# Tartaricum Acidum

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

## Keynote Indications
Found in grapes, pineapple, sorrel and other fruits. Tart-ac. is an anti-scor- butic anti-septic, 
stimulating the mucus and salivary secretions. 
Extreme weakness. In evening feels very tired, can scarcely drag himself along. Gen eral bruised sensation, 
especially of lower limbs. Convulsions just before death.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better in open air. Pasty taste is better after eating.

## Symptoms by System

### Vertigo
- Confusion in head, dizziness.
- COMMENTS - A proving by Nenning and some poisonings have furnished the pathogenesis of T art-ac.
- One 
of the most marked symptoms was intense burning in throat and stomach, feeling “as if on fire.” Tongue brown 
and dry.
- Almost constant vomiting, vomited matter of deep green color.
- Feces coffee -ground color.
- Dullness andlassitude.
- Paralytic debility.
- “Weakness in the evening, can scarcely drag himself along.” Difficult 
respiration.
- Great weakness with diarrhea with dry and brown tongue.
- “Tearing pain on the soles of the feet, 
near the heel, which prevents him putting his foot on the ground after luncheon” (Phyt.).

### Face
- Face instantly became red as fire and having exclaimed that he was poisoned, became speechless, 
died on tenth day (drank 2 oz.
- in solution).
- Lips, turn brown and black on their inner edges.
- Constant dryness 
of lips, must moisten them continually.
- Burning of lips.

### Mouth
- Teeth set on edge.
- Brown and dry tongue.
- Taste, pasty in morning, ceases on eating.

### Throat
- Hoarseness and scraping in larynx.
- Burning sensation in throat and stomach as if on fire.

### Chest
- Very weak action of the heart.
- Feeble pulse.
- Breathing accelerated, then laborious and slow.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Dyspepsia with copious secretion of mucus.
- Belchings.
- Nausea.
- Vomiting is repeated and almost 
continuous.
- Continued vomiting with burning in throat and stomach.
- Vomited deep green matter.
- Temperature - General cold feeling, evening in bed.
- Pain around umbilicus and region of loins.
- Pinching below navel with emission of flatulence, cold 
feeling in abdomen.
- Excessive, very urgent thirst.

### Extremities
- Sharp pain in region of loins.
- Paralysis of thighs and legs.
- Tearing pains at soles, near the heel, which 
prevents him setting his foot on the ground after luncheon.

### Sleep
- Frequent yawning and stretching.