Kali Carbonicum

► Sudden attack of unconsciousness. ► At a loss to know how to say what she wishes. θ Puerperal mania. ► Absent-minded. ► Dulness, confused, stupid, as after intoxication. ► Weeps much. ► Dread of labor. ► Fear of being alone ; fears she will die. ► Anxiety with fear. ► Despondent in the open air. ► Peevish, irritable ; noise is disagreeable ; easily startled, especially if touched.

► Giddiness, nausea, pressure in the stomach. ► Vertigo when rapidly turning the head or body ; evening and morning.

► Congestion to head, with throbbing and humming. ► Forehead ; stitches, also in the temples, worse stooping, moving head, eyes or jaw ; better raising the head, and from heat ; stitches into the eyes and root of nose, with catarrh. ► Pressing in the front of head, temples and into the eyes, with heat in face and head. ► Pressure with photophobia. ► One-sided headache, with nausea. ► Jerking in head from behind forwards ; dark before the eyes ; unconscious ; better from a drink of cold water. ► Headache from riding in a carriage ; coughing, sneezing ; on awaking from sleep ; from coryza. ► Pressing pain in back of head.

► After being heated, liable to cold from a draught, causing headache, toothache and backache. ► Painful tumors on scalp, like blood-boils ; worse from pressure and motion, less from heat ; itching, as if in bones. ► Hair dry, brittle, falling off, mostly from temples, eyebrows and beard ; scalp itches and burns morning and evening ; oozes if scratched.

► While reading or looking at a bright light muscae volitantes ; sharp stitches ; fog before the eyes. ► Bright sparks, blue or green spots before the eyes. ► Inclination to stare. ► Eyes weak : after coition ; after measles ; after abortion. ► Lachrymation, shunning light ; pain deep in eyes. ► Corners of eyes ulcerate. ► Lids red, swollen ; tarsi worse. ► Eyelids swollen, also left cheek and upper lip. ► Swelling like a bag between upper eyelids and eyebrows. ► Enormous bag-like swellings under the eyes. θ Erysipelas. ► Eyes sunken. ► Sensation of coldness in the lids.

► Roaring, whizzing, crackling noises. ► Headache and noises in the ear after a cold drink. ► Hearing impaired. ► Stitches from within outward ; also with drawing behind the ears. θ Otitis. ► Right ear hot, left pale and cold. ► Discharge of liquid cerumen or pus. ► Parotids, especially the right, inflamed, swollen, hard.

► Dull smell ; especially from catarrh. ► Fluent coryza, excessive sneezing ; pain in back ; headache and lassitude. ► Obstruction of nose, making breathing through nostrils impossible ; goes off when walking in open air, but returns in the room ; itching in the nose ; fetid yellow-green discharge from one nostril. ► Dry coryza, with loss of voice, hoarseness ; mucus in the throat, sensation of a lump in the throat. ► Burning in the nose ; sore, crusty nostrils ; bloody, red nostrils every morning ; external nose red, swollen, stinging pains. ► Nosebleed when washing face ; every morning at 9 o'clock.

► Red and hot ; one cheek hot, the other cold ; purple, bloated ; dark-red during cough, otherwise pale ; pale ; sickly ; sallow ; grey ; yellow. ► Face bloated in the morning. ► Stinging in the cheeks ; tearing stitches from a molar into the forehead, eyes and temples. ► Freckles.

► Upper lip swollen ; bleeding rhagades. ► Lips peel, are chapped. ► Hard swelling of submaxillary glands.

► Toothache, tearing, lancinating, with pains in facial bones. ► Teeth ache only when eating ; throbbing ; worse when touched by anything cold or warm. ► Teeth are loose. ► Bad smell from the teeth. ► Stitches in the teeth ; cheeks swollen, with stinging pains.

► Taste bitter ; flat. ► Tongue swollen, covered with vesicles, the tip burns as if raw, fraenum sore. ► Tongue white ; bad taste.

