Kali Carbonicum kali-c.

Muscles; ligaments: HEART. Uterus. LUMBAR. SEROUS and mucous membranes: CHEST (R. lower). Joints. Eyes. Blood. Left side.

Cold: AIR. Water. Drafts. Changes after Overheating. Changes after exertion. Time: 2-3 A.M. Winter. Before menses. Lying: On painful or left side. Loss of fluids. After labor.

Warmth. Sitting with elbows on knees. Open air.

WEAKENING, intellection; muscles, heart, back, limbs, etc. Gives out, leans on something or lies down; with backache, profuse secretions, sweat, etc. Soft, thin blooded and cold. Old, fleshy, dropsical or paralytic. SHARP STITCHINGS, stabbings or catches in joints, muscles, chest, head, epigastrium, back, etc. Throbbing, numb or cold single parts, abdomen, fingers, etc. Acrid discharges. Sub-acute conditions. Parts lain on are painful and go to sleep.

Peevish. Easily startled; < touch; on dropping to sleep. Anxious aversion to solitude. Headaches, into eyes; wake from sleep. Eyes weak. Vision, spotted; like drops before. Puffs over, inner angle of eyes or baggy upper lids. Stitches out of ears. Head colds; go to chest. Nose stuffed, > open air; swelled; yellow-green or crusty discharge. Puffy face. Slimy mouth. Gray tongue. Itching gums. Hawks up tough mucus in A.M. DIFFICULT SWALLOWING. Salty regurgitation. Vomits sour mucus. Sensitive, distended stomach and abdomen. Fulness; from but little, even after drinks; as if full of water. Anxious at epigastrium. Throbbing back of stomach; at navel. Gastric pains going to back, chest, limbs, etc. Flatulence. Hard tympanites. Stool difficult; of large, hard lumps, then burning or torn feeling. Piles inflamed, bleeding; descend when urinating or coughing, > riding horseback; stick like fine needles, > cool bathing. Burning in l. kidney. Nocturnal enuresis of adults. Urine foamy, with thick, tough, red sediment. Delayed first menses. Amenorrhœa. Colic, then irritating menses; > washing. Inefficient labor pains. Catarrhal aphonia. Respiration short, < least motion or walking; asthmatic, alternating with diarrhœa; with vertigo. Incessant, hard retching or choking, futile cough; then vomiting. Pertussis. Lungs seem to stick to ribs. Pleurisy. Stabbing chest pains. Heart seems to hang by a thread; pains toward l. scapula. Palpitation; then weakness; in valvular disease. Arrhythmia. Cardiac degeneration. Fine stitches in mammæ. Everything affects the small of the back or pains start there. Back and legs give out; feel heavy. Lumbago. Arms weak; numb pinching in left. Painful tips of fingers and toes. Œdema of left foot. Sensitive soles; skin. Dry hair and skin. General itching or hives; during menses. Talks in sleep. Pulse small, soft, variable, intermittent or dicrotic. Chilly; with hot hands; and sleepiness; in open air. Internal burning. Sweat scanty, foul on feet.

Complementary: Carb-v. Nit-ac. Pho. Related: Calc-Hypo. Lyc. Pho.

For diseases of old people, dropsy and paralysis; with dark hair, lax fibre, inclined to obesity (Am. c., Graph.). After loss of fluids or vitality, particularly in anaemic (Cinch., Phos. ac., Phos., Psor.). Pains, stitching, darting, worse during rest and lying on affected side (stitching, darting, better during rest and lying on painful side, Bry.). Cannot bear to be touched; starts when touched ever so lightly, especially on the feet. Great aversion to being alone (Ars., Bis., Lyc. - desires to be alone, Ign., Nux). Bag-like swellings between the upper eyelids and eyebrows. Weak eyes; after coition, pollution, abortion, measles. Stomach: distended, sensitive; feels as if it would burst; excessive flatulency, everything she eats or drinks appears to be converted to gas (Iod.)[Lyc.]. Nosebleed when washing the face in the morning (Am. c., Arn.). Toothache only when eating; throbbing; < when touched by anything warm or cold. Backache, sweating, weakness; after abortion, labor, metrorrhage; when eating; while walking feels as if she must give up and lie down. Cough: dry, paroxsymal, loosens viscid mucus or pus which must be swallowed; spasmodic with gagging or vomiting of ingesta; hard, white or smoky masses fly from throat when coughing (Bad., Chel.). Feels badly, week before menstruation; backache, before and during menses. Labor pains insufficient; violent backache; wants the back pressed (Caust.). Asthma, relieved when sitting up or bending forward or by rocking; worse from 2 to 4 a. m. Persons suffering from ulceration of the lungs can scarcely get well without this anti-psoric - Hahnemann. Difficult swallowing; sticking pain in pharynx as of a fish-bone (Hep., Nit. ac.); food easily gets into the windpipe; pain in back when swallowing. Constipation: stool large, difficult, with stitching, colic pains an hour or two before. Heart: tendency to fatty degeneration (Phos.); as if suspended by a thread (Lach.). Very much inclined to take cold.

Complementary: Carbo veg. Follows well: after, Kali s., Phos., Stan. in loose rattling cough. Will bring on the menses when Nat. m. though apparently indicated, fails - Hahnemann.

The most characteristic indication is a stitching pain, or a series of sharp stitching pains, which may be felt in any part of the body, as in colics, during labor, or in any kind of troubles, which are accompanied by these sharp, stitching pains,--called also jerking pains. One of the best of remedies following childbirth, and its consequences.

Violent headaches about the inner temples; violent stitching or jerking pains, on one side of the head or both. Affections of the hair of the head; eyebrows. Dazzling of the sight preventing clear vision; spotted vision, i.e., there appears to be a spot, or spots between the eyes and the object looked at.

Obstruction from inactivity of the bowels, as a want of proper peristaltic motion; affections of the anus; stools too large in size; hæmorrhoids.

Cough with expectoration bloody, acrid, or purulent.

Male: Complaints in the male from coition, from involuntary seminal emissions. Female: Prominent remedy for vaginal troubles; also for the uterus. Pain like labor pains; false pains, which usually come in the back, and pass down over the buttocks, through the gluteal muscles; labor pains ceasing, or too weak. Menstruation too late, a long interval elapsing between the periods; menses too scanty; menses suppressed; menstrual blood acrid. Complaints after parturition.

Waking too early, particularly at three or four o'clock in the morning; sleepiness in the evening; sleeplessness after midnight; sleeplesness in general.

Sharp stitching or jerking pains; cutting or jerking in inner parts, or sometimes both; sensations of knocking, or throbbing, or jumping in outer parts; great weakness of the joints.

Affections in general, occurring in the right hypochondriac region; right abdominal ring; left chest; left upper extremity; external and internal ears; of the inner surface of the liver; inner region of the kidneys; lower part of the chest; shoulder; shoulder-joint; elbow and elbow-joint; hollow of the elbow; wrist-joint: big toe; tips of the toes; joints of the legs in general; joints of the toes. Disgust of food in general. Obstructed flatus. Aversion to the open air. Subsultus tendium. Inflammatory swelling of the part, with the characteristic (stitching or jerking) pains. Dryness of the skin.

Worse after midnight; after sexual intercourse; in cold air; on getting cold; during eating; after eating; from getting heated; during menstruation; from suppressed menstruation; lying on the side (either); looking at an object fixedly; from involuntary pollutions; when writing.

From eructation; while sitting in a bent position, on getting warm; from warmth in general; in warm air.

Arsen., Lycop., Pulsat., Phosphor., Sepia, Sulphur.

Spirits of Nitre, Dulcam.

Swelling like a sack between the eyebrows and lids Stitches in region of liver, with tension across the abdomen. Stitches in the chest on inspiration, cutting pains in the evening, after lying down; cough worse from 3 to 4 a.m.

Carbonate of Potassium (KALI CARBONICUM)

The weakness characteristic of all Potassium Salts is seen especially in this, with soft pulse, coldness, general depression, and very characteristic stitches, which may be felt in any part of the body, or in connection with any affection. All Kali pains are sharp and cutting; nearly all better by motion. Never use any Salts of Potash where there is fever (T. F. Allen). Sensitive to every atmospheric change, and intolerance of cold weather. One of the best remedies following labor. Miscarriage, for consequent debilitated states. Early morning aggravation is very characteristic. Fleshy aged people, with dropsical and paretic tendencies. Sweat, backache, and weakness. Throbbing pains. Tendency to dropsy. Tubercular diathesis. Pains from within out, and of stinging character. "Giving-out" sensation. Fatty degenerations. Stinging pains in muscles and internal parts. Twitching of muscles. Pain in small spot on left side Hypothyroidism. Coxitis.

Despondent. Alternating moods. Very irritable. Full of fear and imaginations. Anxiety felt in stomach. Sensation as if bed were sinking. Never wants to be left alone. Never quiet or contented. Obstinate and hypersensitive to pain, noise, touch.

Vertigo on turning. Headache from riding in cold wind. Headache comes on with yawning. Stitches in temples; aching in occiput, one-sided, with nausea, on riding in carriage. Loose feeling in head. Great dryness of hair; falls out (Fluor ac).

Stitches in eyes. Spots, gauze, and black points before eyes. Lids stick together in morning. Swelling over upper lid, like little bags. Swelling of glabella between brows. Asthenopia. Weak sight from excessive sexual indulgence. On shutting eyes, painful sensation of light penetrating the brain.

Stitches in ears. Itching, cracking, ringing and roaring.

Nose stuffs up in warm room. Thick, fluent, yellow discharge. Post-nasal dropping (Spigel). Sore, scurfy nostrils; bloody nasal mucus. Crusty nasal openings. Nosebleed on washing face in morning. Ulcerated nostrils.

Gums separate from teeth; pus oozes out. Pyorrhea. Aphthæ. Tongue white. Much saliva constantly in mouth. Bad, slimy taste.

Dry, parched, rough. Sticking pain, as from a fish-bone. Swallowing difficult; food goes down œsophagus slowly. Mucous accumulation in the morning.

Flatulence. Desire for sweets. Feeling of lump in pit of stomach. Gagging. Dyspepsia of old people; burning acidity, bloating. Gastric disorders from ice-water. Sour eructations. Nausea; better lying down. Constant feeling as if stomach were full of water. Sour vomiting; throbbing and cutting in stomach. Disgust for food. Anxiety felt in stomach. Epigastrium sensitive externally. Easy choking when eating. Epigastric pain to back.

Stitches in region of liver. Old chronic liver troubles, with soreness. Jaundice and dropsy. Distention and coldness of abdomen. Pain from left hypochondrium through abdomen; must turn on right side before he can rise.

Large, difficult stools, with stitching pain an hour before. Hæmorrhoids, large, swollen, painful. Itching, ulcerated pimples around anus. Large discharge of blood with natural stool. Pain in hæmorrhoids when coughing. Burning in rectum and anus. Easy prolapsus (Graph; Pod). Itching (Ignat).

Obliged to rise several times at night to urinate. Pressure on bladder long before urine comes. Involuntary urination when coughing, sneezing, etc.

Complaints from coition. Deficient sexual instinct. Excessive emissions, followed by weakness.

Menses early, profuse (Calc c) or too late, pale and scanty, with soreness about genitals; pains from back pass down through gluteal muscles, with cutting in abdomen. Pain through left labium, extending through abdomen to chest. Delayed menses in young girls, with chest symptoms or ascites. Difficult, first menses. Complaints after parturition. Uterine hæmorrhage; constant oozing after copious flow, with violent backache, relieved by sitting and pressure.

Cutting pain in chest; worse lying on right side. Hoarseness and loss of voice. Dry, hard cough about 3 am, with stitching pains and dryness of pharynx. Bronchitis, whole chest is very sensitive. Expectoration scanty and tenacious, but increasing in morning and after eating; aggravated right lower chest and lying on painful side. Hydrothorax. Leaning forward relieves chest symptoms. Expectoration must be swallowed; cheesy taste; copious, offensive, lump. Coldness of chest. Wheezing. Cough with relaxed uvula. Tendency to tuberculosis; constant cold taking; better in warm climate.

Sensation as if heart were suspended. Palpitation and burning in heart region. Weak, rapid pulse; intermits, due to digestive disturbance. Threatened heart failure.

Great exhaustion. Stitches in region of kidneys and right scapula. Small of back feels weak. Stiffness and paralytic feeling in back. Burning in spine (Guaco). Severe backache during pregnancy, and after miscarriage. Hip-disease. Pain in nates and thighs and hip-joint. Lumbago with sudden sharp pains extending up and down back and to thighs.

Backs and legs give out. Uneasiness heaviness, and tearing in limbs and jerking. Tearing pain in limbs with swelling. Limbs sensitive to pressure. White swelling of knee. Tearing in arms from shoulder to wrist. Lacerating in wrist-joint. Paralysis of old people, and dropsical affections. Limbs go to sleep easily. Tips of toes and fingers painful. Soles very sensitive. Itching of great toe, with pain. Pain from hip to knee. Pain in knees.

Burning as from a mustard plaster.

Drowsy after eating. Wakes about two o'clock and cannot sleep again.

Worse, after coition; in cold weather; from soup and coffee; in morning about three o'clock; lying on left and painful side. Better, in warm weather, though moist; during day, while moving about.

Complementary: Carbo; (Lowness of vitality may suggest a preliminary course of Carbo to nurse up recuperation to the point that Kali carb would come in helpfully). Follows Nux often in stomach and bladder troubles.

Compare: Kali salicylicum (vomiting, especially of pregnancy; arteriosclerosis, with chronic rheumatism); kali silicum (gouty nodosities); Kali aceticum (diabetes, diarrhœa, dropsy, alkaline urine, very much increased in quantity); Kali citricum (Bright's disease-1 gr to wine-glass of water); Kali ferrocyanatum-Prussian blue--(physical and mental prostration following infection. Inability to sustained routine work. Neuralgic affections depending on impoverished blood and exhausted nerve centers, especially spinal. Fatty and functional heart troubles. Pulse weak, small, irregular. Uterine symptoms, like Sepia, bearing-down sensation and gastric sinking; profuse, pus-like leucorrhœa and passive hæmorrhage; use 6x); Kali oxalicum (lumbago, convulsions); Kali picro-nitricum and kali pricricum (jaundice, violent eructations); kali tartaricum (paraplegia); Kali telluricum (garlicky odor of breath, salivation, swollen tongue). Also compare: Calc; Ammon phos; Phos; Lycop; Bry; Natrum; Stann; Sepia.

Antidotes: Camph; Coffea.

Thirtieth and higher. Sixth trit. Do not repeat too often. Use cautiously in old gouty cases, advanced Bright's and tuberculosis.

Stitching pains, very characteristic.

Pain in lower right chest through to back.

Anæmia with bloating, especially upper eyelids, which hang down like a bag of water.

Backache, sweat, weakness very great; drops down in chair.

Flatulence great; everything turns to gas.

Heart weak, irregular, intermits.

After loss of fluids or of vitality, particularly in the anæmic.

Asthma, relieved when sitting up or bending forward, or by rocking (Ars.); worse from 2 to 4 A. M.

Backache, before and during menses.

Complementary to Carbo vegetabilis.

This remedy, like some others, finds its leading symptom in the character of its pains. It leads all the remedies for stitching pains. Bryonia stands next, but there is a very marked difference. The stitching pains of Bryonia come on with every movement, and only exceptionally when quiet, while those of Kali carb. come on independently of movement. Again, the stitching pains of Bryonia are oftenest located in serous membranes, while those of Kali carb. are found anywhere and everywhere, and in almost every tissue, even to the teeth. One of the favorite localities, however, for this remedy is in the lower right chest. This sharp stitching pain is likely to run right through to the back. If in pneumonia or pleuro-pneumonia your Bryonia has failed when you thought it indicated, and further examination reveals that the stitching pains come on independently of the respiratory movement, Kali carb. often helps, and follows well after Bryonia. Often the fact is, that Kali carb. was all the time the remedy and ought to have been given first. Now, these stitching pains of Kali carb. are not by any means confined to the right chest, but we may find them in the left, especially in pleuro-pneumonia, peri- or endocarditis. Remember, also, Mercurius vivus in these lower right-chest pains. If there should be present at the same time sweat without relief, and the mercurial mouth and tongue, neither Bryonia nor Kali carb. are "in it."

Another kind of case in which this remedy has achieved signal success, being indicated by the stitching pains, is puerperal fever.

The pains are so sudden and so sharp as to make the patient cry out loudly, and then they are gone. Kali carb. has saved some desperate cases of this kind. But it makes no particular difference where the disease is located, if these stitching pains are present, Kali card should not be forgotten. We cannot too strongly emphasize this.

Kali carbonicum exerts a profound influence over the blood-making processes. The blood lacks red corpuscles. The patient is anæmic, with great debility, skin watery or milky white. This condition is often found with young ladies at the age of puberty. They do not seem to be able to menstruate because of the poor quality of blood and general weakness. They incline to bloat, particularly in face, around eyes and especially upper eyelids, and have much pain and weakness in the lumbar region as well as general weakness. Kali carb. is in such cases sometimes successful after Ferrum or Pulsatilla have been wrongly prescribed.

This anæmic condition is also found at the menopause, and in old age, when the same dropsical tendencies appear, and the same characteristic bag-like swelling, or rather bloating, in the upper eyelids appears. In all these cases you will generally, or often, at least, find what is called "weak heart." The heart action is irregular or intermittent from very weakness in correspondence with the general muscular weakness. One of the characteristic symptoms which makes us think of Kali carb. in these cases in the constant backache of such a nature that the patient feels all the time that the back and legs must give out. she drops into a chair or throws herself on the bed completely exhausted. This aching often extends into the hips and down into the gluteal muscles. Patient sweats easily. Farrington says: "This particular sweat, backache and weakness as a combination is not found under any other remedy."

I have already spoken of this remedy somewhat while writing of its stitching pains as an indication for its use in diseases of the chest, but I did not there do it full justice. It is not only a great remedy for pneumonia, pleurisy and heart troubles, as there spoken of, but goes much further and becomes very useful in incipient and even with advanced cases of phthisis pulmonalis. I have seen a case pronounced incurable by several old experienced and skillful physicians, Dr. T. L Brown among them, get well under a dose once in eight days of Kali carb. The disease was located mainly in the lower right lung, with profuse expectoration of matter of pus-like appearance, pulse 120, greatly emaciated, no appetite, and quite a large cavity in the lung. This man is still alive (twenty-five years later), hale and hearty. Such service from any remedy makes a man fall in love with it. There is a time characteristic for this remedy which is very valuable in chest affections, viz, aggravation at 3 A. M. It may be found in cough, consumption, hydrothorax, asthma, and dropsies attending heart disease The father-in-law of Dr. T.L. Brown, an anæmic old man, was apparently near his end with hydrothorax and general dropsy Dr Brown was a skillful Prescriber, but in this case had utterly failed to even relieve. In consultation with Dr. Sloan, after carefully reviewing the case, the fact appeared, through de daughter of the patient, who had been his nurse all the time, that all his symptoms were aggravated at 3 A. M. Now Kali Carb. 200 was given, and with such miraculous results that in an incredibly short time the old man was well and never had a return of that trouble. He lived for several years after, and, finally, did nor die of dropsy at all. The day of miracles is not past yet. Hahnemannian Homœopathy performs them still.

I cannot persuade myself to have this remedy yet, although I have given its chief uses.

I must call attention still further, even at the risk of repearing somewhat, to some very important symptoms. In regard to the nervous system I have already spoken of the great debility which I have called muscular debility, but there is a weakened condition of the nerves which renders them very sensitive which is well described in the symptoms found in the Materia Medica. "Very easily frightened, shrieks abut imaginary appearances; cannot bear to be touched; starts when touched ever so lightly, especially on the feet" these are valuable indication for Kali carb. Then don't forget the "bag-like œdematous swelling in the upper eyelids." It goes with many affections and is invaluable as a guiding symptom. "Sticking pain in the throat (pharynx), as if a fishbone were sticking in it" (see Hepar sulphur, Dolichos, Nitric acid and Argentum nitricum).

"Great sensitiveness of epigastric region, externally."

"Stomach distended, sensitive, feels as if it would burst."

"Excessive flatulency, everything he eats or drinks appears to be converted into gas."

"Fullness, heat and great distention in abdomen immediately after eating a little."

"Abdomen distended with wind after eating."

All these stomach and abdomen symptoms indicate the value of this remedy in dyspeptic conditions. They make us think of Carbo vegetabilis, China officinalis and Lycopodium clavatum, but remember Kali carb. and that it is especially adapted to broken down, aged people who are anæmic. "Sitting up, leaning forward, relieves in chest affections." The patient is also aggravated by lying on the affected side. Don't forget this, for it may enable you to choose between it and Bryonia, which has the reverse.

Now in what I hat written I do not pretend to have told all, and if I thought that any young physician would be led to rely alone upon this work of mine or be led away from thorough study of the Materia Medica instead of to it I would stop writing.

Modalities: < at 3 to 4 A. M.

Angry and irritable. Anxiety with fear. Becomes easily startled ; great tendency to start when touched. Vexed and irritated mood ; trifles vex one ; noise is disagreeable. Dread of labor.

Sudden attack of unconsciousness. Giddiness, as if proceeding from the stomach. Dulness of the head ; confused, stupid feeling, as after intoxication. Vertigo when rapidly turning the head or body. Vertigo, mostly in the evening and morning. Congestions of blood to the head, with throbbing and humming in it. One-sided headache, with nausea. Stitches in the temples and forehead ; worse from stooping and moving the head, eyes and the lower jaw ; ameliorated when raising the head and from heat. Pressing pain : in the back part of the head. Headache from riding in a carriage ; from coughing and sneezing. Pressure over the eyes, with violent pain in the whole fore, head. Liability of the head to take cold, especially when exposed to a draught after being heated (from it headache or toothache). Painful tumors on the scalp, like beginning blood-boils ; more painful from pressure and motion, and less so from external heat ; accompanied by itching, as if in the bones of the head, with great dryness of the hair. Falling off of the hair, especially on the temples, of the eye brows and the beard, with great dryness of the hair, with violent burning-itching of the scalp in the morning and evening ; the scalp oozes if scratched.

Stitches in the eyes. Pimples in the eyebrows. The white of the eye is ; red ; the capillaries ; are injected. Swelling of the eyelids and agglutination of the eyes early in the morning. The corners of the eyes ulcerate. Sensation of coldness of the eyelids. Swelling (like a bag) between the upper eyelids and eyebrows. Inclination to stare. While reading or looking in the bright light moving spots, gauze and points before the eyes. Bright sparks, blue or green spots before the eyes. Painful sensitiveness of the eyes to the light of day.

Stitches ; out of the ears (from within to without). Inflammation and ; suppuration of the ear. Itching and tickling in the ears. Redness ; heat and violent itching of the external ear. Cracking in the ears. Discharge of a yellow, liquid cerumen or pus from the ear. Inflammation and hard swelling of the parotid gland. Dulness of hearing. Singing, whizzing and roaring in the ears.

Redness and swelling of the nose, with internal soreness. Burning in the nose. Sore, scurfy nostrils. Ulcerated nostrils. Bloody, red nostrils (every morning). Dull smell. Obstruction of the nose. Fluent coryza, with excessive sneezing ; pain in the back and headache.

Face bloated. Yellow color of the face. Swelling and redness of the cheeks. Swelled, ulcerated lips. Swelling and rhagades of the upper lip ; it bleeds readily. Chapped lips, peeling off. Freckles.

Toothache, only when eating (throbbing in all the teeth) ; the teeth are painful when touched by either cold or warm substances. Stitches in the teeth, with swelling of the cheeks (with stinging pain). Looseness of all the teeth. Bad smell from the teeth. Tearing, lancinating toothache, with pain in the facial bones. Sensation of dryness in the mouth, with increased secretion of saliva. Painful vesicles all over the inner mouth, with burning pain. Burning of the tip of the tongue, as if raw or full of vesicles. Swelling of the tongue covered with small painful vesicles. Painful pimple on the tip of the tongue. Bitter taste in the mouth. Soreness of the frænum linguæ. Stinging pain in the throat when swallowing. Difficult ; deglutition ; the food descends very slowly in the œsophagus, and small particles of food easily get into the windpipe. Tenacious mucus in the posterior part of the pharynx (early in the morning) ; difficult to hawk up or to swallow, with the sensation as ; if a lump of mucus were in the throat. -Hawking of mucus. Dryness in the posterior part of the throat.

Great desire for acids or sugar. Aversion to rye bread. Milk and warm food disagree. Sleepiness during a meal. Distention of the abdomen after a meal. Sour eructations (after a meal). Nausea from mental emotions. Nausea, as if he would faint ; also with anxiety. Retching for several evenings. Sour vomiting, or of food. Tension across the abdomen. Colic renewed after each meal. Stitches in the pit of the stomach and hypochondria, preventing breathing. Hard, distended abdomen, with painfulness of the umbilical region to the touch. Cutting and drawing in the abdomen, resembling false labor-pains. Inactivity and coldness in the abdomen. Stitches in the right side of the abdomen (liver). Heaviness in the abdomen. Labor-like colic, with pain in the back. Ascites. Stitches and painful bloatedness in the groins. Excessive emission of flatulence. Incarceration of flatulence, with colic.

Constipation, with difficulty of emission of too large-sized faces. Retarded stool from inactivity of the rectum. Stool resembling sheep's dung. White mucus before and during stool. Painless diarrhœa, with rumbling in the abdomen. Diarrhœa, with smarting pain at the anus. Discharge of blood with the stool. Continual burning at the anus after stool. Itching and tingling of the anus. Ulcerated pimples ; at the anus. Protrusion and distention of the varices during stool, with pricking and burning. Protrusion of the varices ; during micturition, emitting first blood, afterwards white mucus. Inflammation, soreness, stitches, and tingling, as from ascarides in the varices.

Frequent micturition, with discharge of small quantities of fiery urine. Burning in the urethra during and after micturition. The urine is discharged slowly. After micturition discharge of prostatic fluid.

Men. Sexual desire excessive or deficient. Swelling of the testes and the spermatic cord. Copious painful pollutions, with subsequent painful erections. Pollutions with voluptuous dreams. Women. Difficult first menstruation. Menstruation suppressed ; too early or too scanty. Suppression of menses, with anasarca and ascites. The menstrual blood is acrid ; makes the thighs ; sore and covers them with an eruption. During the menses (morning) headache ; cutting pain in the abdomen ; pain in the small of the back, like a weight ; stitches in the ears ; coryza ; itching of the whole body. During pregnancy discharge of blood (clots of coagulated blood). Labor-pains (false) ; violent pains in the small of the back, extending to the uterus. Yellowish leucorrhœa (burning), with pain in the small of the back ; labor-like pain ; and itching and burning in the pudendum. Tearing stitches in the milk-breasts.

Difficult wheezing breathing. Spasmodic asthma (in the morning) ; relieved by sitting up and bending forward, resting the head on the knees. Roughness of the throat. Complete hoarseness (aphonia), with violent sneezing. Spasmodic cough, in short but frequently returning attacks, caused by a tickling in the throat and larynx ; during the morning and day the cough is loose, but the yellow pus and tough mucus has to be swallowed again. Night cough ; worse from 3 to 4 A.M. Cough with sourish expectoration, or of blood-streaked mucus, or of pus. Spasmodic cough, with retching and vomiting. During cough, rough pain in the larynx ; stinging in the throat ; stitches in the right side of the chest (lower part) ; sparks dart from the eyes ; wheezing in the chest ; asthma. The cough is worst after midnight (3 to 4 A.M.) ; from motion ; when sitting erect ; from cold ; after eating warm food, milk, bread) ; fasting (better after breakfast) ; while lying on the side. Hooping-cough (with inflammation of the lungs ; with swelling between the upper eyelid and the eyebrows), and worse from 3 to 4 A.M. Arrest of breathing awakes him at night. Pain in the chest, especially when talking. Stitches in the sternum and right side of the chest through to the back, when taking an inspiration. Tearing in the sides of the chest. Inflammation of the lungs (and liver), with stitches in the chest (right side). Suppuration of the lungs ; abscesses of the lungs. Weakness and faintness in the chest from walking fast. Palpitation of the heart in the morning (when hungry). Frequent intermissions of the beats of the heart. Burning in the region of the heart. Crampy pain in the region of the heart. Hydrothorax.

Stiffness between the shoulder-blades. Pain in the small of the back, with labor-like pains in the abdomen. Pain in the small of the back after a fall. Stiffness of the back ; unable to stoop. Stitches in the region of both kidneys. Gnawing pain in the os coccygis. Pain in the small of the back ; worse after standing or walking. Pain (during pregnancy) in the small of the back, drawing up to the middle of the back. Stiffness of the nape of the neck, with elongation of the uvula (in the morning when in bed). Congestion of blood to the neck ; the neck appears larger and the neck-cloth too tight. Hard swelling of the submaxillary gland. Swelling of the cervical glands. Tickling in the glandular swelling of the neck ; relieved by pressing on the part with the cold hand.

Upper. The arms feel numb in the cold and after violent exercise. Swelling and sore pain of the axillary glands. Perspiration in the axilla. Cracking in the shoulder-joint, when moving or raising the arm. Pain, as from blows and bruises, under the right shoulder-joint, especially when moving and touching it. Weakness and want of strength in the arms (in the morning). Cold hands. The hands tremble (in the morning) when writing. Itching of the palms of the hands ; itching vesicles in the palms of the hands. The tips of the fingers go to sleep (early in the morning). Lower. Nightly rheumatic pains in the legs. Burning and stinging in the legs. Restlessness of the legs in the evening. The lower limbs frequently go to sleep ; the feet go to sleep after a meal. Itching of the tibia. Heaviness and stiffness of the feet. Profuse fetid sweat of the feet. Cold feet in bed. Swelling of the feet up to the ankles. Swelling and redness of the soles of the feet. Inflamed, red chilblains on the toes (ball of the big toe). Stitches in the painful and sensitive corns. Sensation as if nail of the big toe would grow into the flesh.

Stinging pains, in the muscles, joints and inner parts. Rheumatic pains with swelling ; more when at rest. Twitching of the muscles. A short walk fatigues much. Dropsical affections and paralysis of old persons.

Great drowsiness in the day-time and early in the evening. Starting when asleep. Gnashing of the teeth at night while asleep. Arrest of breath rouses him from sleep at night. At night the left leg and the right arm go to sleep. Sleep disturbed by horrid dreams.

Pulse very variable ; frequently more rapid in the morning than in the evening ; strong pulsations in the arteries. Chilliness generally in the morning. Frequent shudderings during the day. The chilliness in the evening is relieved near the warm stove and after lying down. Chill very frequently after the pains. Heat in the morning hours in bed. Internal heat with external chilliness. Perspiration every night. Morning perspiration. Perspiration easily excited during the day by exercise and exertion. Perspiration more on the upper part of the body and increased by warm drinks. Perspiration is fetid or smells sour. Entire want of perspiration and inability to perspire. Intermittent fever; constant chilliness, with violent thirst from internal heat ; hot hands ; loathing of food. Long yawning, with heat ; pain in the chest and head ; pulsations in the abdomen, 9 A.M. and 5 P.M. Chills and heat alternate in the evening, followed by perspiration during the night. Evening fever ; first, chilliness with thirst (for one hour), then heat without thirst, accompanied by violent, fluent coryza ; afterwards slight perspiration with sound sleep. Chill and fever, with oppression of breathing, constriction of the chest, pain in the region of the liver ; most of the thirst during the chill. Intermittent fevers, with hooping-cough.

Burning and stinging-itching on the skin. Dryness of the skin ; deficient perspiration. Painful skin, as from subcutaneous ulceration, when pressing on it. Yellow, scaly, violent itching spots ; over the abdomen and around the nipples. Burning-itching herpes, -when scratching them they become moist. Ulcers bleeding (at night). Fissure in the cicatrix of an old issue. Warts ; itching. Ascites and anasarca. Chilblains ; purple-red. Swelling and indurations of the glands, after contusions.

The ailments are worse in the morning (2 and 3 A.M.) and when at rest, than during the day and while exercising. He feels better in the open air than in the room, but the fever in worse in the open air. After taking a walk, faint-like weakness and trembling. Great liability to catch cold after being heated and aversion to the open and cold air and draughts. Aggravation from cold air ; from becoming cold ; when lying on the side. Amelioration from eructations, on getting warm ; in the warm air.

Potassium Carbonate. Potassic Carbonate. Salt of Tartar. Salt of Wormwood. Carbonate of Potassium. K 2 CO 3 Solution. Trituration.

Amenorrhœa. Anæmia. Asthma. Axilla, perspiration of. Back, aching. Biliousness . Bronchitis. Catarrh. Change of life . Chilblains. Clavus . Cold. Consumption. Cough . Debility. Dropsy. Dysmenorrhœa. Dyspepsia . Ear, inflammation of. Eyes, inflammation of; œdema around. Face, blotches on. Fear. Freckles . Gastralgia. Hæmorrhage. Hæmorrhoids. Hair, affections of. Headache . Heart, affections of. Hip-joint disease . Hydrothorax. Hysteria. Kidneys, affections of. Knee, affections of; white swelling of. Larynx, catarrh of. Leucorrhœa. Liver, affections of . Lumbago. Menorrhagia. Metrorrhagia. Pleurisy. Pleurodynia. Pregnancy, disorders of. Proctalgia. Sciatica . Sleeplessness. Spinal irritation. Stomach, affections of . Throat, sore. Toothache . Typhoid. Urine, frequent passage of . Urticaria. Uterus, cancer of. Vertigo . Wens. Whooping-cough .

