Tartaricum acidum
Tartaric acid · Mineral
Tartaricum Acidum suits patients with severe gastric inflammation marked by intense burning from throat to stomach, persistent green vomiting, and profound paralytic debility. The remedy picture includes dry brown tongue and coffee-ground stools suggesting severe gastritis or gastroenteritis.
Key symptoms
- Intense burning in throat and stomach, feeling as if on fire
- Tongue brown, dry, and pasty
- Almost constant vomiting of deep green matter
- Stools coffee-ground colour, worse at night
- Great weakness and dullness, can scarcely drag himself along
- Tearing pain in soles of feet near heel preventing weight-bearing
- Excessive thirst with continued vomiting
- Pain around umbilicus and region of loins
Worse (aggravation)
- At night (stools)
- In the evening (weakness)
Better (amelioration)
- In open air (all symptoms)
- After eating (pasty taste improves)
Tartaric Acid
Found in grapes, pineapple, sorrel and other fruits. It is an antiscorbutic antiseptic, stimulating the mucous and salivary secretions.
Dullness and lassitude. Great weakness, with diarrhœa, with dry and brown tongue. Pain in heels (Phytol).
Stomach
Excessive thirst, continued vomiting burning in throat and stomach. Dyspepsia with copious secretions of mucus.
Abdomen
Pain around umbilicus and region of loins. Stool color of coffee-grounds (worse at night), with brown and dry tongue, and dark-green vomiting.
Dose
Third trituration. The pure acid 10-30 grains dissolved in water.
Tartaric acid. C4H6O6. Trituration. Solution.
Clinical
Gastritis. Heels, pain in.
Characteristics
A proving by Nenning and some poisonings have furnished the pathogenesis of Tart. ac. One of the most marked symptoms was intense burning in throat and stomach, feeling "as if on fire." Tongue brown and dry. Almost constant vomiting; vomited matter of deep green colour. Fæces coffee-ground colour. Difficult respiration. Paralytic debility: "Weakness in the evening, can scarcely drag himself along." This should prove useful: "Tearing pain on the soles of the feet, near the heel, which prevents him putting his foot on the ground, after luncheon." All the symptoms were > in open air. The pasty taste is > after eating.
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