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Kali Carbonicum

Carbonate Of Potassium, Kali Carb, Kali-Carb, Kali-carb, Kalium Carbonicum, Kali-c.


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HPUS indication of Kali Carbonicum: Wheezing
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Below are the main rubriks (i.e strongest indications or symptoms) of Kali Carb in traditional homeopathic usage, not approved by the FDA.

  GENERAL

General

The weakness characteristic of all Potassium Salts is seen especially in this, with soft pulse, coldness, general depression, and very characteristic stitches, which may be felt in any part of the body, or in connection with any affection. All Kali pains are Sharp and cutting; nearly all better by motion. Never use any Salts of Potash where there is fever (T. F. Allen). Sensitive to every atmospheric change, and Intolerance of cold weather. One of the best remedies following labor. Miscarriage, for consequent debilitated states. Early morning worse is very characteristic. Fleshy aged people, with dropsical and paretic tendencies. Sweat, backache, and weakness. Throbbing pains. Tendency to dropsy. Tubercular diathesis. Pains from within out, and of stinging character. "Giving-out" sensation. Fatty degeneration. Stinging pains in muscles and internal parts. Twitching of muscles. Pain in small spot on left side. Hypothyroidism. Coxitis.

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  MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, after coition; in cold weather; from soup and Coffea Cruda Coffee; in morning about three o’clock; lying on left and painful side.

Better

BETTER, in warm weather, though moist; during day, while moving about.

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  RELATIONSHIPS

Complementary

Complementary: Carboneum Oxygenisatum Carbo; (Lowness of vitality may suggest a preliminary course of Carbo to nurse up recuperation to the point that Kali Carbonicum. would come in helpfully.) Follows Nux Vomica Nux often in stomach and bladder troubles.

Antidotes

Antidotes: Camphora Camph.; Coffea Tosta Coffea.

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  MIND

Mind

Despondent

Alternating moods

Very irritable

Full of fear and imaginations

Anxiety felt in stomach

Sensation as if bed were sinking

Never wants to be left alone

Never quiet or contented

Obstinate and Hypersensitive to pain, noise, touch.

Aversions, dislikes

open air

being touched

Behaviour

shrieking

shrieking; at things of little importance

Desires, wants; company

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

anger (see irritability and quarrelsome)

impulsive; capriciousness

irritability

sensitive, oversensitive; to noise

unhappy; lamenting, regretting; moaning, groaning

night; 3 a.m.

Intellectual faculties; impaired thinking; dull, sluggish

Insecure, uncertain, scared

anxiety

fear; of being alone (see company)

fear; of disease

frightened easily; starting, startled; easily

frightened easily; starting, startled; from fright

frightened easily; starting, startled; from noise

frightened easily; starting, startled; during sleep

frightened easily; starting, startled; when touched

frightened easily; at things of little importance

timidity

Restlessness, nervousness; anxious, etc.

Talking, conversation; in sleep

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  VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Vertigo on turning

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  HEAD

Stitches in temples; aching in occiput, one-sided, with nausea, on riding in carriage

Loose feeling in head

Sensation of turning and twisting

Headache

Headache From riding in cold wind

Headache comes on with yawning

Pain, headache

eyes and vision (affecting or affected by); from straining eyes

from cold (including cold parts); from cold air

from sex; during sexual intercourse

in forehead; above eyes

sides; one side

temples

pulling; forehead

pulling; sides; left

shooting (see cutting, piercing, stabbing, shocks, stitches, etc.)

temples

temples; extending inward

stitching, sudden, sharp

tearing, rending; temples; left

Scalp

Great Dryness of hair; falls out ( Fluor-ac.)

Hair; falling

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  EYES

Eyes

Stitches in eyes

Spots, gauze, and black points before eyes

Lids stick together in morning

Swelling over upper lid, like little bags

Swelling of glabella between brows

Asthenopia

Weak sight from excessive sexual indulgence

On shutting eyes, painful sensation of light penetrating the brain.

Eyebrows; hair falling from brows

Eye feels hot

Pain

burning, smarting, gnawing, biting

stitching, sudden, sharp

Intolerance of light (photophobia); after sexual intercourse

Swellings

lids; from fluid accumulation

lids; under the lids

lids; upper lids

Weak; after sexual intercourse

Vision

Colours and shapes in front of eyes

fiery

spots

Dazzling

Dim

after sexual intercourse

after measles

Exertion of vision

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  EARS

Ear

Stitches in ears

Itching, cracking, ringing and roaring.

