Nitricum acidum
nitr-aciNitric Acid Selects for its special seat of action the outlets of the body where the mucous membrane and skin meet; these pain as from splinters. Sticking pains. Marked improvement of all symptoms while riding in a carriage. Acts best on the dark complexioned and past middle life. Syphilis, after abuse of Mercury. Pains appear and disappear quickly (Bell). Hydrogenoid constitution. Sycotic remedy. Blisters and ulcers in mouth, tongue, genitals; bleed easily. Fissures, with pain during stool, as
Nitricum acidum — Materia Medica
Nitricum acidum — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
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.
Nitricum acidum — mind · James Tyler Kent
Prostration of mind. Any effort to reflect on certain things causes the thoughts to vanish. A general indifference to all matters; tired of life; has no enjoyment in anything; aggravated before menses. Mental depression in the evening. Anxiety about his failing health, with fear of death. Anxiety after loss of sleep; vexation and sorrow. He is angered over his own mistakes. Anger with trembling. Obstinate and refuses to be comforted about his misfortune. He is weary of life but fears death. Excitable and weeps. Despair of recovery. Hopelessness. Easily startled, frightened. Starts from fright on falling asleep. Cannot comprehend what is said to him. The whole mental state is better when riding in a carriage.
Nitricum acidum — general · James Tyler Kent
Great general weakness; feeble reaction; extreme sensitivity, and nervous trembling, are marked features in this remedy. Patients greatly broken by long suffering, pain and sickness, physical more than mental suffering, finally anemia and emaciation are marked. Sensitive to cold; always chilly. Symptoms are aggravated from becoming cold, and in cold air. Always taking cold. The walls of blood vessels are relaxed and bleed easily; profuse dark blood. Pains as if flesh were torn from the bones and a sensation as though a splinter felt in inflamed parts, in ulcers and in nerves. Inflammation of the periosteum, in bone, and in the nerves. Syphilitic bone pains. Caries of bone, and exostoses. The margins of orifices bleed and grow warts. Old scars become painful in cold weather and when weather changes to cold; pains like splinters. Inflammation of glands after the abuse of mercury in syphilitic subjects. Prolonged suppuration in glands, with no tendency to repair, when there are sticking pains. The discharges are thin, bloody, offensive and excoriating; sometimes a dirty yellowish green. Suppuration where there is no tendency to repair. This is often the case when the patient is syphilitic and has been surcharged with mercury. For suppuration and ulceration in cancerous affections with bloody, watery, offensive discharges and sticking pains. It has often been observed that the patient requiring Nitric acid is more subject to diarrhea than constipation. It has cured many complaints in patients who are never so comfortable as when riding in a carriage. Twitching of muscles in all parts of the body. Many complaints are aggravated from a jar, and from noise.
Nitricum acidum — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
suggests a drug, and you look it up, and are happy to find that you are " there Hahnemann tells us that Nitric acid is more useful for persons who suffer from diarrhoea (Puls.) ; but Clarke says that it is one of the remedies that has been most useful to him for constipation. Clarke was always insistent about this :—that while positive symptoms are all-important, negative symptoms are less so. For instance, the fact that a person cannot kneel without faintness, or giddiness, or whatever it may be, suggests Sepia—the only drug that appears in the Repertory as ” worse kneeling ”. But the fact that she can kneel without suffering in such ways does not contra-indicate Sepia. You will find that symptom in very few Sepia cases : though I think you will find it under no other remedy. (By the way, this ” worse kneeling ” means the patient : not his inflamed and swollen knees. That would be a common symptom in arthritis and not helpful in the choice of the remedy.) Another almost unmistakable feature of the Nitric acid sufferings, is the character of its pains :—not only sticking, but splinter-like. Wherever the pains occur, in bone, in mouth, in nose, in anus, the sensation is “ a splinter ” : especially when the sore part is touched or pressed. Clarke, in his Dictionary of Materia Medica, has a brilliant little article on Nitric acid, intro ducing its provings. Here he points out, in regard to the sticking pain as from splinters—" This is a grand keynote of Nitric acid, and will serve to indicate it wherever it is found. It requires a touch or movement to elicit it. When it occurs in the throat it requires the act of swallowing to set it up ; in the anus, the passage of the stool ; in ulcers, the touch of a dressing.
Nitricum acidum — modalities · H.C. Allen
Aggravation: Evening and at night; after midnight; contact; change of temperature of weather; during sweat; on walking; while walking. Amelioration: While riding in a carriage (reverse of Cocc.).
Nitricum acidum — modalities worse · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
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.
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