Acidum Salicylicum

Acidum Salicylicum
Salicylicum acidum
(salicylic acid)
* The symptoms point to its use in rheumatism, dyspepsia, andMeniere's disease.
* Prostration after influenza; also tinnitus aurium and deafness.
* Haematuria.
Head
- Vertigo; tendency to fall to left side.
- Headache; confusion in head on rising suddenly.
- Incipient coryza.
- Piercing pain in temples.
Eyes
- Retinal haemorrhage.
- Retinitis after influenza, also albuminuric.
Ears
- Roaring and ringing in ears.
- Deafness, with vertigo.
Throat
- Sore, red and swollen.
- Pharyngitis; swallowing difficult.
Stomach
- Canker sores, with burning soreness and fetid breath.
- Flatulence; hot, sour belching.
- Putrid fermentation.
- Fermentative dyspepsia.
- Tongue purplish, leaden-colored; foul breath.
Stools
- Putrid diarrhoea; gastro-intestinal derangements, especially in children; stools like green
frog's spawn. [Magn. carb.]
- Pruritus ani.
Extremities
- Knees swollen and painful.
- Acute articular rheumatism; worse, touch and motion, profuse sweat.
- Pain shifts.
- Sciatica, burning pain; worse at night.
- Copious foot-sweat and ill affects where suppressed.
Skin
- Itching vesicles and pustules; better by scratching.
- Sweat without sleep.
- Urticaria.
- Hot and burning skin.
- Purpura.
- Herpes zoster.
- Necrosis and softening of bones.
Relationship
- Compare : Salol (rheumatic pain in joints, with soreness and stiffness, headache over eyes;
urine violet-smelling); Colch.; China; Lact. ac.
- Spiraea and Gaultheria contain salicyl. acid.
Dose
- Third decimal trituration.
- In acute articular rheumatism, 5 grains every 3 hours. (Old school dose.)