- Source: Derived from nitric acid (HNO₃), a highly corrosive mineral acid, prepared for homeopathic use through serial dilutionPotentized liquid homeopathic medicineA solution prepared by repeatedly diluting and shaking (succussing) a substance to enhance healing power while removing toxicity. and succussionVigorous shaking of homeopathic dilutionThe process of vigorously shaking a liquid homeopathic solution against a firm surface during dilution to potentize it. to enhance therapeutic action while eliminating material toxicity, in accordance with homeopathic pharmacopeia standards.
- Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for mucosal, dermatological,.
- Psychological, gastrointestinal, and systemic disorders , particularly those involving ulcerations,.
- Irritability, and chronic debility.
- It is noted for symptoms such as fissures, warts, anxiety, and offensive discharges, often aggravated by cold, night, or emotional stress, and ameliorated by warmth, rest, or gentle motion.
- Modern Context: Indicated for mucosal conditions (e.g., oral ulcers, anal fissures),.
- Dermatological conditions (e.g., warts, psoriasis🩺 PsoriasisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.), psychological conditions (e.g., generalized anxiety disorder🩺 Generalized Anxiety DisorderClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., obsessive-compulsive disorder🩺 Obsessive-Compulsive DisorderClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.), gastrointestinal conditions (e.g., peptic ulcer disease🩺 Peptic Ulcer DiseaseClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., hemorrhoids🩺 HemorrhoidsClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.), and systemic conditions (e.g., chronic fatigue syndrome, cachexiaWasting of body tissues due to chronic illnessWeakness and wasting of the body due to severe chronic illness, such as tuberculosis or cancer.).
- It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by ulcerations, warts, anxiety, offensive discharges, or debility, typically exacerbated by cold, night, or emotional stress, and often seen in individuals with irritable, cachectic constitutions.
- The remedy is particularly relevant for those with mucosal or dermatological conditions, often presenting with symptoms like painful fissures or persistent warts, commonly observed in patients with anal fissures, warts, or generalized anxiety disorder triggered by stress, cold exposure, or chronic illness.
- COMMENTS-Affinity for the mucocutaneous orifices and adjoining parts, particularly the intes tines, throat, and mouth.
- The mouth, especially in the angles, and anus are prominent seats of syphilitic action and also of the action of the other miasms, the condylomata and fissures of sycosis, the fissures, fistulaAbnormal passage connecting two body partsAn abnormal or surgically made passage between a hollow or tubular organ and the body surface, or between two hollow organs., hemorrhoidsPiles or swollen veins in the rectumSwollen, inflamed blood vessels around the anus or lower rectum, causing pain, itching, or bleeding. and sore mouth of psora.
- Salivation, sores in the mouth, sore throats.
- Mouth symptoms are often confused with Merc.🌿 Merc.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. Characteristic offensive discharges, thin, excoriating.
- If purulent, they are a dirty yellowish green🌿 GreenMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., not laudable pus.
- Ulcers on the skin and in the mouth.
- UlcerOpen painful sore on skin or mucous membraneAn open sore on an external or internal surface of the body, caused by a break in the skin or mucous membrane. s have profuse exuberant granulations and bleed easily.
- Suppuration.
- Painful scars.
- Characteristic sticking pain, as if from splinter, in any part of the body.
- Pain comes aftertouch or movement.
- Pains, even slight ones, affect him violently.
- Cramp🌿 CrampMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.-like pai ns, stinging, shooting, burning, pressure and soreness.
- Twitchings in various parts, frequent starts in upper part of body.
- Left sided paralysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body..
- Sensitiveness to touch runs through the entire symptomatology including the symptoms of the mind.
- The head is sensitive to the slightest jar, to the rattle of wagons in the street, or even to the step of one walk ing across the floor, to the pressure of a hat, sensitive to combing and on part lain on Eruptions and ulcers bleed easily when touched.
- Eyes are sensi tive to light.
- Sensi tiveness of the head while out driving, stop ping suddenly.
- The tongue is sensitive even to soft food.
- ChillyHypersensitive to cold temperaturesA constitutional state of feeling exceptionally cold, lacking vital heat, and needing warmth or heavy blankets..
- Easily catches colds.
- Hyperallergic, multiple allergies.
- Excessive physical irritability, hysteria.
- Anxiety (Ars.🌿 Ars.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.), obsession about their health.
- Fixed ideas that they have a disease.
- Extremely pessimistic.
- Negative attitude, irritable, complaining.
- Arrogant.
- Hateful and vindictive.
- ProstrationExtreme physical weakness or exhaustionA state of extreme physical weakness, collapse, or exhaustion, often accompanying severe illness., sick feeling, faints from least motion.
- Deafness, epilepsy🩺 EpilepsyClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., better riding in carria ge.
- Emaciated.
- Ailments from nursing loved ones (Cocc.🌿 Cocc.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., Caust., Nux-v.🌿 Nux-V.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Night watching (Caust., Cocc., Nux-v., Care., Phos.🌿 Phos.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Exhausting sweats towards morning, chilly.
