Muriaticum acidum
Hydrochloric acid · Hydrochloric acid. · Human-made/chemical
People for whom Muriatic ac. is most appropriate tend to feel too weak to move. Drowsy by day, but restless in bed, they have anxious dreams and are prone to talking in their sleep. They may be either sad and reserved or loquacious. Often irritable and fretful, their minds may be crowded with thoughts.
This remedy is typically prescribed for weakness or physical collapse, such as that associated with chronic fatigue syndrome, or developing after a feverish illness such as mononucleosis or typhoid. The muscles, especially those of the heart, tongue, bladder, and anus, may be weak, exhausted, or partially paralyzed.
Muriatic ac. is given when the collapsed state is associated with dryness, bleeding, and ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth and digestive tract. A heavy tongue and dry mouth may make talking difficult, and deep-seated ulcers or small tumors may develop on the tongue.
Key symptoms
- Extreme prostration; patient slides down in bed from weakness
- Septic conditions with decomposition of fluids and hemorrhages
- Tongue pale, swollen, dry, leathery, paralyzed with deep ulcers
- Involuntary stool while passing urine
- Uvula swollen; ulcers and false membrane in throat
- Mouth and anus chiefly affected; sordes on teeth
Worse (aggravation)
Better (amelioration)
Muriatic Acid
This acid has an elective affinity for the blood, producing a septic condition similar to that found in low fevers with high temperature and great prostration. Patient becomes so weak she slides down the bed. Decomposition of fluids. Involuntary stools while passing urine. Hæmorrhages. Mouth and anus chiefly effected.
Mind
Irritable and peevish; fretful Loud moaning. Great restlessness. Sad, taciturn; suffers in silence.
Head
Vertigo; worse lying on right side; occiput heavy as if filled with lead. Sound of voice is intolerable. Pain as if brain were crushed.
Nose
Hæmorrhage; much sneezing.
Face
Lower jaw fallen; pimples and freckles; lips raw, dry, cracked.
Mouth
Tongue, pale, swollen, dry, leathery, paralyzed. Deep ulcers on tongue. Hard lumps in tongue. Epithelioma; edges bluish-red (Carbol ac). Aphthous mouth. Gums and glands swollen. Fetid Breath. Sordes on teeth.
Throat
Uvula swollen. Ulcers and false membrane. Œdematous, dark, raw. Attempted swallowing produces spasm and choking.
Stomach
Cannot bear sight or thought of meat. At times, ravenous appetite and constant desire to drink. Achlorhydria and fermentation of food.
Rectum
Tendency to involuntary evacuations while urinating. Hæmorrhoids most sensitive to all touch; even sheet of toilet paper is painful. Anal itching and prolapsus ani while urinating. Hæmorrhoids during pregnancy; bluish, hot with violent stitches.
Heart
Pulse rapid, feeble, and small. Intermits every third beat.
Urine
Cannot urinate without having bowels move at same time.
Female
Menses appear too soon. Leucorrhœa. During menses, soreness of anus. Ulcer in genitals.
Extremities
Heavy, painful, and weak. Tottering gait. Pain in tendo-Achilles.
Skin
Papular and vesicular eruptions, with great itching (Rhus). Carbuncles; foul-smelling ulcers on lower extremities. Scarlet fever, livid, with petechiæ; scanty eruption. Eczema on back of hands.
Fever
Cold extremities. Heat without thirst. Typhoid types, stupid. Hæmorrhages. Restlessness. Involuntary discharges. Bed-sores. Pulse rapid and feeble. Excessive prostration.
Modalities
Worse, in damp weather, before midnight. Better, lying on left side.
Relationship
Compare: Phos ac; Ars; Bapt. Follows well after Bry and Rhus.
Antidote; Bryonia.
Dose
First to third potency.
When treating a low form of continued fever with extreme prostration Arsenicum, Muriatic acid and Phos. acid force themselves upon the mind.
With Arsenicumthere has been the anxious restlessness; with Phos. acid there has been the mental prostration, and then the muscular weakness; with Muriatic acid the muscular weakness comes first, and there has been history of restlessness and the mind has been stronger than could be expected.
With this great muscular exhaustion with jaw hanging down and the patient sliding down in bed and soon the involuntary stool and urine, this remedy is forced upon the mind. Paralytic weakness is what it must be called.
Hydrochloric acid. HCl. First dilutions with distilled water.
Clinical
Anus, prolapse of. Chilblains. Chorea. Deafness (cerebral). Diphtheria. Enteric fever. Ephelis. Feet, soles, pains in. Gastric disorders. Hæmorrhoids. Hemiopia. Impotence. Measles. Mercurial ulceration. Mouth, aphthæ; psoriasis of tongue; ulcers. Scarlatina. Scurvy. Tendo Achillis, affections of. Tongue, affections of; psoriasis of. Typhus. Varices. Whooping-cough.
Characteristics
The popular name of Mur. ac., "Spirit of Salt," describes at once its nature and origin. It is a colourless gas, with a pungent, suffocating odour, and acid taste, and it is manufactured from Salt (Nat. m.) by the action of sulphuric acid. It is freely soluble in water, and the saturated solution contains 43 per cent. of the gas. Teste, who did much to define the powers of Mur. ac., groups with it Agn. cast. and Hyos., and he considers its action corresponds perfectly to a typical case of typhus. Among the common features of the group he gives; …
Hydrochloric Acid. (HCl)
Adapted to persons with black hair, dark eyes, dark complexion. Irritable, peevish, disposed to anger and chagrin (Nux); restlessness and vertigo. Diseases of an asthenic type, with moaning, unconsciouness, fretfulness. Ulceration with fungus-like growths and pseudo-like membranous deposits of intestinal tract. Great debility: as soon as he sits down his eyes close; lower jaw hangs down; slides down in bed. Mouth and anus are chiefly affected; the tongue and sphincter ani are paralyzed. Malignant affections of mouth; studded with ulcers, deep, perforating; have a black or dark base; offensive, foul breath; intense prostration; diphtheria, scarlatina, cancer. Cannot bear the thought or sight of meat (Nit. ac.). If the anus be very sensitive either with or without haemorrhoids; anus sore during menses. Haemorrhoids: swollen, blue, sensitive and painful to touch; appear suddenly in children; too sore to bear least touch, even the sheet is uncomfortable. *Prolapse while …
Mouth and Throat
Tongue thick, bluish and covered with grayish white membrane, or having deep ulcers with dark colored bases; vesicles with burning.
Mouth and Throat
Tongue dwindles to a third its natural size; heavy as lead; hinders talking (in typhoid).
Anus and Stool
Large protruding piles which look bluish, and are exceedingly painful to contact; even the sheet is insupportable.
Urinary Organs
Must press so hard to start urine the anus protrudes; severe pain at the conclusion of urination (Berth., Sars., Thuja, Puls.).
Chill, Fever, and Sweat
Typhus; great prostration; lower jaw dropped; sliding down in bed; tongue shrunken; urine and stool involuntary, bloody; pulse intermittent.
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