Amenorrhœa. Anæmia. Asthma. Axilla, perspiration of. Back, aching. Biliousness. Bronchitis. Catarrh. Change of life. Chilblains. Clavus. Cold. Consumption. Cough. Debility. Dropsy. Dysmenorrhœa. Dyspepsia. Ear, inflammation of. Eyes, inflammation of; œdema around. Face, blotches on. Fear. Freckles. Gastralgia. Hæmorrhage. Hæmorrhoids. Hair, affections of. Headache. Heart, affections of. Hip-joint disease. Hydrothorax. Hysteria. Kidneys, affections of. Knee, affections of; white swelling of. Larynx, catarrh of. Leucorrhœa. Liver, affections of. Lumbago. Menorrhagia. Metrorrhagia. Pleurisy. Pleurodynia. Pregnancy, disorders of. Proctalgia. Sciatica. Sleeplessness. Spinal irritation. Stomach, affections of. Throat, sore. Toothache. Typhoid. Urine, frequent passage of. Urticaria. Uterus, cancer of. Vertigo. Wens. Whooping-cough.

Potassium carbonate, sometimes called "Vegetable alkali," exists in all plants, and was originally obtained from the ashes left after burning wood and vegetable structures. Potassium salts play a no less important part in the animal economy. Kali carb. may be regarded as the typical member of the Kali group of homœopathic remedies, though Causticum has also claims on the title. The Potassium salts have more specific relation to the solid tissues than to the fluids of the body; to the blood corpuscles rather than to the blood plasma. The fibrous tissues are particularly affected, the ligament of joints, of the uterus, of the back. It corresponds to conditions in which these tissues are relaxed-joints give way; the back feels as if broken; the patient feels compelled to lie down in the street. Goullon (translation, H. R., xv. 327) calls attention to the importance of this polychrest in complaints of women, in which it rivals Sepia, differing from the latter in having menstruation "too protracted and recurring too frequently; the pains and troubles occur before the menses. The climacteric flushings of K. ca. are associated with disturbances of the heart. Palpitations are most violent. By quieting these K. ca. often serves as an excellent soporific. In addition to the uterus and heart, lungs, pleura, bronchi, and larynx all come under its action. Chronic laryngeal catarrh Goullon specially mentions as frequently cured by it. He places it in the front rank as a knee remedy. Among the grand characteristics of K. ca., three stand out above the rest: (1) Stitching, lancinating pains, also called jerking pains; < during rest, < lying on affected side. (2) Early morning aggravation: < 2 to 4 a.m. (3) The occurrence of bag-like swellings over the eyes, between the eyebrows and the upper lids. Relaxation of tissues is a great note of K. ca. It is suited to persons of soft tissues with tendency to be fat. Easy sweating may be placed in the same category, and when there is a combination of "sweat, backache, and weakness," the three, according to Farrington, constitute a grand characteristic. The backaches of K. ca. are very important. The pain often extends downwards to the buttock and even to the knee. Pain from hip to knee (more especially if right sided) has led to the cure of many cases of hip-joint disease. This symptom also led me to make a remarkable cure of another kind. A lady, 73, stout, short, pale, and of very soft fibre, had for four months suffered from "rheumatic pains," and an offensive vaginal discharge. A local practitioner of repute was consulted (the patient lived in the country, and I did not see her till a year or two afterwards) and pronounced it cancer of the womb in an advanced stage, and gave her four months to live. She described to me the pain as being all round the lower abdomen, and a "dull, heavy, depressing, dead pain, commencing at the inner part of the top of the right hip (iliac crest) and extending to the knee." The pain was so severe it made her feel quite sick and faint. The discharge was very offensive, like decaying meat. Great weakness and trembling accompanied the discharge; urine was almost like blood at times, and had a sandy sediment. K. ca. 1m. was given and at once improvement set in. In a few months all the bad symptoms had disappeared and never returned. The patient lived ten years after this. In connection with this case I may mention another. A man had an ulcer of right leg with swelling of ankle, and he complained of waking at 2 a.m. K. ca. 30 cured, but meantime he developed this symptom: "Great weakness of right thigh, as if it would give out when walking." This "giving-out" feeling is very characteristic of the remedy. "Constant backache, the patient feeling all the time that the back and legs must give out." K. ca. corresponds to many cases of lumbago, stitching pains, pulsations; > by pressure and by lying flat on the back. "Weakness, sweat, and backache" appear in many conditions of debility as from loss of fluids; after confinement or abortion (puerperal mania, fever, or spasms). Complaints after coition in males, especially complaints of the eyes. Weary and sleepy during and after eating. Yawns continually. The mental state of K. ca. is one of peevishness and irritability. Easily startled by any noise (especially if unexpected). Fear is prominent; fears to be alone. Intellect impaired, does not care for anything. Indifferent, with bodily exhaustion; when questioned does not know what to answer. The "touchiness" of the remedy is very marked: "Cannot bear to be touched; starts when touched ever so lightly, especially on the feet." K. ca. acts profoundly on the tissues. It causes fatty degeneration of the heart and other muscles. It affects the blood itself as well as the circulation, causing anæmia and hæmorrhages. Throbbing of blood-vessels all over body and to ends of fingers and toes is a marked symptom. Irregularity of heart's action. A peculiar symptom is: sensation as if the heart were suspended by a thread. The digestion is very much disordered; flatulence, distension, constipation. Many symptoms come on when eating: Drowsiness; toothache only when eating. It has the fishbone sensation in the throat, which is part of the general tendency to stitching pains. Another feature is easy choking; food easily gets into windpipe; pain in back when swallowing. The cough has peculiarities in addition to that of time aggravation 2-4 a.m. It is dry, paroxysmal, loosens viscid mucus or pus which must be swallowed. Or spasmodic with gagging or vomiting of ingesta. The expectoration consists of hard, white, or smoky masses, which fly from the throat when coughing. Globules of pus may be contained in it. Hahnemann said that persons suffering from ulceration in the lungs could hardly get well without this antipsoric. I have frequently had occasion to verify its value in such cases. The stitching pains, sweat, and weakness are leading indications, also the locality of the affection. K. ca. is more a right than a left-side medicine. The base of the right lung is more affected than any other part. Goullon says also the apices. K. ca is a remedy often called for in sick-headache. "Violent headaches about the inner temples; violent stitching or jerking pains, on one side of the head or both." One-sided headache with nausea. One case which I cured was > by lying down, > by a tight band round the head. Pressure and drawing in forehead extending into eyes and root of nose. Congestion to head and heat of face often accompany the headaches. "Drowsy whilst eating" is a very characteristic symptom of K. ca. Ide, of Stettin, Germany, has recorded a case (translated by McNeil, Med. Adv., xxiv. 294) which well illustrates this. A lady, 65, suffered from chronic bronchial catarrh and emphysema. In November, 1886, she had asthmatic complaints, depriving her of sleep, with cough and mucous expectoration difficult to raise. Always when eating she was so weary she fell asleep, and could not finish her meal. After eating still very tired. In the morning passed much flatulence. K. ca. 10 removed the condition in a few days. The following March after a cold there was a recurrence, but without the weariness, and K. ca. failed, whilst Ars. 15 rapidly cured. In the same patient K. ca. manifested its power in another set of symptoms: Toothache alternating with tearing, stitching pain in left breast and under left false ribs. The side pains were < at night, especially in evening as soon as she lay down; < lying down, particularly < lying on right (i.e., painless) side. Not influenced by pressure or motion. K. ca. is a chilly medicine. There is great tendency to take cold, and < of symptoms when body temperature is low; aversion to open air. I have often relieved with K. ca. blotchy eruptions of the face which were < in a wind or cold air. Among the notable sensations of the remedy are: Feeling of emptiness in whole body as if it were hollow. Sensation of a lump rolling over and over on coughing; rising from right abdomen up to throat, then back again. Lump in throat. Feeling as if the bed were sinking under her. Pulsative pains and throbbings. Burning sensation and burning pains. K. ca. appears to have alternating symptoms: it has cured a case of toothache which alternated with tearing, stitching pains in left breast and under left false ribs. It has also pulsations in the back alternating with pains in the back. The pains in the side were < evening, on lying down, and especially on lying on right (painless) side (Med. Adv., xxiv. 295). The nervous excitability of K. ca. may go as far as pronounced hysteria; sudden shrieking; cannot bear to be touched. Spasms (puerperal convulsions) and paralysis. Twitching of muscles; rigidity of muscles; muscular atony, disposition to easy overlifting. Oppression of breathing accompanies most complaints. Anæmia with great debility, skin watery, milky white. Dropsical affections. Ulcers bleeding at night. K. ca. is suited to the aged, rather obese, lax fibre; to dark-haired persons of lax fibre and inclined to be fat; to diseases after parturition; after loss of fluids. The symptoms are: < At rest; < on lying down (cannot get breath). Unable to remain lying at night, > during the day when moving about; < lying on right side (pain in chest; heart feels suspended to left ribs); < by stooping; > raising head. > Sitting bent forward; > raising head (stitches in forehead). Motion = headache with vertigo; < pain in tumours of scalp; wobbling in stomach; stitches in loins. < By sudden or unguarded motion. Walking > obstruction in nose; and < most other symptoms. Coughing < pain in hæmorrhoids. Debility = desire to lie down. The chief time aggravation is from 2 to 4 a.m., or any time between. In general the symptoms are < in the morning. > By day; < at night. < Evening on lying down. < After midnight. Heat > most symptoms; cold air and open air <. Open air > obstruction of nose. Change of weather and damp weather <. Washing face = nose-bleed. Cold air < stitching pain in right side. Cold and damp = chronic bronchitis. Warm drinks < sweat. Warm applications = pain to move to other places. Drinking cold water > jerking in head; drinking cold-water when overheated = dyspnœa and pyrosis. Hunger = palpitation. Touch <. Pressure < most symptoms; > pain in abdomen; dull stitches in chest; glandular swelling of neck. < From coitus.

