# Acetanilidum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Acetan, was used as a sedative and antipyretic for various forms of headache and neuralgia 
in doses of one to three grains. 
Acetan, depresses the heart, respiration, blood pressure and lowers the temperature. Destroys red blood 
corpuscles, pallor. Cyanosis and collapse. Increased susceptibility to cold. Albuminuria with edema of the feet 
and ankles. 
Several cases of thrombosis of the lower limbs from heart weakness have followed its use. Antifebrinum and 
Exalgine have produced symptoms of collapse and cyanosis, in some instances fatal, with great rapidity. One 
 
 
patient experienced, after taking Exalgine, a sensation that his head was so large that it seemed to occupy the 
whole room.

## Symptoms by System

### Head
- Enlarged sensation.
- Fainting.
- Moral depravity.
- Given for migraines and in order to reduce fever.
- Enlarged sensation.
- Fainting.
- Moral depravity.
- Given for migraines and in order to reduce fever.

### Eyes
- Pallor of optic discs, contracted visual field and shrinking retinal vessel, mydriasis.

### Chest
- Weak heart, irregular heartbeat with blue mucus membranes.
- Difficult respiration, as in a bad attack of asthma.
- As if the diaphragm ceased working.