Materia Medica de A a Z

MURIATICUM ACIDUM (mur-ac)

Region

BLOOD. MUSCLES (HEART. ANUS). MUCOUS MEMBRANES (Digestive tract. MOUTH). TONGUE. Brain.

Worse

Touch. Wet weather. Walking. Cold drinks; bathing. Sitting. Human voice.

Better

Motion. Warmth. Lying on L. side.

General

Sore, RESTLESS AND ERETHISTIC, but soon grows weak and very debilitated; wants to lie down; slides down in bed, eyes fall shut; lower jaw drops, etc. Muscle exhaustion. Bluish parts; tongue, piles, ulcers, etc. Tearing in limbs. BURNINGS. Dry, bleeding, cracked or deeply ulcerated parts. Thin, acrid, foul discharges. Decomposition. Violent hæmorrhage. Bloody mucous membranes. Typhoid or scorbutic states..................... Introverted. Sad and taciturn. Irritable. Muttering. Persistent, loud moaning. Vertigo if lies on r. side. Brain feels bruised. Periodical pain over l. eye. Occipital pains; leaden heaviness. Cutting from mastoid to nape, agg. touch. Deafness. Nosebleed. Dark or glowing red face; with cold hands, but no thirst. Lips, sore, cracked and scabby. Dry, mouth and throat. Tongue heavy, stiff, shrunken or burnt looking (Ars). Aphthæ. Teeth, agg. acids or sweets. Sordes. Averse to meat. Ascites. Profuse, involuntary stool or prolapsing bowel, on urinating, or passing flatus. Very sore piles, amel. heat. Atony of bladder; must press until rectum comes down. Can't urinate without also stooling. Red, swelled, burning fingers and toes. Weak thighs. Scurfy eruption on dorsæ of hands. Ulcers throb on walking. Pulsations in single parts. Sparse scarlatina, mixed with petechiæ. Large, full and soft pulse. Pulse drops every third beat. Cold in bed, in early morning. Intense, burning heat, with aversion to covers. Adynamic fevers; typhoid, septic, etc.

Related: Bap. (Bapt); Bry.