Benzoic Acid
by H. C. Allen
Benzoic Acid is A gouty, rheumatic diathesis engrafted on a gonorrhoeal or syphilitic patient.
Benzoic Acid Gouty concretions; arthritis vaga; affects all the joints, especially the knee, cracking on motion; nodosities ( Berberis, Lithium carb., Lyssinum ).
Urine dark brown, and the urinous odor highly intensified.
Enuresis nocturna of delicate children; dribbling urine of old men with enlarged prostrate; strong characteristic odor; excesses of uric acid.
Benzoic Acid has Catarrh of bladder after suppressed gonorrhea.
Diarrhoea of children; white, very offensive, exhausting liquid stools, running “right through the diaper” ( Podophyllum ); urine offensive and of a deep red color.
Cough: with expectoration of green mucus ( Natrum sulph. ); extreme weariness, lassitude.
Pains tearing, stitching, in large joints of big toe; redness and swelling of joints; gout < at night.
Benzoic Acid Relation. – Similar: to, Copaiva, Nitr., Ferrum, Thuja, especially in enuresis after Nitr. has failed; Berberis, [Lithium carb.], in arthritic complaints.
Useful after Colchicum fails in gout; after abuse of Copaiva in suppression of gonorrhoea.
Incompatible: wine, which aggravates urinary gouty and rheumatic affections.