Kali carbonicum

Characteristic symptoms

Feeling of emptiness as if the whole body were hollow ; great sensitiveness and drawing pains in the limbs, with great paleness and chilliness after the attack ; stitches in the joints, tendons and muscles / ulcerative pain when pressing on any part of the body ; pain as from bruises of all the muscles of the body ; great dread of the open air ; liability to take cold in the open air ; seething of the blood and heat in the head ; want of exhalation and inability to sweat ; rush of blood and pulsations through the whole body ; faints easily ; nervous attacks of sudden indisposition ; trembling debility ; glandular swellings and indurations ; dropsical and (edematous swellings ; blueish chilblains ; ulcers bleed readily, especially at night ; old warts : drowsiness in day-time and sopor ; light and restless night sleep, with anxious dreams ; twitching and starting when asleep ; nightmare ; chilliness and frequent shuddering ; sweats easily ; night sweat, anguish and great sadness ; vexed and irritated mood ; angry and wrathful ; a good deal of vertigo, as if proceeding from the stomach ; liability of the head to take cold ; dryness and falling off of the hair ; sacculated swelling between the eye-brows and eye-lids; lachrymation and nightly agglutination ; feeling of chilliness in eyelids ; coldness of the ears ; inflammation and swelling of the glands of the ear ; nostrils sore and ulcerated, with discharge of fetid matter ; yellow or pale face, with hollow eyes and pale lips ; pimples on the face ; old warts ; fetor from the mouth like old cheese : desire for sweet or sour things ; inactivity and coldness of the abdomen ; flatulence ; costive ess from want of action in the bowels ; passage of faeces difficult on account of both ; haemorrhoidal knobs bleed and swell readily during stool or when urine is passed ; tough, dark, soft stool ; sudden, vehement desire for stool, as in diarrhœa, although the stool was hard, with colic ; urging to urinate, with increased secretion ; itching, gnawing and soreness of the pudendum ; deficient sexual desire ; acrid menstrual blood, with bad, pungent smell, making the thighs sore ; cough, with expectoration of mucus and pus ; complete hoarseness and aphony ; night cough ; spasmodic cough ; lacerating scraping in the chest ; frequent intermissions of the beat of the heart; asthma; goitre.