KALI MURIATICUM


Derived from Kent’s classroom lectures on the homeopathy remedy Kali Muriaticum. Published in 1926 as Lesser Writings, Clinical Cases, New Remedies, Aphorisms and Precepts by J.T. Kent….


Symptoms appear in the morning; forenoon; afternoon; evening; night; before midnight; after midnight. Aversion to the open air and sensitive to drafts. The open air aggravates many symptoms. Asleep feeling in single parts. Dread of bathing and worse from bathing. Cold in general makes the symptoms worse; worse from cold air; worse from becoming cold; worse from cold, wet weather. It has been a useful remedy in many kinds of convulsions; clonic; epileptic; epileptiform; internal. Worse after eating and from exertion. Fainting spells. Worse from cold food, fat food, cold drinks. Formication in many parts. Sensation of fullness. Easy bleeding of any part; blood dark and clotted. Heaviness external and internal. Induration of many tissues; in glands; in muscles. Inflammation and the results of induration; infiltration following inflammation; hepatization after pneumonia (Calc Sulph.). Marked lassitude. Desire to lie down. Complaints from lifting and straining of muscles and joints. Lying makes many symptoms worse; worse after lying; worse lying in bed; worse lying on the right side; worse lying on the painful side; better lying on, the painless side. Worse before and during menses; worse from motion. Increased mucous discharges viscid and milk white. The pains are biting, bruised, burning, cutting, jerking. pinching, pressing, stitching. Stitching pains, outward, transversely in glands, in muscles. Tearing downward in muscles. Twinging and ulcerative pains.

Paralysis one-sided; of organs. Pulse full, hard, intermittent, irregular, slow; small, soft. General pulsation. Marked relaxation of muscles. Rising from sitting increases or brings on symptoms. Rubbing ameliorates symptoms. Sensitive to pain. Complaints one-sided; either side; mostly left side. Complaints worse while sitting. Sluggish patients; feeble reaction; slow repair; slow convalescence. Swelling of parts; of glands. Feeling of tension in muscles. Aggravation from touch. Twitching of muscles. Warmth of bed makes some symptoms worse. Weakness of the whole body; in the morning; in the evening; after acute catarrhal diseases; from walking. Worse in wet weather.

Irritability and anger in the evening; anxiety: in the evening; about trifles. She has a delusion that she must not eat. Discontented and discouraged. Dullness of mind. Mental excitement. Fear that some evil will come to him. It has been used with benefit in imbecility.Indifference to all pleasure. Insanity and irresolution. Loathing of life. Moaning, MANIA. Obstinate, Restlessness. Sadness. Silent. Inclination to sit in complete silence. Talking in sleep. Unconsciousness in advanced states of brain and meningeal diseases. Vertigo; when rising or stooping; when walking.

Constriction of the scalp. Dandruff, copious, white. Eczema. Heaviness of the head; of the forehead; in the occiput with aching in trachea and hard cough; in the occiput as if full of lead; in occiput as if head would sink backwards; in occiput with hard cough. Sensation of looseness of the brain. Sensation of movements in the head. Pain in the head in the morning on walking; in the afternoon; evening; in cold air; in the open air; worse from binding up the hair; worse after eating; paroxysmal; worse from pressure; worse from stooping; worse from touch; worse walking, worse walking the open air, worse from wine; better from wrapping up the head. Pain in the forehead. Pain in occiput, like a weight holds head fast to pillow (like Opium) Pain in the sides of head; temples; boring, bruised, burning in forehead; cutting; gnawing in occiput; jerking. Pressing pain in whole head; in forehead, outward; in occiput; in temples, outward. Shooting pain in head; in occiput. Stitching pain in head; worse stooping; in forehead; in occiput; in side of head; in temples. Stunning pains in head. Tearing pains in the head; in the forehead; in the occiput and sides of occiput; in sides of head; in the temples; the vertex. PERSPIRATION ON THE HEAD. Pulsation in the head. Shocks in the head. Catarrhal discharges with milk- white mucus or greenish or yellow purulent. Inflammation of the conjunctiva with thickening; PUSTULAS; of the cornea. Burning in the eyes; in the canthi. Pressing. Pain as if sand in the eyes. STITCHING pain in eyes. Photophobia. Protrusion of the eyes. Redness in the evening with pain. Staring. Swollen lids. Twitching inner canthi. Vesicles on the cornea. Vision dim. Double vision. Lights before the eyes when coughing or sneezing.

Closure of the eustachian tubes. Discharge from ears of milk-white mucus. Dry catarrh of the middle ear; the ears are hot. Stitching in the ears. Noises: buzzing; cracking on blowing nose and on swallowing; humming; reverberations; ringing; roaring; singing; snapping; tickling; whizzing. Pain in the ear; behind the ear; drawing; pressing; stitching; stitching behind the car; tearing: tearing behind the ear. Pulsation behind the car. Tingling in the ears. Twitching. Hearing acute; for noise; for voices; impaired.

