KALIUM BICHROMICUM

KALIUM BICHROMICUM ( Kali Bichrom )

(Bichromate of Potash)

Kali-bi

Special Affinities: This drug primarily affects the mucous membranes of the stomach, bowels, and air passages; bones and fibrous tissues. Kidneys, heart, and liver are also affected, including incipient parenchymatous nephritis, nephritis with gastric disturbances, cirrhosis of the liver, and anemia without fever. General weakness, nearly paralysis. Suitable for fat, light-complexioned individuals prone to catarrhs or with a syphilitic or scrofulous history. Symptoms worsen in the morning; pains migrate quickly, and rheumatic and gastric symptoms alternate. Best for subacute stages.

Mucous Membranes: Affects mucous membranes everywhere, causing catarrh of the pharynx, larynx, bronchi, and nose with tough, stringy, viscid secretion. Perforation of the septum, chronic atonic catarrh, polyps, and dilatation of the stomach and heart.

Head: Vertigo with nausea when rising. Headache over eyebrows, preceded by blurred vision, aching and fullness in the glabella, semi-lateral headache in small spots, and from suppressed catarrh. Frontal pain, usually over one eye. Sore bones and scalp.

Eyes: Supra-orbital neuralgia on the right side, burning and swollen eyelids, ropy yellow discharge, corneal ulcers without pain or photophobia, Descemetitis, croupous conjunctivitis, granular lids, iritis with punctate deposits on the cornea, slight pain with severe ulceration or inflammation.

Ears: Swollen with tearing pains, thick yellow stringy discharge, sharp stitches in the left ear.

Nose: Snuffles in children, especially fat babies. Pressure and pain at the root of the nose, ulcerated septum, thick greenish-yellow discharge, tough elastic plugs, chronic inflammation of frontal sinuses, dropping from posterior nares, anosmia, marked hawking, inability to breathe through the nose, dryness, coryza with obstruction, violent sneezing, and profuse watery nasal discharge.

Face: Florid complexion, blotchy red appearance, acne, sensitive bones beneath the orbits.

Mouth: Dry, viscid saliva, mapped tongue, red and shiny, smooth and dry with dysentery, broad and flat, thickly coated, sensation of hair on the tongue.

Throat: Red and inflamed fauces, dry and rough, swollen parotid glands, edematous uvula, pseudo-membranous deposits on tonsils and palate, burning extending to the stomach, aphthae, diphtheria with profound prostration, tough and stringy discharge.

Stomach: Nausea and vomiting after beer, immediate load after eating, feels as if digestion has stopped, dilatation of the stomach, gastritis, round ulcer, dislikes water, cannot digest meat, desire for beer and acids, gastric symptoms relieved after eating, vomiting bright yellow water.

Abdomen: Cutting pain after eating, chronic intestinal ulceration, soreness in the right hypochondrium, painful retraction, soreness, and burning.

Stool: Jelly-like and gelatinous, worse in the morning, dysentery with brown frothy stools, sensation of a plug in the anus, periodic constipation with loin pain, brown urine.

Urinary: Burning in urethra, a drop remains after micturition, ropy mucus in urine, urethra clogged, congestion of kidneys, nephritis with scanty albuminous urine, pyelitis, urine mixed with epithelial cells, mucus, pus, or blood.

Male: Itching and pain in the penis, ulcers with paroxysmal stitches, constriction at the root of the penis at night, syphilitic ulcers with cheesy exudation, erections.

Female: Yellow tenacious leucorrhea, pruritus vulva with burning and excitement, prolapsus uteri, worse in hot weather.

Respiratory: Hoarse voice, worse in the evening, metallic hacking cough, profuse yellow expectoration, sticky and stringy, tickling in the larynx, catarrhal laryngitis, brassy cough, membranous croup, cough with sternum pain extending to shoulders, pain at trachea bifurcation on coughing.

Heart: Dilatation, especially from renal lesions, cold feeling around the heart.

Back: Cutting pain through the loins, unable to walk, extends to groins, pain in coccyx and sacrum extending up and down.

Extremities: Rapidly flying pains, wandering pains along bones, worse in cold, left-sided sciatica, better with motion, sore and bruised bones, very weak, tearing pains in tibia, syphilitic rheumatism, pain, swelling, stiffness, and crackling of joints, sore heels when walking, swollen and painful Tendo-Achilles, pains in small spots.

Skin: Acne, papular eruptions, ulcers with punched-out edges, pustular eruptions resembling smallpox with burning pains, itching with vesicular eruption.

Modalities: Better from heat, worse with beer, in the morning, in hot weather, and when undressing.

Relationship: Compare with Ant-t., Brom., Hep., Ind., Calc., Ant-c. In false membranes, compare Brom., Am-caust., Sul-ac., Ip. Antidotes: Ars., Lach.

Dose: Third trituration, thirtieth attenuation, and higher. Lower preparations should not be kept for too long.