Kali Bichromicum

▲   GENERAL

General

The special affinities of Kali Bichromicum are the mucous membrane of stomach, bowels, and air-passages; bones and fibrous tissue. Kidneys, heart, and liver are also affected. Incipient parenchymatous; nephritis. Nephritis with gastric disturbances. Cirrhosis of liver. Anaemia and absence of fever are characteristic. General weakness bordering on paralysis. It is especially indicated for fleshy, fat, light complexioned persons subject to catarrhs or with syphilitic or scrofulous history. Symptoms are worse in the morning; Pains migrate quickly, rheumatic and gastric symptoms alternate. More adapted to subacute rather than the violent acute stage. Mucous membranes everywhere are affected. Catarrh of pharynx, larynx, bronchi and nose, and a Tough, stringy, viscid secretion is produced, which condition is a very strong guiding symptom for Kali Bichromicum. Perforation of the septum. Chronic atonic catarrh. Polypus. Dilatation of stomach and heart.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

BETTER, from heat. WORSE, beer, morning, hot weather, undressing.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Antimonium Tartaricum ^{Tart. Emet}.; Bromium ^Brom.; Hep Sulph Calc ^Hepar; Indium Metallicum ^Ind.; Calc Carb ^Calc.;’ Antimonium Crudum ^{Ant. Cr}. In the production of false membranes compare: BROM.; Ammon. Causticum ^Caust.; Sulphuricum Acidum ^Sulph-ac.; Ipecacuanha ^Ipecac.

Antidotes

Antidotes: Arsenicum Album ^Ars.; Lachesis ^Lach.

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Vertigo with nausea when rising from seat

▲   HEAD

Head

Aching and fullness in glabella

Headache

Headache over Eyebrows, preceded by blurred vision

Semilateral headache in small spots, and from suppressed catarrh

Frontal pain; usually over one eye

Pain, headache; recurring headache; every day; at same hour

Scalp

Bones and scalp feel sore.

▲   EYES

Eyes

Supraorbital neuralgia, right side

Eyelids burn, swollen, edematous

Discharge ROPY and yellow

Ulcers on cornea; no pain or photophobia

Descemetitis, with only moderate irritation of eye

Croupous conjunctivitis; granular lids, with pannus

Iritis, with punctate deposits on inner surface of cornea

Slight pain, with severe ulceration or inflammation ( Conium Mac ^Conium opposite.)

▲   EARS

Ear

Swollen, with tearing pains

Thick, yellow, stringy, fetid discharge

Sharp stitches in left ear.

Discharges from ear

pus

from middle ear

thick

yellow

Inflammation; media

Pain; stitching, sudden, sharp; left

Skin; out-breaks on skin; wearing away skin

▲   FACE

Face

Florid complexion

Blotchy, red appearance

Acne ( Juglan; kal)

Arsenicum Album ^Ars.) Bones sensitive, especially beneath orbits.

▲   NOSE

Nose

Snuffles of children, Especially fat, chubby babies

pressure and pain at root of nose, and sticking pain in nose

Septum ulcerate; round ulcer

Fetid smell

discharge thick, ropy, greenish-yellow

tough, elastic plugs from nose; leave a raw surface

Inflammation extends to frontal sinuses, with distress and fullness at root of nose

Dropping from posterior nares ( Hydrastis Canadensis ^Hydr.) Loss of smell

Much hawking

Inability to breathe through nose

Dryness

Profuse, watery nasal discharge

Chronic inflammation of frontal sinus with stopped-up sensation.

Catarrh

post nasal (see discharge)

Discharge from nose

crusts, scabs, inside

crusts, scabs, inside; hard to remove, and leave raw and sore

crusts, scabs, inside; reform if removed

crusts, scabs, inside; removed easily, but if pulled away too soon cause soreness at root and intolerance of light

crusts, scabs, inside; elastic plugs

crusts, scabs, inside; green, every morning; masses

greenish

hard, dry

offensive smelling

from ulcer or disease of nasal bones

containing pus

thick

and sticky, tough

and sticky, tough; from behind nostrils

yellow

morning

from behind nostrils

sh-green

behind nostrils (see catarrh)

Dryness

inside

inside; forced to blow nose, but no discharge

In heat

air exhaled feels hot

breath seems hot

root

Odours, imaginary and real; fetid

Pain

bones

at junction of cartilage

root

pressing

bones

pressing; root

sore, bruised; inside

sore, bruised; septum (flesh between nostrils)

Pulsation; root

Skin or lining of nose

ulcers; inside

ulcers; septum (flesh between nostrils), round ulcers

Discharge

Coryza, with obstruction of nose

Violent sneezing

Running or blocked nose (coryza); blocked

during diphtheria

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Growths, blisters, swellings; ulcers; syphilitic

Saliva

Dry; viscid saliva

Dryness

Saliva

mucus, slime; ropy (see also saliva)

mucus, slime; thick and sticky

ropy (see thick and sticky)

thick and sticky

Tongue

Tongue mapped, Red, shining, smooth, and dry, with dysentery; broad, flat, indented, thickly coated

Feeling of a hair on tongue.

Discoloration

tongue; red; glistening (see smooth)

tongue; white

Tongue; smooth, shining, glazed, glossy tongue

▲   THROAT

Throat

Fauces red and inflamed

Dry and rough

Parotid glands swollen

Uvula relaxed, Edematous, bladder-like

Pseudomembranous deposit on tonsils and soft palate

Burning extending to stomach

Aphthae

Diphtheria, with profound prostration and soft pulse

Discharge from mouth and throat, tough and stringy.

Catarrh

Croup

membranous

extending to trachea (wind pipe)

Dryness

Hawks often; morning

Inflammation; larynx

Irritation

in air passages

larynx

trachea (wind pipe)

Membrane, exudation, diphtheria, etc.

extending to larynx

Mucus

morning

like jelly

clinging

morning

thick

yellow

in the air passages

larynx

trachea (wind pipe)

Pain; trachea (wind pipe); on coughing

Swelling; uvula (lobe at back of mouth); fluid accumulation

Ulcers; throat at back of mouth

Voice

hoarseness

nasal

rough

▲   CHEST

Chest

Heart; Dilatation, especially from coexisting kidney lesion

Cold feeling around heart ( Kali-nit.)

Catarrh

Oppressed feeling

Pain

breast bone; when coughing

sore, bruised

stitching, sudden, sharp; breast bone; extending to back

Respiration

Voice hoarse; worse, evening

Metallic, hacking cough

Profuse, yellow expectoration, very glutinous and sticky, coming out in long, stringy, and very tenacious mass

Tickling in larynx

Catarrhal laryngitis cough has a brassy sound

True membranous croup, extending to larynx and nares

Cough, with pain in sternum, extending to shoulders; worse when undressing

Pain at bifurcation of trachea on coughing; from mid-sternum to back.

Loud

Rattling; aged people

▲   COUGH

Cough

Morning

on waking

Croupy

From eating (including certain foods)

Hoarse

From mucus

in chest

larynx

▲   EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

White; morning

Difficult; adhering to throat, teeth and lips

Mucous

Thick

ropy

stringy

and sticky

Tough

▲   SKIN

Skin

Acne

Papular eruptions

Ulcer with punched-out edges, with tendency to penetrate and tenacious exudation

Pustular eruption, resembling small-pox, with burning pains

Itching with vesicular eruption.

Abnormal growths

ulcers

ulcers; crusty; black scab

ulcers; deep

ulcers; discharges; corrosive

ulcers; discharges; yellow

ulcers; dry

Pain; burning

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back

Cutting through loins; cannot walk; extends to groins

Pain in coccyx and sacrum extending up and down.

Pain

coccyx (bottom tip of spine); while sitting

burning; dorsal (shoulder level); shoulder blades; between them

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Load immediately after eating

Feels as if digestion had stopped

Dilatation of stomach

Gastritis

Round ulcer of stomach

Stitches in region of liver and spleen and through to spine

Dislikes water

Cannot digest meat

Desire for beer and acids

Gastric symptoms are relieved after eating, and the rheumatic symptoms reappear

Cutting pain in abdomen, soon after eating

Chronic intestinal ulceration

Soreness in right hypochondrium, fatty infiltration of liver and increase in soft fibrous tissue

Painful retraction, soreness and burning.

Kidneys

pain; cutting

pain; sudden, sharp, stinging, sticking

extending to other parts; bladder

extending to other parts; down ureters (tubes between kidneys and bladder)

Stomach

disordered

burping, belching

heaviness, weight, oppression (see fullness); after drinking beer

heaviness, weight, oppression (see fullness); after eating

ulcers

Nausea

nausea; in alcoholics

Vomiting

Nausea and vomiting after beer

Vomiting of bright yellow water.

Stomach; vomiting; in alcoholics

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Diarrhoea; morning

Stool

Jelly-like, gelatinous; Worse, mornings

Dysentery; tenesmus, stools brown, frothy

Sensation of a plug in anus

Periodic constipation, with pain across the loins, and brown urine.

Urinary Organs.

Burning in urethra

After urinating a drop seems to remain which cannot be expelled

Ropy mucus in urine

Urethra becomes clogged up

Congestion of kidney; nephritis, with scanty, albuminous urine and casts

Pyelitis; urine mixed with epithelial cells, mucus, pus or blood

Hematochyluria.

Frothy

Watery

▲   GENITALS ETC

Male

Male; Itching and pain of penis, with pustules

Constriction at root of penis, at night on awakening

Female

Pruritus of vulva, with great burning and excitement

Female

vaginal discharge; ropy, stringy, clinging

vaginal discharge; thick

Genitals

Ulcers, with paroxysmal stitches; aggravated at night

Syphilitic ulcers, with cheesy, tenacious exudation

Erections (Picric-ac.)

Female; Yellow, tenacious leucorrhoea

Prolapsus uteri; Worse in hot weather.

Male

sexual passion; lacking

sexual passion; lacking; in fleshy people

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Pains fly rapidly from one place to another ( Kali Sulphuricum ^Kali-sulph.; Pulsatilla ^Puls.) Wandering pains, along the bones; worse cold

Left-sided sciatica; better, motion

Bones feels sore and bruised

Very weak

Tearing pains in tibia; syphilitic rheumatism ( Mezereum ^Mez.) Pain, swelling and stiffness and crackling of all joints

Soreness of heels when walking

Tendo Achilles swollen and painful

Pains in small spots ( Oxalic-ac.)

Pain

rheumatic; alternating with gastric symptoms

rheumatic; alternating with lung troubles

warmth

joints; rheumatic

joints; wandering

sore, bruised; spots here and there

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

With chilliness

▲   GENERALITIES

Perspiration

Profuse

while sitting quietly

Generalities

Morning

Night

Eating and food; after eating

Fluid build up; excess of blood, or other fluids

Mucous secretions increased

Pain

appear suddenly; and disappear suddenly

small spots

burning externally; internally

pressing; externally

sore, bruised; in spots

tearing; away

wandering

Periodic, recurring; neuralgia, every day at same hour (pain along nerves)

In summer

Swelling

in general

inflammatory

Temperature (felt and effects of temperature); cold feeling; lack of vital heat

from becoming cold

On waking

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