Aceticum acidum

acet-aci

Common name: Glacial Acetic Acid(Allen, Keynotes (1910), p. 7)

Glacial Acetic Acid This drug produces a condition of profound anæmia, with some dropsical symptoms, great debility, frequent fainting, dyspnœa, weak heart, vomiting, profuse urination and sweat. Hæmorrhage from any part. Especially indicated in pale, lean persons, with lax, flabby muscles. Wasting and debility. Acetic acid has the power to liquefy albuminous and fibrinous deposits. Epithelial cancer, internally and locally (W Owens). Sycosis with nodules and formations in the joints. Read on in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, General →

These texts come from 3 classic Materia Medicas dating from 1910 to 1927, now in the public domain. They record what their authors observed and taught, as historical reference for students and practitioners of homeopathy — not current clinical evidence. Nothing on this page is medical advice: for any health problem, see a qualified doctor.

Where each author writes about Aceticum acidum

A map of the books. Each number counts the sections, or the paragraphs the author labelled himself, that one book gives a topic, and opens the first of them in that book. Kent and Farrington wrote lectures, so only what they labelled is counted.

Topic	Allen	Boericke	Kent
Keynotes	1	none	none
Mind	none	1	1
General	none	1	1
Head	none	1	none
Face	none	1	none
Stomach	1	1	none
Abdomen	none	1	1
Rectum	1	none	none
Urinary	none	1	1
Female	none	1	none
Respiratory	none	1	1
Back	none	1	none
Extremities	none	1	1
Skin	none	1	none
Fever	none	1	none

Relationships

Follows well after:: China officinalis (Allen),; Digitalis purpurea (Allen)
Antidotes:: Amylenum nitrosum (Allen),; Arum triphyllum (Boericke),; Lactuca virosa (Boericke),; Opium (Allen),; Stramonium (Allen)
Incompatible:: Borax veneta (Allen),; Dulcamara (Allen),; Lachesis mutus (Allen, Boericke)
Similar:: Apocynum cannabinum (Allen)

As each book states it.

Aceticum acidum in Allen's Keynotes

H.C. Allen · 3rd edition (1910) · Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel

KeynotesAcetic acid Glacial Acetic Acid. Adapted to pale, lean persons with lax, flabby muscles; face pale, waxy (Fer.). FLsemorrhage : from every mucous outlet, nose, throat, lungs, .stomach, bowels, uterus (Fer., Mill.) ; metrorrhagia; vicarious; traumatic epistaxis (Arn.). Marasmus and other wasting diseases of children (Abrot., Iod., Sanic., Tub.). Great prostration: after injuries (Sulph. ac.) ; after surgical shock.

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Aceticum acidum in Homoeopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927)

MindIrritable, worried about business affairs.

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Aceticum acidum in Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · 2nd edition (preface dated 1 September 1911)

LectureAcetic Acidum Introduction: There is either diarrhea or constipation; with the latter he is rheumatic, with the former he is at his best, as when the diarrhea slacks up he is full of suffering. Generals: The diarrhea 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.

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Where the repertories grade Aceticum acidum highest

Rubrics in which Aceticum acidum has the top grade (Kent’s 3, Bönninghausen’s 4). Each page lists every remedy in the rubric with its grade.

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