TARTARICUM ACIDUM
Tartaric Acid
Found in grapes, pineapple, sorrel and different fruits. It is an antiscorbutic antiseptic, stimulating the mucous and salivary secretions.
Dullness and lassitude. Great weakness, with diarrhoea, with dry and brown tongue. Pain in heels (Phytol).
Stomach.–Excessive thirst, persevered vomiting burning in throat and stomach. Dyspepsia with copious secretions of mucus.
Abdomen.–Pain round umbilicus and place of loins. Stool colour of coffee-grounds (worse at night), with brown and dry tongue, and dark-green vomiting.
Dose.–Third trituration. The pure acid 10-30 grains dissolved in water.