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REMEDY NAME:BUTYRICUM ACIDUM
But-ac.
Butyric acid.
Butyric acid [L. butyrum, G. boutyron, probably from bous, cow, and tyron,
cheese] is an acid of unpleasant [rancid] odour occurring in butter, cod
liver oil, sweat, mother's milk, and many other animal and vegetable
substances. It is also present in the bowels and in gastric juice.
It is chiefly characteristic of butter, being found there in the form of an
ester, a triglyceride, and as such constitutes the chief fat of butter and
milk.
Butyric acid acquired from fermentation is used to decalcify leather. Esters
of butyric acid have the odour of fruit and are used in essences and
perfumes.
The esters are also used as emulgators and stabilisers in cake-mixes and
powdered desserts. They improve the structure of the food and work as a kind
of lubricant.
"Butyric acid is the most gaseous of the three acids of fermentation. It
lacks the burning, gnawing and ulcerative pains in the stomach of Acetic
Acid. It lacks the constant nausea and the hot, acrid fluid eructation from
the stomach to the throat of Lactic Acid." [Griggs]
Occurrence: Heracleum giganticum, Eucalyptus perriniana, Arnica dulcis,
Ceratonia siliqua, Croton tiglium, Pastinaca sativa, all the milks.
"The acids - all the acids - are greatly neglected. I am sure they all need
more attention than we give them, one reason being that the total acidity of
our system is too great. Seventy-five per cent of all the food we eat is
acid, and we should be eating 80 per cent alkaline foods." [Underhill]
Proved by two male provers and three female provers, under supervision of
Dr.
W.B. Griggs [Hom. Rec. 64, 1949].
A second, earlier, proving - conducted under supervision by Dr. Donald
Macfarlan of Philadelphia in 1915 - is mentioned in Anshutz's New, Old and
Forgotten Remedies.
Sulphur. Lycopodium. Pulsatilla. Graphites. Silicea. Aloe. Baptisia.
Gastrointestinal tract.
MGreat fearfulness and a pronounced disposition to worry over
all sorts of inconsequential trifles. [Macfarlan]
Apprehension about trifles during headache.
GComparison.
"In comparing Acetic acid, Lactic acid and Butyric acid, Butyric acid is
the most gaseous of the three acids of fermentation. It lacks the burning,
gnawing and ulcerative pains in the stomach of Acet-ac. It lacks the
constant
nausea and the hot, acrid fluid eructation from the stomach to the throat of
Lac-ac." [Griggs]
GCoeliac disease.
Voluminous soft stools; distension of abdomen; emaciation; character
troubles; transitory retardation of growth. [Julian]
"It has truly helped those infants who had an inability to digest the fat
in normal quantities in their formula and developed the symptoms of fat
dyspepsia. I have cured fat dyspepsia in young infants who had some allergy
to fat and regurgitated sour, rancid milk curds, and had a great deal of gas
in the bowels." [Griggs]
G< NIGHT.
"A very reliable modality was perceived while watching the effects of
this steady proving, and that was that all symptoms are decidedly worse at
night." [Macfarlan]
GComplete loss of appetite.
GRestless sleep [from digestive troubles; crampy gas pains in
abdomen].
G< During menses.
[soreness of gums; swelling of feet]
GOFFENSIVENESS.
[rancid eructations; fetid breath; bad smelling urine, like asparagus;
offensive leucorrhoea, like horse's urine; fetid foot sweat]
GCRAMPS [stomach; abdomen].
GFLATULENCE and sensation of fullness.
[eructations; abdominal distension; during stool only flatus is passed]
"A great deal of the gas is passed at the 'call' to stool which in many
cases fails to come." [Macfarlan]
PThick, offensive discharge from gums during menses.
PGastric disturbances
[eructations; pyrosis; sensation of fullness; cramping pain]
beginning with profuse salivation.
PCramping pain in stomach and fullness in right hypochondrium.
& Palpitation.
PVomiting of milk in infants.
P"Many pains were developed in the abdomen below the umbilicus,
apparently in the transverse colon. These pains came suddenly, lasted for a
while [5 to 10 minutes] and often left just as suddenly. A tremendous amount
of gas developed in the abdomen and large quantities of gas were passed
through the rectum which gave temporary relief." [Griggs]
PFemale.
"The female provers were in normal health at the time of the proving and
developed a scanty, watery and mucous leucorrhoea which, when wiped from the
vagina, seemed to contain many small bubbles, and it had the odour of stale
brewer's yeast. This cleared up after the drug was stopped." [Griggs]
PHeart.
"Palpitation of heart was observed in every prover. It came on
particularly after eating a full meal and was accompanied by a sense of
heaviness and fullness in the liver region." [Griggs]
PTired feeling and dull pain in small of back.
< Walking; standing; ascending stairs.
"The backache, it is no exaggeration to say, was of the most aggravated
kind. It lasted in the subjects of this experiment for days together."
[Macfarlan]
P"It had another local effect just as distinctive. It causes a
crumbling away of fingernails." [Macfarlan].
"At the end of the fourth week they all developed very wet and perspiring
hands, and after one week of the profuse sweating hands they could not
manicure their nails as they would easily break and split." [Griggs]
P"All five provers developed FOOT SWEAT which was so copious
that they had to change their stockings daily."
[Griggs - Macfarlan reported the same effect among other provers:
students of the Hahnemann Hospital of Philadelphia]
Very OFFENSIVE foot sweat.
RUBRICS
MIND: Full of cares about trifles [1; Ars., Chin.]. Wants to be naked
[1].
HEAD: Pain, headache on ascending steps [1]; < motion [1]; < quick
motion [1].
MOUTH: Sore pain during menses [1/1].
STOMACH: Appetite wanting [1]. Drumlike flatulent distension [1].
Eructations bitter [1]; rancid [1]; sour [1].
ABDOMEN: Flatulence at night [1]. Sensation of fullness & palpitation
of heart [1/1]. Cramping pain & urging to stool [1]; sore pain in right
hypochondrium [1].
BLADDER: Sudden urging to urinate [1].
FEMALE: Leucorrhoea offensive, yeasty [1]; scanty [1]; thin, watery
[1].
EXTREMITIES: Copious perspiration of hands [1]. Weakness in calves
[1].
FOOD
Worse: Fat food, in infants [1]; milk, in infants [1].
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