Kali Nitricum kali-n.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

Cavities: Blood-vessels. Heart. Kidneys. Vaso-motors. Respiratory organs.

Worse

Walking. Cold. Damp. Taking cold. Veal. Lying with head low.

Better

Gentle motion.

General

Increased secretion into cavities. Very weak. Hæmorrhage. Sudden œdema. Throbbing. Dull stitches. Numb, as if wooden.

Particulars

Faintness. External angle of r. eye twitches, < chewing. Nausea. Epigastric or sub-sternal pains go toward axillæ. Dark, fluid stools. Dull kidney pains. Diuresis. Profuse, inky menses. Rapid, gasping breathing; sits upright. VIOLENT DYSPNŒA; can only drink in sips. Congestion of r. lung. Asthma. Free, sour expectoration >. Relapses of phthisis. Palpitation, < lying. Pain from back into chest. Hands and fingers feel swelled. External coldness; chin; skin. Internal burning.

Related

Related: Cam. Glon.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

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General

Urine very pale, frequent and profuse. Full pulse.

Worse

In the morning; afternoon; evening; after midnight; from eating veal.

Remedies following

Bellad., Calc. carb., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sepia, Sulphur.

Antidote

Dulcam.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Nitrate of Potassium-Saltpeter (KALI NITRICUM - NITRUM)

General

Often indicated in asthma, also valuable in cardiac asthma; of great value in sudden dropsical swellings over the whole body. Gastro-intestinal inflammation, with much debility, and relapse in phthisis, call for this remedy. Suppurative nephritis.

Head

Scalp very sensitive. Headache, with vertigo, as if falling to right side and backwards; worse, stooping. Ennui.

Eyes

Vision becomes clouded. Turbid corpus vitreum (Arn; Ham; Solan n; Phos). Variegated-colored rings before eyes. Burning and lachrymation.

Nose

Sneezing. Swollen feeling; worse, right nostril. Point red and itching. Polypus (Sang nit).

Mouth

Tongue red, with burning pimples; burns at tip. Throat constricted and sore.

Stool

Thin, watery, bloody. Membranous shreds, with tenesmus. Diarrhœa from eating veal.

Female

Menses too early, profuse, black; preceded and with violent backache. Leucorrhœa. Burning pains in the ovarian region only during menses (Zinc after).

Respiratory

Hoarseness. Dry, morning cough, with pain in chest and bloody expectoration. Bronchitis, with sharp, short, dry, hacking cough. Asthma, with excessive dyspnœa, nausea, dull stitches, and burning in chest. Dyspnœa so great that breath cannot be held long enough to drink, though thirsty. Chest feels constricted. Oppression worse in morning. Sour-smelling expectoration. Expectoration of clotted blood, after hawking mucus. Acute exacerbations in phthisis; congestion of lungs. Spasmodic croup; paroxysm of crowing. Laryngeal diphtheria.

Heart

Pulse weak, small, thready. Violent stitch in præcordia, and beating of heart.

Extremities

Stitches between shoulder-blades. Tearing and sticking in shoulders and joints. Hands and fingers seem swollen.

Modalities

Worse, eating veal; towards morning and in afternoon. Better, drinking sips of water.

Relationship

Antidotes: Opium; Nitr sp dulc.

Antidote to Opium and Morphine poisoning, 8-10 grains to glass of water.

Compare: Gun-powder (Nitre with sulphur and charcoal-2x trit. "Blood poisoning. " Septic suppuration. Protractive against wound infection. Antidote to Ivy and Primula rash (Clarke) Herpes facialis; crops of boils. Carbuncles). Osteo-myelitis. Cannab sat (which contains a large amount of Kali nit). Lycop; Sanguin; Allium sat; Antimon iod.

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

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Leaders

Great difficulty in drinking on account of short breathing; drinks in sips.

Text Book of Materia Medica

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Mind and Disposition

Despondency, out of humor, uneasy. Timidity and apprehension (of death).

