FLUORIC ACID
PRESENTED
BY
GAURAV NAND
315T BATCH . B.H.M.S. (U.G. )
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HOMOEOPATHY (KOLKATA)
UNDER THE GUIDANCE
OF
(PROF.) Dr. CHINTAMANI NAYAK SIR
HOD OF MATERIA MEDICA
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HOMOEOPATHY (KOLKATA)
Source: Mineral kingdom
Synonyms: Hydrofluoric acid
Prover: Dr Constantine Hering
Miasmatical Background: Predominantly syphilis , psora and
sycosis are in the background
Thermal Relationship: Hot patient with alternating cold states
Constitution
Hot-blooded patient yet with cold states
Patient with Feeble circulation
Pallid, sickly patient
Debilitated subjects with bone and cartilage troubles
Patients with Degenerative tendency (bones, cartilage, hair, nails)
Tendency to Indolent ulcers /non-healing conditions
Patients having Varicose tendency
Patients with Dropsical, waxy states
Sphere of action
• Bones & periosteum
• Veins
• Skin
• Mucous membranes
• Teeth
• Hair
• Genitals
• Rectum
• Nervous system
• General tissues
MENTAL
● Patient is in Depression; melancholy; sadness
● Young man with destroyed nervous system due to secret vice
● Mental exhaustion < overwork;costant use of brain
● Low-minded; debauchery; changes women
● Sexual desire increased; constant; uncontrollable lust
● Craves young women who go on street
● Indifference to family; aversion to wife, children
● Feeling of indifference to the ones,he loved the most
● Desire to leave home
● Silent; answers little; sits in corner
● Fatigue of brain
HEAD
● Hair dry; lustreless; splits; breaks; falls ,necrosis along the course of
hairs
● Hairs matted,dry ,splits
● Scalp numb; crusts; bald spots
● Caries temporal bone
● Headache ,violent Congestive; occipital; with heat; fulness
● < motion
● < neglect of urination ,if not attended it keeps growing
● >after urination
EYES
● Acrid lachrymation; excoriating
● Sensation of burning in parts
NOSE
● Ozena; offensive discharge
● Discharge acrid; excoriating
● Necrosis of nasal bones due to syphilitic affections
● Nasal bones have been destroyed and only a flesh left with perforations
● Blowing of pieces of nasal bones with much pain
●
EARS
● Offensive discharge; acrid
● Necrosis of nasal bones
MOUTH
● Teeth decay ; break off or ulcerates at roots
● Fistulous openings at roots of teeth; continuous discharging
● This remedy has often cured and saved the tooth
THROAT
● Uvula destroyed and eaten
● Tonsils ulcerated and become honeycombed due to syphilitic ulcerr
● Chronic lingering ulcers an eruptions
STOMACH
● Hunger constant
● Often inspite of constant hunger he cannot eat yet > when food in stomach..eatin
● “All gone” sensation
● Always eating; > eating
● Craves cold water
● Hunger soon returns after eating
● Craves pungent ,spicy,highly seasoned things
ABDOMEN
● Dropsy of drunkards
● Dropsies of liver
● < warm drinks causes diarrhoea,indigestion
● Symptoms worse standing and sitting
● >open air
Rectum
● Diarrhoea; chronic; morning
● Haemorrhoids;
● Anus protrude after stool
● Profuse haemmorhage after stool
● Itching anus; perineum
● Constipation with piles
EXTREMITIES
● Coldness morning, day
● Burning evening, night
● Numbness hands, feet
● Dropsy lower limbs
● Varicose veins; ulcers
SKIN
● Produces Dry wars,dry crusts upon the skin;
● Old cicatries ,red around the edges surrounded by violently itching vesicles
● cutaneous eruptions on body,very scaly
● Squamous eruptions
● Ulcers indolent; hard; glassy margins
● Fistulous openings; discharge acrid; excoriates
● Parts once broken do not heal
● Useful in syphilitic rupia
● Prevents and cures fig warts in sycotics subjects
BONES
● Necrosis; caries
● Long bones; ear bones
● Ulcers tibia
● Fistulous openings → bone; discharge acrid; excoriating
GENITALS
● Beginning of Gonorrhoea; prepuce enormously swollen,Priapism ,intense sexual desire overcome by
flouric acid
● Overwhelming sexual erethism ,kept awake nights by erections
NERVOUS SYSTEM
● Numbness; especially in spinal
affections
● Paralytic tendency
● Trembling
● Numbness extends upward
GENERAL MODALITIES
● < heat, warm room, evening, night
● < motion (head)
● < if urges (urine) not attended
● < irregular bowels, delayed menses
Comparison with different drugs as per kent
Fluoric acid vs Pulsatilla
● Fluoric acid: chronic, deep acting
● Pulsatilla: acute, early stage
● Pulsatilla: hot → later chilly
● Fluoric acid: returns to hot state
Fluoric acid vs Silicea
● Silicea: cold state
● Fluoric acid: hot state
● Fluoric acid follows Silicea
● Fluoric acid antidotes abuse of Silicea
Fluoric acid vs Cannabis sativa
● Both: gonorrhoea with swollen prepuce
● Cannabis sativa: robust subjects
● Fluoric acid: debilitated subjects
Fluoric acid vs Cantharis
● Both: priapism
● Cantharis indicated when symptoms point to it
Fluoric acid vs Picric acid
● Both: mental prostration
Fluoric acid vs Sepia
● Both: indifference to family
● Sepia: more in women
● Fluoric acid: similar state in men
Fluoric acid vs Iodine
● Both: constant hunger
● Iodine: relief from eating short
Relations as per kent
● Pulsatilla → Silicea → Fluoric acid
● Sulphur → Calcarea → Lycopodium
● Sarsaparilla → Sepia → Colocynth → Causticum → Staphysagria
Thank You