Chromicum Acidum chr-ac.

Chromic Acid

Diphtheria, post-nasal tumors, and epithelioma of the tongue have been benefited by this drug. Bloody, foul-smelling lochia. Symptoms come and go suddenly, and return periodically; offensive discharges.

Ulcer and scabs in nose. Offensive smell. Corrosive pain. Ozæna (Aur).

Diphtheria; sore throat. Tough mucus, with inclination to swallow it; worse, causing hawking. Post-nasal tumors.

Uneasiness in limbs. Pain in shoulder-blades and back of neck. Pain in knees and balls of feet. Drawing pain in soles while walking.

Watery, frequent, copious, with nausea and vertigo. Hæmorrhoids, internal and bleeding. Weakness in small of back.

Compare: Kali bich; Rhus; Chromium Sulphate (in locomotor ataxia, goitre, prostatic hypertrophy. Herpes preputialis. Wry neck. Also exophthalmic, inhibits the vagus, relieving tachycardia. Acts like a nerve tonic where there is lack of nervous tone. Fibroid tumors. Infantile paralysis. Dose for adults, 3 to 5 grains after meals and at bedtime).

Homeopathically, third to sixth trituration.

Mind in a state of confusion for two days ; memory aggravated at times to such a degree that he found himself at loss to know how to make several of the letters in the alphabet.
Delirious states. θ Phrenitis.
Quarrelsome in delirium. θ Phrenitis.

Dull confusion in head, in forenoon.
Is heavy, dull, stupid.
Sensation of lightness of head like vertigo, with heat in face ; face flushed ; pulse full, slightly accelerated.
At 10 o'clock, while walking, lightness in head which inclined him continually to right side.
Giddiness when going down-stairs.

Pain extends into anterior portion of brain from right eyeball, and from aching teeth.
Fulness of head ; in the evening lightness at heart as if a vacuum was there ; giddiness when going down-stairs, and cold feet.
Woke at 5 A. M. with feeling of fulness in upper and forepart of head.
Shooting pains in left temple. *
Pulsative, throbbing sensation from region of heart to left eye and left side of head ; general fulness of forepart of head, with occasional slight pains in left hypochondrium.
Throbbing in occiput. θ Phrenitis.
Great sensitiveness of brain. θ Phrenitis.
Inflammatory affections of the brain.

Heavy pain along coronal suture, extending backward and occupying all of parietal portion, at 10 A. M. ; was not > by dinner, warmth, or cold, and continued without variation until 4 P. M. ; walking in open air for one hour did not change the pain.

Diminished vision.
Several sharp cutting pains across left eyeball at night in bed ; smarting and heaviness in eyelids in evening. *
A kind of sudden jerk of both eyeballs for a second.
Throbbing in left eye.
Pain from right eyeball up into anterior portion of brain, with soreness of orb to touch.
Feeling of dryness and uneasiness in right eye and nostril. *
Eyes feel sore and as if they were inflamed.
Cutting pain across left eyeball, with flow of tears in morning in bed. *
Smarting in eyelids ; in evening accompanied by pricking in skin. *
Itching and smarting around eyes, especially in inner canthi.
Dull pain over left eye as if headache would set in, continued all day.
Dull, pressive pain over right eye on awaking in morning. *

Occasionally sensation in right ear as if water was in it, it appears and disappears suddenly.
Pain from toothache extends into ear.
Sudden jerking pains in left ear and a cold feeling in a small spot in meatus. *

Uneasy feeling in right nostril.
Fetid, musty smell in posterior nares, chiefly perceived during expiration, after breakfast and dinner.
(OBS :) Ozæna.

Face flushed and hot.
Face rose red during coughing spells. θ Laryngeal phthisis.

Quivering of lower lip. *
Lips dry and disposed to chap.
Trismus.

Toothache, with pain extending into ear.
Soon after going to bed, 10 P. M., two attacks of very violent toothache on right side ; each attack lasted about ten to fifteen minutes, with a free interval of several minutes ; during the second attack painful teeth seemed as if too long ; pain extended into
forehead.
A pain between the head, left shoulder blade and shoulder grew much better during toothache ; during the pain he was frequently obliged to change his position.
After the second attack of toothache such uneasiness in limbs that he was obliged to get up and walk about, teeth of right side felt too long even next morning, and cold water produced pain in teeth.
Repeated toothache of short duration, especially in lower jaw, right side ; during attacks of toothache the corresponding artery beats more violently than on the other side.
In the night sudden violent pain in several undecayed teeth, left side, especially in lower jaw ; while the pain lasts the corresponding arteries beat more violently.
In morning after usual rinsing of mouth with cold water, toothache in left lower jaw for a short time.

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A solution of pure Chromic Acid in distilled water (1 to 9) may be diluted for use.

Pain, agg. draught of air; agg. left side; agg. cold water. ▶ Amelioration from quick walking. ▶ Heaviness, dullness, stupidity. ▶ Weakness.

Confusion. ▶ Memory affected so that when writing he was at a loss to make several letters.

