Give the catarrhal symptoms of Kali bichromicum.
Lumps of hard, green mucus are hawked from the posterior nares; large plugs or clinkers are blown from the nose, and there are ulcers in the nose which tend to perforate deeply.
Give indications for Kali bichromicum in the throat.
There is great swelling of the tonsils and ulcers which secrete a purulent discharge, there are diseased follicles which exude a caseous matter; the coating of the tongue is yellow at the base; the discharge is ropy, tenacious and stringy.
Give four indications for the use of Kali bichromicum in diphtheria.
1. Yellow coated or dry red tongue.
2. In the later stage, when the line of demarcation has formed and the slough has commenced to separate.
3. Tough tenacious exudation.
4. Pain extending to neck and shoulders.
What are the gastric symptoms of Kali bichromicum?
Bitter vomiting mixed with mucus, renewed by every attempt to eat or drink; fullness even after eating a small quantity; worse from meat; dyspepsia from beer.
What is the diarrhoea of Kali bichromicum?
Brown, watery and frothy diarrhoea of gelatinous stools occurring in the morning.
Give the respiratory symptoms of Kali bichromicum.
The expectoration is of thick, tenacious, viscid mucus; it can be drawn into strings to the feet; worse from eating; relieved when warm in bed; croupy cough, hoarseness and tightness in the epigastrium.
What are some of the uses of Kali bromatum?
In acute mania, with violent symptoms; also in cerebral depression; it produces also blotches on the skin simulating acne, for which it is a remedy.
What are the catarrhal symptoms of Kali hydriodicum?
Acrid, watery discharge, eyes smart and lachrymate; the patient is alternately cold and hot, and there is sore throat.
Give indications for Kali permanganicum in diphtheria.
Throat swollen inside and outside; the membrane is horribly offensive; throat oedematous; thin discharge from nose; foetor is the characteristic.
KALI MURIATICUM.
Where are complete data concerning this remedy to be found?
In Boericke and Dewey’s Twelve Tissue Remedies of Schussler. Fourth edition.
What is Kali muriaticum, and how does it differ from Kali chloratum?
Kali muriaticum is the Chloride of potash, whose formula is KCI, while the Kali chloratum is the Chlorate of Potash, and whose is KCIO3.
Give the general characteristics of Kali muriaticum.
It corresponds to many affections of the eye, ear and throat, where it has been found clinically to be a useful remedy.
Has any proving of this drug ever been made?
None has been made, and the indications are mostly from Schussler and clinical observations.
Give five characteristic indications for the use of Kali muriaticum that are generally accepted as reliable.
1. White or gray coating at base of tongue.
2. Expectoration of thick, white phlegm or slime.
3. Fibrinous exudations.
4. Glandular swellings.
5. Aggravation from fat or rich food and pastry.
What are the characteristic eye symptoms of Kali muriaticum?
Parenchymatous keratitis and ulcerations of a low type where the redness of the conjunctiva is not excessive; photophobia, pain and lachrymation are moderate or absent, the base of the ulcer is dirty yellow, and the discharge is white mucus, and it tends to spread from the periphery.
Give the ear symptoms of Kali muriaticum.
Deafness from swelling of the Eustachian tubes; proliferous catarrhal inflammation of the middle ear with thickening of the membrane; there is a stuffy sensation and obstruction of the naso-pharynx with snappy noises in the ear; also in deafness from swelling of the external ear.
When is Kali muriaticum indicated in sore throat?
Follicular pharyngitis with gray or white exudation; tonsils swollen and inflamed, grayish spots, patches or ulcers in the throat; ulcerated sore throat; swelling of the glands about the throat. It has proved a very useful remedy in diphtheria.
Give the stomach symptoms of Kali muriaticum.
Dyspepsia with white tongue; pain after eating; liver sluggish; fatty food disagrees; indigestion with vomiting of a whitish mucus with gathering of water in the mouth.
In what respiratory affections has Kali muriaticum been used with success?
In pneumonia for the exudation and hepatization and in pleurisy.
KALI PHOSPHORICUM.
Where do we find data concerning this remedy?
In the same source as the preceding.
Are there any provings of this remedy?
None except a few made with the highest potencies which are generally regarded as unreliable, as they were not thorough. Recently, however, the drug has undergone a more thorough proving by Dr. George Royal, of Iowa University, and his class.
What is the general application of this drug?
In troubles of the nervous system; it corresponds to the condition known as neurasthenia, and is a restorative in muscular debility following acute diseases.
