Muriaticum Acidum mur-ac.

BLOOD. MUSCLES: HEART. ANUS. MUCOUS MEMBRANES: Digestive tract. MOUTH. TONGUE. Brain.

Touch. Wet weather. Walking. Cold drinks; bathing. Sitting. Human voice.

Motion. Warmth. Lying on L. side.

Sore, RESTLESS AND ERETHISTIC, but soon grows weak and very debilitated; wants to lie down; slides down in bed, eyes fall shut; lower jaw drops, etc. Muscle exhaustion. Bluish parts; tongue, piles, ulcers, etc. Tearing in limbs. BURNINGS. Dry, bleeding, cracked or deeply ulcerated parts. Thin, acrid, foul discharges. Decomposition. Violent hæmorrhage. Bloody mucous membranes. Typhoid or scorbutic states.

Introverted. Sad and taciturn. Irritable. Muttering. Persistent, loud moaning. Vertigo if lies on r. side. Brain feels bruised. Periodical pain over l. eye. Occipital pains; leaden heaviness. Cutting from mastoid to nape, < touch. Deafness. Nosebleed. Dark or glowing red face; with cold hands, but no thirst. Lips, sore, cracked and scabby. Dry, mouth and throat. Tongue heavy, stiff, shrunken or burnt looking (Ars.). Aphthæ. Teeth, < acids or sweets. Sordes. Averse to meat. Ascites. Profuse, involuntary stool or prolapsing bowel, on urinating, or passing flatus. Very sore piles, > heat. Atony of bladder; must press until rectum comes down. Can't urinate without also stooling. Red, swelled, burning fingers and toes. Weak thighs. Scurfy eruption on dorsæ of hands. Ulcers throb on walking. Pulsations in single parts. Sparse scarlatina, mixed with petechiæ. Large, full and soft pulse. Pulse drops every third beat. Cold in bed, in early morning. Intense, burning heat, with aversion to covers. Adynamic fevers; typhoid, septic, etc.

Related: Bap. Bry.

Adapted to persons with black hair, dark eyes, dark complexion. Irritable, peevish, disposed to anger and chagrin (Nux); restlessness and vertigo. Diseases of an asthenic type, with moaning, unconsciouness, fretfulness. Ulceration with fungus-like growths and pseudo-like membranous deposits of intestinal tract. Great debility: as soon as he sits down his eyes close; lower jaw hangs down; slides down in bed. Mouth and anus are chiefly affected; the tongue and sphincter ani are paralyzed. Malignant affections of mouth; studded with ulcers, deep, perforating; have a black or dark base; offensive, foul breath; intense prostration; diphtheria, scarlatina, cancer. Cannot bear the thought or sight of meat (Nit. ac.). If the anus be very sensitive either with or without haemorrhoids; anus sore during menses. Haemorrhoids: swollen, blue, sensitive and painful to touch; appear suddenly in children; too sore to bear least touch, even the sheet is uncomfortable. Prolapse while urinating. Diarrhoea: stool involuntary while urinating; on passing wind (Aloe); cannot urinate without having the bowels move at the same time. Urine passes slowly; bladder weak, must wait a long time; has to press so that the anus protrudes. Cannot bear least touch, not even of sheet on genitals (Murex). Typhoid or typhus; deep stupid sleep; unconscious while awake; loud moaning or muttering; tongue coated at edges, shrunken, dry, leather- like, paralyzed; involuntary fetid stools while passing urine; sliding down in bed; pulse intermits every third beat. Palpitation of heart is felt in the face. Freckles; eczema solaris.

Follows well: after, Bry., Mer., Rhus. Cures the muscular weakness following excessive use of opium and tobacco.

This remedy is often called for in cases where the patient cannot urinate without having the bowels moved at the same time; in typhus or low grades of fever where we find this symptom with great prostration. Patient may think he is going to pass a little wind, when urine will come away also. Hæmorrhoids very tender to the touch, so much so, that he can scarcely bear to use paper after an evacuation; after confinement, hæmorrhoids protrude so that the pressure of a sheet can scarcely be borne. In low types of fever the patient often slips down toward the foot of the bed, and must be lifted up every little while. Cannot bear the sight or thought of meat, it is so distasteful. Urine too copious, both night and day.

Affections in general, of any kind, appearing in the tendo achillis; the soles of the feet; scurvy, particularly if the parts affected are very sore and tender to the touch, Itching of the skin relieved by scratching. Putrid ulcers.

Calc. carb., Kali carb., Pulsat., Nux vom., Silic., Sepia, Sulphur.

Bryon.

Hemorrhoids protruding like a bunch of grapes, swollen and blue, with burning and soreness. Ulcers on the genitals with putrid discharges, much sensitiveness and general weakness. In typhus fever, great debility; the lower jaw hangs down, patient slides down in bed.

Muriatic Acid

This acid has an elective affinity for the blood, producing a septic condition similar to that found in low fevers with high temperature and great prostration. Patient becomes so weak she slides down the bed. Decomposition of fluids. Involuntary stools while passing urine. Hæmorrhages. Mouth and anus chiefly effected.

Irritable and peevish; fretful Loud moaning. Great restlessness. Sad, taciturn; suffers in silence.

Vertigo; worse lying on right side; occiput heavy as if filled with lead. Sound of voice is intolerable. Pain as if brain were crushed.

Hæmorrhage; much sneezing.

Lower jaw fallen; pimples and freckles; lips raw, dry, cracked.

Tongue, pale, swollen, dry, leathery, paralyzed. Deep ulcers on tongue. Hard lumps in tongue. Epithelioma; edges bluish-red (Carbol ac). Aphthous mouth. Gums and glands swollen. Fetid Breath. Sordes on teeth.

Uvula swollen. Ulcers and false membrane. Œdematous, dark, raw. Attempted swallowing produces spasm and choking.

Cannot bear sight or thought of meat. At times, ravenous appetite and constant desire to drink. Achlorhydria and fermentation of food.

Tendency to involuntary evacuations while urinating. Hæmorrhoids most sensitive to all touch; even sheet of toilet paper is painful. Anal itching and prolapsus ani while urinating. Hæmorrhoids during pregnancy; bluish, hot with violent stitches.

Pulse rapid, feeble, and small. Intermits every third beat.

Cannot urinate without having bowels move at same time.

Menses appear too soon. Leucorrhœa. During menses, soreness of anus. Ulcer in genitals.

Heavy, painful, and weak. Tottering gait. Pain in tendo-Achilles.

Papular and vesicular eruptions, with great itching (Rhus). Carbuncles; foul-smelling ulcers on lower extremities. Scarlet fever, livid, with petechiæ; scanty eruption. Eczema on back of hands.

Cold extremities. Heat without thirst. Typhoid types, stupid. Hæmorrhages. Restlessness. Involuntary discharges. Bed-sores. Pulse rapid and feeble. Excessive prostration.

Worse, in damp weather, before midnight. Better, lying on left side.

Compare: Phos ac; Ars; Bapt. Follows well after Bry and Rhus.

