BENZOICUM ACIDUM
Benzoic Acid
The most marked attribute pertains to the scent and colour of the urine. It has a marked motion on metabolism. It produces and treatment options signs and symptoms of a uric acid diathesis, with urine extraordinarily coloured and very offensive, and gouty symptoms. Renal insufficiency. Child needs to be nursed in the arms, will now not be laid down. Pains all at once alternate their locality. Anti-sycotic. Gouty and asthmatic.
Mind.–Prone to dwell on disagreeable matters in the past. Omits phrases in writing. Depression.
Head.–Vertigo inclination to fall sideways. Throbbing in temporal arteries, reasons puffing round ears. Noises when swallowing. Ulceration of tongue. Swelling in the back of ears (Caps). Cold sweat on forehead. Pricking, puckered constriction of mouth, bluish and bleeding gums. Wens.
Nose.–Itching of septum. Pain in nasal bones.
Face.–Copper-colored spots. Red, with little blisters. Circumscribed redness of cheeks.
Stomach.–Sweat whilst eating; strain in stomach, sensation of a lump.
Abdomen.–Cutting about navel. Stitching in liver region.
Rectum.–Stitches and constricted feeling. Puckering constriction of rectum. Itching and watery elevations round anus.
Stool.–Frothy, offensive, liquid, light-colored, like soapsuds, bowel movements, ordinarily windy.
Urine.–Repulsive odor; changeable color; brown, acid. Enuresis; dribbling, offensive urine of ancient men. Excess of uric acid. Vesical catarrh from suppressed gonorrhoea. Cystitis.
Respiratory.–Hoarse in morning. Asthmatic cough; worse at night; mendacity on proper side. Chest very tender. Pain in vicinity of heart. Expectoration, inexperienced mucus.
Back.–Pressure on spinal column. Coldness in sacrum. Dull ache in vicinity of kidneys; worse, wine.
Extremities.–Joints crack on motion. Tearing with stitches. Pain in tendo Achillis. Rheumatic gout; nodes very painful. Gouty deposits. Ganglion; swelling of the wrist. Pain and swelling in knees. Bunion of magnificent toe. Tearing ache in outstanding toe.
Fever.–Cold hands, feet, back, knees. Chilliness; bloodless sweat. Internal warmth on awakening.
Skin.–Red spots. Itching in spots.
Modalities.–Worse, in open air; with the aid of uncovering.
Relationship.–Useful after Colchic fails in gout; after Copavia in gonorrhoea.
Compare: Nitric acid; Ammon benz; Sabina; Tropoeolum.
Garden Nasturtium–(fetid urine).
Antidote: Copaiva.
Incompatible: Wine.
Dose.–Third to sixth potency.