Discharges from ear

pus

Itching; in ear

Noises in ear

buzzing

cracking

ringing

rushing

singing

Pain

stitching, sudden, sharp

tearing in

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  FACE

Face

Bloated (see swelling, congestion); between lids and eyebrows

Expression

haggard

suffering

Skin

discoloration; iron deficiency anaemia (greenish-yellow discoloration)

out-breaks on skin

pimples

Swelling

above eyes

around eyes

under eyes

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  NOSE

Nose

Nose Stuffs up in warm room

Thick, fluent, yellow discharge

Post-nasal dropping ( Spigel.) Sore, scurfy nostrils; bloody nasal mucus

Crusty nasal openings

Nosebleed on washing face in morning

Ulcerated nostrils.

Hardness

Swelling

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  MOUTH

Mouth

Pyorrhoea

Aphthae

Gums and teeth

Gums separate from teeth; pus oozes out

Teeth

pain; from cold; from anything cold

pain; from cold; from cold drinks

pain; from certain foods or drinks; from hot food

pain; while eating

pain; from heat; from warm food

pain; from heat; from hot food

pain; from heat; from warm things

Saliva

Much saliva constantly in mouth

Salivation

Tongue

Tongue white

Taste

Bad, slimy taste.

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  THROAT

Throat

Dry, parched, rough

Sticking pain, as from a fish-bone

Swallowing difficult; food goes down oesophagus slowly

Mucous accumulation in the morning.

Catarrh

Choking, constricting

larynx; sleep; on falling asleep

gullet

Sensation of something in throat

crawling

crawling; larynx

Hawks often

Irritation

larynx

trachea (wind pipe)

Mucus

larynx

Pain

on becoming cold

swallowing; swallowing empty

as from a splinter

sudden, sharp

on becoming cold

Roughness; larynx; from coughing

Swallowing; difficult

Tickling in the air passages

larynx

in trachea (wind pipe)

External throat

swelling; cervical glands (on side of neck)

uncovering throat

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  CHEST

Chest

Heart; Sensation as if heart were suspended

Palpitation and Burning in heart region

weak, rapid pulse; intermits, due to digestive disturbance

Threatened heart failure.

Heart

fatty degeneration of heart

hypertrophy of heart

palpitations

tumultuous, violent, intense

Inflammation; children

Lungs

fluid build up in chest cavity (pulmonary oedema)

tuberculosis

early stages

containing pus and ulcerative

ulcer

Oppressed feeling

during fever

Pain

evening

during chill

while talking

cutting (sudden sharp pain)

morning

evening

evening; after lying down

pressing

stitching, sudden, sharp

sides

sides; right

sides; lower part of; right

Perspiration; arm pit

Swelling; arm pit glands

Respiration

Cutting pain in chest; worse lying on right side

Hoarseness and loss of voice

Dry, hard cough about 3 a.m., with Stitching pains and dryness of pharynx

Bronchitis, Whole chest is very sensitive

Expectoration scanty and tenacious, but Increasing in morning and after eating; aggravated right lower chest and lying on painful side

Hydrothorax

Leaning forward relieves chest symptoms

Expectoration must be swallowed; cheesy taste; copious, offensive, lump

Coldness of chest

wheezing

Cough With relaxed uvula

Tendency to tuberculosis; constant cold taking; Better in warm climate.

Pain

when breathing; breathing normally

when breathing; breathing deeply

sides; when breathing; with deep breathing

pressing; breathing in; when breathing in deeply

pressing; sides; breathing deeply

stitching, sudden, sharp; when breathing in

stitching, sudden, sharp; respiration

deep

stitching, sudden, sharp; sides; when breathing in

Asthma attack

morning

night

2 to 3 a.m.

night; 3 a.m.

Difficult (dyspnea)

night

after midnight; 2 to 3 a.m.

night; after midnight; 3 a.m.

with heat

while lying down

while lying; lying with the head low

while sitting; sitting upright

while sitting; sitting with head bent forward on knees

sitting; sitting upright

sitting; sitting with head bent forward on knees

Wheezing

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  COUGH

Cough

Morning

Night

waking from the cough

after midnight; 3 a.m.

With or after chill or fever; during fever

On becoming cold

Dry cough

evening

lying down

during fever

Hard cough

When breathing; deep breathing

Sensations in throat and air passages (either from coughing, or causing coughing); sensation of crawling; larynx

from irritation in air passages

in larynx

from irritation in air passages; in wind pipe

Loose; during fever

While lying down

evening

night

Racking

Tickling

in wind pipe

Violent

night; 3 a.m.

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  EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

Bloody, spitting of blood (see chest haemorrhage); strong and sharp (acrid)

Containing pus

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  SKIN

Skin

Burning as from a mustard plaster.

