Acidum Citricum

1. Description

Kingdom

Plant
Family:
Organic (carboxylic) Acid
Latin Name:
Citricum acidicum
Homeopathic:
Citric acid
Abbreviation:
Cit-ac
Synonyms:
Aurantium, Citric acid anhydrous, Citrus limonum, Citrus vulgaris,Hydroxy propanetricarboxylic acid, Tricarboxylic acid
2. Source & History

The discovery of citric acid has been credited to the 8th century Persian alchemist Jabir Ibn Hayyan However it was not until 1784 that Citric acid was first isolated by the Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, who crystallized it from lemon juice. In 1893, C. Wehmer discovered that Penicillium mold could produce citric acid from sugar. but it wqas not until World War I when Italian citrus exports were disrupted that commercial Citric acid production became significant.

Acidum Citricum

Citric acid is one of a series of compounds involved in the physiological oxidation of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates to carbon dioxide and water. These metabolic reactions are known by various names including Citric Acid Cycle, the Krebs cycle, and the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle. Citric acid is the first acid in the cycleand any disturbance to it will severely influence life by profoundly upsetting the transformation of glucose into energy.
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Its main uses are as a flavoring and preservative in food and beverages as well as in the soap and laundry detergent industries where its chelating ability makes it particularly useful.
3. Mentals & Generals
People usually very attentive become suddenly averse to  duty and responsibility.
Insensibility, frequent yawning, weariness, great lassitude
.Excitable personality with rapid movements.

4. Particulars

Acidum Citricum

Scurvy
Dropsy
Acidity/ Gastritis 
Chronic rheumatism 
Haemorrhages. 
5. Keywords

Weariness, lassitude, no energy
Scurvy, dry, red, itchy skin
Pain paliation (cancer, muscle, joint, gums, spleenic)
Respiratory dysnpoea with oedema
Gastritis

6. Clinicals

Stress, fatigue, energy enhancemen
Acid reflux, gastritis, acidosis.
Sore throat
Unhealthy skin
Respiratory cold
Splenic problems
Metrohagia

7. Constitutional Prescribing
The use of Cit-ac is usually restricted to symptomatic situations. 
However as always it is the patient picture that is important especially the mental & general manifestations that are the key determinants for its Constitutional use.
High potency Constitutional prescription may be used as background together with a concurrent lower potency symptomatic remedy administered according to the Law of Similars in situations where two or more of the main symptoms occur together in the patient. For example
Dysnpoea and Oedema  

Gastritis and Sore throat. 
Pain and Metrohagia

9. Relationships

Activity:
-
Affinities:
Cit-d, Cit-l, Cit-v
Complements:
Ang, Rut..
Inimicals:
-
Does not Follow Well
or
Remedies that Follow Well


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