Potassium carbonate , sometimes called "Vegetable alkali," exists in all plants, and was originally obtained from the ashes left after burning wood and vegetable structures. Potassium salts play a no less important part in the animal economy. Kali carb . may be regarded as the typical member of the Kali group of homœopathic remedies, though Causticum has also claims on the title. The Potassium salts have more specific relation to the solid tissues than to the fluids of the body; to the blood corpuscles rather than to the blood plasma. The fibrous tissues are particularly affected, the ligament of joints, of the uterus, of the back. It corresponds to conditions in which these tissues are relaxed-joints give way; the back feels as if broken; the patient feels compelled to lie down in the street. Goullon (translation, H. R ., xv. 327) calls attention to the importance of this polychrest in complaints of women, in which it rivals Sepia , differing from the latter in having menstruation "too protracted and recurring too frequently; the pains and troubles occur before the menses. The climacteric flushings of K. ca . are associated with disturbances of the heart. Palpitations are most violent. By quieting these K. ca . often serves as an excellent soporific. In addition to the uterus and heart, lungs, pleura, bronchi, and larynx all come under its action. Chronic laryngeal catarrh Goullon specially mentions as frequently cured by it. He places it in the front rank as a knee remedy. Among the grand characteristics of K. ca ., three stand out above the rest: ( 1 ) Stitching, lancinating pains, also called jerking pains; < during rest, < lying on affected side. ( 2 ) Early morning aggravation: < 2 to 4 a.m. ( 3 ) The occurrence of bag-like swellings over the eyes, between the eyebrows and the upper lids. Relaxation of tissues is a great note of K. ca . It is suited to persons of soft tissues with tendency to be fat. Easy sweating may be placed in the same category, and when there is a combination of "sweat, backache, and weakness," the three, according to Farrington, constitute a grand characteristic. The backaches of K. ca . are very important. The pain often extends downwards to the buttock and even to the knee. Pain from hip to knee (more especially if right sided) has led to the cure of many cases of hip-joint disease. This symptom also led me to make a remarkable cure of another kind. A lady, 73, stout, short, pale, and of very soft fibre, had for four months suffered from "rheumatic pains," and an offensive vaginal discharge. A local practitioner of repute was consulted (the patient lived in the country, and I did not see her till a year or two afterwards) and pronounced it cancer of the womb in an advanced stage, and gave her four months to live. She described to me the pain as being all round the lower abdomen, and a "dull, heavy, depressing, dead pain, commencing at the inner part of the top of the right hip (iliac crest) and extending to the knee." The pain was so severe it made her feel quite sick and faint. The discharge was very offensive, like decaying meat. Great weakness and trembling accompanied the discharge; urine was almost like blood at times, and had a sandy sediment. K. ca . 1m. was given and at once improvement set in. In a few months all the bad symptoms had disappeared and never returned. The patient lived ten years after this. In connection with this case I may mention another. A man had an ulcer of right leg with swelling of ankle, and he complained of waking at 2 a.m. K. ca . 30 cured, but meantime he developed this symptom: "Great weakness of right thigh, as if it would give out when walking." This "giving-out" feeling is very characteristic of the remedy. "Constant backache, the patient feeling all the time that the back and legs must give out." K. ca . corresponds to many cases of lumbago, stitching pains, pulsations; > by pressure and by lying flat on the back. "Weakness, sweat, and backache" appear in many conditions of debility as from loss of fluids; after confinement or abortion (puerperal mania, fever, or spasms). Complaints after coition in males, especially complaints of the eyes. Weary and sleepy during and after eating. Yawns continually. The mental state of K. ca . is one of peevishness and irritability. Easily startled by any noise (especially if unexpected). Fear is prominent; fears to be alone. Intellect impaired, does not care for anything. Indifferent, with bodily exhaustion; when questioned does not know what to answer. The "touchiness" of the remedy is very marked: "Cannot bear to be touched; starts when touched ever so lightly, especially on the feet." K. ca . acts profoundly on the tissues. It causes fatty degeneration of the heart and other muscles. It affects the blood itself as well as the circulation, causing anæmia and hæmorrhages. Throbbing of blood-vessels all over body and to ends of fingers and toes is a marked symptom. Irregularity of heart's action. A peculiar symptom is: sensation as if the heart were suspended by a thread. The digestion is very much disordered; flatulence, distension, constipation. Many symptoms come on when eating: Drowsiness; toothache only when eating. It has the fishbone sensation in the throat, which is part of the general tendency to stitching pains. Another feature is easy choking; food easily gets into windpipe; pain in back when swallowing. The cough has peculiarities in addition to that of time aggravation 2-4 a.m. It is dry, paroxysmal, loosens viscid mucus or pus which must be swallowed. Or spasmodic with gagging or vomiting of ingesta. The expectoration consists of hard, white, or smoky masses, which fly from the throat when coughing. Globules of pus may be contained in it. Hahnemann said that persons suffering from ulceration in the lungs could hardly get well without this antipsoric. I have frequently had occasion to verify its value in such cases. The stitching pains, sweat, and weakness are leading indications, also the locality of the affection. K. ca . is more a right than a left-side medicine. The base of the right lung is more affected than any other part. Goullon says also the apices. K. ca is a remedy often called for in sick-headache. "Violent headaches about the inner temples; violent stitching or jerking pains, on one side of the head or both." One-sided headache with nausea. One case which I cured was > by lying down, > by a tight band round the head. Pressure and drawing in forehead extending into eyes and root of nose. Congestion to head and heat of face often accompany the headaches. "Drowsy whilst eating" is a very characteristic symptom of K. ca . Ide, of Stettin, Germany, has recorded a case (translated by McNeil, Med. Adv ., xxiv. 294) which well illustrates this. A lady, 65, suffered from chronic bronchial catarrh and emphysema. In November, 1886, she had asthmatic complaints, depriving her of sleep, with cough and mucous expectoration difficult to raise. Always when eating she was so weary she fell asleep , and could not finish her meal. After eating still very tired. In the morning passed much flatulence. K. ca. 10 removed the condition in a few days. The following March after a cold there was a recurrence, but without the weariness , and K. ca . failed, whilst Ars . 15 rapidly cured. In the same patient K. ca . manifested its power in another set of symptoms: Toothache alternating with tearing, stitching pain in left breast and under left false ribs. The side pains were < at night, especially in evening as soon as she lay down; < lying down, particularly < lying on right ( i.e ., painless) side. Not influenced by pressure or motion. K. ca . is a chilly medicine. There is great tendency to take cold, and < of symptoms when body temperature is low; aversion to open air. I have often relieved with K. ca . blotchy eruptions of the face which were < in a wind or cold air. Among the notable sensations of the remedy are: Feeling of emptiness in whole body as if it were hollow. Sensation of a lump rolling over and over on coughing; rising from right abdomen up to throat, then back again. Lump in throat. Feeling as if the bed were sinking under her. Pulsative pains and throbbings. Burning sensation and burning pains. K. ca . appears to have alternating symptoms: it has cured a case of toothache which alternated with tearing, stitching pains in left breast and under left false ribs. It has also pulsations in the back alternating with pains in the back. The pains in the side were < evening, on lying down, and especially on lying on right (painless) side ( Med. Adv ., xxiv. 295). The nervous excitability of K. ca . may go as far as pronounced hysteria; sudden shrieking; cannot bear to be touched. Spasms (puerperal convulsions) and paralysis. Twitching of muscles; rigidity of muscles; muscular atony, disposition to easy overlifting. Oppression of breathing accompanies most complaints. Anæmia with great debility, skin watery, milky white. Dropsical affections. Ulcers bleeding at night. K. ca . is suited to the aged, rather obese, lax fibre; to dark-haired persons of lax fibre and inclined to be fat; to diseases after parturition; after loss of fluids. The symptoms are: < At rest; < on lying down (cannot get breath). Unable to remain lying at night, > during the day when moving about; < lying on right side (pain in chest; heart feels suspended to left ribs); < by stooping; > raising head. > Sitting bent forward; > raising head (stitches in forehead). Motion = headache with vertigo; < pain in tumours of scalp; wobbling in stomach; stitches in loins. < By sudden or unguarded motion. Walking > obstruction in nose; and < most other symptoms. Coughing < pain in hæmorrhoids. Debility = desire to lie down. The chief time aggravation is from 2 to 4 a.m., or any time between. In general the symptoms are < in the morning. > By day; < at night. < Evening on lying down. < After midnight. Heat > most symptoms; cold air and open air < . Open air > obstruction of nose. Change of weather and damp weather < . Washing face = nose-bleed. Cold air < stitching pain in right side. Cold and damp = chronic bronchitis. Warm drinks < sweat. Warm applications = pain to move to other places. Drinking cold water > jerking in head; drinking cold-water when overheated = dyspnœa and pyrosis. Hunger = palpitation. Touch < . Pressure < most symptoms; > pain in abdomen; dull stitches in chest; glandular swelling of neck. < From coitus.

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Sudden attack of unconsciousness.
Cannot express herself ; seems at a loss to know how to begin to say or do what she wishes. θ Puerperal mania.
Absentminded.
Dull, confused, stupid, as after intoxication.
Imagines seeing birds flying in room ; he tries to catch them.
Great aversion to being alone.
Dread of labor.
Weeps much.
Alternating mood, at one time good and quiet, at another excited and angry at trifles ; constantly in antagonism with herself ; frequently hopeful, frequently despondent ; frets about everything ; peevish, impatient, contented with nothing. θ Melancholia.
Timid and apprehensive of future and about her disease.
Fear of being alone ; fears she will die.
Anxiety with fear.
Despondency in open air ; disappears on entering house.
Peevish, irritable ; noise is disagreeable ; easily startled, especially if touched ; intolerance of human voice.
Irascible and passionate.
Very easily frightened ; shrieks about imaginary appearances ; starts when touched.
Is frightened and cries out whenever he is touched lightly on his feet.
Delirium in the night. θ Pleurisy.

Giddiness, nausea, pressure in stomach.
Vertigo : when rapidly turning head or body ; evening and morning ; on turning around ; as if proceeding from stomach ; loss of consciousness ; frequent dulness of head as after intoxication, and as if ears were stopped up, with nausea almost unto
vomiting ; when walking ; as if head was too light, must take hold on something ; and vomiting ; after eating, with heat in head, red face, darkness before eyes ; sometimes one cheek hot the other cold ; must lie down as soon as attack comes on, otherwise he is
thrown down ; before he falls he has stitching pain in forehead, root of nose and in eyes ; attacks several times a day.

Pressure and drawing tearing in forehead, extending into eyes and root of nose.
Pressure in forehead, with photophobia.
Pressive headache in forehead, in afternoon, while walking, with peevishness.
(In sick :) Sensation in forehead as of a hot body having descended into it when stooping.
Drawing in forehead, in forenoon and at midnight.
Pressure and tension in forehead and eyes.
Pressing in front of head and temples, extending into eyes, with heat in face and head. θ Sick headache. θ Blepharitis.
θ Catarrhal fever.
Stitches in forehead and temples, < stooping, moving head, eyes or jaw ; > raising head and from heat.
Stitches into eyes and root of nose : with catarrh ; before falling down with vertigo.
Pinching and tearing pain in left temple at intervals.
One-sided headache, with nausea.
Tearing drawing in left half of head.
Constant sensation of something loose in head, turning and twisting toward forehead.
Congestion to head, with throbbing and humming.
Congestion of blood to head, with intoxication arising from it.
Congestive and catarrhal headaches, with dry, hard cough.
Pressive headache.
Headache : from riding in a carriage ; from coughing or sneezing ; on awaking from sleep ; from coryza ; with nausea ; with toothache ; with backache ; with intermittent ; with great heaviness during menses.
Jerking in head from behind forward ; dark before eyes, unconscious ; > from drink of cold water ; remains weak and nauseated.
Pressing pain in back of head.
Aching in occiput, toward nape of neck, > in open air.
Morning headache with vertigo, aching and stitches in occiput, felt only during motion ; sharp, shooting pains from upper dorsal spine into occiput.
(In sick :) Violent pressure over whole skull, down nape of neck, throbbing in head and whole body < by slightest contact, and increasing in paroxysms with violent nausea and vomiting of bile.

