Lacticum Acidum
Lactic Acid
by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory
Morning sickness, diabetes , and rheumatism offer a field for this remedy. Troubles in the breasts . Locally, in the tuberculous ulceration of vocal cords.
Stomach
Tongue dry, parched. Thirst; voracious hunger. Canker, copious salivation and water-brash . Nausea ; morning sickness, especially in pale anæmic women. Hot, acrid eructation. Nausea ; better, eating . Burning, hot gas from stomach to throat, causing profuse secretion of tenacious mucus, worse smoking .
Throat
Fullness or lump like a puff ball. Keeps swallowing. Constricted low down.
Chest
Pain in breasts, with enlargement of axillary glands, and pain extends into hand .
Extremities
Rheumatic pain in joints and shoulders, wrists, knees , with much weakness. Trembling of whole body while walking. Limbs feel chilly.
Urine
Large quantities passed, frequently. Saccharine.
Relationship
Compare: Sarcolactic acid q v. Lithia; Phos ac .
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency. Six to ten drops in a small glass of water in acute gastro-enteritis (Cartier).