Antidote; Bryonia.

First to third potency.

Moaning or sliding down in bed from excessive weakness. (Typhoid).

Tongue dry, leathery and shrunken; one-third its natural size. (Typhoid).

Hæmorrhoids: Swollen and blue, and so sensitive to touch that they cannot bear the contact of the sheet.

Great debility; as soon as he sits down his eyes close; lower jaw hangs down; slides down in bed.

Malignant affections of mouth; Ulcers, deep, dark, base bluish, offensive, foul breath.

Diarrhœa: Stool involuntary while urinating. Cannot urinate without having bowels move at the same time.

This remedy, also one of our best remedies in typhoids, is found useful in cases of lower grade than in the Phosphoric acid case. It comes nearer to Carbo vegetabilis than any other remedy.

Its indications are given in "Hering's Guiding Symptoms" as well as anywhere. There is decomposition of fluids; the stools are involuntary while passing urine; stools dark, thin, or hæmorrhage of dark liquid blood. Mouth full of dark-bluish ulcers; unconscious. Moaning and sliding down in the bed from excessive weakness; lower jaw fallen, tongue dry, leathery and shrunken to a third of its natural size, and paralyzed; pulse weak and intermittent. It is hardly possible to draw a picture of a more desperate case of typhoid than this. It is not necessary to resort to quinine, brandy or any other fashionable so-called stimulants. Broth, milk or oatmeal gruel for nourishment, and Muriatic acid will do all that can be done for the saying of the life of such a patient, and will do it quicker and with less liability to relapse than any other course of treatment. Of course the friends are anxious, even desperate, and a show of work must be made. If much pressure is brought to bear in the way of suggestions or demands for counsel, all sorts of wonderful prescriptions that cured a great many cases like this, let Sac. lac. be given every five minutes. It is a wonderfully quieting medicine (to friends and meddlers) and should never be omitted. Send the most rampant howler off on horseback miles away, if you can, for something, no matter what. That is indispensable to the patient's recovery. The greatest danger to the patient is, that the physician losing his presence of mind, will suffer himself to be led or driven away from the only true helpful course. This advice is given only to those who need it. Many a patient has died because his physician "lost his head" under this kind of pressure.

Muriatic acid is very useful in hæmorrhoids, swollen and blue, and so sensitive to touch that they cannot bear the contact of the sheet.

Rectum prolapses easily (Ignatia, Ruta), cannot urinate without it coming down. Also when wind is passed or bowels move.

Bladder weak, urine passes slowly, or must press until rectum protrudes.

Cannot bear the least touch, not even sheet on genitals (Murex).

Sad, taciturn, with anxious apprehension. Sadness, peevishness. Irritable, disposed to anger and chagrin.

Vertigo, with tottering gait. Headache, as if the brain were torn or demolished. Feeling as if the brain were loose. Tearing and stitches in the head, coming on in periodical shocks. Heaviness in the back part of the head, with obscure sight, aggravated by the effort to see. Headache from walking in the open air, especially in the cold wind. Headache, aggravated from rising up in bed, and from moving the eyes, ameliorated by moving the body.

Itching, smarting in the corners of the eye. Itching in the eyes. Stitches out of the eyes. Swelling and redness of the eyelids. Perpendicular half-sightedness.

Otalgia, with pressing pain. Beating in the ear. Hardness of hearing deafness. Very sensitive to noise and over acuteness of hearing. Tingling, humming and whizzing in the ear.

Continuous bleeding from the nose. Sore nostrils with stinging pain. Obstruction of the nose. Coryza with thick yellow or watery, corrosive discharge.

Heat in the face, and growing redness of the cheeks when walking in the open air, without thirst. Pimples forming scabs on the face, forehead and temples. Bloated lower lip, it feels heavy and burns. Burning of the lips. Pimples around the lips forming a scurf. Freckles.

Toothache (pulsating), aggravated from cold drinks, better from heat. Tingling in the teeth. Scorbutic gums, swollen, easily bleeding and ulcerating. Great dryness in the mouth. The tongue feels heavy as if it were lead, which prevents him from talking ; feels as if paralyzed. Deep ulcers (with black base) and vesicles on the tongue. Sensation in the mouth as if it were glued up with insipid mucus ; much saliva in the mouth. The tongue becomes sore and bluish. The tongue dwindles (shrinks) (atrophy of the tongue). Rawness and smarting of the feces. Dry throat with burning in the chest. Every thing tastes sweet. Acrid and putrid taste in the mouth, like rotten eggs, with ptyalism.

Excessive hunger and thirst. Aversion to meat. Hiccough (before and after dinner). Bitter, or putrid eructations. Vomiting of the ingesta. Sensation of emptiness in the stomach. Pressing and tension in the hypochondria. Fulness and distension of the abdomen, from small quantities of food.

Stool is discharged with difficulty, as from inactivity of the intestines. Diarrhœa, with smarting and burning in the rectum and anus. Involuntary discharge of thin, watery stool while urinating. Discharge of blood with the stool. Prolapsus ani, while urinating. Hæmorrhoidal tumors, swollen, blue, with burning soreness.

Frequent micturition with profuse discharge. Profuse discharge of watery urine. Slow emission of urine ; weakness of the bladder. Involuntary discharge of urine.

Men. Feeling of weakness in the genital organs, penis relaxed (impotence). Soreness in the margin of the prepuce. Itching of the scrotum, not relieved by scratching. Women. Menses too early and too profuse. Pressing on the genitals as if the menses would appear. During the menses sad and taciturn.

Breathing deep and groaning ; moaning. Oppression across the chest (evening). Stitches in the chest, and on the heart, when taking a long breath and on violent motion. Tension and pain on the sternum. Hoarseness, with sore feeling in the chest. Violent palpitation of the heart, which is felt in the face (at night).

Pressing pain in the back, as from a sprain, or as if he had stooped long.

Upper. Heaviness of the arms, especially the forearms. Scabby eruption on the back of the hands and fingers. Numbness, coldness and deadness of the fingers at night. Swelling and burning of the tips of the fingers. Lower. Wavering gait from weakness of the thighs. Swelling, redness and burning of the tips of the toes. Putrid ulcers on the lower extremities.

Rheumatic pains in the extremities during rest, better from motion. Great debility as soon as he sits down, his eyes close ; the lower-jaw hangs down, he slides down in the bed. Great sensitiveness to damp weather.

Great sleepiness during the day, going off as soon as one moves about. Sleeplessness before midnight, tossing about and delirium, he slides down in the bed. Wakens early in the morning with a chill.

Pulse weak and slow, frequently intermitting every third beat. Chilliness predominates. Chill in the evening, with coldness in the back, with external warmth and burning in the face. Shuddering over the whole body, with hot cheeks and cold hands. Chill and heat without thirst. Internal heat with desire to uncover oneself, and restlessness in the body. Burning heat, especially in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet. Perspiration during the first sleep, till midnight, especially on the head and back. Night and morning sweat. In the evening, in the bed, the perspiration is first cold on the feet. Typhus fever, the lower jaw hangs down, atrophy of the tongue involuntary watery stools when passing urine, great debility, with sliding down in the bed, loud moaning.

