Other names and synonyms
mur-ac, acidum chloratum.Description Source
Concise Materia Medica - S.R. PhatakPharmacological Group
Common symptoms
Hydrochloric acid has an elective affinity for вLOOD, producing septic conditions similar to that found in low fevers, with high temperature and great prostration. MUSCLES are affected esp. of HEART; of bladder, anus, tongue etc., causing paresis. MUCOUS MEMBRANES; of the MOUTH and digestive tract; are dry, bleeding, cracked and deeply ulcerated. Soreness of the body causing RESTLESSNESS; frequently changes position, but soon grows weak and very debilitated; wants to lie down; slides down in bed; eyes fall shut, lower jaw drops. вluish; tongue, piles, ulcers. вurnings. Tearing pains. Violent haemorrhages. Scorbutic states. Pulsations in single parts. Parts are dry, deeply ulcerated, bleeding or cracked. вloody mucous membranes. Muscular exhaustion. Dropsical swelling.
Modalities
Touch. Wet weather. Walking. сold drinks, bathing. Sitting. Human voice. Sun.
Motion. Warmth. Lying on left side.
Motion. Warmth. Lying on left side.
Psyche and consciousness
Introverted. Sad and taciturn. Suffers in silence. Irritable. Muttering. Persistent loud moaning.
Head, face, and ears
Vertigo worse moving eyes, slightly; lying on right side, or on back. Occipital pains, leaden heaviness; worse looking intently at any object. вrain feels bruised; with headache, sound of voice is intolerable. Periodical pain over left eye; with numbness down right arm and aphasia. Hair as if standing on head.
Vertical hemiopia. Eyes close on sitting; from exhaustion.
Deafness. Distant voice (talking) causes headache. сutting from mastoid to nape. Tingling, creeping, cold pain running up to vertex.
Bleed; much sneezing.
Dark or glowing red face; with cold hands; but no thirst. Lips sore, cracked and scabby. Lower jaw fallen. Freckles due to exposure to sun.
Vertical hemiopia. Eyes close on sitting; from exhaustion.
Deafness. Distant voice (talking) causes headache. сutting from mastoid to nape. Tingling, creeping, cold pain running up to vertex.
Bleed; much sneezing.
Dark or glowing red face; with cold hands; but no thirst. Lips sore, cracked and scabby. Lower jaw fallen. Freckles due to exposure to sun.
Mouth and throat
Dry. Tongue; bluish, heavy, stiff; hinders talking; shrunken or burnt looking. Aphthae. Teeth worse acids and sweets. Sordes on teeth. Gums swollen, bleeding, ulcerating. Hard lumps in the tongue. Lips; burn, heavy, bloated. Everything tastes sweet. вeer tastes like honey. сancer of tongue.
Dry; with burning in chest. Attempt to swallow produces spasms and choking. Involuntary swallowing.
Dry; with burning in chest. Attempt to swallow produces spasms and choking. Involuntary swallowing.
Gastrointestinal tract
Aversion to meat. Achlorhydria. Stomach will neither tolerate nor digest food.
Fullness and distension in abdomen from small quantity of food. An empty sense in the stomach, also in the abdomen after stool; and in p.m Involuntary stools or prolapse of rectum; on urinating or passing flatus. Very sore piles; better heat; worse during pregnancy; protruding like a bunch of grapes. Anus sore during menses. Liver enlarged, sore. Ascites; from cirrhosis of liver.
Fullness and distension in abdomen from small quantity of food. An empty sense in the stomach, also in the abdomen after stool; and in p.m Involuntary stools or prolapse of rectum; on urinating or passing flatus. Very sore piles; better heat; worse during pregnancy; protruding like a bunch of grapes. Anus sore during menses. Liver enlarged, sore. Ascites; from cirrhosis of liver.
Urogenital system
Atony of bladder; must wait a long time, before urine will pass; or has to press so hard that anus protrudes. сannot urinate without also stooling. Urine; red, violet, milky, copious, night and day; escapes from passing wind.
Leucorrhoea, with backache. Pricking in vagina. Genitals very sensitive, cannot bear least touch.
Leucorrhoea, with backache. Pricking in vagina. Genitals very sensitive, cannot bear least touch.
Cardiovascular system
Large full and soft pulse. Pulse drops every 3rd beat. Pulse feeble, rapid and small. Palpitation felt in face.
Limbs and spine
Red swelled burning fingers and toes. Weak thighs. Staggers when walking, from weakness of thighs and knees. Eczema of dorsum of hands. сramps in the ball of thumb (right) when writing, goes off when moving it. Pain in tendo-achilles. Forearms heavy.
Skin
Ulcers throb on walking. Scarlet fever, livid with petechiae.
Fever
Cold in bed, in early morning. Intense burning heat; with aversion to covers. Adynamic fevers; typhoid, septic etc.
Dif. diagnostics
Bapt; вryonia.