Aceticum Acidum – Acetic Acid

The attenuations are prepared from glacial acetic acid, CH₃COOH, MW: 60.1.

The principal symptoms are as follows:

Oedematous swellings. Waxy appearance. Diabetes. Anaemia. Thirst.

Also typical of this remedy are rapid emaciation with fainting, despondency, irri- tability, attacks of anxiety and respiratory problems. These may be accompanied by great debility or rushes of blood to the head with nervous headaches, great weak- ness, confusion of thoughts and a kind of stupor.

There may be aversion to salty and cold meals; also stomach pains, heartburn, sour eructation and abdominal distension with diarrhoea and swelling of the legs. Steatorrhoea and intestinal bleeding.

Typical symptoms are large quantities of light-coloured or cloudy urine with sed- iment of phosphates, escape of seminal fluid during bowel movement, and copious menstruation.

Aceticum Acidum is helpful in diabetes mellitus and can also be employed in can- cer of the stomach, as well as in chronic gastric catarrh, especially in children and the elderly.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Acidum aceticum, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for acidum aceticum: diarrhoeic disorders; anaemia; feverish conditions; general weakness and debilitation.