Muriaticum 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

Muriatic acid

Hydrochloric Acid. HCl.

Adapted to persons with black hair, dark eyes, dark complexion.

Irritable, peevish, disposed to anger and chagrin (Nux) ; restlessness and vertigo.

Diseases of an asthenic type, with moaning, unconsciousness, fretfulness.

Ulceration with fungus-like growths and pseudolike membranous deposits of intestinal tract.

Great debility : as soon as he sits down his eyes close; lower jaw hangs down ; slides down in bed.

Mouth and anus are chiefly afifected; the tongue and sphincter ani are paralyzed.

Malignant affections of mouth : studded with ulcers, deep, perforating; having a black or dark base; offensive, foul breath; intense prostration; diphtheria, scarlatina, cancer.

Cannot bear the thought or sight of meat (Nit. ac.).

If the anus be very sensitive either with or without hasmorrhoids ; anus sore during menses.

Haemorrhoids : swollen, hhie; sensitive and painful to touch ; appears suddenly in children; too sore to bear least touch, even the sheet is uncomfortable. Prolapse while urinating.

Diarrhoea : stool involuntary while urinating ; on passing wind (Aloe) ; cannot urinate without having the bowels move at the same time.

Urine passes slowly; bladder weak, must wait a long time ; has to press so that anus protrudes.

Cannot bear least touch, not even of sheet on genitals (Murex).

Typhoid or typhus ; deep stupid sleep ; unconscious while awake; loud moaning or muttering; tongue coated at edges, shrunken, dry, leather-like, paralyzed; involuntary fetid stools while passing urine; sliding down in bed; pulse intermits every third beat.

Palpitation of heart is felt in the face.

Freckles; eczema Solaris.

Relations.' — Follows well: after, Bry., Mer., Rhus.

Cures the muscular weakness following excessive use of opium and tobacco.

What the other books say about Muriaticum acidum

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Muriaticum acidum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Muriaticum acidum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Muriaticum acidum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
Muriaticum acidum in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.

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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. Muriaticum acidum — Keynotes, pp. 194–196. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/muriaticum-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.