Common Name Salicylic Acid Causes Symptoms for SBL Acid Salicylicum Mother Tincture Salicylic acid is found in nature in the leaves and barks of Willows in Oil of Wintergreen Gaultheria which is one of the chief sources of its supply and is obtained synthetically from Carbolic acid Like Carbo ac it has been largely used as a disinfectant and as it is supposed to be non poisonous it is used for mixing with and so preserving foods The property of preventing foot sweat is by no means an unmixed boon and serious illness has resulted from Salicylicum acidum Consequently in homeopathic practice Salicylicum acidum has been found an excellent remedy for affections following suppression of foot sweat Salicylicum acidum has a specific relation to joint pain but the massive doses given in ordinary practice have been attended with so many unpleasant symptoms Salicylicum acidum patients complaint of vital depression fainting flatulent dyspepsia delirium Like Carbolic acid and other disinfectants Salicylicum acidum produces fermentative dyspepsia and diarrhoea with putrid smelling stools and it meets dynamically blood poisoning conditions such as high body temperature and septicaemia The symptoms are worse by touch Worse by motion At night By cold air or touch of anything cold Better by hot applications especially by dry heat Causation Suppression foot sweat Mind Anxiety worrying restless yet mild Melancholic wants to be quiet feels faint Excited mood Delirium stupid can hardly collect his ideas then laughed without cause talked incessantly and disconnectedly Head Dullness of head stupefaction Vertigo inclines to fall surrounding objects seem to fall Rush of blood to head Severe headache piercing in both temples Headache commencing on top or back of head running down sternomastoid more right side which is tender to touch Eyes Diminished acuteness of vision Ears Hearing diminished Nervous deafness Deafness with noises roaring in ears Roaring in ears and difficult hearing hears music swarm of bees or buzzing of flies rush of blood to head excited mood Tinnitus accompanying the head symptoms Nose Sneezing Incipient catarrh patients especially children sneeze all day Face Dull heavy aspect face flushes quickly on slight excitement Mouth Burning in mouth and epigastric region Burning and scraping in mouth and throat Redness of mouth and fauces tongue covered with burning vesicles Foul breath and offensive expectoration Mouth dotted with white patches burning scalded feeling ulcers on tip of tongue Canker sores with burning soreness and fetid breath Taste extremely disgusting as of something burnt bitter bitter bilious that cannot be got rid of food has no taste Throat Burning in throat Scraping in throat causing cough difficulty in swallowing Tonsils red swollen studded white Stomach Nausea gagging water brash Frequent vomiting Burning in epigastric region Weak nervous sensation in stomach Abdomen Abdominal distension Ulceration of bowels Violent constant pressure in abdomen with feeling of incarcerated flatus associated with constipation Stool and Anus Diarrhoea stools green flushes easily as in hectic acid sour or putrid smelling stool dry hard then diarrhoea watery sour yellow with great weakness Urinary Organs Urine scanty clear brown three hours after passage has a green tinge and a feathery deposit of crystal of Salicyluric acid if these are removed the urine at once becomes putrid if left urine remains fresh for a week Female Sexual Organs Salicylicum acidum is indicated for the complaint of frequent hot flushes irritability forgetfulness dull heavy pain in cerebellum Respiratory Organs Respiration hurried sometimes deepened sometimes shallow or sighing and almost panting as if labored but no complaint of difficulty of breathing Dry cough of a hard racking spasmodic character worse at night in old people Chest Spasmodic fetid bronchitis gangrene of lungs Firmly seated pressure at side of sternum as large as the hand with feeling as if the bone was sore Heart Pulse small rapid weak Limbs Heat redness soreness and swelling about joints worse in knees with acute piercing pains worse on motion better from dry heat Soreness and pain in right deltoid and right gastrocnemius changing next day to left wrist and forearm worse touch and movement Upper Limbs Joint pain occurring in some women during climaxis the pains disappeared the engorgements of fingers subsided and the hands could again be used Lower Limbs After suppressed foot sweat rheumatic pains worse at night after an hour s sleep forced to get up pain in course of left sciatic nerve drawing burning as if foot were in an ant hill as if it would like to perspire Copious foul smelling foot sweats Applied locally it brings away corns Sleep Yawning Frequently waked from sleep thinking he heard musicGeneralities Weakness faintness Deprives bone of its lime salts Skin red points like flea bites Skin red and sensitive Urticaria is relieved by Salicylicum acidum