Acidum Aceticum

 Acidum Aceticum
(glacial acetic acid)
* This drug produces a condition of profound anaemia, with some dropsical symptoms, great
debility, frequent fainting, dyspnoea, weak heart, vomiting, profuse urination and sweat.
* Haemorrhage from any part.
* Especially indicated in pale, lean persons, withlax, flabby muscles.
* Wasting and debility.
* Acetic acid has the power to liquify albuminous and fibrinous deposits.
* Epithelial cancer, internally and locally (W. Owens).
* Sycosis with nodules and formations in the joints.
* Hard chancre.
* The 1x solution will soften and cause formation of pus.
Mind
- Irritable, worried about business affairs.
Head
- Nervous headache, from abuse of narcotics.
- Blood rushes to head with delirium.
- Temporal vessels distended.
- Pain across root of tongue.
Face
- Pale, waxen, emaciated.
- Eyes sunken, surrounded by dark rings.
- Bright red.
- Sweaty.
- Epithelioma of lip.
- Cheeks hot and flushed.
- Aching in left jaw-point.
Stomach
- Salivation. Fermentation in stomach.
- Intense burning thirst.
- Cold drinks distress.
- Vomits after every kind of food.
- Epigastric tenderness.
- Burning pain as of an ulcer.
- Cancer of stomach.
- Sour belching and vomiting.
- Burning waterbrash and profuse salivation.
- Hyperchlorhydria and gastralgia.
- Violent burning pain in stomach and chest, followed by coldness of skin and cold sweat on
forehead.
- Stomach feels as if she had taken a lot of vinegar.
Abdomen
- Feels as if abdomen was sinking in.
- Frequent watery stools, worse in morning.
- Tympanitic.
- Ascites.
- Haemorrhage from bowels.
Urine
- Large quantities of pale urine.
- Diabetes, with great thirst and debility. [Phos.ac.]
Female
- Excessive catamenia.
- Haemorrhages after labor.
- Nausea of pregnancy.
- Breasts painfully enlarged, distended with milk.
- Milk impoverished, bluish, transparent, sour.
- Anaemia of nursing mothers.
Respiratory
- Hoarse, hissing respiration; difficult breathing; cough when inhaling.
- Membranous croup.
- Irritation of trachea and bronchial tubes.
- False membrane in throat.
- Profuse bronchorrhaea.
- Putrid sore throat (gargle).
Back
- Pain in back, relieved only by lying on abdomen.
Extremities
- Emaciation.
- Oedema of feet and legs.
Skin
- Pale, waxen, oedematous.
- Burning, dry, hot skin, or bathed in profuse sweat.
- Diminished sensibility of the surface of body.
- Useful after stings, bites, etc.
- Varicose swellings.
- Scurvy; anasarca.
- Bruises; sprains.
Fever
- Hectic, with drenching night-sweats. Red spot onleft cheek. No thirst in fever.
- Ebullitions.
- Sweat profuse, cold.
Relationship
- Acetic acid is antidotal to all anaesthetic vapors.
- Counteracts sausage poisoning.
- Compare : Ammon. acet. (Profuse saccharine urine, patient is bathed in sweat.) Benzoin
oderiferum - Spice-wood (night sweats.) Ars.; China; Digitalis; Liatris. (General anasarca in
heart and kidney disease, dropsy, and chronic diarrhoea.)
Dose
- Third to thirtieth potency.
- Not to be repeated too often, except in croup.