Fluoricum acidum
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
Fluoris acidum
This is one author on one remedy. A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative. Read Fluoricum acidum in every book at once →
Keynotes
Always too hot; wants to bathe in cold water. Pale, miserable, cachectic, flabby and broken down. Slow deeply destructive effects. Puffy, indurated or fistulous tissues. Palmar abscess. Felon. Caries. Bed-sores. Ulcers. Œdema. Secondary syphilis. Thin, foul, acrid or salty discharges; that cause itching. .................... Necessity to be always in the move. Impulse to walk fast. Melancholy. Lecherousness. Stunning headache; > urinating. Brittle, tousy hair. As of a cold wind in eye. Lachrymal stricture. Deafness, > bending head back. Puffy glabella. Thin enamel. Teeth decay rapidly; < at roots. Fissured tongue. Gnawing hunger; for pungent or cold things. Stale eructations. Itching or burning at anus. Upward drawing in urethra (down-Merc.). Profuse, acrid leucorrhœa. Sexual erethism. Œdema of scrotum. Distorted nails. Varicose veins; varicocele. Dry, harsh, itching or cracked skin; seeming to emit a hot vapor. Scars surrounded by pimples. Keloid. Ebullitions of heat; with pains in bones. Acrid, eroding sweat; excites itching. Oily, pungent sweat on genital. Sweat on hands and feet.
Worse
HEAT; of room. Night. Alcohol. Sour foods.
Better
COOL BATHING. Rapid motion. Short sleep. Bending head back. Eating.
Region
FIBROUS TISSUES: VEINS. Skin. Bones. Mastoid.
Relationships
Complementary: Sil. Related: Calc-sul. Pul. Sul-ac.
What the other books say about Fluoricum acidum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Fluoricum acidum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Fluoricum acidum in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Fluoricum acidum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Fluoricum acidum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Fluoricum acidum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/fluoricum-acidum. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.