TARTARICUM ACIDUM

Tartaric Acid


  • Found in grapes, pineapple, sorrel and other fruits. 
  • It is an antiscorbutic antiseptic, stimulating the mucous and salivary secretions.
  • Dullness and lassitude. 
  • Great weakness, with diarrhea, with dry and brown tongue. 
  • Pain in heels (Phytol).

Stomach

  • Excessive thirst, continued vomiting burning in throat and stomach. 
  • Dyspepsia with copious secretions of mucus.

Abdomen

  • Pain around umbilicus and region of loins. 
  • Stool color 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.