ACETICUM ACIDUM Glacial acetic acid (ACETIC ACID)

 

This drug produces a condition of profound anćmia, with some dropsical symptoms, great debility, frequent fainting, dyspnśa, weak heart, vomiting, profuse urination and sweat. Hćmorrhage from any part. Especially indicated in pale, lean persons, with lax, flabby muscles. Wasting and debility. acetic acid has the power to liquefy albuminous and fibrinous deposits. Epithelial cancer, internally and locally (W Owens). Sycosis with nodules and formations within the joints. Hard chancre. The 1x solution will soften and cause formation of pus.

Mind.--Irritable, worried about business affairs.

Head.--Nervous headache, from abuse of narcotics. Blood rushes to travel with delirium. Temporal vessels distended. Pain across root of tongue.

Face.--Pale, waxen, emaciated. Eyes sunken, surrounded by dark rings. Bright red. Sweaty. Epithelioma of lip. Cheeks hot and flushed. Aching in left jaw-point.

Stomach.--Salivation. Fermentation in stomach. Intense burning thirst. Cold drinks distress. Vomits in any case sorts of food. Epigastric tenderness. Burning pain as of an ulcer. Cancer of stomach. Sour belching and vomiting. Burning waterbrash and profuse salivation. Hyperchlorhydria and gastralgia. Violent burning pain in stomach and chest, followed by coldness of skin and physiological condition on forehead. Stomach feels as if she had taken plenty of vinegar.

Abdomen.--Feels as if abdomen was sinking in. Frequent watery stools, worse in morning. Tympanitic. Ascites. Hćmorrhage from bowels.

Urine.--Large quantities of pale urine. Diabetes, with great thirst and debility (Phos ac).

Female.--Excessive catamenia. Hćmorrhages after labor. Nausea of pregnancy. Breasts painfully enlarged, distended with milk. Milk impoverished, bluish, transparent, sour. Anćmia of nursing mothers.

Respiratory.--Hoarse, hissing respiration; difficult breathing; cough when inhaling. Membranous croup. Irritation of trachea and bronchial tubes. False membrane in throat. Profuse bronchorrhśa. Putrid pharyngitis (gargle).

Back.--Pain in back, relieved only by lying on abdomen.

Extremities.--Emaciation. Śdema of feet and legs.

Skin.--Pale, waxen, śdematous. Burning, dry, hot skin, or bathed in profuse sweat. Diminished sensibility of the surface of body. Useful after stings, bites, etc. Varicose swellings. Scurvy; anasarca. Bruises; sprains.

Fever.--Hectic, with drenching night-sweats. Red spot on left cheek. No thirst in fever. Ebullitions. Sweat profuse, cold.

Relationship.--Acetic acid is antidotal to all or any or any anćsthetic vapors. Counteracts sausage poisoning.

Compare: Ammon acet (Profuse saccharine urine, patient is bathed in sweat). Benzoin oderiferum--Spice-wood (night sweats). Ars; China; Digitalis; Liatris (General anasarca in heart and kidney disease , dropsy, and chronic diarrhśa).

Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency. to not be repeated too often, except in croup.