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6.Haemorrhage:
a) Acetic acid:
Hemorrhage from bowel. Metrorrhagia after parturition with great thirst. Haemoptysis.
b) Ars. Alb:
Metrorrhagia, Haemoptysis, resulting in anemia or chlorosis. Violent bleeding of nose. Swelling and bleeding of gums. Catamenia too early too copious, attended by much suffering.

c) Benzoic acid: Epistaxis
d) Carbolic acid: Bloody stool like scrapings of intestine.
d) Chromic acid: Haemorrhoids- bleeding . Bloody foul smelling lochia.
e) Gallicum acidum: Pulmonary hemorrhage in phthisis. Excessive menstruation. Nose bleed. Hemophilia.
f) Hippuric acid:Menstrual flow for three days with complete relief of muscular and joint pains.
g) Hydrocyanicum acidum:Haemoptysis with sharp pains in chest.
h) Lactic acid: Nose bleed - every morning.
i) Muriatic acid:
Continuous discharge from nose. Scorbutic gums, swollen, easily bleeding ulcerating. Discharge of blood during stools- bleeding hemorrhoids. Scurvy.
j) Nitric acid:
Ulcers are easily bleeding. The dressing causes bleeding and every touch causes splinter like pains. Frequent hemorrhages, bright red, profuse. Hemorrhage from bowels with pain after stool. In pthisical cases there is frequent hemorrhages, bright red, profuse with sharp stitches through right chest to scapula. Haematuria, bright red, profuse with strangury and strong odor like horse's urine. Hemorrhages occurring in cachetic women after confinement or abortion. Epistaxis < morning, excited by weeping . Blood is black. Gums bleed, are white and swollen.
Hemorrhoids- bleeding after every evacuation.

k) Oxalicum acid:
Gums bleed and are painful in spots. Blood coagulate very slowly. Petechiae appearing on face, head, chest and nates.
l) Phosphoric acidum:
Scurvy- gums bleeding easily, swollen, stand off from teeth. Hemorrhage is passive, profuse and dark. Nose bleed at the beginning of typhus. Uterine ulcer with copious, putrid, bloody discharge. Too copious menses.
m) Picric acid:  Haemoglobinuria
n) Salicylicum acidum: Retinal hemorrhage. Haematuria.
o) Sulphuric acid: Scurvy. Epistaxis in evening. Swelling and easy bleeding of gums. Discharge of blood during evacuation. Long continued Haemoptysis.
p) Tannic acid: Haemorrhagic pharyngitis. Painless bloody discharge from bowels.

7. Diabetes:

a) Acetic acid:
Urine increased in quantity , pale, phosphatic. Diabetes with burning, unending and unquenchable thirst and great debility.
b) Ars alb: Frequent inclination to urinate with excessive exhaustion from least exertion.
c) Benzoicum acidum: Nocturnal enuresis with strong smelling dark urine, urinous odor is highly intensifid.
d) Boric acid: Frequent and urgent desire to urinate. Quantity of urine double. Albumen in urine.
e) Carbolic acid: Diabetes with almost black urine. Irritable bladder with frequent urination at night.
f) Flouric acid: Indicated after phosphoric acid. Free discharge of light colored urine. Whitish purple colored sediment in urine.
g) Gallic acid: Excessive dryness of mouth and throat with increased urine.
h) Hydrocyanic acid:Frequent emission of aqueous urine or pale or pale yellow urine, depositing a turbid cloud.
i) Lacticum acidum:Frequent desire to urinate large quantities. Urinate frequently day and night, the attempt to retain it causes pain.
j) Muriatic acid:
Frequent desire to urinate with abundant emission-immoderate emission of aqueous urine- both day and night.
Patient cannot urinate without having the bowels moved at the same time.
k) Nitric acid:Frequent want to urinate which is fetid; offensive.
l) Oxalic acid:
Thinking of urinating produce desire for urination. Frequent and copious urination; which is clear, straw-colored. Oxaluria and albuminuria.
m) Phosphoric acid:
The child passes a great quantity of urine. Polyuria with dry mouth and throat; with history of sexual excess or severe mental or emotional overstrain. White, milky urine. The urine may be passed clear but, turns milky at once and is very offensive. Frequent and profuse emission of aqueous urine which immediately deposits a thick white cloud.
n) Picric acid:
Frequent micturition in morning . Urine dark yellow with strong odor . specific gravity increased. Urine contained much indican , numerous granular and fatty degenerated epithelium.
o) Salicylicum acidum:
Diabetes Mellitus- albuminuria. Urine - clear, brown; three hours after passage has a green tinge and a feathery deposit of crystals of Salicylic acid.
p) Sulfuric acid: Diabetes with lassitude, despondency. Emission of urine at night. Urine watery and as if it contained casts.

