Kali Picricum.
Potassium picrate. C6H2K(NO2)3O. Trituration (which must be made with great care,
on account of the explosive nature of the salt).Clinical.─
Eructations. Jaundice.
Characteristics.─
Allen quotes from Wolff and
Gouzee the following constant pathogenetic effects observed in patients to whom K. pi. was
given for intermittent fever: jaundice; diarrhśa; pain in pit of stomach; violent
eructations; colic; urine clear, brownish red, not from bile pigment, but from large
quantities of urate of ammonia.─K. pi.
is an intensely yellow salt, and yellow substances generally act powerfully on the liver, as
is the case with Picric acid itself and its other salts.
Relations.─
Compare:
Pic. ac., Fe. pi.® 2000
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