Kali Muriaticum
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General
Kali Muriaticum.
Kali chloratum. Chloride of Potassium. Potassic Chloride. K Cl. (Not to be confounded with Chlorate of Potash, Kali chloricum, KClO3). Trituration. Solution.
Clinical
Acne. Aphthae. Bubo. Bunion. Burns. Cataract. Chilblains. Constipation. Croup. Cystitis. Diarrhoea. Diphtheria. Dropsy. Dysentery. Ear, affections of. Eczema. Embolism. Eustachian tubes, occlusion of. Eyes, affections of. Glands, swollen. Haemorrhoids. Heart, affections of. Hodgkin's disease. Ingrowing toenails. Jaundice. Joint, cracking of. Leucorrhoea. Mumps. Rheumatism. Scorbutus. Shingles. Small-pox. Sycosis. Tendons, creaking of. Vaccination, effects of. Warts.
Characteristics
It is to Schüssler that we owe the introduction of this salt into homoeopathy. His account of it is this: "It is contained in nearly all the cells and is chemically related to fibrin. It will dissolve white or greyish-white secretions of the mucous membrane and plastic exudations." This gives the indication for it in catarrhs, in croupous and diphtheritic exudations, and in the second stage of inflammation of serous membranes when the exudation is plastic. "When the cells of the epidermis lose molecules of K. mur. in consequence of a morbid irritation, then the fibrin comes to the surface as a white or whitish-grey mass; when dried this forms a mealy covering.
If the irritation has seized upon the tissues under the epidermis, then fibrin and serum are exuded, causing the affected spot on the epidermis to rise in blisters. Similar processes may take place in and below epithelial cells." These are practically the whole of the cardinal indications in which K. mur. has been prescribed. On these indications it has been extensively used by homoeopaths, but I am not aware of any proving having been made. Boericke and Dewey, in their standard work on the Tissue Remedies, give a schema of "guiding symptoms," but these consist in great part of names of pathological states.
They contain, however, valuable indications, and I am indebted to these authors for my Schema. The conditions and symptoms most strongly emphasised are: Chronic catarrhal condition of middle ear. Closed Eustachian tubes. Snapping and noises in the ear.
Greyish-white, dryish or slimy tongue. Haemorrhoids, bleeding, blood dark, fibrous, clotted. Diphtheria. Rheumatic fever with exudation and swelling around the joints.
The symptoms are < by motion, and < by any fatty or rich food or pastry. < By warmth of bed (rheumatic symptoms). It is said to have cured cataract after Calc. fl. had helped. I have cured with it rheumatism affecting most left shoulder and elbow, < in morning on rising.
K. mur. manifests the action of its two elements in about equal proportions. It compares closely with K. chlor., and it is quite possible that the proving of the latter will be available for both preparations, as Hering infers. Among the symptoms of K. chl. are: "Tendency to rush of blood to both eyes" and "Light before both eyes on coughing and sneezing." Boericke and Dewey give: "Protruded appearance of eyes, white tongue, croupy, hard cough, harsh barking." Hering gives: "Cough, stomachy, noisy, with protruded appearance of eyes." To which preparation this last belongs I cannot say; but in a case of mine K. mur. caused a severe aggravation of the following: "As if eyes would be forced out of head, with cough." I conclude, therefore, that "cough affecting the eyes" is common to K. chl. and K. mur.
The great keynote of K. mur. is, whiteness—whiteness of secretions, exudations, eruptions of tissues. The next is, toughness—fibrinous exudations and discharges, too readily clotting blood-hence embolism, indurations, hard swellings. In H. R., xv. 341, is an incidental proving of K. mur. by "J.
De W. C." I have included his symptoms and marked them "(C)." They are mostly in the throat.
Relations
Antidoted by: Bell., Calc. s., Hydrast., Puls. It follows well: Calc. ph., Calc. fl., Fer. ph. Compare: K. chl.; in tough secretions, K. bi., K. ca., Hydrast.; in rheumatic affections, Bry., Rhus, Sul., Merc.; in Eustachian tube affections, Merc.; in inflammation of ear, Graph., K. bi., K. ca.; in < from fatty food, < from warmth, Puls. Compare also: Nat. mur., Nit. ac., Silic., Apis, Thuj.
Causation
Vaccination. Sprains. Burns. Blows. Cuts. Rich food. Deranged internal functions.
Mind
Patient imagines he must starve.
Head
Headache with vomiting, hawking up of white milk-like mucus
Sick-headache with white-coated tongue, vomiting of white phlegm arising from a sluggish liver, want of appetite, &c
In meningitis Schüssler's second remedy
Crusta lactea
Dandruff.