Individual study of Acids

Prescribing symptoms of individual Acids:

Arsenious acid:

" Mental restlessness with physical weakness.
" Burning pain relieved by heat except in head.
" Fear of death
" Complaints return periodically
" Discharges are acrid, scanty, offensive, putrid, cadaverous smelling
" Thirst for small quantity of water at short intervals in acute conditions but in chronic conditions there is no thirst
" Excessive exhaustion from least exertion
" All symptoms are aggravated at mid day and mid night
" Chilly patient
" Fastidious
" Ailments from ice cream, cold fruits, decayed food or animal matter, ptomaine poisoning, tobacco, sea bathing.

Acetic acid:
" Great prostration after injuries, anesthetics and surgical Shock
" Great burning thirst, insatiable even for large quantities but no thirst in fever
" Hemorrhage from every mucus outlets - nose, throat, lungs, stomach, bowels and uterus
" Chlorosis with waxy pallor of the face
" Chilly patient with lax, flabby muscles
" Cannot sleep lying on the back, rests better lying on belly
" Copious exhausting diarrhea with great thirst- in dropsy, typhus, phthisis with night sweats
" Bad effects of surgical shock , sausage poisoning, insects stings and bites.

Benzoic acid:
" Rheumatic or gouty complaints with gonorrheal or syphilitic base
" Urine dark brown and the urinous odor highly intensified
" Nocturnal enuresis in delicate children with strong characteristic odor of urine
" Exhausting diarrhea of children- stool is white, liquid --running right through the diaper, very offensive
" Left sided complaints
" Chilly patient

Boric acid:
" Climacteric flushing (3x potency- Cooper)
" Renal colic with frequent urging to urinate
" Formication of hands and feet
" Headache with noises in ears and vertigo

Butyric acid:
" Impulsive thoughts of suicide
" Headache worse going upstairs and rapid motion
" Cramps in pit of stomach worse at night
" Pronounced sleeplessness
" Profuse , offensive foot sweat

Carbolic acid:
" Pains come suddenly last for a short time and disappear suddenly
" The whole of the body is bathed in cold sweat with prostration and collapse
" Sensation of band around the forehead with dull heavy frontal headache
" Great longing for whisky and tobacco
" Ulceration all over the body with very offensive and putrid discharge
" Constipation with horribly offensive breath
" Dysentery with stool containing substances like scrapings of intestines
" Vomiting of drunkards or in pregnancy, in sea sickness or in cancerous condition of stomach
" General aggravation from cold

Chromic acid:
" Symptoms come and go suddenly, and return periodically
" Offensive discharges
" Foul smelling sanious lochia
" Disagreeable pricking and itching here and there , with uneasiness in limbs
" On turning to right side pain in left side goes off
" Sensation of a vacuum at heart; of emptiness in chest
" Rheumatism aggravated by least draught of air and by cold water

Flouric acid:
" Profound weakness and debility
" Pain in small spots with lightening like sensation; come suddenly , lasts for a short time and disappears quickly
" Increased ability to exercise without danger
" Less effected by excessive heat of summer or cold of winter
" Premature old looking persons
" Discharges are acrid and excoriating
" Sensation of wind blowing through the eyes
" Itching especially of the orifices
" Desire for highly seasoned food, craves cold water
" Indifference to those who loved best
" Suitable for chronic disease with syphilitic and mercurial history

Formic acid:
" Chronic myalgia, muscular pains and soreness
" Gout and articular rheumatism which appear suddenly
" Pains worse on right side, motion and better from pressure
" Failing vision
" Tremor

Gallic acid:
" Delirium at night, restless, jumps out of bed
" Pulmonary hemorrhage in Phthisis
" Painful distress along ureters into the bladder with cream colored urine
" Passive hemorrhage when pulse feeble and capillaries relaxed, cold skin
" Pyrosis

Hippuric acid:
" Right side is mainly affected
" General muscular soreness relieved menstrual flow
" Constant, dull pain in right eye worse in warm room
" Dryness, soreness and rawness in throat with difficulty in swallowing
" Acid rising with soreness and pressure over liver

Hydrobromic acid:
" Throat dry and puckering
" Constriction in pharynx and chest
" Waves of heat over face and neck
" Pulsating tinnitus with nervous irritability
" Heaviness of arms - seemed as if parts did not belong to them

