Butyricum acidum
Butyric acid · Human-made/chemical
Butyricum Acidum suits anxious, nervous patients who worry incessantly over trifles and experience impulsive suicidal thoughts. The characteristic combination of mental anxiety, digestive distension with cramps, lumbar pain, and profuse offensive foot perspiration defines this remedy picture.
Key symptoms
- Constant state of fear and nervousness; worries over trifles
- Impulsive thoughts of suicide
- Headache making him apprehensive about trifles; worse going upstairs
- Much gas in stomach and bowels; stomach feels heavy and overloaded
- Cramps in pit of stomach, worse at night
- Profuse, offensive sweat of feet
- Pronounced sleeplessness with serious dreams
- Tired feeling and dull pain in small of back, worse walking
Worse (aggravation)
- Night
- Fast walking
- Going upstairs
A volatile acid obtained chiefly from butter (BUTYRIC ACID)
Head
Worries over trifles; impulsive thoughts of suicide; constant state of fear and nervousness. Headache makes him apprehensive about trifles; worse going upstairs or rapid motion. Dull, hazy ache of head.
Stomach
Poor appetite. Much gas in stomach and bowels. Cramps in pit of stomach, worse at night. Stomach feels heavy and overloaded. Cramp in abdomen below umbilicus. Bowels irregular. Stool accompanied by pain and straining.
Back
Tired feeling and dull pain in small of back, worse walking. Pain in ankles and up back of leg. Pain low down in back and extremities.
Sleep
Pronounced sleeplessness; dreams of serious nature while asleep.
Skin
Perspiration on slight exertion. Profuse, offensive sweat of feet. Crumbling away of finger-nails.
Modalities
Worse, at night, fast walking, going upstairs.
Dose
Third attenuation.
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