Muriaticum Acidum

• ▸Jenner (M.
• ▸H.
• ▸R.
• ▸, 1x.
• ▸549) proved the tincture of Banana flowers and produced

costiveness and sensation of fulness about anus, in a person of regular habits; and he cured with

it a bad case of bleeding hemorrhoids. It also produced pain in the bladder and passage of mucus

with urine. Crichton Campbell commends bananas baked in their skins as an ideal food, or even

• ▸a "cure," for brain workers, nervous persons, and anzemics (H.
• ▸W.
• ▸, xxxii.
• ▸478).
• ▸A syrup made

with the juice of bananas extracted by heat is commended as a remedy in chronic bronchitis with

insufficient expectoration and marked dyspncea.

Irritable and peevish; fretful Loud moaning. Great restlessness. Sad, taciturn; suffers in silence.

Sadness.—Taciturnity and reserve, anxiety, apprehension and peevishness.—Indecision

and inquietude.—Ideas respecting recent events crowd upon the mind during labour.—Disposition

to be angry and to give way to passion.—Unconsciousness.

[This remedy is often called for in cases where the patient cannot urinate

without having the bowels moved at the same time; in typhus or low grades of fever where we

find this symptom with great prostration; patient may think he is going to pass a little wind, when

urine will come away also.—Heemorrhoids very tender to the touch, so much so that he can

scarcely bear to use paper after an evacuation; after confinement, heemorrhoids protrude so that

the pressure of a sheet can scarcely be borne.—In low types of fever the patient often slips down

toward the foot of the bed, and must be lifted up every little while—Cannot bear the sight or

thought of meat, it is so distasteful—Urine too copious, both night and day.—Affections in

general, of any kind, appearing in the tendo-Achillis; the soles of the feet—Scurvy, particularly if

the parts affected are very sore and tender to the touch.—Itching of the skin > by

• ▸scratching.
• ▸—Putrid ulcers.
• ▸—H.
• ▸N.
• ▸G.
• ▸].
• ▸—Tearing and incisive (rheumatic) pains in limbs, during

repose, > during movement.—Restlessness; frequent changing of position.—Contusive pains in all

joints.—Painful sensibility of periosteum of bones, as in intermittent fever—Coldness of

extremities.—Dropsical swellings.—Indolence and dread of movement, with inclination to remain

seated.—Excessive depression; on sitting down, the eyelids close; the lower jaw hangs down, he

slides down in bed.—Tottering gait, from weakness of thighs and knees.—Great sensitiveness to

damp weather.—Paralysis of tongue and sphincter ani.

Vertigo; worse lying on right side; occiput heavy as if filled with lead. Sound of voice is intolerable. Pain as if brain were crushed.

Dull, heavy, frontal headache.

8, 9. Mouth and Throat.—Dry, rough, and extremely astringent taste and feeling in mouth,

tongue, and fauces, but afterwards an increase of saliva.

11, 12. Stomach and Abdomen.—Rumbling in stomach and bowels with expulsion of flatus.

• ▸Itching smarting in canthi.
• ▸—Itching in eyes.
• ▸—Stitches out of eyes.
• ▸—Shootings across

• ▸eyes.
• ▸—Swelling and redness of eyelids.
• ▸—Vertical hemiopia.
• ▸—(Neuralgia over I.
• ▸eye, hemiopia

and double vision, which is always followed by headache, numbness down r. arm and

• ▸aphasia.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸)

Otalgia (with pressive pain), like spasmodic and acute pullings.—Pulsation in

• ▸ears.
• ▸—Insensibility of auditory tube.
• ▸—Scabious eruptions in ears.
• ▸—Hardness of hearing and

deafness.—Acuteness of hearing, with sensibility to noise —Ticking of watch is heard better than

the voice (cerebral deafness).—Tinkling, buzzing, and whistling before the ears.

Haemorrhage; much sneezing.

• ▸Ulceration of nostrils.
• ▸—Sore nostrils with stinging pain.
• ▸—Obstruction of nose.
• ▸—Coryza,

with thick yellow, or serous and corrosive mucus.—Continuous bleeding from nose.—Coryza,

with itching, tickling, and sneezing.

