# Fluoricum Acidum

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

## Keynote Indications
Source:  Derived  from  hydrofluoric  acid  (Fluoricum  acidum ),  a  highly  corrosive  chemical. compound,  prepared  for  homeopathic  use  through  serial  dilution  and  succussion  to  eliminate. toxicity and enhance therapeutic action. Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for connective tissue, dermatological,. psychological,  musculoskeletal,  and  systemic  disorders,  particularly  those  involving  tissue. degeneration, skin complaints, and emotional detachment. It is noted for symptoms such as brittle. nails,  hair  loss,  restlessness,  and  indifference,  often  aggravated  by  heat,  night,  or  rest,  and. ameliorated by cold, motion, or open air. Modern  Context:  Indicated  for  connective  tissue  conditions (e.g.,  varicose  veins,  keloids),. dermatological  conditions (e.g.,  alopecia,  onycholysis),  psychological  conditions (e.g.,. detachment, anxiety),  musculoskeletal conditions  (e.g., bone pain, arthritis),  dental conditions. (e.g., caries, tooth sensitivity), and  systemic conditions  (e.g., fatigue, hypersensitivity). It suits. patients with chronic or degenerative symptoms characterized by  tissue fragility ,  skin and nail. disorders, emotional aloofness, or restlessness, typically exacerbated by heat, night, or rest, and. often seen in individuals with chronic connective tissue disorders, stress-related detachment, or. aging-related degeneration. The remedy is particularly relevant for those with a warm, restless. constitution, often presenting with physical symptoms like brittle nails or varicose veins alongside. psychological  symptoms  like  indifference  or  impulsivity,  commonly  observed  in  patients  with. Ehlers-Danlos  syndrome,  generalized  anxiety  disorder,  or  personality  disorders  with  emotional. detachment.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from: Heat (weather, rooms, drinks), night, rest, emotional stress, warm stuffy. environments,  standing  (in  venous  cases),  inactivity,  touch,  sweets  (in  dental  cases),. humidity, menstruation.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Absent-mindedness.
- Forgetful in e vening, better morning.
- Great loss of memory.
- Forgets almost 
everything.
- Forgets dates.
- Mistakes right for left.
- Opinionated, strong -minded.
- Domineering behavior.
- Irritability, sends the nurse home.
- Abuses and 
reproaches others.
- Irritability with absent persons.
- Sensitive to noise.
- Conversation aggravates.
- Depression of mind.
- Aversion to his own family.
- Aversion to those loved best (Sep.).
- Sits silently, does not 
utter a single word, nor answers anyone when questioned.
- Inability to realize responsibility .
- Shuns 
responsibilities.
- Indifference to business affairs.
- Indifference to loved ones, to relations.
- Anxious ideas.
- Apprehensive, causes sweat, better morning than evening.
- Fear of having a stroke.
- Sensation 
as if danger menaced him, but without fear.
- Impulse to walk fast, necessity to be always on the move.
- Becomes interested and converses pleasantly with 
strangers.
- Buoyancy of mind.
- Mentally elated and excited.
- Fears nothing and is self -satisfied.
- Cheerful during 
menses.
- Cheerful when walking in open air.
- Delusion, marriage must be broken.
- Thinks he must drive children out of the house, must dissolve marriage.
- Thinks he must get rid of servants.
- Stands on the street looking at women as they pass by, so great is his lust.
- Nymphomania.
- Absent-mindedness.
- Forgetful in e vening, better morning.
- Great loss of memory.
- Forgets almost 
everything.
- Forgets dates.
- Mistakes right for left.
- Opinionated, strong -minded.
- Domineering behavior.
- Irritability, sends the nurse home.
- Abuses and 
reproaches others.
- Irritability with absent persons.
- Sensitive to noise.
- Conversation aggravates.
- Depression of mind.
- Aversion to his own family.
- Aversion to those loved best (Sep.).
- Sits silently, does not 
utter a single word, nor answers anyone when questioned.
- Inability to realize responsibility .
- Shuns 
responsibilities.
- Indifference to business affairs.
- Indifference to loved ones, to relations.
- Anxious ideas.
- Apprehensive, causes sweat, better morning than evening.
- Fear of having a stroke.
- Sensation 
as if danger menaced him, but without fear.
- Impulse to walk fast, necessity to be always on the move.
- Becomes interested and converses pleasantly with 
strangers.
- Buoyancy of mind.
- Mentally elated and excited.
- Fears nothing and is self -satisfied.
- Cheerful during 
menses.
- Cheerful when walking in open air.
- Delusion, marriage must be broken.
- Thinks he must drive children out of the house, must dissolve marriage.
- Thinks he must get rid of servants.
- Stands on the street looking at women as they pass by, so great is his lust.
- Nymphomania.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo with nausea, must sit down.
- Feeling as if in an earthquake.
- Vision - Amaurosis.
- Dark spot before eye, worse reading.
- Flashes like lightning.
- Red photopsia.
- due to retinal 
excitement.
- COMMENTS - Severe bone diseases and ulcers, where the bones decompose instead of healing.
- Necrosis of 
the bones, bone abscesses.
- Bone pains (Merc..
- Calc -f.).
- For syphilis, when it causes ulcers and goes to the 
bones.
- Tendency to form ulcers on the skin and in the mouth that do not heal well, particularly in the elderly.
- Ulcers 
can have a red edge.
- Bedsores.
- Keloids that ulcerate or don't heal well (Sil.).
- Varicose veins that swell and ulcerate with severe burning pain, worse heat (Sec., Lach.).
- Varicose veins with 
itching, swelling and burning pains.
- Varicose veins or ulcers aggravated after each c hildbirth.
- Hot blooded.
- Worse heat.
- Better from cold washing and walking in the open air (opposite Sil.).
- Constant desire 
to walk in the open air, and does not fatigue.
- Hungry.
- Symptoms seem to move from below upward.
- For children with weak tooth enamel (Sil., Calc-f.), or whose teeth erupt rotten and abscessed (Kreo., Calc-f.).
- Generally a woman's remedy.
- Hate between spouses.
- Guernsey noted that it tends to affect the right ear, the left teeth, left hypochondrium, left side of the abdomen, 
right side and nape of the neck, and the right side of the back.
- McLachlan added that the left hand is affected rather than the right, and the pus tends to point on the dorsum 
of the finger.
- T.
- F.
- Allen noted its use for whitlow.

