Mineral Kingdom and Acid Group Characteristics

Mineral Kingdom

• The Mineral Kingdom is a group of homeopathic remedies.

• Studying the mineral kingdom helps understand the differences between remedies from various kingdoms (plant, animal, mineral).

• Essential characteristics of the mineral kingdom include structure, personality, existence, security and function.

• Features include:

  • Structure - Lacking, Formation, Maintaining, Losing or Breaking
  • Personalities - Identity, Position, Responsibility
  • Existence - Security
  • Function - Responsibility and Relationships

• All arises from completeness or incompleteness, stable or unstable

• Every remedy expresses various characteristics that depends upon element it contains, its combination and individual too.

Acid Kingdom

• The Acid Group in homeopathy encompasses inorganic and organic acids.

• Inorganic acids are more deep-acting than organic acids.

• Inorganic acids affect skin and mucous membranes, blood and blood vessels.

• Organic acids affect muscle, tendons, connective tissue and soft tissue, endocrine and sexual organs

• Characteristics of Acid Group:

  • Persons belonging to acid group are thin, have weak constitution, hair loss, baldness, pale, anemic look, debility and prostration. These are commonly chilly.
  • Except for Fluoric acid and Picric acid, all acids are affected by cold.

• Patho-Physiological Action:

  • Exhaustion (general characteristic of acids).
  • Decrease in acid secretion; increase in alkaline levels in the body.
  • When citric acid is taken into stomach, it reduces gastric juice secretion but increases saliva secretion.
  • Hydrochloric acid is important in the process of digestion in gastro intestinal tract, here acid-peptic balance is maintained so there is no formation of ulceration in the mucus membrane
  • Irritant, cathartic action, often with severe pain from ulceration, inflammation, infection.
  • Toxemia, septicemia, ulceration, and malignancy.
  • Allergic Hypovolemic shock, anemia, leukemia and hemolytic jaundice can occur
  • Slow and progressive metabolic diseases, and a variety of symptoms, including burning, bleeding, cracks, and fissure fistula.
  • Fevers of all types.

• Ailments from:

  • Mental: grief, mortification, mental exertion, separation, disappointed love
  • Physical: Surgical shock; loss of sleep. bad effect of bites and stings; after anesthesia, abuse of narcotics, debauchery; occupational hazards, injury, loss of vital fluids, physical exertion; infection - bacterial or viral

• Miasmatic Background:

  • Covers all three miasms, but syphilitic is dominant in general
  • Inorganic acid: Covers all miasm, but more dominant is syphilitic
  • Organic acid: Predominantly has sycotic and tubercular miasm

• Characteristic Mental Symptoms:

  • Exhaustion (common and well-known)
  • Hurriedness (accompanied by tiredness or exhaustion)
  • Irritability (leads to vindictiveness and hatred)
  • Extroverts (talk easily and openly)
  • Perfectionists (have tendency to be perfectionists)
  • Aggression (expressed physically with violent biting, itching)
  • Unification and desire to be one with everything
  • Decreasing power of perception (understanding and interpretations are problematic)
  • Weariness of life and despair of recovery
  • Cowardice, malicious, jealous, suspicious and loquacious.
  • Weak memory at mental level, lacking self-confidence, and destruction of all thinking powers, forgetfulness, absent-mindedness.
  • Confusion and lack of concentration
  • Industrious but physical complaints increase when free or thinking of complaints.
  • Disorientation of time, space, and identity, person forgets his identity.
  • Anxious and excited, becoming angry when upset, Obstinate, develop obsessive compulsive neurosis
  • Nymphomania, high sexual desire but low endurance
  • Drowsiness, muttering, moaning constantly, stupor
  • Impulsive, violent, furious, and go into mania

• Characteristic Physical Symptoms:

  • Burning, extreme weakness, debility, destruction, hemorrhage, ulcer
  • Suddenness of symptoms that appear and disappear suddenly
  • Loss of vital fluids, trembling, shivering
  • Debility both mentally and physically
  • Watery, acrid, sour, strained discharge with blood

• Other Characteristics:

  • Over sensitive to external stimuli.
  • Weakness without destruction of tissues.
  • Pseudo membrane tendency
  • Deficiency (scurvy from deprivation of vegetables, loss of hair and brittle nails more marked in inorganic acids than in organic acids).
  • Thin burning, cracked ulcerated blackish - brownish coating on tongue.
  • Sour and putrid taste.
  • Desire for alcohol, acidic, tanned foods, citrus fruits, indigestible foods (chalk pencil, mud, paint, egg, meat, etc.)
  • Aversion to heavy food, pulses, sweets, oily, fatty foods, cheese, icy cold things, ice cream.
  • Modalities: Aggravation (night, exerting, cold food or drinks, loss of vital fluids, loss to sleep, mental tension, anxiety, worrying, grief, touch)
  • Amelioration (rest, heat, short sleep, eating after, relief from discharge like profuse urination, etc).

• Clinical Conditions:

  • Spasms, Epilepsy, Cholera, Scarlatina, Cough, Typhoid Fever, Catarrh, ulcers, Aphthae, hemorrhages, Diarrhoea, Diphtheria, Haemorrhoids, Angina Pectoris, Anxiety disorders, Bell's Palsy, Cerebral Accidents, Colds, Conjunctivitis, Cystitis, Facial Neuralgia, Gastritis, Influenza, Injury, Labour, Myocardial Infarction, Orchitis, Otitis Media, Panic Disorders, Pneumonia, Shock, Tonsillitis, Toothache, Urinary retention, Contractures, Gout, Rheumatic heart disease, Rheumatism, Uric acid diathesis, Urinary calculi, constipation, Diabetes, Influenza, Leucorrhoea, Lumbago, Ovarian Neuralgia, Ozaena, Vomiting, Bone disorders, Peptic ulcer, And sexual disorders, Varices, Malignancy, Prostration, Septic states, Acute Ascending paralysis, Anuria, Boils In Ear, Brain Fag, Burns, Cerebral Softening, Headaches, Myelitis, Neurasthenia, Pernicious anaemia, Priapism, Prostatic hypertrophy, Satyriasis, Spinal Cord degeneration, Writer's Palsy.

• Important Remedies (Inorganic Acids):

  • Fluoricum acidum
  • Muriaticum acidum
  • Nitric acid
  • Sulphuricum acidum
  • Phosphoricum acidum

• Important Remedies (Organic Acids):

  • Aceticum acidum
  • Benzoicum acidum
  • Carbolicum acidum
  • Formicum acidum
  • Lacticum acidum
  • Oxalicum acidum
  • Picricum Acidum