Kali Bichromicum



Male Sexual Organs

Sexual desire absent, in fleshy people. (Provoked by and following coition, asthmatic attacks). Stitches in prostate gland (when walking, must stand still). Itching in hairy parts of genitals, skin becomes inflamed and small pustules of size of a pin’s head are formed. Constrictive pains at root of penis (morning, on waking). Pricking and itching at glans. Chancres ulcerating deeply. Gleet, with stringy or jellylike profuse discharge.

Female Sexual Organs

Menstruation too early, with giddiness, nausea, and headache, suppression of urine or red urine. Membranous dysmenorrhoea. Swelling of genitals. Soreness and rawness in vagina. Leucorrhoea yellow, ropy, pain and weakness in small of back and dull pain in upper part of abdomen. Subinvolution. Prolapsus uteri, seemingly from hot weather. Climacteric flushes. Vomiting of pregnancy. Milk as it flows appears to be stringy masses and water.

Respiratory Organs

Respiration oppressed, wakens 2 a.m. Sensation of choking on lying down. Sensation as from ulceration in larynx. Accumulation of mucus in larynx, causing hawking. Hoarse, rough, or nasal voice. Hoarseness (in evening). Tickling in larynx, every inhalation causes cough (with hoarseness). Cough caused by eating. At dinner, after first mouthful, great tickling in larynx, better on eating more. Cough in morning, with viscid expectoration. Cough hoarse, metallic, with expectoration of tough mucus or fibrous elastic plugs (croup, membranous or croupous bronchitis). Dry cough, with stitches in chest. Violent, rattling cough, lasting some minutes, with an effort to vomit, and expectoration of viscid mucus, which can be drawn in strings to the feet. (Expectoration sticks in chest so as to almost cause strangulation, it is found in croup, whooping-cough, catarrhs. Snuffles of infants, particularly in fat, chubby, little babes, where there is a tough, stringy discharge from the nose. etc. Cough, with thick, heavy expectoration, bluish lumps of mucus. Hawking up of copious, thick, bluish mucus. Expectoration with traces of blood. Expectoration of yellowish tough matter. Cough, with pain in sternum, darting to between shoulders. Sensation of dryness in bronchi (in morning). Dry cough after dinner. Cough, with pain in loins, vertigo, dyspnoea, shootings in chest. (Asthmatic attacks always caused by and follow coition). Oppressed breathing, awakens at 2 a.m., palpitation, orthopnoea: cold sensation and tightness about heart, expectoration of yellow or yellowish green tough matter.

Chest

Pressure and heaviness on chest, as from a weight, wakens with this sensation at night and is better after rising. Stitches below sternum, extending to back. Dull pain in right side of chest over circumscribed spot, worse on inspiration.

Heart

Cold sensation about heart, tightness of chest, dyspnoea. Sensation of pressure of heart (after eating). Sharp, irritating, fixed pain in region of apex of heart. Pricking pain in region of heart. Palpitation. Pulsation felt in arteries.

Back and neck

Stiffness of neck when bending head forward. Sticking pain from ears to glands. Swollen cervical glands and occipital glands. Sharp, stinging pain in region of kidneys. Pain in back striking through to sternum with cough. Pain, as from a knife, through loins, cannot walk. Violent aching pain, ” like a gathering,” in small spot in sacrum, a steady, throbbing pain, worse at night hindering sleep, better in day when up, walking about, but unable to lift anything. Pain in sacrum, cannot straighten himself. Cutting in outer left side of sacrum, shooting up and down. Pain in os coccygis (in morning), worse from walking and touching it. Pain in coccyx while sitting.

Limbs

Rheumatic pains in limbs. Periodical wandering pains, also along bones. Cracking in joints, worse by motion.

Upper Limbs

Rheumatic pain in both shoulders ( worse at night). Stitches at lower angle of left Shoulder-blade. Stiffness of shoulder-joint. Sensation of lameness of right arm (as if it had gone to sleep). Burning pain in middle of forearm, extending to wrist. Painful stiffness of right arm. Stinging pain in left elbow. Rheumatic pains in joints, especially wrists. Great weakness in hands. Bones of hands as if bruised, when pressed, ulcers on fingers with caries. Spasmodic contraction of hands. Rheumatic pains in fingers. Cracking of all joints from least motion. Psoriasis diffusa of hands, degenerating into impetigo. Ulcer under thumb- nail. Pustules on roots of nails.

