Nitrum Acidum


Homeopathy medicine Nitrum Acidum from William D. Gentry ‘s Rubrical and Regional Text Book of Homeopathic Materia Medica, comprising the characteristic symptoms of homeopathic remedies from drug provings, published in 1890….


1 Smarting and burning in urethra during and after urination.

3 Discharge of bloody pus and mucus from urethra.

5 Needle-like stitches in meatus.

7 Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty discharge, worse at night (Mercurius), with cutting in abdomen.

9 Urine:- (a) Orange-colored, containing bile.

(b) Is cold when passed.

(c) Very offensive, like horse’s urine (Absinth, Natr-c.).

(d) Stains linen brown.

(e) Scanty, dark-brown, smelling intolerably strong (Benz-ac.).

(f) Greenish.

(g) Mixed with pus and blood (from ulcers in bladder).

(h) Turbid, resembling remains in a cider barrel.

11 Burning in urethra, wants to urinate, thinks urinating will relieve burning.

13 After urinating, violent burning and discharge of mucus.

15 Incontinence of urine.

17 Spasms of urethra, with rectal fissure.

19 Ulcers in urethra; bloody, mucus or purulent discharge.

21 Very thin stream, as if urethra were contracted.

23 Urine passes in a thin stream, as if from stricture of urethra.

25 Meatus swollen and dark-red.

27 Oxaluria.

29 Diabetes mellitus.

31 Albuminuria, with great prostration, nausea, sour taste, bilious constipation or diarrhoea.

33 Haematuria; profuse and active flow of bright-red blood, without clots; with shuddering along spine during, and urging after passing; syncope from least motion.

35 Dysuria; has to stand and press some time before urine starts.

William Daniel Gentry
William Daniel Gentry. (1836-1922) was the author of Concordance Repertory of the Materia Medica and The Rubical and Regional Textbook.