KALIUM IODATUM
Iodide of Potassium
(KALI HYDRIODICUM)
The profuse, watery, acrid coryza that the drug produces serves as a positive guiding symptom, specifically when related with ache in frontal sinus. It acts prominently on fibrous and connective tissues, producing infiltration, oedema, etc. Glandular swellings. Purpura and haemorrhagic diathesis. Syphilis can also be indicated in all stages: 1. In acute shape with nighttime remitting fever, going off in nightly perspiration. two Second stage, mucous membranes and pores and skin ulcerations. three Tertiary symptoms; nodes. Give cloth doses. Diffused sensitiveness –(glands, scalp, etc). Rheumatism in neck, back, feet, particularly heels and soles; worse, bloodless and wet. Iodide of Potass in fabric doses acts in the unique types of Fungoid ailment (thrush, ringworm, etc), provide simulating syphilis and bacterial illnesses like tuberculosis. Symptoms like loss of weight, spitting of blood, etc. Tea-taster’s cough due to inhaling the fungus; a additionally brings about regularly favorable response in many continual illnesses even when now not absolutely symptomatically indicated.
Mind.–Sad, anxious; harsh temper. Irritable; congestion to head, warmth and throbbing.
Head.–Pain via facets of head. Violent headache. Cranium swells up in difficult lump. Pain excessive over eyes and root of nose. Brain feels enlarged. Hard nodes, with extreme pain. Facial neuralgia. Lancinating ache in top jaw.
Nose.–Red, swollen. Tip of nostril red; profuse, acrid, hot, watery, skinny discharge. Ozaena, with perforated septum. Sneezing. Nasal catarrh, involving frontal sinus. Stuffiness and dryness of nose, besides discharge. Profuse, cool, greenish, unirritating discharges.
Eyes.–Conjunctiva red, injected; profuse lachrymation. Syphilitic iritis. Pustular keratitis and chemosis. Bony tumors of the orbit.
Ear.–Noises in ear. Boring ache in ears.
Stomach.–Saliva increased. Faintness at epigastrium. Cold meals and drink, specially milk, aggravate. Much thirst. Throbbing, painful burning. Flatulence.
Female.–Menses late, profuse. During menses uterus feels as if squeezed. Corrosive leucorrhoea, with subacute inflammatory prerequisites of the womb in younger married women. Fibroid tumors, metritis, sub-involution, hypertrophy, 1x or 1 gr crude, three instances a day.
Respiratory.–Violent cough; worse in morning. Pulmonary oedema. Larynx feels raw. Laryngeal oedema. Awakes choking. Expectoration like soap-suds, greenish. Pneumonia, when hepatization commences. Pneumococcic meningitis. Stitching pains via lungs to back. Asthma. Dyspnoea on ascending, with ache in heart. Hydrothorax (Merc sulph). Pleuritic effusion. Cold travels downward to chest.
Extremities.–Severe bone-pains. Periosteum thickened, specially tibia; touchy to contact (Kali b; Asaf). Rheumatism; pains at night time and in damp weather. Contraction of joints. Rheumatism of knees with effusion. Pain in small of again and coccyx. Pain in hip, forcing limping. Sciatica; can’t continue to be in bed; worse at night time and mendacity on affected side. Formication of decrease extremities when sitting, higher mendacity down.
Skin.–Purple spots; worse on legs. Acne, hydroa. Small boils. Glands enlarged, indurated. Hives. Rough nodules all over, worse any covering; warmth of physique intense. Fissured anus of infants. Tendency to oedematous swellings, eyelids, mouth, uvula, etc. Acne rosacea.
Modalities.–Worse, heat clothing, heat room, at night, damp weather. Better, motion, open air.
Relationship.–Antidote: Hepar.
Compare: Iod; Mercur; Sulph; Mezer. Chopheenee, a Hindoo treatment for syphilitic eruptions, ulcerations and bone-pains. Used in tincture.
Dose.–Crude drug, in fabric legit dosage, however take into account Dr. Meyhoffer’s statements in his continual illnesses of organs of respiration: “From the second the drug produces pathogenetic symptoms, it exaggerates the feature of the tissue, exhausts the already diminished vitality, and thence, rather of stimulating the natural mobilephone in the route of life, impairs or abolishes its energy of contraction. We use, as a rule, the first dilution from 6 to 20 drops a day; if after a week no determined development is visible, one drop of the tincture of Iodine is introduced to every hundred of the first dilution. In this way, the mucous tubercles, gummy deposits and ulcerations ensuing therefrom in the larynx bear a favorable termination in laryngeal syphilis. ” When strictly homeopathically indicated, as in acute respiratory affections to 0.33 potency.