Head

Headache, causing the eyelids to close ; worse when the head is allowed to hang down (stooping). Stupefying heaviness of the head in the morning, as after free indulgence in intoxicating drink. Pain, as from constriction in the back part of the head ; all the parts feet stiff, compelling one to bend the head backward, and relieved by tying up the hair. Constricting headache, which concentrates in the tip of the nose. Stinging pain in the head. Pressing headache, aggravated by coffee and relieved by riding in the open air. Headache after eating veal. Great painful sensitiveness of the scalp.

Eyes

Burning in the eyes, with lachrymation and aversion to light, especially in the morning, after washing in cold water. In the evening, rainbow-colored circles around the light. Every thing appears black before the eyes (after smelling Camphor).

Ears

Tingling in the ears. Deafness from paralysis of the auditory nerves. Stitches in the ears at night ; worse when lying on the ear. Tension, sticking and tearing behind the (right) ear. Inflammation and swelling of the right lobe, with violent burning and jerking.

Nose

The tip of the nose is inflamed with stinging pains. Swelling of the internal nose. Ulcers in the nose (covered by a scurf). Bleeding of the nose ; the blood is acrid and sharp, like vinegar. The nasal bones are painful, especially to the touch.

Face

Color of the face pale. Redness of the cheeks, with tension in them, while the headache becomes worse. The pain like contraction in the eyes, forehead and face concentrates in the tip of the nose. Pain in the bones or the face.

Mouth and Throat

Stitches in hollow teeth, when touching them. Pulsating toothache at night ; worse from cold things. Stinging or tearing toothache, with tearing in the head. Inflammatory swelling of the gums ; they bleed easily. Fetid odor from the mouth. Burning blister at the tip of the tongue. The tongue is coated with white mucus. Inflammation of the throat, with stinging pain during deglutition. Pain in the throat, as if it were going to close at night, with dyspnœa. Impeded deglutition from tension and cutting in the larynx.

Stomach and Abdomen

Violent thirst, with want of appetite. The appetite is strongest in the evening. Nausea, especially at night. Vomiting of mucus with blood. Pressure in the pit of the stomach, with gnawing and faintish weakness. Burning in the stomach or sensation of coldness (inflammation of the stomach). Contractive, spasmodic colic, especially after eating veal. Incarcerated flatulency, especially in the evening.

Stool and Anus

Constipation ; stool hard and only discharged by violent pressing. Soft stools, with colic. Stools watery, bloody.

Urinary Organs

Frequent micturition, with discharge of large quantities of pale urine with reddish clouds.

Sexual Organs

Women. Menstruation too early and too profuse, with black blood. Before and during the menstruation violent colic and pain in the small of the back. Leucorrhœa thin, stiffening the linen, discharged with violent pains in the small of the back.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness, with roughness and scraping in the larynx. Cough, which awakens one at 3 A.M., with violent stupefying headache. Cough in the open air, when ascending, when arresting the breathing. Cough, with cutting pain in the chest ; with stitches in the chest and expectoration of clear blood. Suppuration of the lungs, with profuse (colliquative) perspiration. Dyspnœa, not allowing to lie with the head low. Constrictive pain in the chest, as if the lungs were constricted from the back. Stitches in the chest on drawing a long breath, while lying and coughing, with great anxiety and dyspnœa. (Inflammation of the lungs). Violent palpitation of the heart, especially at night when lying.

Back and Neck

Stitches in and between the shoulder-blades, which impede the breathing ; worse at night while lying on the back, better while lying on the right side. Violent pain in the small of the back at night, or in the morning on waking, and when stooping. Violent pain in the neck, extending to the shoulders, as if one were drawing the hair backwards with great violence.

Extremities

Upper. Rheumatic pains in the shoulders at night. Rheumatic pains and stitches in the joints of the shoulder, of the elbow, hands and fingers, especially at night, with the sensation as if the hands and fingers were swollen and too large. Numbness and tingling in the arms and hands. Stiffness and tension in the finger-joints. Lower. Rheumatic pains in the legs. Great debility and paralytic weakness in the lower legs after a short walk. Numbness and tingling in the feet. The toes are contracted.

