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Kali tartaricum

Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica (3 vols) · J. H. Clarke

Open remedy: Kali-t.

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Tartrate of Potash. Cream of Tartar. K2C4H4O6. Trituration. Solution.

Clinical

Paraplegia.

Characteristics

A few symptoms of this well-known substance are collected in Allen, and among them pain in loins and paraplegia are very noticeable. There is vomiting of blackish green fluid, feces like coffee-grounds, and pain in umbilical region with great thirst.

Relations

Compare: Ant. t., Tart.ac.

Mouth

Tongue brown and dry.

Stomach

Great thirst and pain in umbilical region. Violent vomiting and diarrhoea. Vomits a blackish green fluid. Inflammation of stomach and intestines.

Abdomen

Pain in umbilical region with thirst. Flatulence and griping. Diarrhoea, and violent vomiting. Feces like coffee-grounds.

Heart

Pulse feeble.

Back and Neck

Pain in loins.

Lower Limbs

Thighs and legs paralysed.

Generalities

Emaciation. Extreme weakness, can scarcely walk.

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These titles sit beside the repertory: Allen’s Keynotes, Anshutz on the twelve tissue remedies, Boericke’s materia medica, Clarke’s Dictionary, Hering, Jones, Kent’s lectures, Nash, and Boger’s Synoptic Key. Philosophy includes Hahnemann’s Organon (5th and 6th), Kent, Close, Burnett, Haehl, Gibson Miller, Royal, J. H. Allen, and Anshutz. Clinical, therapeutics, regional works, and short remedy pictures follow the same shelf.

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