SPHERE OF ACTION
Through the organic nervous system, it especially affects the mucous membranes of the respiratory organs and urinary apparatus. It seems to produce a dryness of the tissues of the body, so as to give rise to stitches, the great keynote for this remedy.
GRAND CHARACTERISTICS
Distressing, darting, stitching, shooting pains, are the great CHARACTERISTICS of this remedy.
Stitching pains in the right side, commencing in the back and going through the chest, which are worse at night, when lying down or rising.-.N. MARTIN, M.D.
Stitches in the liver; worse in the cold air.–MARTIN.
Stinging pains in joints and inner parts.-.
All the symptoms get regularly worse about 3 a.m.
Adapted to aged people inclined to be fleshy.
Head.–Great aversion to being alone.
Great dryness of the hair.
Dry hair rapidly falling off, and much dandruff.–F.
He talks of pigeons flying in the room, which he tries to catch with his hand.
Swelling over the upper eyelid, in the morning, looking like a little bag.–J.B. BELL.
Digestive Organs.–Constipation, with distress one or two hours before stool, with colicky, stitching pains.
Intense thirst morning, noon and night.
Chest.–Dry, hard cough, especially aggravated about 3 a.m.
This is very characteristic of Kali carb.
Dry cough, night sweats, hectic fever, sometimes expectorates bloody pus.
A blowing noise, and a louder second tick of the pulmonary artery is heard.–KAFKA.
This remedy is of great value in lung diseases.
Generative Organs of Women.–Colic in lying-in women, characterized by stitching pains.–F.
Great, heavy, aching weight in the small of the back, especially during menstruation.
Menses, bad pungent odor, and very acrid; excoriating the thighs, with great backache and sticking pains in the abdomen.
Feels very badly a week before menstruation-.
Yellow leucorrhoea, with much burning and itching.
Dropsical affections, and paralysis of old people.-.
Herpes becoming moist when scratching.
When touched ever so lightly on his feet, he jerks them up much frightened.–RAUE.
(1836-1897)
Characteristic materia medica Published 1873
Physiological materia medica, containing all that is known of the physiological action of our remedies; together with their characteristic indications and pharmacology. Published 1881