Materia Medica GV Note ‘K’

 


KALI ARSENICOSUM (Kali-ar.)

 

TREMENDOUS FEAR OF HEART DISEASE

 

MENTAL

 

Tremendous ANXIETY about health (Ars.) esp. HEART DISEASE. Hysterical "heart attacks". Fear of death when alone. Restless esp. at night.

 

Sudden fear and panic attacks of the worst type, the patient feels he is going to die. Fear that something will happen, like a catastrophe concerning life and death. Desires company.

 

Rigid, closed, critical, matter of fact, quarrelsome, discontented, jealous.

Indifferent to everything and depressed at later stages.

Aversion to answering questions, or refuses to.

Delusion head is enlarged.

 

PHYSICAL

 

Tendency toward malignancy. Tumors, skin cancer.

CHRONIC ECZEMA, PSORIASIS, and other SKIN DISEASES.

 

ASTHMA <02:00-03:00

 

HEAD FEELS LARGE.

SENSATION TONGUE IS ENLARGED. Burning and numbness of tongue.

 

Swelling of lower lids. Protrusion of eyes.

 

Chilly, worse from cold. Cold extremities.

 

Itching < in cold air, undressing, becoming warm.

 

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: night, cold (entering a cold place, becoming cold, uncovering, cold air), cold drinks when heated.

 

 

KALI BICHROMICUM (Kali-bi.)

 

In this remedy stickiness is the main idea. The mind, the emotions and the discharges are stuck. Sticky thoughts, sticky pus, sticky discharges, sticky vomiting. The pains do not move, they are stuck in a spot.

 

SINUSITIS- STRINGY, THICK DISCHARGES

 

 

MENTAL

 

STICKY THOUGHTS. Fixed ideas.

NARROW-MINDED. Emotionally closed and anti-social. Misanthropy, avoids human society. General loathing, loathing life.

 

Aversion to mental work.

  

PHYSICAL

 

Affects mucous membranes of air passages. Sluggish reaction in many conditions, ulcers and inflammations.

 

MUCUS AND DISCHARGES ARE YELLOW, VISCID, STICKY, STRINGY, can be drawn in long strings.

 

Catarrh extending to frontal sinusesPostnasal catarrh. Catarrhal inflammation of eyes, catarrhal headache. SINUSITIS with pain in the root of nose. Sinusitis with profuse discharge.

 

Crusts, scabs inside the nose.

 

Rattling respiration, chest full of mucus. Rattling cough.

Expectoration difficult, stringy, ropy, adhering to throat, teeth and lips.

 

Pains in SMALL SPOTS, wandering from one point to another, appear and disappear suddenly. Diagonal pains.

 

Sensation of hair on tongue, palate, throat.

 

Profuse perspiration esp. while sitting quietly.

Gastric symptoms alternating with rheumatic symptoms or pulmonary troubles. Eruptions alternating with rheumatic pains.

Cracking in joints. Rheumatic pains in fingers.

Tongue is red and glistening.

 

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: beer, summer, after 02:00, motion.

AMEL.: warmth, warmth of bed, pressure.

DES.: beer, sweets.

AVERS.: water, meat.

 

 

KALI BROMATUM (Kali-br.)

  

MENTAL

 

Profound melancholic delusions.

Paranoia. Fear to walk past certain corners. Fear of being poisoned, spoken to. Terror at night. Tremendous anxiety states. Restlessness.

Frightful dreams (Stram.). Shrieking in sleep.

 

Religious affections. Despair of salvation. Religious depression.

 

DELUSIONS he’s the object of God’s vengeance, that he is singled out for divine vengeance, that he’s persecuted, that he’s pursued by the police or by enemies. Sees phantoms at night, sees dead persons, hears voices.

 

Loss of memory together with loss of sexual power.

Amnesic aphasia. Answers slowly, also in monosyllables.

 

 

PHYSICAL

 

Useful in DISTURBANCES OF NERVOUS SYSTEM like epilepsy, numbness and anaesthesia, convulsions etc.

 

Restless hands, wringing of the hands, busy twitching of fingers.

Trembling – externally and internally - when something is to be done.

 

Sciatica comes and goes suddenly.

 

Walks up and down the room without being able to do anything.

 

Acne of face. Indolent, painful pustules. Psoriasis.

Persistent hiccough.

 

Ailments from sexual excess or unsatisfied desire (sterility, restless sleep).

Ovarian pain during sexual desire. Cystic tumors of ovaries. Uterine fibroids. Subinvolution.

Sexual desire increased < menses. Impotency after sexual excesses in males.

 

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: lying, warm, beer, after 02:00, sexual excesses.

AMEL.: eating after.

 

KALI CARBONICUM (Kali-c.)

 

SERIOUS, RIGID, DUTY-BOUND, COMPLAINTS <02:00-04:00

 

MENTAL

 

RIGID, INFLEXIBLE, DUTY BOUND.

Aversion to being touched. Startled, frightened easily <when touched.

 

Fear of impending disease. Of being alone.

Irritable, shrieking at trifles.

 

 

PHYSICAL

 

COMPLAINTS <02:00-04:00 a.m.

 

RESPIRATION ASTHMATIC / DIFFICULT, COUGH.

< 2 - 4 a.m., LYING, lying with the head low.