Lower Limbs

Rheumatic pains in hip-joints and knees on moving. More especially during day. Pain in course of left sciatic nerve, extending from behind great trochanter to calf of leg, better by motion. Stitches in right side of chest and left sciatic nerve. Pain in tendons of muscles of calf, as if stretched, causing lameness. Soreness in heels when walking. Heaviness of legs. Pain in right hip, extending to knee, better by walking and flexing leg, worse in hot weather, by standing, sitting, or lying in bed, pressure causes pain to shoot along entire nerve. Pain in middle of tibia. Sensation of dislocation in left ankle. Ulcers on previously inflamed feet. Small irregular ulcers on leg. Acute twinging pain in left great toe, pricking and stinging pains in different parts of body, acute gouty pain in ball of right great toe four minutes after same pain in left. Sore pain inner side right great toe where the nail joins the flesh.

Generalities

Pains which wander quickly from one part of body to another. Periodical wandering pains in all limbs. Sensitive painfulness of whole body (morning on rising). Gastric symptoms supersede rheumatic symptoms, or they alternate with one another. Liability to take cold in the open air, drowsy in open air. Great debility, with desire to lie down. Great prostration. Drawing in various parts, in sheaths of muscles, near bones, as if in periosteum, in neck, back and limbs, in morning on waking, better on rising.

Skin

Hot, dry, and red skin all over body. Dry eruption, like measles, over whole body. Small pustules over whole body, similar to smallpox, they disappear without bursting open. Pustules over whole body, appearing on inflamed parts of skin, as large as a pea, with a small black scab in middle. Blood-boil on right thigh, on right side of spine, near the last rib, painful on the least motion. Small pustules on roots of nails, spreading over hands to wrist, arm became red and axillary glands suppurated, the small pustules on hand secreted a watery fluid when they were broken, if they were not touched the fluid became thickened to a yellow, tough mass. The eruption begins in hot weather. Suppurating tetter (ecthyma). The pustulous eruption resembling small-pox, with a hair in the middle, is more prominent on face and arms. Brown spots (on throat) like freckles. Blister, full of serum, in sole of right foot. Scabs on fingers, or corona glandis. Ulcers, dry, form oval, have overhanging edges, a bright red, inflamed areola, hard base, movable on subjacent tissues, dark spot in center, after healing the cicatrix remains depressed. After an abrasion, a swelling like a knot, forming an irregular ulcer, covered with dry scab and painful to touch under skin is felt a hard, movable knot, like a corn, with a small ulcerated spot in middle, where it touches the cuticle, the hard knotty feel remains after the healed ulcer is covered with white skin. Ulcers corrode and become deeper, without spreading in circumference. Ulcers especially painful in cold weather. Ulcers on previously inflamed feet. Ulcers on fingers, with carious affection of the bones. Hands become covered with deep, stinging cicatrices.

Sleep

Sleepiness and prostration, can hardly write. Unrefreshing sleep, feels very debilitated, especially in extremities. Wakens in a start, with nausea or headache (2 a.m.), with heat and perspiration, accelerated pulse palpitation of heart and dyspnoea, with anxiety, heat in pit of stomach, and spitting of blood, from frequent desire to urinate. Woke with great oppression on chest (nightmare). Worse after sleep.

Fever

Pulse accelerated, irregular, small, contracted. Great inclination to yawn and stretch. Chilliness in the back and sleepiness, seeks a warm place. Chilliness alternating with flushes of heat. Chilliness, with giddiness and nausea, followed by heat with sensation of coldness and trembling, and periodical stinging pain in temples, without thirst. Attacks of chilliness, extending from feet upwards, and sensation as if skull on the vertex became contracted, in frequently returning paroxysms. Chill, followed in an hour by heat, with dryness of mouth and lips, which have to be moistened all the time, followed in morning with great thirst, but no perspiration. Chilliness, especially on extremities, and flushes of heat alternating with general perspiration. Heat of hands and feet, nausea, pain in upper part of abdomen, dryness of mouth, sleeplessness, followed by perspiration of hands, feet, and things, ceasing for two hours, when they reappear. Giddiness, violent, painful vomiting is followed by pain in forehead, burning of eyes, great burning heat of upper part of body and face, with internal chilliness and violent thirst. Perspiration on back during effort to stool.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica