(Muriatic acid.)
(From vol. v, 2nd edit., 1826.)
(It should be carefully freed from the sulphuric acid often mixed with it, by means of re-distillation over the chloride of sodium, or (better) it may be precipitated by muriate of baryta, and, after being thus freed from the sulphuric acid, redistelled.)
For medicinal use one drop of it is first diluted by means of too succussion with 100 drops of diluted alcohol (made of equal parts of distilled water and strong alcohol taken together ten time), and of this one drop is to be twice successed (with two strokes of the arm) with 100 drops of undiluted alcohol (1/10000th), and then of this one drop is to be again twice shaken with 100 drops of alcohol (1/1). One globule the size of a poppy of a drop, for with one drop 200 such globules are sufficiently moistened. Yet this million-fold dilution, although administered in such a small volume, will be found in many cases to be still too powerful when muriatic acid is homoeopathically indicated, because this medicine possesses a high degree of efficacy.
Although a tolerably homoeopathic employment in suitable morbid states can be made from the following observed alterations in the healthy, yet it would be desirable to possess a more complete proving of it as to this pure effects.
[HAHNEMANN’s fellow-provers were GUTMANN, HARTMANN, HAYNEL, LANGHAMMER, STAPF, WISLICENUS.
Symptoms were obtained from the following old-school authorities:
CRAWFORD, in samml. f. prakt. Aerzte, xv, 3.
DU MESNIL, in sachse, Hufel. Journ., xxviii, vi. Hufeland’s Journal xviii, iii.
HUMBOLDT, Ueber die Reizbarkeit der Faser.
LETOCHA, in Hufel. Journ., xviii, iii.
RAMMAZZINI, De Morbis Artificum. Samml. f. prakt. Aerzte, xv, 3.
SCHAEKEL (reference not given).
SCHMIDTMULLER, in Horn’s Archiv, ix.
THEINER, in Annalen der Heilkunst, 1811, April.
WESTRUMB, in Sachse, Hufel. Journ., xxviii, vi.
The 1st edit. Has 274 symptoms, this 2nd edit. Only 5 more.]
MURIATICUM ACIDUM
Whirling in the open air and unsteady in walking (aft. 1.1/2 h.). [Gn.]
Whirling in the head, more so in the room than in the open air, with dimness before the eyes. [Stf.]
Headache in the forehead and occiput, which, especially that in the forehead is aggravated by sitting up in bed.
Tearing pain in the forehead.
5. Pressive pain from within outwards in the forehead and temples (aft. a few m.). [Ws.]
A pressive stupefying pain in the forehead in every position of the body, which went off by touching (aft. 1.1/2 h.). [Lr.]
Stupid in the head, in the forehead. [Stf.]
Long, frequently recurring stitches from both frontal protuberances towards the middle of the forehead (aft. 7 h.). [Htn.]
Headache like a boring in several places in the vertex, from the bones of the skull into the brain (aft. 10 h.). [Ws.]
10. Long tearing pressing pain darting by shocks into the forehead towards the right orbit (aft. 5.1/4 h.). [Htn.]
Aching pain in the left temple (aft. 4.1/4 h.). [Gn.]
Aching pain from the middle of the brain out towards the left side of the forehead (aft. 6 h.). [Gn.]
Aching pain in the front of the brain, increased by moving the eyes (aft. 3 d.). [Gn.]
Tensive pressive pain spreading from the occiputal bone forwards through the brain and ending in the forehead (aft. 2.1/4 h.). [Gn.]
15. Jerking beating tearing pain from the left half of the occiput to the forehead; soon followed by a similar pain in the right half (aft. 7 h.). [Htn.]
Heaviness in the occiput, as if it drew her head backwards, or as if the anterior cervical muscles had lost their firmness (aft. 1.3/4 h.). [Gn.]
Heavy feeling in the occiput, woth drawing stitches there, more on the right side, close to the nape, with swelling of a gland in the nape, which is painful when touched; at the same time heaviness and vertigo in the head, with dimness of the eyes as when intoxicated (when sitting) (aft. ¾ h.). [Htn.]
Sensation in the integuments of the head and forehead, as when the hair stands on end after a fright (aft. 5, 7 h.). [Gn.]
Burning pain on the hairy scalp above the left temple (aft. 7.1/2 h.). [Gn.]
20. Tensive sensation in the right temple (aft. 7.1/2 h.). [Gn.]
Pressive stupefying pain in the forehead, in all positions (aft. 1 h.). [Lr.]
(Headache in the top of the head and in the temples, sometimes also in the occiput and forehead, as if the brain were lacerated and crushed, as in typhus or putrid fever.) (aft. 4 h.).
When yawning, a stitch-like tearing on the right temple, which went on by touching and when walking (when standing)(aft. 1 h.). [Lr.]
Shooting in the forehead extending into the temple, increased by stooping forwards and by pressing on it. [Stf.]
