KALI CARBONICUM.
Potassium carbonate, K2O,Co2.
Preparation for administration
,
Triturations with sugar of milk.
Authorities.
Note:
Cases of poisoning caused by large doses of the crude substance, and
presenting only the frightful and usually fatal effects of its caustic
action are omitted; consult Boston Med. and Surg. J., 1862, Ed. M. and
S. J., 1828, and works on toxicology. 1,
Hahnemann, Chronische Krankheiten; 2,
Gersdorff, ibid.; 3, Goullon, ibid.;
4, Hartlaub, ibid.; 5, Neuning, ibid.; 6,
Rummell, ibid.; 7, Robinson, proving
on a middle-aged woman, with 12th dil., taken three times a day, Br. J.
of Hom., 24, 515; 8, Berridge, new
symptoms in Mrs. — (a patient), after repeated doses of the 4000th
Jenichen, Am. J. of H. Mat. Med., 1876, 248; 9,
Berridge, Mr. —, took 200th (Lehrmann), ibid.; 10, same, Mr. —, took several doses of 30th
dil., N. Am. J. of Hom. N. S., 3, p. 502; 11,
Rabuteau, experiment on self with 5 grammes daily of Kali bicarb., N. Y. J. of Med., 14, 100 (Gaz.
Med.); 12, Metcalf, effects of K.
carb., 3d, in a woman with congestive headache, symptoms after two or
three doses.
MIND.
►
Emotional. ► Delirium, day
and night, [1]. ► Dread of being alone, [1]. ► Weeping
mood; she could at any time burst into tears (after twentieth day), [1]. ►
Very much depressed; she was obliged to weep much, because it was
constantly in her thoughts that she must die, [1]. ► Great
sadness; is obliged to weep without cause, in the evening, [4]. ►
Sad, weeping mood, after physical fatigue in the open air, [3]. ►
Sad, lonely; she seeks society in order to enliven herself, [5]. ►
Despondency (first day), [1]. ► Great despondency, without anxiety, [1]. [10.]
► Uneasy in mind, [1]. ► Anxiety,
every day, [1]. ► Anxiety, breaking out into tears (first
day), [4]. ►
He has anxious presentiments, in the evening, [1]. ► Sad
presentiments of the future, [1]. ► At night after lying down, sad
forebodings overtake him, on account of which he is unable to sleep, [1]. ►
Fearfulness, in the evening in bed, [1].
► Fearful and anxious about her disease,
[1]. ►
Full of fears, [1]. ► Fears that she cannot recover, [1]. [20.]
► Apprehensiveness and aversion to
society, [1]. ► Apprehensiveness and great sadness, [5]. ►
Faint-hearted and despondent to an excessive degree, [1]. ► Easily
frightened, especially on touching the body lightly, [1]. ► *Very
easily frightened, [1].
► She is frightened with a loud cry,
by an imaginary apparition (as for example, of a bird flying to the
window), [1]. ► Unusually out of humor, which can be
noticed in his expression even before he himself remarks it, [2]. ►
Very much out of humor, in the evening on falling asleep, and in the
morning on waking, [1]. ► Fretful without cause (fifth day), [1]. ►
Fretful mood, as if she could not content herself, [5]. [30.] ► During dinner, fretful, peevish mood,
with drawing pain in the head (thirtieth day), [2]. ► He
frets himself about everything, and is constantly out of humor, [1]. ►
Irritable mood, [1]. ► Irritable, peevish mood, [1]. ►
Very irritable, as after a vexation, [1].
► Acutely irritable, [1]. ►
Peevish, angry thoughts, in the morning after waking, so that he gnashes
his teeth (after fourth day), [1].
► Peevish, morose mood; every trifle,
vexes and every noise is unpleasant; worse at noon and in the evening, [2]. ►
Becomes easily peevish, [1]. ► Very peevish, has no joy in anything, [1]. [40.]
► Extremely peevish mood (first
eleven days), [1]. ► Impatient with her children, [1]. ►
Easily aroused to anger, [2]. ► She easily becomes very violent, [1]. ►
Disagreeable mood; he is obstinate and frequently does not himself know
what he wishes, [1]. ► Disagreeable mood; she longs for things
with impetuosity; is contented with nothing, is beside herself, and gets
into a rage if everything does not go according to her wishes, and
frequently does not herself know what she really wishes to have, [1]. ►
She is constantly in antagonism with herself; she does not know what she
wishes, and feels extremely unhappy, [1].
