Kali Bromatum kali-br.

MIND. NERVES: Brain. Spine. Genitals. Larynx. Skin.

Mental exertion. Emotions. Periodically: Night. Summer. New moon. Sexual excesses. Puberty.

When busy.

Slow onset. No pain. General numbness; < occiput.

Depressive delusions. Nervous. Suspicion; fears people, yet can't be alone, in the dark, etc.; looks on all sides; fidgety, busy hands, fumbles. Moves arms about wildly. Mania. Night terrors. Melancholy; remorse, wrings hands, bursts into tears, etc. Slow hesitates; omits or mixes up words. Indifference. Hebetude. Poor memory. Brain-fag. Vertigo, as if ground gave way. Catarrh descends to larynx (Am-bro.). Cutting colic. Green, watery stool; with rapid collapse. Cholera infantum. Depressed sexual power. Flooding of young women. Croupy cough. Cool skin. Acne. Sleepy.

Antidote: Zin-pho. Related: Calc-c. Con. Op. Stram.

Adapted to large persons inclined to obesity; acts better in children than in adults. Loss of sensibility, fauces, larynx, urethra, entire body; staggering, uncertain gait; feels as if legs were all over sidewalk. Nervous, restless; cannot sit still, must move about or keep occupied; hands and fingers in constant motion; fidgety hands (fidgety feet, Zinc.); twitching of fingers. Fits of uncontrollable weeping and profound melancholic delusions. Loss of memory; forgets how to talk; absent-minded; has to be told the word before he could speak it (Anac.). Depressed, low-spirited, anxious, "feel as if they would lose their minds." Inco-ordination of muscles (Gels.); nervous weakness or paralysis of motion and numbness. Restlessness and sleeplessness due to worry and grief, loss of property or reputation, from business embarassements (Hyos.). Night terrors of children (Kali p.); grinding teeth in sleep, screams, moans, cries; horrible dreams, cannot be comforted by friends. Somnambulism (Sil.). Spasms: from fright, anger or emotional causes in nervous plethoric persons; during parturition, teething, whooping-cough, Bright's disease. Epilepsy: congenital, syphilitic, tubercular; usually a day or two before menses; at new moon; headache follows attack. Cholera infantum, with reflex irritation of brain, before effusion; first stage of hydrocephaloid. Daily colic in infants about 5 a. m. (at 4 p. m. Col., Lyc.). Nervous cough during pregnancy; dry, hard, almost incessant, threatening abortion (Con.). Stammering; slow, difficult speech (Bov., Stram.). Acne: simplex, indurata, rosacea; bluish-red, pustular, on face, chest, shoulders; leaves unsightly scars (Carbo an.); in young fleshy persons of gross habits.

One of the antidotes for lead poisoning. Often curative after Eugenia jambos in acne.

Sleeplessness, especially in anaemic patients, or nervous persons who are exhausted but irritable.

Bromide of Potash (KALI BROMATUM)

Like all Potash Salts, this weakens the heart and lowers temperature. Brominism is caused by it. General failure of mental power, loss of memory, melancholia, anæsthesia of the mucous membranes, especially of eyes, throat, and skin; acne; loss of sexual desire, paralysis. Leading remedy in psoriasis. Nodular form of chronic gout. Symptoms of apoplectic attacks, uræmic or otherwise; somnolence and stertor, convulsions, aphasia, albuminuria. Epilepsy (with salt-free diet).

Profound, melancholic delusion; feeling of moral deficiency; religious depression; delusions of conspiracies against him. Imagines he is singled out as an object of divine wrath. Loss of memory. Must do something-move about; gets fidgety (Tarant). Fear of being poisoned (Hyos). Amnesic aphasia; can pronounce any word told, but cannot speak otherwise. Night terrors. Horrid illusions. Active delirium.

Suicidal mania with tremulousness. Face flushed. Numb feeling in head. Brain-fag. Coryza with tendency to extension into throat.

Congestion of uvula and fauces. Anæsthesia of fauces, pharynx, and larynx. Dysphagia, especially of liquids (Hyos).

Vomiting, with intense thirst, after each meal. Persistent hiccough (Sulph ac).

