Acetic Acid

COMMON NAME:

      GLACIAL ACETIC ACID.

Symptoms

      Adapted to pale, lean persons with lax, flabby muscles (A.).

Passes large quantities of pale urine (N.).

Marasmus and other wasting diseases of children (Abrotanum, Iodium, Sanicula, Sarsaparilla, Tuberculinum) (A.).

Emaciation, especially of the face, hands and thighs (Selenium) (N.).

Vomits after every kind of food (Arsenicum, Phosphorus, Sepia) (G.).

Anguish and anxiety (Arsenicum) (K.).

FACE PALE WAXY (Ferrum). (A.).

Dyspnoea: while lying, especially on the back; and on ascending (K.).

Diphtheria: false membranes in the throat (G.).

Foul eructation, or hot, eructation (Arsenicum, Causticum, Copaiva, Hepar, Naja., Phosphorus, Pulsatilla). (K.).

Haemorrhage: from every mucous outlet, nose, throat, lungs, stomach, bowels, uterus (Ferrum, Millefolium, Phosphorus); metrorrhagia; vicarious; traumatic epistaxis (Arnica). (A.).

(Chronic diarrhoea of children, with great emaciation (G.).

Aversion to food, especially salted food (K.).

Great prostration: after injuries (Sulph-Ac.); after surgical shock; after anaesthetics. (A.).

Colliquative sweat (K.).

THIRST: INTENSE, BURNING INSATIABLE EVEN FOR LARGE QUANTITIES IN DROPSY, DIABETES, AND CHRONIC DIARRHOEA; BUT NO THIRST IN FEVER (A.).

Vertigo during headache (Apis, Belladonna, Calcarea, Conium, Nux vomica, Sil). (K.).

Sour belching and vomiting of pregnancy. Burning water-brash and profuse salivation, day and night (Lact-Ac.; salivation worse at night-Mercurius). (A.).

Phthisis pulmonalis (Agaricus, Calcarea, Calcarea phos., Fer-P., Hepar, Iodium, Kali carb., Kali- S., Lycopodium, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla, Silicea) (K.).

Diarrhoea; copious, exhausting; with great thirst; in dropsy, typhus, phthisis; with night sweats(A.).

Cannot sleep lying on the back (sleeps better on the back-Arsenicum); sensation of sinking in the abdomen causing dyspnoea; rests better lying on belly (Am-C.) (A.).

Hectic fever: Skin dry and hot; red spot on left cheek and drenching night sweats (A.).

AGGRAVATION:

      From lying on the back, during night and after eating.

AMELIORATION:

      From lying on the belly, during rest and in the day time.

RELATIONSHIP:

      It aggravates the symptoms of Arnica, Belladonna, Lachesis, and Mercurius); especially the headache from Belladonna. It ANTIDOTES anaesthetic vapours (amyl); fumes of charcoal and gas; Opium and Stramonium.

Cider Vinegar ANTIDOTES Carbolic Acid.

It follows well: after Cinchona in haemorrhage; after Digitalis, in dropsy.

Adolph Lippe

Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)