Morning sickness, diabetes , and rheumatism offer a field for this remedy. Troubles in the breasts . Locally, in the tuberculous ulceration of vocal cords.

Stomach

Tongue dry, parched. Thirst; voracious hunger. Canker, copious salivation and water-brash . Nausea ; morning sickness, especially in pale anæmic women. Hot, acrid eructation. Nausea ; better, eating . Burning, hot gas from stomach to throat, causing profuse secretion of tenacious mucus, worse smoking .

Throat

Fullness or lump like a puff ball. Keeps swallowing. Constricted low down.

Chest

Pain in breasts, with enlargement of axillary glands, and pain extends into hand .

Extremities

Rheumatic pain in joints and shoulders, wrists, knees , with much weakness. Trembling of whole body while walking. Limbs feel chilly.

Urine

Large quantities passed, frequently. Saccharine.

Relationship

Compare: Sarcolactic acid q v. Lithia; Phos ac .

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency. Six to ten drops in a small glass of water in acute gastro-enteritis (Cartier).

Lacticum Acidum