Sensation as if bowels were falling out. Cholera infantum, with reflex cerebral irritation, jerking and twitching of muscles. Green, watery stools with intense thirst, vomiting, eyes sunken. Prostration. Internal coldness of abdomen. Diarrhœa, with much blood. Green, watery stools. Retraction of abdomen.

Sensibility of urethra diminished. Urine profuse, with thirst. Diabetes (Phos ac).

Debility and impotence. Effects of sexual excesses, especially loss of memory, impaired co-ordination, numbness and tingling in limbs. Sexual excitement during partial slumber.

Pruritus. Ovarian neuralgia with great nervous uneasiness. Exaggerated sexual desire. Cystic tumors of ovaries.

Spasmodic croup. Reflex cough during pregnancy. Dry, fatiguing, hacking cough at night.

Fidgety hands; busy twitching of fingers. Jerking and twitching of muscles.

Acne of face, pustules. Itching; worse on chest, shoulders, and face. Anæsthesia of skin. Psoriasis.

Restless sleep. Extreme drowsiness. Sleeplessness due to worry and grief and sexual excess. Night terrors. Grinding teeth in sleep. Horrible dreams. Somnambulism.

Better, when occupied mentally or physically.

A few grains of the crude salt to the third trituration. Remember the unstable character of this salt. Said to be much more active if salt is eliminated from the diet.

I do not know much about this remedy from a homœopathic standpoint. It first gained a reputation with the old school profession for its sleep-producing qualities and its power over epileptic seizures. As usual, it was pushed for these things until they found it was a dangerous remedy in the large doses which they had to use to produce the desired effect.

They discovered that it produced sleep, not by increasing the blood in the brain to stupefaction, like Opium, but, by decreasing the amount of blood, thus resembling more nearly natural sleep. Then they exclaimed, Eureka! But, alas! too great and long-continued anæmia resulted in lack of nutriment to the brain tissue, and as a consequence there developed depression, melancholia, insanity and signs of brain softening until Hammond, its chief advocate, admitted that it put more patients into the insane asylum than any other remedy.

Well, for what can we safely use the remedy? For the symptoms arising from cases simulating the effects of Kali bromatum, just as we do any other homœopathic remedy. I do not understand the remedy well enough to give characteristic indications for its homœopathic uses. There is one symptom which I think is valuable as a "guiding symptom," viz.: "fidgety hands." The patient must be working or playing with them continually; even the sleeplessness is somewhat relieved by moving the fingers over the bed clothes; or he plays with his watch chain or the head of his cane, anything to work off this excess of nervousness. Zincum has "fidgety feet," and Phosphorus a general fidgetiness of uneasiness; can't sit still, but changes position continually; not like Rhus toxicodendron, because he is relieved of pain by moving, but because he is simply nervous. The homœopathic uses of Kali bromatum ought to be better understood.

Bromide of Potassium. Potassic Bromide. K. Br. Solution. Trituration.

Acne. Aphasia . Apoplexy. Asthma. Cholera infantum. Chordee . Colic. Diabetes. Emissions . Epilepsy. Erythema nodosum. General paralysis of insane. Hæmorrhoids. Impotence . Laryngeal crises. Laryngismus. Locomotor ataxy. Nightmare. Nose, eruption on. Ovaries, affections of . Paralysis. Paralysis agitans. Polypus (rectal). Psoriasis. Screaming . Sebaceous cysts. Seborrhœa. Self-abuse . Sensibility, loss of. Sleeplessness. Somnambulism. Speech, affections of . Syphilis. Tetanus. Urine, incontinence of .

