Lacticum acidum
Lactic Acid
by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory
Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.
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).