Kali Nitricum kali-n.

Cavities: Blood-vessels. Heart. Kidneys. Vaso-motors. Respiratory organs.

Walking. Cold. Damp. Taking cold. Veal. Lying with head low.

Gentle motion.

Increased secretion into cavities. Very weak. Hæmorrhage. Sudden œdema. Throbbing. Dull stitches. Numb, as if wooden.

Faintness. External angle of r. eye twitches, < chewing. Nausea. Epigastric or sub-sternal pains go toward axillæ. Dark, fluid stools. Dull kidney pains. Diuresis. Profuse, inky menses. Rapid, gasping breathing; sits upright. VIOLENT DYSPNŒA; can only drink in sips. Congestion of r. lung. Asthma. Free, sour expectoration >. Relapses of phthisis. Palpitation, < lying. Pain from back into chest. Hands and fingers feel swelled. External coldness; chin; skin. Internal burning.

Related: Cam. Glon.

Urine very pale, frequent and profuse. Full pulse.

In the morning; afternoon; evening; after midnight; from eating veal.

Bellad., Calc. carb., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sepia, Sulphur.

Dulcam.

Nitrate of Potassium-Saltpeter (KALI NITRICUM - NITRUM)

Often indicated in asthma, also valuable in cardiac asthma; of great value in sudden dropsical swellings over the whole body. Gastro-intestinal inflammation, with much debility, and relapse in phthisis, call for this remedy. Suppurative nephritis.

Scalp very sensitive. Headache, with vertigo, as if falling to right side and backwards; worse, stooping. Ennui.

Vision becomes clouded. Turbid corpus vitreum (Arn; Ham; Solan n; Phos). Variegated-colored rings before eyes. Burning and lachrymation.

Sneezing. Swollen feeling; worse, right nostril. Point red and itching. Polypus (Sang nit).

Tongue red, with burning pimples; burns at tip. Throat constricted and sore.

Thin, watery, bloody. Membranous shreds, with tenesmus. Diarrhœa from eating veal.

Menses too early, profuse, black; preceded and with violent backache. Leucorrhœa. Burning pains in the ovarian region only during menses (Zinc after).

Hoarseness. Dry, morning cough, with pain in chest and bloody expectoration. Bronchitis, with sharp, short, dry, hacking cough. Asthma, with excessive dyspnœa, nausea, dull stitches, and burning in chest. Dyspnœa so great that breath cannot be held long enough to drink, though thirsty. Chest feels constricted. Oppression worse in morning. Sour-smelling expectoration. Expectoration of clotted blood, after hawking mucus. Acute exacerbations in phthisis; congestion of lungs. Spasmodic croup; paroxysm of crowing. Laryngeal diphtheria.

Pulse weak, small, thready. Violent stitch in præcordia, and beating of heart.

Stitches between shoulder-blades. Tearing and sticking in shoulders and joints. Hands and fingers seem swollen.

Worse, eating veal; towards morning and in afternoon. Better, drinking sips of water.

Antidotes: Opium; Nitr sp dulc.

Antidote to Opium and Morphine poisoning, 8-10 grains to glass of water.

Compare: Gun-powder (Nitre with sulphur and charcoal-2x trit. "Blood poisoning. " Septic suppuration. Protractive against wound infection. Antidote to Ivy and Primula rash (Clarke) Herpes facialis; crops of boils. Carbuncles). Osteo-myelitis. Cannab sat (which contains a large amount of Kali nit). Lycop; Sanguin; Allium sat; Antimon iod.

Third to thirtieth potency.

Great difficulty in drinking on account of short breathing; drinks in sips.

Despondency, out of humor, uneasy. Timidity and apprehension (of death).

Headache, causing the eyelids to close ; worse when the head is allowed to hang down (stooping). Stupefying heaviness of the head in the morning, as after free indulgence in intoxicating drink. Pain, as from constriction in the back part of the head ; all the parts feet stiff, compelling one to bend the head backward, and relieved by tying up the hair. Constricting headache, which concentrates in the tip of the nose. Stinging pain in the head. Pressing headache, aggravated by coffee and relieved by riding in the open air. Headache after eating veal. Great painful sensitiveness of the scalp.

Burning in the eyes, with lachrymation and aversion to light, especially in the morning, after washing in cold water. In the evening, rainbow-colored circles around the light. Every thing appears black before the eyes (after smelling Camphor).

Tingling in the ears. Deafness from paralysis of the auditory nerves. Stitches in the ears at night ; worse when lying on the ear. Tension, sticking and tearing behind the (right) ear. Inflammation and swelling of the right lobe, with violent burning and jerking.

The tip of the nose is inflamed with stinging pains. Swelling of the internal nose. Ulcers in the nose (covered by a scurf). Bleeding of the nose ; the blood is acrid and sharp, like vinegar. The nasal bones are painful, especially to the touch.

Color of the face pale. Redness of the cheeks, with tension in them, while the headache becomes worse. The pain like contraction in the eyes, forehead and face concentrates in the tip of the nose. Pain in the bones or the face.

Stitches in hollow teeth, when touching them. Pulsating toothache at night ; worse from cold things. Stinging or tearing toothache, with tearing in the head. Inflammatory swelling of the gums ; they bleed easily. Fetid odor from the mouth. Burning blister at the tip of the tongue. The tongue is coated with white mucus. Inflammation of the throat, with stinging pain during deglutition. Pain in the throat, as if it were going to close at night, with dyspnœa. Impeded deglutition from tension and cutting in the larynx.

Violent thirst, with want of appetite. The appetite is strongest in the evening. Nausea, especially at night. Vomiting of mucus with blood. Pressure in the pit of the stomach, with gnawing and faintish weakness. Burning in the stomach or sensation of coldness (inflammation of the stomach). Contractive, spasmodic colic, especially after eating veal. Incarcerated flatulency, especially in the evening.

Constipation ; stool hard and only discharged by violent pressing. Soft stools, with colic. Stools watery, bloody.

Frequent micturition, with discharge of large quantities of pale urine with reddish clouds.

Women. Menstruation too early and too profuse, with black blood. Before and during the menstruation violent colic and pain in the small of the back. Leucorrhœa thin, stiffening the linen, discharged with violent pains in the small of the back.

