Flouric-acid
NATIONAL JOURNAL HOMOEOPATHY
1993 Mar / Apr VOL II No 2.
Dr Tarkas P I.
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Highlights: A picture of perverted nutrition, esp of gross or vegetative tissues, acting destructively on mucous surfaces, glandular and bony structures, the skin and lastly the central nervous system itself. All developing slowly, insidiously, but surely. Destructive metabolism is the starting point.
Make-up: Broken down, cachectic, from fast life (wine, women and worry); a life of stress and strain, leading to rapid ageing and infirmity, and esp those of (inherited or acquired) Mercuro-syphilitic constitutions. Mannish women. Children fair and finely built, inheriting mercuro-syphilis. Victims of the lowest forms of disease (short frank malignancies) to which Nat-sil-fl is more fitting, esp low-grade persons, not refined, sophisticated intellectuals. Syco syphilitics.
Bones: Caries and necrosis on a syphilitic or psoric base; temporal, mastoid ossicles or submaxillary. Fistula lachrymal, dental or anal; sinuses. Defective callus-formation. Exostoses; to soften and absorb osseous growth and ossified tissues. Bone TB; Suppurate; periodical, nightly pains, become brittle. Nails deform. Periosteal abscess.
Blood: Feeble circulation; atony of capillary and venous
system; bedsores; cold; Localized congestions. Tendency to varicose veins and ulcers.
Capillaries dilated; aneurism. Weak, distended blood vessels. Naevi (Hem) angioma,; Small
bright-red vessels resembling fleshy warts.
Small spots of collected veins. Haemorrhagic purpura, red patches.
Arterio-sclerosis. Thrombi.
Nervous: Organic diseases of Degenerative processes in
the central nervous system; tabes dorsalis (locomotor ataxia), with great sexual
excitement, even lechery, spinal affections, trembling and numbness of soles; spinal
irritation, paralysis, Decubitus. Brain softening; of tertiary syphilis.
Numbness (from feeble circulation), in brain and spinal affection of side
not lain on (ie not from pressure), but when quiet or still. Pains, burning, in small
spots, pricking like needle. Violent like streaks of-lightning (Flugurating pains) in
ulcers or ataxia. Jerkings. Twitchings.
Discharges: Bloody. salty (in fistula), Thin, excoriating, offensive (in caries) Acrid tears. Pus discharged periodically. D. held up agg stool, wine, menses.
Dropsy: Of aged. Of drunkards. Ascites from enlarged or indurated liver (as from alcoholism). Hydrocele. Hydrothorax. Oedema; esp of legs, upto abdomen; of certain parts, in the old and feeble.
Noteworthy features:
- Hot-blooded. Always too hot, heat in the whole body, seeks a cool place, bathes in cold water esp head and face); burning soles (not unlike Sul) Heat is stomach and abdomen, eating.
- Rapid metabolism (another forerunner of destruction): Hair and nails grow fast. Metabolism pounces upon the masses eaten.
- A constant irresistible desire to walk (in the open), and long walks (or even exercise) do not cause fatigue. Even while sitting bodily movements go on; standing bodily him is better than sitting, walking preferable to standing, and running to walking.
- Worse from extremes of heat and cold (Clarkes opposite is dubious here; can bear extremes).
- Being chronic of Sil. moon periodicity could be expected.
- Old cicatrices become red around edges, surrounded by (or covered with) itching vesicles, become tender, itch violently, threatening ulceration.
- Symptoms often ascend.
- Lassitude but no weakness (an exception to acids)
Mind: Amiable to outsiders, harsh or indifferent to ones own people or sometimes to everybody; ungrounded hatred of absent or particular persons; a bias. Irresponsible gaiety, an easy-going complacency; a pleasure-seeker, often even libidinous. Unstrung in short.
Shuns absurd things, but is clear on everyday matters (Contrary Lyco); with marked mental decay, later Brain fag; from reveling, excesses, depletions, with melancholia or a return of mildness. Reticence of tired brain, forgetfulness; anxious and apprehensive. Silent alienation. Brain softening.
Head: Congestion, during pregnancy; apoplexy, stunning headache, with vertigo, bending head back, free urination, eating; of drunkards, from constipation. Brain anaemia, softening, atrophy. L. side of head atrophied eye looks smaller; pain along sutures.
Crusts lactea; itching, dry scales. Hair: lustreless, brittle, bushy, dry; falling, after typhoid; grows wild.
Eye: Chronic inflammation (and ulceration), in lachrymal canal and sac. Constant winking from sand-feeling in eye L. eye injected and burning, reading, cold application; after cauterization by Beta rays of pterygium in R. eye. Lachrymal stricture, fistula.
Ear: Catarrhal inflammation of middle ear. Itching. Numbness. Ringing, Singing noises. Deafness bending head back. Neurosis.
Nose: Red, swollen, inflammed. Paroxysmal coryza, acrid; excitement, or sudden. Chronic catarrh, obstructed nose and headache; with ulceration of septum. Ozaena; nose flattened and perforated destruction of nasal and facial bones.