A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy

Kali Nitricum kali-n.

Allen (1892)In every bookSave

General action

Gastro-intestinal inflammation and ulceration, bronchial catarrh and asthma.
Nephritis. Action on the heart similar to that of other salts of potash. Extreme prostration, threatening collapse. Dizzy faintness, with vertigo in the morning when standing, better sitting down. General rheumatic stiffness, < in cold, > in warmth.

Nose

Sore pain and swollen feeling in the right nostril, painful to pressure.
Nasal catarrh, sneezing.
Purulent, offensive discharge; bleeding.

Clinical:
Polypus of the right nostril.

Stomach

Faint-like weakness in the pit of the stomach.
Thirst after frequent sips of water, which seem to relieve the dyspnœa.

Stool

Diarrhœa; stools thin, watery.
Stools bloody, containing membranous shreds mixed with blood, with tenesmus.

Clinical:
Diarrhœa from eating veal.
Dysentery, with cold hands, small, rapid pulse; aggravation at night.

Urinary organs

Frequent and copious evacuations of light colored urine.

Sexual organs

Menstruation too early and profuse; discharge black.
Menses preceded and accompanied by violent pain in the small of the back.
Leucorrhœa thin, white, with pain in the small of the back, as if bruised.

Respiratory organs

Hoarseness, with rawness and scraping in the larynx.
Difficult respiration.
Dry cough in the morning; wakes about 3 o'clock, with stupefying headache, with pains in the chest, > expectoration.
Expectoration of clear blood, with stitches in the chest.

Clinical:
Asthma, with excessive dyspnœa, faintness and nausea, and dull stitches or burning pain in the chest.

Chest

Sensation of constriction in the lungs early in the morning in bed.
Oppression, < in the morning.
Tightness at night from coughing, with heaviness.
Burning in the chest > expectoration.

Heart and Pulse

Palpitation, < night when lying in bed.
Sharp sticking pains in the præcordial region.
Pulse frequently irregular, or scarcely perceptible; generally small and soft.

Back

Stitches between the shoulder blades, arresting breathing.
Violent pain in the small of the back in the morning and on stooping.

Extremities

Tearing and sticking in the joints.
Tearing and sticking in the shoulders at night.
Hands and fingers seem thickened and swollen.
Paralytic weakness and weariness of the lower extremities.

Fever

Febrile paroxysms consist mostly of chilliness and coldness.
Chill in the evening, with carious pains.
Coldness in the afternoon, with thirst, followed by heat at night, without thirst and without, sweat.
Sweat in the morning, mostly on the chest.