► Alternating mood; at one time good
and quiet, at another excited and angry at trifles; frequently hopeful,
frequently despondent, [1]. ► Disinclined to everything, and
indifferent, [1]. ► Intellectual. ►
Excessive hurry in thought and action, [1].
[50.] ►
Dread of work, [2]. ► Distracted in mind; it is difficult for
him to fix his attention upon a given object, [2]. ► Want of
presence of mind, he cannot quickly see his way in his business (after
fifteen hours), [1]. ► Irresolute mood, [1]. ► She
springs up in bed at night while sleeping, says all sorts of senseless
things to her husband, and for a long time cannot collect her senses,
and does not know that she was talking with him, [1]. ►
Sensation as if his thoughts vanished for a moment, [1]. ► At
times a sensation as if his thoughts and memory vanished, with whizzing
in the head, [1]. ► Frequently he is unable to find the
required word and right expression; often makes mistakes in speaking, [2]. ►
Loss of consciousness for a few minutes, so violent that all his senses
disappear, and he would fall down if he did not hold on to something
(after eighteen days), [1]. ► Loss of consciousness as if in the
occiput, after speaking much, disappearing on pressing the eyes
together, [1].
HEAD.
►
Confusion and Vertigo. [60.]
► Confusion of the whole head, as if
screwed in, with sticking in the brain, with frequent pauses, [5]. ►
Confusion of the head, as after intoxication, and as if the ears were
stopped, with nausea, almost amounting to vomiting (after eight days), [6]. ►
Frequent confusion of the head, [1]. ►
Frequent confusion of the head in the morning, and heaviness in the
region of the eyebrows, [1]. ► Confused feeling in the head, as if he
had not slept enough, in the morning after rising, and a feeling as if
befogged, with loss of liveliness, [5].
► In the evening, after falling
asleep and waking again, she was confused in her head, had no ideas, did
not know where she was, and then was seized with frightful anxiety,
after which she again became quiet, [1].
► Feeling as if intoxicated (fourth
day), [1]. ► *Vertigo on suddenly turning the body and head,
[1]. ►
*Vertigo on turning around, [6].
► An attack of vertigo as often as he
rises from his chair and turns around, [1].
[70.] ►
Vertigo, as if there were a depth behind him, and he would fall down, on turning around, after looking into a
mirror and after reading, [1]. ► Vertigo, immediately on rising, as if the
head were too light; she is obliged to hold it, [1]. ►
Vertigo, especially after eating, [1].
► Vertigo while sitting, like a
swaying to and fro (before eating), [1].
► Vertigo while sitting, so that he
dares not rise for fear of falling, [5].
► Vertigo, as if reeling, while
standing and walking, better in the open air, [1]. ►
Vertigo, as if intoxicated, while walking, so that he staggered from
side to side, [5]. ► Vertigo, while writing and in the open
air; everything turns around with him, [5].
► Dizziness in the head, mostly in
the morning and evening, [6]. ► Very dizzy, even while sitting (after
thirty hours), [6]. [80.] ►
Giddiness in forehead, as if she would fall forwards, on holding head
down, [8]. ►
Giddiness in forehead while rising from lying to sit up in bed; she then
opens her eyes wide as if to see, for she does not reach far enough
forwards if she tries to grasp anything; the same giddiness is felt
during the act of lying down again, and she then also feels as if she
were descending a great way; the giddiness is not felt at rest, whether
sitting or lying, [8]. ► Frontal lightness and giddiness on
moving, as if all things in the room were going round (not as if room
were revolving), when talking or being talked to; feels as if she must
lean head on hand as it seems to hold head still, and relieves the
giddiness and lightness, [8]. ► General Head. ► A constant in the head as though something in it
were loose, and turned and twisted toward the forehead, [1]. ►
Painful turning and twisting within the head, [1]. ► The
head several times jerks towards the left side, without loss of
consciousness, whereupon the nape of the neck feels stiff, [1]. ►
Dulness and confusion in the head, in the evening, [6]. ►
Weakness of the head, [1]. ► Great warmth in the head, especially in
the right side of the face, frequently (fifth day), [5]. ► Taking
cold in the head is followed by pain in the head and teeth, [1]. [90.]
► Violent pain in the whole head,
with throbbing and sticking in the knees, disappearing on moving about;
in the evening, [5]. ► Burning painful sensation of heat in the
head, [1]. ►
Rising heat in the head, in the evening, before lying down; disappearing
in bed, [5]. ►
Headache in the morning, on waking, lasting a quarter of an hour, for
several mornings, [1]. ► During the menses, headache in the
morning, with great heaviness, [5].
