KALIUM CARBONICUM
Carbonate of Potassium
(KALI CARBONICUM)
The weak point attribute of all Potassium Salts is viewed in particular in this, with gentle pulse, coldness, regularly occurring depression, and very attribute stitches, which may also be felt in any section of the body, or in connection with any affection. All Kali pains are sharp and cutting; almost all higher by way of motion. Never use any Salts of Potash the place there is fever (T. F. Allen). Sensitive to each atmospheric change, and intolerance of bloodless weather. One of the pleasant redress following labor. Miscarriage, for consequent debilitated states. Early morning aggravation is very characteristic. Fleshy aged people, with dropsical and paretic tendencies. Sweat, backache, and weakness. Throbbing pains. Tendency to dropsy. Tubercular diathesis. Pains from inside out, and of stinging character. “Giving-out” sensation. Fatty degenerations. Stinging pains in muscle mass and interior parts. Twitching of muscles. Pain in small spot on left aspect Hypothyroidism. Coxitis.
Mind.–Despondent. Alternating moods. Very irritable. Full of worry and imaginations. Anxiety felt in stomach. Sensation as if mattress had been sinking. Never wishes to be left alone. Never quiet or contented. Obstinate and hypersensitive to pain, noise, touch.
Head.–Vertigo on turning. Headache from using in bloodless wind. Headache comes on with yawning. Stitches in temples; aching in occiput, one-sided, with nausea, on using in carriage. Loose feeling in head. Great dryness of hair; falls out (Fluor ac).
Eyes.–Stitches in eyes. Spots, gauze, and black factors earlier than eyes. Lids stick collectively in morning. Swelling over top lid, like little bags. Swelling of glabella between brows. Asthenopia. Weak sight from immoderate sexual indulgence. On shutting eyes, painful sensation of mild penetrating the brain.
Ears.–Stitches in ears. Itching, cracking, ringing and roaring.
Nose.–Nose stuffs up in heat room. Thick, fluent, yellow discharge. Post-nasal shedding (Spigel). Sore, scurfy nostrils; bloody nasal mucus. Crusty nasal openings. Nosebleed on washing face in morning. Ulcerated nostrils.
Mouth.–Gums separate from teeth; pus oozes out. Pyorrhea. Aphthae. Tongue white. Much saliva continuously in mouth. Bad, slimy taste.
Throat.–Dry, parched, rough. Sticking pain, as from a fish-bone. Swallowing difficult; meals goes down oesophagus slowly. Mucous accumulation in the morning.
Stomach.–Flatulence. Desire for sweets. Feeling of lump in pit of stomach. Gagging. Dyspepsia of historic people; burning acidity, bloating. Gastric problems from ice-water. Sour eructations. Nausea; higher mendacity down. Constant feeling as if belly have been full of water. Sour vomiting; throbbing and slicing in stomach. Disgust for food. Anxiety felt in stomach. Epigastrium touchy externally. Easy choking when eating. Epigastric ache to back.
Abdomen.–Stitches in location of liver. Old continual liver troubles, with soreness. Jaundice and dropsy. Distention and coldness of abdomen. Pain from left hypochondrium via abdomen; should flip on proper aspect earlier than he can rise.
Rectum.–Large, challenging stools, with stitching ache an hour before. Haemorrhoids, large, swollen, painful. Itching, ulcerated acne round anus. Large discharge of blood with herbal stool. Pain in haemorrhoids when coughing. Burning in rectum and anus. Easy prolapsus (Graph; Pod). Itching (Ignat).
Urine.–Obliged to upward thrust countless instances at night time to urinate. Pressure on bladder lengthy earlier than urine comes. Involuntary urination when coughing, sneezing, etc.
Male.–Complaints from coition. Deficient sexual instinct. Excessive emissions, accompanied by means of weakness.
Female.–Menses early, profuse (Calc c) or too late, faded and scanty, with anguish about genitals; pains from again bypass down thru gluteal muscles, with slicing in abdomen. Pain thru left labium, extending via stomach to chest. Delayed menses in younger girls, with chest signs and symptoms or ascites. Difficult, first menses. Complaints after parturition. Uterine haemorrhage; steady oozing after copious flow, with violent backache, relieved by using sitting and pressure.
Respiratory.–Cutting ache in chest; worse mendacity on proper side. Hoarseness and loss of voice. Dry, difficult cough about 3 am, with stitching pains and dryness of pharynx. Bronchitis, total chest is very sensitive. Expectoration scanty and tenacious, however growing in morning and after eating; aggravated proper decrease chest and mendacity on painful side. Hydrothorax. Leaning ahead relieves chest symptoms. Expectoration should be swallowed; tacky taste; copious, offensive, lump. Coldness of chest. Wheezing. Cough with satisfied uvula. Tendency to tuberculosis; steady bloodless taking; higher in heat climate.
Heart.–Sensation as if coronary heart had been suspended. Palpitation and burning in coronary heart region. Weak, speedy pulse; intermits, due to digestive disturbance. Threatened coronary heart failure.
Back.–Great exhaustion. Stitches in place of kidneys and proper scapula. Small of returned feels weak. Stiffness and paralytic feeling in back. Burning in backbone (Guaco). Severe backache in the course of pregnancy, and after miscarriage. Hip-disease. Pain in nates and thighs and hip-joint. Lumbago with surprising sharp pains extending up and down again and to thighs.
Extremities.–Backs and legs supply out. Uneasiness heaviness, and tearing in limbs and jerking. Tearing ache in limbs with swelling. Limbs touchy to pressure. White swelling of knee. Tearing in fingers from shoulder to wrist. Lacerating in wrist-joint. Paralysis of historical people, and dropsical affections. Limbs go to sleep easily. Tips of toes and fingers painful. Soles very sensitive. Itching of extremely good toe, with pain. Pain from hip to knee. Pain in knees.
Skin.–Burning as from a mustard plaster.
Sleep.–Drowsy after eating. Wakes about two o’clock and can’t sleep again.
Modalities.–Worse, after coition; in bloodless weather; from soup and coffee; in morning about three o’clock; mendacity on left and painful side. Better, in heat weather, even though moist; all through day, whilst transferring about.
Relationship.–Complementary: Carbo; (Lowness of vitality might also endorse a preliminary path of Carbo to nurse up restoration to the factor that Kali carb would come in helpfully). Follows Nux frequently in belly and bladder troubles.
Compare: Kali salicylicum (vomiting, specifically of pregnancy; arteriosclerosis, with continual rheumatism); kali silicum (gouty nodosities); Kali aceticum (diabetes, diarrhoea, dropsy, alkaline urine, very an awful lot accelerated in quantity); Kali citricum (Bright’s disease-1 gr to wine-glass of water); Kali ferrocyanatum-Prussian blue–(physical and intellectual prostration following infection. Inability to sustained events work. Neuralgic affections relying on impoverished blood and exhausted nerve centers, specifically spinal. Fatty and useful coronary heart troubles. Pulse weak, small, irregular. Uterine symptoms, like Sepia, bearing-down sensation and gastric sinking; profuse, pus-like leucorrhoea and passive haemorrhage; use 6x); Kali oxalicum (lumbago, convulsions); Kali picro-nitricum and kali pricricum (jaundice, violent eructations); kali tartaricum (paraplegia); Kali telluricum (garlicky scent of breath, salivation, swollen tongue). Also compare: Calc; Ammon phos; Phos; Lycop; Bry; Natrum; Stann; Sepia.
Antidotes: Camph; Coffea.
Dose.–Thirtieth and higher. Sixth trit. Do no longer repeat too often. Use cautiously in historical gouty cases, superior Bright’s and tuberculosis.
