Mineral
Kali Phosphoricum
Phosphate of Potassium
Repertory abbreviation: Kali-p.
One of the greatest nerve remedies. Especially adapted to the young. Marked disturbance of the sympathetic nervous system. Conditions arising from want of nerve power, neurasthenia, mental and physical depression, are wonderfully improve by this remedy. Besides, it corresponds to states of adynamia and de- cay, gangrenous conditions. In these two directions it has won many clinical laurels. After removal of can- cer when in healing process skin is drawn tight over the wound. (Eli G. Jones, M. D.)
Mind
Anxiety, nervous dread, lethargy. Indisposi- tion to meet people. Extreme lassitude and depression. Very nervous; starts easily, irritable. Brain-fag; hys- teria; night terrors. Somnambulance. Loss of mem- ory. Slightest labor rems a heavy task. Great de- spondency about business. Shyness; disinclined to con- vers.
Head
Occipital headache; better, after rising. Ver- tigo, from lying, on standing up, from sitting, and when looking upward. [Granat.] Cerebral anania. ache of students, and thiose worn out by fatigue. Head- aches are relieved by gentle motion. Headache, with weary, empty, gone feeling at stomach. [Ign.; Sep.]
Eyes
Weakness of sight ; loss of perceptive power ; after diphtheria; from exhaustion. Drooping of eye- lids. [Caust.]
Ears
IIumminy and bussing in the cars.
Nose
Nasal disease, with offensive odor; fetid discharge.
Face
Livid and sunken, with hollow eyes. Right- sided neuralgia, relieved by cold applications.
Mouth
Breath ofcnsive, fetid. Tongue coated brownish, like mustard. E.xcessivrly dry, in the morn- ing. Toothache, with easily-bleeding gums; they have a bright-red scam on them. ( Gums spongy and reced- ing. [Caps.; Hanan.; Lach.]
Throat
Gangrenous sore throat. Paralysis of the vocal cords.
Stomach
A nervous “gone" sensation at the pit of the stomach. [ign.; Sep.; Sulph.] Feels seasick with- out nausea.
Abdomen
Diarrhcea ; foul, putrid odor: occasioned by .fright, with depression and exhaustion. Diarrhcea while eating. Dysentery; stools consist of pure blood; patient becomes delirious; abdomen swells. Cholera; stools have tlie appearance of rice water. [Vcrat.; Ars.; Atrop.] Prolapsus recti. [Igu.; Pod.]
Male
Nocturnal emissions; sexual power dimin- ished; utter prostration after coitus. [Kali carb.] Urinary Organs.—Enuresis. Incontinence of urine. Bleeding from the urethra. I'ery yellow urine.
Female
Menstruation too late or too scanty in pale, irritable, sensitive, lachryniose females. Too profuse discharge, deep-red or blackish-red, thin and not coagu- lating; sometimes with offensive odor.
Respiratory
Asthima; least food aggravates. Short breath on going upstairs. Cough; yellow expectoration.
Extremities
Paralytic lameness in back and extrem- ities. Exertion aggravates. Pains, with depression, and subsequent exhaustion.
Fever
Subnormal temperature.
Modalities
ll'orse, eating, cold, early morning. *Better, warmth.
Relationships
Compare: Kali hypopliosph. (chronic bronchitis where the expectoration is thick and fetid, sometimes scanty and tough.] Marked muscular de- bility). Geista—Dyer's weed —- (frontal headache and vertigo. worse motion, better open air and eating. Dry throat, awakes with waterbrash. Itching eruption on elbows, knees and ankles. Promotes diuresis in drop- ical conditions). Macrozamia Spiralis. (Extreme de- bility after severe illness; collapse. Weariness from no assignable cause, no pains. Boring pain at vertex ; vom- iting and retching all night; impossible to open eyes, giddiness and cold.) )Zinc.; Gels.; Cimicif.; Laches.; Mur. ac.
Dose
Third to twelfth trituration. The highest potencies seem to be indicated in certain cases.