Antidoted by: Camph., Coff., Nit. sp. dulcis. It is complementary to: Carb. v., Phos., Sep., Nit. ac., Nat. m. It follows well: K. sul., Phos., Stan., Bry., Lyc., Nat. m. Is followed well by: Carb. v., Phos., Fluor. ac., Ars., Lyc., Pul., Sep., Sul. Compare: The Kalis, especially Caust. (paresis; respiratory affections; hæmorrhoids; rheumatism); and K. bi. (catarrh with tenacious secretions; wandering and alternating pains; headache; affections of stout persons; dyspepsia). Bry. (sharp pains; bilious affections; but Bry. is < by motion); Chel. (pneumonia of right base); Merc. v. (pneumonia of right base, but Merc. has sweat without >); Sep. (diseases of women─but Sep. has scanty menses, K. ca. too early and profuse; empty feeling, bloating after eating; chronic laryngeal catarrh); Apis and Ars. (puffing of face and eyes); Spi. (stitches in heart); Bellis, Ars., Nux v., Calc., and Sep. (waking early, 3 am.); Ip. (constant nausea); (K. bi.) and Staph (< after coitus); Ant. t. (capillary bronchitis); Calc. hypophos. (sweat, backache, and weakness─very close analogue); Pso. (debility of convalescence; profuse sweat; hopelessness of recovery); Calc. c. (hopelessness of recovery; irritability; chilliness, < from washing); Puls. (erratic pains; amenorrhœa); Berb. (bubbling sensation in back). Phos. ac. (apathy); Hep., Nit. ac., Carb. v., and Arg. n. (fish-bone sensation). Rhus (pain > motion; affections of ligaments) Hamam. (hæmorrhoids). Mag. c. (nervous debility from overstrain) Bry. and Silic. (knee affections). Nat. m. (anæmia; amenorrhœa─"K. ca. will bring on the menses when Nat. m., though apparently indicated, fails." Hahn.─backache: that of K. ca. is, in general, < lying; that of Nat. m. is > by pressure and lying on back); Arn. c., Graph. (obese persons); Chi., Phos. ac., Pho., and Pso. (complaints from loss of fluids); Ars., Bis., and Lyc. (averse to be alone.─Ign., Nux, desire to be alone); Am. c. and Arn. (nose-bleed when washing face); Phos. (fatty degeneration of heart); Lach. (heart as if suspended by a thread).