- Profuse, fetid sweats on feet, hands or in axilla.
- Flashes of heat in hands and feet.
- Sudden rush of blood to the chest.
- Hectic, frequent hemorrhages, bright, red, profuse.
- Hemorrhages occurring in cachectic women after confinement or abortion.
- Shatp stitches through right chest to scapula.
- Tuberculosis🩺 TuberculosisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. when the chest walls are extremely sore to touch.
- Great dyspneaDifficulty or shortness of breathLaborious or painful breathing, often associated with respiratory or cardiac conditions., cannot talk for getting out of breath.
- Morning hoarseness.
- Tickling cough, seems to annoy all night, at times loose and rattling.
- Loud rales through chest, offensive sputa, bloody.
- Strong smelling urine, very offensive.
- Typhus w hen pneumonia🩺 PneumoniaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. supervenes, also when the bowels hemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse..
- Stools are green, slimy offensive, may be purulent, exhausting.
- Slimy stools from excess of mucus passed with much straining.
- Stools may be pale, pasty, sour, and offensive, especially in scrofulousProne to swollen glands or tuberculosisRelating to scrofula, a constitutional tendency to tuberculous swelling of the lymph nodes. children.
- The stool is putrid in children, may contain lumps of casein.
- DysenteryIntestinal infection with severe bloody diarrheaInfection of the intestines resulting in severe diarrhea with the presence of blood and mucus in the feces. and colitisInflammation of the colon (large intestine)Inflammation of the inner lining of the colon, causing abdominal pain, cramping, or bloody diarrhea..
- Tendency to acute or chronic diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day. with every cold (Ars.).
- Diarrhea from diet, or since antibiotics.
- Rawness and soreness of the anus wit h diarrhea.
- Pain after stools, whether loose or constipated.
- As if anus and rectum were torn and pierced, violent pains after stool lasting for hours.
- Anal fissures with bloody stools and mucus.
- Anal warts.
- Burnett made a cure of actinomycosis with Nit-ac.
- 3x in a patient who had seen many London consultants and had doubtless taken much Kali-i.🌿 Kali-I.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- The localities in which the disease manifested itself, the region of the mouth and anus, gave Burnett his indication.
- H. N. Coons recorded the case of an anemic woma n who, four weeks after miscarriage, had constant pelvic hemorrhages, at times coming with a gush, a constant heavy feeling, much worse standing or walking.
- Nit-ac.
- 2x, 20 drops in three ounces of water🌿 WaterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., a teaspoonful every two hours, quickly ar rested bleeding and cured.
- W. M. James cured a case in which a girl had frequent attacks of petit mal, sometimes as many as fifty a day, between the periods.
- At the beginning of menses she had spasms so violent that they dislocated both humeri.
- Giving Nit-ac.
- 200c p ersistently gradually put an end to the attacks.
- The first few times after beginning treatment, there were spasms but no dislocation.
- D. C. Perkins related the case of a woman who said she was very ill, but could only describe her illness by saying that she “felt Nitricum acidum like a pulp-mill.🌿 Mill.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.” Nit-ac has “borborygmus as if a boiler was working in the bowels,” and proved to be the remedy.
- Mohr gave Nit-ac.
- 3x to a man who suf fered from liver cancer with bloody diarrhea, followed by constipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass., and violent pains in the stomach and liver.
- He was unable to sleep or to take any food without much pain, vomiting.
- Nit-ac removed the pain and relieved the constipation entirely, and the patient died without an hour’s suffering from the time he received treatment.
- J. H. Fulton cured M., 28. with one dose of Nit-ac.
- 200c.
- M had bleeding hemorrhoids for eighteen mouths.
- He had frequent bloody and slimy stools, and bright red blood after stools ranging in quantity from a dessert spoonful to half a tea🌿 TeaMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. cupful.
- When the stools were hard there was much pain in passing them.
- Burning in the anus after stools.
- Temperature-Icy coldness of soles.
- Chilly, continuous.
- Chi lls after lying down.
- Chills from least exposure.
- Chills in room or at fire.
- Chills in waves up each side of spine and over chest.
- Chills with aversion to heat.🌿 Heat.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- Chills with internal heat.
- Dry heat, at night, with violent thirst.
- Heat flushes with sweat on hands.
- Heat flushes of single parts, or over entire body.
- Dry heat, internal, at night, wants to uncover.
- Blood seems hot at night, causes sleeplessness.
- As of a dry, hot cloth on abdomen.
- ColicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants. relieved from tighte ning clothes.
- Inguinal hernia🩺 Inguinal HerniaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. of children.
- Appetite variable or absent.
- Great hunger with sweetish taste.
- Great thirst.
- Aversion to cheese, bread, sight and smell of meat.
- Dislikes meat, things sweetened with sugar, bread.
- Longing for indigestible things, chalk, earth.
- Loves fat, herring and salt (Sulph.).
- Craving for cheese, fish, carbonated drinks, sweets.
- Worse milk🌿 MilkMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. and fatty food.
- Worse after eating.
- Bitter🌿 BitterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. taste after eating
