PICRIC ACID- a snapshot

  • Brain fag
  • Overworked physically and mentally
  • Headaches
    • Of business men/ teachers/ students
    • From least mental exertion/ grief
      • With backache and languor and weakness of limbs
    • With burning in spine
    • In occiput
    • Aml tight bandaging
  • Diarrhoea from mental exertion
  • Spine
    • Paralysis
    • Degeneration
    • Myelitis
  • Pernicious anaemia
  • Tiredness, weakness, heaviness
  • Nephritis
    • With exhaustion
    • Complete anuria
  • Sexual desire increased
    • Priapism/ satyriasis
    • Lascivious thoughts in presence of women
    • Exhaustion after emission
    • Priapism from spinal disease
  • Cold feet, cannot get warm enough
  • Sleep <, physical and mental exertion <, hot weather <
  • Aml cold, pressure
  • Keeps knees apart while standing
  • Upper right and lower left leg
  • burns

Some comparisons from Clarke’s Materia Medica

Oxalic acid– has more numbness, blueness, pains in small spots; symptoms < thinking of them. Pic. ac. more heaviness; extreme spinal softening

Phos. has more irritability and excessive sensitiveness, sexual excitement very strong; Pic. ac. has more intense erections but less marked lasciviousness

SiliceaPic. ac. washed out, must give in; Sil. won’t give in

Aude Sapere

Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
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