# Hydrocyanic Acid (HMT)

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

## Keynote Indications
This is an acid that develops in bitter almonds and cattle fodder due to
extreme drought and it produces extremely dangerous convulsions.
Even the slightest taste of Hydr ocyanic Acid can cause severe
intestinal colic.  If tasted a little carelessly, it can cause severe
laryngeal spasm (constriction of the throat), causing suffocation and
immediate death.  Since the amount of Hydrocyanic Acid found in the
bitter almonds is very little, the consumption of almonds may not even
cause colic in the abdomen or sp asm of the larynx, although some
possibility still remains.  It is present in the fodder in a relatively large
amount, so the cattle fed on this kind of fodder will definitely contract
severe abdominal colic, and sometimes it is impossible to save them.
In such situations Colchicum 200 is the best remedy to treat the
abdominal colic.

Most physicians have restricted the use of Hydrocyanic Acid to severe
abdominal distension and severe coli c, although it is extremely useful
in the treatment of asthma, ep ilepsy and whooping cough .  All
these three conditions may be asso ciated with constriction of the
throat muscles.  If a patient of  asthma or whooping cough becomes
unconscious due to the constriction of the upper respiratory passage,
the patient can be saved from seri ous possible complications with the
immediate use of Hydrocyanic Acid, otherwise due to the constriction
of the air passages, the oxygen suppl y to the brain would be depleted,
which sometimes results in permanent brain damage. Sometimes
severe constriction of th e throat may cause immediate death.  In this
condition, Hydrocyanic Acid is th e top most remedy.  When given
along with Hydrophobinum 200, it happens  to work much better than
the inhalers used in the allopathic  system of medicine.  Moreover,
possible side effects of the inhalers are also avoided.

It is extremely useful in the treatment of hysterical fits and epileptic
seizures in women.  There is a cond ition called Catalepsy, in which
there is impediment of the blood flow  to the brain and flushing of the
face, after which the pati ent either loses consciousness or his memory
is lost.  The memory can sometimes sl owly recover or be lost forever.
Hydrocyanic Acid is very useful for the treatment of this condition.

Some patients develop cramps in the abdomen after taking food and
others before taking the food.  Hydroc yanic Acid is indicated in those
patients who feel a colicky type of pain on an empty stomach, or a
marked weakness and sinking se nsation over the stomach, or
experience a rumbling sound in the abdomen after taking food. Their
heart beats very fast, their pulse is weak and irregular, their hands and
feet become cold, their jaws beco me tightly closed during a severe
convulsion, they froth at the mouth, th eir lips turn blue, and there is a
feeling of tightness and pain over  the chest.  All these symptoms
require to be treated with Hydrocyanic acid, in particular.

Antidotes:              Ammonium, Camphor, Opium
Potency:                30 to 200

## Symptoms by System