Pic-ac, Picricum Acidum

• In certain concentrations, this acid becomes highly sensitive to impact, and for this reason, it is considered an explosive material.
• Poisoning with it causes GI and CNS problem.

Mental Struggling agg

• Sudden brain-fag + General symptoms (Kali-p) After an intense mental Activity / Struggle
• He can no longer concentrate and mental activity becomes impossible
• Reading three sentences causes nausea, vomiting, dizziness and makes him feel bad.

  GENERALS - WEAKNESS - mental exertion - from

• Headache, nausea, eye pain

  Headaches - FOREHEAD, headaches, general - eyes, above - mental exertion, during

Eyes - ACHING, pain - aching, above the eyes - mental exertion, during

Headaches - EXERTION, of body, agg. - exertion, of mind, agg.

• Pain and muscle spasms
• Hands weakness, spine weakness, back pain
• Dumbness, lethargy and irritability

Intellectual problems

• Pic-ac has not insomnia (Opposed to Cocc) but has problems in intellectual activity (Cocc ₳ Pic-ac)
• Other activities also cause problems, but the focus is mental fatigue.
• In such a situation, the patient likes to continue, but when starting the work, he gets a severe headache and feels very weak mentally and physically.
• He has become very Fragile /Lazy /Dumb /Confused /Apathetic /Forgetful and has no tolerance and willingness to accept any responsibility.

  MIND - UNDERTAKING - lacks willpower to undertake anything

Modalities

• Heat agg: Sleeping for a long time in open and cool air amel him generaly

• Resting amel: He likes to sit in a quiet corner.

MIND - SITTING - inclination to sit - still

• The interesting thing is that after sleeping, he feels better and thinks he can continue, but after reading one or two sentences of general Agg comes back to him.

• Increase sexual desires: As soon as mental and physical performance decreased, sexual desires increase. (Only in men)
• Not only lustful thoughts increased (Lyc), but there are also painful priapisms and increased performance. (Plat)

  Male - SEMINAL, emissions - excitement, from sexual :CALC

Male - ERECTIONS, penis, troublesome - excessive - erotic, lascivious thoughts, during

HEAD - PAIN - accompanied by - sexual desire

BACK - PAIN - Spine - accompanied by - priapism

Male - ERECTIONS, penis, troublesome - night

Male - ERECTIONS, penis, troublesome - strong

Male - ERECTIONS, penis, troublesome - violent

Male - SEXUAL, behavior - lasciviousness

Male - SEXUAL, desire, general - increased

Male - SEXUAL, desire, general - violent

Spinal excitability

Feeling of Heat/ Heaviness in Back / Spine

Back - HEAT, in - heat, thoracic

Back - HEAVINESS, sensation, weight - heaviness, lumbar

Back - HEAVINESS, sensation, weight - heaviness, spine

Sankaran

• Three main illusions from Sankaran's language:
• His Hands /Tongue / Forehead go to the sky and clouds.

  MIND - DELUSIONS - arms - reach the clouds - sleep; when going to

MIND - DELUSIONS - tongue - seems to reach the clouds; tongue - sleep; when going to

MIND - DELUSIONS - faces, sees - reaching the clouds - sleep; on going to

MIND - DELUSIONS - clouds - reach the clouds; he seems to - arms, face, tongue and forepart of brain seem to reach to the clouds

• Language is the symbol of speech, Hand is the symbol of action, and Forehead is the symbol of thought, which he mistakenly used beyond his capacity. In fact, he has a wrong perception of his abilities, and on the other hand, after weakening and stopping the patient's mind, he realizes sexual desire, which is a completely non-intellectual activity.

Differential Diagnosis

• Mur-ac: Excessive physical activity causes extreme weakness (Mur-ac ₳ Pic-ac)
• Ph-ac: Intense emotional pressure causes apathetic weakness. The patient is completely discouraged. (Ph-ac ₳ Pic-ac)
• Nat-c: Problems caused by social and emotional tensions makes him Misanthropic, He was very sympathic and even Selfless but now becomes very irritable and sensitive to all stimuli such as sound and music. (Nat-c ₳ Pic-ac)

Exam remedies

• Pic-ac is a good exam remedy because of his general / Intellectual weakness after Mental struggling. (Anac ₳ Pic-ac) , (Gels ₳ Pic-ac) , (Aeth ₳ Pic-ac) (Kali-p ₳ Pic-ac) (Nux-v ₳ Pic-ac)

Leg

Restless weakness of leg is important feature of Pic-ac

Legs - ACHING, pain - posterior part

Legs - BURNING, pain - posterior part

Legs - HEAVINESS, sensation, tired legs - exertion, after

Legs - WEAK, legs

Limbs - HEAVINESS, sensation, tired - walking, while

Limbs - MOTIONS, convulsive - use, on attempting to

Limbs - TOTTERING

MS

• Where the person feel pin and needle sensation in limbs.
• Worn out persons, both mentally and physically.
• Great weakness, tired, heavy feeling all over the body esp limbs.
• Worse from exertion.
• Burning sensation in many parts , especially along spine.