KALIUM NITRICUM
Nitrate of Potassium-Saltpeter
(KALI NITRICUM – NITRUM)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. Diarrhśa from eating veal.
Female.–
Menses too early, profuse, black;
preceded and with violent backache. Leucorrhśa. 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 dyspnśa, nausea, dull stitches, and
burning in chest. Dyspnśa 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 prćcordia, 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.
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