HIPPURICUM ACIDUM


Homeopathy medicine Hippuricum Acidum from William Boericke’s Pocket manual of homoeopathic materia medica, comprising the characteristic and guiding symptoms of all remedies, published in 1906…


Proved by Dr. Wm. B. Griggs
(HIPPURIC ACID)

Its chief action is on the external tissues of the eyes and naso-pharynx joint surfaces, liver and mucous membranes. Right side especially affected, general muscular soreness.

Head.–Pain over right eye, dull, constant, worse in warm room. Eyelids inflamed and swollen.

Throat.–Sore, raw, dry, swallowing difficult, foul odor, gummy exudate; thickness and infiltration of all tissues around throat.

Stomach.–Acid rising. Lump in pit of stomach. Soreness and pressure over liver.

Female.–Menstrual flow for three weeks with complete relief of muscular and joint pains.

Extremities.–Backache extending down hips. Pain in shoulders and extremities and sore swollen joints. Pain in middle of thigh posteriorly shooting down right leg. Tired, grating sensation in the joints.

Skin.–Itching, burning. Papules looking like goose flesh on chest.

Relationship.–Benzoic acid seems to be an analogue.

Dose.–Lower potencies.

William Boericke
William Boericke, M.D., was born in Austria, in 1849. He graduated from Hahnemann Medical College in 1880 and was later co-owner of the renowned homeopathic pharmaceutical firm of Boericke & Tafel, in Philadelphia. Dr. Boericke was one of the incorporators of the Hahnemann College of San Francisco, and served as professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. He was a member of the California State Homeopathic Society, and of the American Institute of Homeopathy. He was also the founder of the California Homeopath, which he established in 1882. Dr. Boericke was one of the board of trustees of Hahnemann Hospital College. He authored the well known Pocket Manual of Materia Medica.