Kali bro . has been proved, but the greater part of the pathogenesis is made up of symptoms observed in allopathic overdosings, to which are added symptoms cured in the practice of homœopaths. In old-school practice K. bro . has been given in epileptic and other convulsive affections rather with the idea of overwhelming disease than of curing it. The effect has been in numberless cases to reduce or prevent the recurrence of tits at the expense of keeping the patient constantly under the influence of the drug and producing a state of mental hebetude or actual imbecility, "decreasing the excitability and power of the motor cells of the brain" (Alberton). Along with this it has produced a great variety of skin eruptions. At the same time, K. bro . has a decidedly specific relation to epilepsy and the epileptic state, and in its own cases will cure in the attenuations. K. bro . has a very profound action on the generative organs and the mental side of the generative sphere: sensual, lascivious fancies; satyriasis and nymphomania and finally impotence and wasting of the sexual organs. The cases of epilepsy in which it is curative are chiefly those associated with sexual excess or abuse in men; and those in which the fits occur during or near the menstrual period in women. The power of K. bro . over the sexual sphere is very great. In my allopathic days I have often known a few grains of the salt given at bedtime permanently relieve youths who were troubled with erections and sexual excitement on going to bed. It might have acted as well in the attenuations, but it could not have done better. It is indicated also in cases of epilepsy occurring at the new moon; and when headache follows the fit. In spasms from fright, anger, or emotional disturbances in nervous, plethoric persons; during parturition, dentition, whooping-cough, in Bright's disease. One of the most troublesome "accidents" of the allopathic use of K. bro . is the production of eruptions of many kinds, but most notably acne. Acne has a very definite relation to the sexual organs, being especially noticeable at puberty and, in women at the menstrual period. I know of no remedy of such universal usefulness in cases of simple acne as K. bro . 30. It has produced moist eruptions and pityriasis of the scalp. The sebaceous follicles are particularly affected, which should give it a place in seborrhœa. Erythema nodosum was observed in some patients under its influence. The moral and intellectual faculties are greatly disordered. The memory is lost: forgets how to talk; aphasic, has to be told the word before he can speak it. Depressed, melancholic; uncontrollable weeping. "Feel as if they would lose their minds." Restlessness and sleeplessness from worry. Staggering gait; ataxia; numbness and tingling in legs and spine, with increase in sexual appetite. "Fidgety hands"; fingers must be playing with something; twitching of fingers; cannot sit still. Night terrors in children from over excitability of brain; from worry; during dentition. Cholera infantum with hydrocephalic symptoms. Drowsiness is one of the notes of the drug: "Drops asleep in his chair, and if aroused falls asleep again immediately." The deep sleep may be broken by a start, though waking is very difficult. Confused dreams. Benumbed sensation of brain. Reflexes are diminished, and there is general loss of general sensibility, and also of certain parts, particularly fauces, larynx, and urethra. This depressed state has another side to it in the curious restlessness and fidgetiness. In the lungs pulmonary œdema or suffocative bronchitis may develop; the patient may become cachectic and the condition resemble typhoid fever (Amory Hare). Wenzel Heyberger has recorded ( H. R ., ii. 215) a case of diabetes in a lady, 68, cured with K. bro . The patient had been ill five months and was reduced to a skeleton. She first noticed a remarkably good appetite but after meals had heartburn and eructations. Then there was polyuria and frequent disturbances at night to pass water. Weak in the head, confused, memory impaired. Vision almost gone. Rushing and roaring in ears. Tormenting thirst. Stools difficult and delayed. Powders medicated with K. bro . 2 were given, one every six hours. The first night the patient slept without disturbance and the quantity of urine and proportion of sugar diminished. After about six-weeks the improvement seemed to stop and K. bro . was given in allopathic doses, but this aggravated the condition. K. bro . 2 was resumed, and the case went on to a cure. Hale cured with K. bro . many cases of cholera infantum, and one case of "violent periodic umbilical colic, leaving tenderness on pressure." The characteristic hour of recurrence is 5 p.m. Another feature of the K. bro . action is in relation to new growths. A number of cases of ovarian cyst have disappeared under its action, also fibroids and fatty tumours. The acne-producing property of the drug shows its relation to sebaceous secretions, and it has removed sebaceous cysts and wens. In connection with ovarian tumours or other affections, or independently, there may be uterine hæmorrhage — metrorrhagia or menorrhagia. It may arise from reflected irritation and may be accompanied with sexual excitement. But that is not necessarily the case. "Flooding, especially in young women," is Hering's indication. Burford has used it extensively in such cases and generally in attenuations approaching the crude. K. bro . is more particularly adapted to persons inclined to obesity; to children; to nervous women. More symptoms have been noted on the right side than on the left. Among the remarkable sensations are: "Parts feel as if growing large." "Paroxysms of numbness; feels as if needles were pricking him." Trembling sensation. A marked periodicity appears in the symptoms (which itself relates the drug to epilepsy); symptoms recur paroxysmally. Every 2, 3, or 24 hours. Twice a week; fortnightly; at new moon. Urticaria in winter. Most symptoms are < at night. < 2 a.m. regularly. There is chilliness in a hot room; and itching during high temperature. < In hot weather; < in summer. Skin > in cold weather. Vertigo is < by stooping. Cough < lying down. The old-school contra-indications for the Bromides are: General asthenia and feebleness of the nervous system; post-typhoidal and post-puerperal insanity; senile softening of the brain; and when the gastro-intestinal mucous membrane is irritated (Hare). These are keynotes for K. bro . in high attenuations.

