Kali Sulphuricum

Sulphate of Potash. K^ SO^.

, One of the Twelve Tissue Remedies introduced by Schuessler. Needs proving.

Clinical Atjthoeities. — Vertigo, Schlegelmann, Schuessler's Biochera., p. 75 ; Falling off of hair, Wesselhoeft, Schuessler's Tissue Remedies, p. 27 ; Ear affection, Wesselhoeft, Schiissler's Tissue Remedies, p. 25 ; Disease of antrum Highmore, Wesselhoeft, Sch^sler's Tissue Remedies, p. 26 ; Ozcena, Wesselhoeft, Schuessler's Tissue Remedies, p. 27 ; Whooping cough, Wesselhoeft, Schuessler's Tissue Remedies, p. 25; Whooping cough, Knorr, Schuessler's Tissue Remedies, p. 26; Chorea (13 cases), Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 11, p. 343; Articular rheumatism, Schlegehiiann, Schuessler's Biochem., p. 75; Epithelioma (2 cases), Orth,- Schuessler's Biochem., p. 68; Itch eruption in children, Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 11, p. 352; Ivy poisoning (Rhus tox.j, Wesselhoeft, Schuessler's Tissue Remedies, p. 26.

Sensorium

▌ Dreadful vertigo, especially on rising from lying, on standing from sitting, and when looking upwards; every moment in fear of falling and dare not leave her room.

Inner Head

' ' Rheumatic headache, < in warm room and in evening, > in open air.

Outer Head

' ' Great pain on moving head from side to side or backwards; can move it forward without pain,

▌ Yellow scales (dandruff) on scalp.

▌ Bald spot as large as a silver dollar on 1. side of head ; hair falls out easily when combing, all over head, also hair of beard. θ After gonorrhoea.

• Copious scaling of scalp, moist and sticky.

▌ Yellow dandruff.

Sight and Eyes

││ Purulent or yellow mucus in eye diseases.

▌ Catarrh of conjunctiva, with yellow secretion.

││ Ophthalmia neonatorum.

▌ Eyelids, with thin, yellow crusts.

▌ Discharge from eyes yellow, slimy, or sticky watery.

││ Cataract.

Hearing and Ears

Deafness caused hy catarrh and swelling of Eustachian tube and middle ear.

▌ Watery, mattery discharge from ear; yellow slimy tongue.

▌ Secretion of thin, yellow, sticky fluid after inflammation.

▌ Brown offensive secretion from r. ear; polypoid excrescence closes meatus near opening; entirely deaf in r. ear for eight weeks.

▌ Stinking otorrhoea of four years' standing.

Smell and Nose p. 472

Taste and smell lost. fe'Ozsena.

▌ Coryza, yellow mucous discharge.

▌ Thick, yellow, offensive discharge, alternating with watery discharge for eighteen months; 1. nostril <; catamenia every three weeks; takes cold easily. θ Ozasna.

▌ About once a week a thick, dark brown, semi-fluid accumulation of pus formed in upper 1. nostril, on being blown out emitted a terrible stench; about a month previous a piece of carious bone was taken from antrum Highmore, through an upper 1. alveolus, from which a tooth had been drawn four years previous.

▌ Old catarrh with yellowish viscous secretion.

Upper Face p. 472

▌ Faceache, < in warm room and in evening; > in cool or open air.

││ Epithelioma on r. cheek, extending from lower eyelid to ala nasi; size of a silver dollar; ulcerating stage; indurated base and wall-like, hard, elevated edges (greatly improved).

▌ Epithelioma, size of half dollar, situated on r. side of nose just under canthus of eye; eye sympathetically affected, either through extension of disease process, or through irritating discharge, entrance of which was facilitated by a slight destruction of edge of lower lid at canthus; conjunctivitis palpebrarum et bulb, with haziness of cornea.

Lower Face p. 472

││ Blistered lips and mouth. θ Whooping cough.

││ Lower lip swollen. θ Epithelioma.

Teeth and Gums p. 472

Toothache < in warm room and toward evening, > in cool open air.

Taste and Tongue p. 472

' i Loss of taste. θ Ozsena.

││ Lisipid, pappy taste.

▌ Tongue: coated with yellow mucus; yellow, slimy, sometimes with whitish edge.

Scrobiculum and Stomach p. 472

Sensation of faintness at stomach, and befogged feeling in head, fearing to lose her reason.

││ Pressure and feeling of fulness in stomach with a yellow mucous coating on tongue.

││ Indigestion, with sensation of pressure as of a load, and fulness at pit of stomach. θ Dyspepia.

││ Chronic catarrh of stomach ; yellow, slimy coated tongue.

