Picricum acidum
By Adolph von Lippe — Keynotes and Red Line Symptoms of the Materia Medica
Common name: picric acid.
It corresponds in general to symptoms of neurasthenia or brain fag. It also has a marked action on the sexual organs (D.).
Is often restorative of a wasted and worn-out system (A.).
Depression and weariness from slight fatigue (Kali-P., Phos.) (D.).
MENTAL INACTIVITY (Agn., Calc., Gels., Phos-Ac., Sil.) (C.).
Lack of will power (Gels., Puls.) (C.).
Indifference to everything (Phos-Ac., Sep.) (C.).
Great weakness of the spine and back (Cocc., Nat-M., Sil.) (A.).
Burning along the spine (Kali-P., Phos., Zinc.) (A.).
Softening of the spinal cord (Phos.) (A.).
Dementia with prostration (Br.).
BRAIN-FAG (Con., Kali-P., Phos-Ac., Zinc.) (D.).
SLIGHTEST EXERTION BRINGS ON SPEEDY EXHAUSTION (Ars., Camph., Kali-P., Phos., Verat.) (D.).
NEURASTHENIA (Ars., Calc-P., Kali-P., Lyc., Mosch., Nux-V., Op., Phos., Sep., Sil.) (A.).
Desire to lie down and rest (Gels., Nux-V., Sep.) (D.).
Headache of students, teachers and over-worked businessmen (Nux-V.); aggravated or brought on by the slightest motion or mental exertion (Nat-M.) (A.).
Pain in the occipito-cervical region (Bry., Cocc., Nat-M., Petr., Sil.) (A.).
Tired, heavy feeling all over the body, especially of the limbs, worse on exertion (Nux-V., Phos-Ac.) (A.).
PRIAPISM ASSOCIATED WITH SPINAL DISEASE; TERRIBLE ERECTIONS (Canth., Phos.) (N.).
THE PENIS IS SO DISTENDED THAT IT FEELS AS THOUGH IT WOULD BURST (Canth., Fluor-Ac., Phos.) (Bl.).
EXCESSIVE ERECTION DURING LASCIVIOUS THOUGHTS (Cop.) (K.).
ERECTIONS WORSE AT NIGHT (Aur., Canth., Fluor-Ac., Nit-Ac., Phos., Plat., Sil., Thuj.) (K.).
Profuse seminal emissions (Agar., Carb-V., Kali-C., Merc-I-F., Nat-M., Petr., Phos-Ac., Sep., Staph., Sulph., Zinc.) (A.).
Satyriasis; erections violent and long-lasting (Canth., Phos.) (A.).
Weariness, progressing from a slight feeling of fatigue on motion to complete paralysis (Caust., Nux-V., Phos., Zinc.) (A.).
Numbness or formication (Kali-P., Phos.) (B.).
Small painful boils in any part of the body (Arn., Hep., Merc., Sulph.), but not especially in the external auditory canal (Calc-Pic., Merc., Sulph.) (A.).
Oily or greasy stool (Iod., Thuj.) (K.).
Diarrhœa worse in the evening (Aloe, Bov., Calc., Cycl., Gels., Kali-C., Kali-P., Lach., Merc., Nat-S., Phos-Ac., Phos., Sang., Sars., Sulph., Verat.) (K.).
Ammoniacal, dribbling urine (Merc., Petr., Phos.) (B.).
AGGRAVATION: From least mental exertion; from motion; from study; in wet weather; from sexual excitement; and from loss of semen.
AMELIORATION: From cold air; from cold water; from bandaging; and from repose.
RELATIONSHIP: Compare: Arg-N., Bar-C., Calc-Pic., Canth., Gels., Graph., Hep., Kali-P., Merc., Nat-M., Petr., Phos-Ac., Phos., Rhus-T., Sep., Sil., Sulph., Thuj., and Zinc.