Catching cold. Overstrain.

Sadness with tears.─Anxious apprehension and inquietude, esp. about the health, with fear of not being cured.─Irresolute, timid, and apprehensive disposition.─Fear, in evening, in bed.─Peevish humour, discontent and impatience.─Dread of labour.─Changeable humour, at one time evincing mildness and tranquillity, at another time passion and rage.─Tendency to take alarm.─Shrieks about imaginary appearances.─Becomes easily startled; great tendency to start when touched, esp. on feet.─Vexed and irritated mood; trifles vex one; noise is disagreeable.─Irascible and passionate humour.─Loss of memory.─Misapplying words and syllables.

Confusion and dulness in head.─Sudden attack of unconsciousness.─Dulness of the head; confused, stupid feeling, as after intoxication.─Vertigo as if ears were stopped up; with darkness before eyes.─Vertigo in morning, in evening, and after a meal, as well as on turning head or body hastily.─Vertigo, with tottering.─Vertigo, which seems to proceed from stomach.─Headache from motion of a carriage, on sneezing, coughing, or in morning.─Semi-lateral headache, with nausea, and vomiting, < so as to become insupportable, by slightest movement.─Violent headache across the eyes.─Pressive headache in the occiput, esp. during a walk, with irritability, or else in forehead with photophobia.─Tearing and drawing pains in head.─Lancinating headache, chiefly in temples and forehead; < from stooping and moving head, eyes, and lower jaw; > when raising head and from heat.─Violent headaches about inner temples.─Congestion in head, with throbbing and buzzing.─Trembling in head, and sensation as if it contained something movable. (Constant sensation of something loose in head, turning and twisting towards forehead.).─The headaches are > by pressing the forehead.─Sensation as of a blow in the head, which causes it to incline to one side, with dizziness.─Strong tendency to take cold in head, esp. when exposed to a draught after being heated (from it headache or toothache).─Painful and purulent tumours in scalp, like beginning blood-boils; more painful from pressure and motion, and less so from external heat; accompanied by itching, as if in bones of head, with great dryness of hair.─Wens.─Scabby eruption on scalp.─Falling off and dryness of hair, esp. on temples, eyebrows, and beard, with violent burning-itching of the scalp in morning, and evening; the scalp oozes if scratched.─Perspiration on forehead, in morning.─Large, yellowish, and furfuraceous spots on forehead.

Pressive and tearing pain in eyes.─Sensation of biting, of smarting, of burning, and shootings in eyes.─Redness and inflammation of eyes, with pain on reading by candle-light.─Swelling of eyes and lids, with difficulty in opening them.─Pimples in eyebrows.─Swelling (like a bag) between upper eyelids and eyebrows.─Excoriation and suppuration in corners of eyes.─White of eye red; capillaries injected.─Sensation of coldness of eyelids.─Agglutination of eyelids, esp. in morning.─Lachrymation.─Eyes dull and downcast.─Propensity to a fixed look.─Spots dancing before sight, on reading and on looking into open air.─Rainbow colours, spots (blue or green), and sparks before sight.─Vivid and painful brightness before eyes, when closed, extending deeply into brain, in evening after lying down.─Photophobia.─Dazzling of eyes by daylight.

Shootings in ears, sometimes from within outwards.─Inflammatory swelling of ears, with discharge of a yellow pus or of liquid cerumen.─Itching and tickling in ears.─Redness, heat, and violent itching of external ear.─Ulcer in ears.─Excoriation and suppuration behind ears.─Inflammation and swelling of parotid.─Excessive acuteness of hearing, in evening, on lying down.─Weak and confused hearing.─Dulness of hearing.─Singing, tingling, and buzzing in ears.─Cracking in ears.

Swelling of nose, with redness and burning heat.─Nose red and covered with pimples.─Ulceration of interior of nose.─Epistaxis in morning; when washing face.─Dull smell.─Coryza and stoppage of nose, sometimes with secretion of yellowish green mucus, and constant want of air.─Blowing offensive matter from nose.─Fluent coryza (with excessive sneezing; pain in back and headache), with secretion of sanguineous mucus.─Secretion of purulent mucus from nose.─Dryness of nose.─Sore, scurfy nostrils.

Colour of face, yellow, or pale and sickly, with sunken eyes, surrounded by a livid circle.─Haggard, exhausted look; lifeless expression.─Great redness of face, alternately with paleness.─Drawing pain in face.─Tearing in bones of face.─Flushes of face.─Bloatedness of face.─Eruption of pimples on face, with swelling and redness of cheeks.─Tearing stitches in cheeks.─Swelling between eyebrows.─Pimples on eyebrows.─Warts on face.─Ephelides.─Lips thick and ulcerated.─Lips cracked and exfoliating.─Cramp-like sensation in the lips.─Cramps in jaw.─Swelling of lower jaw and sub-maxillary glands.

Toothache, only on eating, or in morning on waking; or else excited by cold things (water) in mouth.─Teeth painful when touched by, either cold or warm substances.─Toothache, with soreness of bones of face, and drawing, jerking, or tearing pains, esp. in evening in bed.─Lancinating pains in teeth, with swelling of cheek (with stinging pain).─Digging, piercing, pricking, and gnawing in teeth.─(Toothache alternating with stitches in l. chest.).─Looseness of all teeth.─Bad smell from teeth.─Inflammatory swelling and ulceration of gums.

