Aceticum acidum

 Generalities

 – The leading symptoms of this drugs are, profound anaemia, with waxy pallor of the face; excessive emaciation; great debility; frequent fainting; difficult breathing; weak heart; profuse urination, vomiting; and sweat.

 – It antidotes the effects of all anaesthetic vapours.

 – In convulsions, patient jumps out of bed, like a madman and crawls on the floor.

 – It is a remedy, for general anasarca and dropsical affections.

 – Haemorrhage; from nose, stomach, rectum, lungs, ulcers, etc.

 – Child wants to be carried.

 – Naevi; warts, corns.

 Mind

 – Grieves, about his sickness and his children.

 – Worried about business affairs.

 – Borrows trouble.

 – Does not know her own children.

 – Forgets what he recently happened.

 Head

 – Aches, from abuse of narcotics, tobacco.

 – Child does not let its head touched.

 Face

 – Left cheek red, during fever.

 – Pale, waxen, emaciated.

 Nose

 – Bleed esp. from fall or blow.

 Throat

 – Children thirsty, but swallow with difficulty, even a teaspoonful. (Diphtheria).

 Stomach

 – No thirst with fever.

 – Great thirst with dropsy.

 – Violent burning pain in stomach and chest, followed by coldness of skin, and cold sweat on forehead.

 – Vomiting, after every kind of food.

 – Ulcer, cancer, of the stomach.

 – Cold drinks disagree; vegetables, except potatoes, disagree.

 – Bread and butter disagree.

 Abdomen

 – Tympanitic.

 – Ascites.

 – Haemorrhages from bowels.

 – Chronic diarrhoea, of emaciated children.

 – Scirrhus of pylorus.

 Urinary organs

 – Large quantities of pale urine.

 – Diabetes, with great thirst and debility.

 Female

 – Metrorrhagia, with great thirst; after parturition.

 – Threatening abscess of the breast.

 – Milk impoverished, bluish, sour; sucking droop, lose flesh, get marasmus.

 Respiratory

 – Cough when inhaling.

 – Hurried and laborious breathing.

 – Rattling in chest.

 Back

 – Pain (Myelitis) only relieved by lying on abdomen; with profuse urination.

 Extremities

 – Oedematous swelling of feet and legs, with diarrhoea.

 Skin

 – Diminished sensibility of the whole body.

 – Burning, dry, skin.

 Fever

 – Hectic; with drenching night sweats; sweat profuse and cold.

 Related

 – Follows China after haemorrhages.

Source: Phatak Materia Medica