Potassium Chlorate. Potassic Chlorate. KClO3. Trituration. Solution.
Clinical
Albuminuria. *Aphthae. Asthma. Cancrum oris. Clumsiness. Crusta lactea. Cystitis. Dysentery. Epithelioma. Haematuria. Haemorrhages. Haemorrhoids. Hangnails. Mercurial poisoning. Mouth, inflammation of. Nephritis. Neuralgia. OEdema. *Paralysis (*facial). Pharyngitis. Pimples. Proctalgia. Purpura. Scurvy. Stomatitis. Syphilis. Tic-douloureux. Ulcers.
Characteristics
The *Chlorate of Potash is not to be confounded with the chloride which constitutes the *Kali muriaticum of Schussler. Hering has amalgamated the symptoms of the two under the heading *kali mur., but I think it best to keep them separate. *Kali- chlor. Is an exceedingly active poison. It has long been used in the old school, in solution, as a wash for sore mouth and for foul ulcers. Hutchinson observed a number of cases in which it produced the very condition which it was give to cure: “most acute ulceration and follicular stomatitis. The whole mucous surface was red and tumid, and in the cheeks, lips, etc., were numerous grey-based ulcers.” Rushmore (**H.P., xxi. 530) records a proving in an unmarried lady, 50, short, brunette, who had goitre in early life, which disappeared under the application of *Iodine. Later on a fibroid tumour developed in the uterus, and for this the patient was advised to take crude *Potassium chlorate, dissolved in water, daily. The following symptoms were observed: Increased moral irritability. Felt dreadfully dull and stupid. *Dizzy on stooping and rising. Slight headache over eyes, objects appear double, beside each other. Face swelled so she could hardly see on rising in morning. Smarting of tongue. It took away her desire for acids. Diminished appetite. Much commotion and flatulence in abdomen. Increased urine. Dreams worse, of terrible things never thought of. Great coolness, shivering on cold days, seemed as if it cooled off her blood. Clumsiness. General bloated feeling. Fatal poisoning has occurred, death taking place in convulsions. The blood is disorganized, and after death liver, spleen and kidneys are found softened and filled with disorganized blood, this should give it a place in cases of lardaceous and fatty degeneration of solid viscera. Mouth, hypochondria, and rectum are the parts most affected. In the provers great weakness was manifested, rheumatic and neuralgic pains, many occurring in the facial nerves. Facial paralysis has been cured with it. The heart was the seat of much disturbance, and a coldness was felt about the precordia. The stomach and bowels were disordered, and Allen credits it with the cure of this: “Dysentery, with most violent cutting pains as from knives, frequent stools, tenesmus, making the patient cry out, evacuations very small, almost pure blood, great prostration.” The sexual organs were excited. The skin also manifested a number of symptoms: Pimples in various parts, between lip and chin. It has cured epithelioma of face and of great toe (Allen). Sir James Simpson recommended it in 20-grain doses daily where abortion was likely to occur from fatty degeneration of the placenta (Brunton). As this is frequently a syphilitic affection it is probable that when successful it neutralized that disease. Worse By jar of coughing or sneezing (eyes). Mental symptoms better by nose-bleed.
Relations
*Antidote to: Mercurius *Compare: Especially K-m., Causticum (facial paralysis), Kali-bi. (follicular pharyngitis). Zincum met., Cad. s., and Cact. (asthma with great constriction of chest), Graphites, Kali-nit. And Natrum mur. (cold feeling about heart).
SYMPTOMS.
Mind
Liveliness, then ill-humour. Ill-humored, anxious, tension in precordial region, better nose-bleed. Feels dreadfully dull and stupid. Apathy, in evening, with sadness, chilliness and disgust of life. Consciousness suddenly almost lost after a glass of wine. Convulsions followed by delirium.
Head
Dizzy on stooping and rising. Vertigo: after violent motion, with congestion of blood. Cutting pain in head extending into malar-bones. Head aching, continuous, especially in evening. Confusion, bewilderment, on walking in open air. Congestion of brain, so that one-half of head, face, and nose felt paralysed. Feeling of congestion, with pain in forehead. Intoxication from a small glass of beer. Forehead, jerking in upper and lower part of frontal bone, pain, drawing, tension, then sneezing and catarrh, tension in sinciput. Intermittent sticking in right temple, pain in left temple. Pain in temporal bone extending to eye-teeth Pain in left side of head. Pain in occiput, in evening, at times extending into jaws. Confusion in occiput, with peculiar sensation in muscles of nape. Itching. Crusta lactea of children.
