Condensed Materia Medica

Fluoricum Acidum fl-ac.

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Mind

Forgetfulness: in his daily employment; of dates.
Aversion to his own family.
Greatly depressed in mind.
Disposition to be exceedingly anxious; better morning than evening.
Apprehensiveness.
Feeling of indifference towards those he loves best; become interested and converses pleasantly with strangers.
Uncommon buoyancy of mind, fears nothing and is well satisfied with herself.
Ill-humored.

Sensorium

Congestion of blood mostly to the forehead, with dulness in the occiput toward night.
Sensation of weakness, like numbness in head, same in hands.

Inner Head

Compressing pain in the temples.
Headache in the occiput, with fulness in the head.
Headache from the nape, extending through the centre of head to the forehead; also dull feeling in the head.

Outer Head

Sensation of numbness in the forehead.
Pain along the sutures.
Caries of the temporal bone.
Must comb the hair frequently, it mats so at the end.
Falling out of the hair, new hair dry and breaks off.

Eyes

Heaviness about the eyes, with nausea; worse on motion.
Pressure, as if behind the right ball.
Dark spot before eye, worse reading.
Sensation as of a cold wind blowing under the lids (even in a warm room), must bind the eyes, with a cloth.
Sensation of sand in the eyes, or as if a fresh wind was blowing on them.
Feeling as if he must wink as if something was in the eye that could not be rubbed off.
Increased lachrymation.
Itching in the canthi.
Fistula lachrymalis.

Ears

Intolerable itching in both ears.
Itching, better momentarily from scratching, but followed by burning.

Nose

Fluent coryza.
Obstruction of the nose.
Posterior nares feel expanded, during a walk.
Red, swollen, inflamed nose.
Itching on right side of nose.

Face

Pale.
Heat in face, wants to wash it in cold water.
Crusta lactea, dry, scaly; itches very much.
Tubercles in skin of forehead and face, suppurating. θ Syphilis infantum.

Teeth

Sensation of: warmth; heaviness in the teeth; roughness of the teeth.
Mouth and teeth coated with mucus in the morning.
Toothache worse from cold drink; or improved until the water becomes warm in the mouth.
Rapid caries of teeth.
Violent pains at the root of the right eye-tooth, with frequent discharge of pus.
Great sensitiveness to pressure on the gum over the right eye-tooth.

Tongue, etc

Acrid, foul taste from the roots of the teeth.
Tongue always more or less tender, feeling of rigidity in it, with restricted mobility; painful when talking.
Tongue: vivid red at tip and edges, coated yellow in the centre; whitish and dry.
Tongue deeply and widely fissured in all directions, with a large, deep phagedenic-looking ulcer in the centre.

Mouth

Increased flow of saliva.

Throat

Red blotches, size of half pea, over the palate and side of cheek, bleeding easily.
Soft palate and uvula intensely red and much tumefied, breath fetid, voice nasal, articulation indistinct.
Accumulation of mucus in the fauces, disturbs sleep.
Throat peculiarly sensitive to cold, slightest exposure resulting in inflammation, with increase of pain and impended deglutition.
Constriction in the throat, with difficult deglutition; in the morning, hawking of phlegm mixed with blood.
Excessive pain when swallowing.

Desires and Aversions

Hunger predominates.
Thirst, craves refreshing drinks.
Desires wine.
Aversion to coffee.

Eating and Drinking

Warm drinks: 20. Cold drink: 10. Eating: 19.
Complaints worse from sweet things.

Nausea and Vomiting

Nausea; with general heat; eructations and lassitude.
Bilious vomiting after slight errors in diet; with increased alvine discharges, preceded by tormina.

Stomach

Feeling of fulness and pressure in epigastrium.
Feeling of weight in the stomach between meals.

Hypochondria

Sensitive to pressure in right hypochondrium.
Pressing pain in region of spleen, left arm.
Pain from spleen to hip.
Pinching in region of spleen.

Abdomen

Sensation of emptiness in region of navel, with desire to take a deep breath; better from bandaging or eating.
Great tension and dropsical swelling of the abdomen.

Stool, etc

Frequent passage of flatus and belchings, with constriction of the anus.
Very loose, bright yellow stools, with a quantity of mucus, preceded by considerable griping.
Stools chiefly during the night or early in the morning.
Stools pappy, yellowish brown, fetid, with tenesmus and prolapsus ani.
Bilious diarrhœa, worse during day, soon after drinking, especially warm drinks.
Tardy, infrequent and hard stools.
Itching in and around the anus.

Urine

Very frequent discharge of bright-colored urine, with increased thirst.
Urine scanty and dark, painful in passing; alkaline.
Whitish or purple-colored sediment.
Burning before and after urination, with aching in the bladder.

