Aceticum Acidum

The leading features of acetic acid are excessive wasting and debility; anzemia

with waxy pallor of face; intense thirst; burning in throat; nausea, retching, and sour rising as met

with in cases of cancer and debility. There are gnawing, ulcerative pains in stomach; pain and

• ▸burning in abdomen.
• ▸Profuse, exhausting diarrhcea.
• ▸It has been used in diabetes.
• ▸It corresponds to

putrid and hectic fevers with night sweats; hemorrhages, varicose swellings, and dropsies. As a

type of vinegar effects may be mentioned the following: A plump and blooming young woman

took a small glass daily to reduce size. Soon lost flesh and colour. In a month cough set in with

white concocted phlegm, fever, dyspnoea, night sweats, anorexia, dropsy, diarrhoea, death. Lungs

after death were found stuffed with non-suppurating tubercles. A young German, after working

twelve months in a vinegar factory, was obliged to leave from indigestion, dyspnoea, and ready

fatigue. It is suited to children and old people; to lax, pale, lean persons. (Equal parts of vinegar

and hot water make a refreshing sponge-down for many conditions of fever, with or without

perspiration.)

Irritable, worried about business affairs.

Very dull and low-spirited; irritable-—Alternate stupor and delirtum.—Confusion of

• ▸ideas.
• ▸—Grieves much; sighs often.
• ▸—Horrible attacks of anxiety with difficult breathing.
• ▸—Vertigo

with feebleness and fainting.

Convulsions.—Jumps out of bed like a madman, and crawls on the ground,

• ▸howling with pain.
• ▸—Great emaciation.
• ▸—Skin pale and waxen.
• ▸—General anasarca and dropsical

affections.—Burning in inner and outer parts.

• ▸Nervous headache, from abuse of narcotics.
• ▸Blood rushes to head with delirium.
• ▸Temporal vessels distended.
• ▸Pain across root of tongue.

Heaviness and dull pains in forehead and vertex.—Headache from abuse of tobacco,

opium, coffee, or alcohol.

• ▸Pale, waxen, emaciated.
• ▸Eyes sunken, surrounded by dark rings.
• ▸Bright red.
• ▸Sweaty.
• ▸Epithelioma of lip.
• ▸Cheeks hot and flushed.
• ▸Aching in left jaw-point.

Expression wild, pupils dilated —Face pale, waxen, emaciated.—Left cheek (esp.) very

red during fever.—Bright red flush on both cheeks.—Sweat on forehead in spots.

Teeth feel dull, breath foul—Scorbutic ulcers; toothache.—Taste sour.—Epithelium of

mouth quite white—Tongue pale and flabby.

Children thirsty, but swallow with difficulty even a teaspoonful of water.—White

false membranes in throat.

Fullness or lump like a puff ball. Keeps swallowing. Constricted low down.

• ▸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.

• ▸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, causing profuse secretion of tenacious mucus, worse smoking.

Insatiable burning thirst.—Shrieks for water at night—Intense thirst; nausea, and

frequent vomiting.—Disgust for salted things and cold victuals.—Cold drinks lie

heavy.—Vegetables, except potatoes, disagree, also bread and butter still more.—Contents of

stomach feel as if in a ferment; violent burning pain in stomach and in chest, followed by

coldness of the skin and cold sweat on forehead.—Indurations in stomach.—Scirrhus of pylorus.

• ▸Feels as if abdomen was sinking in.
• ▸Frequent watery stools, worse in morning.
• ▸Tympanitic.
• ▸Ascites.
• ▸Haemorrhage from bowels.

Distension of the abdomen; colicky pains.—Ascites.—Abdomen feels as if

sunken in when lying on his back.

Diarrheea, with great thirst, drinking large quantities with apparent

impunity.—Diarrheea, with swelling of legs and feet (phthisical subjects).—Diarrhcea, with colic

pains and tenderness of the abdomen.—Hemorrhage from bowels.—Chronic

• ▸constipation.
• ▸—Ascarides.
• ▸—Chronic diarrhoea of children with great emaciation.
• ▸—Constipation,

with great thirst and excess of pale urine.

Urine increased in quantity; pale; phosphatic; diabetes, with intense,

burning, unending and unquenchable thirst and great debility.

Large quantities of pale urine. Diabetes, with great thirst and debility (Phos ac).

Large quantities passed, frequently. Saccharine.

• ▸Excessive catamenia.
• ▸Haemorrhages after labor.
• ▸Nausea of pregnancy.
• ▸Breasts painfully enlarged, distended with milk.
• ▸Milk impoverished, bluish, transparent, sour.
• ▸Anaemia of nursing mothers.

Weakening emissions; semen passes at stool.—Prepuce thickened,

fissured, can't be retracted and itches fearfully —Sexual passion, but feeble erection.

• ▸Hoarse, hissing respiration; difficult breathing; cough when inhaling.
• ▸Membranous croup.
• ▸Irritation of trachea and bronchial tubes.
• ▸False membrane in throat.
• ▸Profuse bronchorrhoea.
• ▸Putrid sore throat (gargle).

Hoarse, with laryngeal irritation.—Lining membrane of larynx and

trachea covered with a fibrinous exudation as in true croup.—Hissing respiration, with rattling in

the throat.—Croup-like cough; a hollow sound with each inhalation —Heemoptysis.

Pain in breasts, with enlargement of axillary glands, and pain extends into hand.

Pain in back, relieved only by lying on abdomen.