Hoarseness, with roughness and scraping in the larynx. Cough, which awakens one at 3 A.M., with violent stupefying headache. Cough in the open air, when ascending, when arresting the breathing. Cough, with cutting pain in the chest ; with stitches in the chest and expectoration of clear blood. Suppuration of the lungs, with profuse (colliquative) perspiration. Dyspnœa, not allowing to lie with the head low. Constrictive pain in the chest, as if the lungs were constricted from the back. Stitches in the chest on drawing a long breath, while lying and coughing, with great anxiety and dyspnœa. (Inflammation of the lungs). Violent palpitation of the heart, especially at night when lying.

Stitches in and between the shoulder-blades, which impede the breathing ; worse at night while lying on the back, better while lying on the right side. Violent pain in the small of the back at night, or in the morning on waking, and when stooping. Violent pain in the neck, extending to the shoulders, as if one were drawing the hair backwards with great violence.

Upper. Rheumatic pains in the shoulders at night. Rheumatic pains and stitches in the joints of the shoulder, of the elbow, hands and fingers, especially at night, with the sensation as if the hands and fingers were swollen and too large. Numbness and tingling in the arms and hands. Stiffness and tension in the finger-joints. Lower. Rheumatic pains in the legs. Great debility and paralytic weakness in the lower legs after a short walk. Numbness and tingling in the feet. The toes are contracted.

The affected parts feel numb, as if they were made of wood. Great debility, with sensation of heat in the face and hot forehead (morning). Rheumatic pains and stitches in the limbs and joints. The debility is worse while sitting than when moving about moderately. Inflammation of internal organs.

Sleepiness during the day. Restless sleep at night ; nightmare.

Pulse full, hard and rapid. Pulse slow in the morning, rapid in the afternoon and evening. Chilliness and coldness in the afternoon and evening ; aggravated from every exertion and ceasing when lying down. Chill, followed by perspiration without previous heat. Chill in the evening, with pain. Coldness in the afternoon, with thirst. Heat at night, without thirst and without perspiration following. Very debilitating perspiration from the least exertion. Night-sweat most profuse on the lower extremities. Morning-sweat most profuse on the chest.

Pricking in the skin like needles, followed by burning, especially in the face. Burning vesicles filled with a yellow fluid ; they burst when scratched and relieve the burning. Sudden hydropical swelling.

Aggravation after midnight, afternoon and evening ; from smelling camphor ; from eating veal. The conditions which are aggravated during the day are relieved in the evening, after lying down.

Nitrum. Nitre. Saltpetre. Nitrate of Potassium. Potassic Nitrate. KNO 3 . Trituration. Solution.

Asthma. Chest, pain in . Colic. Diabetes insipidus. Dysentery. Dysmenorrhœa. Enuresis. Gastritis. Headache. Heart, affections of. Herpes preputialis. Menière's disease. Menorrhagia. Nose, bleeding of. Peritonitis. Phthisis. Pleurisy. Pneumonia. Polypus. Rheumatism. Vertigo.

K. n . is known in old-school practice principally as a "refrigerant diuretic," and as the active agent in the well-known "nitre papers," which are burnt for producing fumes to allay attacks of asthma. It has also been used in rheumatism, and for incontinence of urine in children. It has been extensively proved by homœopaths, and symptoms have been added from cases of poisoning, so that its characteristics are well defined. It is almost equal to K. ca . in producing stitching pains; and it is like it in having a cough at 3 a.m. The pains produced by K. n . are very severe — stitching, cutting, lancinating, tearing, and pressing. And there is, as with many other Kalis , much external sensitiveness — of scalp; of abdomen; of testes. That its anti-asthmatic properties are homœopathic is abundantly shown in the respiratory symptoms it produces. Its "diuretic" properties are utilised homœopathically in diabetes insipidus, and its use in enuresis must come in the same category. K. n . acts with great intensity on the abdominal and pelvic organs, producing most painful colics, diarrhœa, and dysentery; in the male sexual sphere, excitement and pain in testes and cords; in the female, menorrhagia with flow of ink-like blackness. This is very characteristic. Another characteristic of K. n . is < from eating veal, or effects of eating it — headache, diarrhœa, &c. The mental state of K. n . is chiefly one of peevishness, fretfulness, and ennui . There are many curious symptoms in the nose: "The pain-like contraction in the eyes, forehead, and face concentrates in the tip of the nose"; "Swollen feeling in right nostril, which is painful on pressure" sore pain in upper part of right nostril with external sensitiveness these two last symptoms led to the cure of a large nasal polypus in a girl. In a poisoning case there was in the period of recovery intense vertigo with tinnitus, which should indicate K. n . in some cases of Menière's disease. Easy intoxication by wine or beer was noted by several provers. A peculiar symptom is a sour taste in the throat . Another peculiar symptom is in connection with the asthmatic state. The breathlessness is so great that the patient though thirsty can only drink a sip at a time between the breaths. Allen thus defines the asthma of K. n .: Asthma with excessive dyspnœa, faintness and nausea, with dull stitches or with burning pain in chest, rather free expectoration. A solution of saltpetre as an application was an old remedy for inveterate mange in cats. Nitre with Sulphur and Charcoal forms gunpowder. A teaspoonful of this in hot water was a favourite remedy for gonorrhœa among soldiers in the days when black powder was used. In the lower triturations gunpowder has cured ascarides in adults. In some experiments made by myself with gunpowder 2x, severe herpes facialis involving right eyebrow and right side of nose was developed. The most characteristic < is from veal; < from wine or beer, < from a slight draught of air (headache). < After washing in cold water (eye). < 3 a.m. (cough). < Lying with head low (dyspnœa), < in morning; afternoon; evening; after midnight. Walking < many symptoms. < Breathing; < by coffee. > Lying down; lying right side; uncovering head (pain in parietal region). Suited to: asthmatic constitutions and chest complaints.

Antidoted by: Smelling Nit. sp. dul. Ipec. relieved the cough. Smelling Camph. intensified the sufferings. Follows well: Aco. in dysentery, and is followed well by Nux in the same. Also follow well: Bell., Calc., Puls., Rhus, Sep. K. n. antidotes the renal symptoms of Caust. Compare: Arn., Dros., Nat. m., Nit ac.

Eating veal.

