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Nitricum Acidum

30C / 200CNitric Ac

Nitric Acid · "The Splinter Pain Remedy"

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🎯 It acts primarily on the junctions of skin and mucous membranes, producing splinter-like pains and offensive discharges.

📖 Boericke writes:

Selects for its special seat of action the outlets of the body where the mucous membrane and skin meet; these pain as from splinters. Sticking pains. Marked improvement of all symptoms while riding in a carriage. Acts best on the dark complexioned and past middle life. Syphilis, after abuse of Mercury. Pains appear and disappear quickly (Bell). Hydrogenoid constitution. Sycotic remedy.

Blisters and ulcers in mouth, tongue, genitals; bleed easily. Fissures, with pain during stool, as if rectum were torn. All discharges very offensive, especially urine, feces, and perspiration. Persons who have chronic diseases, and take cold easily and disposed to diarrhoea. Excessive physical irritability. Cachexia, due to syphilis, scrofula, intermittent fever with liver involvement and anaemia, etc. Gravel; arthritis. Capillary bleeding after curettage.

👤 Constitution

•Typically dark-complexioned individuals, often past middle age, who are physically irritable, prone to chronic disease, and catch colds easily.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Sticking pains.

introduction

Very sensitive to noise, as the rattle of wagons over pavements (Coff; Nux).

ears

Double vision; sharp, sticking pains.

eyes

Caries of mastoid.

nose

Tongue clean, red and wet with center furrow.

mouth

Ulcers in soft palate, with sharp, splinter-like pains.

mouth

Bloody saliva.

mouth

White patches and sharp points, as from splinters, on swallowing.

throat

Violent cutting pains after stools, lasting for hours (Ratanh).

abdomen

Cold on passing.

urine

Short breath on going upstairs (Ars; Calc).

respiratory

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Indicated for states of extreme irritability, vindictiveness, and deep-seated hopelessness.

Irritable, hateful, vindictive, headstrong.

Hopeless despair.

Sensitive to noise, pain, touch, jar.

Fear of death.

🔑 Modalities

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💊 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.

Sixth

Decimal

📝As the patient begins to improve, skin symptoms may appear for a time, which is a favorable indication.

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🤝 Complementary

Arsenicum Album →Caladium Seguinum →Sepia Officinalis →

🔄 Compare With

Mercurius Solubilis →Thuja Occidentalis →Hepar Sulphur →Calcarea Carbonica →

⚠️ Inimical

Lachesis Mutus →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Nitricum Acidum is listed in 672 rubrics across 25 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 230 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Skin66 Male Sexual System63 Abdomen62 Female Sexual System59 Respiratory System51 Urinary System46 Generalities34 Nose32 Locomotor System31 Eyes24 Nervous System23 Mouth22 Mind21 Throat21 Stomach20 Modalities19 Ears17 Tongue14 Fever14 Face11 Head10 Taste4 Gums4 Teeth3 Circulatory System1

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