Picric Acid: Of Brain Fag & Nervous Fatigue

The homeopathic Picric Acid individual presents with typical headaches. Their mental context is characterised by apathy and lack of purpose, or will power. What is also obvious is: they report that they feel awfully exhausted after attending to routine work, or performing just a little task.

- Dr Mukesh Batra

The homeopathic Picric Acid is prepared from carbolic acid, nitric acid, and sulphuric acid. It is, otherwise, a poisonous substance — but, thanks to homeopathic nanopharmacology, it is transformed into a safe, gentle remedy for therapeutic use.

In mediaeval medicine, Picric Acid was evidenced to have a strong clinical effect on the liver — it was suggested to trigger weight loss and hepatitis [ jaundice].

The homeopathic remedy is often used to treat mental exhaustion, brain fag, or burn-out, aside from functional affections of the spine, or degenerative conditions that affect the spinal cord, among others.

Picric Acid is ‘homeopathic’ for neurasthenia [nervous fatigue]. The pioneering homeopaths used it to treat pernicious anaemia too — a chronic illness caused by impaired absorption of vitamin B-12 [cobalamin]. More so, when exhaustion was a prominent accompanying symptom. It is, likewise, used to treat worn-out mental focus and anticipatory anxiety in students, academicians, and others, when excess mental activity and overwork activates headaches. The Picric Acid ache in the head is often located on the top of the head, or just behind it, with the likelihood of it ‘fanning out’ to affect the eyes.

It is relatively easy to ‘tap’ the Picric Acid personality-type in men — such folks not only report of headaches, but also a clear, up-scaled, high libido state, or sexual arousal that often disturbs their sleep. They may feel agitated, no less, when they awake. While exposure to fresh air helps to relieve some of their symptoms, including headaches, libido, and that undulating sense of overlapping exhaustion, they may feel miserable when they climb the staircase, or experience any form of heat, or warmth, including sunlight. They often feel better when they are lying down on their back, or when their room is cool and pleasantly calm.