Generalities

The affected parts feel numb, as if they were made of wood. Great debility, with sensation of heat in the face and hot forehead (morning). Rheumatic pains and stitches in the limbs and joints. The debility is worse while sitting than when moving about moderately. Inflammation of internal organs.

Sleep

Sleepiness during the day. Restless sleep at night ; nightmare.

Fever

Pulse full, hard and rapid. Pulse slow in the morning, rapid in the afternoon and evening. Chilliness and coldness in the afternoon and evening ; aggravated from every exertion and ceasing when lying down. Chill, followed by perspiration without previous heat. Chill in the evening, with pain. Coldness in the afternoon, with thirst. Heat at night, without thirst and without perspiration following. Very debilitating perspiration from the least exertion. Night-sweat most profuse on the lower extremities. Morning-sweat most profuse on the chest.

Skin

Pricking in the skin like needles, followed by burning, especially in the face. Burning vesicles filled with a yellow fluid ; they burst when scratched and relieve the burning. Sudden hydropical swelling.

Conditions

Aggravation after midnight, afternoon and evening ; from smelling camphor ; from eating veal. The conditions which are aggravated during the day are relieved in the evening, after lying down.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Nitrum. Nitre. Saltpetre. Nitrate of Potassium. Potassic Nitrate. KNO 3 . Trituration. Solution.

Clinical

Asthma. Chest, pain in . Colic. Diabetes insipidus. Dysentery. Dysmenorrhœa. Enuresis. Gastritis. Headache. Heart, affections of. Herpes preputialis. Menière's disease. Menorrhagia. Nose, bleeding of. Peritonitis. Phthisis. Pleurisy. Pneumonia. Polypus. Rheumatism. Vertigo.

Characteristics

K. n . is known in old-school practice principally as a "refrigerant diuretic," and as the active agent in the well-known "nitre papers," which are burnt for producing fumes to allay attacks of asthma. It has also been used in rheumatism, and for incontinence of urine in children. It has been extensively proved by homœopaths, and symptoms have been added from cases of poisoning, so that its characteristics are well defined. It is almost equal to K. ca . in producing stitching pains; and it is like it in having a cough at 3 a.m. The pains produced by K. n . are very severe ─ stitching, cutting, lancinating, tearing, and pressing. And there is, as with many other Kalis , much external sensitiveness ─ of scalp; of abdomen; of testes. That its anti-asthmatic properties are homœopathic is abundantly shown in the respiratory symptoms it produces. Its "diuretic" properties are utilised homœopathically in diabetes insipidus, and its use in enuresis must come in the same category. K. n . acts with great intensity on the abdominal and pelvic organs, producing most painful colics, diarrhœa, and dysentery; in the male sexual sphere, excitement and pain in testes and cords; in the female, menorrhagia with flow of ink-like blackness. This is very characteristic. Another characteristic of K. n . is < from eating veal, or effects of eating it ─ headache, diarrhœa, &c. The mental state of K. n . is chiefly one of peevishness, fretfulness, and ennui . There are many curious symptoms in the nose: "The pain-like contraction in the eyes, forehead, and face concentrates in the tip of the nose"; "Swollen feeling in right nostril, which is painful on pressure" sore pain in upper part of right nostril with external sensitiveness these two last symptoms led to the cure of a large nasal polypus in a girl. In a poisoning case there was in the period of recovery intense vertigo with tinnitus, which should indicate K. n . in some cases of Menière's disease. Easy intoxication by wine or beer was noted by several provers. A peculiar symptom is a sour taste in the throat . Another peculiar symptom is in connection with the asthmatic state. The breathlessness is so great that the patient though thirsty can only drink a sip at a time between the breaths. Allen thus defines the asthma of K. n .: Asthma with excessive dyspnœa, faintness and nausea, with dull stitches or with burning pain in chest, rather free expectoration. A solution of saltpetre as an application was an old remedy for inveterate mange in cats. Nitre with Sulphur and Charcoal forms gunpowder. A teaspoonful of this in hot water was a favourite remedy for gonorrhœa among soldiers in the days when black powder was used. In the lower triturations gunpowder has cured ascarides in adults. In some experiments made by myself with gunpowder 2x, severe herpes facialis involving right eyebrow and right side of nose was developed. The most characteristic < is from veal; < from wine or beer, < from a slight draught of air (headache). < After washing in cold water (eye). < 3 a.m. (cough). < Lying with head low (dyspnœa), < in morning; afternoon; evening; after midnight. Walking < many symptoms. < Breathing; < by coffee. > Lying down; lying right side; uncovering head (pain in parietal region). Suited to: asthmatic constitutions and chest complaints.

