- Source: Derived from nitric acid (HNO₃), a highly corrosive mineral acid, prepared for homeopathic use through serial dilution and succussion 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), psychological conditions (e.g., generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder), gastrointestinal conditions (e.g., peptic ulcer disease, hemorrhoids), and systemic conditions (e.g., chronic fatigue syndrome, cachexia).
- 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, fistula, hemorrhoids and sore mouth of psora.
- Salivation, sores in the mouth, sore throats.
- Mouth symptoms are often confused with Merc.
- Characteristic offensive discharges, thin, excoriating.
- If purulent, they are a dirty yellowish green, not laudable pus.
- Ulcers on the skin and in the mouth.
- Ulcer 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-like pai ns, stinging, shooting, burning, pressure and soreness.
- Twitchings in various parts, frequent starts in upper part of body.
- Left sided paralysis.
- 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.
- Chilly.
- Easily catches colds.
- Hyperallergic, multiple allergies.
- Excessive physical irritability, hysteria.
- Anxiety (Ars.), obsession about their health.
- Fixed ideas that they have a disease.
- Extremely pessimistic.
- Negative attitude, irritable, complaining.
- Arrogant.
- Hateful and vindictive.
- Prostration, sick feeling, faints from least motion.
- Deafness, epilepsy, better riding in carria ge.
- Emaciated.
- Ailments from nursing loved ones (Cocc., Caust., Nux-v.).
- Night watching (Caust., Cocc., Nux-v., Care., Phos.).
- 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 when the chest walls are extremely sore to touch.
- Great dyspnea, 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 supervenes, also when the bowels hemorrhage.
- 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 scrofulous children.
- The stool is putrid in children, may contain lumps of casein.
- Dysentery and colitis.
- Tendency to acute or chronic diarrhea 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.
- 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, 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.” 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 constipation, 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 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.
- 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.
- Colic relieved from tighte ning clothes.
- Inguinal hernia 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 and fatty food.
- Worse after eating.
- Bitter taste after eating
