Aceticum acidum

as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899

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Keynotes

Acetic 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; after ancesthetics.

Thirst : intense, burning, insatiable even for large quantities in dropsy, diabetes, chronic diarrhoea; but no thirst in fever.

Sour belching and vomiting of pregnancy, burning water-brash and profuse salivation, day and night (Lac. ac. — salivation < at night, Mer. s.).

Diarrhoea: copious, exhausting, great thirst; in dropsy, typhus, phthisis; with night sweats.

True croup, hissing respiration, cough with the inhalation (Spong.) ; last stages.

Inhalation of vapor of cider vinegar has been successfully used in croup and malignant diphtheria.

Cannot sleep lying on the back (sleeps better on back, Ars.) ; sensation of sinking in abdomen causing dyspnoea; rests better lying on belly (Am. c.).

Hectic fever, skin dry and hot; red spot on left cheek and drenching night sweats.

Relationship. — It antidotes anaesthetic vapors (Amyl.); fumes of charcoal and gas; Opium and Stramonium.

Cider vinegar antidotes Carbolic acid.

Follows well : after Cinchona, in haemorrhage; after Digitalis, in dropsy.

It aggravates : the symptoms of Arn., Bell., Lach., Mer. ; especially the headache from Belladonna.

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Aceticum acidum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Aceticum acidum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.

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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Aceticum acidum — Keynotes, p. 7. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/aceticum-acidum. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.