Benzoic Acid. - General symptoms - T.F. Allen
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Below are the main rubriks (i.e strongest indications or symptoms) of Benzoic Acid. in traditional homeopathic usage, not approved by the FDA.
GENERAL
General
Wakes after midnight, with violent pulsation of the heart and temporal arteries (pulsation 110 in the minute), without external heat, and cannot fall asleep again. In the morning, the tongue, covered with a white mucous coat.
some nausea and total loss of appetite. Had eaten peaches in the evening. In the afternoon, at four o'clock, all these symptoms had vanished (fourth day),.
Given for a tormenting, tight cough, every powder produced a violent cough, then extraordinary weakness, sweat, and a state of coma lasting an hour.
at the same time the skin is paler and cooler.
the pulse weaker and less frequent.
respiration normal (from the sublimated but not purified flowers). (Ilish, in Med. Zeit. Russl., 15, 1852)..
Urine of a very repulsive odor, of a changeable color, brownish, cloudy, of an alkaline reaction.
effervescing with hydrochloric acid.
white, flocculent sediment in the urine immediately after its passage, consisting of the phosphate and Calc Carb carbonate of lime, without uric acid. The patient was pale, languid, with a sense of weakness in the loins. (Farquhar).
Dark reddish-brown urine, of greater specific gravity than normal, with an acid reaction, even after some weeks.
at the same time many fleeting pains deep in the region of the bladder, not when urinating, but at other times.
also with deposit of mucous granules, and, when standing, becoming, in a few days, covered with a thick, filmy crust, (one-twentieth grain of the undiluted acid). (C. Hg.).