Jaundice

Itching miliary or papular eruptions

Discolored; chocolate tint.

Discoloration; white

Dry

inability to perspire (see inactivity)

Inactivity

Out-breaks on skin

rash (see granular); red

Swelling; of parts affected with symptoms

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  BACK AND NECK

Back and neck

Pain

sore, bruised, beaten

sore, bruised, beaten; on movement

Neck

Stiffness; neck

Back

Great exhaustion

Stitches in region of kidneys and right scapula

Small of back feels weak

Stiffness and paralytic feeling in back

Burning in spine ( Guaco.) Severe backache during pregnancy, and after miscarriage

Hip-disease

Pain in nates and thighs and hip-joint

Lumbago with sudden sharp pains extending up and down back and to thighs.

Pain

night

3 a.m.

forcing out of bed

pressure

while sitting; straight

while sitting; has to sit bent

while walking

in women; during labour

in women; before period

lumbar (lower half of back); night; 3 a.m., forcing out of bed

lumbar (lower half of back); extending to other parts; buttock muscles and thighs

lumbar (lower half of back); extending to other parts; down the legs

lumbar (lower half of back); extending to other parts; buttocks

aching; pressure

aching; while walking

pulling; sacrum (base of spine)

labour-like

small of back; extending to buttock muscles

stitching, sudden, sharp, shooting

night; 3 a.m., must get up and walk

lumbar (lower half of back)

lumbar (lower half of back); morning; 3 a.m.

lumbar (lower half of back); extending to other parts; buttock region and hips

lumbar (lower half of back); extending to other parts; buttocks, 3 a.m.

sacrum (base of spine); during pregnancy

sacrum (base of spine); extending to buttock region and hips

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  ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Desire for sweets

Feeling of lump in pit of stomach

Gagging

Dyspepsia of old people; burning acidity, bloating

Gastric disorders from ice-water

Constant feeling as If stomach were full of water

Anxiety felt in stomach

Epigastrium sensitive externally

Easy choking when eating

Epigastric pain to back.

Feeling of weight in epigastric and umbilical region

Stitches in region of liver

Old chronic liver troubles, with soreness

Jaundice and dropsy

Distention and coldness of abdomen

Pain from left hypochondrium through abdomen; must turn on right side before he can rise.

Bloated

after eating

lower part of abdomen

Sensation of fullness; after eating

Heat

after eating

Pain

bending double

in women; before period

region of hip; crest of hip; extending to knee

burning; behind lower ribs; right

cramping, griping; before period

pressing; lower part of abdomen; before period

cutting; bending double

cutting; during period

cutting; lower part of abdomen; during period

cutting; liver; left

sudden, sharp (sticking, etc.); sides; right

Pulsation; during heat

Stomach

burping, belching

pulsation

sensation as if full of water

Eating

Disgust for food

Stomach; loathing of food (see nausea)

Eructation

Sour eructations

Flatus

Stomach; Flatulence

Flatulence

Nausea

nausea; better lying down

Stomach

nausea; after excitement

nausea; on movement

Vomiting

Sour vomiting; throbbing and cutting in stomach

Vomiting of greenish-black matter.

Pain; with vomiting, blood and mucus in stool (intussusception); pain in region of liver

Stomach; vomiting; on coughing

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  RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

LARGE, difficult stools, with stitching pain an hour before

Hemorrhoids, large, swollen, painful

Itching, ulcerated pimples around anus

Large discharge of blood with natural stool

Pain in hemorrhoids when coughing

Burning in rectum and anus

Easy prolapsus ( Graphites Graph.; Podophyllum Peltatum Pod.) Itching ( Ignatia Ignat.)

Constipation

inactivity of rectum

insufficient, incomplete, unsatisfactory stool

before period

during period

Haemorrhoids

congested

large

childbirth

Itching; like insects crawling on skin in anus

Pain; soreness

Skin and lining; fistula (additional hole)

Stool

Diarrhoea; profuse, greenish mucus.

Large

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  GENITALS ETC

Urine

Obliged to rise several times at night to urinate

Pressure on bladder long before urine comes

Involuntary urination when coughing, sneezing, etc.

Albuminuria, scanty, suppressed

Haematuria; diuresis

Nucleo-albumin and bile, high Acid Phos Phosphoric Acid, with low total solids.

Male

Male; itching; scrotum

Female

Female; vaginal discharge

Womb

Uterine hemorrhage; constant oozing after copious flow, with violent backache, relieved by sitting and pressure.

