascites with diseased liver; after Kali carb., in hip disease; after Silic., in bone diseases; after Phosp. ac., in diabetes (one case).

For use, 1 part of the pure acid is dissolved in 99 parts of water and preserved in gutta-percha vials. This should be well diluted before taking.

It is an irritant to mucous membranes and a profound tissue remedy. ▶ Indicated in deep destructive processes (periosteal, osseous and connective tissue generally affected.). ▶ It also seems to affect the veins and restore their tone.

▶ Boron (Borax and Boracic acid), Silicon (Silicic acid, Silica).

Writhing about in indescribable agony. ▶ Motion of hands, fingers, toes feet jaws, lips, eyebrows lids, muscles of face, etc.; fond of movement of the whole body when sitting. ▶ Pain, agg. hand, arm to elbow and in foot, with lameness; transient P. in different parts in evening, in neck, knee, right forearm, left leg, right foot, right shoulder and left arm, sometimes below, sometimes above elbow; erratic in left half of body in arm, chest, nates, etc., with itching; jerking, in different parts, behind left ear, on left middle finger and in small of back; jerking burning, almost boring, in a small spot; burning, at 9 P.M. in different places, agg. externally, on thighs, left upper arm, fingers, etc.

Shaking sensation in forenoon when sitting, with pressure and compression in occiput, agg. towards right side, with internal numbness in left forearm and pricking in it on stretching it. ▶ Sensation almost like rush of blood, though rather as if caused by the nerves, somewhat like numbness and confusion or burning, in right side of forehead, then in right side of jaws, in posterior half of occiput, in bladder, and so on in various places. ▶ Lameness. ▶ Lassitude; in forenoon; at night when walking; sudden, in evening. ▶ Many symptoms worse when standing, though better when standing than when sitting; S. agg. right side; during rest; in the room when reading or writing; as soon as she rises. ▶ Amelioration on motion, on walking; pains amel. after breakfast, except pain in head on motion of it.

It has been used in typhoid fever, especially for the bed-sores, and tabes dorsalis and in other diseases where there has been tendency to decubitus. ▶ In a general way it is a remedy for an unhealthy condition of the tissues in broken-down constitutions, as in drunkards, varicose veins, bed-sores, syphilitic destruction of tissues, exostoses and bone-pains; diseases of the bones generally; also in diseases of the skin, ulcerations, varicosities, nævi, lupus-like tubercles. ▶ The symptom of necessity for energetic and rapid motion, "It seems as if she could walk forever." has been relied upon as a marked indication for the drug in numerous diseases, for example, tumors, felons, etc.

▶ Satisfaction. ▶ Enjoyment of everything. ▶ Gayety next morning. ▶ Sensation as if dangers menaced him, agg. during pressure in occiput, during the staggering, pain in bladder, etc., without fear. ▶ Anxiety so that sweat frequently breaks out. ▶ Ill humor. ▶ Discontent in evening, but joy in the morning after a restless night. ▶ Ungovernable anger when considering what might happen. ▶ Hatred, which he vents in words, but a suddenly altered view as soon as he sees the people. ▶ Dissatisfaction, with discomfort in abdomen. ▶ Aversion to his business. ▶ Disposition when alone to repulsive fantastic imagination, especially in regard to people with whom he is connected for example, that he must get rid of all servants, children must go out of the house, a betrothal must be broken off, a marriage must be dissolved, etc. ▶ Indifference. ▶ Mistakes right and left in making notes. ▶ Writes. ▶ December for August daily though memory is good. ▶ Forgets the most common things. ▶ It his ideas are interrupted by other thoughts he cannot recall the former, or only slowly and stupidly. ▶ Peculiar rush of memory every morning. ▶ Attention difficult to fix. ▶ Comprehension of philosophical works difficult, but facts appear clearer.

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Irritant to mucous membranes; generally indicated in deep, destructive processes.
General amelioration on motion (walking).
A very marked characteristic of the drug is the apparent necessity for energetic and rapid motion.
Generally indicated for unhealthy tissues, bed-sores, syphilitic ulcerations, exostoses, varicose veins, bone diseases generally, skin diseases, with ulcerations, etc.

Clinical:
Alopecia areata.
Caries of the skull, particularly of the temporal bones.

A feeling as of wind blowing through the eyes.
Lids feel forced open.
Sensation of sand in the eyes.

Clinical:
Lachrymal fistula.
Chronic inflammation of the lachrymal sac; aggravated by cold air.

Intolerable itching in the ears.
Profuse otorrhœa.

Chronic nasal catarrh.

Clinical:
Dental fistula, with persistent, bloody, salty discharge, which keeps the mouth foul.

Clinical:
Goitre.
Syphilitic ulcerations of the throat, with fetid smell; much tumefaction; throat very sensitive to cold.

Clinical:
Numerous symptoms in the liver have led to its use in hepatic engorgement, and even degeneration of the liver in consequence of alcholismus; and also in abdominal dropsies associated with hepatic disease.
With the hepatic and abdominal symptoms there is sometimes offensive, bilious diarrhœa, especially in hard drinkers, with great aversion to coffee, desire for highly-seasoned food, soreness over liver, etc.

Inflammation of the joints, especially of the phalanges of the fingers; feeling of a splinter under the thumb nail and in the cellular tissue when touched.
Pulsating pain in the hand, especially in the tip of the thumb, which is sore to touch; the whole hand swollen and hot.
The nails crumble or have longitudinal furrows.

Varicose ulcers.

Flu. a. / (Florida-Florence.) / Flora.

