Kali Citricum
Clarke, A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, 1900, Vol. II, p. 122
Citrate of Potash. Potassic Citrate. K3C6H5O7. Solution. Trituration.
Clinical
Bri/rrs disease.
Characteristics
The Citrate of Potash has been used in solution (eight to ten grains to a wineglass of water) to assist the action of the kidneys in sufferers from Bright's disease who were under the absolute siam-milk dietary. It has also been used in the same way, in oldschool practice, as a solvent for gouty concretions about joints. K. cit. has not been proved, but "Agricola" (H. W. xxv. 446) has recorded the effect of a large dose given by an allopath to a patient suffering from suppressed kidney action after influenza. In three days the kidneys acted freely, but these new symptoms were set up : Tympanites ; constant flow of mucus from anus ; awful gastric and abdominal pains, '' as if a machine were at work inside, skinning the inside of the stomach and the whole length of the intestinal tube." Flatus was constant and in great amount, producing a pain of its own, which was a prominent feature. This pain as if machinery were at work inside recalls a pain of Nit, ac.