Lower jaw fallen; pimples and freckles; lips raw, dry, cracked.

Heat in face, with burning redness of cheeks, when walking in open air, without

thirst—Ephelis.—Eruption of scabious pimples on face, forehead, and temples; whole face red;

• ▸every summer.
• ▸—Furuncules on temple.
• ▸—Burning in lips.
• ▸—Puffiness of lower lip, it feels heavy

and burns.—Eruptions on lips, sometimes covered with scabs.

• ▸Tongue, pale, swollen, dry, leathery, paralyzed.
• ▸Deep ulcers on tongue.
• ▸Hard lumps in tongue.
• ▸Epithelioma; edges bluish-red (Carbol ac).
• ▸Aphthous mouth.
• ▸Gums and glands swollen.
• ▸Fetid Breath.
• ▸Sordes on teeth.

Dryness of mouth, with paralysis of tongue.—Profuse accumulation of

saliva.—Heaviness of tongue, when speaking, as if it were made of lead, which prevents him

from talking.—Deep-seated ulcers (with black base), vesicles, or pustules on tongue.—Small

tumours r. side of tongue ——The tongue becomes sore and bluish.—The tongue dwindles (atrophy

• ▸of tongue).
• ▸—(Psoriasis of tongue.
• ▸).
• ▸—Mucous lining of the lips, and mouth inflamed, red, raw,

painful, dotted with whitish points; fetid breath; stomatitis.—Parched tongue.

Odontalgia, with pulsative pain, < by cold drinks, > by heat —Toothache, with

sensation of pressing asunder.—Tingling in teeth.—Scorbutic gums, swollen, easily bleeding and

ulcerating.

Sore throat, with pain as from excoriation, rawness, and smarting in throat and

palate—Dry throat with burning in chest.—Mucous lining of throat and fauces deep dark red,

swollen and burning; covered with greyish-white diphtheritic-like deposits Swelling of uvula;

of tonsils.—Much saliva that must be swallowed.—Attempting to swallow produces violent

spasms and choking.

• ▸Uvula swollen.
• ▸Ulcers and false membrane.
• ▸OEdematous, dark, raw.
• ▸Attempted swallowing produces spasm and choking.

Cannot bear sight or thought of meat. At times, ravenous appetite and constant desire to drink. Achlorhydria and fermentation of food.

Taste of rancid grease in throat—Acrid and putrid taste (like rotten eggs, with

ptyalism) in throat——All food has a sweetish taste, and esp. beer, which is disliked.—Bulimy and

excessive thirst.—Dislike to meat.—Appetite lost.

Risings, putrid or bitter —Hiccough (before and after dinner).—Vomiting of

food.—Vomiting of bile, at night, with nausea and eructations.—Uneasiness in stomach, as

indicating serious illness.—Sensation of emptiness in the stomach and cesophagus, not > by

eating.—Contractive pain in stomach, with sensation as if it were retracted.—Pressive tension and

cramp-like pain in hypochondria.

Uneasiness in abdomen, as in serious illness.—Fulness and inflation of the

abdomen; from small quantities of food—Cramp-like pains in abdomen, with cuttings and

pinchings, extending from umbilical region into sides, accompanied by borborygmi.—Sensation

of emptiness in abdomen.—Lancination in groins.

• ▸Tendency to involuntary evacuations while urinating.
• ▸Haemorrhoids most sensitive to all touch; even sheet of toilet paper is painful.
• ▸Anal itching and prolapsus ani while urinating.
• ▸Haemorrhoids during pregnancy; bluish, hot with violent stitches.

Costiveness (in a person of very regular habits) with feeling of fulness

about anus.—(Improvement and ultimate cure of profusely bleeding hemorrhoids; in a case

which had resisted every kind of treatment,)

Discharge of large quantities of mucus with the urine, with dull, aching

pain in bladder region.

Cannot urinate without having bowels move at same time.

• ▸Menses appear too soon.
• ▸Leucorrhoea.
• ▸During menses, soreness of anus.
• ▸Ulcer in genitals.