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Unconscious of what is occurring around them ; cannot recognize, nor be comforted by their friends.
Loss of memory.
Memory absolutely destroyed ; anemia ; emaciation.
Loss of memory, despondency, inability to concentrate mind on any object ; constant worry, fears to see people or to be spoken to ; vertigo, with falling, < from stooping ; failure of mental and bodily strength ; pricking sensation all over body, palpitation ;
constantly busy, tying his shoes, fumbling in his pockets, picking threads, etc. θ Mental derangement.
Loss of memory, forgets how to talk, absentmindedness.
Loss of memory ; had to be told the word before he could speak it. θ Amnesic aphasia.
Single words forgotten ; syllables are dropped.
Inability to express oneself.
Mentally dull, torpid ; perception slow, answers slowly.
Imagines he is singled out as an object of divine wrath ; extreme drowsiness.
Imagines she is a devil ; cannot sleep ; fears to be alone.
Positive delusions of various kinds.
Delusions during and after delirium tremens.
In first stage with horrid illusions, flushed face, red eyes, and hard and quick pulse. θ Delirium tremens.
Frightful imaginings at night (in pregnant women during latter months), they are under impression that they have committed, or about to commit, some great crime and cruelty, such as murdering their children or husbands.
Hallucinations of sight and sound, with or without mania, precede brain and paralytic symptoms.
Delirium, with delusions ; thinks he is pursued ; will be poisoned ; is selected for divine vengeance ; that her child is dead, etc.
Delirium tremens, in first or irritative stage ; face flushed ; eyes red ; delirium active ; horrid illusions ; hard, quick pulse.
Puerperal mania.
Acute mania, with fulness of bloodvessels of brain.
Insanity ; manner excited, rambling.
Feels as if he would go out of his mind.
She is very fretful, crying at trifles, constantly brooding over loss of a daughter ; almost crazy ; from fretting, loss of rest and want of nourishment, is seized with nervous dysentery.
Hands constantly busy ; all sorts of fearful delusions ; walks the room groaning, bemoaning his fate ; full of fear ; unsteady.
Fits of uncontrollable weeping and profound melancholic delusions.
Feeling of lightness and exhilaration in place of heaviness and depression.
Depressed ; low-spirited ; has nervous anxiety.
Remarkably depressed, well marked amnesic aphasia.
Deep depression, with painful delusions, with persistent sleeplessness, and dread of impending destruction of all near to her.
Great despondency ; "feel as if they should go out of their minds".
Profound melancholic depression, with religious delusions and feeling of moral deficiency ; frequent shedding of tears, low-spirited and childish, giving way to her feelings ; profound indifference and almost disgust for life. θ Melancholia.
Profound melancholy, from anemia.
Great despondency, with insanity, a feeling of moral deficiency, or a religious delusion, from anemia.
Melancholy, with delusions ; often childish ; fits of uncontrollable weeping.
Night terrors of children (not from indigestion), with screaming, unconsciousness of what is occurring around them ; cannot recognize, nor be comforted by their friends ; sometimes followed by squinting.
Apathetic, indifferent.
Timid, suspicious, full of fear.
Much concerned about health ; complains without cause ; restless and trembling in evening ; low-spirited, with great and uncontrollable sensation of fear and anxiety ; thinks she is becoming deranged ; change of life.
So sensitive and irritable of mind she cannot give her music lessons ; very thought of piano breaks her down, makes her shake all over, and then cry with fear and apprehension that she is losing her mind ; cries easily ; so easily confused that she cannot say what she
wishes to ; least thing worries her ; makes her utterly miserable to be looked at or spoken to ; fears to see people ; always depressed and low-spirited ; memory weak and unreliable. θ Melancholia.
Overtaxed brain.

