Kali Bichromicum
Bichromate of Potash
Abdomen
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Cutting pain in abdomen, soon after eating. Chronic intestinal ulceration. Soreness in right hypochondrium. Fatty infiltration of liver and increase in soft fibrous tissue. (Hinsdale.) Painful retraction, soreness and burning. Stool. — Jelly-like, gelatinous; worse, mornings. Dysentery; tenesmus, stools brown, frothy. Sensation of a plug in anus. Periodic constipation, with pain across the loins, and brown urine.
Back
William Boericke 1922
Cutting through loins; cannot walk; extends to groins. Pain in coccyx and sacrum extending up and down.
Blood
William Boericke 1922
Hccmatochyluria.
Compare
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Brom.; Ammon, caust.; Sulph. ac.; Ipecac. Antidotes: Ars.; Lach.
William Boericke 1922
Tart, cmet.; Brom.; Hepar; Ind.: Calc.; Ant. cr. Tn the production of false membranes
Dose
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Third and sixth trituration, also thirtieth attenuation. The lower preparations of this salt should not be kept too long. 420
Ears
William Boericke 1922
Swollen, with tearing pains. Thick, yellow, stringy, fetid discharge. Sharp stitches in left ear.
Extremities
William Boericke 1922
Pains fly rapidly from one place to another. [Kali sulph.; Puls.] Wandering pains, along the bones; worse cold. Left-sided sciatica; better, motion. Bones feel .sore and bruised. Very iveak. Tearing pains in tibia ; syphilitic rheumatism. [Mez.] Crackling of all joints. Soreness of heels when walking. Tendo Achilles swollen and painful. Pains in small spots. [Oxalic ac.]
Face
William Boericke 1922
Florid c mplexion. Blotchy, red appearance. Acne. [Juglans; Kal, ars.] Bones sensitive, especially beneath orbits.
Female
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Yellow, tenacious Icucorrhcea. Pruritus of vulva, with great burning and excitement. Prolapsus uteri ; worse in hot weather.
Guiding symptoms
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The special affinities of this drug are the mucous membrane of stomach, bowels, and air-passages ; bones and fibrous tissues. Kidneys, heart, and liver are also affected. Nephritis with gastric disturbances. Cirrhois of
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low. Ulcers on cornea; no pain or photophobia. Descemctitis, with only moderate irritation of eye. Croupous conjunctivitis; granular lids, with pannus. Iritis, t, with punctate deposits on inner surface of cornea. Slight pain, with severe ulceration or inflammation. [Conium opposite.]
William Boericke 1922
croup, extending to larynx and nares. Cough, with pain in sternum, extending to shoulders ; worse when undressing. Pain at bifurcation of trachea on coughing; from mid-sternum to
Head
William Boericke 1922
Vertigo with nausea when rising from seat. Headache over eyebrows, preceded by blurred vision. Aching and fullness in glabella. Semilateral headache in small spots, and from suppressed catarrh. Frontal pain; usually over one eye. Bones and jtcalp feel sore. E3re8. — Supra-orbital neuralgia, right side. Eyelids swollen, ofdematous. Discharge robv and vel-
Heart
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]Kali nit.]
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Dilatation, especially from coexisting kidney lesion. Cold feeling around
Kidneys
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nephiitis, with scanty, albuminous urine and casts. Pyelitis; urine mixed with epithelial cells, mucus, pus, or
Larynx
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Catarrhal llar3mgitis cougli has a brassy sound. True membranous
Liver
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Anaemia and absence of fever are characteristic. General weakness. It is especially indicated for fleshy, fat, light complexioned persons subject to catarrhs or with syiihilitic or scrofulous history. Symptoms are worse in the morning; pains migrate qUkkly, rheumatic and gastric symptoms alternate. More adapted to subacute rather than the violent acute stage. Mucous membranes everywhere are affected, and a tough, stringy, viscid secretion is produced, which condition is a very strong guiding symptom for this drug. Perforation of the septum. Chronic atonic catarrh.
Male
William Boericke 1922
Itching and pain of penis, with pustules. Ulcers, with paroxysmal stitches; aggravated at night. Constriction at root of penis, at night on awakening. Syphilitic ulcers, with cheesy, tenacious exudation. Erections. [Picric, ae.]
Modalities
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Better, from heat. JVorse, beer, morning, hot weather, undressing.
Mouth
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Dry; viscid saliva. Tongue mapped, red, shining, smooth, and dry, with dysentery; broad, flat, indented, thickly coated.
Nose
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Dropping from posterior nares. [Hydr.] Loss of smell. Much hawking. Inability to breathe through
William Boericke 1922
Violent sneerjing. Profuse, watery nasal discharge.
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Dryness. Coryrra, with obstruction of
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leave a raw surface. Inflammation extends to frontal sinuses, with distress and fullness at root of
William Boericke 1922
Septum ulcerated; round ulcer. Fetid smell. Discharge thick, ropy, greenish-yellow. Tough, elastic plugs from
William Boericke 1922
Snuffles of children, especially fat, chubby babies. Pressure and pain at root of nose, and sticking pain in
Pulse
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Discharge from mouth and throat, tough and stringy.
Respiratory
William Boericke 1922
Voice hoarse; worse, evening. Metallic, hacking cough. Profuse, yellow expectoration, very glutinous and sticky, coming out in long, stringy, and very tenacious mass. Tickling in
Skin
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Acne. Papular eruptions. Ulcer with punchedout edges, with tendenc}* to penetrate and tenacious exudation. Pustular eruption, resembling small-pox, with burning pains.
Spine
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Dislikes water. Cannot digest meat. Desire for beer and acids. Gastric symptoms are relieved after eating, and the rheumatic symptoms reappear.
Stomach
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Aphthae. Diphtheria, with profound prostration and soft
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Gastritis. Round «/- 418
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Nausea and vomiting after beer. Load immediately after eating. Feels as if digestion had stopped. Dilatation of
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Stitches in region of liver and spleen and through to
Throat
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Fauces red and inflamed. Dry and rough. Parotid glands swollen. Uvula relaxed, cedematous. bladder-like. Pseudo-membranous deposit on tonsils and soft palate. Burning extending to
Urinary
William Boericke 1922
Burning in urethra. After urinating a drop seems to remain zMch cannot he expelled. Ropy mucus in urine. Urethra becomes clogged up. Congestion of
References
This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:
- James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
- Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain
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