Generalities
Potassium Chloride is one of Dr. Schuessler’s tissue remedies. It causes catarrhal condition, producing MILKY WHITE, viscid, sticky, thick; slimy or lumpy discharges. Tough plastic or fibrinous exudates. Hard deposits. Glandular swelling. Sore, cutting or sticking, shifting pains. Crawling. Numbness. Ill effects of vaccination. Sprains. Burns. Blows, cuts. Embolism. Crosswise symptoms. Slow reaction. Stubborn infiltration.
Worse
Open air. Cold drinks. Drafts, heat, of bed. Lying. Night. Dampness. Motion. Sprains. Fats; rich foods. During menses.
Better
Cold drinks. Rubbing. Letting hair down.
Mind
Discontent, discouraged. Fears evil. Sits in silence. Imagines he must starve. Habitual loss of appetite or refuses food. Irritable and angry; at trifles.
Head
Stunning shock in or a leaden load holds down occiput better letting hair down and warmth. Brain feels loose. Copious white dandruff. Sweating of head. Crusta lactea.
Eyes
Pustules on cornea. Cataract. Trachoma. Corneal opacities. Scintillations on coughing. Exudation in retina.
Ears
Deafness; from catarrhal condition and occlusion of eustachian tubes. Crackling noises on blowing nose or swallowing. Snapping, itching or as of a plug in ears. Glands about the ears are swollen. Soreness of Eustachian tube.
Nose
Stuffy cold in head. Discharge white, thick. Hawking of mucous from posterior nares.
Face
Bluish; sunken. Cheeks swollen and painful. Paralysis, following pain in face. Muscles of face twitch and tremble worse eating, speaking or coughing. Mumps without fever.
Mouth
Eruptions around the mouth. Aphthae. Thrush. White ulcers in the mouth. Scorbutic gums. Tongue; mapped; gray or white, at base. Taste; salty, bitter, with coldness of tongue. Sensation as if a tumour were growing on the tongue.
Throat
Grayish-white, ulcerated; chronic sore throat. Tonsils swollen inflamed; swallowing excessively painful, can hardly breathe. Hawks out thick white mucous; cheesy.
Stomach
Fatty or rich food causes indigestion, he loathes it. Nausea; with shivers. Stomach heavy; at night. Vomits food. Hunger disappears after drinking water.
Abdomen
Fulness, after eating. Pale, hard or flocculent stools. Anus sore worse walking or stools. Itching or crawling in anus, after stools. Piles_ bleeding; blood dark and thick.
Urinary
Dribbling urination. Cystitis. Discharge white thick mucous.
Female
Menses; dark, clotted, black like tar; excessive. Leucorrhoea; milky white, thick, bland. Soft, tender nodes in mammae. Painful mammae before or at menses.
Respiratory
Difficult or oppressed breathing. Bronchitis. Expectoration sticky, milky, or flies from the mouth. Rawness in chest. Flushes of heat in chest.
Heart
Coldness at heart.
Neck and Back
Heaviness under right shoulder. Buzzing under right scapula. Backache better lying. Lightning pains from small of back to feet. Must get out of bed and sit up.
Extremities
Cold hands and feet. Hands get stiff while writing or knitting. Cramps in limbs; in legs. Twitching thighs. Tension in leg alternating with tension in arm. Cold foot sweat. Cutting in bones. Exudation and swelling around the joints. Cracking of tendons; back of hand.
Sleep
Anxious dreams.
Skin
Branny. Bursitis. Eruptions connected with stomach or menstrual disorders.
Related
Bry; Ferr-p; Pulsatilla
Complementary
Calc-s.
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'.