KALIUM PERMANGANATUM
Permanganate of Potassium
(KALI PERMANGANICUM)
Intense inflammation of nose, throat, and larynx. Diphtheria. Dysmenorrhoea. Bites of serpents and for different animal poisons. Septic conditions; tissues infiltrated with tendency to sloughing.
Respiratory.–Bleeding from nose. Nasal discharge. Smarts and irritates. Constrictive, smarting sensation in throat. Larynx feels raw. Short, hacking cough.
Throat.–Swollen and painful. Everything hawked up streaked with blood. Posterior nares painful. Muscles of neck sense sore. Swollen uvula. Fetor of breath.
Dose.–Locally, 1 dram to a quart of water, to right fetor in cancer, ulcer, ozaena, and different foul odors. Also as an injection in leucorrhoea and gonorrhoea. Internally, 2x dilution in water. Saturated answer domestically in eruption of smallpox.
Potassium Permanganate for Morphine Poisoning.–Potassium permanganate is identified as being the most tremendous chemical antidote in instances of morphine or opium poisoning, performing immediately on the morphine and oxidizing it to much less poisonous substances. To be nice the permanganate ought to come in direct contact with the opium or morphine in the stomach; hypodermatic or intravenous injections are clearly useless, as the salt would be decomposed by means of the blood serum at once. The accredited therapy is administration of two to 5 grains of potassium permanganate in dilute aqueous answer as quickly as feasible after the poison is taken, this quantities to be elevated if very massive doses of the poison have been taken. Washing out the belly with a volume of 1 to five hundred answer of permanganate is additionally recommended, the usage of at least a pint of this answer either via a belly pump or by using enforced vomiting. Permang of Potash counteracts consequences of alkaloids of many toxic plants. Owing to its oxidizing powers if given earlier than the alkaloid has been absorbed (Dr. Chestnut in Dept of Agriculture).