Relations

Antidoted by: Smelling Nit. sp. dul. Ipec. relieved the cough. Smelling Camph. intensified the sufferings. Follows well: Aco. in dysentery, and is followed well by Nux in the same. Also follow well: Bell., Calc., Puls., Rhus, Sep. K. n. antidotes the renal symptoms of Caust. Compare: Arn., Dros., Nat. m., Nit ac.

Causation

Eating veal.

Mind

Excitement after a glass of wine as if he had taken too much. ─ Anxiety and agitation. ─ Despondency, out of humour, uneasy. ─ Ennui; lachrymose mood, sad expression. ─ Fretful; peevish. ─ Disinclined to think or work. ─ Half stupor. ─ Discouragement and fear of death.

Head

Confusion almost like intoxication. ─ Vertigo; on sleeping; tends to fall forwards; to r. and backwards after drinking beer. ─ Fainting fits with vertigo in morning on standing, > on sitting down; afterwards obscuration of sight with great weakness and drowsiness; pain in small of back And constriction in abdomen; staggering gait with vertigo. ─ Vertigo and tinnitus. ─ Headache in vertex on rising. ─ Headache, after eating veal. ─ Headache, with contraction of eyelids, from one evening to another, insupportable on stooping head. ─ Headache, alternately with cramp-like tearing in joints of fingers. ─ Stunning (stupefying) heaviness of the head, in morning, as after intoxication. ─ Pressive pains in head, < by coffee, and > by motion of a carriage. ─ Headache with heat; < towards evening. ─ Pains in r. frontal sinus with stopped catarrh. ─ Pressive headache: in forehead towards root of nose; on either side, in vertex as if a stone were lying on it. ─ Headache on vertex as if the hair were being pulled. ─ Violent pain r. side of head from a slight draught of air. ─ Coldness in occiput with pains in head. ─ Compression in occiput, producing rigidity in surrounding parts. ─ A feeling of contraction in head, which seems to extend to nose. ─ Cramp-like drawing in occiput and nape, which = head to be thrown back. ─ Stinging pain in head. ─ Lancinating headache. ─ Pains in occiput are > by unbinding hair. ─ Painful sensitiveness of scalp. ─ Scurfy spots on head. ─ Profuse falling out of hair.

Eyes

Burning in eyes, with lachrymation and photophobia, < in morning, after washing with cold water. ─ Transient blindness. ─ Cloudiness of sight. ─ Coloured circles before eyes. ─ In evening, candles appear surrounded by a rainbow-like halo. ─ Everything appears black before eyes (after smelling Camphor).

Ears

Shooting in ears, in evening, < by lying down on ear. ─ Tension, shootings and tearing behind ears; behind r. ear. ─ Inflammation and swelling of lobe of r. ear, with burning, and jerkings pain. ─ Tingling in ears. ─ Tinkling and ringing in ears. ─ Chronic deafness, from paralysis of auditory nerve. ─ Vertigo and tinnitus.

Nose

Burning, in nose, with digging, and clawing pain, < by touch. ─ The nasal bones are painful, esp. to the touch. ─ Inflammation of extremity of nose, with shooting pain. ─ Swelling of interior of nose. ─ Swollen feeling in r. nostril. ─ Ulcers in the nostrils covered by a scurf. ─ Epistaxis, with acrid blood (sharp, like vinegar). ─ Violent coryza, with obstruction of nose, and loss of smell.