Sensation of a bearing down towards genital organs, as if

preparatory to catamenia.—During menses sad and taciturn.—Ulcers in genitals, with putrid

discharge, much sensitiveness and general weakness.—Cannot bear the least touch even of sheets

on genitals.—Too early catamenia, and too profuse.

Excoriation of prepuce.—Soreness in the margin of prepuce.—Itching

of scrotum not > by scratching.—Suppression of sexual desire —Feeling of weakness in genital

organs, penis relaxed.—Impotence.

Hoarseness, with sore feeling in chest.—Chronic hoarseness.—Violent

and sobbing cough, followed by a gurgling in bottom of chest.—Breathing deep and groaning;

moaning.

Pulse rapid, feeble, and small. Intermits every third beat.

Deep respiration with groans.—Lancinating pains in chest, during a violent

movement, and during inspiration.—Tensive pain in sternum.—Incisive shocks in chest, with dull

pressure on posterior part of chest, and with oppression.—Oppression across chest (evening).

Stitches in chest, and on heart, when taking a long breath and on violent

• ▸motion.
• ▸—Pulse rapid and very feeble; and small.
• ▸—Shootings in region of heart.
• ▸—Shock in heart at

night, so violent that it is felt in face.

Aching pain in back, as from having been bent double for a long time, or from a

strain.—Shootings in shoulder-blades.—Furunculi in back.

Paralytic weakness, and wrenching pain in shoulder.—Heaviness of arms,

• ▸esp.
• ▸the forearms.
• ▸—Tearing, aching, and pulling in arms.
• ▸—Drawing tension in elbow-

joint.—Cramp-like drawings and heaviness in forearm.—Incisive tearing in forearm, hands, and

fingers.—Voluptuous itching and tickling, and lancinating, in palms.—Scabby eruption on back of

hand, and upper part of fingers —Cramp-like pain in fleshy part of thumb when

writing.—Swelling of extremity of fingers, with burning.—Nocturnal torpor and paleness of

fingers, which are as if dead.

Tearing and cramp-like pulling in thighs.—Wavering gait from weakness of

the thighs.—Itching, tettery spots on thighs —Swelling of knees.—Drawing tension in calf of leg,

and in tendo-Achillis, when walking.—Lancinations in tendo-Achillis, day and night, which

hinder walking and sleeping.—Putrid, painful ulcers in legs, with burning in their

circumference.—Coldness of feet—Swelling and redness of extremity of toes, with burning.

Heavy, painful, and weak. Tottering gait. Pain in tendo-Achilles.

• ▸Papular and vesicular eruptions, with great itching (Rhus).
• ▸Carbuncles; foul-smelling ulcers on lower extremities.
• ▸Scarlet fever, livid, with petechiae; scanty eruption.
• ▸Eczema on back of hands.

Itching, voluptuous and lancinating tickling, with want to scratch —Scabious

eruptions, which itch in heat of bed.—Furunculi, with shooting pain when they are

touched.—Putrid and painful ulcers, with burning at margins.—Fetid odour of ulcers; also they are

covered with a scurf.—Black pustules.

Great drowsiness during day, which disappears on taking exercise.—Sleeplessness

before midnight.—Before midnight, continued snoring, groaning, tossing, talking, and tendency

to slide downwards in bed.—Frequent and early waking, caused by a coldness that is felt in

bed.—Anxious dreams.

• ▸Cold extremities.
• ▸Heat without thirst.
• ▸Typhoid types, stupid.
• ▸Haemorrhages.
• ▸Restlessness.
• ▸Involuntary discharges.
• ▸Bed-sores.
• ▸Pulse rapid and feeble.
• ▸Excessive prostration.

Predominant sensation of cold.—Shivering, with yawning and stretching, without

thirst, and not followed by heat.—Chill in the evening, with coldness in back, with external

warmth and burning in face.—Shuddering over whole body, with hot cheeks and cold

• ▸hands.
• ▸—Burning heat, esp.
• ▸in palms and soles ——Night and morning sweat.
• ▸—In evening, the

perspiration is first cold on the feet.—Typhus fever, lower jaw hangs down, atrophy of tongue,

involuntary watery stools when passing urine, great debility, with sliding down in bed, loud

moaning.—Heat without thirst, with agitation, and desire to throw off clothes at night —Pulse

weak and slow.—Intermittent pulse, every third beat.—Nocturnal sweat, on going to sleep in

evening, or before midnight, esp. on head and back.