Bitter taste in mouth.─Fetid exhalation from mouth.─Sensation of dryness in mouth, with copious accumulation of saliva.─Excoriation, with vesicles in interior of mouth and on tongue.─Soreness of frænum linguæ.─Swelling of tongue, covered with small painful vesicles.─Painful pimple on tip of tongue.

Sore throat, with lancinating pain on swallowing.─Deglutition impeded by inertia of muscles of gullet (the food descends very slowly in the œsophagus, and small particles of food easily get into windpipe).─Copious accumulation of mucus on palate and in throat; difficult to hawk up or to swallow, with sensation as if a lump of mucus were in throat.─Hawking up of mucus.─Dryness in posterior part of throat.

Bitter or acid taste.─Unpleasant taste in mouth, as from derangement of stomach.─Putrid, sweetish taste, or as of blood in mouth.─Bulimy.─Strong desire for sugar or acids.─Disgust for brown bread, which lies heavy on stomach.─Milk and warm food are unsuitable.─During a meal, sleepiness.─After a meal, drowsiness, paleness of face, shivering, headache, ill-humour, nausea, sour risings, and pyrosis, colic, inflation of abdomen and flatulency.─After taking hot food (pastry or soup), pinchings and uneasiness in abdomen.

Frequent risings.─Sour risings and regurgitation.─Burning acidity rising from stomach, with spasmodic constriction.─Feeling in stomach as if cut to pieces.─Constant feeling as if stomach were full of water, wobbling on motion.─Pressure in stomach like a heaviness after eating.─Sensation as of a lump in stomach the size of the fist.─Pyrosis.─Nausea from mental emotions.─Nausea, as if he would faint; also with anxiety.─Nausea during pregnancy.─Nausea to such a degree as to cause loss of consciousness, sometimes during a meal.─Anxious nausea, with inclination to vomit, esp. after a meal, or after mental emotion.─Retching in evening (for several evenings).─Vomiting of food and acid matter, with prostration of strength, as if about to faint.─Nocturnal vomiting of food.─Fulness in stomach, esp. after a meal.─Pressure on epigastrium.─Tension above stomach.─Contractive cramps in stomach, renewed by all kinds of food and drink, or else at night, with vomiting.─Pinching, digging, and shooting in stomach.─Lancinations in epigastrium and in hypochondria, which suspend respiration.─Pulsations in epigastrium.─Extreme sensitiveness of epigastrium.

Pain in liver, on stooping, as if it were wrenched.─Burning pain, aching, and shootings in liver.─Pressure and shootings in region of loins.─Pains in abdomen, with frequent risings.─Pressure on abdomen, esp. on stooping.─Tension across the abdomen.─Great inflation of abdomen, esp. after a meal.─Inquietude and heaviness in abdomen.─Abdominal pains, contractive and spasmodic.─Colic renewed after each meal.─Colic, resembling pains of labour, sometimes with pains in loins.─Feeling of coldness, as if a cold fluid passed through intestines; during menses.─Lancinations throughout the abdomen.─Inertia and coldness in abdomen.─Dropsical swelling of abdomen.─Drawing and shootings (and painful bloatedness) in groins.─Abundant production and incarceration of flatus.─Incarceration of flatulence, with colic.─Restricted or excessive emission of flatus, sometimes preceded by pressive pain in rectum.

Constipation, sometimes every second day.─Constipation during menstruation.─Constriction of the abdomen and difficult evacuation of fæces of too large a size.─Retarded stool from inactivity of rectum.─Obstruction from inactivity of bowels, as a want of peristaltic motion; hæmorrhoids.─Resultless inclination to evacuate, and scanty evacuation.─Stool resembling sheep's dung.─Diarrhœa, mostly in evening and at night, with cutting pains and great physical debility.─Discharge of mucus, or of blood, during evacuation.─White mucus before and during stool.─Painless diarrhœa, with rumbling in abdomen.─Discharge of teniæ and lumbrici.─Anxiety before the evacuation.─Itching in anus.─Tearing, shooting, incisive, and burning pains in anus (and rectum), esp. after evacuation.─Protrusion and distension of hæmorrhoids during stool, with pricking and burning.─Protrusion of hæmorrhoids during micturition, emitting first blood, afterwards white mucus.─Inflammation, soreness, stitches, and tingling, as from ascarides, in hæmorrhoids.─Hæmorrhoidal pimples in anus, painful, bleeding, and with shooting pain.─Sensation of red-hot poker being thrust up rectum, temporarily > by sitting in cold water.─Excoriation and pustulous eruption in anus.─Stitching, pressing proctalgia (during pregnancy).

Frequent want to make water, and scanty emission of fiery urine.─The urine is discharged slowly.─After micturition, discharge of prostatic fluid.─Urine pale greenish; turbid.─Frequent emission of urine, day and night.─Incisive pains in bladder, from r. to l.─Burning sensation in urethra, esp. on (and after) making water.

Tension, tearing, and pulling in glans and in penis.─Itching and pain, as from a bruise in scrotum.─Hot swelling of testes and spermatic cord.─Excessive increase or absence of sexual desire.─Repugnance to coition.─Want of erections, or too frequent and painful erections.─Absence of, or immoderate pollutions.─Pollutions with voluptuous dreams.─After coition and pollutions, weakness of body, but esp. of eyes.