Excitement after a glass of wine as if he had taken too much. — Anxiety and agitation. — Despondency, out of humour, uneasy. — Ennui; lachrymose mood, sad expression. — Fretful; peevish. — Disinclined to think or work. — Half stupor. — Discouragement and fear of death.

Confusion almost like intoxication. — Vertigo; on sleeping; tends to fall forwards; to r. and backwards after drinking beer. — Fainting fits with vertigo in morning on standing, > on sitting down; afterwards obscuration of sight with great weakness and drowsiness; pain in small of back And constriction in abdomen; staggering gait with vertigo. — Vertigo and tinnitus. — Headache in vertex on rising. — Headache, after eating veal. — Headache, with contraction of eyelids, from one evening to another, insupportable on stooping head. — Headache, alternately with cramp-like tearing in joints of fingers. — Stunning (stupefying) heaviness of the head, in morning, as after intoxication. — Pressive pains in head, < by coffee, and > by motion of a carriage. — Headache with heat; < towards evening. — Pains in r. frontal sinus with stopped catarrh. — Pressive headache: in forehead towards root of nose; on either side, in vertex as if a stone were lying on it. — Headache on vertex as if the hair were being pulled. — Violent pain r. side of head from a slight draught of air. — Coldness in occiput with pains in head. — Compression in occiput, producing rigidity in surrounding parts. — A feeling of contraction in head, which seems to extend to nose. — Cramp-like drawing in occiput and nape, which = head to be thrown back. — Stinging pain in head. — Lancinating headache. — Pains in occiput are > by unbinding hair. — Painful sensitiveness of scalp. — Scurfy spots on head. — Profuse falling out of hair.

Burning in eyes, with lachrymation and photophobia, < in morning, after washing with cold water. — Transient blindness. — Cloudiness of sight. — Coloured circles before eyes. — In evening, candles appear surrounded by a rainbow-like halo. — Everything appears black before eyes (after smelling Camphor).

Shooting in ears, in evening, < by lying down on ear. — Tension, shootings and tearing behind ears; behind r. ear. — Inflammation and swelling of lobe of r. ear, with burning, and jerkings pain. — Tingling in ears. — Tinkling and ringing in ears. — Chronic deafness, from paralysis of auditory nerve. — Vertigo and tinnitus.

Burning, in nose, with digging, and clawing pain, < by touch. — The nasal bones are painful, esp. to the touch. — Inflammation of extremity of nose, with shooting pain. — Swelling of interior of nose. — Swollen feeling in r. nostril. — Ulcers in the nostrils covered by a scurf. — Epistaxis, with acrid blood (sharp, like vinegar). — Violent coryza, with obstruction of nose, and loss of smell.

Pale and sickly complexion. — Face sunken, cold nose. — Muscles of face convulsed, jerking. — Heat on face without rapid pulse. — Redness and tension in cheeks, with < of the headache. — Tearing in bones of face. — The pain-like contraction in eyes, forehead and face concentrates in tip of nose.

Toothache, with lancinating drawing, or tearing pains in teeth and head. — Shooting in carious teeth, when touched. — Pulsative toothache, at night, < by cold things. — Swelling of gums, of an inflammatory or scorbutic character; they bleed readily.

Fetid breath. — Burning blister at tip of tongue. — Crawling on tongue. — Tongue loaded with a white coating. — Taste: disagreeable; nauseous; disgusting; sourish, in throat in morning on rising.

Sore throat, with shooting pain and inflammation of velum palati, and uvula (during deglutition). — Impeded deglutition from tension and cutting in the larynx. — Loss of speech. — Nocturnal pain in throat, as if it were contracting with obstructed respiration.

Want of appetite, with burning and continued thirst. — Appetite, principally in evening. — Ravenous hunger returned between 10 and 11 a.m., and alternated with cutting pain in region of r. umbilicus. — Ravenous hunger without real appetite. — Cannot drink for want of breath, drinks in sips. — Painful sensation in upper orifice of stomach.

Nausea, as if about to vomit, esp. at night. — Heaving, ineffectual retching after each dose of 30th, mouth gets sore, feels altogether poorly (Cooper). — Retching, and vomiting of mucus, mixed with blood. — Pains in stomach, with a sensation as if something were turning about in it. — Gnawing, spasmodic weakness, and pressure on epigastrium. — Faint-like weakness at stomach pit. — Violent cramps in stomach, with contractive pain (esp. after eating veal). — Shootings in stomach and epigastrium. — Sensation of coldness, or of burning in stomach. — (Inflammation of stomach.). — Severe gastric pain recurs after every meal for years after a single large dose (Fraser).

Exceedingly violent pain in abdomen after eating veal, esp. at r. side. — Excessive distension of abdomen. — Griping about umbilicus; and beneath short ribs l. side; > by emission of (fetid) flatus. — Griping and cutting in abdomen before normal stool. — Stitching and sticking pains; abdomen swollen and very tender to touch; coldness of lower extremities; stiff feeling in affected parts as if made of wood (peritonitis). — Cutting pains, which disappear towards evening. — Shooting pains in abdomen. — Incarceration of flatus, esp. in afternoon and evening. — Very loud rumbling in abdomen.

Fæces hard, difficult, and retarded, evacuated with much effort (by violent pressing). — Urgent want to evacuate, with tenesmus. — Soft fæces, with cutting pains. — Diarrhœa after eating veal. — Stools: watery; thin fæcal; bloody; soft and diarrhœa-like; sluggish; hard like sheep's dung. — Before stool: violent colic; urging. — During stool: cutting colic in whole intestinal canal; tenesmus. — After stool: cutting colic; tenesmus; burning and stinging in anus. — Diarrhœa, sometimes without pain, or colliquative. — Frequent pressing in rectum. — Dysentery with much cutting pain, great thirst and icy coldness of feet.

Frequent want to urinate, and profuse emission of a clear urine, with a reddish cloud. — Burning in urethra while urinating and greatly diminished urine.

Erections, increased sexual desire and pleasure. — Prickling sticking in glans. — Smarting in orifice of prepuce. — Frequent itching of glans. — Swelling in l. epididymis. — After unsatisfied desire, violent drawing tension and pressure in both testes, extending along cords into abdomen, lasting some hours, testicles very painful. — Sensitiveness of both testes which are drawn up with a pressive sensation in them.