Musa.

• ▸Musa sapientum.
• ▸Banana.
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Palmacee.
• ▸Tincture of the flowers.

Antidoted by: Carbonates of alkalies and earths (poisoning cases); to small doses:

• ▸Camph.
• ▸, Bry.
• ▸(Teste says the surest antidote is Ipec.
• ▸).
• ▸/¢ antidotes: Merc.
• ▸, Opium.
• ▸It "cures the

• ▸muscular weakness following the excessive use of Opium" (Hering).
• ▸/t follows well: Bry.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸,

• ▸Rhus.
• ▸Compare: In typhoid states, Bry.
• ▸(Bry.
• ▸has < motion), Rhus (restlessness, > by motion;

• ▸Rhus has less debility), Phos.
• ▸ac.
• ▸(Phos.
• ▸ac.
• ▸has less prostration, is apathetic, indifferent, Mur.
• ▸ac.

taciturn), Apis (Apis has blisters on tongue, and it catches teeth when attempt is made to protrude

• ▸it), Ars.
• ▸(Ars.
• ▸has scanty evacuations), Bapt.
• ▸(Bapt.
• ▸, has besotted look, tongue red on edges),

• ▸Bell.
• ▸(Bell.
• ▸more active, hypereemia), K.
• ▸permang.
• ▸(throat symptoms, cedematous uvula), Sul.
• ▸ac.

• ▸(Sul.
• ▸ac.
• ▸has not > uncovering), Gels.
• ▸(with Gels.
• ▸the muscular prostration is expressed, with

• ▸Mur.
• ▸ac.
• ▸it is unconscious), Nit.
• ▸ac.
• ▸(thin, excoriating discharge from nose, intermittent pulse and

• ▸loss of appetite), Arum tri.
• ▸Piles during menses, Amm.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Collins.
• ▸, Graph.
• ▸, Pho.
• ▸, Pul.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸Piles

• ▸sensitive, Bell.
• ▸, Caust.
• ▸Early morning hunger, Ant.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸, Saba.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸Cannot bear the thought

• ▸or sight of meat, Nit.
• ▸ac.
• ▸Irritable, disposed to anger and chagrin, Nux.
• ▸Cracked lips; sore mouth;

• ▸< after sleep, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸; coryza, Chlorum.
• ▸Tendo-Achillis, affection of, Val.
• ▸Mur.
• ▸ac.
• ▸is a

constituent of the gastric juice, and must therefore be considered as allied to the Sarcodes and

proximate principle of the tissues, e.g., Cholesterin.

Compare: Phos ac; Ars; Bapt. Follows well after Bry and Rhus.

Antidote; Bryonia.

First to third potency.

When treating a low form of continued fever with extreme prostration Arsenicum, Muriatic acid and Phos. acid force themselves upon

the mind. With Arsenicum there has been the anxious restlessness ;

with Phos. add there has been the mental prostration, and then the

muscular weakness ; with Muriatic acid the muscular weakness comes

first, and there has been history of restlessness and the mind has been

stronger than could be expected. With this great muscular exhaustion

with jaw hanging down and the patient sliding down in bed and soon

the involuntary stool and urine, this remedy is forced upon the mind.

Paralytic weakness is what it must be called. Soon the tongue is

paralyzed, as well as the sphincters of the bladder and rectum. It

seems to be eminently fitted for the lowest forms of zymotic fever

when the above symptoms are present. He finally becomes unconscious. There has been some restlessness, but nothing like Arsenicum

and Rhus tox. He refuses to talk because it frets him to do so. Phos.

acid is slow answering questions because of exhaustion of mind

which makes him unable to think.

The vertigo comes on moving eyes, and on lying on the right side.

This vertigo is sometimes associated with liver disease. A stout, fullblooded jaundiced man about forty had suffered much from pain in

the liver, with great soreness, was comfortable only when lying on

left side; when he turned on his back or right side an anxious vertigo

would come at once and he wouM break out in copious sweat, and be

forced back to the left side. Muriatic acid made a complete cure of

this liver trouble, which had been pronounced serious.