Repugnance to coition in women.─During coition, pinching and pain, as of excoriation, in vagina.─Constant sensation of bearing down.─Burning pain and shootings in vulva.─Erosion, itching, and gnawing in genital parts, and in interior of parts.─Difficult first menstruation.─Catamenia premature, or too weak.─Suppression of catamenia.─Suppression of menses, with anasarca and ascites.─Hæmorrhage of pregnant women (clots of coagulated blood).─Corrosive menstrual flux.─During catamenia (the menstrual blood is acrid) itching eruption, and excoriation, between thighs.─Gastric symptoms, and agitated and anxious sleep during catamenia.─During menses: (morning) headache; cutting pain in abdomen; pain in small of back, like a weight: stitches in ears; coryza; itching of whole body.─Leucorrhœa, sometimes with violent pains in loins, and pains like those of labour (extending from back to uterus).─Yellowish leucorrhœa, with itching and sensation of burning in vulva.─(Uterine cancer with pain round loins extending down r. thigh to knee.).─Tearing stitches in breasts on flow of milk.─During pregnancy: sickness (only during a walk) without vomiting, with feeling as if she could lie down and die;─pulsation of arteries, even down to tips of toes; hollow feeling in whole body; heavy broken-down feeling, only with the greatest effort that any exertion can be made;─back aches so badly while walking she could lie-down in the street;─pressing, forcing pains in small of back as if heavy weight came into pelvis, low down; also stitching, pressing proctalgia.─Impending abortion with pains from back into buttocks and thighs; discharge of Clots (2nd and 3rd month).─Weakness after abortion.─Labour pains insufficient; violent headache, wants back pressed; bearing-down from back into pelvis.─False pains; sharp cutting pains across loins, or passing off down buttocks, hindering labour; pulse weak.─Pains stitching or shooting.─Chills after delivery.─Puerperal fever; intense thirst.─After confinement, hæmorrhage, hæmorrhoids, peritonitis.─Hæmorrhage a week after labour.

Hoarseness and roughness in throat, with violent sneezing.─Aphonia (with violent sneezing).─Easy choking.─Sensation as of a plug in larynx.─Cough on moving arm (when playing the violin).─Cough, excited by a tickling.─Dry cough, esp. at night, and in evening; in morning with expectoration.─Night cough; < from 3 to 4 a.m.─Cramp-like cough, with inclination to vomit, and vomiting, esp. in morning.─Shootings in throat, or chest, while coughing.─Expectoration: difficult; or, small round lumps come flying from mouth without effort.─Spasmodic cough, in short but frequently returning attacks, caused by a tickling in the throat and larynx; during morning and day cough is loose, but the yellow pus and tough mucus has to be swallowed again.─Cough with sourish expectoration, or of blood-streaked mucus, or of pus.─During cough, rough pain in larynx; stinging in throat; stitches in r. side of chest (lower part); sparks dart from eyes; asthma.─Whooping-cough (with inflammation of lungs; with swelling between upper eyelid and eyebrows, and < from 3 to 4 a.m.).

Difficult respiration.─Shortness of breath in morning.─Respiration impeded on walking quickly, or in morning.─Stitches in sternum and r. side of chest through to back, when taking an inspiration.─Tearing in sides of chest.─Spasmodic asthma (in the morning); > by sitting up and bending forward, resting head on knees).─Anxious oppression at chest.─Obstructed respiration awakes him at night.─Wheezing in chest.─Oppression at chest, as from hydrothorax.─Pain in chest when speaking.─Cramp in chest, sometimes on coughing.─Sensation in chest as if heart were compressed.─Pressure, burning pain, and shootings in chest, sometimes on breathing.─Inflammation of lungs (and liver) with stitches in chest (r. side).─Suppuration of lungs; abscesses of lungs.─Weakness and faintness in chest from walking fast.─Small pimples on chest and back.─Incisive pains in chest.

Palpitation of heart (sometimes with anguish), esp. in morning on waking, with ebullition of blood.─Frequent and violent palpitation; with anxiety.─Palpitation when he becomes hungry.─Frequent intermissions of beats of heart.─Burning in region of heart.─Crampy pain in region of heart.─Stitches about heart and through to scapula.─Pinching pain in or by heart, as if heart were hanging by tightly drawn bands; < on deep inspiration, on coughing; not noticed on motion of body.─On lying on r. side, heart feels suspended to l. ribs.─Feels pulse over whole body to tips of toes.─Pulse slow.

Stiffness between scapulæ.─Dull pain, like hot water, between scapulæ.─Stiffness of nape of neck.─Weakness of muscles of neck.─Goître.─Hard swelling of axillary glands and of those of neck.─Sweat under armpits.─Pains in loins; also after a fall.─Pain, as from a bruise in back, during repose.─Drawing pains in back, which often proceed from loins.─Burning, tearing near r. side of spine, above small of back.─Sharp stitching pains awaken him 3 a.m., he must get up and walk about; pains shoot from loins into nates.─Stitching and shooting pains in back, shooting down into gluteal region or hips.─Stitches in kidneys.─Back aches as if broken.─Pain across sacrum like labour-pains; feeling of tightening of skin of lower abdomen; feeling of weight in abdomen on walking, and esp. on standing.─Pain in small of back as from flatulent distension, morning in bed, with feeling as if bubbles accumulated at small of back, with urgent desire for stool, all of which disappeared after passing wind.─Violent constant drawing in small of back, alternating with pulsations in it, only > when lying.─Pain as if broken on moving about.─Bruised pain in back only during rest.─Feeling in morning as if small of back were pressed inward from both sides.─Pressure in region of both kidneys.─Gnawing in coccyx.

Swelling of shoulder, with pain.─Swelling and sore pain of axillary glands.─Cracking in shoulder-joint when moving or raising arm.─Pain, as from blows and bruises, under r. shoulder-joint, esp. when moving and touching it.─Tearing in l. shoulder-joint.─Pressure on shoulder.─Tension, tearing, pulling, in muscles and joints of shoulders, arms, hands, and fingers.─Cold stiffness and numbness of arms, esp. in the cold, or after violent exercise.─Want of energy in arms and hands, esp. in morning in bed.─Frequent startings in arms.─Stiffness in joint of elbow.─Paralytic pain in wrist.─Shootings in wrist and fingers during movement.─Trembling of hands when writing.─Coldness of hands.─Skin of hands rough and cracked.─Torpor and numbness in extremities of fingers.─Burning pain in extremities of fingers.─Gnawing vesicles on fingers.─Startings in fingers when sewing.─Tearing between thumb and index finger.

