Condensed Materia Medica.
By Constantine Hering.
Presented by .
ACETICUM ACIDUM.
[Acet. ac.]
Vinegar. C. Hering. C4
H3 O3.[1] * [2]
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* [45] * [46] * [48]► Alternate stupor and delirium.
► Violent delirium, with distention of belly and obstinate
constipation.
► Very dull and low-spirited.
► Anxiety ; grieves about his sickness and his children.
► Extreme irritability of temper. θ
With abdominal complaints.
► Vertigo, with feebleness and fainting.
► Appears as if drunken, with heavy head.
► Headache from abuse of tobacco, opium, coffee or
alcohol.
► Red patches on scalp, crusts between the hair.
► Hair bristles.
► Conjunctiva inflamed, accompanied by sour stomach.
► False membrane, dense, yellow, white, tough, closely adherent ;
48.
► Flow of tears.
► Nosebleed.
► Liable to frequent catarrhal attacks.
► Anxious, wild expression of countenance.
► Left cheek very red, with the fever.
θ Croup.
► Pale, waxen, emaciated.
► Lips become of a deep purple tint.
► In upper part of joint of left jaw, aching ; increases on
pressure and with motion.
► Teeth feel dull.
► Pain across root, impedes speech and moving jaw ;
scarcely able to walk.
► Glands under tongue and on lower jaw swollen ; sore to touch.
► Foul breath.
► Children swallow with some
difficulty, even a teaspoonful of water. θ
Croup.
► Difficult swallowing, has to eat very slowly.
► Inflamed sore throat, ulcerated.
► Indications of a white film, low down in fauces.
► No thirst, with fever. θ
Croup.
► Great thirst. θ
Dropsy, Diabetes, 21.
► Hot eructations, heat in stomach.
► Nausea and sweat ; retching or anxiety.
► Vomiting after every meal, with great
thirst. θ
Cancer.
► Contents of stomach feel as if in a ferment.
► Violent burning pain in stomach and in
chest, followed by coldness of skin and cold sweat on forehead ;
burning worse lying on back.► Bellyache, with rumbling in bowels, diarrhœa and
violent delirium. Irritable. See 1.
► Ascites. See dropsy.
► Diarrhœa liquid or undigested, with
swelling of legs and feet. θ
Phthisis.
► Diarrhœa in the later stages of
abdominal typhus.
► Costiveness with tympanitis and stupor.
► Profuse hemorrhoidal bleeding.
► Hemorrhage from bowels. θ
After checked metrorrhagia.
► Passes large quantities of pale
urine. θ
Diabetes mellitus, 21.
► Very weakening, nightly emissions.
► During pregnancy, sour belching and vomiting, with
profuse water-brash and salivation, day and night.
► After labour, hemorrhages (outward application of vinegar).
► Also when cold, pale, with difficult breathing. See 48.
► Breasts greatly and painfully distended with milk. θ
Mammary abscesses threatening.
► Milk impoverished, bluish, transparent, of strong, sour taste and
odor ; deficient in caseine and butter.
► Sucklings droop, lose flesh, get marasmus.
► Hoarseness, with laryngeal irritation.
► Lining membrane of larynx and windpipe covered with fibrinous
exudation.
► Croup, especially when the face is bright
red. (Diluted in water, ten drops in a tumbler of water with
some sugar, a teaspoonful every hour or two).
► Difficult breathing, from laryngeal obstructions.
► Hissing, rattling in throat.
► Hurried and laborious breathing.
► Croup-like sound ; a hollow sound with each
inhalation.
► Pulse : 96 and full ; full and irregular ;
accelerated and small, contracted ; very weak and small.
► Must lie on the abdomen to relieve pain in the spine. θ
Myelitis.
► Sensation of lameness in wrists and hands.
► Weak and weary.
► Lessened sensibility.
► Œdematous swelling with diarrhœa.
► Motion, 9, 11.
Lying, 17, 31.
► Sleeplessness, with other sufferings.
► Sleep much broken, without any known cause.
► Diarrhœa more in the morning.
► Day and night : 24. Night : 22,
40.
► Skin cold.
► Flushes of heat more in outer parts, increasing the sweat.
► Febrile heat, with a dry skin ; in bilious, putrid and
typhoid fevers. Typhus with delirium.
► Profuse sweating ; night-sweats.
► Hectic fevers with cough, dyspnœa, night-sweats, diarrhœa œdema
and emaciation.
► Left cheek red ; maxillary joint aches.
► Burning on inner and outer parts.
► Diminished sensibility on the whole surface of body.
► Hemorrhages from nose, lungs, stomach, bowels, uterus.
► Wasting away, great emaciation.
► General anasarca and dropsical affections
of abdomen and legs, with great thirst.► Touch : 11. Pressure : 9.
► After bruising and spraining, if dry heat follows.
► Burns and scalds.
► Stings of wasps.
► After the bite of a mad cat, lacerated wound, swollen upper and
lower leg (externally and internally).
► Diseased cuticle separates in flakes.
► Skin pale and waxen. θ
Dropsy.
► Broad, flat, condylomata, dry or moist.
► Nævi, warts, corns.
► Antidotes to Acet. ac. :
Large doses are best counteracted by Magnesia
or Calcar. ; fluid magnesia or
lime-water, a tea-spoonful in a cup of water taken in sips. Higher
preparations : for the depressing, agonizing feeling : Tabac. ;
if insufficient : Acon. ;
for the gastric, pulmonary and febrile symptoms : Natr.
mur., high ; may be followed by Sepia.
It follows China in hemorrhage, 24.
Compare with Kali bich. (but membrane
on eye in latter more easily detached).
► Acet. ac. is an antidote to
all anæsthetic vapors ; further to Acon.,
Asar., Coffea, Euphorb., Hepar, Ignat., Opium, Stramon., Tabac.
and Alcohol.
► The sick have aversion to it poisonings with Agar.
emet.
► Symptoms of Bellad., Mercur.
and Laches. are aggravated by it.
► It follows well after Cinchon.
in hemorrhages.
► Disagrees when given after Borax,
Caustic., Nux vom., Ran. bulb., Sarsap.
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