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Gallicum Acidum

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Gallic Acid · "The Passive Haemorrhage Acid"

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🎯 It acts as an astringent to control passive hemorrhages and excessive secretions while improving digestive tone.

📖 Boericke writes:

Should be remembered as a remedy in phthisis. It checks the morbid secretions, gives tone to the stomach, and increases the appetite. Passive haemorrhages when pulse is feeble and capillaries relaxed, cold skin. Haematuria. Haemophilia. Itching of skin. Pyrosis.

👤 Constitution

•Typically a person with a feeble pulse, relaxed capillaries, and cold skin, often suffering from chronic wasting or bleeding conditions.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Pain in lungs; pulmonary haemorrhage; excessive expectoration.

respiratory

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Used for states of mental agitation, restlessness, and behavioral outbursts.

Wild delirium at night; very restless, jumps out of bed; sweats; is afraid to be alone; is rude and abuses every one.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

First trituration

Decimal

📝2 to 5 grain doses

Primary Dosage

Pure acid

Other

📝2 to 5 grain doses

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Iodium →Arsenicum Album →Phosphorus →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Gallicum Acidum is listed in 7 rubrics across 5 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 1 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Respiratory System3 Nose1 Stomach1 Generalities1 Urinary System1