Genitals

Male; Complaints from coition

Deficient sexual instinct

Excessive emissions, Followed by weakness.

C.) or Too late, pale and scanty, with soreness about genitals; pains from back pass down through gluteal muscles, with cutting in abdomen

Pain through left labium, extending through abdomen to chest

Complaints after parturition

Female

pain; pains after giving birth

pain; labour-like

pain; labour pains; ceasing

pain; labour pains; distressing

pain; labour pains; ineffectual

pain; labour pains; weak

Menses

Menses early, profuse (Calc Carb Calc)

Delayed menses in young girls, with chest symptoms or ascites

Difficult, first menses

Female

period; amenorrhoea (suppression or absence of period)

period; strong and sharp (acrid), wearing away skin

period; first period delayed in girls

period; frequent

period; late

period; painful; and difficult (dysmenorrhea)

period; protracted

period; scanty

period; suppressed

pain; womb (see abdomen, pain); before period

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  EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Backs and legs give out

Uneasiness, heaviness, and tearing in limbs and jerking

Tearing pains in limbs with swelling

Limbs sensitive to pressure

White swelling of knee

Tearing in arms from shoulder to wrist

Lacerating in wrist-joint

Paralysis of old people, and dropsical affections

Limbs go to sleep easily

Tips of toes and fingers painful

Soles very sensitive

Itching of great toes, with pain

Pain from hip to knee

pain in knees.

Coldness

upper limbs; hands

upper limbs; fingers

lower limbs; foot

Diseased hip-joint (see pain in hip)

Movements and positions

jerking; falling asleep

jerking; lower limbs; on going to sleep

jerking; leg; falling asleep

twitching; thigh

during sleep

when touched

Numbness (see tingling); hand

lower limbs

right

foot; after eating

Pain

night; 2 to 3 a.m.

in parts lain on

pulsating

joints; gouty

upper limbs; lying on it

upper arm; pulsating

knee

rheumatic

pulling; thigh

paralytic

shooting (see stitching, sudden, sharp); foot

sore, bruised; leg

stitching, sudden, sharp

night; 2 to 3 a.m.

joints

tendons

fingers

lower limbs; walking

knee

knee; rheumatic

foot

tearing; joints

tearing; upper limbs; joints

tearing; shoulder

tearing; elbow

bend of elbow

tearing; forearm

tearing; hand

tearing; lower limbs

tearing; hip

tearing; knee

tearing; leg; shin bone

tearing; ankle

tearing; foot; inner side

tearing; foot; sole

tearing; toes

first toe (large toe); tip of

Perspiration; foot; offensive smelling

Restlessness

evening; in bed

night; before going to bed

lower limbs

before going to sleep

Sensitive; foot; sole

Skin

excoriated (as if grazed, chaffed); between thighs

itching; leg; on touching foot

out-break on skin

Tingling, prickling, asleep (see numbness); fingers; finger tips

lower limbs

Weakness

joints

upper limbs

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  FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Bed

After eating

At certain time of day or night

from 5 p.m.

from 6 p.m.

Warmth

warm room

external warmth

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  GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Drowsy after eating

Wakes about two o’clock and cannot sleep again.

Dreams

anxious

frightful

Sleepiness, tiredness

evening

during eating

Sleeplessness, insomnia

night

from before midnight

night; after midnight

2 a.m.

1 or 2 a.m.

Waking

1 a.m.

2 a.m.

2 to 4 a.m.

early

Perspiration

Daytime

Night

While eating

During slight exertion (see walking)

On movement

Profuse

night

after midnight

Single parts; upper body

Generalities

Night

after midnight

2 a.m.

2 to 4 a.m.

3 a.m.

Aversion to open air

Draft

Open air

Anaemia

Becoming heated

Emission

Eating and food

while eating

after eating

from hunger

Jerking; on going to sleep

Lying down

inclination to lie down

lying down

lying on side

Numbness

externally

internally; in single parts

Pain

cutting; internally

jerking; internally

sudden, sharp; externally

sudden, sharp; internally

sudden, sharp; muscles

tearing; externally

tearing; bones

tearing; muscles

paralytic in muscles

In women

symptoms at beginning of period

symptoms during period

In aged people

Pulsation

Relaxation of muscles

Symptoms after sexual intercourse

Symptoms not symmetrical; symptoms on one side

At beginning of sleep

Swelling; inflammatory

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

hot feeling

flushes of heat; with palpitation

cold in general

cold air

from becoming cold

cold, dry weather

tendency to catch cold

warm bed

Touch

Twitching

on going to sleep

Uncovering

Warm bed

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness)

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