### Head
- Atrophy of brain.
- Stunning headache, better urinating.
- Pressure on sides of head from within outward.
- Compressing pain in temples.
- Pressure in occiput.
- Pain along the sutures.
- Numb sensation in forehead.
- Puffy 
glabella.
- Congestion of blood to head during pregnancy.
- Decay of ossicles and mastoid with cop ious 
discharge, worse warmth (Sil.).
- Decay of skull bones.
- Exostosis.
- Decay of skin.
- Itching of head.
- Brittle hair.
- New hair dry and breaks off.
- Falling out of hair after fevers.
- Alopecia areata.
- Baldness.
- Scaly eruptions on 
head.
- Atrophy of brain.
- Stunning headache, better urinating.
- Pressure on sides of head from within outward.
- Compressing pain in temples.
- Pressure in occiput.
- Pain along the sutures.
- Numb sensation in forehead.
- Puffy 
glabella.
- Congestion of blood to head during pregnancy.
- Decay of ossicles and mastoid with cop ious 
discharge, worse warmth (Sil.).
- Decay of skull bones.
- Exostosis.
- Decay of skin.
- Itching of head.
- Brittle hair.
- New hair dry and breaks off.
- Falling out of hair after fevers.
- Alopecia areata.
- Baldness.
- Scaly eruptions on 
head.

### Eyes
- Burning in eyes.
- Increased lachryma tion.
- Chronic inflammation of lachrymal sac, worse cold air.
- Lachrymal fistula, worse] cold air.
- Violent itching of inner canthus.
- As if sand in eyes.
- As if something in the 
eyes, that could not be rubbed off, must wink.
- Sensation as of a cold wind blowing through the eyes.
- Left 
eye smaller than right.

### Ears
- Intolerable itching in ears.
- Itching momentarily better scratching, but fol lowed by burning.
- Profuse 
otorrhea.
- Otitis externa.
- Great sensitiveness in morning to little noises.
- Difficulty in hearing human voices, with 
numbness of bones around ear.
- Deafness, better bending head back.
- Singing, ringing.

### Face
- Heat in face, wants to wash it in cold water.
- Pale.
- Exostoses of bones of face.
- Heat in face, wants to 
wash it in cold water.
- Crusta la ctea, dry, scaly, itches very much.
- Suppurating tubercles in skin of forehead 
and face.
- Sweats on face.
- Right lower jaw swollen.

