Kali Ferrocyanicum kali-fer.

Kali ferrocyanidum, Kali ferrocyanuratum, Yellow Prussiate of Potash, Potassic Ferrocyanide. K 4 Fe (CN) 6 3H2O. Trituration. Solution.

Chlorosis. Debility. Dysmenorrhœa. Dyspepsia. Heart, fatty degeneration of. Leucorrhœa. Menorrhagia. Rheumatism.

The Ferrocyanide of Potash is prepared "by fusing animal substances such as the cuttings of horns, hoofs, and skins with Carbonate of Potash in an iron pot, lixiviating the crude product with water, and purifying the salt with crystallisation" (Brunton). In the old school the only uses made of this salt are as a test, and in the preparation of Hcy. ac . Thanks to a proving made under the guidance of J. B. Bell, homœopaths have found in it a remedy rivalling Sepia in the uterine sphere, and Kali c . in its action on the heart. The Kali element seems the predominating power in this salt. The bearing-down sensation and the gastric sinking are prominent indications. Menses too frequent and too profuse. Passive uterine hæmorrhages. There is a periodicity in the complaints of K. fcy . Debility, tremors, numbness, hæmorrhages, chlorosis, wandering neuralgic pains are among its general effects. W. G. Dietz reports ( Amer. Hom ., xxiii. 58, quoting N. A. J. H .) this case: Mrs. H., 23, mother of three children, small, anæmic, weak. Four years ill with "incurable heart disease," as she had been told. Symptoms: Much distress in heart region. Frequent attacks of pain, a severe ache with occasional sharp plunges; generally < by moving about, exertion, and > by rest; occasionally the conditions are reversed. Palpitation generally accompanies the paroxysms, but may occur independently. Mentally depressed, knows she has heart disease and is going to die." Appetite fitful bowels inclined to be constipated. Urine pale, 1,014, passed frequently. No abnormal constituents. Chilly, hands and feet cold. No organic disease of heart discovered. Has taken quantities of patent medicines. K. fcy . 1x three times a day, improved in two weeks and cured in four months. — The symptoms are < on rising; on awaking; in the morning; on moving; on walking. > In afternoon. Touch < ; patients very sensitive to touch.

Compare: Sep. (bearing-down pus-like leucorrhœa, profuse, unirritating; sadness even to tears sinking sensation; passive uterine hæmorrhage with consequent debility); K. ca. (gastric sinking connected with weakened heart; heart-beats diminished in number and force with consequent coldness, sinking, vertigo, tremors); K. cy. (periodic neuralgia); Stann. (sun-headaches) Fer. and K. ca. (chlorosis); Digit. (heart-poison; slow pulse) K. ca., K. chl. (sensitiveness to touch); Collins.; Hcy. ac.

Sad; tearful; thinks he will soon die and leave his friends. — Irritable, easily vexed.

Vertigo, coldness, numbness, with sensation of gastric sinking, sometimes universal tremors as in ague fit. — Periodic neuralgia following the sun.

Much sneezing during pressure and mucous discharge.

Ptyalism, with redness, swelling, and tenderness of gums, and aphthæ of mouth and fauces.

Throat sore and dry on waking, but soon after expectoration came on with > . — On waking, sensation as if fauces raw and tonsils swollen.

Sinking. — Slight nausea when dressing. — Acidity; sour eructations; flatulence, sour or tasting of ingesta; pressure at stomach after eating accompanying symptoms of uterus.

Too early emissions and little pleasure. — Nocturnal emission with indistinct amorous dreams.

Menses: too frequent and too profuse; late; metrorrhagia. — Passive painless flow, natural colour, thin, causing much debility. — Leucorrhœa: like pus, yellowish, creamy, profuse, unirritating; only after menses, usually by day; with pain in small of back. — Sensitiveness of hypogastrium to pressure, womb tender (during pregnancy).

(Fatty heart with weak, irregular pulse.). — Heart's action weakened and slowed. — (Hypertrophy with dilatation. — Functional heart disorders with anæmia.)

Debility; pale lips, gums, and skin; cold hands and feet; frequent profuse watery urine, sometimes with traces of clotted blood; wandering neuralgic pains; periodic neuralgia of head following sun.

Potassium Ferrocyanide. K 4 FeCy 6 3H 2 O=K 4 FeC 6 N 6 3H 2 O.
Proving by Bell. See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 5, p. 330 .
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Menorrhagia ; Debility ; Bell, Hahn. M., vol. 2, p. 44.

Sad ; inclination to weep.