Scurf eruptions, itching when getting warm in bed. Blood-boils, pricking on being touched. Painful putrid ulcers (lower legs), with burning at their circumference. Fetid odor of the ulcers ; also, they are covered with a scurf. Black pocks. Dropsical swellings. Painfulness and drawing in the periosteum, as in intermittent fever.

Hydrochloric acid. HCl. First dilutions with distilled water.

Anus, prolapse of . Chilblains. Chorea. Deafness (cerebral). Diphtheria. Enteric fever . Ephelis. Feet, soles, pains in . Gastric disorders. Hæmorrhoids. Hemiopia . Impotence. Measles. Mercurial ulceration. Mouth, aphthæ; psoriasis of tongue; ulcers. Scarlatina . Scurvy. Tendo Achillis, affections of. Tongue, affections of ; psoriasis of. Typhus. Varices. Whooping-cough.

The popular name of Mur. ac ., "Spirit of Salt," describes at once its nature and origin. It is a colourless gas, with a pungent, suffocating odour, and acid taste, and it is manufactured from Salt ( Nat. m .) by the action of sulphuric acid. It is freely soluble in water, and the saturated solution contains 43 per cent. of the gas. Teste, who did much to define the powers of Mur. ac ., groups with it Agn. cast . and Hyos ., and he considers its action corresponds perfectly to a typical case of typhus. Among the common features of the group he gives; Stupefying headache. Obscuration of sight and optical illusions. Whizzing noises in the ears and hardness of hearing. Nose-bleed and loss of smell. Rough, cracked lips, and foul breath. Scurvy of mouth. Paralysis of tongue. Loss of taste. Distended, sensitive abdomen, pricking, bruised pain in abdominal walls. Serous, fetid diarrhœa, not very painful. Involuntary stool. Throat pains. Paralysis of bladder. Excited sexual desire. Impotence. Hoarseness, spasmodic cough. Stitches about heart. Fever with stinging heat, frequent, small, intermittent pulse, earthy or livid skin. Like Nit. ac., Mur. ac . is a powerful antidote to Merc ., and it meets conditions caused by Mercury , and also similar conditions otherwise arising. Like other disinfectants, it causes as well as remedies rapid decomposition of tissue, and dynamically cures low putrid conditions met with in disease. The distinctive features of Mur. ac . are: Muscular prostration from blood-poisoning going on to paralysis, finally of brain or heart. Burning is a great feature in its symptomatology, as its escharotic powers might suggest — ulcers (especially their margins), eruptions, piles, varices, stomach, and abdomen. It sours the excretions and makes them acrid. Offensive secretions, offensive breath and body-smell; and it is indicated in fevers of all kinds, exanthematous, typhoid, puerperal as well as diphtheria, when these symptoms with the mental and paretic state are present. The mucous membranes are dry, bleeding, cracked, and ulcerated. Sordes on teeth. Burning, and burning eruptions on lips. Piles like a bunch of grapes which look purple and burn when touched. Prolapse of rectum, whilst straining to pass water. Urination involuntary or difficult; there is straining and dribbling, and the straining causes the rectum to prolapse; it may also cause involuntary stool. This may be due to local conditions, or it may be a consequence of a low state of health. Mur. ac . not only corresponds to low febrile states it also meets many of their sequelæ. Deafness, otitis, and glandular swellings about the ears often require Mur. ac . Among the peculiar sensations of the remedy are: Hair, as if drawn upwards; as if standing on end. Brain: as if loose; beaten or tom to pieces; brain clasped by a hand, and bruised and tom. Occiput as if filled with lead. Mouth as if glued up with insipid mucus. As if some obstruction must be pulled out of throat. Burning as if under skin of coccyx. As if place was jammed in in tendo-Achillis. Deadness and numbness in forehead, in fingers. The tongue is shrunken; and paralysed. The parched, shrunken tongue is an indication in typhoid or other fevers. [ Mur. ac . has a marked action on the tongue. Cooper cured with it these cases: ( 1 ) Man, 52, whose sister had died of cancer, had a hard, deep, warty ulcer, size of a small bean on under surface of tongue, l. side, with much surrounding hardness and little discharge. ( 2 ) Tongue swollen, makes him talk thick, much ulcerated, especially r. side, is hard, with swelling followed by lupoid ulcer, on corresponding side of nose; had been going on ten months.] Tendency "to slide down to the foot of the bed" was noted by Hahnemann and has been amply confirmed. It indicates an extremely low vital condition. Mur. ac . is suited to persons of black hair and dark eyes. The skin is much affected, and is sensitive to the sun's rays — eczema solare and freckles. Black pocks. Blind boils frothy when touched. The symptoms are: < By touch. The itching of anus and scrotum is not > by scratching. Warmth > ; cold washing, cold drinks < . Cold wind and open air > headache. > Uncovering (during fever). < Evening and night. Rest < most symptoms. Lying on r. side < vertigo. Motion < vertigo; > tearing pains. < After sleep. < After eating (diarrhœa). > After drinking.

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Unconsciousness ; moaning. θ Typhus.
Taciturn, introverted and quiet ; anxious care about future.
Irritable, disposed to anger and chagrin ; peevishness.
Restlessness, frequent changing of position.

Vertigo : < moving eyes ; slightly < walking, though this > headache ; with tottering gait ; with tearing in vertex and feeling as if hair was drawn upwards, objects go around with her in open air ; with nausea, 1 A. M., <
lying on right side or back.

Headache in spells regularly every day, from 9 A. M. until 1 P. M. ; begins with soreness over left eye, then in eyeball and left half of nose, forehead and temple, to back of head.
Feeling as if brain was loose.
Tearing and stitches in head, in periodical shocks.
Headache as if brain was torn or beaten to pieces ; < moving eyes or sitting up in bed ; > from moderate exercise.
Headache as if brain was clasped by a hand and was being twisted and torn.
Tearing in right parietal bone.
Heaviness in back part of head, with obscure sight, < by effort to see ; swollen glands.
Steady, sharp pain in back part of head, with a heavy feeling, as if occiput was filled with lead.
Headache < on rising up in bed and from moving eyes ; > by moving body ; from walking in open air, especially in cold wind.
Distant talking causes headache.

Feeling of deadness and numbness of forehead.
Stiff and sore feeling in occiput, < when touched, and on left side of head and down spine, < in lying.
Tearing in right parietal bone.
Heat in top of head.
Feeling as if hair was standing on end.

Perpendicular half sight.
Obscured sight ; pain in occiput.
Pupils contracted.
Sharp, burning pain, extending from left to right eye, in morning > by washing. θ Muscular asthenopia.
Stitches out of eyes.
Itching in eyes ; itching and smarting in canthi.
Lids red, swollen.
Worse from light, > from dark.

