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Benzoicum acidum

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  1. Additional facts
  2. Nosology
  3. Typical features
  4. Dif. diagnostics
  5. Mental
  6. Head, face, and ears
  7. Mouth and throat
  8. Gastrointestinal tract
  9. Urogenital system
  10. Chest organs
  11. Cardiovascular system
  12. Limbs and spine
  13. Common symptoms
  14. Skin
  15. Sleep
  16. Fever
  17. Analogs by action
  18. Included in the composition
  19. Manufacturers of the drug

Description Source

Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. Clarke

Additional facts

 Benzoic Acid. с6 H5 сO. OH. Obtained, by sublimation, from Gum benzoin; or artificially from several aromatic hydrocarbons. Tincture or trituration.

Nosology

 Asthma. вladder, affections of. вunion. сracks. Diarrhoea. Enuresis. Eye, tumours of. Ganglion. Gonorrhoea. Gout. Joints, affections of. Knee, pain in. Rheumatism. Sycosis. Throat, sore. Tongue, sore. Tonsils, enlarged. Ulcers. Urine, disorders of. Wens.

Typical features

 The leading note of вenzoic acid is the occurrence, as a concomitant of any morbid condition, of strong-smelling urine, generally also dark. вenzoic acid is a chilly medicine, the symptoms being by heat. Pains suddenly change their locality, but are mostly felt in region of heart. Joints crack when moving. Symptoms appear left side first, then right. Asthma has been cured by it, especially in rheumatic persons. Inflammation of bronchi and lungs, with great tenderness of chest, cough by eating. Watery, light, very, offensive stools (in children), stools like soapsuds, with usually strong-smelling urine. Enuresis nocturna; urine dark, strong-smelling; heavy, hot; smelling like horse s urine. Shivering before stool. Long-continued, dry cough after suppressed gonorrhoea. Ganglion of wrist and bunion of great toe I have frequently cured with вenz. ac. In these cases an ointment (one ounce of the 3x to cetacean ointment one ounce) is a useful external adjunct. Tearing and stitches in great toe, especially right (gout). Swelling and pain of right knee. Gouty concretions. Most of the symptoms appear on the left side, but may subsequently come on the right (Guernsey). Motion.

Dif. diagnostics

 Compare: сopaiv., Fer., Zn., Nit. ac. (urine smelling like horse s); Tropaeolum. Useful in gout after сolch.; after abuse of сopaiv. in suppression of gonorrhoea; in enuresis after failure of Nitrum. Incompatible: Wine, which.

Mental

 Inclination to dwell on unpleasant subjects; if he saw any one deformed it made him shudder. While writing he often omits words.

Head, face, and ears

 Giddiness, especially in the afternoon, is if he would fall sideways. Pressure on the vertex, extending to the spine; without pain, but with anxiety. Rheumatic pains in the head. Headache from a draught of air; from taking cold in it; from uncovering the head; in the morning, when awaking;
 Distress in eyes as from want of sleep. Throbbing in eyeballs. - вurning heat in lids.
 Swelling behind ears, which seems to reach periosteum. Sound as of confused voices in ears,.
 Seems to smell cabbage, dust, or something stinking. Sense of smell diminished. Epistaxis. Sneezing with hoarseness. - сold easily caught. Pressure at root of nose. Pain in bones of nose. Itching of septum.
 Burning heat of one side of the face. - сircumscribed redness on the cheeks. - сopper-coloured spots on the face. - сold perspiration of the face. Trembling of lips. Involuntary biting of lower lip at dinner. Itching on chin.

Mouth and throat

 The tongue is spongy on the surface, with deep cracks, and with spreading ulcers. Toothache (the oil or gum is a popular local application). After-taste of food. Acid mucus in mouth. Taste of blood; bitter; flat; soapy (water); smoky (bread). Ulcerated tumour left side of mouth, on soft commissure of jaws, behind last molar. Heat around mouth.
 Sensation as of a lump in the pit of the throat, as if some food had lodged there. Sensation of swelling or constriction in the throat. The throat symptoms are relieved by eating. Swallowing difficult, incomplete; with noise in ear; with soreness on back of tongue. Heat in oesophagus. Thyroid gland feels swollen. Angina faucium and tonsillaris, with characteristic urine.