Face

Pale and sickly complexion. ─ Face sunken, cold nose. ─ Muscles of face convulsed, jerking. ─ Heat on face without rapid pulse. ─ Redness and tension in cheeks, with < of the headache. ─ Tearing in bones of face. ─ The pain-like contraction in eyes, forehead and face concentrates in tip of nose.

Teeth

Toothache, with lancinating drawing, or tearing pains in teeth and head. ─ Shooting in carious teeth, when touched. ─ Pulsative toothache, at night, < by cold things. ─ Swelling of gums, of an inflammatory or scorbutic character; they bleed readily.

Mouth

Fetid breath. ─ Burning blister at tip of tongue. ─ Crawling on tongue. ─ Tongue loaded with a white coating. ─ Taste: disagreeable; nauseous; disgusting; sourish, in throat in morning on rising.

Throat

Sore throat, with shooting pain and inflammation of velum palati, and uvula (during deglutition). ─ Impeded deglutition from tension and cutting in the larynx. ─ Loss of speech. ─ Nocturnal pain in throat, as if it were contracting with obstructed respiration.

Appetite

Want of appetite, with burning and continued thirst. ─ Appetite, principally in evening. ─ Ravenous hunger returned between 10 and 11 a.m., and alternated with cutting pain in region of r. umbilicus. ─ Ravenous hunger without real appetite. ─ Cannot drink for want of breath, drinks in sips. ─ Painful sensation in upper orifice of stomach.

Stomach

Nausea, as if about to vomit, esp. at night. ─ Heaving, ineffectual retching after each dose of 30th, mouth gets sore, feels altogether poorly (Cooper). ─ Retching, and vomiting of mucus, mixed with blood. ─ Pains in stomach, with a sensation as if something were turning about in it. ─ Gnawing, spasmodic weakness, and pressure on epigastrium. ─ Faint-like weakness at stomach pit. ─ Violent cramps in stomach, with contractive pain (esp. after eating veal). ─ Shootings in stomach and epigastrium. ─ Sensation of coldness, or of burning in stomach. ─ (Inflammation of stomach.). ─ Severe gastric pain recurs after every meal for years after a single large dose (Fraser).

Abdomen

Exceedingly violent pain in abdomen after eating veal, esp. at r. side. ─ Excessive distension of abdomen. ─ Griping about umbilicus; and beneath short ribs l. side; > by emission of (fetid) flatus. ─ Griping and cutting in abdomen before normal stool. ─ Stitching and sticking pains; abdomen swollen and very tender to touch; coldness of lower extremities; stiff feeling in affected parts as if made of wood (peritonitis). ─ Cutting pains, which disappear towards evening. ─ Shooting pains in abdomen. ─ Incarceration of flatus, esp. in afternoon and evening. ─ Very loud rumbling in abdomen.

Stool and Anus

Fæces hard, difficult, and retarded, evacuated with much effort (by violent pressing). ─ Urgent want to evacuate, with tenesmus. ─ Soft fæces, with cutting pains. ─ Diarrhœa after eating veal. ─ Stools: watery; thin fæcal; bloody; soft and diarrhœa-like; sluggish; hard like sheep's dung. ─ Before stool: violent colic; urging. ─ During stool: cutting colic in whole intestinal canal; tenesmus. ─ After stool: cutting colic; tenesmus; burning and stinging in anus. ─ Diarrhœa, sometimes without pain, or colliquative. ─ Frequent pressing in rectum. ─ Dysentery with much cutting pain, great thirst and icy coldness of feet.

Urinary Organs

Frequent want to urinate, and profuse emission of a clear urine, with a reddish cloud. ─ Burning in urethra while urinating and greatly diminished urine.

Male Sexual Organs

Erections, increased sexual desire and pleasure. ─ Prickling sticking in glans. ─ Smarting in orifice of prepuce. ─ Frequent itching of glans. ─ Swelling in l. epididymis. ─ After unsatisfied desire, violent drawing tension and pressure in both testes, extending along cords into abdomen, lasting some hours, testicles very painful. ─ Sensitiveness of both testes which are drawn up with a pressive sensation in them.

