Acidum lacticum

Acidum lacticum
Lacticum acidum
(lactic acid)
* Morning sickness, diabetes, and rheumatism offera field for this remedy.
* Troubles in the breasts.
* Locally, in the tuberculous ulceration of vocal cords.
Stomach
- Tongue dry, parched.
- Thirst; voracious hunger.
- Canker, copious salivation and water-brash. Nausea; morning sickness, especially in pale
anaemic women.
- Hot, acrid eructation.
- Nausea; better, eating.
- Burning, hot gas from stomach to throat, causingprofuse secretion of tenacious mucus,
worse smoking.
Throat
- Fullness or lump like a puff ball.
- Keeps swallowing.
- Constricted low down.
Chest
- Pain in breasts, with enlargement of axillary glands, and pain extends into hand.
Extremities
- Rheumatic pain in joints and shoulders, wrists, knees, with much weakness.
- Trembling of whole body while walking.
- Limbs feel chilly.
Urine
- Large quantities passed, frequently.
- Saccharine.
Relationship
- Compare : Sarcolactic acid q.v. Lithia; Phos. ac.
Dose
- Third to thirtieth potency.
- Six to ten drops in a small glass of water in acute gastro-enteritis (Cartier.).