Kali Bromatum

► Imagines she is a devil ; cannot sleep ; fears to be alone (medicine developed urticaria with relief). ► Excited, hands constantly busy ; timid, suspicious. ► Frightful images at night during pregnancy ; or in children, who awake screaming, unconscious, recognize no one ; followed by squinting. ► Delirium, with delusions ; thinks he is pursued ; will be poisoned ; is selected for divine vengeance ; that her child is dead, etc. ► Delirium tremens, flushed face, horrid illusions. ► Melancholy, with delusions ; often childish ; fits of uncontrollable weeping. Feels as if he would go out of his mind. ► Apathetic, indifferent. ► Mentally dull, torpid ; perception slow, answers slowly. ► Inability to express oneself ; loss of memory ; amnesic aphasia. ► Single words forgotten or syllables are dropped.

► Vertigo : as if ground gave way ; and staggering gait ; with confusion and heat of head, drowsiness, stupor ; fainting and nausea followed by sound sleep.

► Brain irritated, face flushed, pupils dilated, eyes sunken ; rolls head ; awakes now and then screaming ; extremities colds ; cholera infantum. See 20, 32, 44. ► Active congestion ; inflammation before effusion has occurred.

► Scalp feels tight, brain numb, confused ; difficult walking.

► Vision dim, pupils dilated ; with heavy lids and invincible drowsiness. ► Squinting. See 1. ► Hallucinations of sight and sound, with or without mania precede brain and paralytic symptoms. ► Gaze fixed. ► Eyes sunken, lustreless. ► Vessels of fundus enlarged. ► Conjunctivae congested.

► Sounds echo in ears ; headache. ► Hardness of hearing. ► Roaring in ears at night synchronous with pulse.

► Smell lessened. ► Thick mucus and yellow scabs in nostrils.

► Expression : pale, but otherwise appeared as one drunk, with hallucination, etc. ; wearied, anxious ; dull, stupefied ; imbecile. ► Complexion yellow, cachectic.

► Tongue : red, dry, enlarged ; red, later dry and brown ; white, with languor and sleepiness. ► Tongue red and tender ; gums spongy ; diabetes. ► Difficult speech ; action of tongue disordered ; also slow and difficult after waking ; stammering.

► Breath fetid ; tongue white. ► Saliva profuse, with fetid breath. ► Taste : foul ; lost.

► Dryness. ► Uvula and fauces congested, then oedematous. ► Dysphagia of liquids (in infants) ; can swallow only solids. ► Anaesthesia of the mouth, throat and pharynx ; chronic alcoholism.

► Thirst intense with dry mouth.

► Sick and giddy. ► Repeated retching and emesis.

► Abdomen spasms, walls retracted, convulsive motions of eyes and limbs ; frequent green, watery stools ; summer complaint. ► Sensation as if the bowels were falling out.

► Discharges watery ; cholera infantum, especially with cerebral irritation and collapse. See 1, 3, 44. ► Constipation ; stools dry, hard, infrequent.

► Diabetes, the urine is loaded with sugar. ► Profuse, with abundance of phosphates. ► Urine scanty ; even suppressed in collapse. ► Dribbling of urine at beginning of stool. ► Incontinence of urine.

► Desires lessened even to impotence. ► Seminal emissions, with depressed spirits, dull thought, backache, staggering gait and great weakness.

► Has removed ovarian cysts. ► Is claimed to be useful in uterine fibroids and subinvolution. ► Ovarian neuralgia from ungratified sexual desire ; nervous unrest.

► Paroxysmal, dry, at intervals of two or three hours ; difficult respiration ; followed by a vomiting of mucus or food ; worse at night and when lying down.

► Action : lacks energy ; sounds seem distant and feeble ; slow, fluttering. ► Pulse : accelerated, later slower ; slow, small weak.

► Hands and fingers in constant action ; busy (See 1.) ; twitching of fingers. ► Trembling of hands during voluntary motion ; or, as in delirium tremens.

► Lying down : 27. Motion : 32.

► Lessens reflex excitation, hence its antipathic application to epilepsy and kindred affections. ► Nervous, busy, must occupy oneself ; often in nervous women. ► Nervous excitement, irritation and congestion of the cerebral meninges, with mania, etc. ► Inco-ordination of muscles ; nervous weakness, even paralysis of motion and numbness. ► Gait : unsteady, reeling as if drunk, with rolling and staggering ; as one walks with locomotor ataxia. ► Looks to see if legs are really moving. ► Weakness of the extensors of legs and feet. ► Languor, disinclined to talk, or use mind or work, indifferent, sleepy, yet by a strong effort of will can act as usual. ► General delirium, hallucinations, fancies about being persecuted, ataxia ; as in general paralysis. ► Restlessness, fitfulness of motion, with giddiness.

► Sleepiness ; deep sleep, often broken by a start, though waking is very difficult ; confused dreams. ► Awakes from a profound sleep, not knowing where he is. ► Sleeplessness, especially in anaemic patients, or nervous persons who are exhausted but irritated. ► Waking : 11.

► Night : 1, 6, 27, 40.

► High temperature : 46. ► Winter : 46.

► Muscles irritated, rendered inco-ordinate and then paralyzed. ► Lowers temperature, with coldness of extremities, hands and wrists icy-cold and wet, cerebral irritation, in cholera infantum. See 1, 3, 20, 40. ► Emaciation ; weak, pallid.

► Acne simplex and indurata ; bluish-red, pustular ; worse on face and chest ; especially in lymphatic constitutions. ► Rose-colored, mammilated eruption on the lower extremities ; sometimes pustules in centre of patches that become umbilicated, exuding a creamy moisture and forming thick, yellow, scabs. ► Slightly elevated, smooth, red patches, like urticaria, but with hardened bases, like erythema nodosum, itching at night in bed and in a high temperature ; appear in winter. ► Moist eczema of legs with pityriasis of the scalp.

► Compare Ambr. gris., Hyosc., Gelsem. (sleepless from nervous exhaustion) ; Bellad. (but latter has sthenic symptoms ; Kali brom., symptoms of debility, muscular coldness and redness as in collapse) ; Opium, Camphor., Camph. brom. (collapse in cholera infantum).