Female Sexual Organs

Catamenia too early, and too profuse, with discharge of blood black as ink. ─ Menses retarded; suppressed. ─ Abortion at second month. ─ Before and during catamenia, violent pains in abdomen and sacrum. ─ White serous leucorrhœa, which stiffens linen, and is discharged during the sacral pains. ─ Frequent sticking beneath l. female breast.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness, with roughness and scraping in throat. ─ Tension, and incisive pains in larynx, with obstructed deglutition. ─ Irritation to cough caused by tickling in larynx. ─ Sudden violent irritation to cough in r. side near pit of throat, as if in r. bronchus, neither painful nor, itching; it could be suppressed by a slow, deep breath and by an effort of will. ─ Cough with expectoration and pressive pain beneath sternum. ─ Cutting under sternum when coughing. ─ Pressing pain under sternum when coughing with a feeling of warmth in same locality. ─ Cough, which awakens patient about 3 a.m., with violent headache. ─ Cough in open air, or when going up stairs, also whenever the breath is held in. ─ Dry cough, esp. in morning. ─ When coughing, incisive pains in chest, until the mucus is detached. ─ Cough, with shootings in chest, and expectoration of pure blood. ─ Cough, with purulent expectoration, and colliquative sweats.

Chest

Cannot drink for want of breath; must take it in little sips; children take cup in both hands and drink greedily one sip after another. ─ Obstructed respiration, which does not permit lying down with the head low. ─ Oppression on chest, when ascending. ─ Pain in chest with pressive tension, accompanied by a sensation of roughness under sternum, which excites violent coughing. ─ Contractive pain in chest, commencing from the back, with sensation of constriction in lungs. ─ Lancinations in chest, esp. when taking a full inspiration, when lying down, and when coughing, accompanied by excessive anguish and oppression. ─ (Inflammation of lungs.). ─ Sticking in l. side near sternum. ─ Sticking in l. side of chest, cutting and tearing in lungs.

Heart and Pulse

Violent palpitation of heart, esp. when lying in bed, at night, waking him. ─ Stitches in heart. ─ Full pulse.

Neck and Back

Pain in nape of neck, extending into shoulders, as if hair were violently pulled. ─ Shooting pains in sacral region. ─ Violent pains in loins, night and morning, on waking. ─ Pains in back on stooping. ─ Full, tense feeling in back as if kidneys engorged (removed at once by 1x dil. ─ Cooper). ─ Aching in lumbar region, during repose, < esp. by coughing. ─ Shootings in and between scapulæ, often accompanied by oppressed respiration, < at night, when lying on back, > by lying on r. side.

Limbs

Drawing in limbs with paralytic weakness. ─ Tearing in limbs, day and night, > , but for a short time only, by friction. ─ Rheumatic pains and stitches in limbs and joints.

Upper Limbs

Rheumatic tearing in shoulders, at night. ─ Tearing and shooting in joints of arms, elbow, hands and fingers, principally at night, with heaviness, a sensation as if the hand were too large, and swelling of fingers. ─ Numbness and tingling in arms and hands. ─ Drawing and tearing in arms, from shoulder to fingers. ─ Wrenching pain in joints of fingers. ─ Paralysis of the arms after each dose of K. n ., crude, taken for headache several times repeated. ─ Weakness in arms, hands, and fingers, which prevents the holding of anything firmly. ─ Cramp-like tearing in joints of fingers, alternating with headache. ─ Cramps and rigidity in joints of fingers.

Lower Limbs

Rheumatic pains in the legs. ─ Tearing in legs. ─ Great lassitude and paralytic weakness in legs, after short walk. ─ Jerking tearing in soles. ─ Numbness and tingling in feet. ─ Contraction of toes.

