Kali Muriaticum.
Kali chloratum. Chloride of Potassium. Potassic Chloride. K Cl. (Not to be
confounded with Chlorate of Potash, Kali chloricum, KClO3).
Trituration. Solution.Clinical.─
Acne. Aphthæ. Bubo. Bunion. Burns.
Cataract. Chilblains. Constipation. Croup. Cystitis. Diarrhœa. Diphtheria. Dropsy.
Dysentery. Ear, affections of. Eczema. Embolism.
Eustachian tubes, occlusion of. Eyes, affections of. Glands, swollen. Hæmorrhoids. Heart,
affections of. Hodgkin’s disease. Ingrowing toenails.
Jaundice. Joint, cracking of. Leucorrhœa. Mumps. Rheumatism. Scorbutus. Shingles.
Small-pox. Sycosis. Tendons, creaking of. Vaccination, effects of. Warts.
Characteristics.─
It is to Schüssler that we owe
the introduction of this salt into homœopathy. His account of it is this: “It is
contained in nearly all the cells and is chemically related to fibrin. It will dissolve
white or greyish-white secretions of the mucous membrane and plastic exudations.” This
gives the indication for it in catarrhs, in croupous and diphtheritic exudations, and in the
second stage of inflammation of serous membranes when the exudation is plastic. “When
the cells of the epidermis lose molecules of K. mur. in
consequence of a morbid irritation, then the fibrin comes to the surface as a white or
whitish-grey mass; when dried this forms a mealy covering. If the irritation has seized upon
the tissues under the epidermis, then fibrin and serum are exuded, causing the affected spot
on the epidermis to rise in blisters. Similar processes may take place in and below
epithelial cells.” These are practically the whole of the cardinal indications in which
K. mur. has been prescribed. On these indications it has
been extensively used by homœopaths, but I am not aware of any proving having been made.
Boericke and Dewey, in their standard work on the Tissue Remedies, give a schema of
“guiding symptoms,” but these consist in great part of names of pathological
states. They contain, however, valuable indications, and I am indebted to these authors for
my Schema. The conditions and symptoms most strongly emphasised are: Chronic catarrhal
condition of middle ear. Closed Eustachian tubes. Snapping and noises in the ear.
Greyish-white, dryish or slimy tongue. Hæmorrhoids, bleeding, blood dark, fibrous, clotted.
Diphtheria. Rheumatic fever with exudation and swelling around the joints. The symptoms are < by motion, and < by
any fatty or rich food or pastry. < By warmth of bed
(rheumatic symptoms). It is said to have cured cataract after Calc.
fl. had helped. I have cured with it rheumatism affecting most left shoulder and
elbow, < in morning on rising. K. mur. manifests the action of its two elements in about equal
proportions. It compares closely with K. chlor., and it
is quite possible that the proving of the latter will be available for both preparations, as
Hering infers. Among the symptoms of K. chl. are:
“Tendency to rush of blood to both eyes” and “Light before both eyes on
coughing and sneezing.” Boericke and Dewey give: “Protruded appearance of eyes,
white tongue, croupy, hard cough, harsh barking.” Hering gives: “Cough, stomachy,
noisy, with protruded appearance of eyes.” To which preparation this last belongs I
cannot say; but in a case of mine K. mur. caused a
severe aggravation of the following: “As if eyes would be forced out of head, with
cough.” I conclude, therefore, that “cough affecting the eyes” is common to K. chl. and K. mur. The great
keynote of K. mur. is, whiteness─whiteness
of secretions, exudations, eruptions of tissues. The next is, toughness─fibrinous
exudations and discharges, too readily clotting blood-hence embolism, indurations, hard
swellings. In H. R., xv. 341, is an incidental proving
of K. mur. by “J. De W. C.” I have included
his symptoms and marked them “(C).” They are mostly in the throat.
Relations.─
Antidoted by:
Bell., Calc. s., Hydrast., Puls. It follows well: Calc.
ph., Calc. fl., Fer. ph. Compare: K. chl.; in tough
secretions, K. bi., K. ca., Hydrast.; in rheumatic affections, Bry., Rhus, Sul., Merc.; in
Eustachian tube affections, Merc.; in inflammation of ear, Graph., K. bi., K. ca.; in < from fatty food, <
from warmth, Puls. Compare also: Nat. mur., Nit. ac.,
Silic., Apis, Thuj.
Causation.─
Vaccination. Sprains. Burns. Blows.
Cuts. Rich food. Deranged internal functions.
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─
Patient imagines he must starve.
2. Head.─
Headache with vomiting, hawking up of
white milk-like mucus.─Sick-headache with white-coated tongue, vomiting
of white phlegm arising from a sluggish liver, want of appetite, &c.─In
meningitis Schüssler’s second remedy.─Crusta lactea.─Dandruff.
3. Eyes.─
Discharge of white mucus from the eyes,
or yellow, greenish matter and yellow, purulent scabs.─Specks of matter
on lids.─Superficial, flat ulcer of eye arising from a vesicle.─Blisters
on cornea.─Feeling of sand in the eyes.─Parenchymatous
keratitis.─Cataract.
