Aceticum acidum
By Adolph von Lippe — Keynotes and Red Line Symptoms of the Materia Medica
Common name: glacial acetic acid.
Adapted to pale, lean persons with lax, flabby muscles (A.).
Passes large quantities of pale urine (N.).
Marasmus and other wasting diseases of children (Abrot., Iod., Sanic., Sars., Tub.) (A.).
Emaciation, especially of the face, hands and thighs (Selen.) (N.).
Vomits after every kind of food (Ars., Phos., Sep.) (G.).
Anguish and anxiety (Ars.) (K.).
FACE PALE, WAXY (Fer.) (A.).
Dyspnœa: while lying, especially on the back; and on ascending (K.).
Diphtheria: false membranes in the throat (G.).
Foul eructation, or hot eructation (Ars., Caust., Cop., Hep., Naja, Phos., Puls.) (K.).
Hæmorrhage: from every mucous outlet, nose, throat, lungs, stomach, bowels, uterus (Fer., Mill., Phos.); metrorrhagia; vicarious; traumatic epistaxis (Arn.) (A.).
Chronic diarrhœa of children, with great emaciation (G.).
Aversion to food, especially salted food (K).
Great prostration: after injuries (Sulph-Ac.); after surgical shock; after anæsthetics (A.).
Colliquative sweat (K.).
THIRST: INTENSE, BURNING, INSATIABLE EVEN FOR LARGE QUANTITIES IN DROPSY, DIABETES, AND CHRONIC DIARRHŒA; BUT NO THIRST IN FEVER (A.).
Vertigo during headache (Apis, Bell., Calc., Con., Nux-V., Sil.) (K.).
Sour belching and vomiting of pregnancy. Burning water-brash and profuse salivation, day and night (Lact-Ac.; salivation worse at night- Merc.) (A.).
Phthisis pulmonalis (Agar., Calc., Calc-P., Fer-P., Hep., Iod., Kali-C., Kali-S., Lyc., Phos., Puls., Sil.) (K.).
Diarrhœa; copious, exhausting; with great thirst; in dropsy, typhus, phthisis; with night sweats (A.).
Cannot sleep lying on the back (sleeps better on the back- Ars.); sensation of sinking in the abdomen causing dyspnœa; rests better lying on belly (Am-C.) (A.).
Hectic fever: skin dry and hot; red spot on left cheek and drenching night sweats (A.).
AGGRAVATION: From lying on the back, during night and after eating.
AMELIORATION: From lying on the belly, during rest and in the day time.
RELATIONSHIP: It aggravates the symptoms of Arn., Bell., Lach. and Merc.); especially the headache from Belladonna. It antidotes anæsthetic vapours (Amyl); fumes of charcoal and gas; Opium and Stramonium.
Cider Vinegar antidotes Carbolic Acid.
It follows well: after Cinchona in hæmorrhage; after Digitalis, in dropsy.