Kali hydriodicum

The profuse, watery, acrid coryza that the drug produces serves as a sure guiding symptom, especially when associated with pain in frontal sinus. It acts prominently on fibrous and connective tissues, producing infiltration, œdema, etc. Glandular swellings. Purpura and hemorrhagic diathesis. Syphilis may be indicated in all stages: 1. In acute form with evening remitting fever, going off in nightly perspiration. 2. Second stage, mucous membranes and skin ulcerations. 3. Tertiary symptoms; nodes. Give material doses. Diffused sensitiveness—(glands, scalp, etc. Rheumatism in neck, back, feet, especially heels and soles; worse, cold and wet. Iodide of Potass. in material doses acts in the different forms of Fungoid disease. (thrush, ringworm, etc.), offer simulating syphilis and bacterial diseases like tuberculosis. Symptoms like loss of weight, spitting of blood, etc. Tea-taster’s cough due to inhaling the fungus; also brings about often favorable reaction in many chronic ailments even when not clearly symptomatically indicated.

Mind p. 371

Sad, anxious; harsh temper. Irritable; congestion to head, heat and throbbing.

Head p. 371

Pain through sides of head. Violent headache. Cranium swells up in hard lump. Pain intense over eyes and root of nose. Brain feels enlarged. Hard nodes, with severe pain. Facial neuralgia. Lancinating pain in upper jaw.

Nose p. 371

Red, swollen. Tip of nose red; profuse, acrid, hot, watery, thin discharge. Ozena, with perforated septum. Sneezing. Nasal catarrh, involving frontal sinus. Stuffiness and dryness of nose, without discharge. Profuse, cool, greenish, unirritating discharges.

Eyes p. 371

Conjunctiva red, injected; profuse lachrymation. Syphilitic iritis. Pustular keratitis and chemosis. Bony tumors of the orbit.

Ear.—Noises in ear. Boring pain in ears.

Stomach p. 371

Saliva increased. Faintness at epigastrium. Cold food and drink, especially milk, aggravate. Much thirst. Throbbing, painful burning. Flatulence.

Female p. 371

Menses late, profuse. During menses uterus feels as if squeezed. Corrosive leucorrhœa, with subacute inflammatory conditions of the womb in young married women. Fibroid tumors, metritis, sub-involution, hypertrophy, 1x or 1 gr. crude, 3 times a day.

Respiratory p. 371

Violent cough; worse in morning. Pulmonary œdema. Larynx feels raw. Laryngeal edema. Awakes choking. Expectoration like soap-suds, greenish. Pneumonia, when hepatization commences. Pneumococcic meningitis. Stitching pains through lungs to back. Asthma. Dyspnœa on ascending, with pain in heart. Hydrothorax. [Merc. sulph.] Pleuritic effusion. Cold travels downward to chest.

Extremities p. 372

Severe bone-pains. Periosteum thickened, especially tibia; sensitive to touch. [Kali b.; Asaf.] Rheumatism; pains at night and in damp weather. Contraction of joints. Rheumatism of knees with effusion. Pain in small of back and coccyx. Pain in hip, forcing limping. Sciatica; cannot stay in bed; worse at night and lying on affected side. Formication of lower extremities when sitting, better lying down.

Skin p. 372

Purple spots; worse on legs. Acne, hydroa. Small boils. Glands enlarged, indurated. Hives. Rough nodules all over, worse any covering; heat of body intense. Fissured anus of infants. Tendency to œdematous swellings, eyelids, mouth, uvula, etc. Acne rosacea.

Modalities p. 372

Worse, warm clothing, warm room, at night, damp weather. Better, motion, open air.

Relationship p. 372

Antidote: Hepar.

Compare: Iod.; Mercur.; Sulph.; Mezer. Chopheenee, a Hindoo remedy for syphilitic eruptions, ulcerations and bone-pains. Used in tincture.