What are the mental conditions calling for its use?
There is a gloomy, depressed, irritable mental state; trifles annoy; the patient looks on the dark side of everything; there is a loss of memory, crossness and fretfulness in children.
In what mental disease is it useful?
Melancholia and mania; somnambulistic states, or any state where there is mental aberration; hallucinations and illusions, puerperal mania and delirium tremens.
Give the typhoid symptoms of Kali phosphoricum.
There is a dry tongue, brown in color, foul and putrid diarrhoea, great debility, low pulse, offensive breath, and sordes on the teeth; there is also great mental depression delirium, etc.
Give indications for Kali phosphoricum in enuresis or wetting the bed.
Where it is due to a paralytic or paretic condition of the bladder or from nervous debility, there is inability to retain the urine.
What symptoms has Kali phosphoricum in the back?
There is rheumatic lameness of the back, which is worse after rest and on just commencing to move; it is especially worse on rising from a sitting position; there seems to be a paralytic tendency.
What drug has the same symptoms?
Rhus tox.
KALI SULPHURICUM.
Where is a complete study of this remedy to be found?
In the same source as the two preceding remedies.
Has Kali sulphuricum ever been used by homoeopathic physicians?
Only since its introduction by Schussler, as there are no regular provings of it.
What is its general action?
It corresponds to the third stage of inflammations; mucous discharges yellow in color; skin affections, etc.
What are some of the general characteristics of this remedy?
Yellow, mucous discharges; evening aggravation and an amelioration in the cool, open air.
Give the respiratory symptoms of Kali sulphuricum.
There is a cough with great rattling of mucus on the chest; the cough is worse in a warm room, and relieved in the cool, open air. The rattling may occur with or without much cough.
What are the indications for Kali sulphuricum in rheumatism?
Rheumatic pains of a shifting or wandering character; they are worse from warmth.
Give the eye symptoms of Kali sulphuricum.
In ophthalmias where there is a profuse discharge of pus; ophthalmia neonatorum, crusts on the eyelids.
What remedy is most like Kali sulphuricum in its symptomatology?
Pulsatilla.
THE SODAS.
What principal preparations of Soda do we use and how is each prepared?
1. Borax, or the bi-borate of Soda. Tincture is made by dissolving 1 part in 99 parts of distilled water. Drug power, 1/100. Also triturations.
2. Natrum carbonicum. Washing Soda. Triturations of the pure carbonate.
3. Natrum muriaticum. Common salt. I part dissolved in 9 parts of distilled water equals the tincture. Also triturations.
4. Natrum phosphoricum. Triturations of the pure phosphate.
5. Natrum sulphuricum. Glauber’s salt. Triturations of the pure sulphate.
BORAX.
Where is the pathogenesis of Borax found?
In Hahnemann’s Chronic Diseases.
Give three grand characteristic uses of Borax.
1. Where there is dread of downward motion.
2. Nursing sore mouth of children.
3. Copious, clear and albuminous leucorrhoea.
What is the character of the sore mouth?
Aphthae form on the inside of the cheeks, on the tongue and in the fauces; the mouth is hot; the membrane around these aphthae bleeds easily, and the child lets go of the nipple and cries with vexation or refuses to nurse.
When is Mercurius indicated in this condition?
When there is salivation, the water dribbles from the child’s mouth, diarrhoea with tenesmus.
What is a symptom of Bryonia which is sometimes useful in sore mouth?
The child refuses to nurse until the mouth has been moistened, the mouth is so dry.
NATRUM CARBONICUM.
Where do we find studies of Natrum carbonicum?
In Hahnemann’s Chronic Diseases and Hartlaub and Trinks.
Give the general action of Natrum carbonicum.
It acts principally on the stomach and bowels, and corresponds to the symptoms referable to those organs, hypochondriasis.
What are the mental symptoms of Natrum carbonicum?
Depressed and irritable, especially after a meal; this hypochondriasis decreases as the food gets out of the stomach into the bowels.
When is Natrum carbonicum indicated in headache?
When caused by walking in the sun. Dullness of the head. Patient is greatly fatigued by a short walk.
Professor of Materia Medica in the University of Michigan Homeopathic Medical College. Member of American Institute of Homeopathy. In addition to his editoral work he authored or collaborated on: Boericke and Dewey's Twelve Tissue Remedies, Essentials of Homeopathic Materia Medica, Essentials of Homeopathic Therapeutics and Practical Homeopathic Therapeutics.