Kali Citricum.
Citrate of Potash. Potassic Citrate. K3C6H5O7. Solution. Trituration.
Clinical.─
Bright’s
disease.
Characteristics.─
The Citrate
of Potash has been used in solution (eight to ten grains to a wineglass of water)
to assist the action of the kidneys in sufferers from Bright’s disease who were under the
absolute skim-milk dietary. It has also been used in the same way, in old-school practice,
as a solvent for gouty concretions about joints. K. cit.
has not been proved, but “Agricola” (H. W.,
xxv. 446) has recorded the effect of a large dose given by an allopath to a patient
suffering from suppressed kidney action after influenza. In three days the kidneys acted
freely, but these new symptoms were set up: Tympanites; constant flow of mucus from anus;
awful gastric and abdominal pains, “as if a machine were at work inside, skinning the
inside of the stomach and the whole length of the intestinal tube.” Flatus was constant
and in great amount, producing a pain of its own, which was a prominent feature. This pain
as if machinery were at work inside recalls a pain of Nit. ac.® 2000
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