Kali Bichromicum kali-bi.

MUCOUS MEMBRANES: Air passages. NOSE. Pharynx. Stomach. Duodenum. Fibrous tissue. Ligaments. JOINTS. Skin. Circulation. Kidneys. Root of nose, tongue, or penis, etc.

COLD: Damp. Open air. Spring. Undressing. MORNING; after sleep. 2-3 A.M. Protruding tongue (Cist.). Hot weather. Alcohol. Beer. Suppressed catarrh.

Heat. Motion.

Slow, deep processes; little fever, but great weakness. Sickly, chilly and cachectic. Fair, fat and sluggish. Bitings, like bugs. ADHESIVE SECRETIONS; STICKY taste, expectoration, leucorrhœa, foot-sweat, etc. STRINGY, TOUGH, lumpy or thick discharges. Fibrous exudates going downward. Yellow, eyes, vision, tongue, etc. Slow reaction. Heaviness. Crusts in nose, on skin, etc. Pains in small spots; jump about and finally attack stomach. Sharp stitches. Ascending; gastric pains, chills, heats, etc. Furred membranes. Old catarrhs. Ulcers; with dark dots, deep, perforating, round; look punched out; septal; peptic; with overhanging edges or thick crusts. Like a solid block on forehead. As of a hair on tongue, in nostril, etc. Internal itching; vagina, lungs, etc. Cracking joints.

Indifferent. Indolent. Pains outward along (r) brow. Bristling hair. Blindness, then pain over one eye, < cold, > pressing on root of nose. Migraine. Vision seems crossed, > looking with one eye. Eye-lids red, itching, swelled, granular. Nose pains at bridge or root; pressure or stuffed at root; retains foul secretions. Abscess. Ozœna. Nasal discharges, acrid; profuse; green clinkers. Nasal diphtheria. Snuffles. Radiating toothache; with swelled glands. Tongue, glistens; cracked, smooth or heavy, lemon yellow cast; pains when protruded. Sticky mouth. Sweet, metallic taste. Hawks thick mucus; must wipe it away. Œdema of uvula. Fissured pharynx. Throat; dry; burning in; something sticks in; with pains into neck and shoulders. Craves beer. Regurgitates liquids. Vomits bright yellow water. Sore spot in stomach, or food lies like a load. Constriction from liver to shoulder. Gelatinous stools or gushes of brown, frothy water, then burning and tenesmus, < after rising. Heavy kidneys. A drop remains after urinating. Constriction at root of penis. Acrid leucorrhœa. Milk is stringy. Hoarseness. Laryngitis. Tickling cough, after eating; with eructations; > heat; then vertigo. Under sternum; rawness; pains through to back. As of a bar across chest. Asthma. Deep cough with stringy expectoration. Heart weak; feels cold. Paralytic weakness of hands. Sciatica, < flexing leg. Sore heels. Pains along border of foot. Stubborn suppuration. Pustules with black apices. Skin, > in cold air. Hot flushes, then sticky sweat, then chill. Cold sweat on hands and feet. Chill with sweat.

Complementary: Ars. Pho. Psor. Related: Kali-c. Merc. Phyt. Pul.

Fat, light-haired persons who suffer from catarrhal, syphillitic or psoric affections. Fat, chubby, short-necked children disposed to croup and croupy affections. Affections of the mucous membranes - eyes, nose, mouth, throat, bronchi, gastro-intestinal and genito-urinary tracts - discharge of a tough, stringy mucus which adheres to the parts and can be drawn into long strings (compare Hyd., Lys.). Complaints occurring in hot weather. Liability to take cold in open air. Rheumatism alternating with gastric symptoms, one appearing in the fall and the other in the spring; rheumatism and dysentery alternate (Abrot.). Pains: in small spots, can be covered with point of finger (Ign.); shift rapidly from one part to another (Kali s., Lac c., Puls.); appear and disappear suddenly (Bell., Ign., Mag. p.). Neuralgia every day at same hour (Chin. s.). Gastric complaints: bad effects of beer; loss of appetite; weight in pit of stomach; flatulence; < soon after eating; vomiting of ropy mucus and blood; round ulcer of stomach (Gym.). Nose: pressive pain in root of nose (in forehead and root of nose, Stict.); discharge of plugs, "clinkers;" tough, ropy, green fluid mucus; in clear masses, and has violent pain from occiput to forehead if discharge eases. Ulceration of septum, with bloody discharge or large flakes of hard mucus (Alum., Sep., Teuc.). Diphtheria: pseudo-membranous deposit, firm, pearly, fibrinous, prone to extend downwards to larynx and trachea (Lac c. - reverse of, Brom.). Oedematous, bladder-like appearance of uvula; much swelling, but little redness (Rhus). Cough: violent, rattling, with gagging from viscid mucus in the throat; < when undressing (Hep.). Croup: hoarse, metallic, with expectoration of tough mucus or fibro-elastic casts in morning on awakening; with dyspnoea, > by lying down (worse when lying down, Aral., Lach.). Deep-eating ulcers in fauces; often syphilitic. Headache: blurred vision or blindness precedes the attack (Gels., Lac d.); must lie down; aversion to light and noise; sight returns as headache increases (Iris, Nat., Lac d.). Prolapsus uteri, seemingly in hot weather. Sexual desire absent in fleshy people.

Compare: Brom., Hep. Iod. in croupy affections. After: Canth. or Carb. ac. has removed the scrapings, in dysentery. After: Iod. in croup, when hoarse cough, with touch membrane, general weakness and coldness are present; Cal. in acute or chronic nasal catarrh. Ant. t. follows well in catarrhal affections and skin diseases.

Heat of summer; hot weather.

Skin symptoms are better in cold weather (reverse of, Alum. and Pet.).

Smarting, burning pain in the eyes. Inflammation of the lids; agglutination of, in the morning. Dryness and feeling of sand in the eyes. Various colors and bright sparks before the eyes.

Violent tickling and itching in. Redness; heat and itching of external ears; discharges from. Hard, painful swelling of the parotid gland.

Throat dry and rough, with great hoarseness or aphonia. Expectoration is very glutinous and sticky; adhering to the fauces, teeth, tongue, and lips, finally leaving the mouth in a long, stringy and very tenacious mass. This expectoration sticks in the chest so as to almost cause strangulation; it is found in croup, whooping cough, catarrhs, discharges from ulcers, and even in leucorrhœa. Sniffles of infants, particularly in fat, chubby, little babes, where there is a tough, stringy discharge from the nose, etc. Stitching pains.

Dryness of, with itching of the whole body. Yellow, scaly, itching spots. Herpes.

Stinging pain; aching pain as from bruises. Pulsations felt in all the arteries. Liability to take cold in the open air; drowsy in the open air.

Discharges from nose, mouth, vagina, or any other mucous membrane, of a tough, stringy mucous, which sticks to the parts and may draw out in long strings. Sensation as if the nose were swollen and stiff, and as if a heavy weight were hanging from it. Membranous and diphtheritic croup; invading larynx, trachea and bronchi. Cough worse when undressing; better after getting warm in bed; worse in the morning on waking; wheezing and panting, then violent cough, with retching and expectoration of stringy viscid mucus. Especially useful in fat, light haired persons; fat chubby children. Ulceration deep, as if cut out with a punch, edges regular.

Bichromate of Potash (KALI BICHROMICUM)

The special affinities of this drug are the mucous membrane of stomach, bowels, and air-passages; bones and fibrous tissues. Kidneys, heart, and liver are also affected. Incipient parenchrymatous; nephritis. Nephritis with gastric disturbances. Cirrhosis of liver. Anæmia and absence of fever are characteristic. General weakness bordering on paralysis. It is especially indicated for fleshy, fat, light complexioned persons subject to catarrhs or with syphilitic or scrofulous history. Symptoms are worse in the morning; pains migrate quickly, rheumatic and gastric symptoms alternate. More adapted to subacute rather than the violent acute stage. Mucous membranes everywhere are affected. Catarrh of pharynx, larynx, bronchi and nose, and a tough, stringy, viscid secretion is produced, which condition is a very strong guiding symptom for this drug. Perforation of the septum. Chronic atonic catarrh. Polypus. Dilatation of stomach and heart.

Vertigo with nausea when rising from seat. Headache over eyebrows, preceded by blurred vision. Aching and fullness in glabella. Semilateral headache in small spots, and from suppressed catarrh. Frontal pain; usually over one eye. Bones and scalp feel sore.

Supra-orbital neuralgia, right side. Eyelids burn, swollen, œdematous. Discharge ropy and yellow. Ulcers on cornea; no pain or photophobia. Descemetitis, with only moderate irritation of eye. Croupous conjunctivitis; granular lids, with pannus. Iritis, with punctuate deposits on inner surface of cornea. Slight pain, with severe ulceration or inflammation (Conium opposite).

