Condensed Materia Medica

Muriaticum Acidum mur-ac.

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Mind

Unconsciousness.
Moaning.
Sitting quiet, sad and silent, with anxious care about the future.
Irritable, disposed to anger and chagrin.
Peevishness.
Restlessness, frequently changing position.

Sensorium

Vertigo: worse moving the eyes; slightly worse walking, though this relieves headache with tottering gait.
Dizzy, nauseated, 1 A.M., worse lying on right side or back.
Heaviness in occiput, with obscure sight worse with effort to see; also, with swollen glands.

Inner Head

Headache in spells regularly every day, from 9 A.M. until 1 P.M.; begins with soreness over left eye; then in eyeball and left half of nose, forehead and temple, to back of head.
Headache, as if the brain were torn or beaten to pieces; worse moving the eyes or sitting up in bed; better from moderate exercise.
Headache, as if brain were clasped by a hand and was being twisted and torn.
Steady, sharp pain in back part of head, with a heavy feeling, as if occiput were filled with lead.
Headache from walking in open air, especially in cold wind.
Distant talking causes headache.

Outer Head

Stiff and sore: in occiput, worse when touched; on left side of head and down spine, worse on lying.
Tearing in the right parietal bone.
Heat on top of head.
Feels as if hair were standing on end.

Eyes

Perpendicular half sight.
Obscured sight; pain in occiput.
Pupils contracted.
Itching, smarting in canthi.
Lids red, swollen.
Stitches out of the eyes.
Worse from light, better in the dark.

Ears

Hardness of hearing; loud cracking sounds during the night; no cerumen; dryness, peeling off in scales; worse right ear.
Distant sounds cause headache; sound of voice unbearable.
Want of feeling in the internal meatus.
Tingling, humming, whizzing in the ear.
Beating or knocking in the ear.
Otalgia, with pressing pain.
Tingling, creeping, cold pain, running from ears up to top of head, sharp boring in temporal regions.
Dark ear-wax, with buzzing.

Nose

Long-lasting nosebleed.
Nosebleed. θ Whooping-cough.
Coryza thin, acrid, making parts sore.
Coryza, with thick yellow discharge.
Discharge of thin pus from nose, excoriating the parts.
Nose stopped up.

Face

Heat in face, glowing red cheeks when walking in open air; no thirst.
Sudden red face, with coma. θ Scarlatina.
Red pimples on forehead, cheeks and around mouth, whole face red; every summer.
Scabs on face, forehead, temples.
Pimples; freckles.

Lower Face

Lower jaw hangs down.
Pimples around the mouth form a scurf.
Burning lips.
Bloated lower lip; feels heavy, burns.
Pain below left half of lower lip, from 4 P.M. till midnight.

Teeth

Toothache (pulsating) from cold drinks; toothache, with earache.
Tingling toothache; better from warm applications.
Gums swollen, bleeding, ulcerating.
Teeth rise from their sockets.

Tongue, etc

Everything tastes sweet.
Taste acrid and putrid, like rotten eggs, with ptyalism.
Tongue heavy as lead, hinders talking; feels lame, sore.
Tongue dwindles.
Tongue sore, bluish; contains deep ulcers: with black bases and vesicles.

Mouth

Stomacace of nursing children; patch on right side of tongue, large and irregular, but very deep; fetid breath.
Stomatitis, with extreme dryness, swollen gums, great adynamia.
Foul breath. θ Scarlatina.
Mouth as if glued up with insipid mucus; much saliva.
Salivary glands tender, swollen.

Throat

Rawness and smarting of fauces; burning.
Dry throat, with burning in the chest.
Dark, bluish-red fauces in scarlet fever: 46.

Desires and Aversions

Excessive hunger and thirst.
Aversion to meat.
Morbid longing for alcoholic drinks.
Thirst: 40.

Eating and Drinking

Hiccough (before and after dinner).
Better after drinking.
After eating: worse; diarrhœa.
Cold drinks: 40.

Nausea and Vomiting

Eructations: bitter, putrid.
Vomiting, with belching, coughing; involuntary swallowing; gulping up of contents of stomach into œsophagus, sometimes going down again.

Stomach

Empty sensation in stomach extending through whole abdomen, but no hunger; weak feeling in the stomach from 10 A.M. until evening.

Hypochondria

Pressing and tension in the hypochondria.

Abdomen

Fulness and distention of abdomen, from small quantities of food.
Rumbling and feeling of emptiness.
Cramps in abdomen.
Hernia.

Stool, etc

Stool: difficult, as from inactivity of the bowels; too thin, but round; thin, watery, involuntary, while urinating; greenish in typhoid.
Dysentery, blood and slime separated.
Diarrhœa, with much wind; worse morning and evening; with intolerable anal itching, not relieved by scratching; smarting and burning in anus.
As soon as he begins to move, strong urging compelling haste; stools profuse, dark, brown, greenish, gelatinous; followed by dragging, heavy sensation in abdomen.
Piles, suddenly, in children; protruding, reddish-blue, burning; too sore to bear the least touch.
Prolapsus ani while urinating.

Urine

Frequent and scanty urination.
Frequent and profuse urination.
Slow emission of urine; bladder weak; must wait a long time before urine will pass; has to press so that anus protrudes.
Urine involuntary.
Urine red, violet; milk-like.
Burning, cutting, while urinating; straining in urethra afterwards.

Male Sexual Organs

Organs weak, penis relaxed.
Impotency; desire weak.
Watery, blood gleet.
Scrotum bluish red.
Itching of scrotum, not relieved by scratching.
Margin of prepuce sore.

