Kali bichromicum

Characteristic symptoms

Symptoms aggravated or produced by hot weather ; symptoms come on quickly and subside soon ; morning aggravation ; anomalous pains fly rapidly from one part to another ; debility, with cachectic appearance ; pale and yellowish complexion ; emaciation ; solid eruption-like measles over the body, sometimes pustulous, with gangrenous scurfs or spots; secondary syphilis, especially in fauces and soft palate ; painful ulcer on tongue ; pains in finger and elbow ; vertigo, to falling, with nausea and vomiting ; hemicrania over one eye ; ophthalmia, with redness, burning of the swollen lids and watering of the eyes ; bloody spots and pustules on the cornea, or white spots ; amaurosis ; chronic inflammation of the Schneiderian membrane : sore nose, with small ulcers in nostrils, and tough, thick, viscid discharge ; polypus of the nose ; ulceration of the septum nasi ; swelling of the nose ; syphilitic eruption on the face ; scorbutic eruption ; suppuration of the gums ; tongue heavily coated ; feeling in the throat as if the food would remain lodged there ; ulcers in the throat and fauces ; syphilitic ulcers in the throat ; sweet metallic taste ; excessive thirst ; great weakness of digestion ; over-indulgence in beer and other malt liquors, with morning nausea and sensation of heaviness in head and eyes; vomiting of mucus; food presses like a heavy weight on the stomach, as soon as taken; empty eructations; ulcers in the stomach ; constipation, with colicky pains; attacks of dysentery, returning periodically every year, in the early part of the summer ; red, smooth, cracked tongue in dysentery ; suppuration of the kidneys; pustules and itching in the pudenda ; pain and soreness of the vagina ; yellow, thick leucorrhœa, with pain in the back ; leucorrhœa, with stringy and tough discharge ; enlarged tonsils, with deafness; pains in the ear, with swelling of the parotis and other neighboring glands ; pains in the ear extend up to the head and descend to the same side of the neck; ulceration of the larynx, with loss of smell ; sharp stitches in left ear ; chronic laryngitis and bronchitis; wheezing and rattling in chest, with expectoration of thick yellow mucus ; hoarse croupy cough; cough worse when undressing, better after getting warm in bed ; cough worse in the morning on waking ; wheezing and panting ; violent cough, with retching and difficult expectoration of mucus, so viscid, that it can be drawn in strings down to the feet ; polypi-like and membranous formation in the bronchial tubes ; oppression of the chest and dyspnoea ; blisters on the feet from walking.