Swollen, with tearing pains. Thick, yellow, stringy, fetid discharge. Sharp stitches in left ear.

Snuffles of children, especially fat, chubby babies. Pressure and pain at root of nose, and sticking pain in nose. Septum ulcerated; round ulcer. Fetid smell. Discharge thick, ropy, greenish-yellow. Tough, elastic plugs from nose; leave a raw surface. Inflammation extends to frontal sinuses, with distress and fullness at root of nose. Dropping from posterior nares (Hydr). Loss of smell. Much hawking. Inability to breathe through nose. Dryness. Coryza, with obstruction of nose. Violent sneezing. Profuse, watery nasal discharge. Chronic inflammation of frontal sinus with stopped-up sensation.

Florid complexion. Blotchy, red appearance. Acne (Juglans; Kal ars). Bones sensitive, especially beneath orbits.

Dry; viscid saliva. Tongue mapped, red, shining, smooth, and dry, with dysentery; broad, flat, indented, thickly coated. Feeling of a hair on tongue.

Fauces red and inflamed. Dry and rough. Parotid glands swollen. Uvula relaxed, œdematous, bladder-like. Pseudo-membranous deposit on tonsils and soft palate. Burning extending to stomach. Aphthæ. Diphtheria, with profound prostration and soft pulse. Discharge from mouth and throat, tough and stringy.

Nausea and vomiting after beer. Load immediately after eating. Feels as if digestion had stopped. Dilatation of stomach. Gastritis. Round ulcer of stomach. Stitches in region of liver and spleen and through to spine. Dislikes water. Cannot digest meat. Desire for beer and acids. Gastric symptoms are relieved after eating, and the rheumatic symptoms reappear. Vomiting of bright yellow water.

Cutting pain in abdomen, soon after eating. Chronic intestinal ulceration. Soreness in right hypochondrium, fatty infiltration of liver and increase in soft fibrous tissue. Painful retraction, soreness and burning.

Jelly-like, gelatinous; worse, mornings. Dysentery; tenesmus, stools brown, frothy. Sensation of a plug in anus. Periodic constipation, with pain across the loins, and brown urine.

Burning in urethra. After urinating a drop seems to remain which cannot be expelled. Ropy mucus in urine. Urethra becomes clogged up. Congestion of kidneys; nephritis, with scanty, albuminous urine and casts. Pyelitis; urine mixed with epithelial cells, mucus, pus, or blood. Hæmatochyluria.

Itching and pain of penis, with pustules. Ulcers, with paroxysmal stitches; aggravated at night. Constriction at root of penis, at night on awakening. Syphilitic ulcers, with cheesy, tenacious exudation. Erections (Picric ac).

Yellow, tenacious leucorrhœa. Pruritus of vulva, with great burning and excitement. Prolapsus uteri; worse in hot weather.

Voice hoarse; worse, evening. Metallic, hacking cough. Profuse, yellow expectoration, very glutinous and sticky, coming out in long, stringy, and very tenacious mass. Tickling in larynx. Catarrhal laryngitis cough has a brassy sound. True membranous croup, extending to larynx and nares. Cough, with pain in sternum, extending to shoulders; worse when undressing. Pain at bifurcation of trachea on coughing; from mid-sternum to back.

Dilatation, especially from coexisting kidney lesion. Cold feeling around heart (Kali nit).

Cutting through loins; cannot walk; extends to groins. Pain in coccyx and sacrum extending up and down.

Pains fly rapidly from one place to another (Kali sulph; Puls). Wandering pains, along the bones; worse cold. Left-sided sciatica; better, motion. Bones feel sore and bruised. Very weak. Tearing pains in tibia; syphilitic rheumatism (Mez). Pain, swelling and stiffness and crackling of all joints. Soreness of heels when walking. Tendo Achilles swollen and painful. Pains in small spots (Oxalic ac).

Acne. Papular eruptions. Ulcer with punched-out edges, with tendency to penetrate and tenacious exudation. Pustular eruption, resembling smallpox, with burning pains. Itching with vesicular eruption.

Better, from heat. Worse, beer, morning, hot weather, undressing.

Compare: Tart emet; Brom; Hepar; Ind; Calc; Ant cr. In the production of false membranes compare: Brom; Ammon caust; Sulph ac; Ipecac.

Antidotes: Ars; Lach.

Third trituration, also thirtieth attenuation and higher.

The lower preparations of this salt should not be kept too long.

Affections of the mucous membranes with discharge of tough, stringy, adherent mucus, which can be drawn out into long strings.

Formation of jelly-like mucus on mucous membranes.

Round deep ulcers, as if cut out with a punch.

Diphtheritic membranes on mucous surfaces.

Migratory pains, which appear and disappear suddenly.

Pains appear in small spots, which can be covered by a silver dollar or the point of the finger, especially in the sick headache, which is preceded by blindness.

Yellow coating at base of the tongue; or dry, smooth, glazed, cracked tongue.

Rheumatism alternating with dysentery or diarrhœa.

Gastric complaints; bad effects of beer; loss of appetite; weight in pit of stomach; flatulence.

Nose; pressing pain in root of nose; discharge of "clinkers", plugs.

"Affections of any mucous membrane with discharges of tough, stringy, adherent mucus, which can be drawn out into long strings." No remedy has this more prominently than this one. Hydrastis comes near to it, and Lyssin may approach it when from the mouth or throat; also Iris versicolor.

But Kali bich. produces and cures this kind of discharge from nose, mouth, fauces, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, vagina and uterus.

And the action of the drug does not stop here but goes on to the formation of tough membrane, on the same surfaces. Again it causes and cures ulcerations of the mucous membranes. These ulcers are peculiar, "deep as if cut with a punch, edges regular." I remember one case of years ago in which such ulcers appeared in the throat of a woman. One had eaten up through the soft palate into the posterior nares, and the whole palate looked as though it would be destroyed by the ulcerative process if not speedily checked. The case had a syphilitic look to me and had been under the treatment of two old school physicians for a long time. I gave Kali bich. 30th, and to say that I was astonished at the effect (for it was in my early practice) is putting it mildly, for the ulcers healed so rapidly, and her general condition, which was very bad, correspondingly improved, that it three weeks from that time she was well to all appearance and never had any return of the trouble afterwards, or for years, at least as long as I knew her. I forgot to state that she also had the stringy discharge, though not so profuse as I have often seen in other cases.

I once cured a dog that had a sore mouth and throat, from which the saliva hung in strings, and dragged on the ground as he staggered along. People who saw him said he was mad, but I think not, as he did not snap or bite or have suffocating spasms.

Kali bichromicum is one of our sheet anchors in the treatment of disease of the mucous membrane of the nose. Not only in inflammations of an acute character, which are attended with stringy discharges, but also of a chronic kind known as "chronic catarrh." In these cases the patient often complains of much pressure at the root of the nose (Sticta pulm.), and especially if an habitual discharge becomes suddenly suppressed. Slugs and clinkers form in the nose, which form again and again after removal. Sometimes there discharge tough green masses or hard plugs. This process of chronic inflammation may go on from bad to worse, until ulceration sets in to such an extent that the whole septum may ulcerate away. I have known a case in which the apparently "punched out" ulcers ate a hole right through the septum. This may be syphilitic or not. If in syphilitic cases the destructive process should attack the bones, Kali bich. may still be of use, thigh I should expect to be obliged to resort to Aurum met. or some more deeply acting remedy.

I have likewise found in those troublesome cases of chronic post-nasal catarrh, where the dropping back into the throat is stringy, or those crusty or pluggy formations occur, this to be a good remedy, and it has gained me some fast friends.

In its formation of membranes in the throat it is as positive as any other remedy, and when the membrane extends downward into the larynx, causing membranous croup, I believe no remedy excels it. I have with it cured many cases of diphtheritic croup, and of late years never give it below the 30th Potency, because abundant experience has convinced me that it does better than the low triturations.

Kali bichromicum has been of use in the treatment of stomach troubles. The vomiting is often of the ropy character, and here also, as in nose, mouth and throat, we may have formed "round ulcers" But short of actual ulceration we have a form of dyspepsia, in which this remedy is very useful. It is often found in drunkards, especially beer drunkards. There is great weight in the stomach, fullness, a distress immediately after eating (like Nux moschata), but not like Nux vomica, which comes on two or three hours after, nor like Anacardium, which also comes on two or three hours after eating, and then the pain continues until he eats again, which relieves.

There are two appearances of the tongue which may be present in conjunction with these stomach troubles; one is a yellow coating at the base (Mercurius prot. and Natrum phos.), the other a dry smooth glazed or red cracked tongue. This latter tongue is found more often in connection with dysentery in which Kali bich. has sometimes done good service.

