Mineral
Nitricum Acidum
Nitric Acid
Repertory abbreviation: Nit-ac.
Selects for its special seat of action the outlets of the body where the mucous memibrane and skin meet; these pain as from splinters. Marked improvement of all symptoms while riding in a carriage. Acts best on the dark complexioned and past middle life. Syphilis. afte! abuse of Mercury. Pairs appear and disappear quickly. [Bell.] Blisters and ulcers in mouth, tongue, genitals; bleed easily. Fissures, with pain during stool, as if rectum were torn. All discharges very offensive, especially urine, faeces, and perspiration. Persons who have chronic diseases, and take cold easily and disposed to
Mind
Irritable, hateful, vindictive, headstrong. Hopeless despair.
Head
Sensation of a band around head. Headache from pressure of hat; full feeling; worse from street noises. Hair falls out. Scalp sensitive.
Eyes
Double vision; sharp, sticking pains. Ulcera- tion of cornea.
Ears
Difficult hearing; better by riding in car- riage or rain. Very sensitive to noise, as the rattle of wagons over pavements. [Coff.; Nux.] Cracking in ears when chewing.
Nose
'Ozena. Green casts from nose every morning.( Coryza, with sore and bleeding nostrils. Tip red. Stitches, as of a splinter in nose. Caries of mastoid. Nosebleed, with chest affections. Chronic nasal catarrh, with yellow, offensive, corrosiz'c discharge. Nasal diph- theria, with watery and exeedingly excoriating discharge.
Mouth
Putrid breath. Salivation. Bleeding of guns. Painful pimples on the sides of the tongue. Tongue clean, red and vet with center furrow. Teeth become loose; gums soft and spongy. Ulcers in soft palate, with sharp, splinter-like pains. Salivation and fetor oris. Bloody saliva.
Throat
Dry. Pain into ears. Hawks mucus con- stantly. White patches and sharp points, as from splinters, on swallowing.
Stomach
Great hunger, with sweetish taste. Longing for indigestible things -- chalk, earth, etc. Pain in cardiac orifice. Dyspepsia with excess of oxalic acid, lric acid and phosphates in urine and great mental de- pression. Soreness at lower end cf sternum. Short breath on going upstairs. [Ars.; Calc.] Cough during
Abdomen
Great straining, but little passes. Rec- tum feels torn. Bowels constipated, with fissures in
Rectum
Tearing pains during stools. Violent cutting pains after stovls, lasting for hours. [Ratanh.] Ham- orrhages from bowels, profuse, bright. Prolapsus ani. Haemorrhoids bleed easily. Diarrhcea. slimy and offen- siye. After stools, irritable and exhausted. Colic re- Heved from tightening clothes. 539 Urine.- Scanty, dark, offensive. Smells like horse's urine. Cold on passing. Burning and stinging. Urine bloody and albuminous.
Male
Soreness and burning in glans and beneath prepuce. Ulcers; burn and sting; exude, offensive matter.
Female
External parts sore, with ulcers. [Her.; Merc.; Thuja.] Leucorrhcea brown, flesh-colored, watery, or stringy, offensive. Hair on genitals falls out. [Natr. m.; Zinc.] Uterine hamorrhages. Menses early, profuse, like muddy water. Metrorrhagia after parturition.
Respiratory
Hoarseness. Aphonia, with dry hacking cough, from tickling in larynx and pit of
Skin
Warts, large jagged; bleed on washing. Ulcers bleed easily, sensitive; splinter-like pains; zig- zag, irregular edges; base looks like raw flesh. Ex- uberant granulations. Black pores on face, papules worse on forehead.
Sleep
[Cham.] Extremitites. — Fetid foot-sweat, causing soreness of toes, with sticking pain ; chilblains on toes. Sweating of palms, hands; cold, blue nails. Offensive sweat in axilla at night.
Modalities
Worse, evening and night, cal climate, and also hot weather. Better, while riding in carriage. [Reverse: Cocculus.]
Relationships
Complementary : Ars.: Calad.; Lac can. Inimical: Lach. Compare: Merc.; Kali c.; Thuja; Hepar; Calc.
Dose
Sixth potency. As the nitric acid patient begins to improve skin symptoms may appear for a time, a favorable indication.