Kali Chloricum
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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.