▌ Catarrh of stomach and duodenum, with a yellow coated tongue; jaundice from it.

Abdomen p. 472

▌ Gastro-duodenal catarrh; jaundice.

▌ Hard and tympanitic abdomen. θ Whooping cough.

Stool and Rectum p. 472

' i Diarrhoea: yellow, slimy or watery mattery stools.

▌ Black, thin, offensive stools. θ Whooping cough.

▌ Habitual constipation with coated tongue.

▌ Hemorrhoids with catarrh of stomach and yellow, mucus coated tongue.

Male Sexual Organs p. 473

Gonorrhoea of glans or urethra; discharge purulent, yellow mucous, or greenish.

▌ Orchitis after suppression of gonorrhoea.

▌ Gleet.

Female Sexual Organs p. 473

▌ Menstruation, too late and too scanty, with a feeling of weight and fulness in abdomen.

││ Catamenia every three weeks. θ Ozaena.

││ Headache during catamenia.

││ Metrorrhagia.

▌ Leucorrhoea yellowish, or watery mattery.

Voice and Larynx. Trachea and Bronchia p. 473

││ Hoarseness after taking cold.

▌ Bronchitis, if mucus is distinctly yellow and slimy, thin, or watery mattery and profuse.

▌ Yellow mucus coughed up without great exertion. θ Bronchitic asthma.

Cough p. 473

Whooping cough, with retching, without vomiting; inflammatory catarrhal stage; decidedly yellow, slimy expectoration.

▌ Last stageof whooping cough; blistered lips and mouth; black, thin, offensive stools five times a day, hard, tympanitic abdomen; wasted to a shadow, given up to die.

▌ Coarse rales; cannot cough up large amount of mucus. θ Pneumonia.

▌ Yellow mucous expectoration.

Inner Chest and Lungs p. 473

"Inflammation of lungs, with wheezing; if yellow, loose rattling phlegm be coughed up with difficulty, or sputa consist of watery matter.

││ Pneumonia with coarse rales, cannot cough up mucus.

Neck and Back p. 473

││ Pains in back, nape of neck, or in limbs; periodical < in evening, or in warm room ; > in cool or open air.

▌ Backache and pains in limbs; < in warm room and towards evening, > in cool open air.

││ Stiff neck, head inclined towards 1.; shoulder raised.

Upper Limbs p. 473

││ Eruption in 1. axilla, about neck and on back of both hands (Rhus poisoning).

^^ ▌Scaly eruption mostly on arms, > from hot water.

Lower Limbs p. 473

▌ Varicose ulcer on r. leg just above instep, after kick of a horse three years ago; eight inches in circumference, concave, dark blue, emitting a stinking odor.

Limbs in General p. 473

Pain in limbs

Acute and wandering rheumatism of joints.

▌ After being chilled while overheated, frightful pains in r. shoulder and violent fever; pains leave shoulder and attack 1. knee, then go from joint to joint, and again several joints affected at a time; maddening pains, unceasing, day and night. θ Articular rheumatism.

▌ Pains passing from joint to joint; serous exudations.

Rest. Position. Motion p. 474

Rising from lying : dreadful vertigo.

Sitting: dreadful vertigo.

Standing : dreadful vertigo.

Moving head from side to side or backwards : great pain.

Nerves p. 474

▌ Chorea.

Sleep p. 474

• I Very vivid dreams.

Time p. 474

Evening: rheumatic headache <; faceache <; toothache < ; pains in back and limbs <.

Temperature and Weather p. 474

Pains grow < in warm room and in evening ; > in open, cool air.

Hot water : scaly eruption on arms >.

Warm room : rheumatic headache < ; faceache < ; toothache < ; pains in back, neck and limbs <.

After being chilled while overheated : frightful pains in r. shoulder.

Open air : rheumatic headache > ; faceache > ; toothache > ; pains in back, neck and limbs >.

Cold water : eruption > .

Fever p. 474

' ' Intermittent fever with yellow, slimy coated tongue.

▌ Rheumatic fever; pains shifting, wandering.

Attacks, Periodicity p. 474

Five times a day : black, thin, offensive stools.

Periodical pains : in back, neck and limbs < in evening.

About once a week : a thick, dark brown semi-fluid accumulation of pus formed in upper L nostril.

Every three weeks : catamenia.

For eight weeks : entirely deaf in r. ear.

For eight months : effects of ivy poisoning.

For eighteen months : thick, yellow, offensive discharge^ from nose.

Four years' standing : stinking otorrhoea.

Locality and Direction p. 474

Right : brown offensive secretion from ear; entirely deaf for eight weeks; epithelioma on cheek ; epithelioma on side of nose ; varicose ulcer on leg just above instep ; frightful pains in shoulder.