Nasal catarrh; discharge copious; excoriating; purulent; thick; white; milk- white; viscid; yellow; posterior nares. Coryza; with cough; fluent, dry; thick and milk white discharge. Dryness in the nose. Epistaxis in the afternoon; evening. Itching in the nose. The nose is obstructed with mucus. Frequent sneezing. Epithelioma of the lips and lupus of the face. The face is bluish; pale; red. Dryness of the lips. Eruptions on the face; cheeks; lips; around the mouth; pimples. Suffering, sickly expression. Flashes of heat in the face. The face is hot. Pain in the face; worse in the right side; drawing; stitching; tearing. Paralysis of the face. Perspiration. Sunken face. Painful, swollen face; lips; glands of jaw. Tension. Twitching. Ulceration of face; lips.

Aphthae in the mouth of children and nursing mothers. Bleeding gums. Gum boils. The tongue is red or white. Dry mouth and tongue. Heat in the mouth. Inflammation of gums and tongue. Mapped tongue. Milk-white mucus in the mouth. Odour from the mouth offensive, even putrid.

Burning mouth and tongue. Sore gums and tongue. Scorbutic gums. Salivation. Speech wanting. Swollen gums and tongue. Taste: bad, bitter; metallic; Putrid; saltish; sour; sweetish. Ulceration of mouth and tongue; syphilitic. Vesicles in the mouth. Teeth on edge and become loose. Pain in the teeth, stitching.

The throat is dry and red and there is choking. Heat in the throat and much mucus. Inflammation of throat; tonsils; chronic. White exudate in the throat; gray patches. It has many times cured diphtheria. MUCUS: VISCID; thick; milk- white; covers Pharynx; adherent. Pain in throat; on swallowing; burning; pressing; rawness; sore. Scraping in the throat. Swallowing very difficult. Swollen throat; tonsils; uvula, oedematous; parotid gland. Ulceration of the throat.

Anxiety of the stomach. The appetite is diminished or entirely lost or it is increased, even ravenous, after eating. Aversion to food, to meat. Constriction of the stomach. Emptiness not ameliorated by eating. Eructations: after eating; ineffectual; bitter; empty; of food; sour; water-brash. Flashes of heat; heartburn, and sensation of fullness. Weight in stomach worse at night. Hiccough. Inflammation of the stomach. Loathing of food. Nausea after fats and rich food. Nausea and shivering. Pain in the stomach; aching; burning; cutting; pressing with emptiness; sore to touch; stitching. Tension. Thirst extreme; during chill. Vomiting: bile; blood; food; mucus, milk-white and dark green; morning diarrhoea with vomiting white mucus; sudden; incessant.

Distension in abdomen after eating. Emptiness. Ascites. Enlarged Spleen. Flatulence: in day time; afternoon; night; prevents sleep. FULLNESS; AFTER EATING. Pain in abdomen; night; colic; griping with diarrhoea; during diarrhoea; after eating, as if menses would appear; before and during stool; in hypochondria, especially the right; burning in right hypochondrium. Cramping in abdomen; before stool; in hypogastrium with diarrhoea. Cutting in abdomen; in umbilical region. Pressing in hypochondria; in right better by passing flatus. Sore bruised abdomen; in right hypochondrium; in inguinal region. Rumbling before stool. Tension in abdomen.

Constipation; stool difficult; from inactivity of the rectum. The stool is dry, hard, large, light coloured, clay coloured. Diarrhoea; painful; morning; evening; after fats. The stool is excoriating; bloody mucus; copious; green; offensive; watery; white mucus. Dysentery with slimy stool or pure blood. Flatus during diarrhoea. Formication of the anus. Hemorrhage from rectum. Hemorrhoids: congested; external; large; SORE; worse walking. Involuntary stools; when passing flatus. Itching of the anus; after stool. Pain in rectum and anus; during and after stool. Burning during and after stool. Pressing in the anus. SORENESS; after stool. Tenesmus. Paralysis of the rectum. Urging with normal stool; constant.

Catarrh of the bladder with much mucus in the urine. Retention of urine. Urging to urinate; at night; constant; frequent; ineffectual. Urination dribbling; feeble stream; frequent, at night; involuntary at night; retarded. Must press long to start the urine. Inflammation of the kidneys. Pain in the kidneys. Suppression of urine. It has been used much in chronic gonorrhoea with gleety, milky discharge. It has cured violent chordee. Itching of the urethra. Burning and cutting during urination. Urine: albuminous; black; greenish black; bloody; burning; cloudy; dark; pale; red; copious at night; scanty; containing sugar; thick.

James Tyler Kent
James Tyler Kent (1849–1916) was an American physician. Prior to his involvement with homeopathy, Kent had practiced conventional medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. He discovered and "converted" to homeopathy as a result of his wife's recovery from a serious ailment using homeopathic methods.
In 1881, Kent accepted a position as professor of anatomy at the Homeopathic College of Missouri, an institution with which he remained affiliated until 1888. In 1890, Kent moved to Pennsylvania to take a position as Dean of Professors at the Post-Graduate Homeopathic Medical School of Philadelphia. In 1897 Kent published his magnum opus, Repertory of the Homœopathic Materia Medica. Kent moved to Chicago in 1903, where he taught at Hahnemann Medical College.