Kali Bichromicum

Bichromate of Potash

Abdomen

William Boericke 1922

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

William Boericke 1922

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

William Boericke 1922

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

William Boericke 1922

Yellow, tenacious Icucorrhcea. Pruritus of vulva, with great burning and excitement. Prolapsus uteri ; worse in hot weather.

Guiding symptoms

William Boericke 1922

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

William Boericke 1922

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

William Boericke 1922

]Kali nit.]

William Boericke 1922

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

William Boericke 1922

Catarrhal llar3mgitis cougli has a brassy sound. True membranous

Liver

William Boericke 1922

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

William Boericke 1922

Better, from heat. JVorse, beer, morning, hot weather, undressing.

Mouth

William Boericke 1922

Dry; viscid saliva. Tongue mapped, red, shining, smooth, and dry, with dysentery; broad, flat, indented, thickly coated.

Nose

William Boericke 1922

Dropping from posterior nares. [Hydr.] Loss of smell. Much hawking. Inability to breathe through

William Boericke 1922

Violent sneerjing. Profuse, watery nasal discharge.

William Boericke 1922

Dryness. Coryrra, with obstruction of

William Boericke 1922

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

William Boericke 1922

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

William Boericke 1922

Acne. Papular eruptions. Ulcer with punchedout edges, with tendenc}* to penetrate and tenacious exudation. Pustular eruption, resembling small-pox, with burning pains.

Spine

William Boericke 1922

Dislikes water. Cannot digest meat. Desire for beer and acids. Gastric symptoms are relieved after eating, and the rheumatic symptoms reappear.

Stomach

William Boericke 1922

Aphthae. Diphtheria, with profound prostration and soft

William Boericke 1922

Gastritis. Round «/- 418

William Boericke 1922

Nausea and vomiting after beer. Load immediately after eating. Feels as if digestion had stopped. Dilatation of

William Boericke 1922

Stitches in region of liver and spleen and through to

Throat

William Boericke 1922

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

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