KALI CARBONICUM


An excellent compilation of symptoms of homeopathic medicine Kali Carbonicum from the book Pearls of Homeopathy by M.E. Douglass, published in 1903….


Adapted to diseases of old people, dropsies and paralysis: dark hair, lax fibre, inclined to obesity.

After loss of fluids or of vitality, particularly in the anaemia.

Pains: stitching, darting, worse during rest and lying on affected side.

Cannot bear to be touched; starts when touched ever so lightly, especially on the feet.

Great aversion to being alone.

bag-like swelling between upper lids and eyebrows.

Weak eyes: after coition, abortion, measles.

Stomach distended, sensitive; feels as if it would burst; excessive flatulency; everything she eats or drinks appears to be converted into gas.

Feels badly the week before menstruation.

Persons suffering from ulceration of the lungs can scarcely get will without this antipsoric.

Toothache only when eating.

Sticking pain in the pharynx, as if there were a fishbone in

it.

Nausea on every inward emotion.

A constant feeling as if the stomach were full of water.

Great sensitiveness of the epigastric region externally.

Distended abdomen, after eating.

During the menses, cutting in the abdomen.

Hair dry, rapidly falling off, with much dandruff.

Obliged to urinate several times at night. Menses: too late and too scanty, or too early and too copious and of too long duration.

Menstrual discharge is acrid, of a pungent or fetid odor, and excoriate the parts with which it comes in contact.

Soreness of the pudendum.

Acrid, corrosive leucorrhoea.

Swelling of the cheeks during the menses. Backache, night-sweats, dry cough, emaciation, or protracted metrorrhagia, as a sequel of abortion or accouchement.

Stitches through the night lung to the back.

Cutting pain in the chest, in the evening, after lying down.

Sticking pressure in the left side of the chest, on deep breathing.

Stitches in the right side of the chest, on inspiration.

Very much inclined to take cold.

She wakes in the morning about 1 or 2 o’clock, and cannot sleep again, from wakefulness.

Great chilliness after eating, and towards evening.

Chilliness on every motion, even in bed.

Chill relieved near the warm stove and after lying down.

Heat, with long yawning, stitching pains in head and chest, pulsations in abdomen.

Internal heat, external chilliness.

Sweat all night without relief.

Sweat on every mental emotion. or least exertion.

Melford Eugene Douglass
M.E.Douglass, MD, was a Lecturer of Dermatology in the Southern Homeopathic Medical College of Baltimore. He was the author of - Skin Diseases: Their Description, Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment; Repertory of Tongue Symptoms; Characteristics of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica.