KALIUM CARBONICUM

Kalium Carbonicum ( Kali Carbonicum )

(Carbonate of Potassium)

Kali-c.

The weakness characteristic of all Potassium salts is notable here, with a soft pulse, coldness, general depression, and characteristic stitches felt in any part of the body or associated with any condition. All Kali pains are sharp and cutting; nearly all improve with motion. Never use any salts of Potash during a fever (T. F. Allen). Sensitive to atmospheric changes and intolerant of cold weather. Effective after labor and miscarriage, for resulting debilitation. Early morning aggravation is very characteristic. Fleshy, aged people with dropsical and paretic tendencies. Sweat, backache, and weakness. Throbbing pains. Tendency to dropsy. Tubercular diathesis. Pain from within out, stinging in character. “Giving-out” sensation. Fatty degenerations. Stinging pain in muscles and internal parts. Muscle twitching. Pain in a small spot on the left side. Hypothyroidism. Coxitis.

Mind: Despondent, alternating moods, very irritable, full of fear and imaginations, anxiety in the stomach, sensation of the bed sinking, never wants to be left alone, never quiet or contented, obstinate, and hypersensitive to pain, noise, and touch.

Head: Vertigo on turning, headache from riding in cold wind, headache with yawning, stitches in temples, aching in occiput, one-sided migraine with nausea, loose feeling in the head, great dryness of hair, hair falls out (Fl-ac.).

Eyes: Stitches in the eyes, spots, gauze, and black points before the eyes, lids stick together in the morning, swelling over the upper lid like little bags, swelling of glabella between brows, asthenopia, weak sight from excessive sexual indulgence, painful sensation as if light penetrates the brain on shutting eyes.

Ears: Stitches, itching, cracking, ringing, and roaring in the ears.

Nose: Stuffy nose in warm room, thick fluent yellow discharge, post-nasal dropping (Spig.), sore scurfy nostrils, bloody nasal mucus, crusty nasal openings, epistaxis on washing face in the morning, ulcerated nostrils.

Mouth: Gums separate from teeth, pus oozes out, pyorrhea, aphthae, white tongue, profuse saliva, bad slimy taste.

Throat: Dry, parched, rough, sticking pain as from a fish bone, dysphagia, slow passage of food down esophagus, morning mucus accumulation.

Stomach: Flatulence, desire for sweets, sensation of lump in pit of stomach, gagging, dyspepsia in old people, burning acidity, bloating, gastric disorders from ice water, sour eructations, nausea better lying down, constant feeling of fullness, sour vomiting, throbbing and cutting stomach pain, disgust for food, anxiety in the stomach, sensitive epigastrium, easy choking while eating, epigastric pain radiates to back.

Abdomen: Stitches in liver region, chronic liver issues with soreness, jaundice, and dropsy, distention and coldness, pain from left hypochondrium through abdomen, must turn on right side before rising.

Rectum: Large difficult stools with stitching pain an hour before, large swollen painful hemorrhoids, itching ulcerated pimples around anus, large quantity of blood with natural stool, hemorrhoid pain when coughing, burning in rectum and anus, easy prolapse (Graph., Podo.), itching (Ign.).

Urinary: Frequent nighttime urination, pressure in bladder long before urine comes, involuntary urination when coughing, sneezing, etc.

Male: Complaints from coition, deficient sexual instinct, excessive emissions followed by weakness.

Female: Early, profuse menses (Calc.), or late, pale, scanty menses with genital soreness; back pain passing down through gluteal muscles, cutting abdominal pain, pain through left labium to chest, delayed menses in young girls with chest symptoms (hydrothorax) or ascites, difficult first menses, complaints after parturition, uterine hemorrhage with constant oozing after copious flow, violent backache (dysmenorrhea) relieved by sitting and pressure.

Respiratory: Cutting chest pain, worse lying on right side, hoarseness and aphonia, dry hard cough around 3 a.m. with stitching pains and pharynx dryness, bronchitis with sensitive chest, scanty tenacious expectoration increasing in morning and after eating, aggravated in right lower chest and by lying on painful side, hydrothorax, leaning forward relieves chest symptoms, expectoration must be swallowed, cheesy taste, copious offensive lump, chest coldness, wheezing (asthma), cough with relaxed uvula, tendency to tuberculosis, and catching colds, better in warm climates.

Heart: Sensation of heart suspension, palpitations and burning in heart region, weak rapid pulse, intermittent due to digestive disturbance, threatened heart failure.

Back: Great exhaustion, stitches in kidney region and right scapula, weak lumbosacral region, stiffness and paralytic feeling in back, burning in spine (Guaj.), severe backache during pregnancy and after miscarriage, hip disease, pain in nates, thighs, and hip joint, lumbago with sharp pains extending up and down back, and to thighs.

Extremities: Back and legs give out, uneasiness, heaviness, tearing in limbs and jerking, tearing pain with swelling (sciatica), sensitive to pressure, white knee swelling, tearing in arms from shoulder to wrist, lacerating wrist joint pain, paralysis in old people, and dropsical affections, limbs easily go to sleep, painful toes and fingers, sensitive soles, itching great toe with pain (gout), pain from hip to knee, knee pain (arthritis).

Sleep: Drowsy after eating, wakes up around 2 a.m. and cannot sleep again.

Skin: Burning as from mustard plaster.

Modalities: Worse after coition, in cold weather, from soup and coffee, around 3 a.m., lying on left and painful side. Better in warm, moist weather, during the day, while moving around.

Relationship: Complementary to Carb-v. (use when vitality is low to prepare for Kali-c.); follows Nux-v. in stomach and bladder issues. Compare with Kalium salicylicum (pregnancy vomiting, arteriosclerosis with chronic rheumatism); Kalium silicicum (gouty nodosities); Kalium aceticum (diabetes, diarrhea, dropsy, increased alkaline urine); Kalium citricum (Bright’s disease); Kalium ferrocyanatum-Prussian blue (prostration post-infection, routine work difficulty, neuralgic affections, weak pulse, uterine symptoms); Kalium oxalicum (lumbago, convulsions); Kalium picro-nitricum and Kalium picricum (jaundice, eructations); Kalium tartaricum (paraplegia); Kalium telluricum (garlicky breath odor, salivation, swollen tongue). Also compare with Calc., Am-p., Phos., Lyc., Bry., Nat-m., Stann., Sep.

Antidotes: Camph., Coff.

Dose: Thirtieth and higher. Sixth trituration. Use cautiously in old gouty cases, advanced Bright’s disease, and tuberculosis.