# Oxalicum Acidum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
Although certain oxalates are constant constituents of veget able food and of the human 
body, the acid itself is a violent poison when taken internally, produc ing gastro -enteritis, motor paralysis, 
 
 
collapse, stupor and death. 
If Op. is the painless remedy, Ox-ac. may be considered its antithesis. It causes the most excruciating pains 
beyond description, which are all worse when the patient thinks of them. 
Thinking of pains and conditions will bring them on when they are not actually present. Symptoms are worse 
by touch (small spots on head), slightest touch causes excruciating pain. Worse motion andthink- ing of 
pains. 
Neuralgias. Excruciating pains like light ning in streaks, burning in spots. Violent pains in spots  (Kali-bi.). 
Rheumatism of left side. Periodical disorders. Periodical remissions. 
Neurasthenia. Weak, cold, livid and numb all over, worse lower limbs. Influences the spinal cord and produces 
motor 
Oxalicum acidum 
paralysis. Paralysis of the left side from spinal meningitis. 
Spasmodic symptoms of throat and chest. Angina pectoris, sharp, sharp pain in left lung coming on 
suddenly, depriving of breath. Tuberculosis. Severe back and kidney pains. Kidney stones. 
After eating pains at navel, colic, rumbling in abdomen, urging to stool, weakness. Pain in stomach, better from 
eating. Gnawing in stomach better from soup. Cannot eat strawberries, severe allergies. Sugar, coffee and 
wine disagree. Worse from shaving.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better after stools. Change of position helps pain in back. Worse thinking of symptoms. Worse 
from light, mental exertion, motion, left side, slightest touch, shaving, cold. Worse from strawberries, sour 
fruits, grapes. Worse evening, night and early morning. Worse from  being aroused about 3 a.m. with gastric 
and abdominal pain. Lying down causes swimming sensation.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Exhilarated, quicker thought and action.
- Nervous and sleepless.
- Symptoms worse by thinking of 
them, thinking of the conditions will bring them on when they are not actually present.
- Exhilarated, quicker thought and action.
- Nervous and sleepless.
- Symptoms worse by thinking of 
them, thinking of the conditions will bring them on when they are not actually present.

### Vertigo
- Confusion and vertigo.
- Vertigo, swimming sensation on lying down, while looking out of window.
- COMMENTS - Ox-ac., the chief constituent of Sorrel (Rumx-a.) and Wood Sorrel (Oxal.), exists in plants that 
are ordinarily deemed anti-scorbutic and are remarkable for the grateful acidity of their herbage.
- Ox-ac.
- is said to enter largely into the inspissated juice of the Clover (Trif-p.) which formed Thomson's “Cancer 
plaster,” and which is strongly escharotic.
- Inspissated solutions of sorrel have been used successfully as local applications for epithelioma and with a 
solution of Ox-ac.
- and of Tannic acid, applied locally.
- With a solution of 5 grains to 3 ounces of water.
- Cooper 
removed troublesome small nevi in infants upon the face and elsewhere, using it for weeks or even months.
- Cooper removed a large patch of ery thematous lupus on the cheek.
- From this it would appear, taking into 
account that Ox -ac.
- produces wart -like growths, it may have a beneficial influence, locally and probably 
internally as well, upon epithelial proliferations of the cuticle.
- In an interesting study of Ox -ac., J.
- W.
- Ellis cited a fatal case of poisoning recorded by Boericke thro ugh 
exposure of the hands to a saturated solution used for chemical purposes.
- The symptoms were intense pains in head, hyperesthesia, especially to light.
- Spasms of pain down limbs, 
along throat muscles and through spermatic cord.
- Sensitive spots on spine.
- Excruciating pain in lower back and loss of power in the lower limbs shows an un mistakable action on the 
spinal cord and its meninges.
- These symptoms are better seen in less severe cases of poisoning.
- In animals 
poisoned with Ox-ac.
- the first symptom is stiffness of hind limbs.
- .
- Farrington summed up the indications of Ox -ac.
- in spinal affections, including weak loins, hips, legs, numb 
back, numb limbs.
- Limbs blue and cold, weak and numb, worse going up stairs.
- Limbs stiff, paroxysm of 
dyspnea (as in spinal meningitis).
- Pains in small spots, especially linear spots.
- Pains worse when thinking of 
them.
- Erections with dullness in occiput.
- Left-side rheumatism.
- Sharp shooting pain in left lung and heart, extending down to epigastrium.
- In afternoon, stitches several times 
in left lung.
- Sharp, sharp pain in lower lobe of left lung, coming on so suddenly that it deprives him of breath 
for a few seconds.
- Sore sticking in chest extending back to between scapula.
- Pleurisy, pneumonia, tuberculosis.
- The heart may be pa ralyzed, becomes flaccid or distended with blood.
- Angina pectoris.
- Coldness of surface, numbness.
- Mottled skin, blue nails.
- Generally left sided.
- Sugar aggravates the stomach pain.
- Wine causes headache.
- Oxaluria, with backache, numbness.
- Frequent 
ineffectual urging to stool, preceded by a sick, distressing feeling from navel downwards, worse when thinking 
of it, worse from drinking coffee.
- Faintness and vomiting during stool.
- Pain in back better after stool.
- John Moore reportd the case of a sea captain who suffered from indigestion.
- Two years before Moore saw him 
he had to undergo an operation for strangulated hernia.
- Ever since he had been subject to pain in region of 
navel coming on two hours after eating, accompanied by much flatulence and bitter and sou r belchings.
- Pain worse in night, arousing the patient 3 a.m.
- and keeping him awake.
- Burning sensation from throat 
downwards to the region of the pain.
- The patient had always has a weak digestion and had met with many 
severe accidents at sea.
- He was given Ox-ac.
- 3c, two drops, an hour after meals.
- He was a little better the first night and after that slept 
the night through and said he had not had so much comfort for years.
- Bedwetting has been cured with Ox -ac.
- 6c in a blonde boy of six.
- The guiding symptom  was “Sharp shooting 
pain in left chest, close to sternum and parallel to it.” 
C.
- Walker told Clarke of a case of his in which the patient, an elderly, gouty man, was suddenly seized with 
congestion of spinal meninges with great coldness, blueness and numbnes s with complete prostration of 
strength.
- Ox-ac.
- 6c rapidly cured.
- A patient of Clarke who used Ox -ac.
- in his work suffered from “Rheumatism of left side.
- Starting on falling 
asleep.
- When actually at work, acidity.” 
W.
- M.
- Butler gave great relief with Ox - ac.
- 3c.
- in a case of paraplegia, affecting first the right then the left leg 
of a year's duration in an American woman, mother of four children.
- In a few weeks the motor symptoms were better then the sensory.
- Sensation to heat and cold was restored, 
 