Left : bald spot on side of head; a thick dark brown semifluid accumulation of pus formed in upper nostril ; a piece of carious bone was taken from antrum Highmore through an upper alveolus; head inclined to shoulder; eruption in axilla; pains leave shoulder and attack knee.

Sensations p. 474

Pressure as of a load : at pit of stomach.

Pains : in back ; nape of neck ; in limbs.

Maddening pains: in joints.

Frightful pains : in r. shoulder ; in 1. knee ; from joint to joint.

Great pain : in head.

Acute and wandering rheumatism of joints.

Rheumatic headache.

Pressure : in stomach.

Feeling of fulness : in stomach ; at pit of stomach ; in abdomen.

Befogged feeling : in head.

Faintness : at stomach.

Burning, itching papular eruption.

Itching pimples arising singly on skin.

Tissues p. 475

││ Its sphere of action is in lymphatic vessels ; when there is a lack of this substance, a yellow mucous catarrh arises or a yellow sticky discharge from isolated places on membranes.

Secretions from mucous membranes yellowish; green.

Catarrhs, colds, with yellow, slimy secretions or expectoration of watery matter.

Inflammations, with yellow, slimy or serous secretions.

In third stage of inflammation, resolution, when a yellow mucous discharge occurs.

Effusions, watery matter}'; favors resorption.

Fungoid inflammation of joints; white swelling.

▌ Migratory rheumatism of joints.

││ Wasted to a shadow. θ Whooping cough.

Epithelioma; soft polypi.

Ailments accompanied by desquamation, peeling off skin, or with itching pimples arising singly on skin.

Touch. Passive Motion. Injuries p. 475

After kick of a horse three years ago: varicose ulcer on r. leg.

Skin p. 475

││ Jaundice caused by gastro-duodenal catarrh.

▌ Suppressed rash of measles or other eruptive diseases, with harsh and dry skin.

││ Abundant scaling of epidermis.

││ Promotes desquamation after erysipelas; accelerates removal of scabs in smallpox.

││ Scarlet fever; stage of desquamation.

▌ Burning, itching, papular eruption exuding puslike moisture.

▌ Recurring eruption of fine red pimples running together, presenting a red, swollen appearance ; a thoroughly alkaline fluid oozes out copiously; after subsiding cuticle comes off" in fine scales; itches and stings intensely > ; formerly by cold water, lately by hot.

▌ Scurfs, scaling, chapping.

Sores on skin, with yellow, sticky secretions on limited portions, or discharges of thin, watery matter, sometimes with peeling of surrounding skin.

││ Epithelial cancer, discharge thin, yellow, serous.

▌ Eczema, or skin affections; discharge decidedly yellow, slimy, sometimes sticky or watery mattery ; when suddenly suppressed.

▌ Effects of ivy poisoning (Rhus tox.) for eight months; repeatedly broke out with small, hard, herpetic vesicles, forming a thin scab, with itching and some moisture; eruption appears in 1. axilla, about neck and on back of both hands; she has a sensation of faintness at stomach and befogged feeling in head, fearing to lose her reason; very vivid dreams.

││ Nettlerash, with or without yellow, slimy tongue, generally caused by indigestion.

▌ Itch eruption in children.

▌ Chafing of children.

▌ Diseased condition of nails, shown in interrupted growth.

Stages of Life, Constitution p. 476

Child, set. 18 months ; whooping cough.

Boy, set. 10, small, dark, lean; whooping cough.

Girl, set. 19, light complexion, scrofulous; ear affection.

Woman, set. 25, single, dark complexion, suffering eight months; ivy poisoning (Rhus tox.).

Woman, set. 25, married, dark complexion; ozsena.

Man, set. 26, healthy, powerful; articular rheumatism.

Man, set. 27, dark; falling off of hair, after gonorrhoea.

Man, set. 30, light complexion; disease of antrum Highmori.

Man, set. 33, light complexion; ozsena.

Woman, set. 54; vertigo.

Man, set. 55, factory operative, ulcer on side of nose for four years, at first there was a somewhat reddened spot which was moderately elevated, and which became afterward covered with a horny crust, which later, dropping off, left an ulcer which steadily increased in depth and breadth; epithelioma.

Widow, set 70, suffering for years; epithelioma.

Relations p. 476

Compare : Kali mur., in deafness, hoarseness, pertussis; Natr. mur., in deafness, pains in stomach, coarse rales, profuse exudations.

Compatible: ^eel ac, in itching and redness of skin; Arsen.y Calc. ostr., Hepar, Pulsat, Rhus tox., Sepia, Silica, Sulphur.