### Mouth
- Mouth coated with mucus in morning.
- Painful ulcer in right ang le of jaw.
- Affects teeth and bones of 
upper jaw.
- Increased flow of saliva, with sneezing.
- Viscid, tasteless saliva in mouth.
- Syphi litic ulceration of 
mouth, which is very sensitive to cold.
- Nose - Red, swollen, inflamed nose.
- Fluent coryza during sleep.
- S neezing with saliva tion.
- Chronic nasal 
catarrh with ulceration of the septum.
- Sudden copious watery discharge from eyes, nose and mouth.
- Nose 
obstructed and dull heavy pain in forehead.
- Itching on right side of nose.
- Cold water causes coryza.
- Posterior 
nares feel expanded, during a walk.
- Perspiration - Profuse and sour, offensive perspiration.
- Feels as if hot vapor were emitted from all the pores.
- Acrid, eroding sweat, excites itching.
- Sweat on diseased part.
- Sweats on hands and feet.
- One-sided sweat 
(left).
- Sweats in afternoon.
- Sweats during exercise.
- Sweat relieves.
- Excessive sweat on feet.
- Sweat promotes 
excoriation 
Fluoricum acidum and bedsores.

### Throat
- Excessive pain, when swallowing or talking.
- Sore throat, worse inspiring cold air.
- Throat sensitive 
to cold, slightest exposure resulting in sore throat, with increase of pain and impeded swallowing.
- Constriction 
in throat, with difficult swallowing.
- Hawking of phlegm, mixed with blood.
- Red blotches, over palate and 
sides of cheek, bleeding easily.
- Throat intensely red and much swollen, with fetid breath, nasal voice.
- Goitre.
- Trachea sore and raw.
- Weak voice.
- Dryness in larynx an d trachea.
- Itching in larynx, causes hawking 
 
 
and swallowing.
- Soreness and increased irritability in larynx with impeded respiration and wheezing.
- Syphilitic 
ulceration of throat.
- Tongue - Tongue, fissured in all directions, painful when talking.
- Ulcer on and under tongue.
- Tongue as if stiff, 
with restricted mobility.
- Tongue vivid red at tip and edges.
- Tongue coated yellow in centre.
- Tongue whitish and 
dry.
- Numbness and tingling of tongue.
- Pricking sensation of tongue.

### Chest
- Oppression in chest, difficult breathing, great dyspnea, better bending backwards.
- Hydrothorax.
- Upper 
part of chest seems most affected.
- Scaly eruption on chest and arms.
- Itching under ribs left side.
- Constitutions - Suited to complaints of old age or the prematurely aged.
- Suited to the weakly constitutions, 
sallow skin, emaciation.
- Pale, miserable, cachectic, flabby and broken down patients.
- Dropsy of limbs in old, 
feeble constitutions.
- Sore pain in heart.
- Pulse somewhat accelerated, only during exercise.
- Small, frequent pulse.
- Kidneys - Involuntary urination at night.
- Increases urine in dropsy, with great re lief.
- Burning in urethra during 
and after urination.
- Upward drawing in the urethra.
- Whitish or pu rple colored sediment.
- Urine pungent and 
fetid.
- Urine alkaline.
- Urine, scanty, dark.
- Difficulty of breathing with, or alternating with, metrorrhagia .
- Great dyspnea, better bending 
backwards.
- Wheezing.
- Difficult breathing, in after noon and evening.
- Great dyspnea, has to be propped up in 
bed.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Frequent eructations and dis charge of flatulence.
- Sour eructations.
- Stale eructations.
- Burning, 
pinching pain in stomach, before stool.
- Heaviness and weight in stomach.
- Heat in stomach before meals.
- Gnawing hunger, is always eating which temporarily relieves.
- Sour or stale 
belchings.
- Bilious vomiting on slightest errors in diet.
- Stomach symptoms, better tight clothes.
- Teeth - Affects teeth and bones of upper jaw.
- Great sensitiveness of teeth.
- Late denti tion.
- Teeth, décay 
rapidly, worse at roots.
- Thin enamel.
- Teeth feel warm, heavy, rough.
- Dental fistula with bloody, salty 
discharge.
- Acrid, foul tasterfrom roots of teeth.
- Teeth coated with mucus in morning.
- Wisdom teeth come late.
- Toothache worse cold drinks.
- Toothache better until water becomes warm in mouth.
- Temperature - Nightly fevers coming on periodically.
- Ebullitions of heat with pain in bones.
- Feels as if burning 
vapor were emitted from pores.
- General heat with nausea, with inclination to uncover.
- Face constantly hot, 
wants to bathe it continually in cold water.
- Ascites from hepatic disorders.
- Induration, enlargement and portal congestion.
- Flatus and belchings.
- Sensation of emptiness at the region of 
navel with a desire to draw a deep breath, better bandaging.
- Burning, pinching, about navel.
- Hungry.
- Averse to coffee.
- Desire for pungent, spicy, highly seasoned food.
- Desire for fancy dishes.
- Craves refreshing drinks.
- Craving for cold things.
- Craves cold water.
- Warm drinks produce diarrhea.
- Desire 
for wine.
- Worse from sweet things.
- Worse from coffee.

