Gallicum Acidum

Caspari is the authority for this medicine. The most prominent symptoms are

muscular contractions; shuddering, shivering, cold-water sensations on skin or else burning.

Disorders of sight and hearing with confusion of the head and headache. There is also putrid

smell before nose. Many sensations appear in the tongue, and there is salivation. Catamenia

copious. Farrington gives "benumbed feeling at the back of the head in brain-fag, the positive

pole being applied to the cervical region, the negative to the vertex."

Wild delirium at night; very restless, jumps out of bed; sweats; is afraid to be alone; is rude and abuses every one.

• ▸Sobbing; peevishness.
• ▸—Inquietude; oppression.
• ▸—Anxiety.
• ▸—Anguish, with oppression

of the chest, and rattling respiration.—Ill-humour; vexation; obstinacy.—Dulness of mind;

incapacity for labour—Rambling thoughts —Zoomagnetic symptoms.—Unusual vivacity and

activity of mind, without force of will, with loss of command, almost entire, over the motions of

the limbs.

Painful tension throughout the body; many electric shocks in the body during

the night; slight shocks like shivering.—Tetanus; recurrence of epilepsy cured a long time

previously.—The epileptic attacks, which occurred at night, now take place in the

daytime.—Contraction of the flexor muscles (z), of the extensor muscles (c), starting of the

tendons.—Disposition to tremble.—Valetudinary condition; lassitude, sometimes with drowsiness,

or else following diarrhoea; fainting; asphyxia.—Great sensibility of the galvanised

part.—Congestion of the parts touched.

Pain in back of head and neck. Thick, stringy discharge from nose; photophobia with burning of lids.

Head confused to an excessive and painful degree; perplexity and giddiness in the

head.—Vertigo: with confusion of the head, and lights before the eyes; with deafness; with

alternation of heat and cold.—Cephalalgia; violent pains in the direction of the ears.—Sensation as

• ▸in coryza, in the head and nose.
• ▸—Pressive headache.
• ▸—Congestion in the head.
• ▸—Noise in the head,

like bellowing, or boiling.—Chronic hydrocephalus.

• ▸Sharp pains in the eyes.
• ▸—Aching of the eyes.
• ▸—Pulsation in the eyes.
• ▸—Jerking of the

eyelids. —Inflammation of the eyes Redness of the eyes, esp. of the conjunctiva Swelling of

• ▸the eyes —Stye.
• ▸—Lachrymation.
• ▸—Difficulty in moving the eyelids (ameliorated).
• ▸—Convulsions

• ▸of the eyes.
• ▸—Pupils contracted.
• ▸—Weakness of sight—Amaurosis.
• ▸—Objects appear to be

twisted.—Objects seem enlarged.—Objects appear: to quiver; more clear; brighter; bluish, or of a

deep blue (z).—Blue colour seems to be greenish, yellow, or red.—Red, to be green, blue, or

slightly reddish, according to the pole which is used.—The earth and air appear to be white as

snow.—Before the eyes, lightnings; a globe of light; scintillations; reddish light.

Violent pains in the ears.—Pulsations.—Sensation as if little balls circulated in

them.—Incisive pains, as if galvanic rays were passing through them (s).—Redness of the

galvanised ear.—Inflammation and suppuration of the exterior of the ear—Absence of ear wax;

discharge, at first serous, afterwards like pus, by the ear which is deaf (s.).—Ulecers in the ears,

sometimes with sanious discharge.—Discharge of blood.—Deafness; whistling in the ears,

sometimes with tinkling; noise as in swallowing (s).—Sound of bells; sound of wind instruments;

murmuring; uproar; detonation, like the report of a pistol.

• ▸Severe aching in the nose (s).
• ▸—Incisive and darting pains.
• ▸—Tickling (s).
• ▸—Sensation of

• ▸coldness.
• ▸—Excoriation of the mucous membrane.
• ▸—Epistaxis.
• ▸—Putrid smell before the nose

(s).—Great inclination to sneeze (s).—Coryza.

• ▸6, 7.
• ▸Face and Teeth.
• ▸—Redness of the face, as in erysipelas.
• ▸—Swelling of the face —Swelled

cheek, with toothache.—Convulsions of the lips and of the muscles of the face—Burning on the

skin, under the eyes.—Lancination in a rheumatic swelling of the cheek, as ina

wound.—Toothache, sometimes with swelling of the cheek.—Pain in a hollow tooth, with

salivation.

Augmented secretion of saliva; salivation during the toothache; the saliva has an

alkaline taste (c); abundant secretion of clear saliva, which leaves an acid taste in the mouth;

saliva flows from the throat in a stream.—Caustic sensation on the tongue (c); coldness (s); heat

(z); painful lancinations; pulsation; sensation as if coal were on the tongue, a tumour, or a boil, or

else as though a hole had been pierced in it; blunted sensitiveness of the tongue; heaviness, with

difficult speech; convulsive contractions.

Pains in the throat; heat; swelling of the amygdalz.—Painful sensation in

swallowing.—Abundant expectoration of mucus.—Cramp of the gullet.

