Materia Medica
Kali Muriaticum
Chloride of Potassium
Although not proven, this remedy has a wide clinical use, through its introduction by Schuessler. It cer- tainly is of great value in catarrhal affections, in sul)- acute inflammatory states, fibrinous exudations, and glandular swellings. White or gray coating of base of tongue, and expectoration of thick, white phlegm, seem to be specia! guiding symptoms.
Head
Imagines he must starve. Headache, with vomiting. Crusta lactea. Dandruff.
Eyes
White mucus, purulent scabs. Superficial ulcer. Trachoma.
Ears
Chronic, cutarrhal conditions of the middle car. Glands about the ear swollen. Snapping and noises in the eor.
Nose
Catarrh; phlegm white, thick. Vault of pharynx covered with adherent crusts. Stuffy cold. Nosebleed. [Arn.; Bry.]
Face
Cheek swollen and painful.
Mouth
Aphthe; thrush; white ulcers in mouth. Swollen glands about jaw and neck. Coating of tongue grayish-white, dryish, or slimy. Pain in the stomach, with constipation. Buli- mia; hunger disappears by drinking water.
Throat
Follirular tonsillitis. Tonsils inflamed; en- larged so much, can hardly breathe. Grayish patches or spots in the throat and tonsils. Adherent crusts in vault of pharynx. “Hospital" sore throat.
Stomach
Fatty or rich food causes indigestion. Vomiting of white, opaque mucus; water gathers in the
Abdomen
Abdominal tenderness and swelling. Flatulence. Thread-worms, causing itching at the anus.
Stool
Constipation; light-colored stools. Diar- rhcea, after fatty food; clay-colored, white, or slimy stools. Dysentery; purging, with slimy stools. Hcnior- rhoids; bleedmg; blood dark and thick; fbrinous, clotted.
Female
Menstruation too late or suppressed, checked or too early; excessive discharge; dark-clotted, or tough, black blood, like tar. [Plat.] Leucorrhcea ; discharge of milky-white mucus, thick, non-irritating, bland. 1 Morning sickness, with vomiting of white phlegm. Bunchcs in breast feel quite soft and are tender. Respiratory Organs. —- Loss of voice; hoarseness. Asthma, with gastric derangements; niucus white ani hard to cough up. Loud, noisy stomach cough; cough short, acute, and spasmodic, like whooping-cough; ex- pectoration thick and white. Rattling sounds of air passing through thick, tenacious mucus in the bronchi ; difficult to cough up. Back and Extremities. —— Rheumatic fever ; exudation and swelling around the joints. Rheumatic pains felt only diuring motion, or increased by it. Nightly rheu- matic pains; worse from warmth of bed; lightning-like from small of back to feet; must get out of bed and sit up. Hands get stiff while writing.
Skin
Acne, erythema. and eczema, with vesicles containing thick, white contents. Dry, four-like scales on the skin. [Arsenic.]
Modalities
Worse, rich food, fats, motion.
Relationships
Compare : Kino (otorrhoea, with stitches in right ear) ; Bry.; Mercur.; Puls.; Sulph. .&Dose.-- Third to twelfth potency. 431