Catamenia too early, and too profuse, with discharge of blood black as ink. — Menses retarded; suppressed. — Abortion at second month. — Before and during catamenia, violent pains in abdomen and sacrum. — White serous leucorrhœa, which stiffens linen, and is discharged during the sacral pains. — Frequent sticking beneath l. female breast.

Hoarseness, with roughness and scraping in throat. — Tension, and incisive pains in larynx, with obstructed deglutition. — Irritation to cough caused by tickling in larynx. — Sudden violent irritation to cough in r. side near pit of throat, as if in r. bronchus, neither painful nor, itching; it could be suppressed by a slow, deep breath and by an effort of will. — Cough with expectoration and pressive pain beneath sternum. — Cutting under sternum when coughing. — Pressing pain under sternum when coughing with a feeling of warmth in same locality. — Cough, which awakens patient about 3 a.m., with violent headache. — Cough in open air, or when going up stairs, also whenever the breath is held in. — Dry cough, esp. in morning. — When coughing, incisive pains in chest, until the mucus is detached. — Cough, with shootings in chest, and expectoration of pure blood. — Cough, with purulent expectoration, and colliquative sweats.

Cannot drink for want of breath; must take it in little sips; children take cup in both hands and drink greedily one sip after another. — Obstructed respiration, which does not permit lying down with the head low. — Oppression on chest, when ascending. — Pain in chest with pressive tension, accompanied by a sensation of roughness under sternum, which excites violent coughing. — Contractive pain in chest, commencing from the back, with sensation of constriction in lungs. — Lancinations in chest, esp. when taking a full inspiration, when lying down, and when coughing, accompanied by excessive anguish and oppression. — (Inflammation of lungs.). — Sticking in l. side near sternum. — Sticking in l. side of chest, cutting and tearing in lungs.

Violent palpitation of heart, esp. when lying in bed, at night, waking him. — Stitches in heart. — Full pulse.

Pain in nape of neck, extending into shoulders, as if hair were violently pulled. — Shooting pains in sacral region. — Violent pains in loins, night and morning, on waking. — Pains in back on stooping. — Full, tense feeling in back as if kidneys engorged (removed at once by 1x dil. — Cooper). — Aching in lumbar region, during repose, < esp. by coughing. — Shootings in and between scapulæ, often accompanied by oppressed respiration, < at night, when lying on back, > by lying on r. side.

Drawing in limbs with paralytic weakness. — Tearing in limbs, day and night, > , but for a short time only, by friction. — Rheumatic pains and stitches in limbs and joints.

Rheumatic tearing in shoulders, at night. — Tearing and shooting in joints of arms, elbow, hands and fingers, principally at night, with heaviness, a sensation as if the hand were too large, and swelling of fingers. — Numbness and tingling in arms and hands. — Drawing and tearing in arms, from shoulder to fingers. — Wrenching pain in joints of fingers. — Paralysis of the arms after each dose of K. n ., crude, taken for headache several times repeated. — Weakness in arms, hands, and fingers, which prevents the holding of anything firmly. — Cramp-like tearing in joints of fingers, alternating with headache. — Cramps and rigidity in joints of fingers.

Rheumatic pains in the legs. — Tearing in legs. — Great lassitude and paralytic weakness in legs, after short walk. — Jerking tearing in soles. — Numbness and tingling in feet. — Contraction of toes.

Affected parts feel numb, as if made of wood. — Tearing, shooting, and drawing pains. — Most symptoms occur in evening, after midnight, and in afternoon. — The symptoms which have manifested themselves during the day disappear on lying down in evening. — Rapid swelling of whole body. — Great dejection in morning, with sensation of heat in face, and burning in forehead. — Inflammation of internal organs. — Lassitude, which is greater when seated than during movement.

Lancinations in skin, pricking like needles, followed by burning, principally in face. — Tubercles, size of a pea, also on face. — Burning vesicles, filled with yellowish serum, which break when scratched, and then cease to burn. — Sudden dropsical swelling.

Drowsiness during day. — Disturbed sleep at night; constant dreaming, with frequent awakening. — Coma somnolentum. — Anxious and uneasy dreams about dangerous situations. — Nightmare.

Pulse full, hard, and rapid. — Pulse slow in morning, rapid in afternoon and evening. — Extraordinary shiverings not > by hot drinks or coverings. — Shivering in evening, with pain. — Coldness in afternoon, with thirst; or coldness, preceded by headache, with adipsia, and followed by nocturnal heat, without thirst or sweat. — Quotidian fever, with drawing pains in limbs. — Profuse and colliquative sweat. — Sweat in morning, esp. on chest.

Nitre. KNO 3 .
Proved by Hahnemann and his provers, also by Engler, Hecker, Heisterbergkh, Kneschke, Kummer, Richter, Siebenhaar, Jörg, Assman, Alexander, Rummell, Schroeder, Lier, Frienzelberger, Nicol, Traub, Frank, Muhlenbein, and others See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 5, p. 355 .
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Polypus of nose , Kippal, Org., vol. 3, p. 96 ; Use in dysentery , Gauwerky, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 446 ; Pains in chest , Gregg, p. 20 ; Affections of chest , Arnold, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 823 ; Pneumonia , Hocking, Raue's Rec., 1874, p. 149 ; Anthrodynia , Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 11, p. 349 ; Rheumatism , Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 11, p. 349.

Depression ; anxiety ; peevishness ; delirium.

Fainting fits, with vertigo in morning when standing, > when sitting down ; afterwards obscuration of sight, with great weakness and drowsiness ; pain in small of back and constriction in abdomen ; staggering gait, with vertigo. θ Vertigo.

Headache in vertex on rising.

Sore pain and swollen feeling in right nostril, painful on pressure.
Mucous polyp of right side, very large, and distending nose.
Polypus of right nostril, growing more rapidly after each attack of headache, which was > by camphor.

Small pustules on face.

Sour taste.
Tongue coated white.

Fetid odor from mouth.

Little appetite, with much thirst.
Thirst, drinks a sip at a time for want of breath.

Faintlike weakness about pit of stomach.

Violent colic, more in right side of abdomen, > by emission of flatus.
Stitching and sticking pain ; abdomen swollen and very tender to touch ; coldness of lower extremities ; numb and stiff feeling of affected parts, as if they were made of wood. θ Peritonitis.