Male Sexual Organs

Increased sexual desire in old men, with violent erections at night.
Gleety discharge at night, staining the linen yellow.
Yellow drops from the urethra in the morning.
Dropsical swelling of the penis; also hydrocele.
Oily, pungent-smelling sweat on the genitals.

Female Sexual Organs

Menses: too early; too copious; discharge thick and coagulated.
Metrorrhagia with, or in alternation with, difficulty of breathing.
Leucorrhœa acrid: also with itching.

Pregnancy

Itching, redness and swelling of right nipple; nipples sore, cracked; congestion to the head.

Larynx

Weak voice.
Dryness in larynx and trachea.
Itching in larynx, causing hawking and swallowing.
Soreness and increased irritability in larynx, with impeded respiration and wheezing.

Breathing

Difficult breathing, afternoon and evening: 23.
Oppression of chest, better when bending backwards.
Relieves in hydrothorax.

Cough

Short, frequent cough, mostly dry, occasionally some whitish, frothy mucous expectoration.

Lungs

Upper part of chest seems most affected.
Hydrothorax.

Heart and Pulse

Sore pain at the heart.
Small, frequent pulse.

Outer Chest

Scaly eruption on the chest and arms.

Neck and Back

Pain in the third cervical vertebra.
Rigidity of nape.
Bruised pain in sacrum.

Upper Limbs

Pain in right shoulder-joint; shoulder-joints stiffened by rheumatism.
Slight lameness in the right arm.
Rheumatic pains in left arm, from shoulder to elbow, with lameness.
Weakness and numbness of hands.
Constant redness of the hands, especially the palms.
Burning in the hands.
Sharp sticking pain at the root of right thumb-nail.
Acute pricking, as with needles, in the fingers.
Panaritium; also simple onychia.
Nails grow more rapidly, crumpled or longitudinal ridges in them.

Lower limbs

Acute stitches in the right hip-bone.
Lameness in the left hip.
Left leg goes "to sleep" easily.
Œdematous swelling up to the abdomen; top of the foot œdematous.
Burning stitches in the soles.
Feet hot and burn much.
Soreness between the toes.
Soreness of all the corns.

Limbs in General

Pain in all the limbs.

Position, etc

Motion: 5, 40. Walking: 7. Exercise: 40. Bending backwards: 26.

Nerves

Increased ability to exercise his muscles without fatigue, regardless of the most excessive heat in summer or cold in winter.
Loss of strength.
Sensation of going to sleep of side not laid on.

Sleep

Loss of sleep in evening, from crowding of thoughts.
Sleeplessness, without inclination to sleep; a short sleep suffices and refreshes him.
Sleep restless and unrefreshing.

Time

Morning: 1, 10, 13, 20, 22. Afternoon: 26, 40. Evening: 1, 2, 26, 37, 40. Night: 20, 22, 44. Day: 20.

Temperature and Weather

Warm room: 5. Warmth: 46. Heat and cold: 36. Sensitive to cold: 13. Cold: 46. Cold water in mouth: 10. Desire to wash with cold water: 8, 40.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Chill entirely wanting.
General heat, with nausea from the slightest motion., with inclination to uncover, but mostly to wash with cold water.
Clammy, sour and unpleasant-smelling sweats, mostly on upper body, particularly during exercise in afternoon and evening; sweat excessive on palms and feet.
The sweat promotes excoriation and decubitus.

Sides

Right: 5, 7, 10, 18, 24, 32, 33, 46. Left: 18, 32, 33.

Sensations

Violent jerking, burning pains confined to small spots.

Tissues

Diseases of bones, particularly of long bones, suppurate and get better and worse periodically; pains worse at night, with great prostration.
Liver enlarged and indurated.
Varicose veins of the legs; varicose ulcers; nævus, flat.

Contact, Injuries, etc

Pressure: 10. Bandaging: 19. Scratching: 6.

Skin

Burning pains on small spots of the skin.
Dry cutaneous eruption; squamous eruptions on the body.
Elevated red blotches; erosions, mucous tubercles.
Nævus on right temple.
Ulcers: painful; worse from warmth, better from cold; with copious discharge, also on legs, worse at ankles, bones diseased.
Old cicatrices become red around the edges, covered or surrounded by itching vesicles, or they itch violently.

Stages and States

Complaints of old age, also premature old age, in consequence of syphilitic mercurial dyscrasia.
Weakly constitutions, sallow of whiskey, induration of liver; ascites.
Ailments from Silic.; also after abuse of mercury.
Fluor ac. follows well; after Arsen., in ascites with diseased liver; after Kali carb., in hip disease; after Silic., in bone diseases; after Phosp. ac., in diabetes (one case).