Generalities

Affected parts feel numb, as if made of wood. ─ Tearing, shooting, and drawing pains. ─ Most symptoms occur in evening, after midnight, and in afternoon. ─ The symptoms which have manifested themselves during the day disappear on lying down in evening. ─ Rapid swelling of whole body. ─ Great dejection in morning, with sensation of heat in face, and burning in forehead. ─ Inflammation of internal organs. ─ Lassitude, which is greater when seated than during movement.

Skin

Lancinations in skin, pricking like needles, followed by burning, principally in face. ─ Tubercles, size of a pea, also on face. ─ Burning vesicles, filled with yellowish serum, which break when scratched, and then cease to burn. ─ Sudden dropsical swelling.

Sleep

Drowsiness during day. ─ Disturbed sleep at night; constant dreaming, with frequent awakening. ─ Coma somnolentum. ─ Anxious and uneasy dreams about dangerous situations. ─ Nightmare.

Fever

Pulse full, hard, and rapid. ─ Pulse slow in morning, rapid in afternoon and evening. ─ Extraordinary shiverings not > by hot drinks or coverings. ─ Shivering in evening, with pain. ─ Coldness in afternoon, with thirst; or coldness, preceded by headache, with adipsia, and followed by nocturnal heat, without thirst or sweat. ─ Quotidian fever, with drawing pains in limbs. ─ Profuse and colliquative sweat. ─ Sweat in morning, esp. on chest.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

General

Nitre. KNO 3 .
Proved by Hahnemann and his provers, also by Engler, Hecker, Heisterbergkh, Kneschke, Kummer, Richter, Siebenhaar, Jörg, Assman, Alexander, Rummell, Schroeder, Lier, Frienzelberger, Nicol, Traub, Frank, Muhlenbein, and others See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 5, p. 355 .
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Polypus of nose , Kippal, Org., vol. 3, p. 96 ; Use in dysentery , Gauwerky, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 446 ; Pains in chest , Gregg, p. 20 ; Affections of chest , Arnold, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 823 ; Pneumonia , Hocking, Raue's Rec., 1874, p. 149 ; Anthrodynia , Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 11, p. 349 ; Rheumatism , Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 11, p. 349.

Mind

Depression ; anxiety ; peevishness ; delirium.

Sensorium

Fainting fits, with vertigo in morning when standing, > when sitting down ; afterwards obscuration of sight, with great weakness and drowsiness ; pain in small of back and constriction in abdomen ; staggering gait, with vertigo. θ Vertigo.

Inner head

Headache in vertex on rising.

Smell and nose

Sore pain and swollen feeling in right nostril, painful on pressure.
Mucous polyp of right side, very large, and distending nose.
Polypus of right nostril, growing more rapidly after each attack of headache, which was > by camphor.

Upper face

Small pustules on face.

Taste, speech, tongue

Sour taste.
Tongue coated white.

Inner mouth

Fetid odor from mouth.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Little appetite, with much thirst.
Thirst, drinks a sip at a time for want of breath.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Faintlike weakness about pit of stomach.

Abdomen and loins

Violent colic, more in right side of abdomen, > by emission of flatus.
Stitching and sticking pain ; abdomen swollen and very tender to touch ; coldness of lower extremities ; numb and stiff feeling of affected parts, as if they were made of wood. θ Peritonitis.

Stools and rectum

Diarrhœa after eating veal.
Stools : watery ; thin, fecal ; bloody ; soft or diarrhœa-like ; sluggish ; hard, like sheep dung.
Before stool : violent colic ; urging.
During stool : cutting colic in whole intestinal canal ; tenesmus.
After stool ; cutting colic ; tenesmus ; burning and stinging in anus.
Frequent pressing in rectum.
In dysentery, after Acon., when latter fails to remove cutting pain, great thirst and icy coldness of feet ; followed well by Nux.

Urinary organs

Frequent urging to urinate, at first only a few drops, then usual stream.
Burning in urethra while urinating, and greatly diminished urine.
Profuse emission of urine, as clear as water. θ Diabetes insipidus.

Female sexual organs

Suppression of menses.
Menstrual blood black as ink, with much suffering.
Thin, white mucous leucorrhœa, with pain in small of back, as if bruised.