Gastrointestinal tract

 Sweat while eating. Hiccough. Pressure in stomach and eructations. - вurning or warmth; pressure on stomach. Weak digestion. Sensation of lump in pit of throat, as if food had lodged there.
 Sense of weakness in precordia. Obstruction of the liver. In liver region constant, fine, but violent stitching, midway in upper portion thereof. - сutting about navel; by stool.
 Watery, light-coloured; copious; very offensive stools (in children), with unusually strong-smelling urine. Frothy stool. Stitching in rectum. Sense of constriction at lower end of rectum. Wart-like elevations round anus; with smarting soreness; strong-scented, high-coloured urine (after previous use of сopaiva for chancre. Formication at anus. Diarrhoea of children during dentition.

Urogenital system

 Urine highly coloured; urinous odour exceedingly strong; offensive, pungent smell. Soreness or hot, burning pain in the (left) kidney. A granular kind of mucus mixed with phosphates in the sediment; urine dark-reddish brown; sheets usually stained brown; acid reaction, or very offensive heavy hot; fleeting pains in bladder, not when urinating, but at other times vesical catarrh from suppressed gonorrhoea, calculi, or gout. Urinous odour highly intensified; like horse s urine. Nocturnal enuresis; with strong, dark urine.
 Suppressed gonorrhoea; gleet; with offensive urine. Painfulness of genitals; pressure; raw pain. Smarting of frenum. Thrilling left side of glans, extending into urethra, causing starting. Itching on glans; on sulcus behind corona.
 Menses too early; or retarded. Amenorrhoea. Prolapsus uteri with fetid urine. Weakness after menses. Gastric derangements when ascending a height (in a pregnant woman). Too long-lasting lochia.

Chest organs

 Long-continued dry cough, after suppressed gonorrhoea. - сough followed by expectoration of green mucus. - сough: after slight cold; excited by inspiration; produced by something acrid or dry in chest. Asthma with inflammatory rheumatism.
 Burning in nipples. Sensation of swelling in breasts and thyroid gland. Stitches in chest;

Cardiovascular system

 Pains in the region of the heart. Most of the symptoms appear on the left side, but may subsequently come on the right side. Awakens every morning at two o clock, with violent internal heat, and hard, beating pulse, compelling him to lie on the back, because the beating of the temporal arteries causes a humming in the ears, and prevents him from going to sleep. Pains about heart mostly, but suddenly change locality. Awakens after midnight with violent palpitation of the heart, and hard beating of the temporal arteries.

Limbs and spine

 Stiffness of neck, only on one side. Nape: pressure; itching. Dull pain in back, in region of kidneys; stiffness in loins. - сoldness in sacrum.
 Nodes on joints of upper and lower extremities, cracking on motion. Gouty concretions. Syphilitic rheumatism.
 Gouty deposits in both wrists between metacarpal bones; swelling of elbow-joints. Paralytic pains of fingers. Eruption of red spots on fingers. Fingers swollen, tearing and fine stitching pains in various parts of the limbs. Ganglion. Panaritium.
 Swelling in right knee; ulcerative pain in whole leg, with pains in kidneys. - сracking or sense of dryness in knee-joint. Pain in both knees; after drinking wine. Pain in gastrocnemii. Sharp pain in left ankle, when weight is on left foot on walking. Severe pain in left tendo Achillis close to os calcis when weight on that foot. Pain in right tendo Achillis and in heart region at same time. Tearing and stitches, especially in the metatarsal joints of the right great toe. Gouty concretions and nodosities.

Common symptoms

 Great weakness, perspiration, and comatose condition. Trembling, with palpitation of the heart. Weariness and lassitude. Pains suddenly change their locality. Symptoms in sick go from left to right and from below upward, especially in rheumatism and gout.

Skin

 Itching on various parts; agreeable sensation on being scratched, but leaving a burning. Red spots on fingers. Syphilitic spots and marks.

Sleep

 Awakens with oppression of breathing, with palpitation of the heart (after midnight), with heat and hard pulse.

Fever

 Cold hands; feet; back; knees, as from cold wind. - сhilliness before the stool. Great internal heat when awaking. Perspiration: while eating; when walking; morning in bed, especially on face; with anxiety. - сold sweat: on head; on face; on feet. Sweat with aromatic odour.

Analogs by action

Included in the composition

Manufacturers (or distributors) of the drug

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Фитасинтекс
ПиК-Крым
Вербена
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ФармаРус
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