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The Kali carb. patient is a hard patient to study, and the remedy itself is a hard one to study.

It is not used as often as it should be, and the reason is that it is a very complex and confusing remedy. It has a great many opposite symptoms, changing symptoms, and thus it is related to patients that withhold their symptoms and have many vague symptoms.

The patient is whimsical, irascible, irritable to the very highest degree, quarrels with his family and with his bread and butter. He never wants to be alone, is full of fear and imaginations when alone, "fear of the future, fear of death, fear of ghosts."

If compelled to remain alone in the house he is wakeful, sleepless, or his sleep is full of horrible dreams. He is never at peace, is full of imaginations and fear.

"What if the house should burn up!"

"What if I should do this or that!" and

"What if this and the other thing should happen! "

He is oversensitive to everything, sensitive to every atmospheric change; he can never get the room at just exactly the right temperature; he is sensitive to every draft of air and to the circulation of air in the room. He cannot have the windows open, even in a distant part of the house. He will get up at night in bed and look around to see where that draft of air comes from. His complaints are worse in wet weather, and in cold weather.

He is sensitive to the cold and is always shivering. His nerves feel the cold; they are all painful when it is cold. The neuralgias shoot here and there when it is cold, and if the part affected be kept warm, the pain goes to some other place. All his pains change place and go into the cold part; if he covers up one part, the pain goes to the part uncovered.

This remedy is full of sticking, burning, tearing pains, and these fly around from place to place. Of course Kali carb. has pains that remain in one place, but usually the pains fly, around in every direction, Pains cutting like knives. Pains like hot needles, sticking, stinging and burning.

These pains are felt in internal parts and dry passages. Burning in the anus and rectum, described as if a hot poker were forced into that passage; burning as with fire. The hemorrhoids burn like coals of fire. The burning of Kali carb. is like that of Arsenicum.

Again from studying the text it will be seen that it is a common feature of this medicine to have its symptoms come on at 2, 3 or 5 o'clock in the morning. In Kali carb. the cough will come or have its greatest < at three or four or five o'clock in the morning.

The febrile state will occur from 3-5 in the morning. The patient, who is subject to asthmatic dyspnoea, will have an attack at 3 o'clock in the morning, waking him out of sleep. He will wake up with various symptoms and remain awake until 5 o'clock in the morning, and after that to a great extent they are relieved.

Of course, there are plenty of sufferings at any time in the twenty-four hours, but this is the worst time. He wakes up at 3 o'clock in the morning with fear, fear of death, fear of the future, worries about everything and is kept awake for 2-3 hours and then goes to sleep and sleeps soundly.

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Adapted to diseases of old people, dropsies and paralyses ; dark hair, lax fibre, inclined to obesity (Am. c., Graph.).

After loss of fluids or of vitality, particularly in the anæmic (deficient vitality, lack of susceptibility to medicinal action, Carbo v.).

Pains ; stitching, darting, < during rest and lying on affected side (stitching, darting, > during rest, and lying on painful side, Bry.).

Cannot bear to be touched; starts when touched ever so lightly, especially on the feet.

Great aversion to being alone (Ars., Bis., Lyc.—desire to be alone, Ign., Nux).

Bag like swellings between upper lids and eyebrows.

Weak eyes ; after coition, abortion, measles.

Nosebleed when washing the face in the morning (Am. c., Arn.).

Toothache : only when eating; throbbing ; < when touched by anything warm or cold.

Stomach : distended, sensitive ; feels as if it would burst ; excessive flatulency; everything she eats or drinks appears to be converted into gas (Carbo v., Iod.).

Backache, sweating, weakness; after abortion, labor, metrorrhagia; when eating; while walking feels as if she must give up and lie down.

Asthma, relieved when sitting up or bending forward or by rocking (Ars.); worse from 2 to 4 A. M.

Cough: dry, paroxysmal, loosens viscid mucus or pus which must be swallowed; spasmodic with gagging or vomit-ing of ingesta; hard, white or smoky masses fly from throat when coughing (Bad., Chel.).

Feels bad, week before menstruation; backache, before and during menses.

Labor pains insufficient; violent backache; wants the back pressed (Caust.).

Will bring on the menses, when Natrum muriaticum, though indicated, fails.—Hahnemann.

"Persons suffering from ulceration of the lungs can scarcely get well without this antipsoric."—Hahnemann.

Complementary to Carbo vegetabilis.

From 2 to 4 A. M., nearly all ailments, especially those of throat and chest; cold air; becoming cold; rest, and lying on painful side.

Warmth; getting warm; eructations.

Quotidian; same every day. Intermittent, remittent or continued fevers with whooping-cough (Dros.).

9 A. M., 12 M. 5 to 6 P. M.

Fever, without chill, 9 A. M.

With thirst; great chilliness after eating (Mar. v.), and towards evening (Nux). Chilliness on every motion, even in bed (Nux, Hep.). Chilliness, then heat, then chilliness again.

Chill towards evening, relieved near the warm stove and after lying down (relieved by external heat, Ars., Ign.—increased by external heat, Apis, Ipec.). Chill with the pains (Puls.—all symptoms worse during chill, Ars.); increased out of doors (increased while going from a warm room into the open air, Puls.). Constant chilliness; violent thirst from internal heat; hot hands; and aversion to food; with oppression of breathing; constriction of chest; pain in right hypochondrium. After the chill, nausea and vomiting of bile.

" Violent chill towards evening for some minutes; he must lie down; followed by nausea, vomiting and spasmodic pain in the chest through the whole night, with short breath and much internal anxiety and much perspiration."—HAHNEMANN.

Without thirst, with long yawning, stitching pains in head and chest, pulsations in abdomen. Internal heat, external chilliness (Arn., Cal., Thuja—chills intermingled with heat, Ars.) Chill and heat, with dyspnœa. Dry heat of the cheeks and hands, with shortness of breath. Redness and heat in the face, with icy coldness of the feet (Sep.).

All night without relief (Hep.—sweat relieves, Lach.). Sweat of axilla and perineum; of upper parts of body; after eating; perspires easily on least exertion. Sweat on every mental exertion, reading, writing, etc. (Hep., Psor., Sep. Sul.—on least physical exertion, Bry.). Profuse warm sweat, with much heat, from 12 to 3 A. M.

Coated white; tip of tongue sore, burns as if raw or covered with blisters. Taste bad; bitter; flat.

Rapid mornings, slower in evening, unequal, irregular, intermitting; throbbing in blood-vessels; tendency to fatty heart.

Chest feels constricted; right hypochondrium painful and tender to touch. Excessive aversion to food, especially bread. Intense thirst, morning, noon and night. In the morning bad taste in the mouth; want of appetite; aversion to food, especially bread. Agglutination of the eyelids.

Chill; after eating; from every motion; < in open air, > by warmth.

Heat; without thirst; yawning, stitching pains in head and chest; dyspnœa; internal heat, external chilliness.

Sweat; on every mental exertion; all night without relief.

Sudden attack of unconsciousness.
At a loss to know how to say what she wishes. θ Puerperal mania.
Absent-minded.
Dulness, confused, stupid, as after intoxication.
Weeps much.
Dread of labor.
Fear of being alone; fears she will die.
Anxiety with fear.
Despondent in the open air.
Peevish, irritable; noise is disagreeable; easily startled, especially if touched.

Giddiness, nausea, pressure in the stomach.
Vertigo when rapidly turning the head or body; evening and morning.

Congestion to head, with throbbing and humming.
Forehead; stitches, also in the temples, worse stooping, moving head, eyes or jaw; better raising the head, and from heat; stitches into the eyes and root of nose, with catarrh.
Pressing in the front of head, temples and into the eyes, with heat in face and head.
Pressure with photophobia.
One-sided headache, with nausea.
Jerking in head from behind forwards; dark before the eyes; unconscious; better from a drink of cold water.
Headache from riding in a carriage; coughing, sneezing; on awaking from sleep; from coryza.
Pressing pain in back of head.

After being heated, liable to cold from a draught, causing headache, toothache and backache.
Painful tumors on scalp, like blood-boils; worse from pressure and motion, less from heat; itching, as if in bones.
Hair dry, brittle, falling off, mostly from temples, eyebrows and beard; scalp itches and burns morning and evening; oozes if scratched.

While reading or looking at a bright light muscæ volitantes; sharp stitches; fog before the eyes.
Bright sparks, blue or green spots before the eyes.
Inclination to stare.
Eyes weak: after coition; after measles; after abortion.
Lachrymation, shunning light; pain deep in eyes.
Corners of eyes ulcerate.
Lids red, swollen; tarsi worse.
Eyelids swollen, also left cheek and upper lip.
Swelling like a bag between upper eyelids and eyebrows.
Enormous bag-like swellings under the eyes. θ Erysipelas.
Eyes sunken.
Sensation of coldness in the lids.

Roaring, whizzing, crackling noises.
Headache and noises in the ear after a cold drink.
Hearing impaired.
Stitches from within outward; also with drawing behind the ears. θ Otitis.
Right ear hot, left pale and cold.
Discharge of liquid cerumen or pus.
Parotids, especially the right, inflamed, swollen, hard.

Dull smell; especially from catarrh.
Fluent coryza, excessive sneezing; pain in back; headache and lassitude.
Obstruction of nose, making breathing through nostrils impossible; goes off when walking in open air, but returns in the room; itching in the nose; fetid yellow-green discharge from one nostril.
Dry coryza, with loss of voice, hoarseness; mucus in the throat, sensation of a lump in the throat.
Burning in the nose; sore, crusty nostrils; bloody, red nostrils every morning; external nose red, swollen, stinging pains.
Nosebleed when washing face; every morning at 9 o'clock.

Red and hot; one cheek hot, the other cold; purple, bloated; dark-red during cough, otherwise pale; pale; sickly; sallow; grey; yellow.
Face bloated in the morning.
Stinging in the cheeks; tearing stitches from a molar into the forehead, eyes and temples.
Freckles.

Upper lip swollen; bleeding rhagades.
Lips peel, are chapped.
Hard swelling of submaxillary glands.

Toothache, tearing, lancinating, with pains in facial bones.
Teeth ache only when eating; throbbing; worse when touched by anything cold or warm.
Teeth are loose.
Bad smell from the teeth.
Stitches in the teeth; cheeks swollen, with stinging pains.

Taste bitter; flat.
Tongue swollen, covered with vesicles, the tip burns as if raw, frænum sore.
Tongue white; bad taste.

Bad, alkaline smell from mouth; smell like old cheese.
Mouth feels dry, with increased saliva.
Vesicles, painful, burning all over the inner mouth.

Crawling in the throat, causing hemming and coughing, and a feeling of tightly adhering phlegm.
Tenacious mucus in the fauces and posterior of pharynx, mornings; difficult to hawk up; sensation as of a lump.
Stinging when swallowing; frequent desire to swallow saliva, but frequently cannot, causing a choking.
Pain in the back when swallowing.
When swallowing, the food remains half way, when gagging and vomiting; stricture of œsophagus.

