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Kalium Iodatum

A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica · C. M. Boger

Open remedy: Kali-i.

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Region:

Glands

Frontal sinus

Nose

Eyes

Lungs: Upper Lobe

Periosteum

Worse:

Heat

Pressure

Touch

Night

Damp

Mercury

Changing weather

Jolting

Cold foods

Better:

Motion

Cool air

Open air

Incipient organic changes; gouty-rheumatic, syphilitic, rickety, etc. Many and diverse symptoms. Feels used up. Cachexy. Stubborn chronicity. Arterio-sclerosis. Craves motion in open air. Various symptoms. Crushing or sharp stitching pains. Weakness. COPIOUS, watery, acrid, salty, thick, green or foul discharges. Catarrh. Pains long after trauma. Diffuse soreness; of affected part. Oedematous swelling. Irritable, harsh tempered and cruel. Can't think. Despondent. Bad temper. Harsh. Head. bone pains, lightning like, < warmth or lying on part Big head and small jaws; rickets. Tender spots on head. Bilateral headache. Scalp sore; fissured Burning, watery, puffy eyes. Chemosis. Tinnitus. Acrid coryza with dyspnoea and salivation. Burning throb in nasal and accessory cavities. Colds from every damp day. Red, swelled nose; tight pain at root, zygomae and root of tongue. Takes cold. Violent sneezing. Acrid, watery coryza, < cool air. Ozaena. Glutinous mucus on lips in AM (Zin-cl). Nagging toothache. Taste salty; bitter on waking. Salivation. Sore-throat of speakers. (Aru-t) Flatulence; squeaking. Early diarrhoea of phthisis. Frequent stools and urine. Leucorrhea, corrosive; like meat washings. Air hunger; with flatulency, in AM; awakens strangling. Whistling, asthmatic breathing. Raw air-passages. Croupy hoarseness. Dry bronchitis. Frothy expectoration. Backward chest pains. Pneumonia Pain, sternum to back. Painful lumps; in scalp. Giant urticaria. Chilly in bones; in painful parts. Heat in evening; uncovers, then chills. Alternate heat and chill. Heat with shudders. Hot and dry, then drenching sweat. Profuse night sweats, which >. Actinomycosis

Relations

Antidotes: Merc, Nit-ac

Related: Iod, Sul, Syph.

What is in this library

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.

Chapter text is on this shelf for study: open a title, then a heading. When a medicine appears in more than one materia medica, switch authors on the chapter to compare how each describes it. For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice.

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