Pain over left eye. ▶ Heavy pain along coronal suture from 10 A.M. till 4 P.M., extending backward over parietal region. ▶ Throbbing in forepart, with fulness, with emptiness in chest, soreness on pressure and cold feet. ▶ Fulness; at night, with lightness at heart and vertigo on descending stairs; in vertex and frontal region at 5 A.M., on waking. ▶ Lightness like vertigo at 10 P.M., with heat in face. ▶ Vertigo at 10 A.M. when walking, inclining him to the right.

Sore and feeling heavy, as if inflamed. ▶ Pain at noon from right ball into interior of brain, with soreness of orb to touch. ▶ Vision diminished.

Sudden intermittent feeling of water in right ear, disappearing suddenly. ▶ Sensation when eating as if expired air smelt putrid, almost causing nausea. ▶ Features contracted face leaden, eyes sunken. ▶ Lips dry and disposed to crack.

Toothache in left lower jaw in morning after the usual rinsing with cold water; repeated, agg. right lower, with violent beating of corresponding artery; sudden, in left sound teeth in night, agg. lower, with violent beating of corresponding arteries; intermittent, in right at 10 P.M. in bed, extending into forehead, with uneasiness, teeth seemed too long, with relief of pain between head, left scapula and shoulder, then uneasiness in limbs, next morning right teeth felt too long and cold water caused pain.

▶ Tough mucus, with inclination to swallow it, as if could not be easily hawked up; white mucus, agg. morning, causing hawking.

No appetite for breakfast. ▶ Nausea from 2 till 4 P.M., after dinner; after a simple supper, with sensation as if stool would follow; agg. when stomach is empty. ▶ Vomiting profuse, first of contents of stomach, then of much bile, then of blood; frequent V. of food, then of bile, with sweat, much retching, the nausea which precedes each vomiting amel. quick walking, between the attacks of vomiting pressure and fulness in stomach so that he must loosen the clothes, after the last vomiting sleep, then pressure or heaviness in stomach. ▶ Burning pain.

Cutting in hypogastrium and ascending colon at 6 P.M., amel. profuse diarrhœa. ▶ Pain in left hypochondrium; in colon in morning on waking, amel. rising, with rumbling. ▶ Uneasiness in morning in bed, as before diarrhœa, amel. rising; in lower, waking at 4 A.M., with soreness to touch, agg. along colon, with nausea, eructations and retching, throwing off white mucus.

Hæmorrhoids internal and bleeding; painful, externally on left side of anus. ▶ Hæmorrhoidal discharge during stool; with weakness in small of back. ▶ Diarrhœa; watery, with nausea and vertigo. ▶ Frequent copious stools. ▶ Small stool of mucus and knotty fæces.

Strangury in morning on waking after a dream of it.

Pain in left lung, with throbbing. ▶ Rawness or soreness in chest, with hacking cough. ▶ Pulsation through chest at noon. ▶ Weakness of chest. ▶ Sudden stitch in region of heart. ▶ Stricture in region of heart at 10 A.M. ▶ Throbbing from region of heart to left eye and left side of head at 10 A.M., with fulness in frontal region. ▶ Pulse rapid; and full; slow; irregular in frequency.

Stiffness of muscles on left side of neck at 10 A.M. ▶ Pain deep-seated in left shoulder, scapula and left side of nape up to occiput, with stiffness, agg. rising from lying or turning head to left or backward, and draught of air, amel. standing and walking, at times the pain extended into left olecranon, to muscles on chest below left shoulder and spine, all muscles connected with scapula painful to touch, use of left arm impeded, on drawing a long breath a stitch in chest near left shoulder, on coughing pain over whole left upper chest, deep coughing was impossible, pressure on chest, the pain moved from left scapula to pelvis, lumbar region sensitive. ▶ Shooting from small of back into left hip-bone at 3 P.M.; from lumbar vertebræ to crest of right ilium at 6 P.M. when sitting. ▶ Pain in lumbar region at 9 A.M.; at 4 P.M., and weakness.

Pain on top of left shoulder as from fatigue from 10 A.M. till noon. ▶ Growing pain anteriorly in middle of left brachium, and lameness as from a blow. ▶ Arms easily fall asleep. ▶ Pain in elbows. ▶ Drawing pain anteriorly in upper half of left femur, extending to hip-joint. ▶ Rheumatic feeling in right knee in afternoon and evening. ▶ Hitching in left knee on walking. ▶ Weakness of left knee at 8 P.M. when walking, with knocking. ▶ Paralyzed sensation in right leg at 10 A.M.

Prickling and itching here and there, amel. evening, with uneasiness in limbs.

Sleepiness in evening; in the daytime, but if he lies down inability to sleep. ▶ Late falling asleep, restlessness during the night and anxious dreams. ▶ Waking at 5 A.M., and restlessness; waking at early dawn and inability to sleep again though sleepy and not excited. ▶ Night restless, with swollen sensation in eyeballs, which continued after waking. ▶ Dreams unpleasant, unremembered; distressing, that he is about to be put to death by poison and at the same time is innocent of crime; of crossing a stream on horseback, the stream and the water on him freeze.

Coldness; in nape at 10 A.M.; of feet; of feet at noon, even when walking.

Diphtheritic sore throat. ▶ Post-nasal tumors. ▶ Epithelioma of tongue. ▶ Watery diarrhœa, with vertigo. ▶ Foul-smelling lochia, bloody.