Muriaticum Acidum

▲   GENERAL

General

Muriaticum Acidum 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. Hemorrhages. Mouth and anus chiefly affected.

Dose

First to third potency.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, in damp weather, before midnight.

Better

BETTER, lying on left side.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Acid Phos ^Phos-ac.; Arsenicum Album ^Ars.; Baptisia Tinctoria ^Bapt. Follows well after Bryonia ^Bry. and Rhus Tox ^Rhus.

Antidotes

Antidote: Bryonia ^Bryonia.

▲   MIND

Mind

Irritable and peevish; fretful

Loud moaning

Great restlessness

Sad, taciturn; Suffers in silence.

Unconsciousness; during fever

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Vertigo; Worse lying on right side; occiput heavy as if filled with lead

▲   HEAD

Head

Sound of voice is intolerable

Headache

Pain as if brain were crushed.

Heaviness (see pain; pressing)

Scalp

Skin and scalp; perspiration; scalp

▲   EARS

Hearing

Too sensitive; to noises

▲   FACE

Face

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

Motions of jaw; dropping of jaw

▲   NOSE

Discharge

Hemorrhage; much sneezing.

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Epithelioma; edges bluish-red ( Carbolic Acid ^Carbol-ac.) Aphthous mouth

Fetid breath

Growths, blisters, swellings; ulcers

Thrush (whitish flakes)

Gums and teeth

Gums and glands swollen

Sordes on teeth.

Gums; teeth detached from gums; scurvy-like

Saliva

Dryness

Tongue

Tongue, pale, swollen, dry, leathery, paralyzed

Deep ulcers on tongue

Hard lumps in tongue

Dryness; tongue

Taste

Taste; like rotten eggs

▲   THROAT

Throat

Uvula swollen

Ulcers and false membrane

Edematous, dark, raw

Attempted swallowing produces spasms and choking.

▲   CHEST

Chest

Heart; Pulse rapid, Feeble, and small

Pulse

intermits every third beat.

Pulse rapid and feeble

▲   SKIN

Skin

Papular and vesicular eruptions, with great itching ( Rhus Tox ^Rhus.) Carbuncles; foul-smelling ulcers on lower extremities

Scarlet fever, livid, with petechiae; scanty eruption

Eczema on back of hands.

Abnormal growths

ulcers; discharges; offensive; putrid

ulcers; foul

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back

Pain

sacrum (base of spine)

aching

base of spine

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Stomach; Cannot bear sight or thought of meat

At times, ravenous appetite and constant desire to drink

Bladder

urination; feeble stream (slow)

urination; involuntary, incontinence; after straining at stool

urination; delayed, difficult; must press; a long time before able to start

urination; delayed, difficult; must press; must press so hard to start the urine that anus protrudes

urination; weakness

Stomach; disordered; not relieved by eating

Eating

Achlorhydria and fermentation of food.

Stomach; aversion to certain foods or drinks; meat

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Tendency to involuntary evacuations while urinating

Hemorrhoids most sensitive to all touch; even sheet of toilet paper is painful

Anal itching and prolapsus ani while urinating

Hemorrhoids during pregnancy; bluish, hot, with violent stitches.

Haemorrhoids

bluish

external

touch

walking

wiping after stool

Involuntary stool; while urinating; and going for stool

Pain

after stool

burning; morning

soreness

Paralysis (see inactivity)

Prolapse

during urination

Sensitive

Stool

Copious

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Cannot urinate without having bowels move at same time.

Copious

Clear as water

in typhus

Female

Female; vaginal discharge

Genitals

Leucorrhoea

Ulcer in genitals.

Menses

Female; Menses appear too soon

During menses, soreness of anus

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Heavy, painful, and weak

Tottering gait

Pain in tendo-achilles.

Coldness; upper limbs; hands

Heat; hand; palm

Pain; stitching, sudden, sharp; foot

Perspiration; foot; cold

Weakness

lower limbs

thigh

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Cold extremities

Heat without thirst

Hemorrhages

Restlessness

Involuntary discharges

Bed-sores

Excessive prostration.

Continued fever

with small, purple spots

small, purple spots; offensive smelling stool, intestinal haemorrhage, unconsciousness, so weak that must settle down in bed into a heap

dazed from fever

Infectious fevers

Septic fever (see infectious, continued, from childbirth, etc.)

Desire to uncover

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Waking; frequent

Perspiration

On beginning to sleep

Generalities

Pulse; soft

Scurvy

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness)

paralytic

sliding down in bed

walking

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