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General

Kali Chloricum.

Potassium Chlorate. Potassic Chlorate. KClO3. Trituration. Solution.

Clinical

Albuminuria. Aphthae. Asthma. Cancrum oris. Clumsiness. Crusta lactea. Cystitis. Dysentery. Epithelioma. Haematuria. Haemorrhages. Haemorrhoids. Hangnails. Mercurial poisoning. Mouth, inflammation of. Nephritis. Neuralgia. Oedema. Paralysis (facial). Pharyngitis. Pimples. Proctalgia. Purpura. Scurvy. Stomatitis. Syphilis. Tic-douloureux. Ulcers.

Characteristics

The Chlorate of Potash is not to be confounded with the chloride which constitutes the Kali muriaticum of Schüssler. Hering has amalgamated the symptoms of the two under the heading Kali mur., but I think it best to keep them separate. Kali chlor. is an exceedingly active poison. It has long been used in the old school, in solution, as a wash for sore mouth and for foul ulcers.

Hutchinson observed a number of case in which it produced the very condition which it was given to cure: "Most acute ulceration and follicular stomatitis. The whole mucous surface was red and tumid, and in the cheeks, lips, &c., were numerous grey-based ulcers." Rushmore (H. P., xii. 530) records a proving in an unmarried lady, 50, short, brunette, who had had goître in early life, which disappeared under the application of Iodine. Later on a fibroid tumour developed in the uterus, and for this the patient was advised to take crude Potassium chlorate, dissolved in water, daily.

The following symptoms were observed: Increased moral irritability. Felt dreadfully dull and stupid. Dizzy on stooping and rising. Slight headache over eyes, objects appear double, beside each other.

Face swelled so she could hardly see on rising in morning. Smarting of tongue. It took away her desire for acids. Diminished appetite.

Much commotion and flatulence in abdomen. Increased urine. Dreams worse, of terrible things never thought of. Great coolness; shivering on cold days; seemed as if it cooled off her blood.

Clumsiness. General bloated feeling Fatal poisoning has occurred, death taking place in convulsions. The blood is disorganised, and after death liver, spleen and kidneys are found softened and filled with disorganised blood; this should give it a place in cases of lardaceous and fatty degeneration of solid viscera.

Mouth, hypochondria, and rectum are the parts most affected. In the provers great weakness was manifested, rheumatic and neuralgic pains, many occurring in the facial nerves. Facial paralysis has been cured with it. The heart was the seat of much disturbance, and a coldness was felt about the precordia.

The stomach and bowels were disordered, and Allen credits it with the cure of this: "Dysentery, with most violent cutting pains as from knives, frequent stools, tenesmus, making the patient cry out, evacuations very small, almost pure blood, great prostration." The sexual organs were excited. The skin also manifested a number of symptoms: Pimples in various parts; between lip and chin. It has cured epithelioma of face and of great toe (Allen). Sir James Simpson recommended it in 20-grain doses daily where abortion was likely to occur from fatty degeneration of the placenta (Brunton).

As this is frequently a syphilitic affection it is probable that when successful it neutralised that disease. < By jar of coughing or sneezing (eyes). Mental symptoms > by nose-bleed.

Relations

Antidote to: Merc. Compare: Especially K. mur.; Caust. (facial paralysis), K. bi. (follicular pharyngitis). Zinc., Cad. s., and Cact. (asthma with great constriction of chest); Graph., K. nit. and Nat. m. (cold feeling about heart).

Mind

Liveliness; then ill-humour

Ill-humoured, anxious, tension in precordial region, > nose-bleed

Feels dreadfully dull and stupid

Apathy; in evening, with sadness, chilliness and disgust of life

Consciousness suddenly almost lost after a glass of wine

Convulsions followed by delirium.

Head

Dizzy on stooping and rising

Vertigo: after violent motion, with congestion of blood

Cutting pain in head extending into malar-bones

Head aching; continuous, esp. in evening

Confusion; bewilderment; on walking in open air

Congestion of brain, so that one-half of head, face, and nose felt paralysed

Feeling of congestion, with pain in forehead

Intoxication from a small glass of beer

Forehead: jerking in upper and lower part of frontal bone; pain; drawing; tension, then sneezing and catarrh, tension in sinciput

Intermittent sticking in r. temple; pain in l. temple

Pain in temporal bone extending to eye-teeth

Pain in l. side of head

Pain in occiput; in evening, at times extending into jaws

Confusion in occiput, with peculiar sensation in muscles of nape

Itching

Crusta lactea of children.

Eyes

Redness of eyes in evening, with pain

Stitches in eyes

Cramp in l. eye

Pressure in eyes

Rush of blood; with irritation of eyes.—(Conjunctivitis and keratitis (scrofulous) with a formation of phlyctenulae, but only superficial.)