 
general tactile sensibility was improved.
- Some control was gained over bladder and rectum.
- Hale cured a case of palpitation with action of heart irregular in force and rhythm, alternating with aphonia with 
Ox-ac.
- 6c.
- It was a favorite remedy with S.
- A.
- Jones in cardiac trouble, occurring in highly “nervous” patients.
- Ellis suggested that Ox-ac.
- corresponds to many cases of neurasthenia.

### Head
- Headache, before and during stool.
- Band like sensation about the head, as of a screw behind each  
ear, better after stool.
- Sense of heat.
- Numb pricking in occiput.
- Sore tender spot on scalp.
- Headache, before and during stool.
- Band like sensation about the head, as of a screw behind each  
ear, better after stool.
- Sense of heat.
- Numb pricking in occiput.
- Sore tender spot on scalp.

### Eyes
- Severe pain in eyes, feel expanded.
- Hyperesthesia of retina.
- Small, and es pecially linear objects, 
appear larger and more distant than they are.
- Sight vanishes with the nosebleed.

### Face
- Pale, cold, livid.
- Feeling of heat.

### Mouth
- Sour taste.
- Belchings, with difficult swallowing.

### Throat
- Hoarseness with cardiac derange ments.
- Voice altered.
- Low voice.
- Nervous aphonia (Coca, Hydr -
ac.).
- Aphonia from paralysis of vocal cords.

### Chest
- Chest fixed.
- Sh arp pain through lower region of left lung, extending down to epigastrium.
- Left lung 
painful.
- Precordial pains which dart to the left shoulder.
- Angina pectoris, sharp, sharp pain in left lung 
coming on sud denly, depriving of breath.
- Palpitations a nd dyspnea in organic heart disease.worse when 
thinking of it.
- Palpitations worse lying down.
- Pulse feeble.
- Beats of heart intermit when thinking of it.
- Aortic 
insufficiency.
- Fluttering in heart.
- Heart symptoms alternate with aphonia.
- Kidneys - Severe kidn ey pains.
- Kidney stones.
- Must urinate when thinking of it.
- Frequent and copious 
urination.
- Oxaluria.
- Burning in urethra and pain in glans when urinating.
- Spasmodic breathing with constric tion of larynx and chest.
- Dyspnea, short, jerking inspirations.
- Burning sensation from throat down.
- Left lung painful.
- Hoarseness.
- Paralysis of the tensors of vocal cord.
- Aphonia.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Emptiness with gnawing, compelling one to eat.
- Burning pain goes upwards, worse slightest touch, 
sugar.
- Cannot eat strawberries.
- Violent pain in epigastrium, discharge of flatus relieves.
- Gastralgia, 
heartburn, sensation of coldness below epigastrium.
- Bitter and sour eructation, worse at night.
- Stitching pains in the liver, bet ter deep breathing.
- Burning in small spots in abdomen.
- Pain in 
upper part of abdomen after eating, with much flatulence.
- Chronic inflammation of bowels.
- Colic about the 
navel or involuntary muddy brown stools better lying.
- Flatus passes with difficulty.
- Fainting and vomiting during 
stool.
- Cannot eat strawberries, severe allergies.
- Sugar, coffee and wine disagree.

### Urinary & Genital
- Seminal vesiculitis.
- Neuralgic pains in spermatic cord, worse from slightest motion.
- Testes, throb or 
feel crushed.
- Testicles feel contused and heavy.

### Extremities
- Multiple sclerosis.
- Myelitis.
- Muscular prostration.
- Numb, tingling.
- Numb ness extends from shoulders 
to fingertips.
- Lower limbs blue, cold insensible.
- Weak trembling, hands and feet.
- Hands cold as if dead.
- Drawing and sharp pains shooting down limbs.
- Pains start from spine and extend through limbs.
- Sharp pains 
in various parts, jerking pains.
- Wrist painful, as if sprained (Ulm.).
- Pain in fleshy part of thumb (right).
- Liver - Stitches in liver.

### Neck & Back
- Numb pricking in back.
- Backaches, feels numb.
- Back feels too weak to hold the body.
- Cold creeps up 
spine.

### Skin
- Sensitive, soreness, smarting, worse shaving.
- Mottled, marbled in circular patches.
- Perspires easily.

### Generalities
- Sensation as if all blood had left the brain.
- As if blood in head was coursing upward and outward.
- As from a screw behind each ear.
- Hypogastrium as if bound.
- Back as if broken or bruised.
- Wrist as if sprained.
- Hands as if dead.
- Jerking pains 
like short stitches, confined to small spots, lasting only a few sec onds.
- Sensation as from chafing during 
shaving.