There is one kind of discharge which comes from mucous membranes of which I have not yet written, "jelly-like mucus." (Aloe socotrina). It may come from nose, posterior nares, vagina or anus. This is especially found in dysentery where the stools have by some other remedy changed from an appearance "like scrapings" to the jelly-like form. Of course leucorrhœas of both the ropy and jelly-like variety come under this remedy and many fine cures have resulted from its use. It is no less so in affections of the respiratory organs, in coughs, croup, bronchitis, asthma, and even in consumption. The chromic acid element in this combination of Kali seems responsible for the ropy mucus, as no other Kali has it in any such degree.

There are a few more points about this remedy that ought not to be omitted. The pains are peculiar. They appear in small spots, which can be covered with the point of a finger. This is markedly so with the pains in the head. In sick headache often so. Farrington says: "There are quite a number of remedies having blind headache, but Kali bichromicum is the best of them." The blindness comes on before the headache; then, as the headache begins, the blindness disappears. (See Iris versicolor and Natrum mur.) Then the pain settles in a small spot, and is very intense. Again, the pains of Kali bichromicum appear and disappear suddenly. This is like Belladonna. Then, again, they fly from one place to another like Pulsatilla. There are five remedies having markedly wandering or erratic pains, viz.: Kali bichromicum, Kali sulphuricum, Pulsatilla, Lac caninum and Manganum aceticum. Kali bichromicum does not stay as long in a place as Pulsatilla does, nor is there so much disposition to swell. Kali sulphuricum is most like Pulsatilla in all its symptoms (see Boericke & Dewey's Twelve Tissue Remedies). The Manganum pains shift crosswise from joint to joint, while Lac caninum alternates sides, being worse on one side one day and on the other the next, etc. Then, again, Kali bichromicum alternates symptoms; for instance, rheumatic and dysenteric symptoms alternate. (Also, Abrotanum). Platina alternates back symptoms, with general mind and bodily symptoms.

Kali bichromicum is particularly adapted to fat, light-haired persons, or children disposed to catarrhal, croupy, scrofulous or syphilitic affections. Dr. Drysdale deserves much credit for what he has done for the profession by introducing this truly great remedy.

Ill-humor ; low-spirited ; indifferent. Aversion to mental (and bodily) exertion.

Sudden attacks of giddiness, when rising from a seat. Vertigo, with nausea, inclination to vomit ; retching up of sour watery fluid. Headache in the forehead, often only over one eye. In the morning, when waking, pain in the forehead and vertex ; later, extending to the back part of the head. Violent pricking, stinging pain, from the root of the nose, extending over the (left) orbital arch to external angle of the eyes, with obscuration of sight, as if scales were before the eyes ; beginning in the morning, increases at noon and disappears towards the evening. Complete obscuration of sight (blindness) is followed by violent headache, compelling one to lie down ; wit great aversion to light and noise ; the sight returns with the increasing headache. Stinging headache (in one temple). Periodical attacks of semi-lateral headache, on small spots that could be covered with the point of the finger. Morning headache. Headache from suppression of the discharge from the nose (Ozœna). The bones of the head feel sore. Stitches in the bones of the head, as from a sharp needle. Lancinating stitches in the right side of the head, lasting but a short time. Pressure on the vertex, as from a weight.

Heaviness of the upper eyelid on waking ; it requires an effort to open it. Eyelids burning, inflamed, much swollen. Watering, itching and burning in the eyes ; heat in the eyes and desire to rub them, with redness of the conjunctiva. The eyes are glued in the morning ; accumulation of yellow matter in the angles. Œdematous swelling of the eyelids. Itching and redness of the eyelids ; tender to the touch ; the tarsi seem rough, causing the sensation of friction, as from sand on the eyeballs when moving them ; feeling of sharp sand in the eyes. The conjunctiva is reddened and traversed by large red vessels. The albuginea is dirty-yellow and appears puffy, with yellowish-brown points, like pin-heads. Soreness in the right caruncula. Photophobia ; when opening the eyes twitching of the eyelids ; lachrymation and burning of the eyes. Small white, granular pustules on the (left) cornea, with pricking pain. Brown spots on the conjunctiva. Obscuration of sight ; objects appear yellow.

Stinging in the ears ; from the external meatus into the internal ear. Violent stitches in the (left) ear, extending into the roof of the mouth, into the corresponding side of the head and the same side of the neck, which was painful to the touch and the glands swollen. The external meatus of the (left) ear swelled and inflamed. Stitches in the left ear and left parotid gland, with headache. Discharge of fetid, thick, yellow pus from both ears (after scarlet fever). Itching of the lobe of the (right) ear (waking him at night).

Nose painfully dry ; the air passes with great ease through it. Tickling, like a hair moving or curling itself in the top of the left nostril. Sneezing (in the morning). Coryza, fluent ; worse in the evening, in the open air ; obstruction in the morning and bleeding of the nose (right nostril).

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Potassæ bichromas. Potassic dichromate. Bichromate of Potash. Red Chromate of Potash. K 2 Cr 2 O 7 . Solution in distilled water. Trituration.

Acne. Anæmia. Asthma. Blotches. Bone, nodes on, exostoses. Bronchitis; croupous. Burns . Cachexia. Catarrh . Climacteric flushes. Coccygodynia . Conjunctivitis. Constipation. Cornea, opacities of. Coryza. Descemetitis. Duodenum, ulcers of. Dyspepsia . Ears, pains in; inflammation of, internal and external. Emaciation. Epilepsy. Epistaxis. Eyes, iritis; keratitis . Farcy. Gastric ulcer. Glanders . Gleet. Gout. Hay fever. Headache. Intermittent fever. Intestines, ulceration of. Lumbago. Lupus. Measles . Mumps. Neuralgia . Nightmare. Nodes. Nose, pressure at root of; soreness of . Ophthalmia. Ozæna. Polypus . Post-nasal catarrh. Pruritus vulvæ. Rheumatism . Rhinitis, atrophic. Sciatica. Scrofula. Smell, illusions of . Sun-headache. Sycosis. Syphilis. Throat, hair sensation in; sore . Tobacco, intolerance of. Trachea, affections of. Ulcers . Urethritis. Warts. Whooping-cough.

