Materia Medica
Kali Nitricum - Nitrum
Nitrate of Potassium — Saltpeter
Often indicated in asthma, also valuable in cardiac asthma; of great value in sudden dropiscal swellings over the rohole body. Gastro-intestinal inflammation, with much debility, and relapses in phthisis, call for this remedy. Suppurative nephritis.
Head
Scalp very sensitive. Headache, with ver- tigo, as if falling to right side and backwarus; worse, stooping. Ennui.
Eyes
Vision becomes clouded. Turbid corpus vitreum. [Arn.; Ham.; Solan. n.; Phos.] Variegated- colored rings before eyes. Burning and lachrymation.
Nose
Sneezing. Swollen feeling; worsr, right nostril. Point red and itching. Polypus. [Sang. nit.]
Mouth
Tongue red, with burning pimples; burns at tip. Throat constricted and sore.
Stool
Thin, watery, bloody. Membranous shreds, with tenesmus. Diarrhiaa from eating cal.
Female
Menses too early, profuse, black; preceded and with violent backache. Leucorrhoea. Burning pains in the ovarian region only during menses. [Zinc. after.]
Respiratory
Hoarseness. Dry, morning cough, with pain in chest and bloody expectoration. Bron- chitis. Asthma, with excessive dyspncea, nausea, dull stitches, and burning in chest. Dyspncea so great that breath cannot be held long enough to drink, though thirsty. Chest feels constricted. Oppression worse in morning. Sour-smelling expectoration. Expectoration of clotted blood, after hawking mucus Acute exacerba- tions in phthisis; congestion of lungs. Spasmodic croup: paroxysm of crowing. Laryngeal diphtheria
Heart
Pulse weak, small, thread. Violent stitch in pracordia, and beating of heart.
Extremities
Stitches between shoulder-blades. Tearing and sticking in shoulders and joints. Hands and fingers seem swollen.
Modalities
W'orse, eating veal; towards morning and in afternoon. Better, drinking sips of water.
Relationships
Antidotes: Opium; Nitr. sp. dulc. Antidote to Opium and Morphine poisoning, 8-10 grains to glass of water. Compare: Gun-powder (Nitre with sulphur and char- coal —2x trit. Herpes facialis; crops of boils. Car- buncles). Cannab. sat. (which contains a large amount of Kali nit.). Lycop.; Sanguin.; Allium sat.; Antimon. iod.
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency.