Nitricum Acidum



Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness, with coryza, cough, and shooting pains in throat. Roughness in bronchia. Bronchitis. Scratching and stinging in larynx, with hoarseness, especially when talking for a long time. Whistling inspiration with rales. Scraping and shootings in the trachea, especially after reading aloud, or after a long conversation. Cough, with shootings and pain in throat and chest, as if parts excoriated. Cough only in day. Dry, barking cough, especially in evening, on lying down. Violent, shaking, barking cough, caused by tickling in larynx and pit of stomach, with expectoration during day of blood, mixed with clots, or yellow, acrid pus tasting bitter, sour, or salt, and of offensive smell. Cough, with vomiting. Cough causing anxiety and vomiting of mucus and food. Rough, dry cough before midnight. Shaking cough at night, with obstructed respiration, almost as in whooping-cough. When coughing, lancinations in loins, or pain in head, stomach, and hypochondria, or pain, as from excoriation, and shootings in chest. Empyema with considerable muco-purulent sputum. Purulent, yellowish expectoration with cough. Short cough, with expectoration of black, coagulated blood. Phthisis pulmonalis (after *Kali-carb).

Chest

Wheezing respiration, especially during manual labour. Obstructed respiration. Shortness of breath. (Panting breathing, especially when reading or stooping over a desk, in schoolboys (cured). Dyspnoea and vertigo in children (cured). *** R.T.C.) Loss of breath and palpitation of heart on walking and going up stairs. Contractive cramps in chest. Shooting and stitches in chest and sides (right side and scapula). Pain, as from excoriation, in chest, in breathing and coughing. Rapid congestion and inflammation of the lungs.

Heart

Dyspnoea, palpitation of the heart and anguish when going up stairs. Congestion in chest, with anguish, heat, and palpitation of heart. Nervous palpitation caused by slightest mental excitement. Pulse very irregular, one normal beat is often followed by two small rapid beats _ the fourth entirely intermits, alternate hard, rapid, and small beats.

Neck and Back

Neck stiff and sore from least cold. Rigidity of the nape of the neck. Swelling of the glands of the neck and axillae. Offensive sweat in axillae. Suppuration of the axillary glands. Pain in the back and loins after a chill. Drawing in lumbar region, as if stiff. Pain between the scapulae. Neuralgic pains up back, especially left side. Pain in back and down thighs. Itching on back. Stitches in sacral region. Shootings in and between shoulder-blades, with stiffness of the neck.

Limbs

Tearing or pulling in limbs, especially after a chill. Cracking joints. Frozen limbs. Epileptic fits, preceded by pulling in limbs, and followed by rigidity of body and stertorous breathing.

Upper Limbs

Pressive pain in shoulder-joints. Drawing in arms. Jerking in muscles of arms, which hinders them from being lifted up. Drawing (rheumatic) and tearing in forearms and hands. Weakness and trembling of the forearms and hands. Warts on arms. Cracks and rhagades in hands. Coppery spots on hands. Coldness of hands. Roughness of skin of hands. Tensive pain in joints of fingers. Swelling of fingers, especially at joints, with shooting pain. Falling asleep of hands. Fingers dead and benumbed in cold air. Chilblains on fingers and hands. Tetters between fingers. White spots on nails.

Lower Limbs

Wrenching pain in hip, which causes lameness. Tensive pain in right hip-joint. Digging, gnawing pains in flesh and bones. Bruised pain as from excessive fatigue. Lassitude, heaviness, and coldness in legs and feet. Constant coldness of feet. Drawing tearings (rheumatic) in legs and feet. Restlessness in legs in evening. Itching in thighs. Pains in thighs, in rising from a seat. Pain in ham, which prevents resting on foot. Rigidity and shooting in knee. Failing of joints of knee and foot. Pain in patella, impeding walking. Weakness of knee. Legs ( worse left) very sore in front along shin from ankle to knee, bound flannel in them to see if it would better. Violent cramp in calf of leg, especially at night and towards morning, as well as on walking, after having been seated. Jerking in calves of legs. Shootings in heel, when resting on it. Sweat in feet, sometimes foetid, with excoriation between toes. Chilblains on toes. Ingrowing of toe- nails, where nail seems to have grown into flesh, but in reality has not _ very sore, with more or less ulceration, and a feeling as if a sharp splinter were being stuck into affected part on any contact.

