Mineral
Kali Carbonicum
Carbonate of Potassium
Repertory abbreviation: Kali-c.
The weakness characteristic of all Potassium Salts is seen especially in this, with soft pulse. coldness, gen- eral depression, and very characteristic stitches, which may be felt in any part of the body, or in connection with any affectinn. Senusitive to every atmospheric change, and intolerunce of cold zecather. One of the best remedies following labor. Miscarriage, for con- sequent debilitated states. Early morning aggravation is very characteristic. Fleshy aged people, with dropsical and paretic tendencies. Sweat, backache, and weak- ness. Pains from within out, and of stinging character.
Mind
Despondent. Alternating moods. Very irri- table. Full of fear and imaginations. Anxiety felt in stoinach. Sensation as if bed were sinking. Never wants to be left alone.
Head
Vertigo on turning. Headache from riding in cold ind. Headarhe comes on with yawning. Stitches in temples; aching in occiput, one-sided, with nausea, on riding in' carriage. Loose feeling in head. Great dryness of hair, falls ont. iFhor ac ］
Eyes
Stitches in eyes. Spots, gauze, and black points before eyes. Lids stick together in morning. Seetling over upper lid, like little ags. Swelling of glabella between brows. Asthenopia. Weak sight from excessive sexual indulgcnce. On shutting eyes, painful sensation of light pentrating the brain.
Ears
Stitches in ears. Itching, cracking, ringing and roaring.
Nose
Nose stufs up in zvarm room. Thick, Auent, yellow discharge. Post-nasal dropping. [Spigel.] Sore, scurfy nostrils; bloody y nasal mucus. Crusty nasal openings. Nosebleed on washing face in morn- ing. Ulcerated nostrils.
Mouth
Gums separate from teeth; pus oozes out. Pyorrhcea. Aphtha. Tongue white. Much saliva con- stantly in mouth. Bad, slimy taste. 423
Throat
Dry. parched, rough. Sticking pain, as from a fish-bone. Swallowing difficult; food goes down cesophagus slowly.
Stomach
Flatulence. Desire for sweets. Feeling of lump in pit of stomach. Gagging. Dyspepsia of old people; burning acidity, bloating. Gastric disorders from ice-water. Sour eructations. Nausea; better ly- ing down. Constant feeling as if stomach zwcre full of water. Sour vomiting; tlirobbing and cutting in Disgust for food. Anxiety felt in stomach. Episgastrium sensitive externally. Easy choking when eating.
Abdomen
Stitches in region of liver. Old chronic liver trouhlcs, with soreness. Jaundice and dropsy. Distention and coldness of abdomen. Pain from left hypochondrium through abdomen; must turn on right sicle lefore he can rise.
Rectum
Large. difficult stools, with stitching pain an hour before. Hremorrhoids, large, swollen, painful. Itching, ulcerated pimples around anus. Large dis- charge of blood with natural stool. Pain in hremor- rhoids when coughing. Burning in rectum and anus. Easy prolapsus. [Graph.; Pod.] Itching. [Ignat.] Urine.— Obliged to rise several times at night to urinate. Pressure on bladder long before urine comes. Involuntary urination when coughing, sneezing, etc.
Male
Complaints f from coition.Deficient sexual instinct. Excessive emissions, followed by weakness.
Female
Menses early, profuse [Calc. c.] or too late, pale and scanty, with soreness about genitais; pains from back pass down ,through gluteal muscles, with cutting in abdomen. Pain through left labium, extend- ing through abdomen to chest. Delayed menses in young girls, with chest symptoms or ascites. Difficult. first menses. Complaints after parturition. Uterine hamorrhage; constant oozing after copious flow, with violent backache, relieved by sitting and pressure.
Respiratory
Cutting pain in chest; worse lying on right side. Hoarseness and loss of voice. Dry, hard cough about 3 A. M., with stitching pains and dryness of pharnyx. Expectoration scanty and tenacious, but in- crcusiny in morning and after eating; aggravated right lower chest and lying on painful side. P Hydrothorax. Leaning forward relieves chest symptoms. Expectora- tion must be swallowed: cheesy taste; copious, offen- sive, lump. Coldness of chest. Whcesing. Cough with relaxed uvula. Tendency to tuberculosis; constant cold taking; better in roar clinatc.
Heart
Sensation as if heart were suspended. Palpitation and burning in Jcart region. Weak, rapid pulse; intermits. Threatened heart failure.
Back
Great exliaustion. Stitches in region of kidneys and right scapula.Small of back feels weak. Stiffness and paralytic feeling in back. I Burning in spine. [Guaco.[ Severe backache during pregnancy, and after miscarriage. Hip-disease. . Pain in nates and thighs and hip-joint. Lumbago with sudden sharp pains extending up and down back and to thighs.
Extremities
Backs and legs give out. Uneasiness, g pain in limbs with swelling. Limbs sensitive to pres- sure. White swelling of knee. Tearing in arms from shoulder to wrist. Lacerating in wrist-joint. Paraly- sis of old people, and dropsical affections. Limbs go to sleep easily. Tips of toes and fingers painful. Soles very sensitive. Itching of great toe, with pain. Pain from hip to knee. Pain in knees.
Skin
Burning as from a mustard-plaster. 425
Sleep
Drowsy after eating. Wakes about two o'clock and cannot sleep again.
Modalities
Worse, after coition; in cold weather; from soup and coffee; in morning about three o'clock; lying on left and painful side. Better, in warm weather, though moist; during day, while moving about.
Relationships
Complementary: Carbo; Nat. mur. Follows Nux often in stomach and bladder troubles. Compare: Kali salicylicum (vomiting, especially of pregnancy; arteriosclerosis); Kali silicun (gouty nodosities) ; Kali aceticum (diabetes, diarrhcea, dropsy, alkaline urine, very much increased in quantity) ; Kali citricum (Bright's( disease ——1 gr. to wine-glass of water): Kali ferrocvanatum l (physical and mental pros- tration following infection. Inability to sustained routine work. Use 6x. Uterine symptoins, like Sepia. bearing-down sensation and gastric sinking; fatty heart) ; Kali oxalicum (lumbago, covulsions) ;Kali picro-nitri- -cum and Kali picricum (jaundice, violent eructations) ; Kali suiphuratun (gastritis, hiccough, redness of face) ; Kali tartaricum (paraplegia) ; Kali tclluricum (gar- licky odor of breath, salivation, swollen tongue). Also compare: Calc.; Ammon. phos.; Phos.; Lycop.: Bry.; Natrum; Stann.; Scpio. Antidotes: Camph.; Coffca.
Dose
Thirtieth and higlher. S Sixth trit. Do not repeat too often. Use cautiously in old gouty cases, ad- vanced Bright's and tuberculosis.