Kali bichromicum (with the other Chromium preparations, Chro. ac . and Chro. ox .) owes its introduction into the homœopathic materia medica to the late Dr. J. J. Drysdale, whose monograph upon it, forming one section of the Hahnemann Materia Medica , and now occupying pp. 457 to 573 of Materia Medica Physiological and Applied , is the most complete account of the remedy which we possess. The Bichromate of Potash , which is manufactured in large quantities from chrome-iron-ore, is the preparation from which all other salts of Chromium are derived. The native association of Chromium with Ferrum is worthy of note. The Bichromate is largely used in the arts in dying, calico-printing, wood-staining, in photography, and as a solution for producing the current in electric batteries. Many of the most remarkable symptoms were obtained from workmen engaged in the preparation of the salt. Some of these had been noted before Drysdale took up the study of the drug. The first proving was published by him in 1844 in the British Journal of Homœopathy . The following year it was proved by the Austrian Society. The effects of the drug show profound action on the entire organism, and characteristic features of the utmost value to the prescriber have been brought out, rendering the drug one of the most important members of the homœopathic materia medica. Among these keynotes of Kali bi . four may be named as pre-eminent: ( 1 ) Discharges from mucous membranes of tough, stringy mucus, or muco-pus, which adheres to the part and can be drawn out in strings. ( 2 ) The occurrence of pain in small spots . In connection with this is another feature showing a sharply defined action: ( 3 ) Punched-out, perforating ulcers, occurring on skin, mucous membranes, and affecting bones ( e.g . vomer, palate). ( 4 ) Alternating and shifting conditions: pains wander from part to part; rheumatic pains alternate with gastric symptoms, or with dysentery; headache alternates with blindness; fibrinous deposits extend downwards. Among other leading characters, scarcely less distinctive are: ( a ) The formation of plugs or clinkers on mucous membranes, especially in the nose. (This may be regarded as an advanced stage of the stringy mucous secretions.) ( b ) Still another Variety of this is the formation of false membranes as in croup and diphtheria, with hoarse, metallic cough; and the formation of casts of the bronchial tubes in fibrinous bronchitis. ( c ) Yet another characteristic mucous discharge is one of "jelly-like mucus." ( d ) Indigestion from drinking beer; loss of appetite; weight in pit of stomach immediately after eating; flatulence. ( e ) Among peculiar sensations the "hair sensation" is marked in Kali bi . It occurs chiefly on the back part of the tongue and in the left nostril. — It can hardly be questioned that Chromium is the predominant partner in the action of this salt, but it would be wrong to consider the Kali element as of no account, and it would be still more wrong to disregard the very large proportion of oxygen. It is as an oxydising agent and disinfectant that K. bi . is chiefly known in general medicine, and it is probably to the oxygen element that the ulcerating properties of the drug are largely due. One of its effects is "odourless stools," and the oxygen element is probably accountable for this. Another point in this connection is that the antidotes to poisonous doses of Kali bi . are the same as the antidotes to the acids. The Kali parallels must be sought chiefly in Causticum and Kali carb . The general resemblance is great, but the minute correspondences are not very striking. One possible point of correspondence has been pointed out. Storer ( Med. Adv ., xxv. 98), cured with Kali bi . a case of asthma in a man who noticed that the attacks were caused by and always followed coitus . The Kali bi . was prescribed on other indications, but this symptom must be noted for future verification. Kali c . has marked " < from coitus," and also from emissions; and Caust . has stupid feeling in the head the day after an emission." Caust . has many symptoms of disordered vision; though it has not the "blindness followed by headache, the sight improving as the pain becomes worse" of Kali bi . This is very characteristic and has led me to many cures. Both Caust . and Kali bi . have many symptoms of ulceration internal and external. Nash relates a good cure with Kali bi . A woman had deep punched-out ulcers with regular edges. One of them had perforated the soft palate and threatened the whole palate. It had a syphilitic appearance, and the patient had been long under old-school treatment. There was also a stringy discharge, but not to a great amount. In three weeks Kali bi . 30 made a cure which proved permanent; the local condition entirely healed and the patient's general state improved correspondingly. Apropos of syphilis Drysdale quotes a long series of cases of syphilis in all stages treated by J. E. Güntz with "Chrome water." This consists of an artificial aerated water containing in 600 grammes of water Kali bi . 0.03 grms., Kali nit . 0.1 grm., Natr. nit ., 0.1 grm., Nat. mur ., 0.2 grm.; this mixture is incorporated with carbonic acid under the highest pressure, at low temperature, and kept some time before use. The dose given was from half to two bottles daily (each bottle containing 600 grammes) in five doses, given on a full stomach. Even in this dilution the mixture was sufficiently disgusting in taste, and to some quite intolerable. A number of the Kali bi . symptoms were produced, but on the whole very notable and evidently specific curative action was observed. Out of 100 cases of primary syphilis 64 remained without constitutional symptoms. In secondary and tertiary syphilis "chromo-water" was also remarkably successful. In strictly homœopathic practice Kali bi . has been no less successful, as its symptoms correspond to a great variety of the manifestations of that disease, especially keratitis and iritis, ozæna, bone-pains and nodes, sore throat, syphilitic rheumatism and ulcers. Like Causticum it has some sycotic symptoms as well, including asthma, early morning < , gleety discharge, and, according to Farrington, scabs on fingers, often about the nails, and on corona glandis. J. B. Garrison records the rapid action of Kali bi . in two cases of intermittent fever ( H. R ., iii. 105), on an indication given him by Martin Deschere. The latter once took by mistake an overdose of Kali bi ., which was followed by vomiting of a large quantity of bright yellow water , tasting very bitter. Garrison's first case was a labourer, ill a month with fever, pains and paroxysm at 1 p.m. just before Garrison saw him he had vomited "a large quantity of bright yellow water." Kali bi . 1x, one grm. dissolved in a tumbler of water, a teaspoonful every two hours, cured at once. Case ii. was that of a woman who had been nine months under allopathic treatment, had not been out of the house for two months, and had been told she could not recover. Among other symptoms was this: Vomited much more than she drank: in the morning vomited a large bowlful of bright yellow fluid. The yellowness of Kali bi . secretions and excretions is noteworthy. Kali bi . is particularly suited to fat people; and Goullon (quoted H. R ., vi. 267) gives the case of an enormously fat man of "formless colossal body" who complained of chronic accumulation of phlegm — he seemed fairly filled up with it, especially in the morning — for which all domestic remedies and mineral waters had been given in vain. Kali bi . 2x was ordered, a few grains in hot water every evening. In two weeks the patient could resume his walks. He felt easy on his chest, the accumulation of phlegm disappeared, his bowels became regular instead of constipated. H. W. Champlin ( Med. Adv ., xix. 393), cites a case of chronic rheumatism in an old over 70 confirming symptoms of Kali bi . She was restless and sleepless at night, and Rhus relieved this somewhat, but closer investigation brought out this: ( 1 ) The pains changed rapidly from one place to another, and ( 2 ) they occupied small spots that could be covered with the point of a finger. Kali bi . cured rapidly. Kali bi . also causes: Rheumatic-like or shooting and pricking pains here and there. In one prover (Drysdale himself) the rheumatic pains were < , and the gastric pains > , after eating. There were cramps in various parts; twitches in hands and feet; stinging pains all over. Pains in short jerks as if a nerve were suddenly pulled. Sudden pains. Pains appear and disappear suddenly. Diagonal pains ; right mamma and left elbow; left forearm and right occiput; right knee and hip, left breast and shoulder; right axilla, left thigh; right big toe, left little finger; right forearm, left elbow; right foot, ankles, shin, left hip, arm, shoulder; right big toe and thumb; wrists and ankles. Shifting pains and sudden pains. "Indolence" is a characteristic of many conditions — indolent ulcers; indolent inflammation about and of the eyes; slow scrofulous or sycotic ophthalmia, soreness of the canthi, pustules round the eyes, lids adhering and puffed, whites of the eyes yellowish. The face is bloated and blotched; may be yellowish; acne accompanies headaches and gastric conditions. The tongue is thick and broad and takes the imprint of the teeth. The stomach symptoms are very distressing. Painful vomitings; sour, and mixed with clear mucus; may be bitter from the presence of bile; vomiting caused by every attempt to eat or drink, with distress and burning rawness about the stomach. This corresponds to the vomiting of drunkards, especially in beer-drinkers; also to gastric ulcer. The abdomen swells up immediately after a full meal. Food lies like a load as if digestion were suspended. There is aversion to meat; and longing for beer; and for acid drinks. It removes the chronic effects of drinking too much malt liquor, especially lager beer. Some of the workmen found they could not drink coffee as it made them worse, and they were obliged to take to tea instead. (This bears out Hering's dictum that "wine-drinkers should take coffee and beer-drinkers should take tea." Coffee antidotes wine and tea antidotes beer; so as Kali bi . corresponds to beer effects tea will be likely to agree with it better than coffee). Kali bi . causes great prostration, discomfort, debility, and desire to lie down. The neuralgic attacks sometimes recur every day, at the same hour. Epilepsy has been cured by it when there was flow of tough, stringy fluid from the mouth in the attacks. In very weak solutions (about 1 to 2,000) Kali bi . has been used with much success as a local application for ulcers, especially when they are very painful. Lord and Moore had good success in treating horses for farcy, using the remedy both externally and internally. In the cough of Kali bi . the stringy, difficult expectoration, and early morning < will generally indicate; or a pain from mid-sternum through to back. But there is also a cough caused by eating . W. J. Pierce ( H. W ., xxx. 567) records the case of James S., 40. For four months past, as soon as he swallowed food (not liquids), a tickling in throat excited a severe cough, which stopped only on vomiting, and was followed by a watery coryza. This was so distressing that for two months he had eaten only two meals a day. There was pharyngeal catarrh with stringy mucus hanging from naso-pharynx. Kali bi . 1, a tablet every two hours, was given. He had no more vomiting, and only coughed twice in the next five days, and was soon quite cured. Kali bi . is credited with the cure of a case of Descemetitis [inflammation of the internal (Descemet's) membrane of the cornea] with redness of right eye, brightness of the lid and lachrymation. Kali bi . removed the spots and relieved the other symptoms. Kali bi . is especially suited to fair-haired, fat persons, especially fat, chubby children; fat, sluggish people. Most of the symptoms appear in the early morning or are < then 2 a.m. heat in pit of stomach; awakes with oppressed breathing with a start. 2 to 3 a.m. croup; early morning cough; morning diarrhœa; 9 a.m. pain in head begins; goes off in afternoon. Shooting from root of nose to external angle of eye begins morning, increases to noon, and ceases towards evening (sun-headache). Affections of autumn and spring. Complaints of hot weather are particularly likely to want Kali bi ., but at the same time there is "great liability to take cold in open air"; and "moderately cold air is felt very unpleasantly." Eruptions begin in warm weather (opp. Rhus ). Open air > symptoms generally, especially vertigo; but < gastric complaints and chilliness. Uncovering < ; wrapping up > . Warmth > cough; undressing < cough. Cold weather > itching of eruption. < By eating; eating = cough weight in stomach. Touch < most symptoms; but pressure > . But pressure = pains to shoot along sciatic nerve. Moving the affected part > the pain. Most symptoms are < at rest and > by motion. Stooping < ; sitting < .

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Great weakness of memory.
Misanthropy and ill humor, even to disgust of life.
Frequent vanishing of thoughts ; senseless staring at an object.
Listlessness, languor ; great disinclination for mental or bodily labor.
Indifferent of low spirited after least annoyance, with distress in stomach.
Ill humored ; low spirited.
Aversion to motion ; inclination to lie down.
Anxiety arising from chest.
Anthropophobia ; taciturnity ; misanthropy.