Acidulated taste in the mouth; acid (z); metallic (z).—Frequently, diminution of

appetite, much thirst; sometimes with burning heat of the body.—Risings, with cutting and

pinching pains in the abdomen; nausea; vomiting, sometimes of a grass-green liquid (c); violent

vomiting.

• ▸Tension in the pit of the stomach.
• ▸—Colic (bellyache).
• ▸—Dull colic.
• ▸—Pinching and

cutting pains in the abdomen, as from flatus, with risings, emission of wind, and

diarrhoea —Borborygmi in the abdomen.

Copious stool; anus feels constricted. Faint feeling after stool. Chronic mucous discharges.

Urgent inclination to evacuate, with sensation of increased peristaltic

movement, and evacuation of abnormal stools (z, on the tongue; s, in the anus).—Stool promoted,

in constipation —Copious evacuation, at an unusual time.—Two evacuations during the night;

diarrhoea, sometimes with violent vomiting.—After the diarrhoea, lassitude like that caused by

bodily fatigue, and profound sleep.—In the rectum, pulsation and movement (z).—In the anus,

contractions.—Hzmorrhoidal symptoms; increase of hemorrhoidal flux.

Great heat in the bladder (z).—Violent pains in the neck of the

bladder.—Augmented secretion of urine —Turbid urine, with thick and reddish sediment;

increased emission in gonorrhcea.

Kidneys painful, distress along ureters into bladder. Dull heavy pain in bladder, directly over pubis. Urine loaded with thick, cream-colored mucus.

Catamenia copious; the menses appear each time the patient is

galvanised.—Suppressed catamenia quickly reappear, but nevertheless fail to appear at the

following period.

Pain in lungs; pulmonary haemorrhage; excessive expectoration. Much mucus in throat in the morning. Dry at night.

Spasmodic movements in the larynx, which ascend and

descend.—Painful irritation in the throat—Cough, dry; humid; with patients who have tubercles

the nodosites speedily soften and break, and the fatiguing cough disappears.—Difficult

respiration; asthma (c) respiration deep, slow, rattling —Respiration impeded by each shock.

Great oppression of the chest, with great anguish, and palpitation of the heart.—Pulse

accelerated, intermittent, or rather full—Accumulation of saliva.—Tightness in the pit of the

stomach, and abundant secretion of a red and hot urine. —Violent pains in the chest.—Pressure in

the chest.—Palpitations of the heart.

• ▸20, 21.
• ▸Neck, Back, and Limbs.
• ▸—Nape and neck stiff, as from rheumatism.
• ▸—In the shoulder,

stiffness and difficulty of movement.—Burning and pulsation, with dragging pains extending to

the fingers.—In the arm, draggings and tension (c); heat (z); coldness (c); tetanic stiffness, with

difficulty of movement and lassitude.—In the hand, itching, sometimes in a swelling on the hand,

which soon becomes painful and suppurates.—Burning, as from hot coals.—Fingers, almost

always benumbed.—Heat in the fingers (z); coldness (s); incisive and piercing pains

(s).—Sensation as though the finger were wrapped up, as when inflamed and swollen; itching

eruption in the articulations.—On the legs, re-appearance of an itch-like re-percussed

eruption.—Trembling of the muscles in the thighs, and the calves of the legs, during sleep

(c).—Painful sensation commencing in the toes, and extending into the abdomen.

Scarlet redness of the legs, of the arms, of the chest, and of the neck, with miliary

eruption (c).—Inflammation and swelling of the galvanised part.—Miliary scarlatina, over the

whole body, except the face; the margins of the ulcers become more inflamed; the parts

(galvanised) where have been blisters, become painful, brown, swelled, or else discharge much

corrosive serum.

Drowsiness.—Sleeplessness, sometimes complete; disturbed sleep.—During sleep

frequent smiling. —Uneasy awakening.—Dreams of chewing something which seems to have an

agreeable flavour; vivid dreams; dreams in which the sleeper appears to fly.

Sensation of coldness in the body (c); coldness of the arm (c); sudden sensation as of

being sprinkled with cold water——Shuddering, with febrile shivering, in hysterical patients;

quaking shivering.—Febrile movements; alternation of heat and shivering; sometimes with

shivering, headache, burning in the throat, and difficult respiration (c).—Heat augmented: in the

arm; along the nerve of a paralysed part; throughout the body; flying heat, or else as intense and

burning throughout the body (c).—Burning on the skin (under the eyes, or else in the shoulder

and the hand) as if from contact with live coals (c).—Pulse: full, hard, and strong (z); rapid, and

full; rapid, small, contracted (c); irregular (c).—General perspiration.—Copious sweat, which is

acidulated (c).

• ▸Asthma.
• ▸Brain-fag.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Epilepsy.
• ▸Fever.
• ▸Hemorrhoids.
• ▸Hydrocephalus.

• ▸Paralysis.
• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸Salivation.
• ▸Tetanus.
• ▸Tongue, affections of.
• ▸Toothache.
• ▸Vision, illusions

of.

Compare: Ars; Iod; Phos.

First trituration and pure acid 2 to 5 grain doses.