KALIUM NITRICUM
Nitrate of Potassium-Saltpeter
(KALI NITRICUM – NITRUM)
Often indicated in asthma, additionally precious in cardiac asthma; of top notch price in unexpected dropsical swellings over the total body. Gastro-intestinal inflammation, with a great deal debility, and relapse in phthisis, name for this remedy. Suppurative nephritis.
Head.–Scalp very sensitive. Headache, with vertigo, as if falling to proper facet and backwards; worse, stooping. Ennui.
Eyes.–Vision turns into clouded. Turbid corpus vitreum (Arn; Ham; Solan n; Phos). Variegated-colored rings earlier than eyes. Burning and lachrymation.
Nose.–Sneezing. Swollen feeling; worse, proper nostril. Point crimson and itching. Polypus (Sang nit).
Mouth.–Tongue red, with burning pimples; burns at tip. Throat constricted and sore.
Stool.–Thin, watery, bloody. Membranous shreds, with tenesmus. Diarrhoea from consuming veal.
Female.–Menses too early, profuse, black; preceded and with violent backache. Leucorrhoea. Burning pains in the ovarian vicinity solely at some stage in menses (Zinc after).
Respiratory.–Hoarseness. Dry, morning cough, with ache in chest and bloody expectoration. Bronchitis, with sharp, short, dry, hacking cough. Asthma, with immoderate dyspnoea, nausea, stupid stitches, and burning in chest. Dyspnoea so notable that breath can’t be held lengthy adequate to drink, although thirsty. Chest feels constricted. Oppression worse in morning. Sour-smelling expectoration. Expectoration of clotted blood, after hawking mucus. Acute exacerbations in phthisis; congestion of lungs. Spasmodic croup; paroxysm of crowing. Laryngeal diphtheria.
Heart.–Pulse weak, small, thready. Violent sew in praecordia, and beating of heart.
Extremities.–Stitches between shoulder-blades. Tearing and sticking in shoulders and joints. Hands and fingers appear swollen.
Modalities.–Worse, consuming veal; in the direction of morning and in afternoon. Better, consuming sips of water.
Relationship.–Antidotes: Opium; Nitr sp dulc.
Antidote to Opium and Morphine poisoning, 8-10 grains to glass of water.
Compare: Gun-powder (Nitre with sulphur and charcoal-2x trit. “Blood poisoning. ” Septic suppuration. Protractive towards wound infection. Antidote to Ivy and Primula rash (Clarke) Herpes facialis; plants of boils. Carbuncles). Osteo-myelitis. Cannab sat (which incorporates a giant quantity of Kali nit). Lycop; Sanguin; Allium sat; Antimon iod.
Dose.–Third to thirtieth potency.