Inner chest and lungs

Violent stitch in upper part of sternum, from without inward, on left side.
Stitches in middle of chest, extending to both sides and toward axilla, when walking (during menses).
Stitches in left side of chest, toward back, and below l. mamma.
Sticking below short ribs of right side, toward back, apparently behind liver.
Stitching pains in chest greatly impeding respiration.
Congestion to lungs in tuberculosis.
Severe stitches in left side of chest in evening, causing shortness of breath ; severe cough, with expectoration of blood ; synochal fever ; full, hard and quick pulse ; heaviness and dulness of head ; delayed, hard stool ; red or turbid urine ; great and constant thirst. θ Lung affections.
Pneumonia, with excessive heat and thirst, > by copious perspiration and profuse hemorrhage.
Relapse induced by exposure ; distressing dyspnœa ; cannot lie with head low ; wants to be fanned to keep from suffocating ; thirst, drinks only sip at time for want of breath ; pulse rapid ; cough, with purulent expectoration. θ Pneumonia.
Severe, acute pains in chest, cutting like a knife, and shooting from centre of sternum to armpit and sides of chest below ; cough and expectoration. θ Suppressed syphilis.
Oppression of chest in phthisical subjects, when constant irritation to cough and expectoration, often bloody in character, causes an evening fever with hot hands and cheeks.
Useful in all stages of phthisis, but particularly for acute exacerbations with much cough, dull headache and severe pain in chest ; cough caused by tickling in middle of chest, very severe, taking away breath, with audible palpitation of heart, expectoration often mixed with coagulated blood.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Acute rheumatism, with endocarditis.

Upper limbs

Pimples on right forearm, discharge water when scratched.
Boil at lower part of thumb.

Limbs in general

Anthrodynia in several joints.
Formication in hands and feet.

Rest. position. motion

Cannot lie with head low, on account of dyspnœa.
Standing : vertigo.
Sitting down : vertigo > ; debility <.
Rising : headache on vertex.
Walking : stitches in middle of chest.
Gentle motion : debility >.

Nerves

Debility felt more when sitting than during gentle motion.

Sleep

Sleep restless, with nightmare.
Insomnia after midnight ; light morning sleep.
On awaking, pain in small of back.

Time

Aggravation : 3 A. M.
Morning : vertigo ; light sleep.
Evening : severe stitches in left chest ; fever with hot hands and cheeks.
After midnight : insomnia.

Locality and direction

Right : sore pain and swollen feeling in nostril ; mucous polyp in side of nostril ; violent colic more in side of abdomen ; sticking below short ribs ; pimples on forearm.
Left : violent stitches on side of sternum ; or stitch in side of chest.
From without inward : violent stitch in sternum.

Sensations

As if parts of whole body were made of wood.
Pain : in small of back ; in vertex.
Severe pain : in chest.
Cutting : pains in chest ; colic, in intestinal canal.
Shooting pains : from centre of sternum to armpit and sides of chest below.
Violent stitch : in upper part of sternum.
Stitches : in middle of chest ; in left side of chest and below mamma.
Stitching and sticking pains in abdomen.
Sticking : below short ribs of right side.
Violent colic : in right side of abdomen.
Burning and stinging : in anus.
Burning : in urethra.
Sore pain : in right nostril.
Pressing : in rectum.
Constriction : in abdomen.
Swollen feeling : in right nostril.
Heaviness and dulness : of head.
Faintlike weakness : about pit of stomach.
Numb and stiff feeling : of affected parts.
Tickling : in middle of chest.
Formication : in hands and feet.
Coldness : of lower extremities.

Tissues

Acute rheumatism, with endocarditis.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : abdomen very tender.
Pressure : nostril painful.

Skin

Vesicles full of thin yellow fluid.

Stage of life, constitution

Asthmatic constitutions.
Girl ; polypus.
Man, æt. 35, syphilitic subject ; pains in chest.
Woman, æt. 72 ; pneumonia.

Relations

Compare : Lycop . in lung affections ; Canthar . and Camphora in renal diseases.