► Headache relieved by sitting up in
bed, aggravated by lying down, [1].
► During the menses, great headache
on the second day, from morning till evening, [4]. ► Violent
headache for several hours, from walking in the open air, [1]. ► A
feeling of fulness in the head, as if the brain pressed hard against the
skull, [5]. ►
Rush of blood to the head, and a feeling of intoxication therefrom, [1]. [100.] ►
Rush of blood to the head, at night while lying in bed; at times it
seemed as though the senses would vanish, [1].
► Warm rush of blood to the head,
with orgasm of blood in the body, and after some hours slight headache
(immediately), [1]. ► After dinner constriction in the head
like a band about it, [1]. ► Violent pressure from within outward, as
if the brain would press forward, [5].
► Violent pressive pain in the whole
head, with shivering chill over the whole body, especially in the
forenoon, [4]. ► Violent pressure over the whole skull,
extending down the nape of the neck, throbbing in the head and whole
body; the pain does not tolerate the slightest touch, and is aggravated
in paroxysms, with excessive nausea and vomiting of bile, [3]. ► *Pressive
headache, [1]. ► Pressive headache for several nights,
disappearing on wrapping up the head, [1].
► Shattering headache, [1]. ► Dull
sticking in the head (first day), [1].
[110.] ►
Stitches through the whole head, [1].
► Jerking-tearing pain in the head, [1]. ►
Ulcerative pain in the head, after dinner; she was obliged to lie down,
when it became better, [5]. ► Painful throbbing in the head when she
writes, [1]. ►
Jerking headache, the whole day, [1].
► A painful sensation as of something
movable in the head, worse on moving the head, [1]. ►
Weakness in the head just over the eyes, after walking rapidly
(seventeenth day), [1]. ► Forehead. ►
Heaviness and pain in the sinciput, [5].
► A sensation on stooping as if
something were sinking from the occiput towards the forehead, [1]. ►
A feeling in the forehead as if a hot body were lying before it,
frequently repeated while stooping and writing, disappearing on rising, [5]. [120.]
► Terrible headache through the eyes,
[1]. ►
A feeling in the forehead as if it would burst, in frequent short
paroxysms, [5]. ► Drawing in the forehead, in the forenoon and at
midnight (second and thirtieth days), [2]. ► *Pressure
and drawing tearing in the forehead, extending into the eyes and root of
the nose (fourteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and
twenty-first days), [2]. ► Pressure in the forehead, in the evening,
on going to sleep, with qualmish nausea, as if the stomach were
disordered; relieved by rest, aggravated when walking, [1]. ► Pressure in
the forehead, with photophobia, [2]. ► Severe
pressure and drawing in the forehead in the evening, [6]. ► Violent
pressure from within outwards, in the whole frontal region, while
writing, [5]. ► Pressive pain in the forehead, like a
confusion, [5]. ► Pressive pain in the forehead, with
vomiting of mucus and acids, [3]. [130.] ►
Pressive headache in the forehead, in the afternoon, while walking, with
peevishness (thirteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth days), [2]. ►
Sticking in the forepart of the head, [1].
► Violent sticking in the forehead
the whole day, and at times also in the left side of the head; together
with severe pain in the chest and icy coldness of the limbs, [1]. ►
Stitches in the forehead like needles, [5].
► Stitches in the forehead, in the
morning, [1]. ► Stitches in the upper part of the
forehead and above the temples, on moving the lower jaw, [1]. ► Tearing
in the left frontal eminence (twenty-fifth day), [2]. ►
Throbbing and beating in the forehead, and especially in the sides of
the head, frequently intermitting; also after dinner, while walking and
standing, [5]. ► A digging throbbing in the frontal bone,
above the left eye, [5]. ► Throbbing pain in the forehead, [1]. [140.]
► Crawling pain above the forehead, [1]. ►
Temples. ► Pain in
temples, especially in the right one, as if proceeding from the stiff
neck, [8]. ► Pinching pain in the left temple at intervals;
also tearings, [2]. ► Pressure in the right temple, from
morning till noon (after eleven days), [6].
► Pressure and pressing in the right
temple (eleventh, nineteenth, and twentieth days), [2]. ► A
sticking pressure inward in the left temple, [5]. ►
Pressive pain from within outward, in the right temple, [5]. ► A sharp
pressive pain in the temple, externally, [1].
