FLUORICUM ACIDUM

FLUORICUM ACIDUM

(Hydrofluoric Acid)

Fl-ac.

Suitable for chronic diseases with a history of syphilis and mercury exposure. The glabella region appears bloated. Targets lower tissues, indicated for deep, destructive processes such as bed sores, ulcerations, varicose veins, and ulcers. The patient is very energetic. Symptoms of old age or premature aging include weak, distended blood vessels, and hob-nailed liver in alcoholics. Treats goitre (Dr. Woakes) and early tooth decay (caries). Useful in long-standing nocturnal fevers.

Mind: Indifference to loved ones, lack of responsibility, buoyancy, mentally elated and cheerful.

Head: Alopecia, skin caries, inward pressure on the sides of the head, caries in ossicles and mastoid with copious discharge, worsened by warmth (better by cold). Exostosis.

Eyes: Feels like wind blowing through the eyes, lachrymal fistula, violent itching of the inner canthus.

Nose: Chronic nasal catarrh with septum ulceration, obstructed nose, heavy dull pain in the forehead.

Mouth: Dental fistula with persistent bloody, salty discharge, syphilitic throat ulcerations sensitive to cold, warm teeth, affects teeth and bones of the upper jaw.

Stomach: Heaviness, weight, and heat in the stomach before meals, sour eructations (gastric ulcer), aversion to coffee, prefers fancy dishes, symptoms relieved by tight clothes, craves highly seasoned food and cold water, hunger, warm drinks cause diarrhea.

Abdomen: Soreness over the liver, flatus, and eructations.

Stool: Bilious diarrhea, aversion to coffee.

Urinary: Scanty, dark urine, frequent and free discharge in dropsy, with great relief.

Male: Burning in the urethra (urethritis), increased sexual passion and desire with night erections, swollen scrotum (hydrocele).

Female: Copious, frequent, prolonged menses (metrorrhagia, menorrhagia), ulcerations of the uterus and os, copious and excoriating leucorrhea, nymphomania.

Respiratory: Chest oppression, difficult breathing, great dyspnea (asthma), hydrothorax.

Extremities: Inflammation of finger joints (rheumatism), sensation of a splinter under the nail, crumbling nails, caries and necrosis of long bones, coccygodynia, ulcer over the tibia.

Skin: Varicose veins, nevi, ulcers with red edges and vesicles, decubitus worsened by warmth, syphilitic rupia, itching in cicatrices, feels like burning vapors from pores, itching in orifices and spots, worsened by warmth, rapid nail growth, periosteal abscess (osteomyelitis), profuse sour, offensive perspiration, syphilitic tubercles, dropsy in old, feeble people, atony of capillary and venous system, bloated tissues (edema).

Modalities: Worse with warmth, in the morning, and with warm drinks. Better with cold and while walking.

Relationship: Compare with Thiosinaminum (affects cicatricial tissues, adhesions, strictures, tumors); Cale-f., Sil. Complementary to Sil.

Dose: Sixth to thirtieth potency.