Acute pullings (rheumatic pains), esp. at night, in joints and bones of hips, legs, feet, and toes.─The limbs fall asleep while lying.─Numbness and great inclination of whole r. limb to fall asleep, esp. lower leg.─Stitches in l. hip-joint while standing.─Tearing in hips and knees even while sitting.─Paralysis of thighs.─Cramp in r. thigh and calf.─Stiff, cramped feeling in both calves, lasting all day and coming on when walking in morning (Cooper─from Potash water.).─Tearing in and on nates not far from hip-joint.─Great weakness of r. thigh, feeling as if it would give way when walking.─Difficulty in knees on going up or downstairs.─Dull pains in side of knee, walking or extending leg.─Frequent tearing in knees.─Pressive pullings and tearings in legs.─Jerking of muscles of buttocks and thighs.─Burning pain and lancinations in legs and feet.─Uneasiness (restlessness) in legs in evening.─Torpor and numbness of legs.─Crawling shuddering on tibia.─Swelling of legs and feet.─Swelling and redness of soles.─Stiffness of joint of foot.─Shootings in joints of foot.─Cold feet, even at night in bed.─Numbness of feet after a meal.─Fetid perspiration on feet.─Burning pain and shootings (red chilblains on toes) in ball of great toe.─Corns on feet, painful when touched.─Stitches in the painful and sensitive corns.─Sensation as if nail of big toe would grow into flesh.─Tips of toes very painful when walking.

Affections in general, occurring in r. hypochondriac region; r. abdominal ring; l. chest; l. upper extremity; external and internal ears; of inner surface of liver; inner region of kidneys; lower part of chest; shoulder; shoulder-joint; elbow and elbow-joint; hollow of elbow; wrist-joint; big toe; tips of toes; joints of legs in general; joints of toes.─Disgust of food in general.─Inflammatory swelling of the part, with characteristic (stitching or jerking) pains.─Dryness of the skin.─Painful sensibility of extremities in whatever position they are placed.─Pressive pains in joints.─Spasmodic contraction of some parts.─Drawing, tearing, rheumatic pains in limbs, esp. during repose, with swelling of the parts affected.─Rheumatic pains in back, chest, shoulders, and arms, < on moving them.─Shooting pains in joints, muscles, and internal organs.─Swelling and hardness of glands.─Anæmia, with great debility; skin watery, milky white; muscles weakened, esp. heart; hence weak pulse is a general characteristic.─Dropsical affections of internal organs, or of whole skin of body.─The pains often manifest themselves towards 2 a.m., and are then stronger than by day during movement.─Shiverings immediately after pains.─Remaining in open air greatly < many of the symptoms (esp. the febrile), while some others are > by it.─Hectic fever.─Burning at various places under the skin.─Spasmodic attacks and convulsive startings of limbs and muscles.─Nocturnal epileptic fits.─Tendency to suffer a strain in loins.─Tendency in limbs to become numbed, when lying down.─Paralysis.─Dropsical affections and paralysis of old persons.─General sensation of emptiness in whole body, as if it were hollow.─Heaviness and indolence.─Weakness, as if on the point of losing consciousness, and trembling, esp. after a walk.─A short walk fatigues much.─Attacks of weakness with nausea, sensation of heat and lassitude in pit of stomach, vertigo, and dizziness.─Violent ebullition of blood, with throbbing in all arteries.─Excessive dread of open air and of currents of air.─Great tendency to take cold, esp. after heating exercise.

Painful sensibility of skin, as if it were ulcerated, when pressing on it.─Skin dry, with obstructed perspiration.─Sensation of burning, or burning and lancinating itching, in skin.─Itching, burning, yellow, or red spots on body (over abdomen and around nipples), sometimes with oozing after being scratched.─Miliary nettle-rash.─Corrosive vesicles.─Chilblains of a reddish blue.─Warts.─Tetters.─Bleeding of ulcers, esp. at night.─Fissure in cicatrix of an old issue.─Ascites and anasarca.─Swelling and induration of glands, after contusions.

Drowsiness and yawning.─Great drowsiness during day and early in evening.─Falls asleep while eating.─Half-sleep at night.─Tardy sleep.─During sleep, shuddering, tears, talking, and starts with fright.─Gnashing of teeth while asleep.─Agitated sleep, with frequent, anxious, and frightful dreams.─Dreams of robbers, death, danger, serpents, sickness, spectres, devils, &c.─Fits of anguish at night, gastric sufferings, pains in stomach and precordial region, colic, flatulency, diarrhœa, frequent erections and pollutions, asthmatic sufferings, nightmare and cramps in calves of legs.─Arrest of breath rouses him from sleep at night.─At night l. leg and r. arm go to sleep.─Waking too early, particularly at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning; sleepiness in evening; sleeplessness after midnight; sleeplessness in general.

Pulse very variable; frequently more rapid in morning than in evening; strong pulsations in arteries.─Chilliness generally in morning.─Shivering in evening, with thirst, often accompanied by toothache.─The Chilliness in evening is > near warm stove and after lying down.─Internal heat with external chilliness.─Morning perspiration.─Perspiration more on upper part of body and < by warm drinks.─Perspiration is fetid or smells sour.─Intermittent fever; constant chilliness, with violent thirst from internal heat; hot hands; loathing of food.─Long yawning, with heat; pain in chest and head; pulsations in abdomen, 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.─Chills and heat alternate in evening, followed by perspiration during night.─Evening fever; first, chilliness with thirst (for one hour), then heat without thirst, accompanied by violent, fluent coryza; afterwards slight perspiration with sound sleep.─Chill and fever, with oppression of breathing, constriction of chest; pain in region of liver; most of the thirst during chill.─Intermittent fevers, with whooping-cough.─Shivering immediately after pains.─Frequent shuddering during day.─Heat in morning, in bed, with pains in loins and chest.─Want of perspiration and inability to perspire, or else great tendency to perspire during intellectual labour, or during a walk.─Nocturnal sweats, every night.