Lightness in head, across forehead, on stooping ; < mornings.
Sudden, transient attacks of vertigo, rising from a seat.
Vertigo, with nausea, inclination to vomit ; pain in epigastrium.
Confusion and heaviness in head.

Headache in forehead over one eye.
Soon after dinner a dull, heavy throbbing above eyes, as if head would burst ; > by lying, or pressing head against anything, or in open air ; < stooping or moving about.
Pain beginning in right supraorbital ridge and spreading over one side of head, coming on early in day and lasting ten hours, leaving soreness of scalp. θ Supraorbital neuralgia.
Pain in left temple, stretching across forehead to right temple, and round eye and malar bone of right side ; complete loss of sight in right eye, and puffy swelling on malar bone during pain ; attack begins 9 A. M. and goes off in afternoon. θ Supraorbital
neuralgia.
Shooting pains over eyebrow.
Acute throbbing pain in centre of right eyebrow, commencing in morning, lasting all day, and accompanied by persistent retching and vomiting of food and bile, without relief. θ Migraine.
Pain in left side of head and over left eye ; < at night ; pain in right side of chest, from scapula round to anterior part ; gnawing at epigastrium after meals ; catamenia scanty ; leucorrhœa. θ Headache.
Sudden violent pain in temples ; a shooting outward, in temples and over eyes, continuing day and night, but less severe during night ; < stooping, which also brings on vertigo ; no coryza. θ Headache.
Stinging headache in one temple.
Blindness, followed by violent headache, must lie down ; aversion to light and noise ; sight returns with increasing headache.
Headache which involves optic nerve ; comes in morning, sight is blurred ; as pain increases, dimness of sight decreases ; comes and goes with sun and is accompanied by nausea.
Burning headache with vertigo, during which all objects seemed to be enveloped in a yellow mist ; > by warm soup.
Violent pain in left side of head, at zygomatic process ; < when lying on it ; shooting inwards and towards throat ; throat a little reddened but not swelled ; gastric symptoms present. θ Headache.
Periodical attacks of semilateral headaches on small spots that could be covered with point of finger ; nausea, eructation, vomiting.
Periodic headache with vertigo and nausea, morning awaking, also in evening ; often > by pressure, in open air, or by eating.
Pain in head, at a point.
In morning, on awaking, pain in forehead and vertex ; later extends to back of head.
Headache from suppression of discharge from nose.

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This remedy is recognized by most physicians by the copious ropy mucous discharges from all mucous membranes, but it is also a most important remedy in rheumatic affections of the joints with swelling, heat and redness, whenever these conditions wander around from joint to joint.

The bones all over the body feel bruised, and caries is reckoned among its symptoms. A marked feature of this remedy is the alternation between catarrhal symptoms and rheumatic pains. Exudations from mucous membranes, somewhat like croup, are found in the larynx, trachea and in the rectum. it is not surprising, therefore, that it has proved a very effective remedy in diphtheria. It emaciates, like the rest of the Kali salts. We have running through it the cachectic conditions, or malignant diseases with ulceration; and especially is it indicated when the ulceration period is present.

is a striking feature of this remedy. Its ulcers are deep; are said to be as if punched out and are very red. Gouty conditions are as common in this remedy as in the other Kalis. It is especially like Causticum with its cracking in the joints. Syphilitic conditions have been cured in the most advanced stages. It has the sharp stitching pains like Kali carb., it has one feature quite its own very severe pain in small spots that could be covered by the end of the thumb.

It has wandering pains from place to place, and wandering rheumatism in from joint to joint. There are pains in all parts. Pains are sometimes very violent; sometimes shooting; sometimes stitching stinging; again aching. Burning is a very marked symptom of the remedy. The pains appear rapidly and disappear suddenly.

The patient is sensitive to cold. There is a lack of vital heat. In fact, he wants to be wrapped up and covered warmly, and many of his complaints are much better when he is perfectly warm in bed. All the pains and his cough are relieved from the warmth of the bed, and yet there are other complaints, like rheumatic conditions, that come on in hot weather.

The cough is better in warm weather and worse in winter. Catarrhal conditions of the larynx and trachea are worse in winter, especially in the cold, damp weather, like Calc. phos. when the snow melts. Sensitive to cold winds. Causticum, it ill be remembered, is sensitive to cold, dry winds.

The Kalis generally are sensitive to cold, dry weather, but Kali bichromicum throat troubles are continuous in the winter and during cold, damp weather, and are worse in cold, damp winds. It is a most useful remedy in septic and zymotic fevers.

Many of its symptoms are aggravated about 2 or 3 A.M., like Kali carb. Most of the symptom are worse in the morning yet some come on in the night. A marked feature of Kali. bichromicum is a feeling of great weakness and weariness. When the pain has passed off, if in the limbs, the limbs are felt very weary. Great prostration and cold sweat.

It has neuralgia every day at the same hour, showing its periodicity. Like the rest of the Kalis it has cured epilepsy. Ropy saliva and mucous discharges from the mouth during the convulsion has led to its use in epilepsy. The symptoms generally, especially the pains, are worse from motion, except the sciatic and some of the pains in the lower limbs, which are better from motion. The patient pulsates all over the body.

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Adapted to fat, light haired persons, who suffer from catarrhal, syphilitic, or scrofulous affections; fat, chubby, short-necked children, disposed to croup and croup affections.

Affections of the mucous membranes—eyes, nose, mouth, throat, bronchi, gastro-intestinal and genito-urinary tracts— discharges of a tough, stringy mucus which adheres to the parts, and can be drawn out into long strings (Hydr., Lys.).

Complaints in hot weather.

Pains: in small spots can be covered with point of finger

(Ign.); shift rapidly from one part to another (Kali s., Lac c.,

Puls.); appear rapidly, disappear suddenly (Bell., Ign., Mag. p.); neuralgia every day at same hour (Aran., Chin. s.).

Headache: blurred vision or blindness precedes the attack

(Gels., Lac d.); must lie down; aversion to light and noise; sight returns as headache increases (Iris, Nat., Lac d.).

Gastric complaints: bad effects of beer; loss of appetite; weight in pit of stomach; flatulence; $<$ soon after eating; vomiting of ropy mucus and blood; round ulcer of stomach (Gym.).

Nose: pressive pain in root of nose (in forehead and root of nose, Sticta); discharge of "clinkers," plugs; mucus tough, ropy, green, bloody; in clear masses, and has violent pain from occiput to forehead if discharge ceases; ulcers and scabs on, or ulceration of septum (Alum., Sep., Teucr.).

Diphtheria: pseudo-membranous deposit, firm, pearly, fibrinous, prone to extend downwards to larynx and trachea (Lac c.—from bronchi to throat, Brom.); bladder-like appearance of uvula, much swelling, but little redness (Rhus).

Deep-eating ulcers in fauces; often syphilitic.

Cough: hoarse, metallic in croup (membranous or diphtheritic), with expectoration of tough mucus or fibro-elastic casts; in morning on awakening, with dyspnœa > by lying down (cough on awakening, with dyspnœa when lying down, Aral., Lach.); sputa tenacious, expectorated but cannot be easily detached, sticks to throat, mouth, lips (tenacious, frothy, detached with great difficulty, but easily expectorated, Aral.).

Sexual desire absent, in fleshy people.

Prolapsus uteri, seemingly in hot weather.

Morning; after eating; heat of summer.

Skin symptoms in cold weather (rev. of Alum., Pet.).

Complaints appear periodically (dysentery every year in the beginning of summer; headache in the morning) at the same hour daily. Pains intermit. "Any type of fever."—LIPPE.

Afternoon or evening paroxysm.

Fever, without chill, 4 and 5 P. M.

Without thirst. Coldness and shivering of arms, shoulders, back, with sleepiness; seeks a warm place. Shivering, alternating with flushes of heat. Chilliness commencing in feet and legs and extending upwards over whole body, with sensation as if vertex or pericranium were constricted (Sil.) occurring in frequent paroxysms; an hour after chill, heat and dryness of mouth and lips, had to be frequently moistened, followed by great thirst next morning, but no sweat. Ill-humor. Chilliness, especially on the extremities, and flushes of heat alternating with general sweat Feet and hands cold.

Chilliness, with giddiness and nausea, followed by heat, with sensation of cold and trembling; periodical pains in the temples; no thirst.

With thirst. General heat over whole body at night. Flushes of heat in the face. Face and hands glowing hot, while arms were cold and deep internal chilliness continued. Sudden flushes of heat in the face which came on at 4 and 5 P. M.

Profuse while sitting quietly (profuse on least motion, Bry., Sep., Sil., Sul.). Sweat on forehead; rest of face dry. Hands cold and bathed in cold sweat (Sec.). General sweat, alternating with flushes of heat.