► Bad, alkaline smell from mouth ; smell like old cheese. ► Mouth feels dry, with increased saliva. ► Vesicles, painful, burning all over the inner mouth.

► Crawling in the throat, causing hemming and coughing, and a feeling of tightly adhering phlegm. ► Tenacious mucus in the fauces and posterior of pharynx, mornings ; difficult to hawk up ; sensation as of a lump. ► Stinging when swallowing ; frequent desire to swallow saliva, but frequently cannot, causing a choking. ► Pain in the back when swallowing. ► When swallowing, the food remains half way, when gagging and vomiting ; stricture of oesophagus.

► Desire : for acids ; for sugar. ► Aversion to rye-bread. ► No appetite ; disgust for food. ► Intense thirst.

► During eating : sleepy. ► After eating : burning from stomach to throat ; colic renewed ; abdomen distended ; stomach replete, especially after soup or coffee ; sour eructations ; nausea, faintness. ► When hungry, feels anxious, nauseated, nervous, tingling ; also cough and palpitation, better after breakfast. ► Drinking : 26, 27 ; cold water : 3, 9. Eating warm food : 27.

► Eructation sour ; nausea. ► Sick during a walk, no vomiting, feels as if she must lie down and die. θ Pregnancy. ► Nausea : and loathing ; from emotions ; with anxiety and faintness. ► Retching, vomiting of ingesta and slime ; sour.

► Stitches in the pit of stomach ; anxiety. ► Pressing, tensive pain, awakens at 2 A.M. ► Pit of stomach swollen, tense, sensitive to touch. ► Deep in the scrobiculum, a lump as large as a fist, sensitive to touch. ► Pain in the great cul-de-sac radiating to chest, to back and extremities. ► Pains in back and legs after eating.

► Stitches in region of liver, with tension across abdomen. ► Swelling of the liver ; abscess. ► Icterus.

► Epigastrium swollen, hard, sensitive ; pulsations therein ; pains in hepatic and umbilical region, also on both sides of inferior parts of stomach down into bladder and testes. ► Cutting, shooting, darting, stitching all over the abdomen. ► Tension across abdomen ; heaviness, inactivity, coldness. ► Abdomen distended with wind. ► Incarceration of flatus with colic.

► Unsuccessful desire for stool ; rectum feels too weak to expel it. ► Stool dry, too large in size ; rectum inactive. ► Feels distressed an hour or two before a passage. ► Stool : light grey ; frequent, soft, pale. ► Painless diarrhoea, with rumbling in abdomen and burning at the anus afterwards. θ Chronic diarrhoea of dyspeptics. ► Diarrhoea only by day. ► Before stool, anxiety, distressed feeling ; white mucous discharge. ► After stool : itching about anus ; anus feels as if lacerated. ► Varices protrude during micturition ; blood, then white mucus escapes. ► Inflammation, soreness, stitches and tingling, as from ascarides, in the varices.

► Tensive pain in the left side. ► Stitches in the region of the kidneys. ► Urine : hot, scanty, frequent, sediment red, slimy ; blackish, foaming when shaken ; with purulent sediment. ► Urine flows slowly, with soreness and burning ; or profuse, greenish. ► After micturition : burning in urethra (also during) ; prostatic discharge.

► Sexual desire excessive, with burning sensation or desire deficient. ► After coition, weak, especially the eyes. ► Copious, painful pollutions, with subsequent painful erections. ► Dragging in the left testicle, and penis. ► Swelling of testes and spermatic cord. ► Scrotum feels as if bruised.