Generalities

Shooting pains, as if caused by splinters stuck into affected part on slightest contact with anything, some in throat on swallowing. Sensation as if a band were around affected part or parts, as though a band around bones, jerking pain in inner parts. Rickets. Inflammation, swellings, and suppuration of glands. Pains on change of weather. Pains which are perceptible during sleep. Aggravation of the symptoms in the evening and at night. Riding in a carriage better most symptoms. Great weakness and general lassitude, with trembling, heaviness of legs, and desire it remain lying down, especially in evening or morning. Hysteria. Epileptic attacks. Syphilis (secondary). Sycotic condylomata, and sycosis. Jaundice, with constipation. Pains in bones. Frequent drawing pains in almost all parts of body,

suddenly appearing and disappearing. Epileptic attacks after midnight, beginning like a mouse moving up and down left side, then loss of consciousness. Excessive emaciation. Tendency to take cold. Affections in general, of any kind, appearing in right eye (*e.g., as if a grain of sand was there), right side of neck, nape of neck, left hypochondriac region, left chest, inguinal glands, left lower extremity, bones of head.

Skin

Dryness of the skin. Itching nettle-rash, also on face, and especially in open air. Blackness of pores. Brown sphacelus. Reddish-brown spots (scattered over body, especially if in dark- haired people) and deep-coloured ephelis in skin. Copper or violet-coloured spots. Itching tetters. Pimples, or exanthema in general, stinging exanthema. Pain from chilblains and corns in feet. In a moderately cold temperature limbs become as if frozen, inflamed, and itching, and skin cracks. Large furunculi. Mercurial ulcers. Carious ulcers. Complaints worse from punctured wounds. Wounds and ulcers, with lancinations as by splinters, or with burning pains (especially when they are touched), and which bleed easily. Inflammation and painful sensitiveness of the

bones. Ulceration of the bones. Rachitis. Ulcers with sanious, sanguineous, and corrosive suppuration. Pains in old scars in a change of weather. Condylomata moist, like cauliflower, hard, rhagades, or in thin pedicle. Tightness if skin. Swelling of glands. Warts. Wens.

Sleep

Inclination to sleep during day, from weakness, with vertigo. Sleep retarded in evening, and early, difficult (or too late) awakening in morning. Sleeplessness, as from over-excitement. Complaints concomitant to waking, too much perspiration, which smells badly. Complaints worse in evening, in night, on awakening. Incomplete and agitated sleep, and frequent awaking with pain and a start. Sleep unrefreshing. At night, bleeding at nose, headache, toothache, thirst, gastralgia, colic, pains in limbs, nightmare, anguish, palpitation of heart, nausea, vomiting, and many other sufferings. Anxious sleep, with throbbing. Many fantastic, voluptuous, anxious, frightful dreams, often with cries, plaintive groans, talking, and starts with fright. Dreams of death, of spectres, of business of day, of crimes, of festivities, etc. Shocks in body and jerks in limbs during sleep.

Fever

Chilliness mostly in the afternoon and evening, and after lying down. Chilliness, with internal heat at same time. Chilliness in morning in bed, after previous heat. Heat especially on hands and face. Flushes of heat with perspiration on hands. General coldness of skin. Continued (chilliness or) Coldness. Fever in afternoon, shivering and heat. Internal heat, without thirst, continued, or by fits. At night internal, dry heat, with inclination to uncover oneself. Heat with perspiration and debility after eating. Perspiration every night, or on alternate nights, the most profuse on the side on which one lies. Dry heat at night, with violent thirst. Nocturnal sweat, fetid or acid. Acid sweat, like horse’s urine, by day. Intermittent fever. Chilliness in afternoon (an hour and a half, while in open air), followed by dry heat when in bed, accompanied by all sorts of fancies while in a state of half-waking, without sleep, sleep and perspiration only come on towards morning. Chilliness in the afternoon, for an hour, afterwards profuse perspiration for two hours over whole body, there is no thirst either in the cold or hot stage.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica