Materia Medica

Sarcolactic Acid

Is apparently formed in muscle tissue during the stage of muscle exhaustion. Differs from ordinary Lactic acid in its relation to polarized light. It represents a much broader and more profoundly acting drug and its pathogenesis is quite dissimilar from the normal acid. Proved by Wm. B. Griggs, M. D., who found it of great· value in the most violent form of 663 Epidemic influenza, especially with violent vomiting and retching and greatest prostration, when Arsenic had failed. Spinal neurasthenia, muscular weakness, dysp- noea with myocardial weakness. General Symptoms.—Tired feeling with muscu

Throat

Constriction in pharynx. Sore throat with tightness in naso-pharynx.

Stomach

Nausea. Uncontrollable vomiting even of water followed by extreme weakness. Back and Extremities.-- Tired feeling in back and neck and shoulders. Paralytic weakness. Wrist tires easily from writing. Extreme weakness from climbing stairs. Stiffness of thigh and calves. Arms feel as if no strength in them.

Dose

Sixth to 30th potency.

Source: Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 8th ed. by William Boericke (1922), p. 656. Public domain.

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