Glacial Acetic Acid-C4H3O8
General
Adapted to pale, lean persons with lax, flabby muscles; face pale, waxy [Fer.]. Haemorrhage: from every mucous outlet, nose, throat, lungs, stomach, bowels, uterus [Fer., Mill.]: metrorrhagia; vicarious; traumatic epistaxis [Arn.]. Marasmus and other wasting diseases of children [Abrot. , Iod. , Sanic. , Tub.]. Great prostration: after injuries [Sulph. Ac.]; after surgical shock; after anaesthetics. Thirst: intense, burning, insatiable even for large quantities in dropsy, diabetes, chronic diarrhoea; but no thirst in fever. Sour belching and vomiting of pregnancy, burning water-brash and profuse salivation, day and night [Lac. Ac. - salivation (<) at night, Mer. s.]. Diarrhoea: copious, exhausting, great thirst; in dropsy, typhus, phthisis; with night sweats. True croup, hissing respiration, cough with the inhalation [Spong.]; last stages. Inhalation of vapor of cider vinegar has been successfully used in croup and malignant diphtheria. Cannot sleep lying on the back [sleeps better on back Ars.]; sensation of sinking in abdomen causing dyspnoea; rests better lying on belly [Am. c.]. Hectic fever, skin dry and hot; RED spot on left cheek and drenching night sweats.
Relations
It antidotes anaesthetic vapors [Amyl]; fumes of charcoal and gas; Opium and Stramonium. Cider vinegar antidotes Carbolic acid. Follows well: after Cinchona, in haemorrhage; after Digitals, in dropsy. It aggravates the symptoms of Arn. , Bell. , Lach. , Mer. ; especially the headache from Belladonna.