Acetic Acid

ACETIC ACID

PATIENT

SENSE S vision

touch

hearing

Adapted to pale lean persons with lax, flabby muscles; face pale, waxy (Fer.). Marasmus and other wasting diseases of children (Abrot., Iod., Sanic., Tub.). cough with inhalation (Spong.); Hectic fever, red spot on left cheek

no thirst in fever.

true croup, hissing respiratio n, cough with inhalation (Spong) last stages.

Hectic fever, skin dry and hot;

smell

taste

subjective

objective

Great prostratio n; after

Haemorrhage;

injuries (Sulph. ac.);

after surgical shock; after anaestheti cs. Thirst; intense, burning, insatiable even for large quantities burning water-brash and profuse salivation, day and night. Sour belching(Lac. ac., salivation < at night, Mer. s.). night sweats. sensation of sinking in abdomen causing dyspnoea; rests better lying on belly (Am. c.). Hectic fever

from every mucous outlet, nose, throat, lungs, stomach, bowels, uterus (Fer., Mill.); metrorrhagia; vicarious; traumatic epistaxis (Arn.). chronic diarrhoea with Thirst vomiting of pregnancy Diarrhoea; copious, exhausting, in dropsy, typhus, phthisis with night sweats. Cannot sleep lying on the back (sleeps better on back, Ars.)

PHY.EXAMINATIO N

dropsy with Thirst diabetes with Thirst profuse salivation Antidotes Opium and Stramonium

Carbolic acid. Follows well; in haemorrhage after Cinchona in dropsy after Digitalis