NITRICUM ACIDUM mit generierter deutscher Übersetzung Tyler tl2 Chest feels crowded; oppression, worse bending backwards. Sensation of a spring released, of a big hole in right temple. Shattering cough. Sputum sticks like glue, yellow, acrid, bitter, salty. Expectoration of black, coagulated blood. Stitches in right chest. Fear of death, anxious about his illness. (Acon.) The typical Nit-ac. patient is brown-eyed, chilly, intolerant of fuss, loves fat and salt. Lilienthal ll1 Pneumonia of old and cachectic people; ... awakens often all stopped up with mucus and must expectorate before he can breathe more easily; ... pulse intermits. Pleurisy of old people [in protracted case hr1], when the pain leaves and the pulse increases and becomes smaller; chest sore when coughing or breathing; dyspnea from weakness; diarrhea; heaviness and trembling of limbs, especially mornings. Rückert rke1 In emaciated, short tempered, old persons, ... if the first stage merge quickley to a destructive second one, pain is going away but the fever is rising. In unattended pleuro-pneumonia which border on agony. Kent k2 In typhoid pneumonia, with rattling in the chest, inability to expectorate, or when he can expectorate the sputum is brown and bloody, and the urine smells like that of a horse [and pulse intermits at every third beat fr3]. ... In tuberculosis with nightsweats and haemoptysis. Farrington fr1 Nit-ac. is very often indicated in phthisis after Calc. or Kali-c. When, however, the Calc.-condition has run into the acid debility, Nit-ac. is one of the very best remedies to follow. It does not often cure but it relieves and prolongs life for years. Nash nh6 (Ed. - Chapter Consumption - probably useful for Cases of Atypical Pneumonia) Nit-ac. In cases in which syphilis, or mercurialization, have brought the patient into a condition of susceptibility to consumption, which might never have occurred except for such a cause. Such cases occur and this remedy is indispensable. One of the first symptoms appearing is a pricking in the throat as from splinters. These prickings or silver-like pains may be found elsewhere, as in chest, rectum, anus, etc., and are as characteristic as are the stinging pains of Apis. (Sharp stitches through the right chest to the scapula fr1) Affections of mucous outlets of the body are common, as cracked corners of the mouth, fissured rectum, vagina or bladder, flushes of heat in localities, or general (like Sulph.). Great general weakness and tendency to (colliquative kr1, exhausting fr1) sweats at night. Bowels tend to looseness (chronic diarrhea) instead of constipation, etc. These are the general symptoms which are leading, and the patient is like Iod. oftener than otherwise of the brunette type with rigid fibre, dark complexion, black hair and eyes (and of thin build fr1). The local symptoms are not so characteristic as under some other remedies; but (morning- fr1) hoarseness, cough dry or loose, shortness of breath are commonly present, and especially the stitching or sticking pains (like splinters) are much in evidence in the chest, as elsewhere. Bry. and Kali-c. are sometimes used for them when Nit-ac. would do better. Dunham gave as characteristic sticking pains in rectum when coughing; extremely strong and offensive urine (smelling like horse urine). Das danx Location: Right chest; upper part of chest. "Left chest" (Guernsey). Causes: ... Continued loss of sleep. Long-lasting anxiety; over exertion of body and mind. Hot weather; anaemia, change of temperature or weather; winter. Expectoration: ... Expectoration is greenish, viscid, or thin, dirty, watery, bloody mucus, or dark clotted blood. Rattling yet no expectoration; offensive and putrid. Sweat during efforts to expectorate; ... Expectoration of blood mixed with clots or of yellow, acrid pus ... of offensive smell. ... brown bloody mucus; muco-purulent. Sputa of blood mixed with clots during day. Cough: Violent shaking, barking cough caused by tickling in the larynx and pit of stomach. Dry barking cough in the evening, after lying down. Dry hacking cough. Cough during sleep; cough worse at night and in daytime while lying down. Frequent hacking cough with irritation and crawling in larynx. Rough dry cough before midnight. Cough with sticking pains in rectum while coughing. Cough worse in warm room, from becoming warm. Dry barking cough worse night, lying, before midnight, during sleep. Loose cough in day time, dry at night. Respiration: Breathing oppressed caused by cough. Painful labored breathing. Difficult, rough, whistling breathing. Breathing slow and feeble, short and anxious. Shortness of breath. Short breath on going upstairs. Chest: Soreness in the chest when breathing and coughing. Stitches in the chest, right side and scapula. Cramp-like contracting pain in the chest. Soreness at lower end of sternum. Rawness and soreness of chest, as if ulcerated. Whistling and rales in chest on inspiration. ... Stitches in right chest, scapula and larynx, in the upper part of right chest, worse when lying on back. Stitches in left chest in morning making breathing difficult; in middle of chest when coughing or breathing. Pulse: Pulse rapid, irregular, every fourth beat is missed. Alternate hard, rapid and small beats. ... Pulse intermits. Patient: Extremely sensitive to medicine especially high potencies. Offensive. Anger with trembling. Despair of recovery. Chilly. Fever: Heat especially on the hands and face. Flushes of heat with perspiration of hands. At night internal dry heat with inclination to uncover. Sweat smelling like horse urine, offensive or sour. Dryness of throat. Thirstlessness in all stages of fever. Cold hands and feet. Offensive urine. Dark red blood in haemorrhage. Conditions: ... Nose bleed. Face anxious, haggard, sickly. Dark rings about eyes, mouth, nose. Accompaniments: ... Great nervousness. Vexed at trifles, irritable, hateful, headstrong. Sensitive to noise, pain, touch, jar. Scalp sensitive; headache worse from street noises. Great sensitiveness of the head to the rattling of wagons, especially over the paved streets and against stepping hard; to touch. Headache better from cold air. Very sensitive to noise. Green casts from nose every morning. Fetid yellow discharge from nose. Fetid smell from nose; unsuccessful attempts to sneeze. Nose dry and stopped, complete obstruction of nose. Nose bleed with chest affections; bloody saliva. Yellow teeth, gums white, bleeding; great dryness of mouth with thirst, dry hot throat, white dry tongue in the morning. Tongue coated green and ptyalism. Pale face and sunken eyes. Yellowness around the eyes with red cheeks. Bloated around eyes in the morning. Cracked lips. Corners of the mouth and lips ulcerated. Ulcers in the red part of the lips. Violent thirst (in suppuration of lungs). Desire for fat, herring, chalk, lime, earth. Aversion to meat, bread. Milk disagrees. Hunger with sweet taste. Constipation with fissures in rectum. Tearing pains during stools. Violent cutting pains after stools lasting for hours; urine cold on passing, smells like horses urine. Sweating of palms and hands. Fetid sweat of feet and cold hands. White spots on fingernails, suppressed foot sweat. Restless limbs in evening. Condylomata; great inclination to take cold. Pains felt during sleep. Splinter-like pains. Emaciation of upper arms and thighs. Yellow curved nails. Extreme soreness of tibia. Sensitive to cold, always chilly. When coughing stitches in the small of the back. Aggravation: From becoming cold. In cold air; jar; noise; evening; night; after midnight. Contact; change of temperature or weather. During sweat; on walking. Milk; abuse of mercury; cold climate. Hot weather; lying down. Lying on the back. Breathing (cough). Amelioration: From Eructations. While riding in a carriage. Expectoration (Easy breathing). Compare with: Ant-t. fr3, Ars. fr3, Cupr. fr3, Mosch. fr3, Phos. fr3 Follows often: [Calc., Kali-c. in phthisis fr1]