• It presents with profound anemia with some dropsical symptoms.

• It causes great debility.

• It causes frequent fainting spells.

• It causes dyspnea, difficult breathing.

• It causes a weak heart.

• It causes vomiting, often sour.

• It produces profuse urination and sweat.

• It causes hemorrhage from any part of the body.

• Especially indicated in pale, lean persons with lax, flabby muscles.

• It presents with marked wasting and debility.

• Acetic acid has the power to liquefy albuminous and fibrinous deposits.

• It can be used for epithelial cancer, internally and locally.

• Indicated for sycosis with nodules and formations in the joints.

• Indicated for hard chancre.

• The 1x solution will soften and cause formation of pus in ulcers.

• It causes marked thirst, especially for large quantities of water, which may be immediately vomited.

• It causes sour eructations and vomiting.

• It causes general coldness and sensitivity to cold air.

• It causes a tendency to ulceration.

• It causes emaciation and progressive weakness.

• It causes cachexia.

• It causes great prostration after slight exertion.

• It causes profuse night sweats.

• It causes burning pains.

• It causes aversion to meat.

• It produces long-lasting effects from grief.

• It causes a tendency to form abscesses.

• It causes great weakness; the patient cannot hold self up.

• Symptoms are typically worse at night.

• It causes great anxiety and restlessness, especially at night.

• It causes irritability and impatience.

• It causes mental confusion and difficulty concentrating.

• It causes depression and sadness.

• It causes fear of death.

• It causes apathy and indifference to surroundings.

• The patient is easily startled.

• It causes forgetfulness.

• It causes delirium, especially with fever.

• It causes low spirits and discouragement.

• It causes a weeping mood.

• The patient feels forsaken.

• The patient has a desire for company but is easily irritated by it.

• The patient is irresolute; the patient cannot make decisions.

• It causes apprehension about health.

• The patient is oversensitive to noise.

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• The head feels empty or hollow.

• It causes vertigo and dizziness.

• It causes frontal headaches that extend to the eyes.

• Headaches are worse from mental exertion.

• It causes dimness of vision.

• It causes photophobia.

• It causes burning in the eyes.

• It causes lacrimation.

• It causes diplopia (double vision).

• It causes spots before the eyes.

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• Expression wild, pupils dilated.

• Dimness of vision.

• Photophobia.

• Eyes feel weak and tired.

• It causes deafness.

• It causes itching in the ears.

• It causes pulsating noises in ears.

• It causes coryza with acrid discharge.

• The nose feels stopped up despite a watery discharge.

• It causes loss of smell.

• It causes difficult swallowing.

• It causes enlarged tonsils.

• It causes ulcerated sore throat.

• It causes a sensation of a lump in the throat.

• It causes hoarseness.

• It causes dyspnea, especially on exertion.

• It causes cough, dry or with expectoration of mucus.

• It causes hoarseness.

• It causes asthma.

• It causes pulmonary hemorrhages.

• It causes short, rapid breathing.

• It causes a burning sensation in the chest.

• The cough is worse lying down.

• It causes expectoration of blood-streaked sputum.

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• It causes a weak and irregular pulse.

• It causes palpitations.

• It causes angina pectoris-like pains.

• It causes cardiac dropsy.

• It causes enlargement of the heart.

• It causes oppression of the chest.

• It causes a fluttering sensation in the heart.

• It causes sharp pains in the heart region.

• It causes sour eructations.

• It causes heartburn.

• It causes nausea and vomiting, especially sour vomiting.

• It causes intense thirst, especially for cold water.

• The abdomen is distended and painful.

• It causes excessive hunger with rapid satiety.

• It causes aversion to fatty foods.

• It causes craving for vinegar and sour things.

• It causes gastric ulcers.

• It causes vomiting of blood.

• It causes weight loss despite good appetite.

• It causes ascites (abdominal dropsy).

• It causes pain in the liver region.

• It causes swollen and sensitive liver.

• It causes griping abdominal pains.

• It causes rumbling in the bowels.

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• It causes diarrhea, profuse and debilitating.

• Stools are watery, sour smelling, and often bloody.

• It causes rectal tenesmus.

• It causes involuntary stools.

• The diarrhea is worse at night.

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• It causes profuse urination, often pale and watery.

• It causes diabetes insipidus.

• It causes albuminuria.

• It causes a burning sensation during urination.

• It causes incontinence of urine, especially at night.

• Urine smells sour.

• It causes frequent urging to urinate.

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• In women: It causes leucorrhea, profuse and acrid.

• It causes menorrhagia (heavy menstrual bleeding).

• It causes weakness and exhaustion after coition.

• Menses are too early and profuse.

• The breasts feel heavy and painful.

• In men: It causes weakness after emissions.

• It causes diminished sexual desire.

• It causes weakness in the back.

• It causes stiffness in the neck.

• It causes weakness and trembling of the limbs.

• It causes cold extremities.

• It causes edema of the feet and ankles.

• It causes pain in the joints.

• It causes rheumatism.

• It causes cramps in the legs.

• It causes heaviness in the limbs.

• It causes burning pains in the soles of the feet.

• It causes pale and waxy skin.

• It causes dry, scaling skin.

• It causes ulcers that are slow to heal.

• It causes easy formation of bedsores.

• It causes intense itching.