Fluoric acid,-Call we for,
Or maybe Calcium fluor.
When syphilis we clearly note,
Especially on the tongue or throat.
When teeth and bones are in decay,
And specks are on the cornea.
When scars of wounds reopen, and
Hard knots show on the mammary gland.
When Goiter, felon, Nail disease,
And fistula put in their pleas.

Flora,-Has Deformed Nails.

Flora Gray, is sewing a coat for Aunt Lyde.

This Flora,- Who is affected with Goitre,- Is at Naja, in the arbor, with the sport, Jo Ova Fucus.

Deformed Nails:Flu. a., Cal. f., Graph., Sil., Alu., Cal. c., Thuj., Ant. c., Lyc.

Goitre: Flu. a., Cal. f., Naj., Thuj., Spo., Iod., Ova. t., Fucus ves. tinc. (Exophthalmic Apis, Naj., Thuj., Fucus ves. tinc.)

Gay and cheerful. Aversion to business, to his own family. Hatred of people. Anxiety, causing sweat to break out. Irritable. Forgetful. Feeling as if menaced by danger.

Determination of blood to, and unconsciousness, could not remember where he was. Pains: Compressive, undulative, or shooting like lightning. A dull pressure proceeds from nape thro' center toward forehead. Cramp - like pain in occiput. Better: Bending head back.

Hair tangled. Great falling out of hair.

Feeling of a fresh wind blowing on. Quivering above outer canthus. Violent itching of inner canthus. Photopsies, like lightnings, etc. Vision clearer.

Sensitive hearing, in morning.

Sudden attacks of coryza, suddenly disappearing again. Suddenly filled with mucus on rising mouth with cold water. Worse: Alcoholic drinks.

Seems old and wrinkled. Puffy folds under eyes. Constant motion of facial muscles. Compression in zygoma. Heat, with desire to bathe it in cold water.

- Warmth in. Feel sharp, rough or dull. Sensitive, especially to cold.

Prickling in, and on tongue. Mucous membrane peels off. Greasy feeling in. Dryness of left half of palate and roof of mouth. Flow of saliva precedes headache, diarrhoea, etc. Tenacious saliva. Pain, as from hot water in.

Taste: Acrid, putrid, coming from roots of teeth. Like ink. Sweetish in throat.

Constriction. Posterior nares feel wide open. Hawks up bloody mucus.

Excessive hunger, desire for something piquant. Speedy satiety. Aversion to coffee. Pressure in. Stale, disgusting eructations. Nausea.

Faint emptiness in region of navel with a desire to take a deep breath, better bandaging. Frequent excessively offensive discharges of wind, which better.

Itching in and about.

Strong, disagreeable smell of. Diarrhoea worse from warm drinks.

Burning in urethra.

Copious, with diarrhea. Smelling fragrant or strong, acrid, offensive, Free discharge, relieving him. Purple sediment.

Passion increased. Fullness in spermatic cords. Menses early, profuse, coagulated. Excoriating leucorrhoea.

Oppression, better bending head back.

Itching in, and on throat.

Mammae: Itching nipples, areola darkens and crust forms on.

Soreness. Jerking in.

Neck: Stiffness and soreness in nape.

Back: Contractive, burning or prickling pains in scapular region. Better: Bending backward.

Pains: Burning, dislocative, like electric shocks, as if asleep, in bones of.

Weakness and numbness in hands and head. prickling in. l Jerks in. Penetrating pain. Feeling as if air were pressing down along arm in bones. Red or mottled palms. Hands and fingers swelled, with throbbing pains, later forming blisters discharging a dark, offensive, acrid fluid. Feeling of a hair on back of fingers. Contusive pain in bones of ends of fingers. Burning about bone. Feeling of something working out from beneath nails. Acute prickling s, as with a needle, in fingers. Feeling of a splinter under nail, worse touch.

Heaviness. Trembling. Burning shooting. Burning in toes, soles, etc. Back of foot feels like a cushion. Soreness in corns. Worse: Walking. Better: Rest.

Feeling of heat, with desire for cool air or cold bathing. Deep seated pains in bones, sutures, etc. Localized congestions. Symptoms in spots. Acrid, excoriating discharges, sweat, etc. Numbing weakness. Feeling of warmth in internal organs. prickling, burning, itching sensations, or pains shooting like lightning. Symptoms often ascend or are right - sided. Impulse to walk rapidly, which relieves. Better: From cold or cold washing, open air. etc., motion and walking. Worse: Standing, sitting, spirituous drinks.

Crawling in. Tormenting itching. Itching pustules. Cicatrices turn red around edges, itch and are covered with vesicles. Sensation as if a burning vapor were emitted from the pores of whole body. Excoriation. Roughness and desquamation, especially in spots, Red blotches. Naevi materni. Thrombi. Varicose veins. Flesh warts. Enlarged capillaries.

Sleepiness: Sudden, periodical, unconquerable. Wakefulness in evening.

Dreams., - Vivid, towards morning.

Pulse: Somewhat accelerated, by motion only. Chill: Entirely wanting. Heat: Universal with qualmishness from the slightest motion, with inclination to uncover, but more to wash with cold water. Sweat: Clammy (glutinous), sour, unpleasantly - smelling, mostly on upper part of body, especially from motion and during the afternoon and evening. The sweat greatly favors the formation of excoriation and bedsores. Sweat with itching.

Allied Remedies. Am-c., Bor., Calc-c., Chin., Coloc., GRAPH., Hep., Mer-c., Nit-ac., Sep., SIL., Sul-ac.,

Complementary: Sil.