The headache is aggravated moving the eyes and rising up in bed.

ameliorated by walking about slowly. Occipital headache with dim

• ▸vision, aggravated by effort to see.
• ▸Heaviness in occiput.
• ▸Numbness in forehead.
• ▸Soreness in occiput.
• ▸Feeling as if hair were standing on end.
• ▸Heat in top of head.

Perpendicular half sight. The eye symptoms ameliorated in the

• ▸dark.
• ▸Stitching pain.
• ▸Burning, extending left to right eye, ameliorated washing.
• ▸Itching in the eyes.

Hardness of hearing ; loud crackling sounds during the night. The

sound of voices unbearable. Buzzing in the ears.

The nose is stopped. Nosebleed in whooping cough, in zymotic

fevers, in diphtheria and scarlet fever. Dark putrid blood from nose.

The lower jaw hangs down in typhoid fever. Margin of lips dry,

sore and cracked. Burning lips.

Mouth and tongue coated white.

Sordes on the teeth. Gums swollen and bleeding. Teeth become

• ▸loose.
• ▸Tongue dry, heavy stiff and paralyzed.
• ▸Mouth dry.
• ▸Ulceration of mouth and tongue.
• ▸Red tongue.
• ▸Blueness of the tongue.

Mucous membrane of lips denuded. Sore mouth of nursing infants

Mouth studded with ulcers. Deep ulcers with black base.

Violent inflammation of the throat. Dryness of the throat. Dark

red throat with ulcers. Greyish white exudations. White exudations

resembling diphtheria. Gangrenous sore throat. Hawks out foetid

mucus. Diphtheria with extreme prostration.

Great thirst. Thirst during chill and thirstlcss during the fever.

Aversion to meat. Craves stimulants. Eructation bitter and putrid.

• ▸Spasmodic action of oesophagus.
• ▸Vomiting sour.
• ▸Involuntary swallowing.
• ▸Emptiness in stomach, not ameliorated by eating.
• ▸Empty

• ▸sensation in stomach and abdomen without desire for food.
• ▸Emptiness in stomach from 10 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸till evening.
• ▸Emptiness in abdomen

in the morning after the usual normal stool. Indigestion ; faintness ;

constipation ; confusion ; sleepiness after eating.

Pressing in the liver. Soreness, and enlarged liver. Fulness and

rumbling in abdomen.

Watery stools, involuntary while urinating. Stools pass unnoticed.

Dark brown stools, with blood. Much flatus with stools Urging

• ▸aggravated by motion.
• ▸Dysentery, putrid blood and slime.
• ▸Haemorrhage from intestines of dark liquid blood.
• ▸Prolapsus ani whil^

urinating. Urging to stool while urinating. Marked relaxation and

itching of anus.

I^arge, dark, purple haemorrhoids, extremely sensitive to touch. Inflammation of tht pile tumors, hot and pulsating ; must lie with limbs

• ▸wide apart.
• ▸Bleeding piles.
• ▸Burning and cutting during stool.
• ▸Burning after stool, ameliorated by warm applications, aggravated from,

bathing with cool water. Excoriation of anus. Fissures.

The urine flows in a feeble stream. Must wait a long time for

urine to start ; must press so that anus protrudes. This is in keeping

with the general paralytic muscular weakness in the body. Involuntary flow of urine and stool in low fevers. Burning and cutting in

the urethra while urinating, tenesmus follows.

Impotency ; desire weak. Bloody, watery discharge from the

urethra. Scrotum bluish. Itching of the scrotum not ameliorated

by scratching. Margin of prepuce sore.

Pressing in genitals as if menses would appear. Menses too early

and profuse. Ulcers on genitalia with putrid discharges. Cannot

bear least touch, not even of sheet on genitals. Leucorrhosa with

backache. Puerperal fever with extreme prostration, dropped jaw,

sliding down in bed, suppressed lochia. Stool and urine putrid and

involuntary.

Short breath with rattling after drinking. Breathing seems to

come from stomach. Oppression of chest