Benzoicum acidum

as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927

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Mind

Prone to dwell on unpleasant things in the past. Omits words in writing. Depression.

General

Benzoic Acid The most marked characteristic pertains to the odor and color of the urine. It has a marked action on metabolism. It produces and cures symptoms of a uric acid diathesis, with urine highly colored and very offensive, and gouty symptoms. Renal insufficiency. Child wants to be nursed in the arms, will not be laid down. Pains suddenly change their locality. Anti-sycotic. Gouty and asthmatic.

Modalities

Worse, in open air; by uncovering.

Head

Vertigo inclination to fall sideways. Throbbing in temporal arteries, causes puffing around ears. Noises when swallowing. Ulceration of tongue. Swelling behind ears (Caps). Cold sweat on forehead. Pricking, puckered constriction of mouth, bluish and bleeding gums. Wens.

Face

Copper-colored spots. Red, with little blisters. Circumscribed redness of cheeks.

Nose

Itching of septum. Pain in nasal bones.

Stomach

Sweat while eating; pressure in stomach, sensation of a lump.

Abdomen

Cutting about navel. Stitching in liver region.

Rectum

Stitches and constricted feeling. Puckering constriction of rectum. Itching and watery elevations around anus.

Stool

Frothy, offensive, liquid, light-colored, like soapsuds, bowel movements, mostly windy.

Urinary

Repulsive odor; changeable color; brown, acid. Enuresis; dribbling, offensive urine of old men. Excess of uric acid. Vesical catarrh from suppressed gonorrhœa. Cystitis.

Respiratory

Hoarse in morning. Asthmatic cough; worse at night; lying on right side. Chest very tender. Pain in region of heart. Expectoration, green mucus.

Back

Pressure on spinal column. Coldness in sacrum. Dull pain in region of kidneys; worse, wine.

Extremities

Joints crack on motion. Tearing with stitches. Pain in tendo Achillis. Rheumatic gout; nodes very painful. Gouty deposits. Ganglion; swelling of the wrist. Pain and swelling in knees. Bunion of great toe. Tearing pain in great toe.

Skin

Red spots. Itching in spots.

Fever

Cold hands, feet, back, knees. Chilliness; cold sweat. Internal heat on awakening.

Relationships

Useful after Colchic fails in gout; after Copavia in gonorrhœa.

Compare: Nitric acid; Ammon benz; Sabina; Tropoeolum. Garden Nasturtium––(fetid urine). Antidote: Copaiva. Incompatible: Wine.

Dose

Third to sixth potency.

What the other books say about Benzoicum acidum

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

Benzoicum acidum in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
Benzoicum acidum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
Benzoicum acidum in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.

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Cite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Benzoicum acidum — Mind. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/benzoicum-acidum. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.