25. In the middle of the forehead two small pimples which suppurate without itching or pains (aft. 11 h.). [Lr.]
Eruption of pimples on the forehead which in the course of a day and night coalesce so as to form scab. (From drachm-doses of so-called oxygenated muriatic acid (aqua oxymuriatica.) [SCHMIDTMULLER, (Not accessible.) in Horn’s Archiv, ix, 11]
Suppurating pimple on the left temple without sensation in it touched or let alone (aft. 9 h.). [Lr.]
Burning aching pain above the left eye, externally (aft. 2.1/2 h.). [Htn.]
Contracted pupils (aft. ¾, 1.3/4, 2, 2,3/4 h.). [Lr.]
30. Dilated pupils (aft. 11 h.). [Lr.]
Very dilated pupils (aft. 15 h.). [Lr.]
Pupils sometimes more, sometimes less dilated, sometimes contracted, in periods of four or five hours. [Lr.]
From the left occiputal protuberance a painless tug into the left eye, which causes a quivering in the upper eyelid (aft. 4 h.). [Htn.]
Swelling of the upper and lower eyelid, with redness, but without pain (aft. 7 h.). [Gn.]
35. Cutting pain in the right eyeball, when at rest (aft. 5.1/4 h.). [Gn.]
In the outer canthus of the left eye an eroding smarting in the evening.
Itching prick in the right outer canthus, when at rest. [Gn.]
Twitching through the upper eyelid towards the zygomatic process, as if a thread were drawn through (immediately). [Ws.]
(Flickering before the eyes and hemiopia; he sees only the half of an object cut off perpendicularly from the other half.)
40. Cramp-pain near the left maxillary joint, extending as a shooting pain into the interior of the ear when pressed upon (aft. 5 h.). [Htn.]
Tearing pain in the left upper jaw, as if in the bone, close under the orbit (aft. 2.1/2 h.). [Htn.]
Eruption of pimples in the auricle, which in the course of a day and night coalesce to form a scab. [SCHMIDTMULLER, l. c.]
Fine itching prick in the left ear, which went off by putting the finger into it (aft. 31 h.). [Gn.]
Twitching pinching deep in the left ear (aft. 4 h.), which after frequent recurrence became cramp-like, almost like earache. [Htn.]
45. Drawing aching in the tragus, pressing on it send the pain into the inner ear (aft. 6.1/2 h.). [Htn.]
Persistent pinching deep in the right ear, sometimes interrupted by severe stitches which extend to behind the auricle, where the part is painful when pressed (aft. 3 h.). [Htn.]
Tearing pain in the left ear, like earache (aft. 8.1/2 h.). [Htn.]
Obtuse pressive cutting on the mastoid process; when touched the part is painful as if gathering (aft. 8 h.). [Ws.]
Drawing tearing pain behind both ears, which spreads slowly to the lower part of the nape and there causes a painful stiffness on moving the neck, for twenty minutes (aft. 8.1/4 h.). [Htn.]
50. More acute and delicate hearing. (Curative secondary action of the organism.)
Shooting pain in the nostrils, as if they would become ulcerated (aft. 2 h.).
When walking in the open air glowing red cheeks (aft. 14 h.). [Lr.]
In the red of the lower lip a pustule.
Eruption of pimples round about the lips, which in the course of a day and a night coalesce to form a scab. [SCHMIDTMULLER, l. c.]
55. A vesicle on the upper lip close to the left commissure of the mouth, which pains like an ulcer when touched, and causes tensive pain when the lips are moved, lasting two days (aft. ½ h.). [Gn.]
Burning tension in the upper lip, on the right side (aft. 7 h.). [Gn.]
Pressing-asunder pain in the left canine tooth of the lower, going off on compressing it with two fingers (aft. ¼ h.). [Htn.]
Tingling sensation in the inferior maxilla on its left side, which changes into a disagreeable creeping sensation in the left lower row of teeth (aft. 1 h.). [Htn.]
Cold drink darts painfully into the diseased tooth (aft. 24 h.).
60. His tongue is too heavy and as if too long; and he could only raise it with an effort; at the same time great dryness in the mouth and fauces – both lasting five minutes (aft. 1 h.). [Htn.]
The tongue becomes sore and bluish. [LETOCHA, (not Letocha, and nothing about muriatic acid, to be found at this reference, (See note to S. – 34.) in Hufel. Journ., xviii, iii, pp. 45, 46.]
A pock in the middle of the tongue with burning pain. [LETOCHA, l. c.]
The tongue gets a deep ulcer with black fundus and everted borders. [LETOCHA, l. c.]
The tongue wastes away. [LETOCHA, l. c.]
65. A sharp scraping in the gullet.
Ravenous appetite, morbid thirst. (In the workmen employed in salt manufactories, from the vapour of muriatic acid arising from the boiling ley.) [RAMAZZINI, De Morbis Artificum, cap. 31.]
Hahnemann's three major publications chart the development of homeopathy. In the Organon of Medicine, we see the fundamentals laid out. Materia Medica Pura records the exact symptoms of the remedy provings. In his book, The Chronic Diseases, Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homoeopathic Cure, he showed us how natural diseases become chronic in nature when suppressed by improper treatment.
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