Muriaticum acidum
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
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Keynotes
Sore, RESTLESS AND ERETHISTIC, but soon grows weak and very debilitated; wants to lie down; slides down in bed, eyes fall shut; lower jaw drops, etc. Muscle exhaustion. Bluish parts; tongue, piles, ulcers, etc. Tearing in limbs. BURNINGS. Dry, bleeding, cracked or deeply ulcerated parts. Thin, acrid, foul discharges. Decomposition. Violent hæmorrhage. Bloody mucous membranes. Typhoid or scorbutic states. .................... Introverted. Sad and taciturn. Irritable. Muttering. Persistent, loud moaning. Vertigo if lies on r. side. Brain feels bruised. Periodical pain over l. eye. Occipital pains; leaden heaviness. Cutting from mastoid to nape, < touch. Deafness. Nosebleed. Dark or glowing red face; with cold hands, but no thirst. Lips, sore, cracked and scabby. Dry, mouth and throat. Tongue heavy, stiff, shrunken or burnt looking (Ars.). Aphthæ. Teeth, < acids or sweets. Sordes. Averse to meat. Ascites. Profuse, involuntary stool or prolapsing bowel, on urinating, or passing flatus. Very sore piles, > heat. Atony of bladder; must press until rectum comes down. Can't urinate without also stooling. Red, swelled, burning fingers and toes. Weak thighs. Scurfy eruption on dorsæ of hands. Ulcers throb on walking. Pulsations in single parts. Sparse scarlatina, mixed with petechiæ. Large, full and soft pulse. Pulse drops every third beat. Cold in bed, in early morning. Intense, burning heat, with aversion to covers. Adynamic fevers; typhoid, septic, etc.
Worse
Touch. Wet weather. Walking. Cold drinks; bathing. Sitting. Human voice.
Better
Motion. Warmth. Lying on L. side.
Region
BLOOD. MUSCLES: HEART. ANUS. MUCOUS MEMBRANES: Digestive tract. MOUTH. TONGUE. Brain.
Relationships
Related: Bap. Bry.
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 Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- 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.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Muriaticum acidum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/muriaticum-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.