Feeling of strength in eyes

K. chl. detected in the tears

Twitching in (inner) canthi

Pain in upper lid in evening

Appearance of light (flames and sparks) before eyes when coughing and sneezing

Double vision; sees objects beside each other.

Ears

Roaring in ears, with a painful bloody stool.

Nose

Drawing in root of nose

Irritation at root of nose

Sneezing

Catarrh: violent; with much sneezing and profuse mucus

Tension in forehead, followed sometimes with coryza and sneezing

Nosebleed; at night; only from r. nostril;

> mental state.

Face

Face swelled so she could hardly see on rising in morning

Face pale; bluish; livid

Suffering expression

Twitching of face and eyes of masseter muscles

Sticking in various parts

Tearing and tension in face

Pain in r. malar-bone, beneath margin of orbit, then tension in whole cheek and temple

Drawing pain in r. cheek till he sneezes

Drawing: in r. cheek; and in gum, with cramp in muscles of r. cheek; with pain in lobule of r. ear, at one time more beneath orbits, at another in masseter muscles

Drawing, cramp-like, tensive, pressive and pulling pains in bones of face

Cramp-like pain in cheeks extending into joint of jaw, at times with tearing in upper jaw

Tensive pain in l. cheek near orbital margin

Tension with pressure towards eyes, < r. side; tension in cheek beneath eye, extending to ear, r., then l

Drawing in r. cheek, then inclination to sneeze

Sensitiveness

Jerking in nerves of lower jaw, at foramen maxillare posticum

Lightning-like neuralgic pains in face, l. side < from talking, eating or slightest touch, followed by numbness

Cramp-like pressure in joint of jaw, with stitches in jaw and teeth, < r. side

Lips blue; swollen

Pimples on r. commissure; on lower lip

Eruption of pimples on face, forehead, and between lip and chin.

Teeth

Aching in upper teeth

Cramp-like drawing in cheeks, extending to articulation of jaw, with stinging pain in jaw and teeth

Teeth blunted

The teeth are set on edge

Gums bright red

Gums bleed easily on brushing teeth.

Mouth

Tongue white; in middle

Tongue coated; at back with diarrhoea

Two symmetrical ulcers on sides of tongue

Tongue cold and throat

Sticking (stinging) burning on tongue

Smarting of tongue.—(Stomatitis; ulcerative and follicular, mucous surface red and tumid, and grey-based ulcers in cheeks, lips, &c.)

Tanned appearance of mucous membrane of mouth and throat

Contracted feeling in muscles of palate

Salivation; acid

Taste: burning, alkaline; as of blue vitriol; salt; sour; saltish, sour; bitter, sourish; bitter, > expectoration of mucus; bitter, with coldness of tongue (like laurel-water with salt); lost.

Throat

Submaxillary glands swollen, throat red and oedematous

Pain in throat and stomach, with inclination to eructate

Scraping; roughness; rawness; dryness of throat; and of chest; with violent cough as from sulphur fumes

Swallowing difficult

Dryness of fauces

Cynanche tonsillaris

Throat constricted.

Appetite

Appetite increased; paroxysms of ravenous hunger, > a drink of water, then loss of appetite

Appetite diminished; lost

Thirst.—(Desire for acids removed.)

Stomach

Eructations: of air, sourish; violent, with alternating pains in chest and abdomen

Frequent risings of flatus

Aching in the stomach and precordial region, sometimes with inclination to eructate, or with apathetic humour and shiverings

Sensation of heat or coldness in stomach

Incisive pains in region of stomach

Nausea; and shivering; and attempts to vomit, though nothing but air was ejected

Vomiting: sudden; incessant; of all food; of offensive dark green mucus

Acute gastritis, nausea, pain in splenic region, enlargement of spleen

Cardialgia.—(Gastralgia.)

Pyrosis

Cutting in stomach

Pressure with feeling of emptiness

Pressure in epigastric region; and of stomach with apathy and chilliness

Heavy pain in stomach after a walk of an eighth of a mile, with sinking sensation

Weight, fulness, distension in epigastric region, regularly and generally increased for six hours; repeated next day;

> at night

Warmth in stomach.

Abdomen

Much commotion and flatulence in abdomen

Movings (frequent) with inclination to diarrhoea

Fatulence: during day; in afternoon; with epigastric distress, preventing sleep

Griping

Colic, with diarrhoea and shifting of the flatulence

Intermittent weight, tension and pain in umbilical region

Pressure: in l. hypochondrium; in r. extending to umbilicus; tensive in r., > emission of flatus

Pain in pelvic region, with diarrhoea.