Diarrhœa after eating veal.
Stools : watery ; thin, fecal ; bloody ; soft or diarrhœa-like ; sluggish ; hard, like sheep dung.
Before stool : violent colic ; urging.
During stool : cutting colic in whole intestinal canal ; tenesmus.
After stool ; cutting colic ; tenesmus ; burning and stinging in anus.
Frequent pressing in rectum.
In dysentery, after Acon., when latter fails to remove cutting pain, great thirst and icy coldness of feet ; followed well by Nux.

Frequent urging to urinate, at first only a few drops, then usual stream.
Burning in urethra while urinating, and greatly diminished urine.
Profuse emission of urine, as clear as water. θ Diabetes insipidus.

Suppression of menses.
Menstrual blood black as ink, with much suffering.
Thin, white mucous leucorrhœa, with pain in small of back, as if bruised.

Violent stitch in upper part of sternum, from without inward, on left side.
Stitches in middle of chest, extending to both sides and toward axilla, when walking (during menses).
Stitches in left side of chest, toward back, and below l. mamma.
Sticking below short ribs of right side, toward back, apparently behind liver.
Stitching pains in chest greatly impeding respiration.
Congestion to lungs in tuberculosis.
Severe stitches in left side of chest in evening, causing shortness of breath ; severe cough, with expectoration of blood ; synochal fever ; full, hard and quick pulse ; heaviness and dulness of head ; delayed, hard stool ; red or turbid urine ; great and constant thirst. θ Lung affections.
Pneumonia, with excessive heat and thirst, > by copious perspiration and profuse hemorrhage.
Relapse induced by exposure ; distressing dyspnœa ; cannot lie with head low ; wants to be fanned to keep from suffocating ; thirst, drinks only sip at time for want of breath ; pulse rapid ; cough, with purulent expectoration. θ Pneumonia.
Severe, acute pains in chest, cutting like a knife, and shooting from centre of sternum to armpit and sides of chest below ; cough and expectoration. θ Suppressed syphilis.
Oppression of chest in phthisical subjects, when constant irritation to cough and expectoration, often bloody in character, causes an evening fever with hot hands and cheeks.
Useful in all stages of phthisis, but particularly for acute exacerbations with much cough, dull headache and severe pain in chest ; cough caused by tickling in middle of chest, very severe, taking away breath, with audible palpitation of heart, expectoration often mixed with coagulated blood.

Acute rheumatism, with endocarditis.

Pimples on right forearm, discharge water when scratched.
Boil at lower part of thumb.

Anthrodynia in several joints.
Formication in hands and feet.

Cannot lie with head low, on account of dyspnœa.
Standing : vertigo.
Sitting down : vertigo > ; debility <.
Rising : headache on vertex.
Walking : stitches in middle of chest.
Gentle motion : debility >.

Debility felt more when sitting than during gentle motion.

Sleep restless, with nightmare.
Insomnia after midnight ; light morning sleep.
On awaking, pain in small of back.

Aggravation : 3 A. M.
Morning : vertigo ; light sleep.
Evening : severe stitches in left chest ; fever with hot hands and cheeks.
After midnight : insomnia.

Right : sore pain and swollen feeling in nostril ; mucous polyp in side of nostril ; violent colic more in side of abdomen ; sticking below short ribs ; pimples on forearm.
Left : violent stitches on side of sternum ; or stitch in side of chest.
From without inward : violent stitch in sternum.

As if parts of whole body were made of wood.
Pain : in small of back ; in vertex.
Severe pain : in chest.
Cutting : pains in chest ; colic, in intestinal canal.
Shooting pains : from centre of sternum to armpit and sides of chest below.
Violent stitch : in upper part of sternum.
Stitches : in middle of chest ; in left side of chest and below mamma.
Stitching and sticking pains in abdomen.
Sticking : below short ribs of right side.
Violent colic : in right side of abdomen.
Burning and stinging : in anus.
Burning : in urethra.
Sore pain : in right nostril.
Pressing : in rectum.
Constriction : in abdomen.
Swollen feeling : in right nostril.
Heaviness and dulness : of head.
Faintlike weakness : about pit of stomach.
Numb and stiff feeling : of affected parts.
Tickling : in middle of chest.
Formication : in hands and feet.
Coldness : of lower extremities.

Acute rheumatism, with endocarditis.

Touch : abdomen very tender.
Pressure : nostril painful.

Vesicles full of thin yellow fluid.

Asthmatic constitutions.
Girl ; polypus.
Man, æt. 35, syphilitic subject ; pains in chest.
Woman, æt. 72 ; pneumonia.

Compare : Lycop . in lung affections ; Canthar . and Camphora in renal diseases.

Difficult of thinking in morning, with warm face; forehead hot.
Anxiety, with sweat; afternoon, also till evening.
Ennui, melancholy, weeping mood.
Timid, sensitive.
Out of humor.

Drowsy, dulness of head.
Vertigo: mornings; forgets what he is about to say.
Fainting fits, with vertigo, morning when standing, better while sitting; afterward obscuration of sight.

Headache, causing eyelids to close, worse stooping, when head hangs down.
Congestion, throbbing, deep in brain.
Stinging pain in the head.
Stupefying morning headache, as after free indulgence in intoxicating drinks.
Constrictive pain in back of head; parts feel as if stiff, forcing to bend head backward; better tying up hair.
Headache after eating veal, or drinking coffee better riding in open air.

Hot spots on the head.
Headache on top of head, as if hairs were pulled.
Scalp sensitive to touch.
Constrictive pains on head, face, eyes, etc., all concentrating at the root or tip of the nose.

Transitory blindness.
Rainbow colors around light; colored wheels before eyes.
Burning in eyes, lachrymation, and aversion to light, especially in the morning; after washing in cold water.

Deafness from paralysis of auditory nerve; tingling in ears.
Stitches in ears, worse at night, and when lying on affected side.
Ulceration of ear-ring hole.
Tension behind the ear.

Loss of smell, with coryza; husky voice; mucus passes through posterior nares into fauces.
Mucous polypus.
Nosebleed; tip of nose inflamed, sore; blood acrid, like vinegar.
Bones of nose sore to touch; nose swollen internally, with scurf.

Pale face.
Red cheeks, tension, while the headache grows worse.
Tensive pains in cheeks, redness increased throbbing in head, apparently in middle of brain.
Tearing in facial bones.
Pricking, then burning in skin.

