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Kalium Nitricum

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

Open remedy: Kali-n.

For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice. Consult a registered homeopath.

Region:

Cavities: Blood-vessels, Heart, Kidneys

Vaso-motors

Respiratory organs

Worse:

Walking

Cold

Damp

Taking cold

Veal

Lying with head low

Better:

Gentle motion

Increased secretion into cavities. Very weak. Haemorrhage. Sudden oedema. Throbbing. Dull stitches Numb, as if wooden. Faintness. External angle of r eye twitches, < chewing. Nausea. Epigastric or sub-sternal pains go toward axillae Dark, fluid stools. Dull kidney pains. Diuresis. Profuse, inky menses. Rapid, gasping breathing; sits upright. VIOLENT DYSPNOEA; can only drink in sips. Congestion of r lung. Asthma. Free, sour expectoration > Relapses of phthisis. Palpitation, < lying Pain from back into chest. Hands and fingers feel swelled. External coldness; chin; skin. Internal burning.

Relations

Related: Cam, Glon.

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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