Kali Nitricum
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General EN
Kali Nitricum.
Nitrum. Nitre. Saltpetre. Nitrate of Potassium. Potassic Nitrate. KNO3. Trituration. Solution.
Clinical EN
Asthma. Chest, pain in. Colic. Diabetes insipidus. Dysentery. Dysmenorrhoea. Enuresis. Gastritis. Headache. Heart, affections of. Herpes preputialis. Menière's disease. Menorrhagia. Nose, bleeding of. Peritonitis. Phthisis. Pleurisy. Pneumonia. Polypus. Rheumatism. Vertigo.
Characteristics EN
K. n. is known in old-school practice principally as a "refrigerant diuretic," and as the active agent in the well-known "nitre papers," which are burnt for producing fumes to allay attacks of asthma. It has also been used in rheumatism, and for incontinence of urine in children. It has been extensively proved by homoeopaths, and symptoms have been added from cases of poisoning, so that its characteristics are well defined. It is almost equal to K. ca. in producing stitching pains; and it is like it in having a cough at 3 a.m.
The pains produced by K. n. are very severe—stitching, cutting, lancinating, tearing, and pressing. And there is, as with many other Kalis, much external sensitiveness—of scalp; of abdomen; of testes. That its anti-asthmatic properties are homoeopathic is abundantly shown in the respiratory symptoms it produces. Its "diuretic" properties are utilised homoeopathically in diabetes insipidus, and its use in enuresis must come in the same category.
K. n. acts with great intensity on the abdominal and pelvic organs, producing most painful colics, diarrhoea, and dysentery; in the male sexual sphere, excitement and pain in testes and cords; in the female, menorrhagia with flow of ink-like blackness. This is very characteristic. Another characteristic of K. n. is < from eating veal, or effects of eating it—headache, diarrhoea, &c. The mental state of K. n. is chiefly one of peevishness, fretfulness, and ennui.
There are many curious symptoms in the nose: "The pain-like contraction in the eyes, forehead, and face concentrates in the tip of the nose"; "Swollen feeling in right nostril, which is painful on pressure" sore pain in upper part of right nostril with external sensitiveness these two last symptoms led to the cure of a large nasal polypus in a girl. In a poisoning case there was in the period of recovery intense vertigo with tinnitus, which should indicate K. n. in some cases of Menière's disease.
Easy intoxication by wine or beer was noted by several provers. A peculiar symptom is a sour taste in the throat. Another peculiar symptom is in connection with the asthmatic state. The breathlessness is so great that the patient though thirsty can only drink a sip at a time between the breaths.
Allen thus defines the asthma of K. n.: Asthma with excessive dyspnoea, faintness and nausea, with dull stitches or with burning pain in chest, rather free expectoration. A solution of saltpetre as an application was an old remedy for inveterate mange in cats. Nitre with Sulphur and Charcoal forms gunpowder. A teaspoonful of this in hot water was a favourite remedy for gonorrhoea among soldiers in the days when black powder was used.
In the lower triturations gunpowder has cured ascarides in adults. In some experiments made by myself with gunpowder 2x, severe herpes facialis involving right eyebrow and right side of nose was developed. The most characteristic < is from veal; < from wine or beer, < from a slight draught of air (headache).
< After washing in cold water (eye). < 3 a.m. (cough). < Lying with head low (dyspnoea), < in morning; afternoon; evening; after midnight.
Walking < many symptoms. < Breathing; < by coffee. > Lying down; lying right side; uncovering head (pain in parietal region).
Suited to: asthmatic constitutions and chest complaints.
Relations EN
Antidoted by: Smelling Nit. sp. dul. Ipec. relieved the cough. Smelling Camph. intensified the sufferings. Follows well: Aco. in dysentery, and is followed well by Nux in the same. Also follow well: Bell., Calc., Puls., Rhus, Sep. K. n. antidotes the renal symptoms of Caust. Compare: Arn., Dros., Nat. m., Nit ac.
Causation EN
Eating veal.
Mind EN
Excitement after a glass of wine as if he had taken too much
Anxiety and agitation
Despondency, out of humour, uneasy
Ennui; lachrymose mood, sad expression
Fretful; peevish
Disinclined to think or work
Half stupor
Discouragement and fear of death.
Head EN
Confusion almost like intoxication
Vertigo; on sleeping; tends to fall forwards; to r. and backwards after drinking beer
Fainting fits with vertigo in morning on standing, > on sitting down; afterwards obscuration of sight with great weakness and drowsiness; pain in small of back And constriction in abdomen; staggering gait with vertigo
Vertigo and tinnitus
Headache in vertex on rising
Headache, after eating veal
Headache, with contraction of eyelids, from one evening to another, insupportable on stooping head
Headache, alternately with cramp-like tearing in joints of fingers
Stunning (stupefying) heaviness of the head, in morning, as after intoxication
Pressive pains in head, < by coffee, and > by motion of a carriage
Headache with heat;
< towards evening
Pains in r. frontal sinus with stopped catarrh
Pressive headache: in forehead towards root of nose; on either side, in vertex as if a stone were lying on it
Headache on vertex as if the hair were being pulled
Violent pain r. side of head from a slight draught of air
Coldness in occiput with pains in head
Compression in occiput, producing rigidity in surrounding parts
A feeling of contraction in head, which seems to extend to nose
Cramp-like drawing in occiput and nape, which = head to be thrown back
Stinging pain in head
Lancinating headache
Pains in occiput are > by unbinding hair
Painful sensitiveness of scalp
Scurfy spots on head
Profuse falling out of hair.