Toothache, 3 A.M., worse from cold things; feels as if air was rushing in and out of decayed tooth.
Gums red, swollen, bleed easily.

Repugnant taste all day.
Sour taste in throat; morning on arising.
Tongue burns at its tip, as if cut; burning pimples.
Tongue coated with white mucus.

Fetid odor from mouth.
Mouth slimy.

Feels choked, as if closed, a night, can scarcely breathe.
Stinging during deglutition.
Sore throat day and night, with inflamed velum palati and uvula.
Hawks sweetish, tough mucus; afternoon; throat rough, as if scraped.
Cutting pains, with impeded deglutition.

Appetite strongest, evenings.
Violent thirst, but no appetite.
Want of appetite, with increased hunger.

Cannot drink, has not breath enough.
After veal: headache, colic, diarrhœa.

Gulps up bitter water, relieving nausea.
Nausea: cold sensation from throat to stomach; choking sensation; faintness; bruised headache; burning eyes; especially at night.
Vomits mucus, with blood.

Cold feeling; or, burning in stomach; inflammation.
Sharp, sticking pains, to severe he was scarcely able to breathe.
Spasms in stomach, with flatulent colic.
Pressure and gnawing in scrobiculum.
Faint-like weakness in scrobiculum.

Violent colic, right side most; worse after veal; incarcerated flatulence; evening.
Stitching pains in abdomen, lower limbs cold; affected parts feel numb, as if made of wood. θ Peritonitis.
Complaints in abdomen, worse from holding the breath.

Stools: watery, thin, fecal; bloody, soft, with colic.
Diarrhœa from eating veal.
Stool hard, like sheep's dung, with tenesmus.

Bright's disease, with pain in small of back, bruised crampy or burning; diminished urine.
Dysuria and frequent desire to urinate, with pain and heat; after abuse of cantharides; after stimulating injections; condiments; onanism; gonorrhœal extension; cold; turpentine.
Frequent micturation and discharge of much pale urine, with reddish clouds.
Mucous sediment; salts increased; specific gravity 1030-1040.

Increased desire; if ungratified pains, tension in testes and cords.

Menses suppressed.
Menstrual blood black as ink; colic, pain in small of back, burning in groins; legs feel weak, numb, as if made of wood.
White leucorrhœa, with lameness in small of back.

Tightness in larynx, during respiration.
Aphonia.
Hoarseness, roughness and scraping in larynx; yellow phlegm.
Tension and cutting in larynx, impeding deglutition.

Cannot drink, for want of breath; has to take drink in little sips.
Little children take hold of the cup or glass with both hands and take greedily one sip after another.
Paroxysms of difficult and rapid breathing, evening and night, less in morning; oppressed breathing on ascending stairs.
Asthma, cannot lie in horizontal position.
Terrible attack, of asthma, with violent gasping and suffocation.
Abdominal respiration.

Awakens at 3 A.M., with violent, stupefying headache; in open air; worse ascending, or when holding breath; with cutting and stitches in chest; expectoration of coagulated blood; after hawking mucus.
Hæmoptysis at full moon.

Dull tightness and constriction of chest; as if lungs were constricted from the back.
Stitches on drawing a long breath, worse lying, coughing; dyspnœa, great anxiety. θ Pneumonia.
Annoying feeling of heaviness in chest like a great load, pressing the thorax together; dyspnœa to suffocation.
Pneumonia.
The dyspnœa is very great compared with the apparent slight congestion or hepatization.
Suppuration of lungs, with profuse (colliquative) sweat.

Palpitation on rising, or moving about quickly, with heat of the face and oppression of chest.
Congestion to chest.
Palpitation audible, with dyspnœa; worse lying on the back, or right side.
Pulse: generally full, hard, accelerated; slow, morning; frequent, afternoon and evening.

Painful throbbing in one of the cervical vertebræ.
Pain like a blow in small of back, on awaking; cannot turn.
Cramp-pain in small of back.
Small of back feels bruised.
Pressure and burning in back, relieved by motion.

Rheumatism of shoulder, worse at night; hands and fingers feel as if swollen.
Stitches in shoulder, elbow, hand, finger; worse at night.
Paralysis (rheumatic).
Numbness and tingling of hands.
Finger-joints stiff, tense.

Rheumatic pains.
Legs feel weak, paralytic, after a short walk.
Numbness, tingling of feet.
Toes contracted.

Rheumatism, with stitching pains at night.
Parts feel as if made of wood.
Numbness and tingling disappear, and articular pains set in.

Motion: 29, 31, 36, 40. Walking: 37. Ascending: 26, 27. Exertion: 40. Stooping: 3. Rising: 29. Standing: 2. Sitting: 2, 36. Lying: 6, 26, 28, 29, 40.

Spasmodic painless jerking of fingers and other parts.
Debility of limbs and body, with heat in face, burning spots in forehead; worse sitting; better moving slowly about.
Paralysis of limbs.

Drowsy all day, also when walking.
Restless sleep; light morning sleep; nightmare.
Sleepless after midnight.
On awaking, sour taste; cough, pain in small of back.

Morning: 1, 2, 3, 5, 11, 20, 26, 29, 37. Afternoon: 1, 13, 29, 40. Evening: 14, 19, 26, 29, 40. Night: 6, 13, 16, 26, 32, 34. After midnight: 37. 3 A.M.: 10, 27. All day: 11, 20, 37. Day and night: 13.

Generally worse from warmth of stove.
Better from warm weather.
Worse during wet, cold weather.
Cold things: 10.
Washing in cold water: 5. Open air: 3, 27.

Chill and coldness in afternoon and evening, increased from motion, passing off when lying.
Chill, with subsequent sweat, not intervening heat.
Evening chill, with the pains.
Coldness, with thirst; afternoon.
Head feels hot, forehead burns.
Slight heat, evening; heat at night without thirst and without subsequent sweat.
Debilitating sweat from least exertion.
Night-sweat, most profuse on the legs; morning-sweat, most profuse on chest.

Full moon: 27.

Right side, particularly upper right, lower left.
Right: 19.

Sensations as if parts, or whole body were of wood.
Formication in hands and feet, afterwards in tongue.
Constrictive feeling in many parts.

Hemorrhages of bright red blood.
Inflammation of stomach and intestines.
Sudden swelling of body, neck, thighs.