Acne. Aphasia. Apoplexy. Asthma. Cholera infantum. Chordee. Colic. Diabetes. Emissions. Epilepsy. Erythema nodosum. General paralysis of insane. Hæmorrhoids. Impotence. Laryngeal crises. Laryngismus. Locomotor ataxy. Nightmare. Nose, eruption on. Ovaries, affections of. Paralysis. Paralysis agitans. Polypus (rectal). Psoriasis. Screaming. Sebaceous cysts. Seborrhœa. Self-abuse. Sensibility, loss of. Sleeplessness. Somnambulism. Speech, affections of. Syphilis. Tetanus. Urine, incontinence of.

Kali bro. has been proved, but the greater part of the pathogenesis is made up of symptoms observed in allopathic overdosings, to which are added symptoms cured in the practice of homœopaths. In old-school practice K. bro. has been given in epileptic and other convulsive affections rather with the idea of overwhelming disease than of curing it. The effect has been in numberless cases to reduce or prevent the recurrence of tits at the expense of keeping the patient constantly under the influence of the drug and producing a state of mental hebetude or actual imbecility, "decreasing the excitability and power of the motor cells of the brain" (Alberton). Along with this it has produced a great variety of skin eruptions. At the same time, K. bro. has a decidedly specific relation to epilepsy and the epileptic state, and in its own cases will cure in the attenuations. K. bro. has a very profound action on the generative organs and the mental side of the generative sphere: sensual, lascivious fancies; satyriasis and nymphomania and finally impotence and wasting of the sexual organs. The cases of epilepsy in which it is curative are chiefly those associated with sexual excess or abuse in men; and those in which the fits occur during or near the menstrual period in women. The power of K. bro. over the sexual sphere is very great. In my allopathic days I have often known a few grains of the salt given at bedtime permanently relieve youths who were troubled with erections and sexual excitement on going to bed. It might have acted as well in the attenuations, but it could not have done better. It is indicated also in cases of epilepsy occurring at the new moon; and when headache follows the fit. In spasms from fright, anger, or emotional disturbances in nervous, plethoric persons; during parturition, dentition, whooping-cough, in Bright's disease. One of the most troublesome "accidents" of the allopathic use of K. bro. is the production of eruptions of many kinds, but most notably acne. Acne has a very definite relation to the sexual organs, being especially noticeable at puberty and, in women at the menstrual period. I know of no remedy of such universal usefulness in cases of simple acne as K. bro. 30. It has produced moist eruptions and pityriasis of the scalp. The sebaceous follicles are particularly affected, which should give it a place in seborrhœa. Erythema nodosum was observed in some patients under its influence. The moral and intellectual faculties are greatly disordered. The memory is lost: forgets how to talk; aphasic, has to be told the word before he can speak it. Depressed, melancholic; uncontrollable weeping. "Feel as if they would lose their minds." Restlessness and sleeplessness from worry. Staggering gait; ataxia; numbness and tingling in legs and spine, with increase in sexual appetite. "Fidgety hands"; fingers must be playing with something; twitching of fingers; cannot sit still. Night terrors in children from over excitability of brain; from worry; during dentition. Cholera infantum with hydrocephalic symptoms. Drowsiness is one of the notes of the drug: "Drops asleep in his chair, and if aroused falls asleep again immediately." The deep sleep may be broken by a start, though waking is very difficult. Confused dreams. Benumbed sensation of brain. Reflexes are diminished, and there is general loss of general sensibility, and also of certain parts, particularly fauces, larynx, and urethra. This depressed state has another side to it in the curious restlessness and fidgetiness. In the lungs pulmonary œdema or suffocative bronchitis may develop; the patient may become cachectic and the condition resemble typhoid fever (Amory Hare). Wenzel Heyberger has recorded (H. R., ii. 215) a case of diabetes in a lady, 68, cured with K. bro. The patient had been ill five months and was reduced to a skeleton. She first noticed a remarkably good appetite but after meals had heartburn and eructations. Then there was polyuria and frequent disturbances at night to pass water. Weak in the head, confused, memory impaired. Vision almost gone. Rushing and roaring in ears. Tormenting thirst. Stools difficult and delayed. Powders medicated with K. bro. 2 were given, one every six hours. The first night the patient slept without disturbance and the quantity of urine and proportion of sugar diminished. After about six-weeks the improvement seemed to stop and K. bro. was given in allopathic doses, but this aggravated the condition. K. bro. 2 was resumed, and the case went on to a cure. Hale cured with K. bro. many cases of cholera infantum, and one case of "violent periodic umbilical colic, leaving tenderness on pressure." The characteristic hour of recurrence is 5 p.m. Another feature of the K. bro. action is in relation to new growths. A number of cases of ovarian cyst have disappeared under its action, also fibroids and fatty tumours. The acne-producing property of the drug shows its relation to sebaceous secretions, and it has removed sebaceous cysts and wens. In connection with ovarian tumours or other affections, or independently, there may be uterine hæmorrhage─metrorrhagia or menorrhagia. It may arise from reflected irritation and may be accompanied with sexual excitement. But that is not necessarily the case. "Flooding, especially in young women," is Hering's indication. Burford has used it extensively in such cases and generally in attenuations approaching the crude. K. bro. is more particularly adapted to persons inclined to obesity; to children; to nervous women. More symptoms have been noted on the right side than on the left. Among the remarkable sensations are: "Parts feel as if growing large." "Paroxysms of numbness; feels as if needles were pricking him." Trembling sensation. A marked periodicity appears in the symptoms (which itself relates the drug to epilepsy); symptoms recur paroxysmally. Every 2, 3, or 24 hours. Twice a week; fortnightly; at new moon. Urticaria in winter. Most symptoms are < at night. < 2 a.m. regularly. There is chilliness in a hot room; and itching during high temperature. < In hot weather; < in summer. Skin > in cold weather. Vertigo is < by stooping. Cough < lying down. The old-school contra-indications for the Bromides are: General asthenia and feebleness of the nervous system; post-typhoidal and post-puerperal insanity; senile softening of the brain; and when the gastro-intestinal mucous membrane is irritated (Hare). These are keynotes for K. bro. in high attenuations.

