This section is from the book "Medical Therapeutics For Daily Reference", by Rudolph Frederick Rabe. Also available from Amazon: Medical Therapeutics for Daily Reference.
Hyperacidity is the keynote, for the employment of this inorganic constituent of the body. Excess of lactic acid in children, resulting from overfeeding with milk and sugar. The indications are a thin, moist coating on the tongue, of a golden yellow color especially toward the base. There are sour eructations, sour vomiting and greenish diarrhea. Water-brash, flatulence with sour risings. It is a useful remedy in constipation of infants, and when the acid conditions prevail, it may be given in the 6x potency; however, it may be necessary to use it as a laxative, administered with the food in 5 to 10 grain doses. By correcting the diet, this use of the drug will scarcely ever be necessary.
It has been recommended as an efficient worm medicine, and also finds a use in gout; here we should remember the peculiar dyspepsias of the gouty. There is a marked correspondence in them, to Na-trutn phosphoricum.
1. Ailments resulting' from excessive acidity; excess of lactic acid; from too much sugar in the diet; infants and children overfed with milk and sugar.
2. Acid dyspepsia; sour eructations; sour vomiting.
 
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