Overacuteness of hearing ; sensitive to noise
Hardness of hearing ; loud, cracking sounds during night ; no cerumen, or dry, peeling off in scales, also dry, hard and of a brown red color or dark, with buzzing, < right ear.
Distant sounds (talking) cause headache ; sound of voice unbearable.
Want of feeling in internal meatus.
Tingling, humming, whizzing in ear ; beating or knocking.
Otalgia, with pressing pain.
Tingling, creeping, cold pain running from ears up to top of head, sharp boring in temporal regions.

Nosebleed. θ Whooping cough.
Sore nostrils, with stinging pain ; obstruction of nose.
Frequent sneezing.
Coryza : thin, acrid, making parts sore ; thick, yellow discharge.
Discharge of thin pus from nose, excoriating parts.
Nose stopped up.

Heat in face, glowing red cheeks when walking in open air ; no thirst.
Sudden red face with coma. θ Scarlatina.
Face suddenly flushing or pale and sunken.
Red, itching pimples on forehead, cheeks and around mouth, whole face red ; every Summer. θ Eczema solaris.
Scabs on face, forehead, temples ; pimples ; freckles.

Lower jaw hangs down. θ Typhus.
Pimples around mouth form a scurf.
Margin of lips raw, skin dry and cracked.
Burning on lips.
Bloated lower lip ; feels heavy, burns.
Pain below left half of lower lip, from 4 P. M. till midnight.

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When treating a low form of continued fever with extreme prostration Arsenicum, Muriatic acid and Phos. acid force themselves upon the mind.

With Arsenicum there has been the anxious restlessness; with Phos. acid there has been the mental prostration, and then the muscular weakness; with Muriatic acid the muscular weakness comes first, and there has been history of restlessness and the mind has been stronger than could be expected.

With this great muscular exhaustion with jaw hanging down and the patient sliding down in bed and soon the involuntary stool and urine, this remedy is forced upon the mind. Paralytic weakness is what it must be called.

Soon the tongue is paralyzed, as well as the sphincters of the bladder and rectum. It seems to be eminently fitted for the lowest forms of zymotic fever when the above symptoms are present, He finally becomes unconscious.

There has been some restlessness, but nothing like Arsenicum and Rhus tox . He refuses to talk because it frets him to do so. Phos. acid is slow answering questions because of exhaustion of mind which makes him unable to think.

The vertigo comes on moving eyes, and on lying on the right side. This vertigo is sometimes associated with liver disease. A stout, full blooded jaundiced man about forty had suffered much from pain in the liver, with great soreness, was comfortable only when lying on left side; when he turned on his back or right side an anxious vertigo would come at once and he would break out in copious sweat, and be forced back to the left side. Muriatic acid made a complete cure of this liver trouble, which had been pronounced serious.

The headache is aggravated moving the eyes and rising up in bed. ameliorated by walking about slowly. Occipital headache with dim vision, aggravated by effort to see. Heaviness in occiput. Numbness in forehead. Soreness in occiput. Feeling as if hair were standing on end. Heat in top of head,

Perpendicular half sight. The eye symptoms ameliorated in the dark. Stitching pain. Burning, extending left to right eye, ameliorated washing. Itching in the eyes.

Hardness of hearing; loud crackling sounds during the night. The sound of voices unbearable. Buzzing in the ears.

The nose is stopped. Nosebleed in whooping cough, in zymotic fevers, in diphtheria and scarlet fever. Dark putrid blood from nose.

The lower jaw hangs down in typhoid fever. Margin of lips dry, sore and cracked. Burning lips.

Mouth and tongue coated white.

Sordes on the teeth. Gums swollen and bleeding. Teeth become loose. Tongue dry, heavy stiff and paralyzed. Mouth dry. Ulceration of mouth and tongue. Red tongue. Blueness of the tongue. Mucous membrane of lips denuded.

Sore mouth of nursing infants. Mouth studded with ulcers. Deep ulcers with black base. Violent inflammation of the throat. Dryness of the throat. Dark red throat with ulcers. Grayish white exudations. White exudations resembling diphtheria. Gangrenous sore throat. Hawks out foetid MUCUS. Diphtheria with extreme prostration.

Great thirst. Thirst during chill and thirstless during the fever. Aversion to meat. Craves stimulants. Eructation bitter and putrid. Spasmodic action of oesophagus. Vomiting sour. Involuntary swallowing. Emptiness in stomach, not ameliorated by eating. Empty sensation in stomach and abdomen without desire for food. Emptiness in stomach from 10 A.M. till evening. Emptiness in abdomen in the morning after the usual normal stool.

Indigestion; faintness constipation; confusion; sleepiness after eating. Pressing in the liver. Soreness, and enlarged liver. Fullness and rumbling in abdomen.

Watery stools, involuntary while urinating. Stools pass unnoticed. Dark brown stools, with blood. Much flatus with stools. Urging aggravated by motion. Dysentery, putrid blood and slime. Haemorrhage from intestines of dark liquid blood. Prolapsus ani while urinating. Urging to stool while urinating, Marked relaxation and itching of anus.

Large, dark, purple hemorrhoids, extremely sensitive to touch. Inflammation of the pile tumors, hot and pulsating; must lie with limbs wide apart. Bleeding piles. Burning and cutting during stool.

Burning after stool, ameliorated by warm applications, aggravated from bathing with cool water. Excoriation of anus. Fissures.

The urine flows in a feeble stream. Must wait a long time for urine to start; must press so that anus protrudes. This is in keeping with the general paralytic muscular weakness in the body. Involuntary flow of urine and stool in low fevers. Burning and cutting in the urethra while urinating, tenesmus follows.

Impotency; desire weak. Bloody, watery discharge from the urethra. Scrotum bluish. Itching of the scrotum not ameliorated by scratching. Margin of prepuce sore.

Pressing in genitals as if menses would appear. Menses too early and profuse. Ulcers on genitalia with putrid discharges. Cannot bear least touch, not even of sheet on genitals.

Leucorrhoea with backache. Puerperal fever with extreme prostration, dropped jaw, sliding down in bed, suppressed lochia. Stool and urine putrid and involuntary.

Short breath with rattling after drinking. Breathing seems to come from stomach. Oppression of chest.

Pulse slow and weak, intermits every third beat.

Pressing pain in back. Pressing, drawing, tired feeling in small of back. Burning in spine.

Heaviness of arms. Numbness and coldness of fingers at night. Lower limbs dusky. Putrid ulcers on legs, with burning margins. Swelling of right tendo Achillis. Feet cold and blue. Burning of palms and soles. Swelling and burning of tips of toes.

Tearing in limbs, ameliorated by motion. Pain in the limbs, during intermittent fever.

Evening fever with chill with or without sweat.

Chill mingled with fever. The image of this remedy is found in typhoid and yellow, fever. Perspiration during first sleep. Symptoms worse when perspiring.

Adapted to persons with black hair, dark eyes, dark complexion.

Irritable, peevish, disposed to anger and chagrin (Nux); restlessness and vertigo.

Diseases of an asthenic type, with moaning, unconscious- ness, fretfulness.

