Lacticum Acidum

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Lacticum Acidum Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Psoric Miasm The Psoric miasm is considered the mother of all chronic diseases. It primarily manifests as functional nervous weakness, allergies, skin itching, eruptions, and hypersensitivity.
GENERAL
  • Hering noted that lactic acid was discovered by Scheele in sour milk, the result o f the spontaneous fermentation of sugar of milk under the influence of casein.
  • It is also met with in many vegetable products which have turned sour.
  • Reisig first introduced it into homeopathy.
  • Lactic acid has been proved in both the lower and higher potencies, but many valuable observations have been made on patients taking substantial doses for diabetes as it was often given for diabetes in the past.
  • In these cases, the symptoms of rheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues. fever were directly traced to the acid.
  • Pain, swelling, sti ffness and tenderness of joints, worse by motion (as with Bry., which antidotes Lac-ac.).
  • Flying pains about limbs.
  • One pro ver had pain along the right sciatic nerve.
  • The well -known effects of milk that has soured on the stomach and remained undigested were produced.
  • Nausea, vomiting, burning and sense of weight.
  • Weakness, as if from exercise, aversion to exercise.
  • Rheumatic affections.
  • Rheumatic pains in joints, knees, worse by motion.
  • Trembling of whole body, while walking.
  • Debility, weariness of the limbs.
  • Acidity.
  • Hot acrid belchings, worse smoking.
  • Salivation, water brash.
  • Morning sickness.
  • Fullness or lump like puff ball in throat.
  • Frequent passing of large quantities of saccharine urine.
  • Diabetes.
  • Sweaty feet.
  • Breast troubles
MODALITIES ETC
  • Smoking aggravates all symptoms
RELATIONSHIPS
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison:

Antidoted by: Bry. (relieved sharp pains upper third right side, but soreness remained).
Compare: (1) Sarcol-ac. (2) Lith., Ph-ac. Lac-c., Lac-v-c., Lac-d., Sac-1. (3) In nausea of pregnancy, Nux -v.,
Puls., Ph-ac., Colch., Lyc., Lac -d. (4) Ip. - excessive hawking with or without nausea. (5) Caust. - phlegm in
throat, cannot be hawked up, causing nausea. (6) Diabetes, Ph-ac., Acet-ac., Lac-d., Uran-n.
(7) Flying rheumatism, Puls., Rhus -t. (8) Great discouragement, Psor. Incompatible: Coffee worse
symptoms.

MIND
  • Confusion.
  • Forgetful, can’t remember a thing an hour after it has happened.
  • Dislikes to read or think.
  • Lazy.
  • Aversion to business or what formerly was pleasant to do.
  • Contemptuous.
  • Sarcastic.
  • Finds fault, very exacting.
  • Believes all she says is a lie.
  • Great discouragement during pregnancy.
  • Lazy.
VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
  • VertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement. when turning head suddenly, on stooping, on rising.
  • Vertigo at night.
  • Vertigo worse with heat.
  • Vertigo as if tossed on a rough sea with nausea like seasickness.
  • COMMENTS - Cartier noted its use for acute gastroenteritis, six to ten drops in a small glass of water.
  • It was used locally in the tuberculous ulceration of vocal cords.
  • Nash regarded the concomitance of rheumatic pains as the chief guiding symptom here.
  • He recorded a case of diabetes with rheumatic fever supervening, cured with Lac-ac.
  • 200c.
  • Constant nausea on awaking, before rising.
  • Nausea in diabetes, pregnancy, or rheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues..
  • Nausea, better from eating, belchings, worse from smoking • aggravates the belchings.
  • Diabetes.
  • Severe pains in muscles and joints after exertion.
  • Chronic fatigue with flu -like symptoms since physical over- exertion.
  • Chronic fatigue with muscle aches.
  • Inoffensive, copious foot-sweat (Sil.)
HEAD
  • Congestion of head, painless with strong pulsation of vessels of neck.
  • Head feels very large.
  • Headache with sensation of fullness in vertex.
  • Dull pain in forehead, just over eyes and extending into eyes.
  • Pain in head and back all night.
  • Pain in occiput and alternating between there and forehead.
  • Head sore to touch.
  • Fine miliary eruption on scalp.
EYES
  • Sensation of fullness in eyes with headache.
  • Eyes feel tired.
  • Eyes feel as if they would burst.
  • Marked protrusion of eyes.
  • HyperesthesiaExtreme sensitivity to touch or painAn abnormal increase in sensitivity to sensory stimuli, such as touch, heat, cold, or pain. of retina, steady aching in and behind eyeball.
  • Pupils dilated.
  • PhotophobiaExtreme sensitivity to lightAn abnormal intolerance to light, causing eye discomfort, squinting, or pain in bright environments., direct light painful.
  • Jerking of left upper lid
EARS
  • Disturbed and troubled by noise.
  • Roaring in left ear on rising, in afternoon.
  • Singing, snapping in left ear.
  • Pain from parotids into ear, stiff feeling in parotids
FACE
  • Face flushed or congested from headache.
  • Erysipelatous redness on left cheek and side of nose.
  • Small vesicles on nose in morning.
  • Parotids feel stiff.
  • Pains from parotids into ear
MOUTH
  • Mouth and fauces very dry and hot.
  • Much saliva in mouth, tasting salty.
  • Copious salivation and water brash, especially during pregnancy.
  • Acrid taste with nausea.
  • Sour, coppery taste.
  • Very so re mouth.
  • Roof of mouth dry, feels burnt.
  • Canker sores.
  • Nose - Great sensitiveness of smell.
  • Severe coryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge..
  • Stopped nose.
  • Sneezing.
  • Thick, yellow mucus from head to throat.
  • Dryness of posterior nares, with hawking of mucus.
  • Nosebleed every morning.
  • Perspiration - Copious perspiration.
  • Unusual perspiration of feet
THROAT
  • Dryness of throat with hoarseness.
  • Dryness and rawness, extending to larynx.
  • Sensation of aplug in the throat.
  • Excessive hawking with or without nausea.
  • Keeps swallowing.
  • Difficulty of swallowing solids, liquids more easily.
  • Fullness or lump like a puffball.
  • Sense of constriction low down in throat, rough and dry.
  • Intense burning in throat, fauces and esophagus worse by eructationBelching or burpingThe act of expelling gas from the stomach through the mouth..
  • Fauces h ot, dry and swollen.
  • Aphonia.
  • Hoarseness.
  • Tongue dry, parched, red and raw.
  • Thick yellow coating on tongue with bad taste in morning.
  • Tongue sticky, coated thick white.
  • Tongue sore on left side
CHEST
  • Left side of chest sore and painful.
  • Cutting or sticking pain in upper third of right side.
  • Constitutions - Suited to anemic, pale women.
  • Large doses disagreed with melancholic, choleric constitution, dark hair and eyes.
  • Cough - Hoarse, hard, dry cough with dry ness of glottis.
  • Spasmodic, ringing cough from irritation in throat.
  • Cough from hot eructations.
  • Cough with nausea and constricted feeling in throat.
  • Constant cough worse spring and fall, with foot sweat.
  • Cough worse from smoking.
  • Sharp pains around heart, causes palpitationsSensation of rapid or irregular heartbeatA noticeably rapid, strong, or irregular heartbeat due to agitation, exertion, or physical conditions..
  • Kidneys - Frequent pain in kidneys.
  • Fre quent desire to urinate large quantities.
  • Urinates day and night, the attempt to retain it causes pain.
  • Copious urine, deep brownish red, with much reddish sediment.
  • Sugar in urine.
  • Morning urine contained a large amount of salt, in evening a large excess of sugar.
  • Saw-like rasping sound.
  • Frequent deep sighing inspirations and expirations.
  • Spasmodic, ringing cough, caused by irritation in throat
ABDOMEN
  • Burning and weight in stomach.
  • Burning, hot gas from stomach to throat, causing profuse secretion of tenacious mucus, worse smoking.
  • Hot, acridbelch ings.
  • Food sours.
  • Uneasiness in stomach after food and drink.
  • Nausea with water brash or vomiting, better from eating.
  • Nausea, morning sickness, especially in pale, anemic women.
  • Nausea on rising in morning.
  • Nausea after breakfast, not severe, but very persistent.
  • Nausea like seasickness.
  • Constant nausea, persisting for days.
  • Temperature - Cold and chillyHypersensitive to cold temperaturesA constitutional state of feeling exceptionally cold, lacking vital heat, and needing warmth or heavy blankets. at times, mostly on limbs.
  • Flushes of heat with headaches.
  • Pains across bowels and lower right side.
  • Bearing down pain in upper part of abdomen.
  • Sharp pain across lower ab domen before stool.
  • Left hypochondrium sensitive to touch.
  • Sharp cutting pains and jerking in muscle.
  • Dull pain in left groin over hip bone.
  • Appetite impaired.
  • Voracious appetite and great thirst.
  • Eating generally improves symptoms.
  • Nausea on waking, better by eating in diabetes or pregnancy
GENITALS ETC
  • Annoying erections in morning, but loins ache too much to attempt sex.
  • Semi nal emissions three successive nights.
  • Menses scanty, more profuse than usual.
  • Itching of vulva during flow.
  • LeucorrheaWhitish or yellowish vaginal dischargeA whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina, often indicating congestion or mild infection., staining linen yellow, when checked, nasal catarrhInflammation of mucous membranes with dischargeExcessive buildup of mucus in the nose or throat, associated with inflammation of the mucous membrane. ensues.
  • Pain as if menstruating, sitting with feet high lessens uterine soreness.
  • Pain in small of back and lower abdomen.
  • Aching pain in region of right ovary, worse by rapid walking or exercise.
  • Morning sickness with salivation, nausea and vomiting, water brash better by breakfast
EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Limbs feel chilly.
  • Debility, weariness of the limbs.
  • Weakness as if from exercise with rheumatic pai ns in the bones, aversion to exercise.
  • Rheumatic pain in joints and shoulders, wrists, knees, with much weakness.
  • Joints swollen, not tender, stiff.
  • Severe, sharp pains in joints, stiffness.
  • All pains worse by movement.
  • Trembling of whole body while walking
BACK AND NECK
  • Pain in small of back, extending into shoulders.
  • Sore aching in lower part of back, worse when walking.
  • Stiff neck.
  • Stiff down between scapulae and across shoulders.
  • Breasts - Pain in breasts with enlargement of axillary glands
SKIN
  • Skin harsh and dry, no sweat.
  • Itching and burning, worse by cold.
  • Red spots or blotches on various parts of the body, particularly thighs and lower limbs
SLEEP
  • Stupid, drowsy all day, restless all night.
  • Sleeplessness from vertigo, from backache.
  • Dreams of sexual intercourse, with erections, no emission.
  • Horrible dreams, of abysses

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
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