Hydrocyanic acid:
" Convulsions and paralysis expresses the action of the remedy
" Suddenness of the attacks and prostration are leading indications
" Sinking sensation at the epigastrium
" Drinks rumbles through throat and stomach
" Fears everything and fear of imaginary troubles
" Stage of collapse especially in cholera

Lactic acid:
" Copious salivation water-brash and morning sickness especially in pale anemic women
" Nausea better by eating
" Burning pain in stomach worse from smoking
" Pain in breasts with enlargement of axillary glands and pain extends into hand

Muriatic acid:
" Patient becomes so weak he slides down in bed, lower jaw hangs down
" Offensive secretions and offensive breath from mouth in fevers of all kinds
" Patient cannot bear the sight or thought of meat
" Tongue is coated at edges; shrunken, dry, leather like and paralyzed; beefy tongue
" Pulse intermits every third beat
" Haemorrhoids protrude while the person urinates and involuntary stools while passing urine
" Cannot bear the least touch not even of the bed sheet on the rectum
" Vertigo when lying on the right side.

Nitromuriatic acid:
" Oxalulria
" Constant drooling (salivation) at night
" Metallic taste in mouth
" Sour eructations with empty hungry feeling in stomach

Nitric acid:
" Extreme sensitiveness ; nervous trembling and Irritability
" Urine is very pungent and strong smelling like horse's urine
" Splinter like pain ; comes suddenly and goes suddenly
" Ailments from loss of sleep, over exertion of body and mind, from loss of a dearest friend
" Tendency to take cold easily
" Great anxiety about disease, morbid fear of cholera

Oxalic acid:
" Pain in small spots, pain is aggravated by thinking of them
" Acts especially on the left side of the body
" Ailments from coffee, wine, sour fruit and sugar
" Nervous aphonia alternates with heart symptoms
" Sharp lancinating pains through the lower lobe of the left lung

Phosphoric acid:
" Patient is listless, apathetic and indifferent to the affairs of his own life; prostrated and stupefied with grief
" Ailments from loss of vital fluids, sexual excess, violent acute diseases, chagrin or long continued mental emotions like disappointed love
" Frequent, profuse and debilitating emissions
" Painless non debilitating diarrhea
" phosphaturia

Picric acid:
" Burning pain along the spine and great weakness of spine and back with softening of cord
" Heaviness, numbness, Formication and weakness are the keynotes
" Burns of first and second degree
" Headaches and brain fag of students, teachers and overworked business men, from grief or depressing emotions
" Priapism from spinal diseases
" Pernicious anemia

Salicylic acid:
" Meniere's disease with roaring and ringing in ears
" Fermentative dyspepsia with hot, sour belching
" Complaints from suppressed foot sweat
" Gastro- intestinal disturbances in children with frog's spawn like stools

Sarcolactic acid:
" Epidemic influenza with violent retching and great prostration
" Dyspnoea with myocardial weakness

Silicic acid:
" Bad effects of vaccination especially convulsions and suppuration
" Every little injury suppurates
" Scrofulous rachitic children with large head and open fontanel's and sutures, much sweating about the head
" Obstinate constipation , stool recedes back after being partially expelled, constipation before, during after menses
" Desires cold food and drinks
" Very offensive sweat of hands, toes, feet and axilla and there is complaints from suppressed foot sweat
" Chilly patient

Sulphurous acid:
" Headache better from vomiting
" Ulcerative stomatitis
" Persistent cough with copious expectoration

Sulphuric acid:
" Hot flushes followed by perspiration with trembling
" Tendency to gangrene following mechanical injuries
" Sour eructations; sets teeth on edge
" Craving for alcohol, water causes coldness of stomach ; must be mixed with liquors
" Sensation as if hernia would protrude, especially in the left side of abdomen
" Pupura hemorrhagica
" Cicatrices turn red and blue and become painful
" Worse from excess of heat and cold; better from warmth and lying on affected side

Tannic acid:
" Obstinate nervous cough
" Obstinate constipation
" Intestines can be felt like cylindrical enlargements
" Offensive perspiration

Tartaric acid:
" Coffee ground colored diarrhea with dry and brown tongue
" Dark - green vomiting with burning in throat and stomach
" Pain around umbilicus and region of loins

Uric acid:
" Gout and gouty eczema( the cutaneous outlet for the constitution)
" Lipoma
 

References
1. Clarke: A dictionary of practical Materia Medica
2. William Boericke: Materia Medica with Repertory
3. E.A. Farrington: Clinical Materia Medica

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