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Adapted to large persons inclined to obesity; acts better in children than in adults.

Loss of sensibility, fauces, larynx, urethra, entire body; staggering, uncertain gait; feels as if legs were all over side walk.

Nervous, restless; cannot sit still, must move about or keep occupied; hands and fingers in constant motion; fidgety hands (fidgety feet, Zinc.); twitching of fingers.

Fits of uncontrollable weeping and profound melancholic delusions.

Loss of memory; forgets how to talk; absent-minded; had to be told the word before he could speak it (Anac.).

Depressed, low-spirited, anxious, "feel as if they would lose their minds."

Incoördination of muscles (Gels.); nervous weakness or paralysis of motion and numbness.

Restlessness and sleeplessness due to worry and grief, loss of property or reputation, from business embarrassments (Hyos.).

Night terrors of children (Kali p.); grinding teeth in sleep, screams, moans, cries; horrible dreams, cannot be comforted by friends. Somnambulism (Sil.).

Spasms: from fright, anger or emotional causes in nervous plethoric persons; during parturition, teething, whooping-cough, Bright's disease.

Epilepsy: congenital, syphilitic, tubercular; usually a day or two before menses; at new moon; headache follows attack.

Cholera infantum, with reflex irritation of brain, before effusion; first stage of hydrocephaloid.

Daily colic in infants about 5 A. M. (at 4 P. M., Col., Lyc.).

Nervous cough during pregnancy; dry, hard, almost incessant, threatening abortion (Con.).

Stammering; slow, difficult speech (Bov., Stram.).

Acne: simplex, indurata, rosacea; bluish-red, pustular, on face, chest, shoulders; leaves unsightly scars (Carbo an.); in young fleshy persons of gross habits.

Intermittent; quotidian; continued; typhoid.

Body cold; skin corrugated and mottled. Chilliness and general coldness, < especially about extremities; shivering, with external coldness.

In face with fugitive flushes here and there.

Head hot, feels as. if in a furnace, with coldness and chills.

Profuse and viscid, all over body; long-lasting and exhausting.

Imagines she is a devil; cannot sleep; fears to be alone (medicine developed urticaria with relief).
Excited, hands constantly busy; timid, suspicious.
Frightful images at night during pregnancy; or in children, who awake screaming, unconscious, recognize no one; followed by squinting.
Delirium, with delusions; thinks he is pursued; will be poisoned; is selected for divine vengeance; that her child is dead, etc.
Delirium tremens, flushed face, horrid illusions.
Melancholy, with delusions; often childish; fits of uncontrollable weeping. Feels as if he would go out of his mind.
Apathetic, indifferent.
Mentally dull, torpid; perception slow, answers slowly.
Inability to express oneself; loss of memory; amnesic aphasia.
Single words forgotten or syllables are dropped.

Vertigo: as if ground gave way; and staggering gait; with confusion and heat of head, drowsiness, stupor; fainting and nausea followed by sound sleep.

Brain irritated, face flushed, pupils dilated, eyes sunken; rolls head; awakes now and then screaming; extremities colds; cholera infantum. See 20, 32, 44.
Active congestion; inflammation before effusion has occurred.

Scalp feels tight, brain numb, confused; difficult walking.

Vision dim, pupils dilated; with heavy lids and invincible drowsiness.
Squinting. See 1.
Hallucinations of sight and sound, with or without mania precede brain and paralytic symptoms.
Gaze fixed.
Eyes sunken, lustreless.
Vessels of fundus enlarged.
Conjunctivæ congested.

Sounds echo in ears; headache.
Hardness of hearing.
Roaring in ears at night synchronous with pulse.

Smell lessened.
Thick mucus and yellow scabs in nostrils.

Expression: pale, but otherwise appeared as one drunk, with hallucination, etc.; wearied, anxious; dull, stupefied; imbecile.
Complexion yellow, cachectic.

Tongue: red, dry, enlarged; red, later dry and brown; white, with languor and sleepiness.
Tongue red and tender; gums spongy; diabetes.
Difficult speech; action of tongue disordered; also slow and difficult after waking; stammering.

Breath fetid; tongue white.
Saliva profuse, with fetid breath.
Taste: foul; lost.