4. Ears.─
Chronic catarrhal conditions of middle
ear.─Deafness or earache from congestion or swelling of middle ear or
Eustachian tubes, with swelling of the glands, or cracking noises on blowing nose, or
swallowing.─Deafness due to throat troubles, white tongue, &c.─Deafness
from swelling of external ear.─Granular conditions of external meatus
and membrana tympani.─Closed Eustachian tubes.─Seems
to act more on Eustachian tube.─Snapping and noises in ear.
5. Nose.─
Catarrh, phlegm white, thick.─Stuffy
cold in head, whitish-grey tongue.─Vault of pharynx covered with
adherent crusts.─Nose-bleed in afternoon.
6. Face.─
Cheeks swollen and painful.─Faceache
from swelling of face or gums.
8. Mouth.─
Aphthæ, thrush, white ulcers in mouths
of little children or nursing mothers.─Swollen glands about jaw and
neck.─Swelling of tongue.─Coating of tongue greyish
white, dryish or slimy.─Mapped tongue.─Sensation as
if a tumour growing on tongue (removed in a patient of mine).
9. Throat.─
Tonsils excessively swollen; stringy,
tough mucus; swallowing excessively painful, even water or the softest bread; must twist his
neck to get it down (C.).─Mumps, swelling of the parotid glands.─Hawks
up offensive, cheesy, small lumps.─Greyish patches or spots in throat.
11. Stomach.─
Want of appetite.─Dyspepsia
and indigestion, with a whitish-grey tongue, sick feeling after taking fat, pain and heavy
feeling on r. side under shoulder.
12, 13. Abdomen and Stool.─
Jaundice if caused by
a chill resulting in catarrh of duodenum, stools light in colour.─Sluggish
action or complete torpidity of liver, pain in r. side.─Constipation,
light-coloured stools denoting want of bile, sluggish action of liver, or occurring in
consequence of some primary disturbance, esp. where fat and pastry disagree.─Diarrhœa
after fatty food, and in typhoid fever, with pale yellow, ochre, or clay-coloured stools,
white or slimy stools.─Dysentery, purging, with slimy stools.─Hæmorrhoids,
bleeding, blood dark and thick, fibrinous, clotted.
14. Urinary Organs.─
Acute cases of inflammation
of bladder, in second stage, when swelling has set in and discharge is thick, white mucus.
15. Male Sexual Organs.─
Schüssler’s principal
remedy in gonorrhœa, and orchitis resulting from a suppression of same.─In
bubo for the soft swelling, and in soft chancres Schüssler’s chief remedy.─Gleet
combined with eczema, visible or latent.
16. Female Sexual Organs.─
Menstruation too late
or suppressed, checked or too early, excessive discharge, dark-clotted or tough, black
blood, like tar.─Leucorrhœa, discharge of milky-white mucus, thick,
non-irritating, bland.─Pregnancy: morning sickness with vomiting of
white phlegm.
17. Respiratory Organs.─
Loss of voice, hoarseness
from cold, tongue white.─Protruded appearance of eyes, white tongue,
croupy, hard cough, harsh and barking.
19. Heart.─
Palpitation from excessive flow of
blood to heart in hypertrophic conditions.
21. Limbs in General.─
Nightly rheumatic pains < from warmth of bed; lightning-like from small of back to
feet; must get out of bed and sit up.─Puffiness of ankle-joints (C.).─Ulcers
on extremities, fibrinous discharges; bunions.─Tenalgia crepitans,
creaking of tendons on back of hand.
24. Generalities.─
Schüssler’s specific or chief
remedy in epilepsy, esp. if occurring with or after suppression of eczema or other
eruptions.─Tabes dorsalis.─Hæmorrhages, dark, black
clotted, or tough blood.─Effects of blows, cuts, and bruises, for the
swelling.─Dropsy, arising from heart, liver, or kidney disease, from
obstruction of bile ducts, from weakness of heart with palpitation.─Chief
remedy in glandular swellings, follicular infiltrations.─Scrofulous
enlargement of glands.─Scurvy, hard infiltrations.─Schüssler’s
second remedy in sprains.
25. Skin.─
Acne; erythema; eczema and other
eruptions on skin, with vesicles containing thick, white contents.─Albuminoid
eczema, or other skin disease, arising after vaccination with bad vaccine lymph.─Eczema
from suppressed or deranged uterine functions.─Dry flour-like scales on
skin.─Obstinate eczema, crusta lactea, scurfy eruption on head and face
of little children.─Burns of all degrees (externally also), blisters,
&c.─Bunions, chilblains, eruptions connected with stomach or
menstrual derangement.─Ingrowing toenails.─Warts on
hands.
26. Sleep.─
Somnolence.─Restless
sleep; startled at least noise.
27. Fever.─
Congestions and inflammations, second
stage, of any organ or part of the body.─Catarrhal fever, great
chilliness, the least cold air chills him through, has to sit close to fire to keep warm and
is chilly.─Rheumatic fever; exudation and swelling around the joints.® 2000
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