Broad, with indented edges (Mer.). Thick, yellow coating, coppery taste; saliva stringy, ropy; desire for acids (Ant c.), for beer. Aversion to meat (Arn.).

The general symptoms: Ropy, stringy, viscid saliva and mucus. Sweat profuse while sitting quiet.

Anxiety arising from the chest.
Listlessness, languor; great disinclination for mental or bodily labor.
Anthropophobia.
Indifferent or low-spirited after the least annoyance, with distress in stomach.
Ill-humored; low-spirited.

Vertigo, with nausea, inclination to vomit and pain in the epigastrium; better in the open air.
Lightness in the head, across the forehead, on stooping; worse mornings.
Sudden transient attacks of vertigo, when rising from a seat.

Soon after dinner, a dull, heavy throbbing above the eyes as if head against anything, or in open air; worse stooping or moving about.
Periodic headache with vertigo and nausea, in the morning on awaking, also in evening; often relieved by pressure, in the open air, or by eating.
Blindness, followed by violent headache, must lie down; aversion to light and noise; slight returns with the increasing headache.
In the morning, on awaking, pain in the forehead and vertex; later extends to the back of the head.

Violent shooting pains from root of nose along left orbital arch to external angle of eye, with dim sight, like a scale the eye; begins in morning, increases till noon, and ceases towards evening.
Frontal headache: usually over one eye; shooting at intervals in the right temple.
Semi-lateral headache in small spots, or along the course of a few nerves.
Darting or aching pains on one side; flying pains.
Bones of head fell sore; sharp stitches in the bones.

Sight dim, confused: before headache; with vertigo; with yellow sight.
Photophobia only by daylight; when opening the lids they twitch.
Catarrhal inflammation, stringy discharge, or scanty secretion, worse mornings on awaking.
On opening the eyes, lachrymation and burning.
Heat redness in the eyes, with desire to rub them.
Indolent ulcers of the cornea; pale ring around cornea.
Sequelæ of iritis; pains pricking, stinging, wandering; mostly of the left eye.
True descemetitis; fine punctate opacities on membrane of Descemet, especially over the pupil.
Conjunctiva red, traversed by large vessels; or chemosis with small spots here and there, like ecchymoses.
White of the eye dirty yellow, puffy, and covered with yellow-brown points.
Long-lasting dense opacities of the cornea.
Brown spots on the cornea.
Lids agglutinated in the morning; yellow matter in the canthi.
Œdema of the lids; great desire to rub them.
Shooting pains over the eyebrow: 48.
Heaviness of the upper lids on waking; requires an effort to open them.
Lids red, itching, tender; tarsi seem rough, causing a sensation as from sand in the eyes; granular lids.

Stitches in the left ear and left parotid gland, with headache.
Violent stitches in left ear, extending into root of mouth, side of head and neck; glands swollen, neck painful to touch.
Thick, yellow, fetid discharge from both ears. θ After scarlatina.
Pulsating pains in the ears at night; also stinging; external meatus swollen and inflamed.
Itching of the (right) ear-lobe, waking him.

Loss of smell.
Fetid smell from the nose.
Burrowing and beating in root of nose; external heat, throbbing; nose swollen and hot; fulness as from something thick; nose dry and heavy as from a weight on it.
Thick, dark red blood from the nose; irregular, small contracted pulse.
Ropy, tough discharge, often also from the posterior nares; offensive or not.
Discharge of tough green masses; or hard plugs.
Coryza fluent, excoriating nose and lip; nostrils sensitive, ulcerated; round ulcer or scabs on the septum; small perforating ulcers on septum.
Spot in the right lachrymal bone is swollen and throbbing; profuse secretion from the nostril.
Coryza, with pressure and tightness at root of nose; distress and fulness from inflammation in frontal sinuses; worse evenings and in the open air; in the morning obstruction and bleeding from right nostril.
Sneezing in the morning; on going into the open air.
Tickling, as from a hair, high up in the left nostril.

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Triturations of the bichromate of potash are used.

A "tissue" drug, affecting the skin, papular and pustular eruptions as well as ulcers of characteristic shape; producing general catarrh of mucous membranes and frequently erosions or ulcerations (throat, nose, stomach, rectum); causing inflammation of the periosteum and of the ligamentous structures about the joints; causing also acute inflammations of the kidney, with albuminuria, sympathetic disturbance of the liver, etc.

Puls., Cinnab., Merc. c., Phyto., Kali in general, particularly Kali iod., Iris, Rhus, Sin. nig., Ailanthus.

Anæmic appearance. ▶ Emaciation; with hectic symptoms. ▶ Cracking on moving joints of limbs and vertebræ. ▶ Cramps; in various parts, agg. calves and inner thighs, with gastro-intestinal inflammation; sudden, in lower limbs and nape. ▶ Stitches in different parts. ▶ Tearing here and there in body, in shoulders and hands; in right thumb, hen in left upper arm, then along arches of left ribs; in bones, concentrating in little toes, with crawling; in right axilla and on posterior surface of left thigh, with stickling. ▶ Drawing tearing suddenly jumping from one place to another (Puls.); and amel. moving the affected parts (Puls.); D. tearing here and there in morning on waking, agg. limbs, forepart of chest and between shoulders. ▶ Sharp pain in right knee and hips, and left breast and shoulder. ▶ Rheumatic symptoms. ▶ Rheumatic pains in different parts; in knee and chest.

Drawing pain in left hand, in forearm and nape; D. pains during the day, agg. limbs; in small of back and in left shoulder in morning, then drawing behind left ear; in bones of face and of right hand in morning; in various parts, agg. bones of face, in morning after rising; in various parts, always near bones, as if in periosteum or in tendinous expansion near it, in morning on waking; in morning on waking, in hands, feet, occiput and face, then pressure and drawing between shoulders before dinner, and tension in pectoral muscles; D. and tearing pains in left teeth and in joints of limbs, suddenly changing their location. ▶ Drawing in zygoma and in bones of extremities; D. here and there in sheaths of muscles, in neck, back and limbs, in morning on waking, amel. rising; in left little and ring fingers in morning on rising, then in left side of face and in right knee; in right index and in right knee; in right index and in spine in evening in bed.

▶ Discomfort in morning, with uneasiness; D. after rising, prostration, agg. limbs. ▶ Feeling on waking on having caught a cold. ▶ General sick feeling; in afternoon. ▶ Indisposition, amel. open air, with nausea (Puls.). ▶ Paroxysmal venous excitement in forenoon, with uneasiness. ▶ Uneasiness, rolling over, tumbling about and nervousness. ▶ Sensitiveness to touch; to cold air in afternoon. ▶ Indolence, amel. beginning to work. ▶ Disinclination to rise from bed and move about.

▶ Weakness; in morning; till noon; in evening; after rising, agg. limbs; after slightest motion; when walking in open air, with leader heaviness of limbs, indifference, aversion to usual business, exhausting warmth, taciturnity, inability to collect my thoughts, and I cut short conversation to avoid showing the fact, desire to be alone, feeling better in open air; with sleepiness; agg. region of navel; even to sinking down; so that he trembled on attempting to rise. ▶ Paralyzed feeling, agg. right foot. ▶ Almost complete insensibility. ▶ Stiffness and difficulty in rising in morning. ▶ Pain more severe in winter than in summer. ▶ Amelioration towards evening; after dinner after eating; after a short sleep; from vomiting.

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Poisonous doses produce ulceration of the skin; circumscribed and penetrating ulcers; papular and pustular eruptions; general catarrh of mucous membranes; even ulceration; periostitis, inflammation of the joints, acute nephritis, etc.

Tearing pains suddenly shift from place to place, > motion; the pains seem to be deeply seated along the bones or tendons; worse in the morning on waking; better on rising.
Generally weak and sick, > in the open air, with nausea.
Weakness amounts almost to paralysis; similarly to other potashes; it is indicated in conditions of profound prostration, without fever.

Disinclination to mental work; dull, or even stupid.

Sharp pains, confined to a small spot, particularly over the eyebrows; at times with dimness of vision.

Inflammation, with yellow, tenacious discharge.
Itching, with burning; worse evening and night.
Burning pain, with lachrymation.
Inflammation of the margins of the lids, which are raw, and feel rough and dry as if they rubbed against the eyeball.

Clinical:
Catarrhal inflammations, ulcerations, etc., mostly of an indolent character, usually without much photophobia.
Occasionally indicated in subacute syphilitic inflammations.

Thick, yellow, fetid discharge.
Outer ear swollen, with tearing pains.

Ulcerations of the nostrils, exposing the bone.
The septum of the bone is perforated by small ulcers; inflammation, with free discharge, involving the whole mucous membrane.
Shooting and stinging pains, with greenish, offensive discharge; nostrils seem filled with hard plugs, and when these are discharged they expose ulcerated places, and bleeding may follow.
Pain at the root of the nose, as if in the bones; the nose seems plugged at this point, with pain over the frontal sinuses.

