# Butyricum Acidum

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

## Keynote Indications
Butyric acid occurs in the animal organism undera va riety of conditions. It constitutes the 
chief fat of butter and milk. Butyric acid set free by fermentation causes a rancid taste and the odor of 
contaminated butter. 
When milk sours, milk sugar is converted into lactic acid by the lactic ferment of vari ous bacteria. The lactic 
 
 
acid is then acted upon by butyric acid ferment contained in the air. 
It may be present in the gastric contents under abnormal conditions, with a markedly diminished hydrochloric 
acid secretion. In excessive fermentation in the enteric tract, butyric acid may be formed in significant amounts. 
Abdominal flatulence. Tremendous formation of gas in the whole belly, much belching of gas, a great deal of 
gas is passed at the call to stool, which in many cases fails to come. 
Marked straining at stool. Stools are small like lumps. Intermittent belly cramps which are below the umbilicus. 
Pain in the ileocecal region. Complete loss of appetite. Fetid leucorrhea. Offensive sweating of the soles of 
feet.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse at night. Worse fast walking. Worse going upstairs. Worse during menses.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Anxiety and fear.
- Worries over trif les.
- Constant fear and nervousness.
- Impulsive thoughts of suicide, 
brooding.
- Anxiety and fear.
- Worries over trif les.
- Constant fear and nervousness.
- Impulsive thoughts of suicide, 
brooding.

### Head
- Headache makes him apprehensive about trifles, worse going upstairs or rapid motion.
- Dull, hazy ache 
of head.
- Headache makes him apprehensive about trifles, worse going upstairs or rapid motion.
- Dull, hazy ache 
of head.

### Mouth
- Fetid odor in the mouth.
- Profuse salivation.
- Gingivitis.
- Gums tinged with blood.
- Gingival secretions, 
which are offensive smelling and more profuse during menses.
- Painful gums, worse during menses.
- Perspiration - Perspiration on slight exertion.
- Profuse, offensive foot sweat.

### Chest
- Palpitations, aggravated by eating, with a feeling of abdominal plethora.
- Kidneys - Urgent and pressing need to urinate, especially for women.
- Urine malodorous, smelling like 
asparagus.
- Amorphous urate deposits.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Much gas in stomach and bowels.
- Cramps in pit of stomach, worse at night.
- Stomach feels heavy 
and overloaded.
- COMMENTS - The following provings were conducted at the Hahnemann Hospital of Philadelphia, upon 
students at that institution.
- The students took the 3 c potency of the remedy every two hours; in all, the proving 
was carried on for approximately seven weeks.
- The remedy induces a peculiar effect on the superficial part of the body.
- Pronounced and awfully malodorous 
foot sweat.
- Students at the Hahnemann College ofte n had to constantly change their socks, a thing quite foreign to the 
provers under normal conditions.
- Crumbling away of the fingernails.
- Aggravated backache.
- All the symptoms are decidedly worse at night.
- Pronounced sleeplessness.
- Gastric and abdominal flatulence.
- Cramp in abdomen below umbilicus.
- Bowels irregular.
- Atony of 
the liver and stomach.
- Epigastric and peri-umbilical pains, awaking at about 2 a.m.
- Pain in the ileocecal region 
with feeling of cramp, relieved by expulsion of gas.
- Anorexia.
- Poor appetite.

### Urinary & Genital
- Foul-smelling leucorrhea, like horses urine.
- Purulent cervicitis.
- Dysuria.

### Extremities
- Dull aching of lumbar and sa cral regions, worse standing, spreading to wards the hip.
- Dull aching of 
arms, legs and calves.
- Cold feet, with abundant, fetid perspiration.
- Edema of the feet dur ing menses.

### Neck & Back
- Tired feeling and dull pain in small of back, worse walking.
- Pain in ankles and up back of leg.
- Pain low 
down in back and limbs.
- Ankylosing spondylitis.
- Morbus coxae senilis.

### Skin
- The fingernails crumble away.
- Su- damina.
- Dysidrosis of the palms and soles.
- Onychomycosis.

### Sleep
- Sleep disturbed, owing to digestive complaints.
- Pronounced sleeplessness, dreams of serious nature 
while asleep.