- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Nitric Acid. (HNO3.) Especially suited to thin persons of rigid fibre, dark complexions, black hair and eyes - the brunette rather than the blonde - nervous temperament. Persons suffering with chronic diseases who take cold easily; are easily disposed to diarrhoea; rarely to those who suffer with constipation. Old…”
- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Nitric acid; hydrogen nitrate; HNO3. Preparation , Dilutions with distilled water. Authorities. (Nos. 1 to 19 , from Hahnemann.)”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Nitric 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…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“ACRIDITY, excoriations, etc. AMMONIACAL ODOR ANGER, irritability fretfulness, bad temper, etc. (Comp. Emotions) BALL. BLOOD SEPSIS, etc. BONES. BROWNISH, rusty, etc. CLOTHES, pressure of, Agg. COLD TAKING COMPRESSION, squeezing, pinching, as of a vise, cap, etc. (Comp. Cramp.) CONSTRICTION, TIGHT BAND, GATHERED…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Nitric acid. Aqua fortis. HNO 3 . Solution. Actinomycosis / Anus, fissure of / Axilla, offensive perspiration of / Bladder, chronic catarrh of / Breath, offensive / Bright's disease / Bronchitis / Bubo / Chancre / Cheloid / Chilblains / Choking, easy / Climacteric / Cold, easily taken / Condylomata / Constipation /…”
- Dunham — The method — how symptoms are weighed before a remedy is differentiated.
“HAHNEMANN says Nitric acid is especially indicated for those disposed to diarrhoea. It is most especially effective after Kali carbonicum. Most of the symptoms are relieved after driving in a wagon; but slight movement, especially after eating, excites heat, sweat and palpitation. It produces great tendency to take…”
- Farrington — The differential diagnosis — remedy families narrowed through direct clinical comparison.
“NITRIC, HYDROCYANIC AND PICRIC ACIDS. Nitric acid: Calcarea ostrearum, Kali carb., Lycopodium; Arsenicum, Carbo veg., Phosphorus, Moschus, Antimonium tart.; Phosphoric acid, Muriatic acid; Hepar, Mercurius. Nitric acid ↓ Arum triphyllum. Sphere: Erosion of the mucous membranes, worse where they join the skin…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“This remedy so closely resembles Mercur. in many points, that it is often very difficult to distinguish between the two; Nitr. ac. usually is applicable in dark haired people, and Mercur. in light-haired people. Ears.--Hardness of hearing, especially when relieved by riding in a carriage or in the cars--i.e., hear…”
- Hahnemann (CD) — The antipsoric proving record — Hahnemann's later materia medica in its chronic-disease setting.
“NITRIC ACID.[]. [] About 130 of the following symptoms belong to the two fellow-observers mentioned. The remainder, save thirty from authors, are Hahnemann's own, obtained as we have already seen. Besides these are a few from Hartmann, Foissac, Hering, Stapf and "Th. Mo.", etc., probably observed on patients. -Hughes…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Nitric Acid. H N O 3 . Introduced by Hahnemann ; proved by himself, Bethmann, Foissac, Hartmann, Hering, Rummel, Stapf and others (Chronische Krankheiten). Later provings by Robinson (B. Jour. Hom., vol. 25, p. 235), Berridge (N. Am. Jour. of Hom. N. S., vol. 3, p. 101, and Amer. Jour. of Hom. Mat. Med., vol. 8, p…”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“ACIDUM NITRICUM. Nitric acid, NO^. — Result of distillation of natural nitrate of soda or potash (hence old name Nitri acidum) with sulphuric a^cid, L Provings. — I, H A HK EM AN N% CArWf /)fVtfj^'^ Part iv of original, vol, of English translation. Contains 1424 symptoms, of which about 1200 are his own, 200 from…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“Generalities: 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…”
- Lippe (KN) — Only the symptoms Lippe considered reliable enough to prescribe on.
“Great debility and trembling, especially in the morning. Ailments from the change of weather. Tearing in the limbs after catching cold. Cracking in the joints. Inflammation, swelling and suppuration of the glands. Painfulness and inflammation of the bones. Softening of the bones. Caries. Fistula lachrymalis. Ulcers in…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Sadness despondency. Anxiety about his disease, with fear of death. Excessive nervousness, great excitability, especially after the abuse of mercury. Taciturn, disinclined to communicate any thing. Irritable disposition. Vexed at trifles. Attacks of rage, despair, with cursing and maledictions. Vertigo, especially in…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: nitric acid. Affects principally the mucous outlets of the body where the skin and mucous membrane join, viz., the mouth, nose, rectum, anus, urethra, and vagina (Mur-Ac.) (A.). Generally indicated for persons suffering with chronic diseases, who take cold easily and are easily disposed to diarrhœa (A.)…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Has a particular affinity for mucous outlets, where skin and membranes join; cracks; rhagades, fissures. Pricking pains as of a splinter in the parts. Urine strong smelling; like horse urine. Hemorrhages from all outlets of the body; blood bright red. Pricking ulcers; excrescences; condylomata; figwarts (sycosis)…”