Clinical:
Nasal catarrh, ulceration, etc., characterized by a profuse secretion of mucus, which is usually tenacious.

Sensitiveness of the bones, especially beneath the orbits.
Face covered with pimples, acne or blotches.

Inner surface of the lips ulcerated.
Tongue smooth, red and cracked; coated yellow.
Aphthæ throughout the mouth, dryness.

Ulceration, excavated, with yellow tenacious exudation.
Mucous membrane dark, livid and swollen.
Hawking of much tenacious mucus, especially in the morning; this tenacious mucus often comes from a posterior nares.

Clinical:
In the ulcerations of the throat, indicating this drug, there is profound prostration, soft pulse, lack of acute pain, and a general apathetic condition.

Appetite lost.
Thirst, especially a longing for beer.
Nausea; constant vomiting of glairy mucus.
Burning pain in the pit of the stomach; extending into the throat.
Indigestion from meat; from malt liquors.

Clinical:
Nausea and vomiting are frequent accompaniments of other indications.
Gastric catarrh or ulceration, with burning pain, vomiting of glairy mucus, tongue furred, etc.

Distention.
Rumbling.
Gripings, followed by thin stools.

Burning in the anus after a stool; sensation of a plug.
Hæmorrhoidal vessels distended.
Stools, consisting of brown, frothy water, preceded by pain in abdomen and nausea; sometimes involuntary.
Stools of mucus and blood, with tenesmus; hard, constipated.

Clinical:
Chronic morning diarrhœa.
Periodical dysentery, particularly in the spring.

Frequent micturition, followed by burning; urine scanty, high-colored, often with a white sediment.

Clinical:
Chronic urethritis; feels as though a little urine remained after urinating and could not be expelled, with burning, etc.

Clinical:
Ulcers small, excavated, with tenacious exudation.
Yellow, tenacious leucorrhœa, with burning.
Prolapsus of the uterus, worse in hot weather.

Hoarseness; scraping in the larynx; hawking of tough mucus.
Laryngitis, with ulcerative pain; < talking; constantly needs to clear the throat.
Hoarseness and very rough voice, with thick, tenacious mucus, < in the evening.
Cough from tickling in the larynx; worse after eating; expectoration of thick, tenacious mucus: expectoration so tough that it is drawn out in strings.

Clinical:
Inflammation of the larynx, especially croup in the late stage, after the fever has disappeared; pulse soft, often weak.
Cough not dry, but hoarse and rough; tenacious mucus causes vomiting, etc.
Bronchitis; cough worse from eating in the morning, ameliorated by lying down and in the warmth.

Pain across the back in the lumbar region, cannot stoop, < motion.
Pain in the sacrum and coccyx when sitting, extending up to the nape or down the thighs.

Drawing pains in the limbs as if along the bones.
Shooting pains down the outside of the thighs, usually worse at night.
Tearing in the tibiæ.

Circumscribed ulceration, with tenacious exudation.
Psoriasis.
Acne.
Papular eruptions.
Eruptions, with burning pains.

Febrile excitement not marked, mostly coldness, rarely fever.
Always soft, weak pulse and prostration.

Kal. b. / (Kalb) / DeKalb

Kali bichor.,-Is the gem
For catarrhal, ropy phelgm.
Plugs or "clinkers" in the nose,
Pressing pains between the brows.
Purulent ophthalmia;
Any purulent display.
Red and cracked or yellow tongue,
Ropy mucus in the lung;
In the throat adhesive phelgm,
Morning hawking troublesome.
Wheezing diphtheritic croup,
Cough of the catarrhal group;
Cough assailing on awaking,
Or when off the clothing taking.
Ulcers deep, with clean smooth sides,
Bruise-like pain the shifting glides,
Vomiting of pinkish glint,
Frothy stools of brownish tint.
Appetite all gone away,
These complete the sad array.
Pains by food are aggravated,
And by warmth are mitigated.

DeKalb,-Has Chronic Nasal Catarrh.

DeKalb Clay, the potter, chased the hiding red Arabs at night.

This DeKalb,-Who is subject to "clinkers " in the nose,- Sails for Lemna.

Chronic Nasal Catarrh-Ozaena: Kal. b., Alu., Kal. c., Cal. c., Hep., Sul., Hyd., Sang., Ars. b., Ars. i., Nit. a., etc.

Plugs in the Nostrils-"Clinkers": Kal. b., Sul., Lyc., Sil., Lemna.

Indicated in affections of the mucous membrane, with ropy, tough, secretion (expectoration, nasal discharge, leucorrhoea, stools, etc.). In affections of the throat (diphtheria), stubborn and neglected nasal catarrh and ozaena, gastric and intestinal ulceration, coughs (membranous croup), pustular eruptions and ulcerations. Acts best upon persons of light complexion, of indolent disposition, with history of syphilis of scrofulosis. Has been used in nephritis.

Tongue mapped; broad, flat, indented; red, smooth, slimy (dysentery).

Nasal catarrh, with fetid smell and offensive, greenish-yellow, viscid discharge. Sniffles of infants.

Sticking pain in the nose; pressure at root of nose; loss of smell.

Ulceration of nasal septum.

Tough, elastic plugs in the nose, with raw surface underneath.

Ropy, tough, stringy discharge from mouth and throat.

Throat sore, dry. Deposits of pseudo-membrane on soft parts. Bladder-like appearance of the uvula, which is badly swollen and faintly red. Pain shooting up into the ear.

Hard, painful swelling of the parotids.

Hoarseness, worse toward evening.

Cough, harsh and with tenacious, yellow stringy expectoration.

Dysentery; stools like jelly, brown, frothy; sensation as of a plug in the anus.

Ropy mucus in the urine, clogging up the urethra.

Pustules and ulcers on the penis, with stitching pain, worse at night, syphilitic.

Pustules, resembling small-pox, with burning pain.

Deep ulcers, with punched-out edges.

Bone-pains, shifting, tearing, worse in the cold; with soreness and bruised pain.

Worse in the open air; takes cold easily.

Better from heat.

Indifference. Disinclination to mental work, to business. Ill humor. Gloomy. Discouraged. Better: Eating.

Whirling, on rising, with epigastric pain, with nausea, sudden, paroxysmal. Better: After acid vomiting. Worse: Descending.

Blindness followed by violent headache, sight returns as headache increases. Violent, shooting pains from root of nose to external canthus, (Cin.) increases till noon, cease toward evening. Feeling as if brain were too large and was driving skull bones asunder. As of a weight on vertex. Pains: Shooting or pressing, mostly in forehead and temples, as though cut to pieces with knives, sore, with bristling of hair on vertex, periodical, in small spots or radiating therefrom, over one eye. Sensitiveness of bones. Worse: Stopped nasal discharge, cold air, motion, stopping, at night. Better: Nosebleed, lying down.

Hair: Bristling, painful to touch over affected area. Hair falling out.

Brownish spots on sclerotic. Inflammation, With itching, with lachrymation, with agglutination. Redness of lid margins. lashes lost. Pus or mucus in, in canthi. Burning. Dryness. Feel raw. Swelling of upper lids edematous, with heaviness. Granular lids. Chromopsies. Twitching lids. Dim vision. Worse, Morning.

Stitches in, extending into palate.

Running of eyes and n, from least exposure to cold. Frequent violent sneezing. Snuffling. Stoppage. Discharges: Corrosive, watery, sudden purulent, of clinkers, scabs or plugs, offensive, of bloody mucus. Nosebleed: When bathing, after eating, preceded by burning eyes and sleepiness. Sensations: Dryness, stiffness within, burrowing, crawling, twitching, the bones rubbing together, being swollen, heaviness, as if a weight were hanging to it, tickling, as of a hair in, pressure or pain at root or in hones of, painful soreness of, sensitive tip. Expired air feels hot, the inspired cold. Ulcers in, especially perforating the septum. Smell: Imaginary, putrid, fetid from, lost. Worse: Damp weather, touch, evening.

Yellowish, sickly, anxious. (Lyc.) Drawn, pale, and covered with cold, clammy sweat. Acne on. Bones of, Bruised feeling, periodical tearing, boring, sensitiveness of, and of cranium. (Merc - cor.) Tension in scalp and face making features stiff. Swelling, over malar bones, under nose. Better: Warmth.

Boring, borrowing, gnawing, drawing, tearing, stitching. Gums: Livid, abscess in, bleed easily.

Dry, smooth, red and cracked. Thick. Coating, Yellowish, of base, of thick mucus on, mapped. Stinging prickling in. Burning at tip.

Aphthae. Burning, and excessive dryness in, and in throat, drinking cold water. Saliva: Salty, frothy, sticky. Salivation: With toothache, with drawing in ears, with tension and drawing in masseter muscles.