Desire: for acids; for sugar.
Aversion to rye-bread.
No appetite; disgust for food.
Intense thirst.

During eating: sleepy.
After eating: burning from stomach to throat; colic renewed; abdomen distended; stomach replete, especially after soup or coffee; sour eructations; nausea, faintness.
When hungry, feels anxious, nauseated, nervous, tingling; also cough and palpitation, better after breakfast.
Drinking: 26, 27; cold water: 3, 9. Eating warm food: 27.

Eructation sour; nausea.
Sick during a walk, no vomiting, feels as if she must lie down and die. θ Pregnancy.
Nausea: and loathing; from emotions; with anxiety and faintness.
Retching, vomiting of ingesta and slime; sour.

Stitches in the pit of stomach; anxiety.
Pressing, tensive pain, awakens at 2 A.M.
Pit of stomach swollen, tense, sensitive to touch.
Deep in the scrobiculum, a lump as large as a fist, sensitive to touch.
Pain in the great cul-de-sac radiating to chest, to back and extremities.
Pains in back and legs after eating.

Stitches in region of liver, with tension across abdomen.
Swelling of the liver; abscess.
Icterus.

Epigastrium swollen, hard, sensitive; pulsations therein; pains in hepatic and umbilical region, also on both sides of inferior parts of stomach down into bladder and testes.
Cutting, shooting, darting, stitching all over the abdomen.
Tension across abdomen; heaviness, inactivity, coldness.
Abdomen distended with wind.
Incarceration of flatus with colic.

Unsuccessful desire for stool; rectum feels too weak to expel it.
Stool dry, too large in size; rectum inactive.
Feels distressed an hour or two before a passage.
Stool: light grey; frequent, soft, pale.
Painless diarrhœa, with rumbling in abdomen and burning at the anus afterwards. θ Chronic diarrhœa of dyspeptics.
Diarrhœa only by day.
Before stool, anxiety, distressed feeling; white mucous discharge.
After stool: itching about anus; anus feels as if lacerated.
Varices protrude during micturition; blood, then white mucus escapes.
Inflammation, soreness, stitches and tingling, as from ascarides, in the varices.

Tensive pain in the left side.
Stitches in the region of the kidneys.
Urine: hot, scanty, frequent, sediment red, slimy; blackish, foaming when shaken; with purulent sediment.
Urine flows slowly, with soreness and burning; or profuse, greenish.
After micturition: burning in urethra (also during); prostatic discharge.

Sexual desire excessive, with burning sensation or desire deficient.
After coition, weak, especially the eyes.
Copious, painful pollutions, with subsequent painful erections.
Dragging in the left testicle, and penis.
Swelling of testes and spermatic cord.
Scrotum feels as if bruised.

Stitching pains in and about the uterus; labor-like colic, leucorrhœa; pain like a weight in the small of back.
Nausea, vomiting, stitches through the abdomen; great weakness.
Sore pain in the vagina, during coition.
Menses too early, scanty, pale, of a pungent odor, acrid, covering thighs with an eruption. ▶ Flow may be early, and more profuse and long-lasting than usual.
Difficult first menses.
Before menses: sour eructations; swelling of the cheeks; shooting pains over the abdomen; or colicky pains; nettle-rash; increased sexual desire; itching of vulva.
During menses: headache with heaviness; pains in ears, teeth, back; heavy aching in small of back and down the buttocks; nettle-rash; lassitude.
Menses suppressed, with anasarca or ascites; or every month sour eructations, etc.; backache compelling her to sit down.
Yellow leucorrhœa, backache; labor-like pains; itching-burning in the pudendum (arising from the discharges).

During pregnancy: vomiting; discharge of coagula.
Abortion impending, with pains from back into buttocks and thighs; miscarriage at third month.
Consequences of abortion or labor; back weak, sweat, dry cough, prolonged metrorrhagia.
Labor-pains insufficient; violent backache, wants the back pressing; bearing down from back into pelvis.
Sharp cutting pains across lumbar region, or passing off down the buttocks, thus hindering labor; pulse weak.
Promotes expulsion of moles.

Aphonia, with violent sneezing.
Scraping, dryness, parched feeling.
Subacute laryngitis with tenacious, glairy mucus.

Difficult.
Dyspnœa, worse from drinking, from motion, cannot walk fast; arrest of breathing, awaking him at night.
Breathing labored; after paroxysms of cough.
Asthma, must lean forward with head on the table; worse in the morning.
Dyspnœa, with violent and irregular beating of the heart.
Feels as if there was no air in his chest.

Cough: paroxysmal from tickling in throat, larynx or bronchi, with dislodgement of tenacious mucus, or pus, which must be swallowed; spasmodic, with gagging, or vomiting of ingesta and sour phlegm; tormenting, gets nothing up, sometimes feels as if a tough membrane were moving about, but would not loosen.
Cough with sputum of masses of blood and pus.
Cough day and night, dry and teasing; from 3 to 4 A.M.; with sticking pains at sides of chest; brought on by eating (warm food), drinking; motion; sitting erect; lying on the side; or exposure to cold. Better after breakfast.
Whooping-cough worse 3 A.M.; gagging and vomiting; inflammation of the lungs; swelling between upper lids and eyebrows.

Spasms of the chest.
Chest feels weak, faint from waking fast.
Pain through lower third of right chest to back.
Pressure in middle of chest, with gulping of watery phlegm; stricture of the œsophagus.
Pressure, heaviness, anxious feeling.
Pain as if lower lobe of right lung was adhering to ribs.
Phthisis; acts on lower part of right lung; faint spells; sputum contains pus-globules, blood and albumen.
Pneumonia, with stitches through right chest, hepatic inflammation; right lung hepatized; worse when lying on right side.
Infantile pneumonia, much rattling both sides; during resolution.
Pleurisy, stitches in the left chest, with violent palpitation; dry cough, worse 3 A.M.

Crampy pains, as if heart was hanging by bands; burning.
Palpitation in spells, taking his breath.
Heart' beat intermits; heart's action irregular; tumultuous or weak.
Stitches about the heart and through to scapula.
Systolic murmur; stitches pains; second tick loud from pulmonary stagnation. θ Endocarditis.
Ebullitions, with heat from abdomen to head; pulsations all over.
Insufficiency of mitral valves.
Pulse: rapid mornings, less so evenings; unequal, irregular, intermitting; slow and weak.

Back of neck stiff; shooting pains through the chest; uvula elongated.
Neck feels large, clothing tight; congestion.
Swelling of cervical glands.
Backache; while walking she feels as if she must give up and lie down; after confinement, abortion, metrorrhagia, etc.
Sharp stitching pains awaken him 3 A.M., he must get up and walk about; lumbago.
Pulsations in the back.
Backache, as if broken; or as if pressed in from both sides, with labor-like colic and leucorrhœa.
Gnawing in the os coccygis.

Pain, as from blows, under right shoulder, when moving or touching it.
Axillary glands swollen, painful.
Stitching-tearing extending into finger-joints.
Weakness in arms, mornings; arms feel numb, cold; goes to sleep when lain on.
Hands and arms covered with purplish spots.
Weakness with cramps in hands and fingers; paresis.
Finger-tips go to sleep early in the morning.
Palms itch; vesicles form.

Crampy tearing in hip-joint and knee; bruised pain when moving and when sleeping; coxalgia.
Dull pains in side of knee, when walking or extending leg.
Difficulty in the knees on going down stairs, and still more on going up.
Nightly rheumatic pains.
Burning and stinging in the legs.
Profuse fetid foot-sweat.
Feet heavy, stiff.
Swelling and redness of the soles; chilblains.
Swelling of feet to ankles; feet cold.
Stitches in the painful and sensitive corns.

Jerks the limbs, especially when the feet are touched.
Limbs: tired; cold.
Puffiness; hands and feet cyanotic.

Motion: 4, 26, 27, 32, 33. Moving head: 3. Walking: 7, 16, 26, 28, 31, 33. Ascending or descending: 33. Exercise: 40. Turning: 2. Sitting erect: 27. Leaning forward: 26. Stooping: 3. Raising head: 3. Lying: 40; on side: 27; on right side: 28.

Twitching of the muscles. Parts laid on feel bruised and "go to sleep"; sweat, faintness.
Spasms seem to pass off with frequent eructations. θ Puerperal convulsions.
Spasms, with full consciousness.
Paresis; trembling.

Yawning.
Drowsy by day and early in evening.
No sleep; gastric ailments.
During sleep: starting; limbs twitch; gnashing the teeth; crying.
Aroused by asthma.
Awaken between 2 and 4 A.M., with nearly all ailments, especially those of throat and chest.
Horrid dreams, with frequent awaking and desire to urinate.

Morning: 2, 4, 7, 8, 13, 26, 29, 32, 40. Noon: 40. Evening: 2, 4, 29, 37, 40. Night: 26, 33, 40, 46. 2-4 A.M.: 17, 27, 28, 37. Day: 20, 37, 40. Day and night: 27.

Heat: 3, 4, 10. Room: 7. Open air: 1, 7, 40. Draught: 4. Cold: 27. Washing the face: 7.

Frequent shuddering during the day.
Chilly in the morning; also about noon; begins toward evening, relieved near the warm stove an after lying down; after the pains; increased out-doors.
Potash lowers the bodily temperature.
Heat, yawning, pain in chest and head, pulsations in abdomen, 9 A.M. and 5 P.M.
Internal heat, external chilliness.
Chill and heat with dyspnœa.
Evening fever; chilly with thirst, then heat without thirst; with violent fluent coryza; later slight sweat, with sound sleep.
Constant chilliness, violent thirst from internal heat; hot hands; loathing of food.
Chill and fever, with oppression of breathing, constriction of chest, pain in region of liver, thirst worse during chill.
Sweat; mostly on upper parts; after eating; easily excited by exercise during the day.
Night-sweats, with cough; after pneumonia.
Sweat all night without relief.

Paroxysms recur every two or three hours. θ Asthma.

Right: 6, 28, 32. Left: 5, 6, 21, 22, 28. Within outward: 9. Behind forward: 3.
Feeling of emptiness in the whole body, as if it were hollow.

Anæmia, with great debility, skin watery, milky-white; muscles weakened, especially the heart; hence weak pulse is a general characteristic.
Obesity.
Disposition to phlebitis.
Tumors with sticking like needles.
Paresis.
Dropsy of old people.

Cannot bear to be touched; starts when touched lightly, especially if on the feet.
Touch: 1, 17, 32, 34. Pressure: 4, 24, 32. Scratching: 46. Riding in carriage: 3.

Skin, dry, itches; better from scratching.
Erysipelas.
Herpetic spots on face.
Yellow, scaly spots over abdomen: or around the nipples.
Burning itching herpes; moist after scratching.
Ulcers bleed at night.

Suitable for the aged; rather obese; lax fibre.
Dark hair.
After loss of fluids, or vitality, especially in anæmic persons.

In amenorrhœa, after Natr. mur. failed.
Complementary to Carb. veg.
Kali carb. is frequently suitable after: Bryon., Lycop., Natr., mur., Natr. ac.
After Kali carb. are frequently indicated: Carb. veg., Phosphor.
Antidotes to Kali carb: Camphor, Coffea, Spir. Nitr. dul.
Kali sulph. (clinically proved to be good in loose cough and rattling on chest).

