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Nitricum Acidum

A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica · C. M. Boger

Open remedy: Nit-ac.

For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice. Consult a registered homeopath.

Region:

MARGINS OF OUTLETS: Throat, Anus, Mouth

GLANDS: Liver, Prostate, Salivary

Tubular organs

Blood

Skin

Bones

Joints

Right side

Worse:

Slight CAUSES: TOUCH, JARRING, Noise, Rattling

Motion

Mercury

Milk

After eating

COLD; air; dampness

Night

Evening

Changing weather

Heat of bed

Mental exertion, or shock

Better:

Gliding motions

Riding

Mild weather

Steady pressure

Exhausted, shivery, sensitive and sore. STICKINGS LIKE A SPLINTER, or ulcerative gnawing. DISCHARGES ACRID; thin, dirty or brown; cause redness or destroy hair. FOUL; ozena, foot, or night sweats, etc. Malignancy. Phagedena. HAEMORRHAGE; easy; bright; of bloody water. Red, swelled or cracked orifices Hard, gristly exudates. Dark, smooth mucous membranes. As of a band about or a weight hanging to part. Sore or stiff, during pains. Cracking; joints. Yellow brunettes, of spare habit. Hateful. Profane. So angry, he trembles. Quarrelsome delirium; talks to spirits, in other tongues. Confusion. Thoughts vanish. Crushing head pains, < pressure of hat. Sore in skull. Puffs on scalp. Warm flowing over eyes. Conjunctiva pouts in spots. Spots on cornea. Deafness, > noise. Nose; red, scurfy tip; dark lumpy epistaxis; dripping, diphtheria of; cutting pains; caries of bones. Coryza, with shortness of breath. Yellow, sickly face. Peeling lips; raw, cracked or scabby in angles. Loose teeth. Gums flabby; sore; bleeding inner. Moist, fissured or mapped tongue (Fl-ac, Psor). Salivation. Sore palate. As of a stick in throat. Craves fats. Stools tear anus, even if soft; then prolonged pain. Painful piles. Itching, eczematous anus, or oozes moisture. URINE, strong as horse's; cold; alternately profuse and scanty. Cramp from kidney to bladder. As of a hot wire in urethra. Infective nephritis. Itching, burning fore-skin. Phagedenic chancre. Oedematous prepuce. Bloody water from vagina. Weak, irregular menses. Shattering cough; from a spot in larynx; with lumbar stitch, > cold. Expectoration smeary, pussy, etc. Cavernous phthisis. Cutting in larynx. Orgasms to chest; with palpitation and fear. Swelled finger joints. Warts; on back of hands. Weak ankles. Skin, dry; eroded; cracks in every angle; coppery spots, on shin bones; itches on undressing. Crusts form and fall. Ulcers; rapid; raw; ragged; with proud flesh or plugs of pus. Stubborn suppuration. Burrowing pus Fistulae. Cancer. Syphilis. Painful, broken chilblains. Painfully sore bones, < tibiae; caries. Pulse drops each 4th beat. Jagged or soft warts (Stap Thu) Condylomata. Icy coldness; soles. SWEAT; easy, then takes cold; exhausting (urinous), mornings; in axillae; on feet.

Relations

Complementary: Calc-c, Thu

Follows: Kali-c

Related: Ars, Kali-c, Kre, Merc.

What is in this library

These titles sit beside the repertory: Allen’s Keynotes, Anshutz on the twelve tissue remedies, Boericke’s materia medica, Clarke’s Dictionary, Hering, Jones, Kent’s lectures, Nash, and Boger’s Synoptic Key. Philosophy includes Hahnemann’s Organon (5th and 6th), Kent, Close, Burnett, Haehl, Gibson Miller, Royal, J. H. Allen, and Anshutz. Clinical, therapeutics, regional works, and short remedy pictures follow the same shelf.

Chapter text is on this shelf for study: open a title, then a heading. When a medicine appears in more than one materia medica, switch authors on the chapter to compare how each describes it. For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice.

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