Acidity of stomach ; sour eructations ; much flatulence, sour or tasting of ingesta pressure at stomach after eating, accompanying symptoms of uterus.

Feeling of weakness and bearing down in bowels, particularly if bearing down extends to back.

Menses too frequent and too profuse, or late.
Menorrhagia, three or four ounces a day, painless.
Passive, painless flowing of blood of natural color, rather thin, and causing much debility.
Leucorrhœa like pus, yellowish, cream-like, profuse, not irritating.
Leucorrhœa only after menses, usually in daytime.
Pain in small of back, accompanying leucorrhœa.

Sensitiveness of lower part of abdomen to pressure, and womb very tender to touch of finger. θ Pregnancy.

Fatty heart, with weak, irregular pulse.
Hypertrophy, with dilatation.
Functional disorders of heart, with anemia.

Pain in small of back accompanying leucorrhœa.

Debility ; paleness of lips, gums and whole skin ; cold hands and feet ; urine frequent, profuse, watery, and sometimes traces of coagulated blood ; irregular, wandering, neuralgic pains ; periodic neuralgia of head, following the sun.

Periodic neuralgia of head.

Pain : in small of back.
Irregular, wandering, neuralgic pains.
Periodic neuralgia : of head following the sun.
Pressure : at stomach after eating.
Weakness and bearing down : in bowels.

Chlorosis, with cardiac debility.

Touch : of finger, womb very sensitive.
Pressure : lower part of abdomen sensitive.

Woman, æt. 35, delicate, brown hair, after confinement, suffering five months ; menorrhagia.

Compare : Collin., Digit., Ferrum, Hydr. ac., Kali carb., Stannum (sun headaches).

The symptoms of this remedy are worse morning, evening and during the night.

The over-sensitive, nervous, delicate person, worn out from long suffering, much sorrow and vexation, and prolonged mental work; also such as are broken down from sexual excesses and vices.

It is a long-acting antipsoric. Anemic and chlorotic patients, Most complaints are worse during rest, and ameliorated by gentle motion and slowly walking about. The patient in general, and his pains, are aggravated in cold air, from becoming cold, after becoming cold, from entering a cold place, and in cold, wet weather. He takes cold easily. Aversion to the open air. Draft of air aggravates, and open air aggravates. Numbness in the extremities. Great lassitude. Aggravated by ascending stairs, and by physical exertion. Glands dwindle. Choreic movements.

Complaints are worse after coition. The weakness, emaciation, and anaemia and tubercular tendency are strong features of this wonderful antipsoric remedy. Oedema of the limbs and dropsy of serous sacs. Complaints aggravated after eating. Emaciation, wasting diseases with putrid discharges and putrid stools.

Fainting spells. Fasting ameliorates, Fatty tendency of muscles and organs. Aggravated alter cold drinks, milk. This remedy has been used in gangrenous condition. Parts become black. Septic, putrid hemorrhages, and great prostration. All forms of nervous weakness. Hypochondriasis and hysteria. Inflammation of glands.

Complaints from loss of fluids. Orgasm of blood. The pains are aching, pressing, stitching, tearing, tearing downwards, paralyzing. Chronic neuralgia, ameliorated by gentle motion, aggravated from cold. One sided paralysis from a gradually increasing weakness. Paroxysms of pain followed by exhaustion. Pulsation felt all over the body and in the limbs.

Symptoms are often one-sided. Many symptoms come during and after sleep. Twitching of muscles, and jerking of limbs. Ulcers with putrid discharges. Offensive catarrhal discharges. Walking fast aggravates; walking in open air aggravates. Warmth of bed ameliorates. Complaints worse in winter. Too many cures have been made by the followers of Schüessler to permit this remedy to remain unexplained. Good provings are found in our literature. The high and highest potencies have served the best, and it should be used in the single dose.

Flies into a passion and can hardly articulate.

Aversion to answering questions. Apprehensive anxiety, in the evening in bed, and during the night; anxiety after eating, about the future, about his health, about his salvation.

Whenever he wakens it oppresses him, and he becomes hypochondriacal. She takes an antipathy to her husband. She is cruel to her baby and husband. Perverted affections. Broods over his condition. Aversion to company. Complaints come on from bad news.

Confusion of mind morning and evening. Contrary humor. Low form of delirium in typhoid and septic fevers. Delirium tremens. Imaginations. Sees dead people. Sees figures, frightful images. Discontented and sad. Dullness of mind in the morning. Discouraged. He refuses to eat, He is very excitable and greatly wrought up from bad news; then follows palpitation and many nervous symptoms.

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