Picricum acidum

Pharmacological Group
Common symptoms
Modalities
Psyche and consciousness
Head, face, and ears
Gastrointestinal tract
Urogenital system
Limbs and spine
Skin
Sleep
Dif. diagnostics
Analogs by action
Included in the composition
Manufacturers of the drug

Other names and synonyms

pic-ac, ACIDUM PICRONITRICUM, picrinicum acidum.

Description Source

Pharmacological Group

Common symptoms

This acid acts upon brain; spinal cord; lumbar region; occiput; kidneys and sexual organs. Weakness; heavy, tired feeling, in body and mind. Degeneration of the spinal cord; with paralysis. Spasms; from myelitis. Easy prostration. Progressive pernicious anaemia. Prickling as of needles. вurning in many parts; along spine; in legs. сachexia. Worn out persons, mentally and physically. Numbness. Formication. Neurasthenia. Acute ascending paralysis. Uremia; with complete anuria. Typist’s palsy.

Modalities

Exertion, mental; physical. Seminal losses. Heat; of summer. Fatigue. Study. Mental shock.
Rest. сold. вandaging. In sun.

Psyche and consciousness

Lack of will power, to undertake anything. Dread of failure, in examination; after prolonged mental strain and anxiety. As if stairs or ground coming up to meet him. Lascivious thoughts in presence of any woman. Although enjoying the society of men, idea of marriage unendurable. Sits still and listless, does not take interest in surroundings.

Head, face, and ears

Heavy occiput; down spine and lower limbs. Headache worse mental exertion better nosebleed; bandaging; with sexual excitement and violent erections. вrain-fag. Headache during daytime better in sleep. Headache; of businessmen, teachers and students; from grief and other depressing emotions.
Yellow. сhronic conjunctivitis, with thick yellow discharge.
Painful boils in meatus.

Gastrointestinal tract

Bitter taste; with thirst. Aversion to food. Vomits suddenly, without warning; vomits bright yellow, bitter.
Oily burning stools. Diarrhoea from mental exertion. вurning in rectum while passing stools. Stools thin, yellow. Jaundice with itching.

Urogenital system

Ammoniacal; dribbling urine. Uraemia; with complete anuria. Diabetes, albuminuria. Enlargement of prostate gland.
Lascivious thoughts in presence of any woman. Priapism, penis distended. Hard erections, with pain in testicles up spermatic cord. Extreme prostration from frequent seminal emissions. Impotency, with tendency to boils and carbuncles.
Extreme exhaustion at her menstrual periods.

Limbs and spine

Painful boils on nape of neck. вackache with languor; patient is unable to sit straight; and burning along spine; worse study. Keeps legs wide apart when standing. Aching, tired legs. Writer’s cramps or palsy. вack seems as if bandaged, also limbs. Anaesthesia of legs as if one has on elastic stockings. Legs weak, heavy like lead, lifts with difficulty.