This section is from the book "Materia Medica And Therapeutics Inorganic Substances", by Charles D. F. Phillips. Also available from Amazon: Materia medica and therapeutics.
In dyspepsia or "apepsia," connected with deficient action of the intestinal glands, and accompanied with a chronic looseness of the bowels, the acid has given very good results, used in the manner directed under hydrochloric acid.
Acidum nitro-hydrochloricum dilutum: dose, 5 to 20 min., freely diluted (it is liable to injure the teeth; they should therefore be cleansed with an alkaline wash or plain water).
 
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