Zincum aceticum
Zinc acetate · Mineral
Key symptoms
- Brain feels sore and as if sprinkled with salt
- Throat seems too tight and tongue too short
- Toothache worse by touch
- Shaking chill during and after vomiting
- Empty, hungry sensation two hours after eating
- Pain and paralytic condition of arms
- Effects of insufficient sleep; useful for night-watchers
- Pustular eruption on forehead and knee with voluptuous itching
- Pressure and sticking in pit of stomach worse by motion in evening
Worse (aggravation)
- Evening
- Motion
- Walking in open air
- Touch (toothache)
Acetate of Zinc. Zn(C2H3O2)23H2O. Solution.
Clinical
Diarrhœa. Erysipelas. Gastritis. Night-watching, effects of. Toothache.
Characteristics
Zn. ac. was proved by Hahnemann and others. The most Peculiar Symptoms were these: "Brain feels sore and as if sprinkled with salt." "Throat seems too tight and tongue too short." There was toothache < by touch. Shaking chill during and after vomiting. Empty, hungry sensation. Pain and paralytic condition of arms. The symptoms were < in evening. < By motion. < Walking in open air. The only clinical uses of Zn. ac. I am acquainted with I learned from Burnett. He used Rademacher's solution of Zinc in Acetic Acid, and gave 5-drop doses three times a day in water to nurses and others who were compelled to work on an insufficient amount of sleep. I have verified the great utility of this. Another use to which Burnett put it was in erysipelas of old people. In the provers it produced a pustular eruption on forehead and knee; and the latter was attended with voluptuous itching.
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