Touch: 4, 7.
Rubbing, scratching relieves.
Riding: 3. Scratching: 46.

Pricking like needles, then burning; worse in face.
Burning vesicles filled with yellow serum; scratching, they burst.
Small pustules.
Small, scurfy spots on the head (scalp) itching.

Antidotes to Nitrum: Nitr. spir. dulc.
Camphor increases the pains.
Nitrum relieves strangury after abuse of Canthar., turpentine, and abuse of condiments.

Triturations of pure nitrate of Potassium are used.

Like the chlorate this salt is a violent irritant to the mucous membranes, causing gastro-intestinal inflammation and ulceration and catarrh of the bronchi with asthmatic breathing. ▶ In its action on the kidneys and heart it is similar to the other salts of Potash.

Lying on back on collapse, with legs drawn up, as in peritonitis. ▶ Swelling of whole body, neck and legs. ▶ Twitchings; here and there; as in chorea, agg. left arm and leg. ▶ Trembling of whole body; of one half of body; of all nerves, with restlessness. ▶ Stinging through whole body, causing acute pain on every inspiration. ▶ Tearing in evening after eating, high up in inner side of left thigh (apparently in pectinæus and triceps), then in left upper arm, the in middle of outer part of left thigh, then on anterior surface of leg (tibialis anticus), then on and behind external malleolus, then between left scapula and spine (in rhomboideus, serratus posticus superior); T. in right side of chin when sitting, then beneath right external malleolus; intermittent, day and night, transiently amel. rubbing. ▶ Jerking pain in occipital bone, then also in hip-bone, at last alternating with tension behind right ear and continuing all night. ▶ (Bruised feeling became worse.). ▶ Chronic illness. ▶ Pulsations here and there after midday nap.

Weakness; in morning; in morning after mental labor; in after; with pallor; with heaviness of head and stumbling over everything; with numbness of lower limbs; sudden, with sleepiness, necessity to lie down and inability to open eyes; tremulous, in morning, with frequent, hard pulse and rapid respiration; paralytic muscular. ▶ Faintness; at 10 P.M., when blowing on an instrument with tight clothes, it seemed as if everything in the room turned around, he caught himself while sinking, head at one time hot, at another cold, unsteady standing and sensation as if the attack would return; dizzy F. in morning when standing, amel. sitting down, then blackness before eyes, weakness, sleepiness, pain in small of back, constriction in abdomen, repeated three times in forenoon, then pain down leg to malleoli, where it remained all day, in afternoon coldness and thirst, agg. in bed, lasting till midnight. ▶ Collapse. ▶ Rheumatic, painful stiffness of almost whole body, agg. arms, neck and back, agg. cold, amel. warmth. ▶ Paralysis of organs of sense. ▶ Aggravation from smelling camphor. ▶ (Amelioration, especially of headache, by smelling sweet spirits of nitre.).

Delirium; mild, then restlessness and wakefulness. ▶ Excitement after a glass of wine. ▶ Anxiety; frequently in afternoon; in afternoon, with sweat at pit of stomach and weakness; with general sweat; with internal coldness, then faintness. ▶ Depression of spirits; thinks she must die. ▶ Ennui, lachrymose mood. ▶ Fretfulness; in evening; with uneasiness, apprehension and sensitiveness; and perverseness, discontentment with himself and the world and disinclination to mental labor. ▶ Disinclination for work; D. to think in morning, with heat in face and forehead and exhaustion. ▶ Meditative and solicitous. ▶ Partly stupefied as in intoxication; half stupor unless aroused. ▶ Unconsciousness.

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Gastro-intestinal inflammation and ulceration, bronchial catarrh and asthma.
Nephritis. Action on the heart similar to that of other salts of potash. Extreme prostration, threatening collapse. Dizzy faintness, with vertigo in the morning when standing, better sitting down. General rheumatic stiffness, < in cold, > in warmth.

Sore pain and swollen feeling in the right nostril, painful to pressure.
Nasal catarrh, sneezing.
Purulent, offensive discharge; bleeding.

Clinical:
Polypus of the right nostril.

Faint-like weakness in the pit of the stomach.
Thirst after frequent sips of water, which seem to relieve the dyspnœa.

Diarrhœa; stools thin, watery.
Stools bloody, containing membranous shreds mixed with blood, with tenesmus.

Clinical:
Diarrhœa from eating veal.
Dysentery, with cold hands, small, rapid pulse; aggravation at night.

Frequent and copious evacuations of light colored urine.

Menstruation too early and profuse; discharge black.
Menses preceded and accompanied by violent pain in the small of the back.
Leucorrhœa thin, white, with pain in the small of the back, as if bruised.

Hoarseness, with rawness and scraping in the larynx.
Difficult respiration.
Dry cough in the morning; wakes about 3 o'clock, with stupefying headache, with pains in the chest, > expectoration.
Expectoration of clear blood, with stitches in the chest.

Clinical:
Asthma, with excessive dyspnœa, faintness and nausea, and dull stitches or burning pain in the chest.

Sensation of constriction in the lungs early in the morning in bed.
Oppression, < in the morning.
Tightness at night from coughing, with heaviness.
Burning in the chest > expectoration.

Palpitation, < night when lying in bed.
Sharp sticking pains in the præcordial region.
Pulse frequently irregular, or scarcely perceptible; generally small and soft.

Stitches between the shoulder blades, arresting breathing.
Violent pain in the small of the back in the morning and on stooping.

Tearing and sticking in the joints.
Tearing and sticking in the shoulders at night.
Hands and fingers seem thickened and swollen.
Paralytic weakness and weariness of the lower extremities.

Febrile paroxysms consist mostly of chilliness and coldness.
Chill in the evening, with carious pains.
Coldness in the afternoon, with thirst, followed by heat at night, without thirst and without, sweat.
Sweat in the morning, mostly on the chest.

NITRUM. NITRATE OF POTASH, SALTPETRE. [*].

[*] The dry, so-called purified nitre of commerce is dissolved in six parts of hot water and is then allowed to crystallize at a low degree of temperature. These crystals are best for homœopathic use, as they are almost absolutely free from the common cooking salt. They are dynamized like other dry medicinal substances.