Ulceration with fungus-like growths and pseudo-like mem- branous deposits of intestinal tract.

Great debility: as soon as he sits down his eyes close; lower jaw hangs down; slides down in bed.

Mouth and anus are chiefly affected; the tongue and sphincter ani are paralyzed.

Malignant affections of mouth: studded with ulcers, deep, perforating; having a black or dark base; offensive, foul breath; intense prostration; diphtheria, scarlatina, cancer.

Cannot bear the thought or sight of meat (Nit. ac.).

If the anus be very sensitive either with or without hemor- rhoids; anus sore during menses.

Hemorrhoids: swollen, blue; sensitive and painful to touch; appear suddenly in children; too sore to bear least touch, even the sheet is uncomfortable. Prolapse while uri- nating (Bar. c.).

Diarrhœa: stool involuntary while urinating; on passing wind (Aloe); cannot urinate without having the bowels move at the same time (Alum.).

Urine passes slowly; bladder weak, must wait a long time; has to press so that anus protrudes.

Cannot bear least touch, not even of sheet on genitals (Mur.,

Plat.).

Palpitation of heart is felt in the face.

Freckles; eczema solaris.

Follows well: after, Bry., Mer., Rhus.

Cures the muscular weakness following excessive use of opium and tobacco.

Continued, typhoid, typhus, yellow; depraved, scor- butic, hemorrhagic; low forms of intermittent and malarial fevers.

Awakens in the morning; coldness in back in evening; general shivering with hot cheeks and cold hands; burning face.

Extremities cold; cold sweat on feet; periosteal pains.

Without thirst; at night with palpitation; internal, wants to uncover. Burning of palms and soles.

During first sleep, until 12 P. M., < on head and back; night and morning; < when sweating; taciturn; wants to uncover. Great prostration.

Heavy, hinders talking; lame, sore, bluish; deep ulcers with black bases; almost whole mouth covered with a grayish white fur; blisters and vesicles with burning pain. Red, shining, as if glazed. Foul breath.

Slow, weak, intermitting; slow during day, rapid at night; intermits every third beat; small, frequent, feeble.

Typhoid or typhus; deep stupid sleep; unconscious while awake; loud moaning or muttering; tongue coated at edges, shrunken, dry, leather-like, paralyzed; involuntary fetid stools while passing urine; sliding down in bed; pulse intermits every third beat; hemorrhage of dark liquid blood; mouth full of bluish ulcers; great prostration.

Unconsciousness.
Moaning.
Sitting quiet, sad and silent, with anxious care about the future.
Irritable, disposed to anger and chagrin.
Peevishness.
Restlessness, frequently changing position.

Vertigo: worse moving the eyes; slightly worse walking, though this relieves headache with tottering gait.
Dizzy, nauseated, 1 A.M., worse lying on right side or back.
Heaviness in occiput, with obscure sight worse with effort to see; also, with swollen glands.

Headache in spells regularly every day, from 9 A.M. until 1 P.M.; begins with soreness over left eye; then in eyeball and left half of nose, forehead and temple, to back of head.
Headache, as if the brain were torn or beaten to pieces; worse moving the eyes or sitting up in bed; better from moderate exercise.
Headache, as if brain were clasped by a hand and was being twisted and torn.
Steady, sharp pain in back part of head, with a heavy feeling, as if occiput were filled with lead.
Headache from walking in open air, especially in cold wind.
Distant talking causes headache.

Stiff and sore: in occiput, worse when touched; on left side of head and down spine, worse on lying.
Tearing in the right parietal bone.
Heat on top of head.
Feels as if hair were standing on end.

Perpendicular half sight.
Obscured sight; pain in occiput.
Pupils contracted.
Itching, smarting in canthi.
Lids red, swollen.
Stitches out of the eyes.
Worse from light, better in the dark.

Hardness of hearing; loud cracking sounds during the night; no cerumen; dryness, peeling off in scales; worse right ear.
Distant sounds cause headache; sound of voice unbearable.
Want of feeling in the internal meatus.
Tingling, humming, whizzing in the ear.
Beating or knocking in the ear.
Otalgia, with pressing pain.
Tingling, creeping, cold pain, running from ears up to top of head, sharp boring in temporal regions.
Dark ear-wax, with buzzing.

Long-lasting nosebleed.
Nosebleed. θ Whooping-cough.
Coryza thin, acrid, making parts sore.
Coryza, with thick yellow discharge.
Discharge of thin pus from nose, excoriating the parts.
Nose stopped up.

Heat in face, glowing red cheeks when walking in open air; no thirst.
Sudden red face, with coma. θ Scarlatina.
Red pimples on forehead, cheeks and around mouth, whole face red; every summer.
Scabs on face, forehead, temples.
Pimples; freckles.

Lower jaw hangs down.
Pimples around the mouth form a scurf.
Burning lips.
Bloated lower lip; feels heavy, burns.
Pain below left half of lower lip, from 4 P.M. till midnight.

Toothache (pulsating) from cold drinks; toothache, with earache.
Tingling toothache; better from warm applications.
Gums swollen, bleeding, ulcerating.
Teeth rise from their sockets.

Everything tastes sweet.
Taste acrid and putrid, like rotten eggs, with ptyalism.
Tongue heavy as lead, hinders talking; feels lame, sore.
Tongue dwindles.
Tongue sore, bluish; contains deep ulcers: with black bases and vesicles.

Stomacace of nursing children; patch on right side of tongue, large and irregular, but very deep; fetid breath.
Stomatitis, with extreme dryness, swollen gums, great adynamia.
Foul breath. θ Scarlatina.
Mouth as if glued up with insipid mucus; much saliva.
Salivary glands tender, swollen.

Rawness and smarting of fauces; burning.
Dry throat, with burning in the chest.
Dark, bluish-red fauces in scarlet fever: 46.

Excessive hunger and thirst.
Aversion to meat.
Morbid longing for alcoholic drinks.
Thirst: 40.

Hiccough (before and after dinner).
Better after drinking.
After eating: worse; diarrhœa.
Cold drinks: 40.

Eructations: bitter, putrid.
Vomiting, with belching, coughing; involuntary swallowing; gulping up of contents of stomach into œsophagus, sometimes going down again.

Empty sensation in stomach extending through whole abdomen, but no hunger; weak feeling in the stomach from 10 A.M. until evening.

Pressing and tension in the hypochondria.

Fulness and distention of abdomen, from small quantities of food.
Rumbling and feeling of emptiness.
Cramps in abdomen.
Hernia.

Stool: difficult, as from inactivity of the bowels; too thin, but round; thin, watery, involuntary, while urinating; greenish in typhoid.
Dysentery, blood and slime separated.
Diarrhœa, with much wind; worse morning and evening; with intolerable anal itching, not relieved by scratching; smarting and burning in anus.
As soon as he begins to move, strong urging compelling haste; stools profuse, dark, brown, greenish, gelatinous; followed by dragging, heavy sensation in abdomen.
Piles, suddenly, in children; protruding, reddish-blue, burning; too sore to bear the least touch.
Prolapsus ani while urinating.

Frequent and scanty urination.
Frequent and profuse urination.
Slow emission of urine; bladder weak; must wait a long time before urine will pass; has to press so that anus protrudes.
Urine involuntary.
Urine red, violet; milk-like.
Burning, cutting, while urinating; straining in urethra afterwards.

Organs weak, penis relaxed.
Impotency; desire weak.
Watery, blood gleet.
Scrotum bluish red.
Itching of scrotum, not relieved by scratching.
Margin of prepuce sore.

Pressing on genitals, as if menses would appear.
Menses too early and profuse; dejection of spirits; silent, as if she would die; colic; sore piles.
Ulcers on genitals, with putrid discharge, much sensitiveness and general weakness.
Cannot bear least touch, not even of sheet on the genitals.
Leucorrhœa with backache, sore anus from piles.

Puerperal fever.

Hoarseness: with sore feeling in the chest, with whooping-cough.

Breathing deep, groaning; moaning; deep sighing.
Breathing seems to come from the stomach.
Short breath, with rattling after drinking, talking or coughing.
Dyspnœa and constriction of chest. θ Whooping-cough.
Oppression across the chest (evening).

Rough, with rattling in chest, followed by cramp in the stomach; short breath; with heat in the face.
Whooping-cough; after the attacks, audible rumbling, gurgling down the chest.
Whooping-cough excited by tickling in chest; in afternoon and evening without, in morning, with a slight dislodgment of a yellow or watery mucus of a fatty taste, and which must be swallowed; sometimes with expectoration of dark blood.

Stitches in chest, and at heart, when taking a long breath and on violent motion; burning stitches.
Tension and pain on the sternum.
Bursting pain in chest; pain as if beaten.

Palpitation of the heart felt in the face.
Stitches in heart.
Pulse slow and weak, sometimes intermitting; slow during day, more frequent at night.

Pressing pain in back, as from a sprain, or as if he had stopped long.
Pressing, drawing, tired pain in lumbar region.
Os coccyx pains.

Heaviness of the arms, especially forearms.
Scabby eruption on back, hands and fingers.
Numbness, coldness and deadness of fingers at night.
Swelling and burning of tips of finger.
Itching of palms.

Wavering gait from weakness of thighs.
Pain in right thigh, with itching in anus.
Œdematous swelling of lower limbs, with shooting pain.
Lower limbs darker-colored.
Putrid ulcers on lower extremities, with burning around them.
Cold feet.
Blue feet. θ Scarlatina.
Chilblains (the acid in rum applied externally).
Swelling, redness and burning of tips of toes.

Tearing pains in limbs during rest, better from motion.
All the joints as if bruised.
Pressive drawing in upper arms and knees.

Changes position frequently: 1, 40. Moving eyes: 2, 3. Effort to see: 2. Walking: 2, 3, 8. Lying on right side or back: 2, 4. Rising up: 3. Rest: 34, 36. Sitting: 36.

Prostration and drowsiness all day; she wants to lie about.
Great debility; as soon as he sits down his eyes close; the lower jaws hang down; he slides down in bed.
Paralysis generally one-sided.
Paralyzed tongue and sphincter ani.

Sleepy during day, going off as soon as one moves about.
Sleepless before 12 P.M. delirious tossing, sliding down in bed.
Restless after going to bed, could not sleep before 12 P.M.; groaning, snoring, talking in sleep.
Worse on waking.

Morning: 27, 40. 9 A.M. till 1 P.M.: 3. 10 A.M. till evening: 17. Morning and evening: 20. Afternoon and evening: 27. 4 P.M. till midnight: 9. Evening: 26, 37, 40. Night: 6, 29. After midnight: 2. Night and morning: 40. Day: 29, 36, 37.

Aversion to open air: sensitive to cold, damp, stormy, windy weather.
Cold air: 3, 8. Warmth: 10. Every summer: 8. In bed: 40, 46. Wants to uncover: 40, 46.

More chill than heat.
Chill awakens him in the morning.
Evening chill, with coldness in back, external warmth and burning face.
Shivering all over, with hot cheeks and cold hands.
Chill and heat without thirst, rarely, there is thirst in cold stage.
Internal heat, wants to uncover; bodily restlessness.
Heat at night, with palpitation of the heart.
Burning, mostly in palms and soles.
Sweat during first sleep until 12 P.M., worse head and back.
Night and morning sweats.
Cold sweat on the feet, evening in bed.
Worse when sweating; taciturn; wants to uncover.
Intermittent fever, with periosteal pains.
Typhus: stupid sleep; while awake unconscious; loud moaning; lower jaw dropped; tongue shrunken, dry, like leather; involuntary stools while passing urine; sliding down in bed; bleeding from anus; pulse intermits every third beat.

Regularly every day from 9 A.M. till 1 P.M.: 3.

Left: 3, 4, 9. Right: 6, 12. Below upward: 6.

Loss of bodily irritability.
Tearing and stitches through whole body.

Touch: 4, 20, 23, 46. Scratching: 20, 22.

Painful putrid ulcers (lower legs), with burning at their circumference.
Eruption of pimples, forming scurfs on forehead, outer ear, lips hands or back of fingers; itching when getting warm in bed.
Blood-boils, pricking when touched.
Ulcers painful, deep, putrid; covered with scurf.
Black pocks.
Scarlatina: redness intense and rapidly spreading; eruption scanty, interspersed with petechiæ; skin purplish.

Black eyes, dark hair.

Follows well after Rhus, Bryon.
Mur. ac. antidotes: Opium. Cures the muscular weakness following excessive use of opium.
Antidotes to Mur. ac. Large doses: carbonate of soda, potassa, lime or magnesia; also, sapo, medicinalis, small doses: Camphor., Bryon.

A solution of pure Muriatic acid (Hydrogen Chloride) (1 to 2) is called the 1st decimal dilution.

It is, in a general way, indicated in atonic conditions, feeble digestion, low fever, unhealthy ulcerations of skin and mucous membranes, cutaneous eruptions, etc. ▶ Its allies are Rhus tox., Arum tri., Carbol. ac.

Emaciation. ▶ Almost spasms. ▶ Pain in periosteum of all bones, as in intermittent fever. ▶ Relapse on forty-fourth day, rise of temperature and pulse, bloody vomiting, sticking in back, agg. below right twelfth rib, about three inches external to spinous process, abdomen sunken, doughy, left hypochondrium more distended than right, dullness across upper part of abdomen, pulse weak in relation to impulse of heart, rubbing sound in lower margin of diaphragm, in region of apex of heart, extending to axilla, synchronous with respiration, urine albuminous, pain in lower part of back, death in a week.

Discomfort. ▶ Increase of activity. ▶ Weakness; in morning, agg. lower limbs; in evening after walking; at night in bed, with difficulty in collecting ideas; after eating, amel. towards evening; when walking and standing, so that he fell asleep when sitting; when sitting, so that eyes closed, but on rising and moving about she is immediately wide awake with sleepiness and dim vision, she fell asleep at the table. ▶ Indolence in forenoon, with stretching; I. and relaxation, but not wearied by walking. ▶ Unwilling to move. ▶ Fainted.

In a general way it is adapted to a low typhoid state, the patient slides down in bed and mutters, with sordes on the teeth and offensive odor from the mouth. ▶ General muscular debility following typhoid, diphtheria or the use of opium, with restlessness. ▶ It is particularly to be compared with Rhus.

Easily excited. ▶ Irritable; in evening; in evening, reluctant and unsuccessful in work; and timid, despondent; and quiet, staring in front of him, abrupt in speech. ▶ Discontentment with everything in afternoon in open air, with prostration. ▶ Inclined to start up in fright. ▶ Sad; during menses, and taciturn, as if she had no life; during menses, absorbed in herself, as if she had no life; and quiet, discontented. ▶ Anxiety at 8 P.M., with fulness of abdomen as if it would burst, sweat runs from head, arms fall down and she is weak as if paralyzed; A., with cold sweat on face; and inability to free himself from the slightest trouble. ▶ Deep reflection and quiet absorption in himself as if something disagreeable impended, but with desire to work. ▶ Thoughts of events that had just happened forced themselves upon him when at work and were very vivid. ▶ Disinclination for mental work.

Forcibly twisted backward without spasms, and sitting up in bed. ▶ Sticking; on blowing nose; extending into head after rising from stooping, after dinner. ▶ Aching from walking in open air; A. waking her at 5 A.M., then sticking above right ear; in brain, as if torn and beaten, as in pernicious fever, in morning. ▶ Aching as before coryza; pressing towards eyes, amel. lying, after frequent sneezing. ▶ Pressure from middle of brain out to left side of forehead. ▶ Heaviness in morning after rising, agg. exertion of vision, till vision became confused, with reeling and sleepiness. ▶ Brain felt loose when carrying a heavy weight. ▶ Vertigo in open air and unsteadiness when walking; V. amel. in house, with dim vision; with stupefaction; with tearing in vertex and sensation as if hair were drawn up; suddenly in open air, objects turned about with her.

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A general bruised feeling of all the joints.
Weakness, so that the eyes unconsciously close, always on sitting.
Great sensitiveness to damp air.
Tearing pains in the extremities, > motion.

Clinical:
Frequently adapted to a low typhoid condition, with muttering delirium, sordes on the teeth, an offensive odor.
Great muscular debility after prostrating diseases, with restlessness.

Vertigo and unsteadiness when walking.
A feeling of heaviness in the occiput, with dimness of vision.
Pain, as if the brain would be torn or crushed.
Shooting pains in the head.
Headache on rising up in bed or on moving the eyes.

Tearing, cramp-like pains.
A feeling of insensibility within the meatus.
Difficult hearing.
Very sensitive to noise.

Margins of the lips raw, skin dry and cracked.
Mucous membrane red and inflamed, dotted with whitish points.
Burning in the lips.
Tongue dark red, covered with a grayish-white membrane.
Tongue feels as heavy as lead when talking.
Deep ulcers on the tongue.
(Paralysis of the tongue, with difficult speech.)
General inflammation in the mouth and arch of the palate, with rawness, soreness and ulceration.
Dryness of the mouth, with swollen gums and swollen glands.

Swelling of the uvula, tonsils, etc.
Attempts to swallow cause spasms and choking.
Appearance of dead, white patches over the arch of the palate and throat and in the throat, like false membrane or ulcers.

Clinical:
Diphtheritic ulceration of the throat, with sore, cracked lips, fetid breath, nose-bleed, sordes on the teeth, œdema of the throat, great prostration, restlessness, etc.

Loss of appetite.
A feeling of emptiness in the stomach, not > eating.
At times, ravenous appetite, with constant desire to drink.

Distention; cramp in the abdomen, with griping in the umbilical region, extending to the sides.
A feeling of emptiness and discomfort in the abdomen.

Prolapsus when urinating.
Diarrhœa, with smarting and burning in the anus.
Watery, involuntary stool, when urinating.

Frequent and copious micturition.

General feeling of heaviness, bruised pain and weakness.
Heaviness, especially of the forearm.
Cramp-like tearing in the thigh.
Weakness, which causes a tottering gait.
Drawing pains in the tendo Achillis when walking so that the foot seems paralyzed.

Cold extremities, especially in the evening, with dry mouth.
Heat, without thirst, but with inclination to uncover.

Clinical:
Typhoid types of fever, stupidity, hæmorrhages, dry tongue, involuntary discharges, restlessness; sinks down in bed: aphthæ in the mouth, bed sores, etc.

MURIATICUM ACIDUM. ACIDUM HYDROCHLORICUM, MURIATIC ACID. [*].

[] All the fellow-observers mentioned by Hahnemann, save Rummel and Nenning, cooperated with him in producing the pathogenesis of Muriatic acid contained in Vol. V. of the Materia Medica Pura. The additions here are mainly Nenning's symptoms. -Hughes*.

The colorless muriatic acid of the shops, obtained from salt by means of sulphuric acid, contains a considerable quantity of this latter acid. To free it from this admixture, and to produce it quite pure for the use of the homœopathic physician, the sulphuric acid must be precipitated by adding a sufficiency of muriate of baryta. The muriatic acid is then decanted from the sediment (sulphate of baryta) and re-distilled. The yellow muriatic acid, distilled over by means of the sulphate of iron, contains no sulphuric acid, but it contains iron and cannot, therefore, he used for our cures, which demand pure medicinal substances. This acid has so far proved useful in the diseases where the symptoms were appropriate and the following ailments were also present : Half-sightedness from above downward ; insensibility in the meatus auditorius internus ; throbbing in the ear ; deafness ; eruption of pimples in the face ; freckles ; sore throat ; eructation ; dislike to meat ; inflation and fullness of the abdomen ; cramps in the abdomen ; stool of too thin formation ; stoppage of the nose ; pressive drawing in the upper arms and knees ; coldness of the feet ; sensitiveness to damp weather. The abbreviations of the names of my fellow-observers are : Gtm., Gutmann ; Htm., Hartmann ; Hl., Haynel ; Lgh., Langhammer ; Ng. the anonymous contributor in Hartlaub und Trinks' Reiner Arzneimittellehre ; Rl., Rummel ; Stf., Stapf ; Wsl., Wislicenus.

Sad, taciturn and discontented with his fate.

Sad and introverted, as if she had no life in her, during the menses. [Ng.].

Sad mood. [Gtm.].

Deep reflection, and quiet introversion, as if something unpleasant was impending, but inclination to work. [Lgh.].

[5] Anxious apprehension ; he cannot get over the slightest misfortune (at once). [Lgh.].

Anxiety, with cold perspiration of the face.

Laconic, reserved, morose (aft. 4 h. and 3 d.). [Gtm.].

Ill-humored, vexed, no work succeeds in his hands, in the evening. [Ng.].