Dryness.
Uvula and fauces congested, then œdematous.
Dysphagia of liquids (in infants); can swallow only solids.
Anæsthesia of the mouth, throat and pharynx; chronic alcoholism.

Thirst intense with dry mouth.

Sick and giddy.
Repeated retching and emesis.

Abdomen spasms, walls retracted, convulsive motions of eyes and limbs; frequent green, watery stools; summer complaint.
Sensation as if the bowels were falling out.

Discharges watery; cholera infantum, especially with cerebral irritation and collapse. See 1, 3, 44.
Constipation; stools dry, hard, infrequent.

Diabetes, the urine is loaded with sugar.
Profuse, with abundance of phosphates.
Urine scanty; even suppressed in collapse.
Dribbling of urine at beginning of stool.
Incontinence of urine.

Desires lessened even to impotence.
Seminal emissions, with depressed spirits, dull thought, backache, staggering gait and great weakness.

Has removed ovarian cysts.
Is claimed to be useful in uterine fibroids and subinvolution.
Ovarian neuralgia from ungratified sexual desire; nervous unrest.

Paroxysmal, dry, at intervals of two or three hours; difficult respiration; followed by a vomiting of mucus or food; worse at night and when lying down.

Action: lacks energy; sounds seem distant and feeble; slow, fluttering.
Pulse: accelerated, later slower; slow, small weak.

Hands and fingers in constant action; busy (See 1.); twitching of fingers.
Trembling of hands during voluntary motion; or, as in delirium tremens.

Lying down: 27. Motion: 32.

Lessens reflex excitation, hence its antipathic application to epilepsy and kindred affections.
Nervous, busy, must occupy oneself; often in nervous women.
Nervous excitement, irritation and congestion of the cerebral meninges, with mania, etc.
Inco-ordination of muscles; nervous weakness, even paralysis of motion and numbness.
Gait: unsteady, reeling as if drunk, with rolling and staggering; as one walks with locomotor ataxia.
Looks to see if legs are really moving.
Weakness of the extensors of legs and feet.
Languor, disinclined to talk, or use mind or work, indifferent, sleepy, yet by a strong effort of will can act as usual.
General delirium, hallucinations, fancies about being persecuted, ataxia; as in general paralysis.
Restlessness, fitfulness of motion, with giddiness.

Sleepiness; deep sleep, often broken by a start, though waking is very difficult; confused dreams.
Awakes from a profound sleep, not knowing where he is.
Sleeplessness, especially in anæmic patients, or nervous persons who are exhausted but irritated.
Waking: 11.

Night: 1, 6, 27, 40.

High temperature: 46.
Winter: 46.

Lowers the temperature 1° to 2°. Pulse 40. Skin cold, clammy. See 1, 3, 20, 44.
Painful flushings of the face at the climacteric period.
Sweat abundant, viscid; long-lasting and exhausting.

Muscles irritated, rendered inco-ordinate and then paralyzed.
Lowers temperature, with coldness of extremities, hands and wrists icy-cold and wet, cerebral irritation, in cholera infantum. See 1, 3, 20, 40.
Emaciation; weak, pallid.

Acne simplex and indurata; bluish-red, pustular; worse on face and chest; especially in lymphatic constitutions.
Rose-colored, mammilated eruption on the lower extremities; sometimes pustules in centre of patches that become umbilicated, exuding a creamy moisture and forming thick, yellow, scabs.
Slightly elevated, smooth, red patches, like urticaria, but with hardened bases, like erythema nodosum, itching at night in bed and in a high temperature; appear in winter.
Moist eczema of legs with pityriasis of the scalp.

Compare Ambr. gris., Hyosc., Gelsem. (sleepless from nervous exhaustion); Bellad. (but latter has sthenic symptoms; Kali brom., symptoms of debility, muscular coldness and redness as in collapse); Opium, Camphor., Camph. brom. (collapse in cholera infantum).

The pure Bromide of Potash is dissolved in distilled water (1 to 99) for the first dilution.

Like other potash salts it weakens the heart and lowers the temperature. ▶ Its chief interest lies in the "Bromism" caused by it, the seat of which is in the spinal cord or the nerves leading to the brain cells. ▶ Tetaniform convulsions and even opisthotonos in animals; in man, general failure of mental power, especially loss of memory and of words and melancholia, anæsthesia of the mucous membranes, especially of eyes and throat, and of the skin; acne; loss of sexual desire, imbecility, idiocy, paralysis.

