Kali Muriaticum
Chloride of Potassium
Abdomen
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Abdominal tenderness and swelling. Flatulence. Thread-worms, causing itching at the anus. 430
Back
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Coating of tongue grayish-white , dryish, or slimy.
Compare
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Kino (otorrhoea, with stg^s in right ear) ; Bry.; Mercur.; Puls.; Sulph. .aChose. — Third to twelfth potency.
Ears
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Chronic, catarrhal conditions of the middle ear. Glands about the ear swollen. Snapping and noises in the ear.
Eyes
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White mucus, purulent scabs. Superficial ulcer. Trachoma.
Face
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Cheek swollen and painful.
Female
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Menstruation too late or suppressed, checked or too early; excessive discharge; dark-clottcd, or tough, black blood, like tar. [Plat.] Leucorrhoea; discharge of milky-white mucus, thick, non-irritating, bland. Morning sickness, wJth vomiting of white phlegm. Bunches in breast feel quite soft and are tender. Respiratory Organs. — Loss of voice; hoarseness. Asthma, with gastric derangements; mucus white and hard to cough up. Loud, noisy stomach cough ; cough short, acute, and spasmodic, like whooping-cough ; expectoration thick and white. Rattling sounds of air passing through thick, tenacious mucus in the bronchi; difficiilt to cough up. Back ahd
Fever
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exudation and swelling around the joints. Rheumatic pains felt only during motion, or increased by it. Nightly rheumatic pains; worse from warmth of bed; lightning-like from small of back to feet; must get out of bed and sit up. Hands get stiff while writing.
Guiding symptoms
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Although not proven, this remedy has a wide clinical use, through its introduction by Schuessler. It certainly is of great value in catarrhal affections, in subacute inflammatory states, fibrinous exudations, and glandular swellings. White or gray coating of base of tongue, and expectoration of thick, white phlegm, seem to be special guiding symptoms.
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Stool. — Constipation; light-colored stools. Diarrhoea, after fatty food; clay-colored, white, or slimy stools. Dysentery; purging, with slimy stools. Ilccmorrhoids: bleeding; blood dark and thick; fibrinous, clotted.
Head
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Imagines he must starve. Headache, with vomiting. Crusta lactea. Dandruff.
Mouth
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Pain in the stomach, with constipation. Bulimia; hunger disappears by drinking water.
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Swollen glands about jaw and
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Aphthae; thrush; white ulcers in
Nose
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Catarrh; phlegm white, thick. Vault of pharynx covered with adherent crusts. Stuffy cold. Nosebleed. [Arn.; Bry.]
Skin
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[Arsenic.] Modalities, — Worse, rich food, fats, motion.
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Acne, erythema, and eczema, with vesicles containing thick, white contents. Dry, flour-like scales on the
Stomach
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Fatty or rich food causes indigestion. Vomiting of white, opaque mucus; water gathers in the
Throat
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Follicular tonsillitis. Tonsils inflamed; enlarged so much, can hardly breathe. Grayish patches or spots in the throat and tonsils. Adherent crusts in vault of pharynx. “Hospital” sore
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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