Stool And Anus

External piles; with constipation

Congestions and obstructions to portal system and liver, with haemorrhoidal complaints

Persistent pain in rectum

Urging; constant, with normal stool

Stool: liquid; thin; diarrhoea; violent, constantly getting more liquid, at last consisting only of mucus; copious, as after a refrigerant purging salt (painful); with weakness

Slow, hard and dry evacuations—the latter part is mixed with mucus and blood

Liquid, loose, and sometimes mucous evacuations

Painful diarrhoea

Dysentery; much blood passing with the slime

Stool hard; and at last mixed with mucus and blood

Green stools

Light-coloured stools

Stool indolent, delayed.

Urinary Organs

Nephritis

Urging; frequent

Itching in urethra and scrotum

Inability to empty bladder

Could pass only a few drops of bloody urine

Frequent micturition; and copious, with irritation about bladder and urethra

Haematuria

Urine: increased in evening and night; scanty; black and albuminous, greenish-black, containing haematin; urine containing albumen, casts, and altered blood, drawn off by catheter; acid and deposits urates abundantly; turbid; suppressed.—(Albuminuria during gestation.)

Male Sexual Organs

Violent (frequent) erections, with itching on scrotum; with emissions

Frequent pollutions with lascivious dreams

Depression of desire, with chilliness and apathy.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness

In larynx irritation to cough

External sensitiveness of larynx and throat

Cough; violent, with catarrh

Dryness of throat and chest, with violent cough as from vapour of sulphur

Violent cough with coryza

Breathing laborious.

Chest

Pain in sides and loins

Painful pressure superiorly in l. costal region

Chest, tight; constriction as from sulphur fumes

Oppression, with sensation as if lungs were constricted with a fine thread; with violent beating of heart; rush (congestion) of blood to chest.

Heart And Pulse

Precordial anxiety with palpitations and oppression

Coldness in precordial region

Palpitation

Heart's beat distinctly perceptible to touch (but not accelerated beating), with coldness in precordial region

Violent beating of heart; sometimes with oppression of chest and cold feet

Pulse: rapid; compressible; feeble, as after a sudden and copious haemorrhage; slow; and small, weak

Pulse diminished in fulness and force; accelerated, or soft and sluggish, not synchronous with beats of heart

Pulse in r. hand full and soft, intermittent, slower than beat of heart, in l. hand small, soft, compressible.

Back

Pain in lumbar region, with weight.—Heaviness in lumbar region, with dragging and increased urine.

Upper Limbs

Rigidity of muscles

Drawing: in forearms; in wrists, with tearing

Tearing in r. wrist and along ulna

Extraordinary coldness of arms

Cramp in r. index

Inflamed hang-nails

Phlyctenae and itching pimples on back of hands.

Lower Limbs

Drawing in thigh

Violent lancinating pains in knee

Sticking in r. knee

Cramp in leg

Cold feet with palpitation of heart.

Generalities

Convulsions; followed by delirium.—Jerking of head and other parts.—Clumsiness.—General bloated feeling.—Blood taken from a vein was very viscid.—Rheumatic pains in different parts.—Malaise.—Discomfort.—Weakness; lassitude and sleepiness.—Collapse.—> From warm baths, which were always followed by profuse sweat and quiet sleep.—Great chilliness, constant shivering and shuddering, sometimes with stiffness of hand.—Constant coldness of feet.

Skin

Cyanosis, < lips and extremities

Icterus

Duskiness of skin

Small purple maculae on forearms

Rash, with painful pimples on l. shoulder

Pimples: on forehead; between lip and chin; on thigh; red pimples; burning on l. cheek; itchings; itching pimples, with vesicles on back of l. hand, > during day, but returning next morning

Miliary eruptions

Itching pustules filled with matter, surrounded by red areola, on limbs

Numerous small red papulae

Itching vesicles on back of r. hand

Itching over whole body: < in evening in bed; in face; at night, next morning red pimples on legs and shoulders, not on joints, then pimples on face.

Sleep

Yawning

Sleep uneasy; and interrupted by heavy dreams

Sleep full of vexing dreams

Waking towards morning from an anxious dream, lying on back, snoring and breathing with difficulty

Dreams of occurrences of day previous

Quiet dreams of prophecies of death; of death from nervous (typhus) fever

Voluptuous dreams with emissions.

Fever

General coolness; shivering on cold days; seemed as if it had cooled off her blood

Chilliness: in afternoon; in open air; with stiffness of hands

Shivering: in evening; over back and neck, with warm feet

Cool skin

Cold limbs (r. arm; internally in r. forearm; feet, with palpitation)

Heat: in bed; with violently throbbing pulse and heart; in face in flushes

Orgasms, < chest

Intolerable heat in head.