Salicylicum Acidum

Cooper has used Sal. mollis. with success in rheumatic affections, especially

in sciatic neuritis in nervous subjects, in whom the capillary cutaneous circulation showed up

visibly, and there was some tenderness and swelling of the limb.

Anxiety; worrying, restless, yet mild.—Melancholic, wants to be quiet; feels

faint.—Excited mood.—Delirium; stupid, can hardly collect his ideas, then laughed without cause,

talked incessantly and disconnectedly, frequently looked about him with apparent hallucinations

(lasted 24 h.; from 11 grains).

• ▸Vertigo; tendency to fall to left side.
• ▸Headache; confusion in head on rising suddenly.
• ▸Incipient coryza.
• ▸Piercing pain in temples.

Dulness of head; stupefaction.—Vertigo; inclines to fall to 1., surrounding objects seem

to fall to r—Meéniére's disease.—Rush of blood to head.—Severe headache, piercing in both

temples.—Headache commencing on top or back of head, running down sterno-mastoid (more r.

side), which is tender to touch.—Buzzing sensation in interior of brain as if blood were forced

violently through a contracted vessel.

Retinal haemorrhage. Retinitis after influenza, also albuminuric.

Diminished acuteness of vision.—(Plastic iritis following acute rheumatism; pain

temporarily > by hot applications.)

Roaring and ringing in ears. Deafness, with vertigo.

Hearing diminished.—Nervous deafness.—Deafness with noises (roaring) in

ears.—Roaring in ears and difficult hearing; hears music; swarm of bees or buzzing of flies; rush

of blood to head, excited mood.—Tinnitus dependent on hypereemia.—Auditory nerve vertigo

(Méniére's disease); a troublesome nausea accompanying the head symptoms.

• ▸Wants to sneeze.
• ▸—Sneezing.
• ▸—Incipient catarrh; patients, esp.
• ▸children, sneeze all day.

Burning in mouth and epigastric region —Burning and scraping in mouth and

throat—Redness of mouth and fauces.—Stomatitis, mouth hot and dry, tongue covered with

burning vesicles.—Foul breath and offensive expectoration.—Mouth dotted with white patches,

burning, scalded feeling; ulcers on tip of tongue.—Canker-sores with burning soreness and fetid

breath.—Taste: extremely disgusting; as of something burnt; bitter; bitter bilious, that cannot be

got rid of; food has no taste.

Burning in throat.—Scraping in throat causing cough.—Hemorrhagic pharyngitis

with difficulty of swallowing.—Tonsils red, swollen, studded white Violent efforts to swallow,

with difficulty in swallowing, woke him from sleep; the pain and difficulty became confined to r.

side with sticking along Eustachian tube into ear: swelling of r. tonsil, noticeable externally, with

sensitiveness to touch and increased temperature in vicinity; mucous membrane of throat and

posterior fauces red, swollen, with ulcers size of head of a pin, after a while a small lump of

cheesy matter of strong odour was expectorated.

Sore, red and swollen. Pharyngitis; swallowing difficult.

• ▸Canker sores, with burning soreness and fetid breath.
• ▸Flatulence; hot, sour belching.
• ▸Putrid fermentation.
• ▸Fermentative dyspepsia.
• ▸Tongue purplish, leaden-colored; foul breath.

• ▸Nausea, gagging, waterbrash.
• ▸—Frequent vomiting.
• ▸—Ecchymoses.
• ▸—Erosions and

ulcers in stomach and bowels.—Burning in epigastric region.—Weak, nervous sensation in

stomach.—Flatulent and fermentative dyspepsia; putrid belchings.

Abdominal distension.—Ulceration of bowels.—Violent, constant pressure in

abdomen, with feeling of incarcerated flatus; associated with constipation.

Putrid diarrhoea; gastro-intestinal derangements, especially in children; stools like green frog's spawn (Magn carb). Pruritus ani.

Diarrheea: stools green; flushes easily as in hectic; acid, sour, or putrid

smelling.—Costive: stool dry, hard; then diarrhoea, watery, sour, yellow, with great

weakness.—Cholera infantum with peculiarly putrid eructations.—Caused expulsion of teenia.

Diabetes mellitus —Albuminuria, rheumatic diathesis.—Urine: scanty,

clear, brown; three hours after passage has a green tinge, and a feathery deposit of crystal of

Salicyluric acid; if these are removed the urine at once becomes putrid; if left, urine remains

fresh for a week.

Leuco-phlegmatic woman, frequent hot flushes, irritability,

forgetfulness, dull, heavy pain in cerebellum.—Septic puerperal fever.

Respiration hurried, sometimes deepened, sometimes shallow or

sighing and almost panting, as if laboured, but no complaint of difficulty of breathing.—Dry

cough of a hard, racking, spasmodic character, < at night in old people.

Spasmodic, flatulent asthma; fetid bronchitis; gangrene of lungs.—Firmly seated

pressure at side of sternum as large as the hand, with feeling as if the bone was sore.

Rheumatic pain or rheumatoid arthritis, occurring in some women during

climaxis; the pains disappeared, the engorgements of fingers subsided, and the hands could again

be used.

After suppressed foot-sweat, rheumatic pains; < at night; after an hour's

sleep forced to get up; pain in course of |. sciatic nerve, drawing burning; "as if foot were in an

ant-hill"; as if it would like to perspire.—Necrosis of tibia——Copious foul-smelling foot-

sweats.—(Applied locally it brings away corns.)

• ▸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.

• ▸Itching vesicles and pustules; better by scratching.
• ▸Sweat without sleep.
• ▸Urticaria.
• ▸Hot and burning skin.
• ▸Purpura.
• ▸Herpes zoster.
• ▸Necrosis and softening of bones.

Slight chill, crawling in spine; yawning; chill in finger-tips.—Fever continuous,

burning, then sweat with relief; fever again till exacerbation of symptoms.—Weak, faint after

fever and sweat.—Flushes easily as in hectic.—Profuse sweat; as sweat increased strength

declined.

Salix Mollissima.

• ▸Salix mollissima.
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Salicaceé.
• ▸Tincture of fresh leaves and young shoots.

• ▸Compare: Salicin.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸sal.
• ▸, Salol.
• ▸In rheumatism and subsequent weakness, Colch.

Piercing in temples; throat; diarrhoea; ulcers; antiseptic properties, Kre. Antiseptic properties,

• ▸dyspepsia, fever, urine, Carbol.
• ▸ac.
• ▸Tinnitus, Nat.
• ▸sal.
• ▸, Chi.
• ▸, Chi.
• ▸s.
• ▸, Carb.
• ▸s.
• ▸Bones, Pho.
• ▸, (and

• ▸throat), Lact.
• ▸ac.
• ▸As if blood forced through contracted vessel, Coc.
• ▸cact.
• ▸Foot-sweat and

suppressed foot-sweat, Sul., Sil. Loquacity, Lach.

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.

Third decimal trituration. In acute articular rheumatism, 5 grains every 3 hours (Old school dose).

Heat, redness, soreness, and swelling about joints; < in knees, with acute, piercing

• ▸pains; < on motion; > from dry heat.
• ▸—Soreness and pain in r.
• ▸deltoid and r.
• ▸gastrocnemius,

changing next day to |. wrist and forearm; < touch and movement.