Mineral
Kali Bichromicum
Bichromate of Potash
Repertory abbreviation: Kali-bi.
The special affnities of this drug are the mucous membrane of stomach, bowels, and air-passages; bones and fibrous tissues. Kidneys, heart, and liver are also affected. Nephritis with gastric disturbances. Cir- rhiois of liver. Anemia and absence of fever are char- acteristic. General weakness. It is especially indicated for fleshy, fat, light complexioned persons subject to catarrhs or with syphilitic cor scrofulous history. Symptoms are worse in the morning; pains migrate qui kly, rheumatic and gastric symptoms alternate. More adapted to subacute rather than the violent acute stage. Mucous m
Head
Vertigo with nausea when rising from seat. Headache over eyebrows, preceded by blurred vision. Aching and fullness in glabella. Semilateral Headache in small spots. and from suppressed catarrh. Frontal pain; usually over one eye. Bones and scalr feel sore.
Eyes
Supra-orbit! neuralgia, right side. Eyelids burn, swollen, oedematous. Discharge robv and vel- low. Ulcers on cornea; no pain or photophobia. Des- cemetitis, with only moderate irritation of eye. Croup- ous conjunctivitis; granular lids, with pannus. Iritis, with punctate deposits s on inner surface of cornea. Slight pain, with severe ulceration or inflammation. [Conium opposite.]
Ears
Swollen, with tearing pains. Thick, yellow, stringy, fetid discharge. Sharp stitches in left ear.
Nose
Snuffles of children, especially fat, chubby babies. Pressure and pain at root of nose, and stick- ing pain in nose. Septum ulcerated: round ulcer. Fetid sncll. Discharge thick, ropy, greenish-yellow. Tough, clastic plugs from nose; leave a raw surface. Inflammation extends to frontal sinuses, with distress and fullness at root of nose. Dropping from posterior nares. [Hydr.] Loss of sncll. Much hawking. In- ability to breathe through nose. Dryness. Corysa, with obstruction of nose. Violent sneesing. Profuse, watery nasal discharge.
Face
Florid c mplexion. Blotchy, red appear- ance. Acne. [Juglans; Kal. ars.] Bones sensitive, espe- cially beneath orbits.
Mouth
Dry; viscid saliva. Tongue mapped, red, shining, smooth, and dry, with dysentery; broad, fat, indented, thickly coated.
Throat
Fauces red and inflamed. Dry and rough. Parotid glands swollen. Uvula a relaxed, edeinatous, bladder-like. Pseudo-membranous deposit on tonsils and soft palate. Burning extending to stomach. Aphthae. Diphtheria, with profound prostration. and soft pulse. Discharge from mouth and throat, tough and stringy.
Stomach
Nausea and vomiting after beer. Load immediately after eating. Feels as if digestion had stopped. Dilatation of stomach. Gastritis. Round ul- cer of stomach. Stitches in region of liver and spleen and through to spine. I Dislikes water. Cannot digest meat. Desire for beer and acids. Gastric symptoms are relieved after eating, and the rheumatic symptoms reappear.
Abdomen
Cutting pain in abdomen, soon after eating. Chronic intestinal ulceration. Soreness in right hypochondrium. Fatty infltration of liver and increase in soft fibrous tissue. (insdale.) Painful retraction, soreness and burning.
Stool
Jelly-like, gelatinous; worse, mornings. Dysenlery; tenesmus, stools brown, frothy. S Sensation of a plug in anus. Periodic constipation, with pain across the loins, and brown urine.
Urinary
Burning in I urethra. After urinating a drop seems to remain chich cannot bc expelled. Ropy mucus in urine. Urethra becomes clogged up. Con- gestion of kidneys; nepinitis, witli scanty, albuminous urine and casts. P'yelitis: urine mixed with epithelial cells, mucus, pus, or blood. Hcmatochyluria.
Male
Itching and pain of penis, with pustules. Ulcers. with paroxysmal stitches; aggravated at night. Constriction at root of penis, at night on awakening. Syphilitic ulcers, with cheesy, tenacious exudation. Erections. [Picric. ar.]
Female
Yellow, tenacious lcucorrhca. Pruritus of vulva, with great burning and excitement. Prolapsus uteri; worse in lot weather.
Respiratory
Voice hoarse; worse, evening. Me- tallic, hacking cough. Profuse, yellow expectoration, very glutunous und sticky, roming out in long, stringy, and very tenacious mass. Tickling in larynx. Catarrhal Jeryngitis cough has a brassy sound. True membranous croup, extending to larynx and nares. Cough, with pain in sternum, extending to shoulders; worse when un- dressing. Pain at bifurcation of trachea on coughing; from mid-sternum to back.
Heart
Dilatation, especially from coexisting kid- ney lesion. Cold feeling around heart. Kali nit.]
Back
Cutting through loins; cannot walk; extends to groins. Pain in coccyx and sacrum extending up and down.
Extremities
Pains fy rapidly from one place to another. [Kali sulph.; Fuls.] Wandering pains, along the bones; worse cold. Left-sided sciatica; better, mo- tion. Bones feel sore and bruised. V'ery zwcak. Tear- ing pains in tibia; syphilitic rheumatism. [Mes.] Crackling of all joints. Soreness of heeis when walk- ing. Tendo Achilles swollen and painful. Pains in simall spots. [O.xalic ac.]
Skin
Acne. Papular eruptions. Ulcer with punchcd- oltt edyes, with tendency to penetrate and tenacious exudation: Pustular eruption, resembling small-pox, with burning pains.
Modalities
Better, from heat. IW'orse, beer, morn- ing, hot weather, undressing.
Relationships
Compare : Tart. emet.; Brom.; Hepar ; Ind.; Calc.; Ant. cr. In the production of false mem- branes compare: Brom.: Ammon. caust.; Sulph. ac.; Ipecac. Antidotes: Ars.: Lach.
Dose
Third and sixth trituration, also thirtieth attenuation. The lower preparations of this salt should not be kept too long.