Kali Carbonicum
Potassium carbonate · Abbrev.: KALI-C
Abdomen
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Stitches in region of
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Pain through left labium, extending through abdomen to
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must turn on right side before he can rise.
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Pain from left hypochondrium through
Back
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Burning in
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Great exliauslioii. Stitches in region of kidneys and right scapula. Small of back feels weak. Stiffness and paralytic feeling in
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Great weakness in the small of the back; sweating of the back while seated still; cannot bear to be touched on affected parts.
Chest
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worse lying on right side. Hoarseness and loss of voice. Dry, hard cough about 3 a. m., with stitching pains and dryness of pharnyx. Expectoration scanty and tenacious, but increasing in morning and after eating ; aggravated right If)wer chest and lying on painful side. Hydrothorax. Leaning forward relieves chest symptoms. Expectoration must be swallowed; cheesy taste; copious, offensive, lump. Coldness of
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Delayed menses in young girls, with chest symptoms or ascites. Difficult. 424
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Wheeling. Cough with relaxed uvula. Tendency to tuberculosis; constant cold taking ; better in warm climate.
Compare
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Calc.; Ammon, phos,; Plios.: Lyeop.; Bry,; Natrum; Stann.; Sepia. Antidotes: Camph.; Coffca.
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Kali salicyltcum (vomiting, especially of pregnancy; arteriosclerosis); Kali silicum (gouty nodosities) ; Kali accticum (diabetes, diarrhoea, dropsy, alkaline urine, very much increased in quantity) ; Kali citricum (Bright’s disease — 1 gr. to wine-glass of water) : Kali fcrrocyanatum (physical and mental prostration following infection. Inability to sustained routine work. UftC 6x. Uterine symptoms, like Sepia, bearing-down sensation and gastric sinking; fatty heart) ; Kali oxalicum (lumbago, convulsions) ]Kali picro-nitri- ^’Cum and Kali picricum (jaundice, violent eructations) ; Kali siilphuratiim (gastritis, hiccough, redness of face) ; Kali tartar icuin (paraplegia) ; Kali tclluricum (garlicky odor of breath, salivation, swollen tongue). Also
Dose
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Thirtieth and higher. Sixth trit. Do not repeat too often. Use cautiously in old gouty cases, advanced Bright's and tuberculosis.
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From 30C upward; deep constitutional cases traditionally given infrequent high potencies.
Ears
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Itching, cracking, ringing and roaring.
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Stitches in
Extremities
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Stitching pains in joints regardless of movement; swelling of the upper eyelid between brows; large, painful, stinging wasp-like swellings.
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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. ^
Eyes
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Lids stick together in morning. Szwiling 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 pentrating the brain.
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Stitches in
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Spots, gauze, and black points before
Female
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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
Guiding symptoms
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first menses. Complaints after parturition. Uterine haemorrhage; constant oozing after copious flow, with violent backache, relieved by sitting and pressure.
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change, and intolerance of cold ivcalher. One of the best remedies following labor. Miscarriage, for consequent debilitated states. Early morning aggravation is very characteristic. Fleshy aged peopk, with dropsical and paretic tendencies. Szveat, backache, and zveakness. 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
Head
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Great dryness of hair, falls out. [Fluor nc ]
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Vertigo on turning. Headache from riding in cold zmnd. Headache comes on with yawning. Stitches in temples ; aching in occiput, one-sided, with nausea, on riding in' carriage. Loose feeling in
Heart
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Sensation as if heart were suspended. Palpitation and burning in heart region. IVeak, rapid
Introduction
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Stitching pains independent of motion, sensitivity to draughts, and weakness in the small of the back — duty-bound people worn down.
Liver
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Old chronic liver troubles, with soreness. Jaundice and dropsy. Distention and coldness of
Male
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Complaints from coition. Deficient sexual instinct. Excessive emissions, followed by weakness.
Mind
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Despondent. Alternating moods. Very irritable. Full of fear and imaginations. Anxiety felt in
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Loss of moral fibre under stress; anxiety felt physically in the stomach; fear of losing loved ones; startles at touch. Dutiful persons pushed past endurance.
Modalities
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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.
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Worse: 2–3 a.m., cold, drafts, touch, after coition. Better: warmth, gentle continued motion in some joints.
Mouth
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Bad, slimy taste.
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Gums separate from
Nose
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Nose stuffs up in zvarni room. Thick, fluent, yellow discharge. Post-nasal dropping. [Spigel.] Sore, scurfy nostrils; bloody nasal mucus. Ciusly nasal openings. No.sebleed on washing face in morning. Ulcerated nostrils.
Pulse
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intermits. Threatened heart failure.
Rectum
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Large, difficult stools, with stitching pain an hour before. Haemorrhoids, large, swollen, painful. Itching, ulcerated pimples around anus. Large discharge of blood with natural stool. Pain in haemorrhoids when coughing. Burning in rectum and anus. Easy prolapsus. [Graph.; Pod.] Itching. [Ignat.] Urine. — Obliged to rise several times at night to urinate. Pressure on bladder long before urine comes. Involuntary urination when coughing, sneezing, etc.
Relationships
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Complementary: Carbo; Nat. mur. Follows Nux often in stomach and bladder troubles.
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Compare Bryonia (stitches depend on motion; Kali carb's do not), Arsenicum (midnight aggravations with burning); complementary Carbo vegetabilis, Sepia.
Respiratory
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Cutting pain in
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Stitching chest pains worse between 2–3 a.m.; asthma waking at the same hour; sweat without relief during the attack.
Skin
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Burning as from a mustard-plaster. KALI CARBONICUM — KALI CHLORICUM 425
Sleep
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Drowsy after eating. Wakes about two o’clock and cannot sleep again.
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Wakes 2–3 a.m. and cannot sleep again; starts at every sound while dozing.
Spine
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[Guaco.l 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.
Stomach
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Sensation as if bed were sinking. Never wants to be left alone.
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Gagging. Dyspepsia of old people ; burning acidity, bloating. Gastric disorders from ice-water. Sotir eructations. Nausea; better lying down. Constant feeling as if stomach ivcre full of zvatcr. Sour vomiting; throbbing and cutting in
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Flatulence. Desire for sweets. Feeling of lump ill pit of
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Disgust for food. Anxiety felt in stomach, Episgastrium sensitive externally. Easy choking when eating.
Teeth
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pus oozes out. Pyorrhoea. Aphthae. Tongue white. Much saliva constantly in
Text
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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. Sensitive to every atmospheric 422
Throat
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Dry, parched, rough. Sticking pain, as from a fish-bone. Swallowing difficult; food goes down oesophagus slowly.
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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