With physicians of the old school next to the (still raging) withdrawal of blood, Nitre has been the chief remedy by which an increased circulation and inflammatory fevers might be diminished. They relied on this, their chief anti-phlogistic remedy, to allay the fevers. They knew of hardly any other use for nitre in diseases. Nitre, however, when used internally, shows its great power of causing chilliness and cold, only in its primary effects, and as they did not think of applying the morbid symptoms, which are produced by medicines on healthy men, to the similar symptoms in natural diseases (in a homœopathic manner), and to heal them according to the only true natural law of cure, they could only do harm with their palliative use of nitre. Since it is their practice to give their medicines (and so also nitre) in large doses, they could, by the use of this salt in inflammatory fevers, only cause a sinking of strength and long continued fevers from debilitation, also called nervous fevers. These fevers, as the experience of many centuries teaches, have frequently caused death. Homœopathy teaches us quite a different and opposite application, flowing from the peculiar and pure effects of medicines and so also of nitre on healthy man ; the subjoined symptoms are only a beginning in this direction, and they are in a high degree worthy of a further elaboration. Nitre has proved itself useful hitherto, where among others, the following symptoms were present : Lack of appetite with thirst ; most violent cramp in the stomach ; obstruction of flatus in the afternoon ; diarrhœa without pains in the abdomen ; cough in the open air, and on going up-stairs ; cough, whenever the breath is held ; coughing up of blood ; asthma, he cannot lie with his head in a low position ; stitches in the chest, when taking a deep breath ; stitches in the scapula ; exhausting sweats ; quotidian fevers, with drawing pain in the lower limbs. Dr. Schréter found the ethereal sweet spirits of nitre a means for alleviating the excessive effects of nitre, especially the headache caused by it ; camphor only aggravated the symptoms. The abbreviations of the name of my fellow-observers are : Ng., the anonymous observer in Hartlaub and Trinks' Reine Arzneimittellehre ; Sr., Dr. Schréter ; T., M. Pr. Tietze. [*].

[] The pathogenesis of Nitrum appears in the second edition for the first time. It is chiefly made up (beyond the symptoms from authors) of the contributions of the three associates above name, which originally appeared (without information) in Hartlaub and Trinks' Arzneimittellehre, and in Annalen and in vol. XI. of the Archiv. -Hughes*.

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Anxious restlessness. Faint - hearted, and fear of death.

Stupefying heaviness of head, as after a debauch, early in morning.

Congestion to. Sticking ache. Compressive sensation in occiput, binding up the hair. Pressive ache, coffee, driving in open air. Headache after eating veal. Painfully sensitive scalp. Eyes. - Burning in, after washing early in morning. Blackness before the eyes (after inhaling camphor), Rainbow colored circles around the light.

Nightly sticking in, when lying thereon. Deafness from paralysis of auditory nerve.

Inflamed tip, with stitches therein, with increased headache. Contractive pain in forehead, eyes and face, which concentrates itself in tip of nose.

Sticking or tearing ache. Nightly, throbbing ache, cold things. Gums swell and bleed easily, as in scurvy.

Stench from. Sticking sore throat, with inflammation of soft palate and uvula. Impeded swallowing, with tension and cutting in larynx. Shiny white coating on tongue.

Spasmodic, contractive, cramp like stomach - ache, especially after eating veal. Burning in. Pressure in pit.

Hypochondriac: Stitches in kidneys.

Appetite: Greater in evening than at noon. Continuous, violent thirst.

Nausea: Nightly, as though he would vomit.

Violent pains after eating veal.

Flatulence: Obstructed, especially in afternoon.

Hard, difficult. Soft, with and without colic.

Frequent and profuse passage of bright - colored urine.

Menses: Of black blood, too early and too profuse. Violent lumbar pains before and during. Leucorrhoea with pains in small of back.

Tightness of chest compelling him to lie with head high. Oppression of chest when ascending.

Dry, especially early in morning. The cough awakens him at 3 o'clock in morning, with a stupefying headache. Chest pains when coughing lasting until expectoration is loosened. With stitches in chest and expectoration of clear blood. Purulent expectoration of clear blood. Purulent expectoration from lungs, with colliquative sweats.

Hoarseness, with roughness and scratching in. Tracheal phthisis.

Stitches in, with anxiety and oppression, especially when taking a deep breath and lying with the head low. Contractive chest pains coming from the back, as though lungs were being constricted. Inflammation of lungs. Violent palpitation, most intense when lying in bed at night.

Stitches in and between scapulae, with arrested breathing. Violent pain in small of, early in morning and when stooping. Pressive pain in lumbar region during rest, especially when coughing.

Neck: Neckache extending into shoulders, as though hair were violently pulled.

Nightly tearing and sticking in joints of arms. Sensation as though hands and fingers were thick and swollen.

Great paralytic weakness and debility in lower legs.

Relaxation early in morning, with a sensation of warmth in face and a hot forehead. Greater debility when sitting than during moderate exercise. Tearing and sticking in limbs and joints. After - effects of eating veal which is too young and tender. Inflammation of internal organs. the symptoms are intensified after midnight and towards morning. Camphor aggravates.

Stitches as of needles in skin, especially of face then burning. Burning vesicles containing a yellowish fluid, which cease to burn after being scratched open. Sudden, dropsical swellings.

Day sleepiness. Stupefying. Restless, especially after midnight. Nightmare.

Pulse: Full, hard and accelerated. Slow in morning, rapid in afternoon and evening. Chill: and coldness in afternoon and evening, increased by every motion, disappears, when lying. Succeeded by sweat, without previous heat. In evening, with pains. Coldness with thirst in afternoon. Heat: Some but insignificant heat in the evening. Nightly, without thirst or succeeding sweat. Sweat: Very exhausting, from the least exertion. Nightsweat, most profuse on legs. Early morning s., most profuse on chest.

Allied Remedies: Amyl-n., Calc - c., Glo., Ip., Melil.

In the morning, sensation of debility with sensation of heat in the face and hot forehead.

Greater debility when sitting than when moderately exercising.

Tearing and stinging in the limbs and joints.

Bad effects from veal.

Inflammation of internal organs.

Useful in bronchitis.

Abundant pale urine.

Of very great value in sudden dropsical swellings over the whole body.

Cough aggravates.

Catamenia too early and too profuse with black blood.

Aggravation towards morning.

One of the very best remedies, generally in cases of asthma.

Also very valuable in cardiac asthma.