Salicylicum acidum
par H. A. Roberts — The Rheumatic Remedies
Historical reference for practitioners and students.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.
Salicylic acid has a field of usefulness in rheumatic troubles that is clearly indicated: rheumatic pains in fingers and little toes, drawing in left calf extending into thigh; then transferred to left arm.
Joints are hot, red, exquisitely sensitive; burning pains suddenly changing about from one place to another.
Compare: Colchicum in rheumatic states and subsequent weakness.
EYES
Inflammatory rheumatism followed by plastic iritis, nightly pain most agonizing, temporarily > by hot applications.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
Rheumatic gout or rheumatoid arthritis, pains disappeared, the engorgement and nodes on fingers subsided.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
Rheumatic pains after suppression of foot sweat, < especially at night; pains drive him out of bed.
Left ischiatic nerve, going from behind forward and downward to the knees: pains drawing, shooting.
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL
HEAT, REDNESS, SORENESS AND SWELLING ABOUT JOINTS, < KNEES, WITH ACUTE PIERCING PAINS, < MOTION, > DRY HEAT.
ACUTE INFLAMMATORY ARTICULAR RHEUMATISM ATTACKING ONE OR MORE JOINTS, ESPECIALLY ELBOWS AND KNEES, WITH GREAT SWELLING AND HIGH FEVER; PARTS EXQUISITELY SENSITIVE.
SEVERE PAINS IN ALL JOINTS.
LARGE JOINTS ON LEFT SIDE AND SEVERAL ON RIGHT SIDE AFFECTED; OR LARGE JOINTS ON LEFT SIDE ATTACKED WHILE ON RIGHT SIDE THE WRIST JOINT AND ANKLE ONLY AFFECTED.
ACUTE ARTICULAR RHEUMATISM; CHRONIC, GONORRHŒAL.
AGGRAVATIONS
MOTION.
AT NIGHT.
COLD AIR OR TOUCH OF COLD OBJECTS.
AMELIORATIONS
HOT APPLICATIONS.
CONCOMITANTS
CANKER SORES.
TONSILS RED, SWOLLEN, WITH WHITE SPOTS.
VERTIGO WITH TENDENCY TO FALL TO THE RIGHT.