Myelitis, with profuse urine; the pain in the back relieved only by lying on the

abdomen.

Emaciation. OEdema of feet and legs.

Rheumatic pain in joints and shoulders, wrists, knees, with much weakness. Trembling of whole body while walking. Limbs feel chilly.

• ▸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.

Hectic, with drenching night-sweats. Red spot on left cheek. No thirst in fever. Ebullitions. Sweat profuse, cold.

• ▸Skin cold.
• ▸—Slow fever with night sweats.
• ▸—Profuse perspiration.
• ▸—Hectic.
• ▸—Putrid and

typhous fevers.

• ▸Anzmia.
• ▸Anesthetics, antidote to.
• ▸Ascarides.
• ▸Burns.
• ▸Corns.
• ▸Croup.
• ▸Debility.

• ▸Diabetes.
• ▸Diphtheria.
• ▸Dropsies.
• ▸Fevers.
• ▸Hydrophobia.
• ▸Nevi.
• ▸Narcotics, antidote to.
• ▸Phthisis.

• ▸Sausage-poisoning, antidote to.
• ▸Scalds.
• ▸Stings.
• ▸Stomach, cancer of.
• ▸Varicosis.
• ▸Warts.

• ▸Compare: Apis, Ars.
• ▸(but Acet.
• ▸ac.
• ▸has more preponderant gastric symptoms than

• ▸either); Carbol.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Lac.
• ▸defl.
• ▸, Lact.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Uran.
• ▸nit.
• ▸Large doses of Acet.
• ▸ac.
• ▸are best antidoted by

Magnesia or Calcarea either as fluid magnesia or as lime-water. Antidotes to potencies are: For

depressing, agonising feeling, Tabac., Acon.; for gastric, pulmonary and febrile symptoms, Nat.

• ▸m.
• ▸, and afterwards Sep.
• ▸/t antidotes: Anesthetics, Acon.
• ▸, Asar.
• ▸, Coffea, Euphorb.
• ▸, Ignat.
• ▸, Opium,

• ▸Plumb.
• ▸(colic), Sep.
• ▸, Stram.
• ▸, Tabac.
• ▸/t counteracts sausage-poisoning.
• ▸/t aggravates the effects of

• ▸Bell.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸, Arn.
• ▸, Lach.
• ▸Disagrees when given after Borax, Caust.
• ▸, Nux v.
• ▸, Ran.
• ▸b.
• ▸, Sars.
• ▸: Scilla,

• ▸Colch.
• ▸, and Sang.
• ▸have more effect in curing some diseases when prepared with Acet.
• ▸ac.
• ▸than

with Alcohol.

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).

Compare: Sarcolactic acid q v. Lithia; Phos ac.

Third to thirtieth potency. Not to be repeated too often, except in croup.

Third to thirtieth potency. Six to ten drops in a small glass of water in acute gastro-enteritis (Cartier).

There is either diarrhoea or constipation ; with the latter he is rheumatic, with the former he is at his best, as when the diarrhoea slacks

up he is full of suffering. The diarrhoea is his great relief, like

Natrum sulph. and Zincum.

Sharp pains here and there, but especially in ovaries and joints.

This remedy is useful in complaints of pale, sickly people. Patients

who have been weak for many years, who have inherited phthisis.

Emaciation, weakness, anaemia, loss of appetite, burning* thirst and

copious pale urine are a combination calling for Acetic acid. Sensation of heat with pulsation coming and going, like orgasms ; chlorosis

in young girls ; dropsical conditions in general ; bad effects from stings

and bites, have been cured by this remedy. Vinegar is an old remedy

for bad effects from chloroform. It is useful in the haemorrhagic constipation. Bleeding from various mucous membranes, nose, stomach,

rectum, lungs and from ulcers, . Sensitive to cold.

Confusion of mind ; does not know her own children ; forgets what

has recently happened ; attacks of anguish ; constantly borrows troul:)lc ;

thinks something is going to happen ; peevishness, complaining.

Fainting spells in weak, anaemic subjects ; headaches ; face pale and

waxy ; epistaxis ; one cheek pale and the other red ; diphtheria in throat

or larynx, unquenchable thir.st ; sensitive stomach : vomiting blood, and

all food taken ; ulceration of stomach ; hot, sour eructations ; frothy

vomiting ; gnawing pain ; distension of stomach, with a constant commotion ; burning in stomach and abdomen, ameliorated by lying on tho

stomach.

In the abdomen there is great pain, distension, flatulence or dropsy,

sore to touch; diarrhoea, thin, bloody or pure blood ; profuse bleeding

from piles ; chronic diarrhoea.

Copious watery urine. It has cured diabetes, with sugar in the

urine or without, where there is great thirst, weakness and pallor and

loss of flesh.

Weakness with seminal losses ; relaxed genitals and swollen feet.

Uterine haemorrh.ige ; copious menses, or watery menstrual flow

scanty menses with chlorosis.

Weakness of larynx ; croup ; diphtheria. It has cured many cases

of laryngeal diphtheria; hoarseness, with pale mucous membranes;

chronic dry, hacking cough in sickly, pale persons, such as have inherited phthisis, with oedema of extremities, diarrhoea and dyspnoea,

or night sweats ; haemorrhage from the lungs ; burning in chest and

stomach ; rattling in chest ; chronic bronchitis.

Lactic Acid

Morning sickness, diabetes, and rheumatism offer a field for this remedy. Troubles in the breasts. Locally, in the tuberculous ulceration of vocal cords.