Trituration of pure Carbonate of Potassium are used.

All the salts of potash are poisonous (even though potash is necessary to the integrity of tissues). ▶ They enfeeble the heart, lower the temperature and cause anæmia. ▶ They promote tissue waste, increasing the amount of urine and its solid constituents, especially uric acid and urea. ▶ (Among the potashes in our Materia Medica are to be classed Causticum and Tartar emetic.). ▶ In studying the symptomatology special attention should be paid to the character of the secretions from mucous membranes to the pains and the time of aggravation.

The alkalies in general; Hep., Lyc., Nux v., Phos.

Emaciation, with pallor, sunken eyes and dim vision. ▶ Twitching here and there. ▶ Trembling; sudden; of hands and legs, and easily fatigued when walking. ▶ Sticking is the most characteristic pain; S. externally on head, in nape and teeth, and sticking swelling of cheek S. and crawling within ear, with similar sensation in stomach and œsophagus. ▶ Tearing from within left ear into external cartilage, and at the same time in bone above and beneath right patella. ▶ Suppurating pain on pressure upon any part. ▶ Hammering pain in whole body at night. ▶ Rheumatic pains in back, chest, shoulders and arms, agg. moving them. ▶ Bruised pain in all muscles. ▶ Burning pains, agg. epigastric region, agg. pressure. ▶ Drawing pain in whole body, now here, now there. ▶ Drawing in abdomen, arms and legs, agg. rest, with bruised pain in upper arm. ▶ Tension within body, extending to head and eyes.

▶ Inclined to take cold; when walking in open air in evening, then sweat at night and restlessness and heaviness in neck; after becoming heated on moving about, loss of appetite, shivering, diarrhœa, with griping, restless sleep, etc.; symptoms of taking cold from every draught of air. ▶ Dread of open air (Hep., Nux v.). ▶ Perceptible beating of all arteries. ▶ Pulsation over whole body, even to tips of toes; painful P. in clavicles, shoulder side of abdomen, etc. ▶ Sensitiveness on touch and motion. ▶ Hollow feeling in whole body. ▶ Agitation. ▶ Swollen feeling in all her flesh. ▶ Oppression at night if she lies on right side, with anxiety, necessity to sit up until she has eructations. ▶ Heaviness; in morning in bed. ▶ A child desires to be carried constantly. ▶ Restlessness as if menses would appear, a week before menstruation.

▶ Weariness; in morning on waking, amel. rising, agg. afternoon; after afternoon nap, with nausea; in evening; in evening, almost amounting to nausea; after eating, with sleepiness; after eating, with throbbing in pit of stomach and headache; after a moderate walk, with warmth in stomach, drops of sweat on forehead (in winter) and trembling of limbs; agg. small of back, with relaxation of cervical muscles and of arms and legs, with faintness about heart; every morning as if he would faint or have vertigo; sudden W. in evening on lying down, with aching, nausea, warmth and weakness in pit of stomach, vertigo and vanishing of ideas, two similar attacks in morning; tremulous W. when walking, first in knees, then trembling in abdominal muscles and in arms. ▶ Faintness as soon as he moves a little. ▶ Much talk affects her. ▶ Pains recur at 2 or 3 A.M., so that he cannot lie, and are worse than during the day when moving. ▶ Pains renewed in morning after usual stool. ▶ Aggravation in open air, especially of febrile condition. ▶ Amelioration from emission of flatus upward and downward.

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Anæmia, feeble heart's action, depressed temperature, increased tissue waste; aggravation of all symptoms from 3 to 4 A. M.; aggravation from cold air.

Sharp sticking pains in various parts of the body, < motion and cold air, and in the early morning hours.
Takes cold from the slightest exposure.
Dread of open air.
Weariness, especially in the morning.

Mental powers weakened; is anxious and easily frightened; fearful about her disease.

Sensation, as if something were loose in the head.
General headache from walking in the open air.
Frontal pains, extending into the eyes and root of the nose.
Hair becomes very dry; falls out.

Swelling, like a sac, between the brows and lids.
Muscular weakness, with sticking pains, floating spots.
A feeling of coldness in the lids.

Purulent discharge from the ears.
Loss of hearing.

Stoppage.
Burning within the nostrils, which are scabby, with ulcerative pain.

Clinical:
Nasal catarrh, rather dry, sometimes with fetid discharge and obstruction.
Recurring nose-bleed on washing the face in the morning.

Yellowish, puffy, haggard.

Toothache only when eating.
Tearing pain in the teeth, extending into the jaws.
Painful pimples on the tip of the tongue, and on the interior of the mouth.
General dryness, without thirst.
Mouth slimy, bad taste.
Salivation.

Collection of tough mucus on the back of the throat; a little is loosened by much hawking.
Sharp pains like splinters.
Swallowing difficult on account of weakness of the muscles of the œsophagus.

Longing for sugar or acids.
Aversion to meat.
Acid eructations.
Sharp, stinging pains, with external sensitiveness.
Stomach feels full of water, swollen and heavy.
Burning acidity rises with spasmodic constriction.

Distention, after eating, even a little.
Cutting pains in the abdomen.
Sharp pains in the hepatic region; general thirst, also heaviness and heat.
Cutting and dragging in the lower abdomen, with a feeling of weight.
Coldness, and a feeling of inactivity in the bowels.

Burning and sore pain in the anus, as though hæmorrhoids would protrude.
Sticking and cutting pain, burning, itching, etc., in the anus.
Stool seems insufficient, not always hard.
Constipation, with difficult and slow evacuation, as from loss of power of the intestines.

Urging in the bladder, but has to wait for the stool and flow of urine.
Frequent micturition at night, but urine flows only after long pressure.

Menstruation early, profuse, prolonged.
Leucorrhœa, with pains in the back and bearing-down pains in the abdomen.

Clinical:
Puerperal inflammations, with sharp, cutting pains, weakness, etc.
Ineffectual labor pains; uterine atony.

Hoarseness and loss of voice.
Cough at 3 to 4 A. M., dry, tickling, suffocative, caused by dryness of the larynx.
Expectoration scanty, of small round lumps of mucus.
Dyspnœa, as if no air could get into the chest.
Sharp, sticking pains through the sides of the chest on deep breathing, in the evening after lying down; the cutting pains extend into the left hypochondrium.
Sore pains in the chest, < talking, breathing or lifting anything heavy.

Clinical:
Diseases of the lungs, especially chronic, always aggravated in cold, dry air, with sharp sticking pains in the chest, etc.

Weak heart, with feeble pulse; palpitation on the slightest effort.

Neck stiff.
Glands swollen.
Bruised and tearing pains in the back, especially in the lumbar muscles or region of the kidneys.
A feeling of stiffness between the scapulæ.
Lumbago, with sharp, lancinating pains, extending up and down the back as if broken.

Sharp sticking pains, with uneasiness in bed.
Heaviness of the limbs; can scarcely raise his feet.
The arms fall asleep in cold weather and after much effort.
Arms feel powerless in the morning in bed.
Drawing pains, extending down the thighs at night, when standing and after sitting down.
Cramps in the calves.
Jerking, tearing and drawing pains from the hands to the feet.
The legs are restless at night in bed.
Legs feel heavy; walking is difficult; they fall asleep.

Sleepiness during the forepart of the day and during the day.
Sleepless after 1 or 2 A. M.

Fever, with surging or blood or throbbing in the blood vessels.
General tendency to shivering and coldness and lack of heat.
General inability to sweat, though rarely there is partial sweat at night.

KALI CARBONICUM. SALT OF TARTAR.

[Half an ounce of purified tartar, moistened with a few drops of water, is pressed together into a ball, which is rolled up into a piece of paper and allowed to dry ; then it is brought to a red heat between the glowing charcoal of a grate (or of a draught furnace). It is then taken out, laid in a porcelain saucer and covered with a linen cloth ; it is allowed to attract moisture from the air in a cellar, which causes the alkaline salt partially to deliquesce, and, if it is allowed to stay there a few weeks, it will deposit even the last trace of lime. A clear drop [*] of this preparation is then triturated three times with 100 grains of sugar of milk each time, within three hours, to the one millionth powder attenuation (Kali I) ; one grain of this third trituration is then raised by twenty-seven dilution vials to the decillionth dynamization (Kali X).] .

[*] This will be a salt of tartar sufficiently pure for our purposes. I would again repeat, that I have endeavored to secure the medicinal material for homœopathic use, wherever practicable, in the most simple and natural manner, and to give directions of this kind ; so that every physician, wherever by may be, may secure the same substance. For this purpose, which was to me most important (and not merely to avoid every appearance of ostentation and puristic pedantry, which would in this matter have been altogether out of place). I had to avoid as far as possible all directions which would have led to difficult chemical operations, by means of costly apparatus, to secure the absolute chemical purity of the medicinal substances used.

The carbonate of potash secured in this manner has proved itself most useful where the following morbid symptoms predominated, or at least were also present : Peevishness ; timidity ; lack of memory ; dizziness ; stolid feeling in the head ; vertigo, as if rising in the stomach ; headache when out driving ; headache, while sneezing and coughing ; morning-headache ; headache with nausea ; pressive pain the occiput ; rush of blood to the head ; hissing in the head ; great tendency of the external head to catch cold ; scurfy eruption of the head ; dryness of the hair of the head ; falling out of the hair ; morning-sweat on the forehead ; swelling of the eye ; agglutination of the eyes in the morning ; lachrymation ; floating specks before the eyes ; the eye is dazzled by the light ; stitches in the ear ; pains, shooting in the ears outward ; weakness of the hearing, dull hearing ; ulceration of the inside of the nose ; dullness of olfaction ; heat of the face ; flying heat of the face ; yellowness of the face ; bloatedness of the face ; drawing pain in the face ; toothache, only when eating ; shooting toothache ; palate full of mucus ; hawking up of mucus ; sour taste in the mouth ; spoiled taste ; bitter taste in the mouth ; rabid hunger ; great liking for sugar ; frequent eructation ; sour eructations ; nausea ; anxiety, with inclination to vomit ; nausea during eating ; fullness of the stomach after eating ; tension transversely across the stomach ; pinching in the stomach ; pressure in the liver ; sprained pain in the liver when stooping ; pressure in the hypogastrium when stooping ; heaviness and restlessness ; in the abdomen ; inactivity and coldness in the abdomen ; labor-like colic ; much flatulence ; incarceration of flatus ; no emission of flatus ; continual emission of flatus ; inactivity of the rectum ; difficult evacuation of the fæces, on account of their large formation ; constipation ; constipation every other day ; costiveness and difficult discharge of stool ; mucus with the stool ; anxiety before the stool ; varices of the anus ; itching of the anus ; pressive pain in the rectum, before discharge of flatus ; tenesmus of the bladder ; frequent micturition, day and night ; the sexual impulse is dormant ; lack of sexual impulse ; (surexcitation of the sexual instinct :) lack of erections ; lack of pollutions ; (too many pollutions ;) swelling of the testicle ; after coitus, weakness of the body, especially of the eyes ; (suppression of the menses, with anasarca and ascites ;) menses too scanty ; menses too early ; during the menses, an itching eruption and excoriation between the thighs ; sharpness, itching and erosion on and in the genitals ; vaginal discharge. Dryness of the nose ; stuffed nostrils ; stuffed coryza ; hoarseness ; cough ; nocturnal cough ; expectoration of pus ; expectoration of pus when coughing ; spasm of the chest when coughing ; difficult breathing ; wheezing on the chest ; morning asthma ; asthma when walking a little faster than usual ; spasmodic asthma ; spasm of the chest ; palpitation ; palpitation and orgasm of the blood in the morning on awaking ; pain in the sacrum ; pain in the sacrum from a fall ; drawing pain from the sacrum to the middle of the back ; drawing pain in the back ; stiffness between the scapulæ ; stiffness of the nape ; weakness in the cervical muscles ; goitre ; pressure on the shoulders ; the arms go to sleep ; the upper arms go to sleep ; weakness in the arms ; lassitude of the arms, in the morning in bed ; stiffness of the elbow-joint ; trembling of the hands in writing ; paralytic pain in the wrist ; convulsive twitching of the fingers in sewing. Tearing pressure in the thigh and leg ; nocturnal tearing in the lower limbs ; crawling shudder on the tibiæ ; coldness of the feet, in the evening in bed ; stiffness in the ankle-joint ; swelling of the leg ; burning pain in the legs and the feet ; cold feet ; fetid sweat of the feet ; shooting and burning in the ball of the big toe ; corns painful when touched ; drawing pains in the limbs ; the fingers and toes are drawn crooked ; the limbs go to sleep ; tendency to strains : tremulous lassitude ; weakness after parturition ; readiness to take cold ; lack of perspiration and inability to perspire ; anasarca and ascites ; red, itching, burning, spots on the body ; herpes ; old warts in the face ; drowsiness by day ; drowsiness early in the evening ; sleep full of fancies ; anxious sleep, full of dreams ; frightful dreams ; twitching in sleep ; tendency to shudder by day ; heat in the morning in bed ; great tendency to sweat ; while walking ; night-sweat. Patients suffering from ulceration of the lungs rarely get well without this antipsoric. Nitric acid is frequently homœopathically indicated after kali. The observations marked Gff. are by the Royal Councilor, Baron von Gersdorff ; those marked Gll. by Dr. Goullon, in Weimar ; Htb., Dr. Hartlaub ; Ng, an anonymous contributor in Hartlaub und Trinks' Reine Arzneimittellehre, and Rl., Dr. Rummel. [*].

