# Sarcolacticum Acidum

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

## Keynote Indications
Sarcol-ac. is formed in muscle tissue during muscle exhaustion. It differs from ordinary 
lactic acid in its relation to polarized light. It represents a much broader and more profoundly acting drug and 
its pathogenesis is quite dissimilar from the normal acid. 
The proving was the work of W. Griggs of the Hering Laboratory, Philadelphia. The exper imentation was 
carried out in 1940 on eleven people (nine men and two women), using the 4x, 6x, 15x, and 30x potencies.  
Wm. B. Griggs found Sarcol-ac. of great value in the most violent form of epidemic influenza, especially with 
violent and retching and greatest prostration, when Ars. had failed. Influenza with rhinitis. Locally in the 
tuberculous ulceration of vocal cords. 
Intra-muscular lactic acid, following prolonged exercise, which generates fatigue. This chronic fatigue, when 
pushed to an advanced stage, results in an almost paralyzing weakness with prostration. Spinal neurasthenia, 
muscular weakness, dyspnea with myocardial weakness. 
Extreme fatigue, anxiety, prostration. Muscular cramping pains, aggravated by movement. Digestive 
intolerance. Dryness and itching of the skin. Morning sickness, diabetes and rheumatism offer a field for this 
 
 
remedy. Troubles in the breasts.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse at night. Worse from movement, from standing upright.  
Nose - Coryza, throat dry and painful, swallowing impeded, alleviated by day, aggravated at night.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Feeling of laziness, weakness.
- Dejection.
- Irritability, becomes easily annoyed by 
the smallest thing.
- Feeling of laziness, weakness.
- Dejection.
- Irritability, becomes easily annoyed by 
the smallest thing.

### Head
- Headache and vomiting, pain situ ated on the forehead and above the eyes, ameliorated by going to 
stool.
- Headache and vomiting, pain situ ated on the forehead and above the eyes, ameliorated by going to 
stool.

### Throat
- Constriction in pharynx.
- Sore throat with tightness in naso-pharynx.
- Tickling in throat.
- COMMENTS - According to Dr.
- Kuhl, lactic acid has an anti-cancerous preventive action and he recommended 
a special diet with additional lacto-fermented products.

### Chest
- Aortic pain and rapid pulse after exertion.
- Cardiac rheumatism.
- Raynaud’s syndrome.
- Kidneys - Polyuria.
- Profuse nocturnal urination.
- Urine clear with traces of proteinuria.
- Dyspnea, feeling of cardiac weak ness, croupy cough, especially at night.
- Bronchitis.
- Dry, painful 
pleurisy.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Heavy, painful feeling in the pit of the stomach.
- Digestive intolerance, especially of cold water.
- Acrid dyspepsia.
- Nausea.
- Uncontrollable vomiting even of water followed by extreme weakness.
- Temperature - General chilliness with coldness of the limbs.
- Extreme chilliness in bed.
- The right hand does 
not become warm by external heat.
- Sedative, palliative for gastrointestinal tumors.

### Extremities
- Psoric rheumatism.
- Rheumatoid arthritis.
- Fibrous rheumatism.
- Paresthesia, joint numbness and pains.
- Extreme weakness from climbing stairs.
- Stiffness of thigh and calves.
- Cramp in the calves.
- Arms feel as if no 
strength in them.
- Wrist tires easily from writing.
- Writer’s cramp.
- Difficulty in brushing hair.

### Neck & Back
- Tired feeling in back and neck and shoulders.
- Paralytic weakness.
- Cramping pains in the back and 
lumbar region, aggravated when standing.

### Skin
- Intense general itching, improved by the cold.
- Keratotic eczema.
- Lichen planus.
- Psoriasis.
- Scleroderma 
(Graph.).

### Sleep
- Difficulty in going to sleep, sleep light when it comes.
- Wakes aching and exhausted.