Female Sexual Organs

Pressing on genitals, as if menses would appear.
Menses too early and profuse; dejection of spirits; silent, as if she would die; colic; sore piles.
Ulcers on genitals, with putrid discharge, much sensitiveness and general weakness.
Cannot bear least touch, not even of sheet on the genitals.
Leucorrhœa with backache, sore anus from piles.

Pregnancy

Puerperal fever.

Larynx

Hoarseness: with sore feeling in the chest, with whooping-cough.

Breathing

Breathing deep, groaning; moaning; deep sighing.
Breathing seems to come from the stomach.
Short breath, with rattling after drinking, talking or coughing.
Dyspnœa and constriction of chest. θ Whooping-cough.
Oppression across the chest (evening).

Cough

Rough, with rattling in chest, followed by cramp in the stomach; short breath; with heat in the face.
Whooping-cough; after the attacks, audible rumbling, gurgling down the chest.
Whooping-cough excited by tickling in chest; in afternoon and evening without, in morning, with a slight dislodgment of a yellow or watery mucus of a fatty taste, and which must be swallowed; sometimes with expectoration of dark blood.

Lungs

Stitches in chest, and at heart, when taking a long breath and on violent motion; burning stitches.
Tension and pain on the sternum.
Bursting pain in chest; pain as if beaten.

Heart and Pulse

Palpitation of the heart felt in the face.
Stitches in heart.
Pulse slow and weak, sometimes intermitting; slow during day, more frequent at night.

Neck and Back

Pressing pain in back, as from a sprain, or as if he had stopped long.
Pressing, drawing, tired pain in lumbar region.
Os coccyx pains.

Upper Limbs

Heaviness of the arms, especially forearms.
Scabby eruption on back, hands and fingers.
Numbness, coldness and deadness of fingers at night.
Swelling and burning of tips of finger.
Itching of palms.

Lower limbs

Wavering gait from weakness of thighs.
Pain in right thigh, with itching in anus.
Œdematous swelling of lower limbs, with shooting pain.
Lower limbs darker-colored.
Putrid ulcers on lower extremities, with burning around them.
Cold feet.
Blue feet. θ Scarlatina.
Chilblains (the acid in rum applied externally).
Swelling, redness and burning of tips of toes.

Limbs in General

Tearing pains in limbs during rest, better from motion.
All the joints as if bruised.
Pressive drawing in upper arms and knees.

Position, etc

Changes position frequently: 1, 40. Moving eyes: 2, 3. Effort to see: 2. Walking: 2, 3, 8. Lying on right side or back: 2, 4. Rising up: 3. Rest: 34, 36. Sitting: 36.

Nerves

Prostration and drowsiness all day; she wants to lie about.
Great debility; as soon as he sits down his eyes close; the lower jaws hang down; he slides down in bed.
Paralysis generally one-sided.
Paralyzed tongue and sphincter ani.

Sleep

Sleepy during day, going off as soon as one moves about.
Sleepless before 12 P.M. delirious tossing, sliding down in bed.
Restless after going to bed, could not sleep before 12 P.M.; groaning, snoring, talking in sleep.
Worse on waking.

Time

Morning: 27, 40. 9 A.M. till 1 P.M.: 3. 10 A.M. till evening: 17. Morning and evening: 20. Afternoon and evening: 27. 4 P.M. till midnight: 9. Evening: 26, 37, 40. Night: 6, 29. After midnight: 2. Night and morning: 40. Day: 29, 36, 37.

Temperature and Weather

Aversion to open air: sensitive to cold, damp, stormy, windy weather.
Cold air: 3, 8. Warmth: 10. Every summer: 8. In bed: 40, 46. Wants to uncover: 40, 46.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

More chill than heat.
Chill awakens him in the morning.
Evening chill, with coldness in back, external warmth and burning face.
Shivering all over, with hot cheeks and cold hands.
Chill and heat without thirst, rarely, there is thirst in cold stage.
Internal heat, wants to uncover; bodily restlessness.
Heat at night, with palpitation of the heart.
Burning, mostly in palms and soles.
Sweat during first sleep until 12 P.M., worse head and back.
Night and morning sweats.
Cold sweat on the feet, evening in bed.
Worse when sweating; taciturn; wants to uncover.
Intermittent fever, with periosteal pains.
Typhus: stupid sleep; while awake unconscious; loud moaning; lower jaw dropped; tongue shrunken, dry, like leather; involuntary stools while passing urine; sliding down in bed; bleeding from anus; pulse intermits every third beat.

Attacks

Regularly every day from 9 A.M. till 1 P.M.: 3.

Sides

Left: 3, 4, 9. Right: 6, 12. Below upward: 6.

Sensations

Loss of bodily irritability.
Tearing and stitches through whole body.

Contact, Injuries, etc

Touch: 4, 20, 23, 46. Scratching: 20, 22.

Skin

Painful putrid ulcers (lower legs), with burning at their circumference.
Eruption of pimples, forming scurfs on forehead, outer ear, lips hands or back of fingers; itching when getting warm in bed.
Blood-boils, pricking when touched.
Ulcers painful, deep, putrid; covered with scurf.
Black pocks.
Scarlatina: redness intense and rapidly spreading; eruption scanty, interspersed with petechiæ; skin purplish.

Stages and States

Black eyes, dark hair.

Relationship

Follows well after Rhus, Bryon.
Mur. ac. antidotes: Opium. Cures the muscular weakness following excessive use of opium.
Antidotes to Mur. ac. Large doses: carbonate of soda, potassa, lime or magnesia; also, sapo, medicinalis, small doses: Camphor., Bryon.