Nitricum acidum
Remedy of splinter-like pains and vindictive anger. Pains as from a splinter or thorn stuck in the part. Warts on mucocutaneous junctions that bleed easily. Unmoved by apologies, holds grudges. Offensive discharges.
Source
Prepared from nitric acid (HNO3), diluted and potentised.
Available Potencies
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Keynote Symptoms
Splinter-like, sticking pains — as if a thorn or splinter were stuck in the part. Warts at mucocutaneous junctions (mouth, nose, anus, genitalia) — bleed on washing or touching. Vindictive, unforgiving, holds grudges. Offensive discharges. Cracks and fissures at junctions of skin and mucous membrane. Craves fat and salt.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Vindictive, hateful, unmoved by apologies. Holds grudges, never forgives. Anxious about health (hypochondriac). Irritable, quarrelsome, cursing. Hopeless despair of recovery. Sensitive to noise, pain, touch, jar, cold. Fear of death.
General Symptoms
Splinter-like pains everywhere. Mucocutaneous junctions affected. Offensive, excoriating discharges. Craves fat, herring, salt, chalk, earth, lime. Worse from cold, evening, night, change of weather, hot weather, touch, jar, noise, milk. Better from riding in a car, steady pressure, mild weather.
Physical Symptoms
Head
Sensation of a band around head. Sensitive to noise, jar, pressure of hat. Falling of hair.
Mouth
Ulcers in mouth — splinter-like pains. Aphthae. Bleeding gums. Salivation. Tongue fissured.
Throat
Splinter-like pain on swallowing. Diphtheria. Chronic sore throat.
Stomach
Craves fat, salt, herring, indigestible things (chalk, lime). Nausea.
Rectum
Anal fissure — excruciating splinter-like pain during and hours after stool. Piles — bleeding, burning. Condylomata around anus. Constant urging.
Urinary
Urine offensive, smells like horse's urine. Burning, stinging during urination. Splinter-like pains in urethra.
Male Genitalia
Condylomata — fig-warts on glans, prepuce. Ulcers on prepuce.
Female Genitalia
Condylomata on vulva, bleeding. Uterine hemorrhage. Leucorrhea — green, offensive, excoriating.
Skin
Warts — large, jagged, pedunculated, on stalks — bleed easily on washing. At mucocutaneous junctions. Fissures. Ulcers with splinter-like pains. Coppery spots.
Extremities
Splinter-like pains in bones. Caries. Bunions.
Modalities
Better From
Riding in a car, steady pressure, mild weather, gliding motion
Worse From
Evening, night, cold, touch, jar, noise, hot weather, change of weather, milk, after eating
Constitutional Type
Thin, dark, irritable, vindictive individuals. Chronic invalids with offensive discharges. Those who hold grudges and never forgive.
Clinical Indications
Anal fissure, hemorrhoids, warts (mucocutaneous), condylomata, oral ulcers, diphtheria, chronic sore throat, splinter-like pains, vindictive states
Comparative Materia Medica
Thuja has warts but more on covered parts; Nitric acid warts are at junctions and bleed. Hepar sulph also has splinter-like pain in throat but is more chilly and sensitive. Staphysagria has fig-warts but with more suppressed anger.
Safety Information
Calcarea carbonica, Hepar sulphuris, Mercurius, Mezereum, Sulphur.
Concentrated nitric acid is a powerful corrosive causing severe burns. Use only potentised forms.
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