Fluoricum Acidum appears in 11 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.
- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Hydrofluoric Acid. (HF.) Complaints of old age, or of premature old age; in syphilitic mercurial dyscrasia; young people look old . Increased ability to exercise without danger (Coca.); is less affected by excessive heat of summer or cold of winter. Old cicatrices become red around edges, and threaten to become open…”
- Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Hydrofluoric acid, HF. Preparation , Dilute with water and potentize in silver vials to the fifth centesimal (Hering), (gutta-percha vials are now generally used). Authorities. ( 1 to 17 , from Hering's résumé, Neues Archiv. f. Hom., 2, 1, 100, and Trans. of Am. Inst. of Hom., 1846), 1 , C. Hg, from a man aged 40…”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Hydrofluoric Acid Especially adapted to chronic diseases with syphilitic and mercurial history. Glabella region bloated . Acts especially upon lower tissues, and indicated in deep, destructive processes, bedsores, ulcerations, varicose veins, and ulcers. Patient is compelled to move about energetically. Complaints of…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“BATHING, cold applications, etc., Amel. BLOOD VESSELS. BONES. COLD AND HEAT, Agg. FIBROUS TISSUE FISTULAE LYING, painless, of unaffected side, Agg. SEASON, Summer, hot weather SPOTS, pain, etc., in (Comp. Mottled.) UNCOVERING, Amel., cold applications, Amel., warm wraps, Agg. WIND, DRAFT OR AIR, BLOWING ON PART, THRO'…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Hydrofluoric acid. H F. Made by distilling pure fluorspar (Calcium fluoride) in a state of fine powder with sulphuric acid. Solution. Abscess / Alcoholism / Alopecia / Apoplexy / Bone, affections of / Brain, atrophy of / Cicatrix / Coccygodynia / Decubitus / Dropsies / Eyes, affections of / Fistula / Gleet / Goître /…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Hydrofluoric acid. HF. "This acid is prepared by distilling pure fluor spar (Calcium fluoride) in a state of fine powder with sulphuric acid. As the acid dissolves glass, the distillation must be performed in platinum vessels, and the acid can only be preserved in bottles of the same, or in bottles made of gutta…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — who the patient is, before what the remedy cures.
“It takes a long time for this remedy, in the proving, to develop its symptoms. It is a very deep-acting medicine, and an antipsoric, antisyphilitic and anti-sycotic. It is insidious in its action and its symptoms are slow in approach; it is like the deepest and slowest and most tedious diseases, the miasms, and hence…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Disposition to be exceedingly anxious, causing perspiration. Sensation as if danger menaced him. Forgetfulness of dates and of his common employment. Vertigo with sickness of the stomach. Congestion of blood to the head -(forehead). Dulness (towards night) in the occiput. Sensation of numbness in the forehead…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: hydro-fluoric acid. Complaints of old age, or of premature old age; in syphilitic mercurial dyscrasia (A.). YOUNG PEOPLE LOOK OLD (Agn., Ambr., Bar-C., Bufo, Kali-C., Lyc., Sel.) (A.). Pale, miserable, cachectic, flabby and broken down (B.). DISEASES OF THE BONES, ESPECIALLY OF LONG BONES (Calc-F…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Diseases of the bones, especially the long bones, > from cold. Silicea, > by warmth.”
