Materia Medica de A a Z

NITRI ACIDUM = NITRICUM ACIDUM (nit-ac)

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.

General

Exhausted, shivery, sensitive and sore. STICKINGS LIKE A SPLINTER, or ulcerative gnawing. DISCHARGES ACRID; thin, dirty or brown; cause redness or destroy hair. FOUL; ozona, foot, or night sweats, etc. Malignancy. Phagedena. HÆMORRHAGE; 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, agg. pressure of hat. Sore in skull. Puffs on scalp. Warm flowing over eyes. Conjunctiva pouts in spots. Spots on cornea. Deafness, amel. 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. Odematous prepuce. Bloody water from vagina. Weak, irregular menses. Shattering cough; from a spot in larynx; with lumbar stitch, amel. 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. Fistulæ. Cancer. Syphilis. Painful, broken chilblains. Painfully sore bones, agg. tibiæ; caries. Pulse drops each 4th. beat. Jagged or soft warts (Staph, Thuj). Condylomata. Icy coldness; soles. SWEAT; easy, then takes cold; exhausting (urinous), mornings; in axillæ; on feet.

Complementary: Calc, Thuj.

Follows: Kali-c.

Related: Ars, Kali-c, Kre. (Kreos), Merc.