Kali Picricum
Clarke, A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, 1900, Vol. II, p. 158
Potassium picrate. C6HaK(NOa)30. Trituration (which must be made with great care, on account of the explosive nature of the salt).
Clinical
Eructations. Jaundice.
Characteristics
Allen quotes from WolfiF and Gouzee the following constant pathogenetic effects observed in patients to whom K, pi. was given for intermittent fever : Jaundice ; diarrhoea ; pain in pit of stomach ; violent eructations ; colic ; urine clear, brownish red, not from bile pigment, but from large quantities of urate of anmionia. — K. pi, is an intensely yellow salt, and yellow substances generally act powerfully on the liver, as is the case with Picric add itself and its other salts. ixinXLiXM.— Compare : Pic. ac., Fe. pi.