About Acid Muriaticum

Weakness, mainly physical.

Muriatic acid has an elective affinity for the blood, helpful in septic conditions similar to that found in low fevers with high temperature and great prostration. Patient becomes so weak she slides down the bed. Decomposition of fluids. Involuntary stools while passing urine. Haemorrhages. Mouth and anus chiefly effected.
Mind

Feels he will never succeed; doomed to fail.
Want of self-confidence.
Cannot overcome the least problem.
Feels too weak to live on his own.
Fears future, the least problems.
Discontented with everything; with himself.
Difficult concentration. Mental exhaustion. Reading aggravates mental symptoms.
Forgetful for what has just said.

Generalities

Weakness (muscular prostation).
Agg. Sea.
Agg. Cold.
Amel. Warmth.
Agg. Rest, before prostration sets in.
""Sliding down in bed"", must be lifted up every little while.

Food and drinks

Aversion: Meat.

Vertigo

When lying on the right side.

Face

Dropping of lower jaw.

Mouth

Tongue dry, leathery.
Atrophy and cancer of tongue (Gali).
Aphtae.
Ulcers.

Stomach

Emptiness not amel. by eating.

Abdomen

Indigestion.
Fulness and distention from small quantities of food.
Ascites.
Sensation of emptiness after eating, after stool.

Rectum

Involuntary stool, itching and Prolapsus while urinating or passing flatus (Aloe).
Unnoticed stools.
Hemorrhoids, very sensitive to touch amel. Heat, must lie with limbs wide apart (Paeon, Rat.).
Protruding like bunch of grapes, agg. during stool and urination.

Bladder

Atony; must wait a long time; presses so hard that anus protrudes.
Cannot urinate without loosing stool.

Extremities

Heavy, painful, weak. Heaviness of forearms.
Tottering gait from weak thighs and knees.

Dreams

Happy dreams of home.

Skin

Eruption, itching amel. scratching.

Complementary Remedies

Carb-veg, Nat-mur, Phos-acid.