NITRIC ACID
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- especially suited to thin persons of rigid fibre, dark complexions, black hair and eyes
- nervous temperament
- persons suffering with chronic diseases who take cold easily
- easily disposed to diarrhoea
- rarely to those who suffer with constipation
- old people with great weakness and diarrhoea
- excessive physical irritability
- pains sticking, pricking as from splinters
- pains suddenly appearing and disappearing
- pains on change of temperature or weather
- pains during sleep
- gnawing here and there as from ulcers forming
- sensation of a band around head
- sensation of a band around the bones
- sensation of a splinter in affected parts, ulcers, piles, throat, ingrowing toe nail
- splinter-like sensation worse on slightest contact
- ailments which depend on some virulent poison
- ailments from mercury, syphilis, scrofula
- broken-down cachectic constitutions
- ailments after continual loss of sleep, long-lasting anxiety, over-exertion of mind and body from nursing the sick
- anguish from the loss of his dearest friend
- indifference
- tired of life
- sadness before menses
- great anxiety about his disease
- constantly thinking about his past troubles
- morbid fear of cholera
- depressed and anxious in the evening
- irritable, headstrong
- hateful and vindictive
- inveterate, ill-willed, unmoved by apologies
- hardness of hearing improved by riding in a carriage or train
- very sensitive to the rattle of a wagon over paved streets
- headache from pressure of a hat
- ozaena: green casts from the nose every morning
- diarrhoea with great straining but little passes
- as if faeces remained and cannot be expelled
- pain as if rectum or anus were torn or fissured
- violent cutting pains after stool, lasting for hours
- fissures in rectum
- tearing, spasmodic pains during stools
- lancinating pains even after soft stools
- urine scanty, dark-brown, strong-smelling, like horse urine
- urine cold when it passes
- urine turbid, looks like remains of a cider barrel
- ulcers easily bleeding
- ulcers in corners of mouth
- ulcers with splinter-like pains, especially on contact
- ulcers with zig-zag, irregular edges
- ulcer base looks like raw flesh
- exuberant granulations in ulcers
- thin, offensive, acrid discharges
- discharges of a brown or dirty yellowish green color
- haemorrhage from bowels in typhoid or typhus
- haemorrhage after miscarriage or post-partum
- haemorrhage from over-exertion of body
- haemorrhage bright, profuse, or dark
- cracking in ears on masticating
- cracking of the joints on motion
- warts large, jagged, pedunculated
- warts bleeding readily on washing
- warts moist, oozing, with sticking pain
- affects especially the mucous membrane junctions: mouth, nose, rectum, anus, urethra, vagina
- worse evening and at night
- worse after midnight
- worse from contact
- worse from change of temperature or weather
- worse during sweat
- worse on waking
- worse while walking
- better while riding in a carriage