► Pressive headache in the left
temple (sixth day), [2]. ► Pressive headache from both temples
towards the middle. [150.] ► *Sticking in the temples, [1]. ►
Sticking in the temples, even to starting up and crying out, in the
right temple, with tearing, [5]. ► A stitch above the left temple, and
immediately afterwards in the middle of the forehead, extending from
within outward, [5]. ► Some tearing stitches in the left temple,
extending into the zygoma, [2]. ► Tearing in the right and left temple,
also in the left parietal bone, [5].
► Beating vibration in the right
temple, [1]. ►
Jerking in the left temple, [1]. ► Painless bubbling-like twitching of the
muscles in the right temple, [2]. ► Vertex. ►
Headache in the vertex, when pressing upon the head, [1]. ►
Pinching pain in the whole upper part of the head, especially in the
left side, [2]. [160.] ►
Drawing and tearing on the vertex (thirty-third and thirty-fourth days),
[2]. ►
Pressure upon the top of the head, in the evening, [6]. ► Parietals.
► A severe heavy sensation in the
left half of the head, [5]. ► After taking cold, headache in the right
side and heat in the eyes, [1]. ► *Paroxysms of one-sided headache, right
and left, with weakness and exhaustion, almost amounting to nausea, in
the evening, [2]. ► A tearing drawing in the left half of the head,
above, in front of, and in the temple (twelfth, nineteenth, and
twenty-fifth days), [1]. ► Pressure from without inward on the right
side of the skull, on rising up from stooping, [5]. ► A
stitch through the right side of the head, from behind forward, [3]. ►
Beating (throbbing) pain in the upper part of the left side of the head;
on pressure the pain becomes more violent and sticking; more externally,
[5]. ►
Occiput. ► Heaviness in
the occiput, like a confusion, [5].
[170.] ►
Heaviness in the occiput, as if it were filled with lead, the head
constantly falls backward, with stiffness of the nape of the neck,
extending to between the shoulder-blades, [1].
► Aching and heaviness in the
occiput, worse on swallowing, [8].
► Drawing in the occiput and nape of
the neck, especially in the right side with stiffness, [2]. ►
Pressure and burning low down in the occiput, with heaviness of the
head, even to falling forward, [5].
► Violent pressure in the occiput,
with rush of blood in the head and a feeling of heaviness, while
standing, [5]. ► Pressive pain in the occiput, extending
to the nape of the neck, disappearing in the open air, [1]. ►
Stitches extending from the nape of the neck into the occiput, [1]. ►
Stitches in the occiput, on stepping and on stooping, as if upon the
surface of the brain, [1]. ► Tearing, now in the right, now in the
left side of the occiput, and now in forehead (first day), [5]. ►
Throbbing tearing in the right side of the occiput, close to the nape of
the neck (sixteenth day), [2]. ► External Head. [180.] ►
*Dryness of the hair, [1].
► Falling of the hair, [1], [4].
► Pimples on the scalp, [1]. ►
Painful pimple on the right side of the head, as if a boil would form
(sixth day), [6]. ► Sticking pain externally on the head and
in the nape of the neck, with a sticking swelling of the cheek, and
sticking in the teeth, [1]. ► Fine stitches externally in various parts
of the head, [5]. ► Violent tearing externally on one side of
the head, while walking in the open air, [1].
► Itching on the scalp, [1]. ►
Itching on the scalp, with sore pain when scratched, [6]. ►
Frequent itching on the head, especially on the occiput, [5].
EYE.
►
Objective. [190.] ► Redness and heat of the eyes, [4]. ►
Blue rings around the eyes, [1]. ► Redness of the white of the eye, with many
vessels in it, [1]. ► Swelling of the right eye, [1]. ►
Inflammation of the whites of both eyes, with burning pain (fifth day), [1]. ►
Subjective. ► Dryness of
the eyes (second day), [1]. ► Feeling of dryness in the eyes as from
sand, and of intense sleepiness in the eyes, [1]. ► The
eyes become painful and weak, [1].
► The eyes are painful on moving
them, [1]. ►
Both eyes seem very hot to the touch, [1].
[200.] ► Eyes hot, with scalding tears, the
lachrymation worse on looking at anything, [8]. ► Pain in
the left eye on directing it upward, [1].
► *Burning in the eyes, [1]. ►
Burning in both eyes, [5]. ► Burning and biting in the eyes, [1]. ►
Burning and dryness of the eyes, worse in the open air than in the room,
[5]. ►
Eyes burn at night, especially left, [8].