Taste: Astringent, metallic, greasy, putrid, sweetish, bloody, resinous. Bitter.

Posterior pharynx: Dark red and glistening, injected with bright red blood vessels, a fissure exudes blood. (Elap.) Hawks up thick gelatinous or much tenacious mucus in morning. Rawness, redness, roughness and swelling in. Ulcers in, and in mouth, covered by an ashy slough, excavated, containing yellow tenacious matter. Uvula baggy and elongated. Sensation of a plug in, of a hair in fauces, coldness in pharynx, a prickling substance in, sticking, extending into ears, adherent mucus in, scraping, causing vomiting. Swallowing difficult, feeling as if food stuck in oesophagus. Worse: Protruding tongue, swallowing, speaking. Better: In air.

Dyspeptic attacks, with low spirits, with confusion of head, with emaciation. Swelling of. Sensation, Of pressure, as of a load, weakness emptiness, sinking, anxiety, gnawing at pit, turning over in, soreness of, coldness of, burning, twitching and electric shocks. Pain, especially in pit. alternate gastric and rheumatic symptoms. Worse: Pressure of clothes, motion, after meat. Better: After eating.

Hypochondriac: Sticking in. Boring in left. Pain, in a small spot, in posterior (l.), in liver.

Appetite: Sense of hunger, with nausea and disinclination for food. Dislikes meat. Great thirst, longing for beer, for acid drinks.

Eructations: Convulsive, fetid, rancid, when hawking, with imaginary putrid smells.

Nausea, etc. Ñ At sight of food, sudden, excessive, with heat risings and sweetish flat salivation, with shuddering of chilliness, excited by slightest pressure on pit of stomach, after a glass of water. Vomiting: sudden, forcible, painful, glairy, bloody, with keen smell and taste, preceded by retching and followed by hiccough, of bright yellow water, with cold sweat on hands.

Inflamed, with cramps in many parts, chiefly legs. Distension. Painfully sensitive. Cramp - like constriction with nausea, then a pasty stool with burning and tenesmus in anus. Rumbling, gurgling and emission of much flatus. Violent cutting griping and twisting in. Gnawing at navel. Retracted. Weakness in navel region.

Worse: Touch, draft of air, afternoon, deep inspiration. Better: Pressure, after passing stool or flatus.

Diarrhoea, of brown frothy water, with excessively painful pressure, urging and tenesmus. Dysenteric: Bloody, dark coffee colored, extremely painful. Gushing, hurrying her out of bed. Involuntary. Odorless, Slate colored. Clay colored. Constipated, extremely hard. Followed by burning, soreness and pressure in anus. Worse: In morning, before rising, periodically.

Constipation, with painful retraction of. Sore, making it painful to walk. Sensations of, Boring, rawness, smarting, a plug, dragging, biting, tickling, stitches in.

Burning in, especially in bulbous and navicular portion of urethra. Sensation as if a drop of urine remained behind. Pyelitis. Albuminuria. Urine deposits a thick mucus sediment.

Escape of prostatic fluid during stool. Painful constriction at root of penis. Itching in glans. Smarting and rawness in vulva. Swelling of. Adhesive leucorrhoea.

Bronchitis. Much mucus in air passages excites hawking. Sore, ulcerative or burning pain in. Wheezing. Dyspnoea, in sleep, in damp weather. Worse: After eating or drinking, on undressing, morning on waking. Better: Getting warm in bed, lying.

Short. On every inspiration, excited by scraping or tickling in air passages, after meals, must hold his sides, with bloody taste in mouth, evening. Rough, hoarse voice. Incessant, from tickling in the trachea and bronchi with a stringy expectoration, or rarer but harder attacks with scanty, white, sweetish expectoration. Expectoration: Of very tough mucus, so viscid it hangs in strings down to feet, difficult to detach, sticky, heavy, lumpy, of reddish mucus, with traces of blood, slate colored, yellow, sweet.

Pains: Cutting. from mid - sternum thro to between shoulders, tearing sticking in, sores, as if bones were broken. Sensation of itching, dryness, rawness or burning in. Sensitive in nipple region. Heart: Coldness at. Pressive or sticking pains. Cramps about. Fluttering. Worse: Motion of lifting arms, of deep breathing, etc.

Scapular pains. Undulative contraction of dorsal muscles. Aching in kidney region, with scanty reddish urine and nausea. Sprained or paroxysmal lumbar pain, can't rise from stooping or a chair. Pain as of a blow or sacrum. Pain in coccyx, while sitting, walking or touch. Worse: Motion, during coition. On left side.

Neck: Stiff. Drawing. Tearing. Worse, Motion.

Loud cracking in joints. Twitchings. Pains: Rheumatic, bruised, paralytic, boring, gnawing, drawing, or tearing, in and about joints, often confined to a single fibre or spot, alternating with throat symptoms. Worse: Right.

As if asleep. Weakness, especially in hands, she drops things. Swelling of finger - joints. Pains in bones of, in wrists.

Trembling. Coldness. Heaviness. Sensitiveness of. Sciatica, walking and flexing leg, standing, sitting, lying, pressure and in hot weather. Swollen sensation. Cramp in patella. (Ruta.) Twitching in calves. Soreness of heels. Pain in bones of toes as if they would be torn off.

The secretions become tough. Stringy and adhesive, finally hardening into plugs, clinkers or lumps, causing obstruction of the outlets or narrow portions of hollow organs with consequent dilatation above. Erosions and ulcers on skin and mucous membrane. Symptoms alternate or suddenly shift their position. Pains often go from before backward, or are diurnal. Many symptoms appear in small spots. Yellow, vision, vomit, pus, saliva, sclerotic, skin and stool. Pains, gnawing, burning, cramping, drawing - tearing, mostly near or in periosteum or tendinous expansions. Periostitis. Great prostration, heaviness and sick feeling. Sluggishness. Emaciation. Hectic. Sensitive to cold air. Sluggish in mind, body and slow processes. Indolence everywhere. All the Kalis are adopted to indolent inflammations and ulcers.

Worse: Morning. 2 AM and 4 PM, Periodically. Hot weather. Dampness. After beer. In fat subjects. After coition. From touch.

Better: After a short nap. After eating. Evening. In open air. Motion, especially of affected parts.

Brown spots on. Measle - like rash Hard pimples. Deep ulcers, Having a punched - out appearance and penetrating to the bone, with overhanging edges and a dark center, painful in cold weather, leaving depressed white cicatrices, with adherent secretions.

Incessant, distressing yawning, with overpowering sleepiness, with gastric symptoms. Symptoms on falling to sleep. Nightmare, with arrested breathing. Unrefreshing. Worse after.

Surface of body cold. shivering coldness starting in extremities, with constriction in pericranium. Heat: Glowing mostly on face, with internal chilliness, dry mouth and lips, and cold arms and hands, must moisten lips. Sweat: Cold on forehead, clammy.

Allied Remedies: Ars., Bro., Caust., Cinnab., Cocc-c., Ferr., Hepp., Hydras., Graph., Iris-v., Kali-c., Lach., mar., Osm., Merc., Mez., Nit-c., Phyt., PULS., Sep., Sil., Spo., Staph., Sul., thuj.

Complementary: Ars., Phos., Sep., Psor.

The following symptoms have recently been cured by Kali-bi. They are found under Kali-bi. in Allen's Encyclopaedia, of Pure Materia Medica, page 237.

Weakness of digestion, so that the stomach was disordered by any but the mildest food (chrome washers).

Incarceration of flatulence in stomach and whole lower portion of abdomen. (Zlatarovich).

Great feebleness of stomach in the morning. (Lackner).

Feeling of emptiness in the stomach, though want of appetite at dinner. (Marenzetler).

Feeling a sinking in the stomach before breakfast. (Dr. R. Dudgeon).

The patient wakes in the night with great uneasiness in the stomach, and soreness and tenderness in a small spot to the left of the xiphoid appendix, which is very similar to symptoms in Drysdale's proving.

Sudden violent pain in the stomach, in its anterior surface, a burning constrictive pain. (Zlatarovich).

The same patient complains of repletion after a mouthful of food, and he had taken Lycopodium without benefit.

There was also cutting as with knives, and he was unable to digest potatoes or any starchy food.

There were no catarrhal symptoms of nose or chest, and no thick, ropy, mucous discharges, therefore Kali-bi. was neglected.

The stomach symptoms alone guided to as use as he had no other symptoms of importance.

The relief is marked, and I think permanent.

It will be seen that I have made use of the language of the prover mostly, as it so perfectly describes the symptoms of the patients.

In looking over the proving, the patient underscored such symptoms as he had suffered from, and the remedy was furnished on these symptoms, which really lends value to the provings.

Especially are these provings the more beautiful, as they are by several provers.