{"id":18152,"remedy_name":"Picricum Acidum (HMT)","remedy_type":"Remedy","alternative_names":["Trinitrophenol"],"miasm":"Tubercular Miasm","temperament":"Neutral","aggravation_time":"Neutral\/Anytime","keynote_indications":"Generally patients of acidic types are chilly and feel better in heat.\nHowever, in Picric Acid, patients are intolerant to heat and feel better\nin cold weather. Their ailments a ggravate in hot weather, while the\ncold breeze feels very pleasant and s oothing.  Picric Acid is the drug\nof choice for this latter group.  Picric  Acid plays an important role in\nthe treatment of mental fatigue and general weakness.  Usually, the\nsymptoms of mental fatigue appear  in old age with the onset of\narteriosclerosis i.e. the thickening, hardening and narrowing of the\nblood vessels going towards the brai n and the resultant  decrease in\nblood flow to the brain. Similar symptoms are also seen temporarily in\n\u201cBrain Fag\u201d.  The brain fag occurs due to a transitory spasm of the\ncerebral vessels decreasing the blood flow to the brain and is usually\nrelated to stomach upset.  When a pa tient of arteriosclerosis develops\nstomach upset, the brain fag become s more obvious.  In brain fag,\nthere is a sudden temporary loss of recent memory.  For example, the\npatient forgets what he had eaten a few minutes ago and becomes\nangry with his relatives for not feed ing him.  He keeps on insisting\nthat nobody does his work when in fact it has already been done.  The\npatient is unable to recognise faces.  Loss of recent memory and\nretention of the old memory is typical of brain fag .  It is brain fag\nthat is more pronounced in Picric Acid.  There is no cure for the\nchronic mental deficiency resulting from arteriosclerosis.  However,\nthe severity of the symptoms may keep on fluctuating.  If the\nsymptoms like brain fag are not due to arteriosclerosis but due to some\nother temporary conditions, like poisoning and toxaemia, then the\nappropriate treatment can be readily effective.\n\nThe brain fag of Picric Acid closely resembles arteriosclerosis.  Picric\nAcid is very useful in the treatm ent of frequent episodes of loss of\nrecent memory.  Picric Acid is beneficial for a headache, only if it is\ncaused by prolonged mental overwork and a prolonged period of grief.\nSome students who are very hardworking, and are always afraid of\nexaminations develop permanent headache .  Picric Acid is an\nimportant remedy for these patients.  Picric Acid is an effective\ntreatment for headaches, no matter whether these are severe or not.\nSleep comforts the Picric Acid patients.\n\nIn Picric Acid, the eye muscles become weak  and the patient feels\nheaviness in the eyes.  The feeling of dryness and heaviness and sand\nin the eyes, are very conspicuous.  In Picric Acid, like Ruta, fine\nvisual work hurts the eyes.  The strain of reading fine print hurts\nthe eyes also.  When the muscles around the eyes become weak, this\ninterferes with the performance of da ily activities of life.  Picric Acid\nis useful for relieving this weakness, as is Ruta.  In Onosmodium also,\nthe headache starts on reading fine print.  The cause of this headache\nis different, though the end result i.e. the headache is similar.\n\nOnosmodium is stated to be good in the treatment of sexual\nweakness of men and women. In particul ar, it is said to be very\neffective in treating some weaknesses of young men.\n\nIn the patient of Picric Acid, there is an increase of uric acid and\nphosphates and a decrease of sulphate .  It is readil y detectable on\nurine examination.  There are several remedies whose symptoms are\nrelated to the lower half of the body , while there are some related to\nthe upper part of the body.  The homo eopathic form of Picric Acid\nrelieves the heaviness of the lower part of the body.  For the weakness\nof the spine and the legs, Conium and Phosphorus are also useful.\n\nFor all symptoms resulting from the ill effects of grief  or emotional\nupset besides headache, Picric Acid is very useful.  Furthermore,\nAmbra Grisea, Ignatia, Natrum Mur, Acid Phos and Silicea, are\nexcellent remedies for relieving the ill  effects of grief and sorrow.  It\nis not difficult to differentiate them from Picric Acid.\n\nPicric Acid is also very useful for the treatment of pimples and\nacne.  For those who are anaemic and get tired of hard physical and\nmental work, Picric Acid is very us eful.  In a Picric Acid patient, the\nheadache becomes less by lying down and on tightly tying the head.\nHowever, the headache becomes wo rse with movement, bending over\nand mental exertion.  The patient feels comfortable in the open and\ncold air.  However, in the humid weather, the pain increases.\n\nPotency: 30 to 200","modalities":"","symptoms_by_system":[],"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}