Nitricum Acidum



Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty discharge. Urging to urinate, with cutting colic, at night. Urging to urinate.

Polyuria. (* Not found.- HUGHES. *) The child passes urine involuntarily. Suppression of urine (after two days). Suppression of urine, without pain, for several days. Urine suppressed (bladder empty), (fifth day). Violent burning after urinating (after seven days). Urine. Very profuse easy discharge of urine.

Urine very copious, pale. At night rose three times to urinate; passed much healthy urine each time. Urine very offensive, sourish, like horse’s urine. Urine very scanty. Urine very scanty, turbid, offensive. The urine is cold when passed. Urine clear on passing, but on standing it becomes first cloudy and thready, and deposits a bright sediment, adhering tightly to the vessel (after thirty-three days). Discharge of tenacious mucus, in the evening after urinating. Whitish sediment and a very ammoniacal odor to the urine. Brownish-red sand in the urine (after seven days). Red sediment in the urine. Urine very dark, but soon becomes white and turbid; after urinating, increased dryness of the throat. Urine quite brown, causing brown spots on the linen, like coffee stains. Passed a pint of dark-colored urine, of pea-soup consistency (second day). The urine deposits sand. Urine very dark-colored. Intolerably strong-smelling, biting, brownish urine. The urine has a pungent odor like tobacco.

Sexual organs

The hair on the genitals falls out profusely. Itching on the genitals. Much itching on the genitals. Violent itching on the scrotum. Crawling in the scrotum, extending through the groin.

Red spots on the glans penis become covered with a scab. A denuded spot on the penis becomes ulcerated, and will not heal.

Superficial ulcers in the corona glandis, looking clean, but exuding an offensive moisture. A deep ulcer on the glans penis, with elevated, lead- colored, extremely sensitive edges. Ten or twelve flesh-colored excrescences on the corona glandis, that after a few days become smaller, exuding an offensive moisture and bleeding when touched. Moisture on the glans penis. Several brown painful spots as large as peas on the corona glandis.

Itching pimples on the glans penis. Throbbing and pressure in the glans penis (after two days). Frequent itching on the glans penis. Itching tickling as from fleabites on the whole penis.

Sore pain in the tip of the glans penis while urinating. Itching over the whole penis, especially on the glans, beneath the prepuce. Great swelling of the prepuce and phimosis, without much redness, and suppurating ulcers with flat edges, with inflammation of its inner surface and on its margins, and also of the orifice of the urethra, looking like chancres, with violent sticking tearing that is especially worse towards evening, lasting through the night and preventing sleep, and still more aggravated by violent erections, towards morning. Superficial yellow ulcerating spots like flat chancres, moist but painless, on the inner surface of the prepuce on both sides of the fraenum.

Inflammation and swelling of the prepuce, with burning pain, on the inner surface soreness and small ulcers, secreting a very offensive ichor, that stains the linen like bloody matter. A pimple with burning itching on the inner surface of the prepuce; after rubbing, a superficial ulcer even with the skin and of a yellow color, seeming to be covered with thick matter and without pain, only surrounded by some redness. Small itching vesicles on the prepuce, that open after a few days and become covered with small dry scabs. Mucus beneath the prepuce, behind the corona glandis. The inside of the prepuce is a little excoriated, as if a chancre would appear. (* Original revised by Hughes. In a man infected with syphilis three months before, and who had taken much Mercury. *) Sharp stitches in the prepuce. Itching on the prepuce, and moist spots on its inner surface (after twenty-eight days). Swelling of the right testicle, with pain when touched.

Swelling of the testicles. Twisting pain in the left testicle.

Bruised pain in the left testicle. Drawing pain in the testicles.

Burning pain in the left testicle. Tearing in the spermatic cords, with painful sensitiveness of the testicles to touch.

Itching on the scrotum, with sore spots (second day). Violent erections on waking, at night. Violent erections at night, even after an emission (after sixteen days). Violent erections at night, and emission (after nine days). Erections, with burning and sticking in the urethra (after four days). Great inclination to erections (after five days). Erections in the morning in bed, with pain in the urethra (after twenty-four hours). Spasmodic disagreeable erections for several hours after midnight; was obliged to toss about uneasily for several hours (after fifteen days). Erections in the evening, after lying down. Want of erections. Sexual desire and erections, without lascivious fancies (first two days). Frequent emissions. Drawing pain in the small of the back, spine, and thighs, after coition. Constantly excited sexual desire (after ten days). Frequent desire for coition (after several weeks), (secondary action). Much inclination to coition (fifteenth day). Sexual excitement, during which there was much discharge of prostatic fluid. Coition, repeated in too short intervals, though without sufficient sexual desire, caused general weakness and the renewal of old complaints. Sexual desire wanting. Slight voluptuous sensation with the ejaculation, during coition. Little voluptuous sensation during coition. Diminished, at times great absence of sexual power, during the first eighteen days, with slow unsatisfactory erections, only excited by fondling, that at the next time are all the more satisfactory and complete (in a man aged fifty-one years). Female. Itching on the pudenda while walking; it becomes sore. Violent itching on the pudenda, towards evening. Itching on the pudenda; the child rubs itself almost sore at night.