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Kal. c. / (1st K-Potash) / The Potter.

Kali carb.,-With membrane dry,
Sore agglutinated eye,
Scurfy nostril, dry and sore,
Burning tongue all blistered o'er,
Bulging puff beneath the brow,
Seeks the chest to raise a row.
Rouses gagging cough, and calls
Sputum forth in flying balls.
Stitching pains, his wiles denote,
Splinter-like when in the throat.
Wherein mucus sticking lays,
And his victuals clogging stays.
With these ills, he holds at bay,
Dropsy, and anaemia,
Piles, and pains that hours last
Ere his costive stools are past.
Much distressing gas has he
After meals immediately.
Is to qualmishness inclined
With distressful state of mind.

The Potter,-Has stitching pains.

The Potter, Bryon Bora, is a spy on some of the black chiefs, Spanish ale.

This Potter,- Who is subject to a gagging cough,-Is at Bryon's, Kissing the imp, Dro-Cina.

Stitching Pains: Kal. c., Bry., Borax, Spi., Sul., Mer., Sep., Chel., Canth., Lach. (In the anus, Ig., Lach., Sep.)

Cough with Gagging: Kal. c., Bry., Kreo., Sep., Ipe., Dro., Cina.

Indicated chiefly by the presence of sharp, sticking pain or a series of sticking pains, in various parts of the body. Especially useful in persons who are sensitive to changes in the weather and cannot bear cold weather. H. N. Guernsey thinks it one of the best remedies following childbirth and its consequences.

Bag-like swelling over the upper eyelids.

Great general weakness and depression, with coldness and soft pulse; sensitiveness to change in the weather.

Awakens at 3 or 4 o'clock a. m.

Stitching or jerking pains in any part of the body, at ears, throat, lungs, bowels, joints, rectum, liver kidneys.

Nose stuffed up in warm room; nostrils sore, scurfy.

Nosebleed in the morning when washing the face.

Throat dry and rough, with difficulty of swallowing, food being forced down slowly, and sticking pain as from a fish-bone.

Cough, dry and hard; it awakens him at 3 to 4 o'clock a. m.; with stitching pain in right lower chest, better from bending forward, worse from lying on affected side.

Wheezing.

Expectoration must be swallowed.

Sensation as though the stomach were full of water.

Large, difficult stool, with stitching pain in the rectum before stool.

Large, painful haemorrhoids, with sticking pain in them from coughing.

Menstruation retarded, scanty, suppressed. Flow acrid.

Great sensitiveness of the soles of the feet and of the heels.

Worse after midnight; toward morning; after sexual intercourse; from change of weather from eating; after eating.

Better from sitting stooped over; in the warm open air.

Angry and irritable. Very easily frightened. Anxious fears. Reticent.

Seeming to come from stomach. Dizziness. Sudden unconsciousness.

Congestion to with throbbing and roaring therein. Unilateral headache, with nausea. Pressive pain in occiput. Stitches in temples and forehead, Headache when driving. Worse: Stooping, moving it, eyes or lower jaw. Better: Warmth, raising up.

Painful gatherings, like progressing boils, paining more from motion and external pressure, less from warmth, with coincident itching seemingly in skull bones. Falling of hair, especially from temples, brove and beard, with great dryness thereof. Violent burning itching in early morning and evening, often becoming moist after scratching. Takes cold in, especially from staying in a draft while heated. Great coldness of. Worse: Early in morning, in cold. Better: In warmth.

Stitches in. Pimply eruption in brows. Sense of coldness in lids. Swelling and nightly agglutination of lids. Inclination to stars. Easily dazzled by light. Sparks before. Musca volitantes, when reading and looking into space. Swelling between brows and lids. Lachrymation.

Inflammatory swelling, with purulent discharge. Outward stitches in. Inflammation of parotid glands. Hearing dull, diminished.

Stuffed coryza, with ulcerated nostrils. Red and swelled, with internal soreness. Dull sense of smell.

Yellow. Puffy. Swelling and redness of cheeks. Thick, ulcerated lips. Cracking, peeling lips. Freckles.

Ache, when eating only. Twitching, tearing ache, with pain in facial bones. Sticking ache, with swollen cheeks.

Sense of dryness in, with increased flow of saliva. Sticking sore throat when swallowing. Much mucus on palate. Swelling of, and vesicles on tongue.

Appetite: Aversion to rye bread. Great desire for sugar or sour things. Complaints from milk and warm food.

Taste: Bitter, in mouth.

Eructations: Sour, Heartburn.

Nausea: Inclination to vomit, Anxious, from emotions. Sour vomiting.

Sticking, Food lodges.

Fullness after eating. Tension straight across. Anxiety at, Spasm of, renewed after every meal. Stitches in pit and hypochondriac, which take away his breath.

Hypochondriac: Pressure and sticking in region of oliver and kidneys. Pain when stooping, as the liver were wrenched.

Inactivity and coldness of, Great distension after eating. Emptiness. Stitches. Heaviness. Ascites. labor - like colic with pains in lumbar region. Stitches in inguinal region.

Flatulence: Incarcerated. Excessive discharge of flatus.

Mucus. Retarded, on account of inactivity of intestinal canal. Constipation, with difficult passage of too large sized feces, with inactivity of rectum.

Itching. Painful hemorrhoids.

Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty discharge of fiery urine. Burning in urethra when urinating.

Deficient or excessive sexual desire. Constant downward pressure toward female genitals. Stitches in pudendum.

Menses: Too early. Too scanty. Suppressed. First menses appear with difficulty in young women. Discharge of blood during pregnancy. Burning leucorrhoea, passed with labor - like colic and pains in small of back.

Difficult, whistling r. Spasmodic tightness of chest, early in morning, especially during motion.

Asthmatic, hacking cough, in short but frequently repeated attacks, excited by tickling in throat and larynx. Dry, tickling c., in evening and at night, with dislodgement early in morning and during day of tenacious mucus or yellow pus of a flat, sweetish or sour taste, which is not expectorated but swallowed. Spasmodic, early in morning, with retching and vomiting. Whooping cough, with inflammation of chest.

Rawness of throat and hoarseness, with excessive sneezing.

Spasm of, when coughing. Stitches in, with inflammation of lungs. (Ant-t.) Hydrothorax. Palpitation, with ebullition of blood early in morning. Suppuration of lungs and ulcerative phthisis. Emptiness in.

Stiffness between scapulae. Pain in small of, with labor - like pains in abdomen. Lumbar pains after a fall. Drawing pain from the lumbar region into the middle of back.

Neck: Hard swelling of glands of. Goitre. Stiff nape.

Asleep sensation in arms when in cold air and alter violent exertion. Great weariness and powerlessness in arms early in morning in bed. Numb finger - tips.

Nightly tearing in legs. Burning and sticking in legs. Restlessness in legs in evening. Cold rest in evening in bed. Stinking foot sweat. Sensitive feet.

Sticking pains in internal parts, as well as in muscles and joints. Tearing pains in limbs, with swelling, mostly during rest. Faint like weakness and trembling after walking. Great tendency to take cold after being overheated, with aversion to open air and drafts. Limbs pain whenever he rests them. Muscular twitchings. Paralysis. In the open air she seems better than in the room, except that the fever is more intense then. Complaints are worse at 2 or 3 o'clock in morning and during rest, than during day and when moving about. Cold hands and feet. Sensations of emptiness Agg. 2 - five AM

Glands swollen and indurated after contusions.

Burning (and sticking) itching of. Burning itching spots, exuding a moisture when scratched. Anasarca. Bluish frost - bites. Ulcers which bleed every evening.

Sleepiness early in evening. late falling to sleep. Twitchings during. Full of voluptuous fancies and anxious dreams. Waking up from.

Pulse: Very variable, often weak and slow, but also often remarkably accelerated and hard. Sometimes quick early in morning and slow in evening, seldom the reverse. Violent ebullition of blood, with throbbing in all blood vessels. Chill: Mostly in evening. Quickly follows the pains. Shuddering. Sometimes running over the body during day. Chilliness in evening, ceasing soon when near a warm stove and after lying down. Heat: In early morning in bed. Internal, with external shuddering. Sweat: Every night Early in morning. Easy, during day from motion and mental exertion. Principally in upper part of body, increased by warm drinks. Offensive or sour smelling. Entire want of natural perspiration and inability to sweat. Warm on forehead.

Allied Remedies: Ap., Arg - n., Ars., Bry., Calc-c., Carb-c., Coccl., KALI-BR., Laur., Lyc., Mag-c., Nat - c, Nat - c, Nat-m., NIT-AC., Nurse, Phos, PULS, Sil.

Complementary: Carb-v., Phos., Nit-ac.

Stinging pain in the muscles and in internal parts.

Tearing pain in the limbs, with swelling and aggravation during rest.

Great liability to catch cold after having been heated, and aversion to open air and air drafts.

After exertion like exercise in walking attacks of faintness and trembling come on.

Painful sensitiveness of the limbs on pressure.

Twitching of the muscles.

In the open air she appears to be better than in the room, only the fever is higher in the open air.

Swelling and induration of the glands (after contusions).

Sensation of hollowness in the whole body.

Dryness of the skin.

Constipation.

Parotitis.

When he shuts his eyes painful sensation from light penetrating into the brain.

Aggravation in the morning.