Emaciation. ▶ Marasmus. ▶ Diminishes the retrograde metamorphosis of tissue. ▶ Diminishes mucous secretions. ▶ Capillary circulation affected, independent of heart and arteries. ▶ Threw himself down, closed his eyes, seemed above the earth, quite happy. ▶ Crouched by the fireside all day, devoid of energy and resolution. ▶ Convulsions, amel. appearance of eruption, papules of acne united in area, on these areas yellowish points beneath skin, on the surface a crust, and where this was rubbed the surface became peculiarly papillated. ▶ Ataxia of limbs and tongue and impeded articulation. ▶ Restlessness. ▶ Aversion to exercise. ▶ Lazy, indifferent and sleepy. ▶ Weakness; muscular, and bruised feeling in limbs and loins; muscular, becoming paralysis. ▶ Inability to hold herself upright. ▶ Fainting. ▶ Inability to move or feel. ▶ Diminished nervous sensibility in general and especially diminution of reflex sensibility. ▶ Insensibility.

Convulsions, epileptiform in character, but it is doubtful whether the drug really cures true epilepsy; it certainly suppresses the convulsions for the time, in many cases, but it does not seem to remove the constitutional tendency to their recurrence; nearly all cases of epilepsy are obliged to continue taking the drug, often in increasing doses, in order to obtain its palliative effect.

Delirium. ▶ Delusions about persecution and violence. ▶ Imagined that he was singled out for Divine vengeance, loudly deplored his fate, but at intervals fell asleep suddenly, then sound sleep, next day he walked the room. ▶ Groaning and wringing his hands, said the officers were in search of him for robbing a friend. ▶ Delusion that she was deserted by her friends, hence she passed her waking moments, which were not many, in tears, another delusion that she saw her child dead, and when it was brought to her she refused to acknowledge that it was hers or resembled the one she imagined dead. ▶ Delusion that lewd women and got into his mother's house, that he was pursued by the police, that his life was threatened by members of his family, that he had gold sewed up in his clothing, his appearance and manner similar to those of a drunken man, except that he was very pale, pulse slow, skin cool, pupils contracted, manner excited and rambling, hands constantly busy, timid and suspicious, attempted to throw himself from a window and battered down a door to escape from danger. ▶ Delusions, with melancholy, imagined that she was insulted and that the weekly bills of the landlord were evidences of a conspiracy against her father, gave a loud shriek and declared that she had seen her brother fall overboard. ▶ Violent excitement, glorying in his imaginary power of mind and body, then despondent, sullen, often lachrymose, frequently even despairing. ▶ Feeling that everything felt, seen or thought had been experienced before, as in a dream. ▶ Hallucinations of sight and sound, with or without mania. ▶ Precede apathy and paralysis.

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In large doses it produces tetaniform convulsions, opisthotonos in animals; in men, general failure of mental power, especially loss of memory, melancholia, anæsthesia of the mucous membranes of the eyes and throat and skin; acne, loss of sexual power, imbecility, paralysis.

Clinical:
In moderate doses, it arrests for the time being, epileptic convulsions, but rarely prevents their recurrence.
In continued doses, it impairs the mental powers in a manner similar to that caused by true epilepsy.
Its homœopathic use is very limited.

Loss of memory, especially for words and syllables; when writing, omits words or parts of words.

Clinical:
Brain fag; a numb feeling in the head as if one would lose his reason.
Cerebral anæmia, with cold extremities, etc.
Night terrors of children, suicidal mania, with tremulousness.

Anæsthesia of the fauces, without impairment of swallowing.

Persistent hiccough.

Frequent, profuse micturition; urine is pale and watery.

Clinical:
Palliative in diabetes, with impaired mental power, dryness of mouth, etc.

Clinical:
The effects of sexual excesses, melancholia, loss of memory, numbness of the limbs.
Ovarian neuralgia.
Even ovarian tumors.
Reflex symptoms in pregnancy, pruritis, cough, neuralgia, etc.

Cough dry, paroxysmal, recurring every night when lying down, resembling whooping cough.

Acne of the face, cheeks and forehead.