Eyes EN
Burning in eyes, with lachrymation and photophobia, < in morning, after washing with cold water
Transient blindness
Cloudiness of sight
Coloured circles before eyes
In evening, candles appear surrounded by a rainbow-like halo
Everything appears black before eyes (after smelling Camphor).
Ears EN
Shooting in ears, in evening, < by lying down on ear
Tension, shootings and tearing behind ears; behind r. ear
Inflammation and swelling of lobe of r. ear, with burning, and jerkings pain
Tingling in ears
Tinkling and ringing in ears
Chronic deafness, from paralysis of auditory nerve
Vertigo and tinnitus.
Nose EN
Burning, in nose, with digging, and clawing pain, < by touch
The nasal bones are painful, esp. to the touch
Inflammation of extremity of nose, with shooting pain
Swelling of interior of nose
Swollen feeling in r. nostril
Ulcers in the nostrils covered by a scurf
Epistaxis, with acrid blood (sharp, like vinegar)
Violent coryza, with obstruction of nose, and loss of smell.
Face EN
Pale and sickly complexion
Face sunken, cold nose
Muscles of face convulsed, jerking
Heat on face without rapid pulse
Redness and tension in cheeks, with < of the headache
Tearing in bones of face
The pain-like contraction in eyes, forehead and face concentrates in tip of nose.
Teeth EN
Toothache, with lancinating drawing, or tearing pains in teeth and head
Shooting in carious teeth, when touched
Pulsative toothache, at night, < by cold things
Swelling of gums, of an inflammatory or scorbutic character; they bleed readily.
Mouth EN
Fetid breath
Burning blister at tip of tongue
Crawling on tongue
Tongue loaded with a white coating
Taste: disagreeable; nauseous; disgusting; sourish, in throat in morning on rising.
Throat EN
Sore throat, with shooting pain and inflammation of velum palati, and uvula (during deglutition)
Impeded deglutition from tension and cutting in the larynx
Loss of speech
Nocturnal pain in throat, as if it were contracting with obstructed respiration.
Appetite EN
Want of appetite, with burning and continued thirst
Appetite, principally in evening
Ravenous hunger returned between 10 and 11 a.m., and alternated with cutting pain in region of r. umbilicus
Ravenous hunger without real appetite
Cannot drink for want of breath, drinks in sips
Painful sensation in upper orifice of stomach.
Stomach EN
Nausea, as if about to vomit, esp. at night
Heaving, ineffectual retching after each dose of 30th, mouth gets sore, feels altogether poorly (Cooper)
Retching, and vomiting of mucus, mixed with blood
Pains in stomach, with a sensation as if something were turning about in it
Gnawing, spasmodic weakness, and pressure on epigastrium
Faint-like weakness at stomach pit
Violent cramps in stomach, with contractive pain (esp. after eating veal)
Shootings in stomach and epigastrium
Sensation of coldness, or of burning in stomach.—(Inflammation of stomach.)
Severe gastric pain recurs after every meal for years after a single large dose (Fraser).
Abdomen EN
Exceedingly violent pain in abdomen after eating veal, esp. at r. side
Excessive distension of abdomen
Griping about umbilicus; and beneath short ribs l. side;
> by emission of (fetid) flatus
Griping and cutting in abdomen before normal stool
Stitching and sticking pains; abdomen swollen and very tender to touch; coldness of lower extremities; stiff feeling in affected parts as if made of wood (peritonitis)
Cutting pains, which disappear towards evening
Shooting pains in abdomen
Incarceration of flatus, esp. in afternoon and evening
Very loud rumbling in abdomen.
Stool And Anus EN
Faeces hard, difficult, and retarded, evacuated with much effort (by violent pressing)
Urgent want to evacuate, with tenesmus
Soft faeces, with cutting pains
Diarrhoea after eating veal
Stools: watery; thin faecal; bloody; soft and diarrhoea-like; sluggish; hard like sheep's dung
Before stool: violent colic; urging
During stool: cutting colic in whole intestinal canal; tenesmus
After stool: cutting colic; tenesmus; burning and stinging in anus
Diarrhoea, sometimes without pain, or colliquative
Frequent pressing in rectum
Dysentery with much cutting pain, great thirst and icy coldness of feet.
Urinary Organs EN
Frequent want to urinate, and profuse emission of a clear urine, with a reddish cloud.—Burning in urethra while urinating and greatly diminished urine.
