KALIUM MURIATICUM

Kalium Muriaticum ( Kali Mur )

(Chloride of Potassium-KCI)

Kali-m.

This remedy, though not proven, is widely used clinically since its introduction by Schussler. It is particularly valuable in treating catarrhal affections, sub-acute inflammatory states, fibrinous exudations, and glandular swellings (Hodgkin’s disease). Key symptoms include a white or gray coating at the base of the tongue and thick, white phlegm. It is also useful for bursitis prepatellaris.

Head: Starvation imaginations, headache with vomiting, crusta lactea, dandruff.

Eyes: White mucus, purulent scabs, superficial ulcer, trachoma, corneal opacities.

Ears: Chronic catarrhal conditions of the middle ear (otitis media), swollen glands around the ear, snapping noises, threatened mastoiditis, and great effusion around the auricle.

Nose: Catarrh with thick, white phlegm, vault of the pharynx covered with adherent crusts, stuffy cold, and epistaxis (Arn., Bry.).

Face: Swollen and painful cheek.

Mouth: Aphthae, thrush, white ulcers, swollen glands around the jaw and neck, grayish-white coating on the tongue.

Throat: Follicular tonsillitis, inflamed and enlarged tonsils causing breathing difficulty, grayish patches or spots in the throat and tonsils (diphtheria), adherent crusts in the pharyngeal vault, “hospital” sore throat, and Eustachian catarrh.

Stomach: Indigestion from fatty or rich food, vomiting white opaque mucus, waterbrash, stomach pain with constipation, bulimia with hunger disappearing after drinking water.

Abdomen: Tenderness and swelling, flatulence, threadworms causing itching in the anus.

Rectum: Constipation with light-colored stools, diarrhea after fatty food with clay-colored, white, or slimy stools (jaundice), dysentery with slimy stools, bleeding hemorrhoids with dark, thick, fibrinous clots.

Female: Irregular menses, excessive dark clotted discharge, leucorrhea with thick, non-irritating milky white mucus, morning sickness with vomiting white phlegm, soft and tender breast lumps.

Respiratory: Aphonia, hoarseness, asthma with gastric derangements, difficult white mucus cough, loud gastric cough resembling whooping cough, rattling sounds from thick mucus in the bronchi.

Back and Extremities: Rheumatic fever with joint swelling, rheumatic pains during or worsened by motion, nocturnal pains worsened by bed warmth, lightning-like pain from lumbosacral region to feet (sciatica), stiffness in hands while writing.

Skin: Acne, erythema, eczema with thick white vesicle matter, dry flour-like scales (Ars.), bursitis.

Modalities: Worse with rich food, fats, and motion.

Relationship: Compare with Bell., which follows well in catarrhal and hypertrophic conditions, Kino (otorrhea with right ear stitches), Bry., Merc., Puls., Sulph.

Dose: Third to twelfth potency. External use for skin affections with a burning sensation.