► Stitching pains in and about the uterus ; labor-like colic, leucorrhoea ; pain like a weight in the small of back. ► Nausea, vomiting, stitches through the abdomen ; great weakness. ► Sore pain in the vagina, during coition. ► Menses too early, scanty, pale, of a pungent odor, acrid, covering thighs with an eruption. ► Flow may be early, and more profuse and long-lasting than usual. ► Difficult first menses. ► Before menses : sour eructations ; swelling of the cheeks ; shooting pains over the abdomen ; or colicky pains ; nettle-rash ; increased sexual desire ; itching of vulva. ► During menses : headache with heaviness ; pains in ears, teeth, back ; heavy aching in small of back and down the buttocks ; nettle-rash ; lassitude. ► Menses suppressed, with anasarca or ascites ; or every month sour eructations, etc. ; backache compelling her to sit down. ► Yellow leucorrhoea, backache ; labor-like pains ; itching-burning in the pudendum (arising from the discharges).

► During pregnancy : vomiting ; discharge of coagula. ► Abortion impending, with pains from back into buttocks and thighs ; miscarriage at third month. ► Consequences of abortion or labor ; back weak, sweat, dry cough, prolonged metrorrhagia. ► Labor-pains insufficient ; violent backache, wants the back pressing ; bearing down from back into pelvis. ► Sharp cutting pains across lumbar region, or passing off down the buttocks, thus hindering labor ; pulse weak. ► Promotes expulsion of moles.

► Aphonia, with violent sneezing. ► Scraping, dryness, parched feeling. ► Subacute laryngitis with tenacious, glairy mucus.

► Difficult. ► Dyspnoea, worse from drinking, from motion, cannot walk fast ; arrest of breathing, awaking him at night. ► Breathing labored ; after paroxysms of cough. ► Asthma, must lean forward with head on the table ; worse in the morning. ► Dyspnoea, with violent and irregular beating of the heart. ► Feels as if there was no air in his chest.

► Cough : paroxysmal from tickling in throat, larynx or bronchi, with dislodgement of tenacious mucus, or pus, which must be swallowed ; spasmodic, with gagging, or vomiting of ingesta and sour phlegm ; tormenting, gets nothing up, sometimes feels as if a tough membrane were moving about, but would not loosen. ► Cough with sputum of masses of blood and pus. ► Cough day and night, dry and teasing ; from 3 to 4 A.M. ; with sticking pains at sides of chest ; brought on by eating (warm food), drinking ; motion ; sitting erect ; lying on the side ; or exposure to cold. Better after breakfast. ► Whooping-cough worse 3 A.M. ; gagging and vomiting ; inflammation of the lungs ; swelling between upper lids and eyebrows.

► Spasms of the chest. ► Chest feels weak, faint from waking fast. ► Pain through lower third of right chest to back. ► Pressure in middle of chest, with gulping of watery phlegm ; stricture of the oesophagus. ► Pressure, heaviness, anxious feeling. ► Pain as if lower lobe of right lung was adhering to ribs. ► Phthisis ; acts on lower part of right lung ; faint spells ; sputum contains pus-globules, blood and albumen. ► Pneumonia, with stitches through right chest, hepatic inflammation ; right lung hepatized ; worse when lying on right side. ► Infantile pneumonia, much rattling both sides ; during resolution. ► Pleurisy, stitches in the left chest, with violent palpitation ; dry cough, worse 3 A.M.

► Crampy pains, as if heart was hanging by bands ; burning. ► Palpitation in spells, taking his breath. ► Heart' beat intermits ; heart's action irregular ; tumultuous or weak. ► Stitches about the heart and through to scapula. ► Systolic murmur ; stitches pains ; second tick loud from pulmonary stagnation. θ Endocarditis. ► Ebullitions, with heat from abdomen to head ; pulsations all over. ► Insufficiency of mitral valves. ► Pulse : rapid mornings, less so evenings ; unequal, irregular, intermitting ; slow and weak.

► Back of neck stiff ; shooting pains through the chest ; uvula elongated. ► Neck feels large, clothing tight ; congestion. ► Swelling of cervical glands. ► Backache ; while walking she feels as if she must give up and lie down ; after confinement, abortion, metrorrhagia, etc. ► Sharp stitching pains awaken him 3 A.M., he must get up and walk about ; lumbago. ► Pulsations in the back. ► Backache, as if broken ; or as if pressed in from both sides, with labor-like colic and leucorrhoea. ► Gnawing in the os coccygis.