Eyes
Redness of eyes in evening, with pain. Stitches in eyes. Cramp in left eye. Pressure in eyes. Rush of blood, with irritation of eyes. (Conjunctivitis and keratitis (scrofulous)with a formation of phlyctenulae, but only superficial.) _ Feeling of strength in eyes. Kali-chl. detected in the tear. Twitching in (inner) canthi. Pain in upper lid in evening. Appearance of light (flames and sparks) before eyes when coughing and sneezing. Double vision, sees objects beside each other.
Ears
Roaring in ears, with a painful bloody stool.
Nose
Drawing in root of nose. Irritation at root of nose. Sneezing. Catarrh: violent, with much sneezing and profuse mucus. Tension in forehead, followed sometimes with coryza and sneezing. Nose- bleed, at night, only from right nostril, better mental state.
Face
Face swelled so she could hardly see on rising in morning. Face: pale, bluish, lived. Suffering expression. Twitching of face and eyes, of masseter muscles. Sticking in various parts. Tearing and tension in face. Pain in right malar-bone, beneath margin of orbit, then tension in whole cheek and temple. Drawing pain in right cheek till he sneezes. Drawing: in right cheek, and in gum, with cramp in muscles of right cheek, with pain in lobule of right ear, at one time more beneath orbits, at another in masseter muscles. Drawing, cramp-like, tensive, pressive and pulling pains in bones of face Cramp-like pain in cheeks extending into joint of jaw, at times with tearing in upper jaw. Tensive pain in left cheek near orbital margin. Tension with pressure towards eyes, worse right side, tension in cheek beneath eye, extending to ear, right, then left Drawing in right cheek, then inclination to sneeze. Sensitiveness. Jerking in nerves of lower jaw, at foramen maxillary posticum. Lightning-like neuralgic pains in face, left side worse from talking, eating or slightest touch, followed by numbness. Cramp-like pressure in joint of jaw, with stitches in jaw and teeth, worse right side. Lips blue, swollen._Pimples on right commissure, on lower lip. Eruption of pimples on face, forehead, and between lip and chin.
Teeth
Aching in upper teeth. Cramp-like drawing in cheeks, extending to articulation of jaw, with stinging pain in jaw and teeth. Teeth blunted. The teeth are set on edge. Gums bright red. Gums bleed easily on brushing teeth.
Mouth
Tongue white, in middle. Tongue coated, at back, with diarrhoea. Two symmetrical ulcers on sides of tongue. Tongue cold, and throat. Sticking (stinging) burning on tongue. Smarting of tongue. (Stomatitis, ulcerative and follicular, mucous surface red and tumid, and grey based ulcer in cheeks, lips, etc.). Tanned appearance of mucous membrane of mouth and throat. Contracted feeling in muscles of palate. Salivation, acid. Taste: burning, alkaline, as of blue vitriol, salt, sour, saltish, sour, bitter, sourish, bitter, better expectoration of mucus, bitter, with coldness of tongue (like laurel-water with salt), lost.
Throat
Submaxillary glands swollen, throat red and oedematous. Pain in throat and stomach, with inclination to eructate. Scraping, roughness, rawness, dryness of throat, and of chest, with violent cough as from sulphur fumes. Swallowing difficult. Dryness of fauces. Cynanche tonsillaris. Throat constricted.
Appetite
Appetite increased, paroxysms of ravenous hunger, better a drink of water, then loss of appetite. Appetite diminished, lost. Thirst. (Desire for acids removed.).
Stomach
Educations, of air, sourish, violent, with alternating pains in chest and abdomen. Frequent risings of flatus. Aching in the stomach and precordial region, sometimes with inclination to eructate, or with apathetic humour and shiverings. Sensation of heat or coldness in stomach. Incisive pains in region of stomach. Nausea, and shivering, and attempts to vomit, though nothing but air was ejected. Vomiting: sudden, incessant, of all food, of offensive dark green mucus. Acute gastritis, nausea, pain in splenic region, enlargement of spleen. Cardialgia. (Gastralgia.) _ Pyrosis. Cutting in stomach Pressure with feeling of emptiness. Pressure in epigastric region, and of stomach with apathy and chilliness. Heavy pain in stomach after a walk of an eighth of a mile, with sinking sensation. Weight, fullness, distension in epigastric region, regularly and generally increased for six hours, repeated next day, better at night. Warmth in stomach.
