Materia Medica
Kali Bromatum
Bromide of Potash
Like all Potash Salts, this weakens the heart and lowers temperature. Brominism is caused by it. Gen- eral failure of mental power, loss of memory, melan- cholia, anasthesia of the mucous membranes, especially of eyes, throat, and skin; acne; loss of sexual desire, paralysis. Leading remedy in psoriasis. Nodular form of chronic gout. . Symptoms of apoplectic attacks, uramic or otherwise; somnolence and stertor, convul- sions, aphasia, albuminaria.
Mind
Profound, melancholic delusion; feeling of moral deficiency ; religious depression; delusions of con- spiracies against him. Imagines he is single out as an object of divine wrath. Loss of meimory. Must do something -move about; gets fidgety. [Tarant.] Fear of being poisoned. [Hyos.] Amnesic aphasia; can pro- ounce any word toid, but cannor speak otlierwisc. Night terrors. Horrid illusions.. Active delirium.
Head
Suicidal mania with tremulousncss. Face flushed. Numb feeling in head. Brain-fag. Coryza with tendency to extension into throat
Throat
Congestion of uvula and fauces. Anasthcsia of fauces, pharnyx, and larynx. Dysphagia, especially of liquids. [Hyos.]
Stomach
Vomiting, with intcnise thirst, after each meal. Persistent hiccough. [Sulph. ac.]
Abdomen
Sensation as if bowels were falling ut Cholera infantum, with reflex cerebral irritation, jerk- ing and twitching of muscles. Green, walery stools with intense thirst. vomiting, eyes sunken. Prostration. Internal coldness of abdomen. Diarrhoea, with much blood. Green, watery stools. Retraction of abdomen.
Urinary
Sensibility of urethra diminished. Urine profuse, with thirst. Diabetes. [Phos. ac.]
Male
Debility and impotence. Effects of sexual excesses, especialy loss of memory, impaired co-ordi- mation, numbness and tingling in limbs.
Female
·Pruritus. Ovarian neuralgia with great nervous uneasiness. Exaggerated sexual appetite. Cystic tumors of ovaries.
Respiratory
Spasmodic croup. Reflex cough dur- ing pregnancy. Dry, fatiguing, hacking cough at night.
Extremities
Fidgety hands; busy twitching of fingers. Jerking and twitching of muscles.
Skin
Acc of face, pustules. Itching; worse on chest, shoulders, and face. Anasthesia of skin. Psor- iasis.
Sleep
Restless sleep. Extreme drowsiness. Sleep- lessness due to worry and grief. Night terrors. Grind- ing teeth in sleep. Horrible dreams. Somnambulism.
Modalities
Better, when occupied mentally or physically.
Dose
A few grains of the crude salt to the third trituration. Remember the unstable character of this salt. Said to be much more active if salt is eliminated from the diet.