Male Sexual Organs EN
Erections, increased sexual desire and pleasure
Prickling sticking in glans
Smarting in orifice of prepuce
Frequent itching of glans
Swelling in l. epididymis
After unsatisfied desire, violent drawing tension and pressure in both testes, extending along cords into abdomen, lasting some hours, testicles very painful
Sensitiveness of both testes which are drawn up with a pressive sensation in them.
Female Sexual Organs EN
Catamenia too early, and too profuse, with discharge of blood black as ink
Menses retarded; suppressed
Abortion at second month
Before and during catamenia, violent pains in abdomen and sacrum
White serous leucorrhoea, which stiffens linen, and is discharged during the sacral pains
Frequent sticking beneath l. female breast.
Respiratory Organs EN
Hoarseness, with roughness and scraping in throat
Tension, and incisive pains in larynx, with obstructed deglutition
Irritation to cough caused by tickling in larynx
Sudden violent irritation to cough in r. side near pit of throat, as if in r. bronchus, neither painful nor, itching; it could be suppressed by a slow, deep breath and by an effort of will
Cough with expectoration and pressive pain beneath sternum
Cutting under sternum when coughing
Pressing pain under sternum when coughing with a feeling of warmth in same locality
Cough, which awakens patient about 3 a.m., with violent headache
Cough in open air, or when going up stairs, also whenever the breath is held in
Dry cough, esp. in morning
When coughing, incisive pains in chest, until the mucus is detached
Cough, with shootings in chest, and expectoration of pure blood
Cough, with purulent expectoration, and colliquative sweats.
Chest EN
Cannot drink for want of breath; must take it in little sips; children take cup in both hands and drink greedily one sip after another
Obstructed respiration, which does not permit lying down with the head low
Oppression on chest, when ascending
Pain in chest with pressive tension, accompanied by a sensation of roughness under sternum, which excites violent coughing
Contractive pain in chest, commencing from the back, with sensation of constriction in lungs
Lancinations in chest, esp. when taking a full inspiration, when lying down, and when coughing, accompanied by excessive anguish and oppression.—(Inflammation of lungs.)
Sticking in l. side near sternum
Sticking in l. side of chest, cutting and tearing in lungs.
Heart And Pulse EN
Violent palpitation of heart, esp. when lying in bed, at night, waking him
Stitches in heart
Full pulse.
Neck And Back EN
Pain in nape of neck, extending into shoulders, as if hair were violently pulled
Shooting pains in sacral region
Violent pains in loins, night and morning, on waking
Pains in back on stooping
Full, tense feeling in back as if kidneys engorged (removed at once by 1x dil
Cooper)
Aching in lumbar region, during repose, < esp. by coughing
Shootings in and between scapulae, often accompanied by oppressed respiration, < at night, when lying on back, > by lying on r. side.
Limbs EN
Drawing in limbs with paralytic weakness
Tearing in limbs, day and night, >, but for a short time only, by friction
Rheumatic pains and stitches in limbs and joints.
Upper Limbs EN
Rheumatic tearing in shoulders, at night
Tearing and shooting in joints of arms, elbow, hands and fingers, principally at night, with heaviness, a sensation as if the hand were too large, and swelling of fingers
Numbness and tingling in arms and hands
Drawing and tearing in arms, from shoulder to fingers
Wrenching pain in joints of fingers
Paralysis of the arms after each dose of K. n., crude, taken for headache several times repeated
Weakness in arms, hands, and fingers, which prevents the holding of anything firmly
Cramp-like tearing in joints of fingers, alternating with headache
Cramps and rigidity in joints of fingers.
Lower Limbs EN
Rheumatic pains in the legs
Tearing in legs
Great lassitude and paralytic weakness in legs, after short walk
Jerking tearing in soles
Numbness and tingling in feet
Contraction of toes.
Generalities EN
Affected parts feel numb, as if made of wood.—Tearing, shooting, and drawing pains.—Most symptoms occur in evening, after midnight, and in afternoon.—The symptoms which have manifested themselves during the day disappear on lying down in evening.—Rapid swelling of whole body.—Great dejection in morning, with sensation of heat in face, and burning in forehead.—Inflammation of internal organs.—Lassitude, which is greater when seated than during movement.
Skin EN
Lancinations in skin, pricking like needles, followed by burning, principally in face
Tubercles, size of a pea, also on face
Burning vesicles, filled with yellowish serum, which break when scratched, and then cease to burn
Sudden dropsical swelling.
Sleep EN
Drowsiness during day
Disturbed sleep at night; constant dreaming, with frequent awakening
Coma somnolentum
Anxious and uneasy dreams about dangerous situations
Nightmare.
Fever EN
Pulse full, hard, and rapid
Pulse slow in morning, rapid in afternoon and evening
Extraordinary shiverings not > by hot drinks or coverings
Shivering in evening, with pain
Coldness in afternoon, with thirst; or coldness, preceded by headache, with adipsia, and followed by nocturnal heat, without thirst or sweat
Quotidian fever, with drawing pains in limbs
Profuse and colliquative sweat
Sweat in morning, esp. on chest.