Constriction towards the genitals during the menses. Dry burning in the female genitals. Stitches in the vagina, extending from below upward, while walking in the open air. Violent stitches in the vagina. Swelling of one side of the vagina and of the labia minora, with burning itching. An ulcer in the vagina, even with the surface, seeming to be covered with yellow pus, with burning- itching pain. Irritation and inflammation of the labia majora and in the vagina (second day). Stringy mucous leucorrhoea, flesh- colored (after twenty-four hours and fifteen days). Leucorrhoea of a bad odor. Profuse leucorrhoea (second day). Greenish mucous leucorrhoea, immediately after menstruation. Discharge from the vagina of a cherry color and of a foul odor. Menses too profuse (after twenty-one days). For a day before the menses and during the same, bruised pain in the limbs. Menses eight days too early (after nineteen days). Menses two days too early (after ten days). Menses eleven days too early (after eleven days). Menses three days too late (after eleven days). Menses repeated three days too early (after four days). Menses three days too early (after nineteen days). Menses seven days too early (after eleven days). Menses seven days too late (at the full moon), and rather too profuse, with headache and colic, in a young person (after twenty-nine days). On the appearance of the menses violent pain in the small of the back (after forty-eight hours). On the appearance of the menses, violent cramp like pain in the lower abdomen. The menses reappeared a few days after the close of menstruation, and were pale red. The menses returned even after fourteen days, though not profusely. Violent pains, at first labor like, afterwards rather dragging, in the lower abdomen, extending down into the vagina, during the menses. An attack of heat, palpitation, and anxiety, for half an hour; trembling of all the limbs, soon after the appearance of the menses (after eleven days). Weakness so great during the menses that she could not speak; it took away her breath, and she was obliged to lie down (after seventeen days).

Respiratory organs

Larynx, Trachea, and Lungs. Sticking pains in the region of the larynx. Sharp scraping sensation in the trachea (after nine days). Voice. Hoarseness of voice in morning (after three weeks).

Voice hoarse at times. Voice rough. Hoarseness (after a few hours and two days). Hoarseness, so that she could not talk. Voice feeble. Cough and Expectoration. Violent cough at night, just after midnight, lasting an hour. Much more cough at night than during the day; he is able to sleep only towards morning; even during the day there is much more cough when lying down and falling asleep. On being inhaled, it causes a constant and violent cough, with whistling inspiration, redness, and sweat of the face and body; the paroxysm of cough increases so much by continued inhalation of the gas that it causes a taste of blood, nausea, and actual vomiting of mucus and food; longer exposure to the gas apparatus causes oppression of breathing and anxiety, so that it becomes necessary to leave the room and breathe freely, in order to ease the cough; there remains behind, for from half an hour to two hours, great rawness, soreness, and weariness of the chest. Cough (after three weeks). Much cough (after three and four days). Croaking cough, coming from the pit of the stomach by paroxysms, but not at night. Hacking cough in the morning (third day). Frequent hacking cough, with irritation and crawling in the larynx, after eating. Cough, especially at night, so that there is not five minutes’ rest, with shattering of the whole body, that frequently takes away the breath, as in hooping-cough; stitches in the chest, sore throat, and fever. Dry cough during sleep, before midnight. Rough dry cough, before midnight. Cough on deep breathing. Cough caused by a constricted sensation in the throat, especially at night, during sleep. Hacking cough, in the evening in bed. Dry barking cough, especially in the evening. Dry cough, as after taking cold. He coughs and hawks much black blood, and also blows the same from the nose. Extremely fluent profuse coryza, with great hoarseness and cough, with stitches in the throat, on every paroxysm (after twelve days). Expectoration of black clotted blood, caused by a hacking cough. Bloody expectoration from a hacking cough, in the morning in bed, preceded by rattling in the trachea; followed by a sick feeling, chilliness, etc. Yellow bitter-tasting expectoration.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.