No pleasure in anything ; everything vexes her ; with total lack of tone, in the afternoon in the open air. [Ng.].

[10] Surly mood.

Very peevish.

Pusillanimous, despondent and vexed about everything.

His cheerfulness steadily decreases, till he gets very peevish in the evening.

Peevish, annoyed humor.

[15] Very irritable and inclined to passion and anger.

Readily excited.

Tendency to get startled.

Disinclination to mental work (aft. 3 d.). [Gtm.].

While working, ideas about recent occurrences press upon him, and are vividly presented before him.

[20] Cheery, confident mood (aft. sever. h.) (curative effect). [Lgh.].

Whirling in the open air, and unsteady in walking. [Gtm.].

Stupid in the head, in the forehead. [Stf.].

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Mur. a. / (Sour.) / The Mute.

Muratic acid,-low
Is the fever of thy show.
Loud thy moaning, with distress,
Sinking in unconsciousness.
With thy jaw down, as in death,
Cankered mouth, and putrid breath,
Heavy tongue, of bluish cast,
Spots of white upon it massed,
Swollen throat of purple hue,
Having patches on it, too.
Stomach feeling empty-"gone"-
Not relieved by eating-long.
Stools that unrestricted go
When the urine starts to flow.
Purple piles of soreness, such
As repels the slightest touch.
Putrid ulcers on the skin,
Foul discharges from within.

The Mute,-Has falling of the jaw.

The Mute, Eli ope, is low.

This Mute,-Who is subject to loud moaning,-Is in Babylon, with the Greek saint, Zeno, and his Child, Cimi.

Falling of the Jaw: Mur. a., Lach., Op., Lyc., Ars.

Moaning-Groaning: Mur. ac., Bell., Bry., Cic., Ig., ZN., Cham., Cimi.

Indicated in low fevers with high temperature, vitiated state of the blood and every great weakness; in typhus and typhoid fever, septic conditions generally, with haemorrhagic tendency.

Great restlessness with extreme prostration.

Patient slips down toward the foot of the bed; must be lifted up every little while.

Pulse rapid, feeble, small; intermits every third beat.

Tongue dry as leather, paralyzed; gums swollen, sordes on teeth; breath foul.

Deep, painful ulcerations on the cheek, tongue, throat.

Diffuse redness of the mucous membrane of the mouth, followed by grayish-white exudation.

Involuntary watery stools whenever he attempts to urinate.

Stools mushy, with frequent discharge of offensive flatus and pain in the rectum.

Excessive soreness in rectum and anus; crawling, burning, stinging pain at the anus.

Haemorrhoidal tumors, blue, hot, and so sore that even the pressure of a sheet cannot be borne; prolapse while urinating.

Eruption on the skin, papular, petechial, with much itching.

Introverted and silent with anxious solicitude. Sadness. Inclined to anger.

Heaviness in occiput, with darkness before eyes. Aches, as though' brain were torn and shattered. Sticking ache. Headache from raising up in bed or moving eyes.

Swelling and redness of lids. Vertical hemiopia.

Cramp - like tearing in. Insensibility of inner auditory canal. difficult hearing. Sensitive to noises.

Epistaxis. Dry nasal catarrh.

Glowing red cheeks when walking in open air, without thirst. Scurfy, pimply eruption, especially about mouth. Freckles. Thick, swollen lower lip.

Crawling in)lower). Throbbing ache, cold drinks, warmth. Swollen ulcerated gums which bleed easily.

Great dryness of entire buccal cavity. Burning, rawness and soreness in fauces. Heaviness of tongue when speaking, as though' it contained lead. Deep ulcers on tongue, Difficult speech and paralysis of tongue.

Empty sensation, also in oesophagus. Disagreeably sick sensation in.

Hypochondriac. Tensive. Squeezing (or empty sensation) in.

Appetite: Gluttony and constant desire to drink.

Eructations: Putrid (or bitter).

Distension of. Spasms in, with pinching in navicular region, which extends to sides. Disagreeable sensation of emptiness and discomfort in.

Focal diarrhoea. With smarting and burning in anus. Involuntary discharge of watery s. when urinating. Too slender in form. With blood.

Moist hemorrhoids. Inflamed, thickly swollen. External hemorrhoids with excoriative, burning pain. Prolapsus recti when urinating.

Frequent urging to urinate, with profuse discharge. Excessive discharge of watery urine. Weakness of bladder and of neck thereof.

Impotency and dormant sexual instinct.

Menses. - too early and too profuse.

Deep, groaning.

Violent, panting c., followed by downward rumbling and gurgling in chest. Excited by tickling in chest, dry in afternoon and evening, in morning, there is a slight loosening of yellow or watery uncoagulated mucus, of a fatty taste, which must be swallowed. Haemoptysis of dark blood.

Persistent hoarseness.

Dyspnoea, and constriction of. Bursting pain in, also pain as if beaten, soreness and stitches. Stitching in, and in cardiac region when breathing and after violent exertion. Cutting thrusts in centre of, with a dull pressure in posterior part of thorax. The heart beat is so violent at night that it is felt in face.

Violent, pressing backache, as if from overlifting.

Heaviness in arms, especially forearms. Drawing in upper arm. Scurfy eruption on back of hands and fingers. Slightly numbness of fingers.

Spasmodic tearing in thighs. Tottering gait from weakness of thighs. Fetid ulcers on lower legs. Burning, swollen tips of toes.

Drawing tearing in extremities during rest, motion. Bruised pain in all joints. Debility so extraordinary, that upon sitting down the eyes immediately close. Great sensitiveness to wet weather.

Periosteum of all bones is painful, as in intermittent fever.

Scurfy eruptions, itching, particularly when getting warm in bed. Painful, putrid ulcers which burn at their circumference. Boils, sticking when touched. Black small - pox.

Great day sleepiness quickly disappearing during motion. Continual snoring, groaning, tossing about and talking, with sliding down in bed, especially before midnight. Frequently wakened by a chill early in morning in bed.

False: Weak and slow, intermit every third beat. Chill: Predominates. In evening, with cold feeling in back, with external warmth and burning of face. Shuddering over whole body with hot cheeks and cold hands. Shaking chill without thirst, with stretching and yawning. Chill and heat without thirst. Heat: Internal, with inclination to uncover and general physical restlessness. Burning, especially on palms and soles. Sweat: In first sleep until midnight, especially on head and back. Night and early morning sweat. A cold sweat on feet, first on lying down in evening.

Allied Remedies: Ars. BRY., Lyc., Mez.

Drawing and tearing in the extremities during rest and relieved by motion.

All the joints feel as if bruised.

Great debility - as soon as he sits down his eyes close.

Sliding down in the bed because of bodily inertia.

Great sensitivity to moist air.

The periosteum pains in intermittent fever.

Want of good sphincter control and trembling loss of power involving the tongue.

A sensation of emptiness in the stomach and abdemen.

Increased urinary secretion with prolapsus ani.

While urinating, involuntary discharge of stool.

Diarrhoea.

Impotence.

Catamenia too early and too profuse.