► Pain, as from blows, under right shoulder, when moving or touching it. ► Axillary glands swollen, painful. ► Stitching-tearing extending into finger-joints. ► Weakness in arms, mornings ; arms feel numb, cold ; goes to sleep when lain on. ► Hands and arms covered with purplish spots. ► Weakness with cramps in hands and fingers ; paresis. ► Finger-tips go to sleep early in the morning. ► Palms itch ; vesicles form.

► Crampy tearing in hip-joint and knee ; bruised pain when moving and when sleeping ; coxalgia. ► Dull pains in side of knee, when walking or extending leg. ► Difficulty in the knees on going down stairs, and still more on going up. ► Nightly rheumatic pains. ► Burning and stinging in the legs. ► Profuse fetid foot-sweat. ► Feet heavy, stiff. ► Swelling and redness of the soles ; chilblains. ► Swelling of feet to ankles ; feet cold. ► Stitches in the painful and sensitive corns.

► Jerks the limbs, especially when the feet are touched. ► Limbs : tired ; cold. ► Puffiness ; hands and feet cyanotic.

► Twitching of the muscles. Parts laid on feel bruised and "go to sleep" ; sweat, faintness. ► Spasms seem to pass off with frequent eructations. θ Puerperal convulsions. ► Spasms, with full consciousness. ► Paresis ; trembling.

► Yawning. ► Drowsy by day and early in evening. ► No sleep ; gastric ailments. ► During sleep : starting ; limbs twitch ; gnashing the teeth ; crying. ► Aroused by asthma. ► Awaken between 2 and 4 A.M., with nearly all ailments, especially those of throat and chest. ► Horrid dreams, with frequent awaking and desire to urinate.

► Frequent shuddering during the day. ► Chilly in the morning ; also about noon ; begins toward evening, relieved near the warm stove an after lying down ; after the pains ; increased out-doors. ► Potash lowers the bodily temperature. ► Heat, yawning, pain in chest and head, pulsations in abdomen, 9 A.M. and 5 P.M. ► Internal heat, external chilliness. ► Chill and heat with dyspnoea. ► Evening fever ; chilly with thirst, then heat without thirst ; with violent fluent coryza ; later slight sweat, with sound sleep. ► Constant chilliness, violent thirst from internal heat ; hot hands ; loathing of food. ► Chill and fever, with oppression of breathing, constriction of chest, pain in region of liver, thirst worse during chill. ► Sweat ; mostly on upper parts ; after eating ; easily excited by exercise during the day. ► Night-sweats, with cough ; after pneumonia. ► Sweat all night without relief.

► Paroxysms recur every two or three hours. θ Asthma.

► Anaemia, with great debility, skin watery, milky-white ; muscles weakened, especially the heart ; hence weak pulse is a general characteristic. ► Obesity. ► Disposition to phlebitis. ► Tumors with sticking like needles. ► Paresis. ► Dropsy of old people.

► Skin, dry, itches ; better from scratching. ► Erysipelas. ► Herpetic spots on face. ► Yellow, scaly spots over abdomen : or around the nipples. ► Burning itching herpes ; moist after scratching. ► Ulcers bleed at night.

► Suitable for the aged ; rather obese ; lax fibre. ► Dark hair. ► After loss of fluids, or vitality, especially in anaemic persons.

► In amenorrhoea, after Natr. mur. failed. ► Complementary to Carb. veg. ► Kali carb. is frequently suitable after : Bryon., Lycop., Natr., mur., Natr. ac. ► After Kali carb. are frequently indicated : Carb. veg., Phosphor. ► Antidotes to Kali carb : Camphor, Coffea, Spir. Nitr. dul. ► Kali sulph. (clinically proved to be good in loose cough and rattling on chest).