• It causes offensive perspiration.

• It causes general coldness.

• It causes insomnia, especially after midnight.

• It causes frequent waking.

• Dreams are vivid and disturbing.

• It causes night sweats.

• It causes sleeplessness from pain.

• Night.

• Motion.

• Cold air.

• Eating.

• Lying down.

• Exertion.

• Cold drinks.

• Better (>): Rest.

• Warmth.

• Lying on the abdomen.

• Pressure.

• Gentle movement.

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• Compare: Ammon acet (Profuse saccharine urine, patient bathed in sweat); Benzoin odoriferum - Spice-wood (night sweats); Ars; China; Digitalis; Liatris (General anasarca in heart and kidney disease, dropsy, and chronic diarrhea).

• Antidotes: Causticum, Calcarea carbonica.

• Complementary: China, Ferrum metallicum.

• Useful in: Anemia, Dropsy, Diabetes, Hemorrhages, Cancer, Gastric Ulcers, Sycosis.

• Addisons disease.

• Chlorosis.

• Diphtheria.

• Hemoptysis.

• Marasmus.

• Pernicious anemia.

• Nausea, retching, and sour rising.

• Pain and burning in abdomen.

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• Putrid and hectic fevers with night sweats.

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• Great emaciation.

• General anasarca and dropsical affections.

• Burning in inner and outer parts.

• Skin pale and waxen.

• Convulsions.

• Marked prostration.

• Debility after debilitating illnesses.

• Useful in conditions marked by tissue destruction.

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• Very dull and low-spirited; irritable.

• Alternate stupor and delirium.

• Confusion of ideas.

• Grieves much; sighs often.

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• Vertigo with feebleness and fainting.

• Jumps out of bed like a madman, and crawls on the ground, howling with pain.

• Sleeplessness.

• Mental apathy.

• Indifference.

• Depression, bordering on despair.

• Weakness of memory.

• Headache with nausea and vomiting.

• Head feels heavy, as if filled with lead.

• Chronic nasal catarrh.

• Offensive discharge from the nose.

• Neuralgic pains in the face.

• Face feels drawn and tense.

• Gums bleed easily.

• Tongue feels burnt.

• Salivation.

• Sore throat with burning pain.

• Diphtheria.

• Hoarse, with laryngeal irritation. Lining membrane of larynx and trachea covered with a fibrinous exudation as in true croup. Hissing respiration, with rattling in the throat. Croup-like cough; a hollow sound with each inhalation. Hemoptysis.

• Shortness of breath.

• Dyspnea on exertion.

• Asthma.

• Cough dry and hacking.

• Oppression of the chest.

• Palpitations of the heart.

• Weak and irregular pulse.

• Acidity and heartburn.

• Eructations sour and burning.

• Craving for ice.

• Vomiting of blood.

• Gastric ulcers.

• Tenderness of the abdomen.

• Enlarged liver and spleen.

• Ascites.

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• Stools watery, profuse, and exhausting.

• Dysentery.

• Prolapsus ani.

• Anal itching and burning.

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• Urinary: Urine increased in quantity; pale; phosphatic. Diabetes, with intense, burning, unending and unquenchable thirst and great debility.

• Frequent urination, especially at night.

• Enuresis.

• Urine smells sour.

• Albumen in urine.

• Male: Weakening emissions; semen passes at stool. Prepuce thickened, fissured, can't be retracted and itches fearfully. Sexual passion, but feeble erection.

• Impotence.

• Prostate enlargement.

• Female: Metrorrhagia; after parturition, with great thirst.

• Leucorrhea acrid and profuse.

• Menses profuse and protracted.

• Sterility.

• Weakness in the back.

• Pain in the small of the back.

• Stiffness in the neck.

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• Edematous swelling of the feet and legs.

• Pain in the joints.

• Rheumatism.

• Gout.

• Cramps in the legs.

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• Skin: Sugillations. Tetter-like eruptions. Nevi; warts; corns.

• Skin dry and scaly.

• Pruritus.

• Ulcers, indolent and painless.

• Bedsores.

• Carbuncles.

• Cold clammy skin.

• Sleeplessness.

• Restless sleep.

• Dreams vivid and disturbing.

• Night terrors.

• Somnambulism.

• At night, from cold, from exertion.

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• Compare: Apis, Ars. (but Acet. ac. has more preponderant gastric symptoms than either); Carbol. ac., Lac. defl., Lact. ac., Uran. nit.

• Large doses of Acet. ac. are best antidoted by Magnesia or Calcarea either as fluid magnesia or as lime-water.

• Antidotes to potencies are: For depressing, agonising feeling, Tabac., Acon.; for gastric, pulmonary and febrile symptoms, Nat. m., and afterwards Sep.

• It antidotes: Anesthetics, Acon., Asar., Coffea, Euphorb., Ignat., Opium, Plumb. (colic), Sep., Stram., Tabac.

• It counteracts sausage-poisoning.

• It aggravates the effects of Bell., Merc., Arn., Lach.

• Disagrees when given after Borax, Caust., Nux v., Ran. b., Sars.

• Scilla, Colch., and Sang. have more effect in curing some diseases when prepared with Acet. ac. than with Alcohol.

• Useful in treating diabetes, dropsy, and anemia.

• Consider in cases of poisoning.