### Urinary & Genital
- Burning in urethra.
- Oily pungent smelling sweat on genitals.
- Dropsical swelling on penis.
- Gleety 
discharge at night, staining linen yellow.
- Varicocele.
- Swollen scrotum.
- Violent erections at night.
- Increased 
sexual desire in old men.
- Overwhelming sexual desire, keeping him awake at night.
- Enjoyment exces sive.
- Gonorrhea.
- Sensation of fullness in spermatic cor ds.
- Sudden loss of sexual power.
- Impotence.
- Yellow drop 
from urethra in morning.
- Menses, blood thick and coagulated.
- Menses too early, copious, frequent, too long.
- Feels distressed 
if the flow is sl ightly delayed.
- Metrorrhagia with dif ficulty of breathing.
- Copious and excoriat ing leucorrhea, 
itching.
- Acrid leucorrhea.
- causes itching.
- Ulceration of uterus and os.
- Nymphomania.

### Extremities
- Bone  pain  or  aching,  with  a  sensation  of  soreness  or  fragility,  resembling.
- osteoporosis or osteomalacia, worse with heat, rest, or morning.
- Joint stiffness or swelling, with a tendency to aggravation after inactivity, resembling.
- osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis, aggravated by warmth or night.
- Fluoricum acidum (Hydrofluoric Acid) 931.
- Muscle weakness or cramps, with a sensation of heaviness, resembling fibromyalgia,.
- worse with heat or fatigue.
- Tendency to musculoskeletal hypersensitivity, with aggravation in degenerative or.
- painful states.
- Dental:.
- Dental  caries  or  decay,  with  rapid  progression  or  sensitivity,  resembling  enamel.
- erosion, worse with heat, sweets, or cold drinks.
- Tooth sensitivity or pain, with a tendency to aggravation by temperature changes,.
- resembling dentin hypersensitivity, aggravated by warmth or stress.
- Gum inflammation or soreness, with a tendency to bleed, resembling gingivitis,.
- worse with heat or rest.
- Tendency to dental hypersensitivity, with aggravation in degenerative or systemic.
- states.
- Systemic:.
- Fatigue or weakness, with a sensation of premature aging or prostration, resembling.
- chronic fatigue syndrome or systemic sclerosis, worse after heat, rest, or emotional.
- stress.
- Hypersensitivity to external stimuli (e.g., heat, touch, noise), resembling sensory.
- processing disorder, aggravated by warm environments or fatigue.
- Warmth or heat intolerance, with aggravation in hot, humid conditions and a desire.
- for cold air or motion.
- Tendency to systemic irritability, with aggravation in degenerative or psychological.
- states.

### Neck & Back
- Pain in third cervical vertebra.
- Coccyx pain worse motion and exercise.
- Bruised, in sacrum.
- Aching in 
sacrum and lumbar region, better stretching and bending backwards, esp.
- by pressure.
- Stiffness of nape.
- Lameness in back, hips and legs.
- Breasts - Nipples sore, cracked, itching.
- Itching on left breast.

### Skin
- Fatigue or weakness, with a sensation of premature aging or prostration, resembling.
- chronic fatigue syndrome or systemic sclerosis, worse after heat, rest, or emotional.
- stress.
- Hypersensitivity to external stimuli (e.g., heat, touch, noise), resembling sensory.
- processing disorder, aggravated by warm environments or fatigue.
- Warmth or heat intolerance, with aggravation in hot, humid conditions and a desire.
- for cold air or motion.
- Tendency to systemic irritability, with aggravation in degenerative or psychological.
- states.

### Sleep
- Sudden sleepiness.
- Drowsy and sleepy in early evening.
- Sleeplessness without inclination to sleep.
- A 
short sleep suffices and refreshes him.
- Sleep disturbed by accumulation of mucus in fauces.
- Sensation as if 
sleeping on side not lain on.
- Sleeplessness in evening from crowding of thoughts.
- Dreams towards morning.
- Dreams of fire.
- Dreams with amaurosis.

### Generalities
- Sensation as of a cold wind blowing under lids, even in warm room, as of air passing down from 
shoulder joint to fingers.
- Numbness of limbs even when not lain on.
- Increased abil ity to exercise his muscles 
without fatigue.
- Less affected by excessive heat in summer or cold in winter.