Eyes
Discharge of white mucus from the eyes, or yellow, greenish matter and yellow, purulent scabs
Specks of matter on lids
Superficial, flat ulcer of eye arising from a vesicle
Blisters on cornea
Feeling of sand in the eyes
Parenchymatous keratitis
Cataract.
Ears
Chronic catarrhal conditions of middle ear
Deafness or earache from congestion or swelling of middle ear or Eustachian tubes, with swelling of the glands, or cracking noises on blowing nose, or swallowing
Deafness due to throat troubles, white tongue, &c
Deafness from swelling of external ear
Granular conditions of external meatus and membrana tympani
Closed Eustachian tubes
Seems to act more on Eustachian tube
Snapping and noises in ear.
Nose
Catarrh, phlegm white, thick
Stuffy cold in head, whitish-grey tongue
Vault of pharynx covered with adherent crusts
Nose-bleed in afternoon.
Face
Cheeks swollen and painful.—Faceache from swelling of face or gums.
Mouth
Aphthae, thrush, white ulcers in mouths of little children or nursing mothers
Swollen glands about jaw and neck
Swelling of tongue
Coating of tongue greyish white, dryish or slimy
Mapped tongue
Sensation as if a tumour growing on tongue (removed in a patient of mine).
Throat
Tonsils excessively swollen; stringy, tough mucus; swallowing excessively painful, even water or the softest bread; must twist his neck to get it down (C.)
Mumps, swelling of the parotid glands
Hawks up offensive, cheesy, small lumps
Greyish patches or spots in throat.
Stomach
Want of appetite.—Dyspepsia and indigestion, with a whitish-grey tongue, sick feeling after taking fat, pain and heavy feeling on r. side under shoulder.
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Abdomen and Stool
Jaundice if caused by a chill resulting in catarrh of duodenum, stools light in colour
Sluggish action or complete torpidity of liver, pain in r. side
Constipation, light-coloured stools denoting want of bile, sluggish action of liver, or occurring in consequence of some primary disturbance, esp. where fat and pastry disagree
Diarrhoea after fatty food, and in typhoid fever, with pale yellow, ochre, or clay-coloured stools, white or slimy stools
Dysentery, purging, with slimy stools
Haemorrhoids, bleeding, blood dark and thick, fibrinous, clotted.
Urinary Organs
Acute cases of inflammation of bladder, in second stage, when swelling has set in and discharge is thick, white mucus.
Male Sexual Organs
Schüssler's principal remedy in gonorrhoea, and orchitis resulting from a suppression of same
In bubo for the soft swelling, and in soft chancres Schüssler's chief remedy
Gleet combined with eczema, visible or latent.
Female Sexual Organs
Menstruation too late or suppressed, checked or too early, excessive discharge, dark-clotted or tough, black blood, like tar
Leucorrhoea, discharge of milky-white mucus, thick, non-irritating, bland
Pregnancy: morning sickness with vomiting of white phlegm.
Respiratory Organs
Loss of voice, hoarseness from cold, tongue white.—Protruded appearance of eyes, white tongue, croupy, hard cough, harsh and barking.
Heart
Palpitation from excessive flow of blood to heart in hypertrophic conditions.
Limbs In General
Nightly rheumatic pains < from warmth of bed; lightning-like from small of back to feet; must get out of bed and sit up
Puffiness of ankle-joints (C.)
Ulcers on extremities, fibrinous discharges; bunions
Tenalgia crepitans, creaking of tendons on back of hand.
Generalities
Schüssler's specific or chief remedy in epilepsy, esp. if occurring with or after suppression of eczema or other eruptions Tabes dorsalis Haemorrhages, dark, black clotted, or tough blood Effects of blows, cuts, and bruises, for the swelling
Dropsy, arising from heart, liver, or kidney disease, from obstruction of bile ducts, from weakness of heart with palpitation Chief remedy in glandular swellings, follicular infiltrations Scrofulous enlargement of glands Scurvy, hard infiltrations
Schüssler's second remedy in sprains.
Skin
Acne; erythema; eczema and other eruptions on skin, with vesicles containing thick, white contents
Albuminoid eczema, or other skin disease, arising after vaccination with bad vaccine lymph
Eczema from suppressed or deranged uterine functions
Dry flour-like scales on skin
Obstinate eczema, crusta lactea, scurfy eruption on head and face of little children
Burns of all degrees (externally also), blisters, &c
Bunions, chilblains, eruptions connected with stomach or menstrual derangement
Ingrowing toenails
Warts on hands.
Sleep
Somnolence.—Restless sleep; startled at least noise.
Fever
Congestions and inflammations, second stage, of any organ or part of the body
Catarrhal fever, great chilliness, the least cold air chills him through, has to sit close to fire to keep warm and is chilly
Rheumatic fever; exudation and swelling around the joints.