► Boring pain in the eyes, [1]. ►
Pinching in the eyes, [1]. ► Pressure in the eyes, [1]. [210.] ► Pressure in the eyes, and dry matter in
the lashes, [1]. ► Pressure upon the eyes and in the orbits,
with sleepiness, at noon (thirty-sixth day), [2]. ► Pain as
if the eyes would be pressed inward, [1].
► *The eyes are painful on reading,
as if pressed inward, [1]. ► Biting and transient sticking pains in
the eyes, [2]. ► Stitches in the middle of the eye, [1]. ►
Stitches in the right eye (twenty-first day), [4]. ► Tearing
in the left eye, in the evening before going to sleep, [2]. ► A
pressive tearing within the right eye (twelfth and twenty-sixth days), [2]. ►
Smarting pain in the eye (fourth day), [6]. [220.] ► Itching in the eyes, [1]. ► Brow and
Orbit. ► Swelling of the
glabella between the eyebrows (twenty-first day), [1]. ►►
*Swelling between the eyebrows and lids, like a sac, [1]. ►
Pain as if a boil would form in the left eyebrow, in the evening in bed
(eighth and thirteenth days), [2].
► Pressure above the eyes,
with a violent pain in the whole forehead, [1]. ► A
boring pressure inward above the left eye, [5]. ► Sharp
tearing in the right orbit and in the eye at night (thirtieth
and thirty-first days), [1]. ► A pressive tearing in the region of the
right eyebrow (twenty-sixth day), [1].
► Jerking and twitching in the right
eyebrow, [1]. ► Lids. ►
*Swelling of the upper lid toward the nose, [1]. [230.] ► *Inflammation of the lids of the right eye, with
pain in the eyes and inability to read by the light, [1]. ►
Agglutination of the eyes, in the morning (after sixteen hours), [1]. ►
The eyes are agglutinated by mucus in the morning, [5]. ► The
eyes maturate in the canthi, [1]. ► Eyes gum in outer canthi, especially the
left, [8]. ►
The eyelids are difficult to open on waking in the morning, [1]. ►
The eyelids close forcibly, [1]. ► Burning in the eyelids, [1]. ► The
child complains of coldness in the lids, [1].
► A pulling or tearing in the right
lid and above the right eye, [1]. [240.] ►
Pressure upon the lids, [1]. ► Stitches in the right external canthus, [5]. ►
A feeling of soreness in the lids, on waking soon after midnight
(twenty-fifth day), [2]. ► *Soreness of the external canthus, with burning
pain, [1]. ► Frequent soreness of the left external
canthus, [1]. ► Itching of the margins of the lids of the
right eye, [1]. ► Lachrymal Apparatus. ► *Lachrymation (second day), [4]. ►
Lachrymation, especially of the right eye, with biting in one canthus
(twenty-seventh day), [2]. ► Frequent lachrymation and rays around the
candlelight, in the evening, [1]. ► Scalding lachrymation, especially at
night, [8]. [250.] ►
Watering of the eyes, [5]. ► Ball. ►
Stitches in the eyeball, [1]. ► Vision. ►
*Photophobia; painful sensitiveness of the eyes to daylight;
the room must be darkened, [1]. ► Staring; it is with difficulty that she
can remove the eyes from an object, and she is obliged to fix them upon
it almost against her will, [5]. ► *Weakness of vision, [5]. ►
Diminished vision after working in the water (washing); she can see only
a small portion of objects, followed by stitches in the head above the
eyes, with nausea, [1]. ► Vision vanishes when writing; white stars
appear; therewith the lower lines seem to the above the upper so that he
constantly re-writes on the upper line, [5].
► Obscuration of the right eye, in
the morning, lasting a few minutes, [1].
► Objects seem confused when looking
steadfastly at them, or when reading, [8].
► White drops seem to fall down
before the vision, on looking at snow, [1].
[260.] ►
Spots, threads, and points before the eyes, when reading or looking into
the clear air (after twenty-four hours), [1].
► Sparks of light before the eyes, [1]. ►
During the cough sparks seem to shoot from the eyes, [1], [6]. ► Brilliant colors before the eyes, [1]. ►
A yellow, glistening, tremulous cloud before the eyes, [5]. ► Yellow
and white radiant wheels before the eyes are seen upon the paper when
writing or in the open air; they turn in a circle and constantly become
larger, [5]. ►
Blue and green spots before the eyes, [3].
► Black points and rings before the
eyes, when reading, [1]. ► A small black ball floats before the
vision, [1].® 2000
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