Generalities
Potassium bichromate specially affects the MUCOUS MEMBRANES of the air passages; NOSE; pharynx, stomach and duodenum_ producing ADHESIVE; STICKY; STRINGY; tough, lumpy or thick discharges. Diseased conditions progress slowly but deeply; causing great weakness bordering on paralysis but little fever. Plastic or fibrous exudations spread downwards. It is adapted to fat, fair, fleshy, light complexioned persons, subject to catarrhs or with syphilitic or scrofulous history. Pains occur in small spots or migrate quickly from place to place; and finally attack the stomach. Rheumatic and gastric symptoms alternate. Diagonal pains. Ascending symptoms, gastric pains, chills, heat etc. Formation of crusts on mucous membranes and skin. Ulcers; with dark dots; deep; perforating, round, punched out; with over-hanging edges or thick crusts. Septal or peptic ulcers. Sensation of heaviness in different parts. As if a hair on tongue, in nostrils etc. Yellowness; of discharges, eyes, vision, tongue etc. Sharp stitching pains. Itching internally in vagina, ear, lungs etc. Cracking of joints. Indolent or sluggish reaction, in many conditions, ulcers, inflammations etc. Affections of root of the nose, tongue, penis etc. Stubborn suppurations. Plugs of pus; stringy. Ill effects from indulgence in beer and malt liquor. Neuralgia, daily at the same hour. Sickly, chilly and cachetic. Biting like bugs. Membranes look furred. Pains appear and disappear suddenly. Epilepsy; ropy saliva from mouth during convulsions. Weakness and weariness; after pains.
Worse
COLD, damp. Open air. Spring. Undressing. MORNING, after sleep. 2-3 a.m. Protruding tongue. Hot weather. Alcohol; beer. Suppressed catarrh. Stooping. Sitting.
Better
Heat. Motion. Pressure.
Mind
Indifferent. Indolent_aversion to mental and bodily labour. Anthropophobia, avoids human society.
Head
Vertigo with nausea when rising from a seat. Blindness, followed by violent headache; over eyebrows or outward along the brows; worse cold better pressing at the root of the nose, by warm soup. Aching and fulness in glabella. Periodical headaches. Migraine; in small spots and from suppressed catarrh. Bones of head feel sore; sharp stitches in bones. As of a solid block in forehead.
Eyes
Ulcers on cornea, no pain or photophobia. Conjunctiva; yellow; puffy; covered with yellow-brown spots. Discharge ropy and yellow. Blindness, before headache. Vision seems crossed better looking with one eye. Eyelids; swollen; winking during convulsions, itching, granular. Dense opacities of cornea. Photophobia only by daylight. Eyelids twitch on opening.
Ears
Sharp stitches in ears (left). Thick yellow foetid discharge. Violent tickling in ears. Tympanum perforated.
Nose
Pains at bridge or root. Pressure or stuffed at root of the nose. Snuffles, esp. of fat chubby children. Discharges; thick, ropy, greenish, yellow, acrid. Tough, elastic plugs, leave a raw surface. Expired air feels hot. Foetid smell from retention of discharge in nose. Tickling as from a hair in left nostril. Coryza with obstruction of nose. Violent sneezing worse in the morning. Chronic inflammation of frontal sinuses with stopped up sensation. Septum ulcerated. Abscess. Ozoena. Nasal diphtheria. Two loose bones as if rubbing together on blowing the nose. Loss of smell. Nose; feels heavy; dry. Nasal polypi.
Face
Pale, yellowish. Blotchy, red; florid. Mumps on the right side. Sweat on upper lip.
Mouth
Toothache; radiating, with swelling of the glands. Tongue; glistens, cracked, smooth or heavy; dry, red, lemon yellow, furred; in dysentery. Tongue pains when protruded; at the root. Sticky mouth. Sweet, metallic, taste. Tongue; thickly coated, broad, flat; indented. Aphthous ulcers deeply corroding. As of a hair on back part of the tongue, not better by eating or drinking. Mouth dry better by drinking cold water.
Throat
Hawks up thick mucus, must wipe it away. Uvula; oedematous, relaxed, bladder-like. Fissured pharynx. Dry, burning in. Something sticks in; with pain into neck and shoulders. Throat pains when putting the tongue out. Aphthae. Diphtheria. Tonsils swollen with deafness, in children.
Stomach
Craving; for beer, for acid drinks. Dislikes meat, water. Vomiting more than he drinks, of bright yellow water. Regurgitates liquids. Round ulcer of the stomach. Gastric symptoms better by eating. Sore spot in stomach or food lies like a load. Nausea with heat in the body better eating and open air. Nausea with burning in anus and erections.
Abdomen
Feeling of constriction from liver to shoulder (right). Stitches in spleen extending to lumbar region. Chronic intestinal ulceration with vomiting and emaciation. Stools; gelatinous, jelly-like; or gushes of brown frothy water; then burning and tenesmus worse after rising in the morning. Periodical dysentery_every year, in summer. Diarrhoea or dysentery after rheumatism. Sensation of a plug in anus. As if something eating in bowels.
Urinary
Heavy kidneys. As if one drop of urine had remained behind, after urination, which cannot be expelled. Nephritis with scanty albuminous urine. Bloody urine with pain in back. Haematochyluria.
Male
Constrictive pain at the root of penis, at night, after waking. Chancres ulcerating deeply. Gleet, with stringy or jelly-like profuse discharge; clogging the urethra. Sexual desire absent in fleshy persons. Stitches in prostate when walking, must stand still.
Female
Menses; with suppression of urine or red urine. Leucorrhoea; acrid, yellow, ropy; with pain across sacrum and heaviness in the hypogastrium. Prolapsus uteri worse hot weather. Milk; stringy, watery. Itching burning of vulva with sexual excitement. Vomiting of pregnancy.
Respiratory
Voice hoarse worse evening. Laryngitis. Tickling in larynx with cough worse eating, with eructations better heat; then vertigo. Rawness, under sternum; pains through to back and shoulders, on coughing. Expectoration; yellow, stringy, profuse, with deep cough. As of a bar across the chest. Asthma worse coition. Cough better expectoration. Dry metallic hacking cough.
Heart
Dilated, with kidney lesions; insufficiency of aortic valves. Feeling of coldness about. Heart weak. Pulsation felt in all the arteries.
Neck and Back
Stiffness of neck worse bending head forward. Cutting through loins; cannot walk. Pain in coccyx worse walking, sitting and touching it; extending up and down. Coccyx pains before urination, better after. As if something cracked across sacrum worse stooping.
Extremities
Paralytic weakness of hands. Sciatica better motion and flexing the leg, worse standing, sitting or lying in bed. Pain along border of the foot. Wandering pains along the bones. Rheumatic pains worse eating. Tendo achilles swollen and tender. Shin bones, painful; periostitis from blow.
Sleep
Unrefreshing; feels debilitated in extremities.
Fever
Hot flushes; then sticky sweat, then chill. Cold sweat on hands and feet. Chill with sweat.
Skin
Pustules, with black apices. Skin; hot, dry and red better cool air. Brown spots on. Blisters on soles. Depressed, round, scars after healing of eruptions or ulcers.
Related
Kali-c; Merc; Phyt; Pulsatilla
Complementary
Ars; Phos; Psorinum
He was convinced about Homoeopathy while going through Sir William Osler's writings on 'History of Medicine' so switched over to an entirely Homoeopathic Practice in 1932. He also started working on Homoeopathic literature along with his Practice.
He has contributed immensely to homoeopathic literature. He was an ardent follower of Dr Boger. His Repertory is based on Boger's ''A Synoptic key to Materia Medica'.