Nitricum acidum

as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931

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Keynotes

gnawing. DISCHARGES ACRID; thin, dirty or brown; cause redness or destroy hair. FOUL; ozœna, foot, or night sweats, etc. Malignancy. Phagedena. HÆMORRHAGE; easy; bright; of bloody water. Red, swelled or cracked orifices. Hard, gristly exudates. Dark, smooth mucous membranes. As of a band about or a weight hanging to part. Sore or stiff, during pains. Cracking; joints. Yellow brunettes, of spare habit. .................... Hateful. Profane. So angry, he trembles. Quarrelsome delirium; talks to spirits, in other tongues. Confusion. Thoughts vanish. Crushing head pains, < pressure of hat. Sore in skull. Puffs on scalp. Warm flowing over eyes. Conjunctiva pouts in spots. Spots on cornea. Deafness, > noise. Nose; red, scurfy tip; dark lumpy epistaxis; dripping, diphtheria of; cutting pains; caries of bones. Coryza, with shortness of breath. Yellow, sickly face. Peeling lips; raw, cracked or scabby in angles. Loose teeth. Gums flabby; sore; bleeding inner. Moist, fissured or mapped tongue (Flu-ac. Psor.). Salivation. Sore palate. As of a stick in throat. Craves fats. Stools tear anus, even if soft; then prolonged pain. Painful piles. Itching, eczematous anus, or oozes moisture. URINE, strong as horse's; cold; alternately profuse and scanty. Cramp from kidney to bladder. As of a hot wire in urethra. Infective nephritis. Itching, burning fore-skin. Phagedenic chancre. Œdematous prepuce. Bloody water from vagina. Weak, irregular menses. Shattering cough; from a spot in larynx; with lumbar stitch, > cold. Expectoration smeary, pussy, etc. Cavernous phthisis. Cutting in larynx. Orgasms to chest; with palpitation and fear. Swelled finger joints. Warts; on back of hands. Weak ankles. Skin, dry; eroded; cracks in every angle; coppery spots, on shin bones; itches on undressing. Crusts form and fall. Ulcers; rapid; raw; ragged; with proud flesh or plugs of pus. Stubborn suppuration. Burrowing pus. Fistulæ. Cancer. Syphilis. Painful, broken chilblains. Painfully sore bones, < tibiæ; caries. Pulse drops each 4th. beat. Jagged or soft warts (Stap. Thu.). Condylomata. Icy coldness; soles. SWEAT; easy, then takes cold; exhausting (urinous), mornings; in axillæ; on feet.

Worse

Slight CAUSES: TOUCH. JARRING. Noise. Rattling. Motion. Mercury. Milk. After eating. COLD; air; dampness. Night. Evening. Changing weather. Heat of bed. Mental exertion, or shock.

Better

Gliding motions. Riding. Mild weather. Steady pressure. Exhausted, shivery, sensitive and sore. STICKINGS LIKE A SPLINTER, or ulcerative

Region

MARGINS OF OUTLETS: Throat. Anus. Mouth. GLANDS: Liver. Prostate. Salivary. Tubular organs. Blood. Skin. Bones. Joints. Right side.

Relationships

Complementary: Calc-c. Thu. Follows: Kali-c. Related: Ars. Kali-c. Kre. Merc.

What the other books say about Nitricum acidum

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

Nitricum acidum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Nitricum acidum in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
Nitricum acidum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Nitricum 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. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Nitricum acidum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/nitricum-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.