Kali Iodatum

► Talkative, disposed to jest ; vehement, quarrelsome. ► Starts at every noise. ► Excitation as if intoxicated also after mercurialization.

► Hyperaemia in scrofula ; also in weak of tubercular patients ; hammering in the forehead ; head feels inflated ; anxious, restless sleep. ► Headache and heaviness in head (5 A.M.) ; better after rising. ► Pains in sides of head, as if screwed in ; better in open air. ► Lancinating and darting over left eye and in left temple.

► Violent headache, hard lumps on the cranium. ► Scalp feels as if ulcerated, when scratching it. ► Falling out of hair. θ Syphilis.

► Iritis syphilitica after abuse of mercury ; aqueous, cloudy ; ciliary injection bright, angry looking ; pains worse at night. ► Irido-choroiditis, especially syphilitic. ► Pustules on the cornea ; no photophobia, pain, or redness. ► Chemosis. ► Burning in the eyes ; they secrete a purulent mucus. ► Oedema of the eyelids, with lachrymation. ► Periostitis of orbit, syphilitic or not.

► Boring pain in the ears ; during in the ears (right) ; rachitic children, head tender.

► Violent epistaxis, after mercury. ► From the least cold, violent acrid coryza ; bloated eyelids, stinging in the ears, red face, white tongue ; violent thirst ; alternate heat and chilliness ; headache ; dark, hot urine ; abuse of mercury. ► Nose red, swollen ; discharge acrid, watery ; tightness at the root of the nose. θ Syphilis.

► Swelling of face and tongue, especially after mercury. ► Darting and stinging in the face. θ Coryza.

► Feeling as of a worm crawling at root of the teeth. ► Gums swollen ; decayed teeth ; gum-boils. ► Grumbling in teeth and face ; copious saliva ; thirst ; violent in darting into ears ; abscess of antrum. ► Teeth feel elongated.

► Rancid taste in mouth, after eating or drinking. ► Bitterness in mouth and throat, going off after breakfast. ► Burning of the tip of tongue ; vesicles on tip of tongue.

► Irregular ulcers, looking as if coated with milk. ► Viscid, saltish saliva darting pregnancy. ► Bloody saliva, with sweetish taste in the mouth.

► Uvula swollen and elongated ; mucous membrane as if oedematous. ► Goitre (sensitive to contact). ► Submaxillary glands swollen, suppurating.

► Food tasteless. ► Excessive thirst day and night.

► Hiccough. ► Gulping up of large quantities of air.

► Phlegmasia of the stomach (and intestines). ► Burning in the pit of the stomach.

► Sudden pain bloating of the abdomen or about navel, followed by diarrhoea. ► Cutting and burning around umbilicus.

► Stool scanty, hard, difficult. ► Serous mucus from the rectum. ► Diarrhoea and tenesmus, with pain in small of back, as if in a vise ; after mercury.

► Morbus Bright, with gout or mercurio-syphilis ; granulated kidney. ► Painful urging to urinate ; also when it disappears when menses come. ► Urine : copious, frequent, pale and watery ; red as blood. ► Urine increased, with unquenchable thirst.

► Sexual desire diminished ; tastes atrophied.

► Menses late and more profuse than usual ; menses suppressed. ► Before menses, frequent urging to urinate ; during menses, thigh feels as if squeezed ; pains go into the thighs ; chilly, heat in the head. ► Leucorrhoea watery, acrid, corrosive, with biting in the pudendum. ► Discharge of mucus from the vagina. ► Atrophy of the mammae.

► Galactorrhoea.

► Nasal, catarrhal voice. ► Hoarseness, with pain in chest, cough, oppression of breathing and pain in both eyes. ► Awakens with choking ; can scarcely breathe ; choking spells, oedema of the larynx. ► Rough feeling in the trachea, compelling hawking.

► No air enters the lungs, epigastrium sunken ; face livid ; laryngeal obstruction.

► Suffocative cough, larynx swollen. ► Cough dry ; hawking ; later copious green sputum.

► Stitches through sternum to back, or deep in chest, while walking. ► Phthisis pituitosa, with purulent sputum ; exhausting night-sweats and loose stools. ► Pneumonia in the beginning when the disease localizes itself ; also with so extensive hepatization, as to cause cerebral congestion and serous exudation ; face red, pupils large ; urine suppressed ; one side as if paralyzed. ► Oedema pulmonum, with pneumonia ; or secondary to Morbus Brightii ; sputum like soapsuds, green.

► Palpitation, worse while walking. ► Darting pains in the heart, when walking ; after abuse of mercury ; after repeated endocarditis. ► Pulse accelerated ; frequent.

► Small of back feels as if in a vise ; also with darting pains in lumbar region, worse sitting bent ; stitches. θ Bright's disease. ► Pain in the os coccygis, as from a fall.

► Left shoulder feels bruised. ► Tearing in shoulder and ear.

► Gnawing in hip-bones ; darting in left hip at every step, forcing him to limp. ► Tearing in right thigh and knee awakens him at night, worse lying on affected side or back. θ Sciatica. ► Knee doughy ; spongy, no fluctuation ; skin red in spots and hot ; gnawing, boring or tearing, worse at night, must often change position ; white swelling. ► Pain as if bruised in the left instep. ► Ulcerative pain in heels and toes.

► Tearing, darting pains ; periosteum, attacked ; jerks or contractions of the tendons ; emaciation ; worse at night, lying on suffering part ; from mercurialization or syphilis ; rheumatism ; gout.

► Subsultus tendinum, or contraction of muscles and tendons. ► Restless moving about. ► Paralysis. See spinal meningitis.

► Sleepless, restless ; horrid dreams. ► Weeping during sleep.

► Chilly, with thirst (4-7 P.M.) or all night, with shaking and frequent waking ; can get warm in bed, but not from heat of stove. ► Chill from lower part of back upward and through the whole body ; 6-8 P.M. ; with sleepiness. ► At times chilly, with dry skin ; at others profuse sweat. ► Flushes of heat, with dulness of the head. ► Intermittent fever ; thirst with the chill ; chill not lessened by warmth ; mouth dry ; anasarca ; scrofula.

► Purpura hemorrhagica. ► Scrofula. ► Emaciation and loss appetite. ► Synovitis. ► Distends all tissue by interstitial infiltration : oedema ; enlarged glands ; tophi ; exostoses ; swelling of the bones, etc. ► Dropsy from pressure of swollen glands. ► Secondary syphilis, especially after abuse of mercury or combined with scrofula ; buboes, chancres, with hard edges, thin, corrosive, or curdy pus ; deep-eating ulcers. ► Roseola. ► Rupia. ► Rheumatism ; pains in bones ; necrosis ; exostoses ; all worse at night. ► Glands : swollen, goitre, bronchial, submaxillary, ulcerating, atrophied.

► Scratching : 4.

► Itching herpes on the face. ► Papulae worse on face, shoulders and back ; dry throat. ► Pustulous eruption often umbilicated and leaving scars. ► Small boils on face, head, neck, back and chest, leaving scars.

► After abuse of mercury. ► Against abuse of iodide of potassium, Hepar s. c. ► Kali chlor. compares in albuminuria.