Tartaricum Acid. tart-ac.

The head trembles, particularly when coughing, with an inward trembling and drowsiness, more in the evening and in warmth. Beating and throbbing in all the vessels of the body. Painful urging to urinate, scanty discharge, dark red, or the last bloody, with stitches in the bladder and burning in the urethra. Much rattling of mucus in the chest, sometimes vomited up, with young children. Coughing and gaping consecutively, particularly children, with crying or dosing, and twitching in the face. Intense and long-lasting nausea and vomiting, with great anxiety. Thick eruption like pocks, often pustular, large as a pea. Cannot keep the eyes open, irresistible sleepiness, and dull stupified sleep, when awake, hopelessness and despair, or chill and fever, or vomiting of food.

Tartaric Acid

Found in grapes, pineapple, sorrel and other fruits. It is an antiscorbutic antiseptic, stimulating the mucous and salivary secretions.

Dullness and lassitude. Great weakness, with diarrhœa, with dry and brown tongue. Pain in heels (Phytol).

Excessive thirst, continued vomiting burning in throat and stomach. Dyspepsia with copious secretions of mucus.

Pain around umbilicus and region of loins. Stool color of coffee-grounds (worse at night), with brown and dry tongue, and dark-green vomiting.

Third trituration. The pure acid 10-30 grains dissolved in water.

Tartaric acid. C 4 H 6 O 6 . Trituration. Solution.

Gastritis. Heels, pain in.

A proving by Nenning and some poisonings have furnished the pathogenesis of Tart. ac . One of the most marked symptoms was intense burning in throat and stomach, feeling "as if on fire." Tongue brown and dry. Almost constant vomiting; vomited matter of deep green colour. Fæces coffee-ground colour. Difficult respiration. Paralytic debility: "Weakness in the evening, can scarcely drag himself along." This should prove useful: "Tearing pain on the soles of the feet, near the heel, which prevents him putting his foot on the ground, after luncheon." All the symptoms were > in open air. The pasty taste is > after eating.

Confusion in head; dizziness.

Face instantly became red as fire, and having exclaimed that he was poisoned, became speechless; died on tenth day (drank 2 oz. in solution). — Lips turn brown and blackish on their inner edges. — Constant dryness of lips, must moisten them continually. — Burning of lips.

Teeth set on edge. — Brown and dry tongue. — Taste, pasty, in morning, ceases on eating.

Burning sensation in throat and stomach as if on fire.

Very urgent thirst. — Eructations. — Nausea. — Vomiting, repeated and almost continuous. — Vomited matter, deep green.

Pain in umbilical region. — Pinching below navel with emission of flatulence; cold feeling in abdomen.

Many stools during night. — Stools of colour of coffee grounds.

Hoarseness and scraping in larynx. — Respiration: accelerated; then laborious and slow.

Very weak action of heart. — Feeble pulse.

Sharp pain in region of loins.

Paralysis of thighs and legs. — Tearing pains at soles, near the heel, which prevents him setting his foot on the ground, after luncheon.

Convulsions just before death. — Extreme weakness. — In evening feels very tired, can scarcely drag himself along. — General bruised sensation, esp. of lower limbs.

Yawning and stretching. — Frequent yawning.

General cold feeling, evening in bed.

Pure Tartaric acid is triturated for use.

▶ Compare other organic acids, Acetic, Citric, etc.

Convulsions. ▶ Bruised sensation, agg. lower, limbs. ▶ Weakness; in evening, can scarcely drag himself along. ▶ Amelioration in open air. ▶ Vertigo. ▶ Face suddenly became red, he exclaimed that he was poisoned and then was speechless. ▶ Lips dry; lips brown and blackish at their inner edge; burning; (burning on upper, at a spot where a pimple had been cured). ▶ Teeth set on edge. ▶ Tongue brown and dry. ▶ Taste pasty in morning, amel. eating. ▶ Burning in throat and stomach. ▶ Thirst. ▶ Eructations. ▶ Nausea. ▶ Vomiting; dark green. ▶ Pinching in abdomen; below navel, with emission of flatus and cold feeling in abdomen. ▶ Pain in umbilical region. ▶ Many stools at night. ▶ Fæces of the color of coffee-grounds. ▶ Hoarseness, with scraping in larynx. ▶ Respiration difficult and slow; accelerated, then laborious and slow. ▶ Heart's action weak. ▶ Pulse feeble. ▶ Sharp pain in loins. ▶ Tearing in soles near heels, preventing setting feet on ground, after luncheon. ▶ Paralysis of thigh and legs. ▶ Yawning; and stretching. ▶ Coldness in evening in bed.