Tartaricum Acidum
Tartaric Acid
By William Boericke тАФ Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory
Found in grapes, pineapple, sorrel and other fruits. It is an antiscorbutic antiseptic, stimulating the mucous and salivary secretions.
Dullness and lassitude. Great weakness, with diarrh┼Уa, with dry and brown tongue. Pain in heels ( Phytol ).
Stomach
Excessive thirst, continued vomiting burning in throat and stomach. Dyspepsia with copious secretions of mucus.
Abdomen
Pain around umbilicus and region of loins. Stool color of coffee-grounds (worse at night), with brown and dry tongue, and dark-green vomiting.
Dose
Third trituration. The pure acid 10-30 grains dissolved in water.