> LEANING FORWARD, sitting with head bent forward on knees.

 

BAG-LIKE SWELLING AROUND, UNDER and esp. ABOVE THE EYES.

 

SLEEPLESSNESS after midnight. Wakes up 2 or 3 a.m. and remains awake.

Sleep is light and unrefreshing, thinks he has not slept at all.

 

Worse from coition. Weak eyes after coition.

 

Back pain and sciatica worse turning in bed, almost impossible. Back pain extending to glutei muscles and thighs or hips. < night at 03:00, before, during and after menses, during labor, or walking. Back pain at 03:00a.m., driving him out of bed, must get up and walk. Has to sit bent, must walk bent.

 

General weakness <after coition, after emissions, mental exertion.

 

 

MODALITIES

 

DES.: sugar, sweets, sour.

AVERS.: bread, meat.

AGG.: 02:00 – 04:00 a.m., COLD (air, becoming), drafts of air, cold dry weather, emissions, touch, drinking cold drinks in hot weather or when heated.

AMEL.: warm (bed, stove, bathing, applications).

 

KALI SULPHURICUM (Kali-s.) 


COUGH WITH RATTLING

 

 MENTAL

 

Timid, lack of self confidence.

Irritable.

 

 PHYSICAL

 

Warm blooded, worse from heat. Better from cold and cold air (Puls).

RATTLING in chest, esp. in children.

Asthma worse evening, night, < warm room, > open air.

Bronchitis with loose rattling cough, with thick yellow expectoration.

Snoring.

Otitis with yellowish discharge.

Epithilioma, esp of the NOSE.

 

MODALITIES

 

AMEL.: cold air.

AGG.: warmth.

DES.: sweets, cold food.

AVERS.: EGGS.

 

 

KALMIA LATIFOLIA (Kalm.)

 

RHEUMATIC AFFECTIONS ESPECIALLY OF HEART

 

MENTAL

 

Excitement in the morning.

Thoughts rapid and quick. Anxiety about future.

Fear of evil.

Memory weakness.

Averse to being spoken to.

 

 

PHYSICAL

 

Rheumatic remedy.

 

PROMINENT ACTION ON THE HEART.

Gouty heart. Fatty degeneration of heart. Rheumatic endocarditis. Affection of the heart after rheumatism. Pain in heart alternating with rheumatism.

Stitching pain in heart extending to left hand, to left scapula. Paroxysmal anxiety in heart region. Hypertrophy of heart.

 

Palpitation < bending forward. Arrested respiration during pains.

 

Rheumatic inflammation of iris, inflammation of retina, of cornea, sclera.

Eye pain on motion, on turning sideways. Stiffness of eyeballs and muscles about the eyes. Eye pain increases till noon and ceases in the evening, sunrise until sunset.

 

Pain in the pit of stomach < bending forward, > sitting erect.

 

Facial pain often with numbness esp. right sided <after suppressed eruption, exposure to cold. Come and go with sun.

 

Wandering pains.

Pains in extremities and head extend downward with numbness (Acon., Cham., Plat.).

Sudden, severe, acute arthritis < night, motion.

 

Pain in tongue when talking < left side.

 

 MODALITIES

 

AGG.: exposure to sun, ascending, motion, cold, exertion.

AMEL.: lying on back.

 

KREOSOTUM (Kreos.)

 

 EXCORIATION OF MUCUS MEMBRANES WITH ACRID DISCHARGES.

 

 MENTAL

 

Irritable and peevish. Irritable infants and children. Capriciousness in children.

Irritability during headache.

 

Restless at evening and night, from 18:00 till 06:00. Must move constantly <before menses.

 

Anxiety and fear at thought of coition in women. Aversion to coition.

 

Oversensitive to music. Music causes excitement, weeping, sadness.

 

Absent-minded. Confusion of mind. Anxiety with fear.

 

 

PHYSICAL

 

EXCORIATION AND INFLAMMATION OF THE MUCUS / SEROUS MEMBRANES.

 

LEUCORRHEA yellow, putrid, burning, and acrid. Stains linen, causes itching.

< pregnancy, between menses, before menses.

 

Headache extending to teeth or teeth pain extending to head.

Headache < before or during menses, lying on side.

 

Voluptuous itching of vagina. Soreness. Cancer of vagina. Itching, biting between labia. Pains from coccyx, back and abdomen extend to rectum and vagina.

 

Metrorrhagia after coition, with dark blood, black. Metrorrhagia during third month of pregnancy.

 

Menses intermittent, excoriating and offensive. Suppressed menses on walking.

 

Hæmorrhages and abnormal, profuse bleeding from wounds, gums, ulcers, chest, rectum, mucus membranes.

 

Teeth decay, premature caries in children. Difficult dentition.

Gums inflamed, spongy, soft, bleed or ulcerate easily.

Mouth offensive, esp. from inflamed gums or decayed teeth.

Reopening of old ulcers esp. when partly healed.

 

Urine copious, offensive, brown, acrid  with white sediment, brown, acrid.

 

External pulsation < music, excitement >motion.

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG:. cold food, cold (bathing, becoming, air), after menses, 18:00- 06:00.

AMEL.: motion.

DES.: smoked food, meat, alcoholic drinks.