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Kali Iodatum (Kali Hydriodicum.) – THE GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By CONSTANTINE HERING, M.D.

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[1] Mind.

[2]
Sensorium.

[3]
Inner head.

[4]
Outer head.

[5]
Sight and eyes.

[6]
Hearing and ears.

[7]
Smell and nose.

[8]
Upper face.

[9]
Lower face.

[10]
Teeth and gums.

[11]
Taste, speech, tongue.

[12]
Inner mouth.

[13]
Palate and throat.

[14]
Appetite, thirst. Desires..

[15]
Eating and drinking.

[16]
Hiccough, belching, nausea..

[17] Scrobiculum and stomach.

[18]
Hypochondria.

[19]
Abdomen and loins.

[20]
Stools and rectum.

[21]
Urinary organs.

[22]
Male sexual organs.

[23]
Female sexual organs.

[24]
Pregnancy. Parturition..

[25] Voice and larynx. Trachea..

[26]
Respiration.

[27]
Cough.

[28]
Inner chest and lungs.

[29]
Heart, pulse and circulation.

[30] Outer chest.

[31]
Neck and back.

[32]
Upper limbs.

[33] Lower limbs.

[34]
Limbs in general.

[35]
Rest. Position. Motion.

[36]
Nerves.

[37]
Sleep.

[38]
Time.

[39]
Temperature and weather.

[40]
Fever.

[41]
Attacks, periodicity.

[42]
Locality and direction.

[43]
Sensations.

[44]
Tissues.

[45] Touch. Injuries..

[46]
Skin.

[47]
Stage of life, constitution.

[48]
Relations.

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HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] [Kali. i.]

Hiccough ; evening.

Gulping up of large quantities of air.

Eructations momentarily > burning and pressure in stomach.

Heartburn with flatulence.

Nausea.

Violent vomiting, with accumulation of saliva.

   

SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] [Kali. i.]

Burning in pit of stomach.

Empty, cold feeling, not > by eating.

Throbbing, painful burning in stomach ; cutting and burning around navel like a coal of fire ; rumbling and shrill noises in stomach ; belching. θ Gastritis.

Degeneration of mucous membrane of stomach, with vomiting, heartburn, emaciation and diarrhœa.

Phlegmasia of stomach and intestines.

   

HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] [Kali. i.]

Darting in right hypochondrium, and a similar dart in side of abdomen, when talking.

Syphilitic affections of liver.

Swollen spleen after intermittent fever.

   

ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] [Kali. i.]

Sudden, painful bloating of abdomen or about navel, followed by diarrhœa.

Cutting and burning around umbilicus.

Abdominal sufferings extend into groins and thighs.

Inguinal glands swollen ; gonorrhœa or chancre.

After mercurial treatment ; ulcerating bubo, with fistulous openings, and discharge of dark, thin, offensive, corroding ichor.

   

STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] [Kali. i.]

Light green, yellow, watery stools.

Diarrhœa and tenesmus, with pain in small of back, as if in a vice ; after mercury.

Chronic diarrhœa in syphilitic or mercurial subjects.

Obstinate constipation ; stools hard and scanty.

Serous mucus from rectum.

Syphilitic affection, like cancer, of rectum.

   

URINARY ORGANS. [21] [Kali. i.]

Morbus Brightii, with gout or mercurio-syphilis ; granulated kidney.

Urine dark, scanty ; painful ; sediment dirty yellow ; heat in head ; malaise ; chilliness from small of back up over body ; flushes ; small of back feels bruised ; darting pains in renal region. θ Nephritis.

Burning pain in kidneys, and bladder feels swollen.

Urine suppressed. θ Pneumonia.

Retention of urine ; prostate enlarged.

Painful urging to urinate ; disappears when menses come.

Urine : increased, unquenchable thirst ; copious, frequent, pale and watery ; red as blood ; streaked with blood.

Enuresis at night, in scrofulous and syphilitic children.

   

MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] [Kali. i.]

Sexual desire diminished ; testes atrophied.

Penis swollen, inflamed ; constant semi-erections and sexual desire.

Muco-purulent discharge from urethra, with burning in urethra, and sometimes discharge of blood.

Thick, green gonorrhœal discharge ; no pain.

Chronic urethritis, with secretion.

Gangrenous chancre.

Extensive swelling of glans penis with paraphimosis.

Obstinate vegetation on glans penis.

Spermatic cords thickened ; secondary syphilis.

Orchitis and syphilitic ulcers on scrotum.

Syphilis ; especially with indolent, swollen glands ; deep chancres, hard edges ; buboes ulcerating with fistulous openings ; thin, offensive, corrosive, ichorous discharge or suppuration slow, difficult, curdy, after abuse of mercury.

   

FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] [Kali. i.]

Severe burning, tearing and twitching pains in ovarian region, especially right side ; sensation of swelling and congestion of ovaries, with pain as from a corrosive tumor there.

Fibroid tumors, subinvolution, hypertrophy and enlargement of uterus, predisposing to hemorrhage ; dysmenorrhœa, constant leucorrhœa ; emaciation ; prostration.

Before menses : frequent urging to urinate.

During menses : thighs feel as if squeezed ; pains go into thighs ; chilly, “goose flesh” all over with heat in head ; bruised pains in groins and small of back, < sitting.

Dysmenorrhœa with great urging to urinate, disappearing with onset of flow ; < from cold milk ; pressing in groins obliging her to bend double.

Menses : too early ; late and more profuse than usual ; too scanty, in fleshy women ; suppressed.

Ulcerated mucous tubercles, or thick, scabby eruption on labia ; chancre.

Itching and burning of vulva and thighs.

Discharge of mucus from vagina.

Leucorrhœa : watery, acrid, corrosive, with biting in pudendum ; milky white ; like washings of meat ; green or yellow ; putrid.

Tumor of breast.

Atrophy of mamma.

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