Materia Medica
Acetic Acid
Glacial Acetic Acid
Lactic Acid 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 anaemic 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.
Urinary
Large quantities passed, frequently. Saccharine.
Relationships
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).