K. bro. is antidoted by: Vegetable acids, oils, Camph., Nux v., Zinc. It antidotes: Lead-poisoning. It follows well: Aco. and Spong. in croup; Eug. jambos in acne. Compare: Bro., Camph. bro., Amm. bro., Aur. bro. (night-terrors), K. carb. (persons inclined to obesity; also Am. c., Calc. c., Graph.), K. iod. (acne, syphilis), K. phos. and Calc. c. (night-terrors). Hyo. (mania; excited sensorium without inflammation of brain; fears being poisoned; sees ghosts; sexual excitement); Plat. (sees ghosts, demons, &c.); Arg. n. (fearful apprehensive mood; imagines cannot pass a certain point). Glo. (fears being poisoned; also Rhus t.); Staph. (mental depression, weakness of legs from masturbation); Gels. (in inco-ordination of muscles); Con. (nervous cough during pregnancy). Bov., Stram. (slow, difficult speech; stammering); Ip. (cholera infantum); Zinc. (fidgety restlessness; Zinc. of feet, K. bro. of hands); Tarent. (reflex symptoms; any little irritation such as dentition or indigestion may = convulsions. Fidgety hands).

Anger. Fright. Emotional disturbance. Worry. Business losses and embarrassments. Sexual excess. Sexual abuse.

Unconscious of what is occurring around them; cannot recognise, nor be comforted by, their friends.─Memory absolutely destroyed; anæmia; emaciation.─Loss of memory; had to be told the word before he could speak it (amnesic aphasia).─Inability to express oneself.─Writing almost unintelligible from omission of words or parts of words; words repeated or misplaced.─Mentally dull, torpid; perception slow, answers slowly.─Benumbed sensation of brain.─Fearful, apprehensive mood; imagines he cannot pass a certain point.─Drowsiness.─Fears to be alone.─Frightful imaginings at night (in pregnant women during later months), they are under impression that they have committed, or are about to commit, some great crime and cruelty, such as murdering their children or husbands.─Hallucinations of sight and sound, with or without mania, precede brain and paralytic symptoms.─Delirium, with delusions; thinks he is pursued; will be poisoned; is selected for Divine vengeance; that her child is dead, &c.─Delirium tremens, in first or irritative stage; face flushed; eyes red; delirium active; horrid illusions; hard, quick pulse.─Puerperal mania, with fulness of blood-vessels of brain.─Hands constantly busy; all sorts of fearful delusions; walks the room groaning, bemoaning his fate; full of fear; unsteady.─Fits of uncontrollable weeping and profound melancholic delusions.─Feeling of lightness and exhilaration in place of heaviness and depression.─Depressed; low-spirited; has nervous anxiety.─Profound melancholic depression, with religious delusions and feeling of moral deficiency; frequent shedding of tears, low-spirited and childish, giving way to her feelings; profound indifference and almost disgust for life (melancholia).─Profound melancholy from anæmia.─Night terrors of children (not from indigestion), with screaming in sleep, trembling, unconsciousness of what is around them; cannot recognise, nor be comforted by, their friends; sometimes followed by squinting.

Heaviness, confusion; slow speech; staggers as if drunk.─Dizziness, noises in ear; nervous excitement; sleepless.─Vertigo: palpitation, nausea, even unconsciousness; memory growing weak; as if ground gave way; staggering gait; confusion and heat of head, drowsiness, stupor; fainting and nausea followed by sound sleep.─Constrictive sensation in brain as if too tight, with a feeling of anæsthesia of brain.─Headache in r. frontal protuberance; sleepy.─Severe, throbbing aching pains in occipital region, extending down as far as dorsal region cannot sit up or walk, or shake head without feeling <; great weakness and depression of mind.─Violent headache, particularly in occiput.─Flushed face, throbbing of carotids and temporals, suffusion of eyes; feeling of fulness of head.─Brain irritated.─Anæmia of brain from loss of fluids; constant drowsiness; coma; pupils dilated, eyes sunken, eyeballs moving in every direction without taking any notice; feet and hands blue and cold; pulse imperceptible. (Hydrocephalus.).─Bad results from overtaxing brain; esp. with grief or anxiety; nervousness.─Violent headache from concussion of brain.─Mercurial headache.─Drooping of head; cannot hold it erect.─Scalp feels tight, brain numb, confused.─Seborrhœa.─Pityriasis.

Vision dim, pupils dilated; with heavy lids and invincible drowsiness.─Eyes sunken, lustreless; gaze fixed.─Eyeballs moving in every direction.─Pupils dilated, contract sluggishly, vertigo and confusion of head; pupils contracted.─Vessels of fundus enlarged; conjunctivæ congested.─Eyes suffused.─Squinting; after night terrors of children.

Ringing in ears.─Roaring in ears at night synchronous with pulse.─Sounds echo in ears; headache.─Hardness of hearing.

Smell impaired.─Thick mucus and yellow scabs in nostrils.─Erythematous swelling of nose.

Expression: pale, but otherwise appeared as one drunk, with hallucination, &c.; wearied, anxious; dull, stupefied; imbecile.─Expressionless face: incipient softening of brain.─Complexion yellow, cachectic.─Face flushed.─Acne; on face in young fleshy people of gross habit.─Papular rash.

Odontitis of children.─Difficult dentition of children.─Vomiting and diarrhœa of teething children.

Difficult speech action of tongue disordered slow and difficult after waking; stammering.─Tongue: red, dry, enlarged red, later dry and brown; white, involving edges as well as dorsum, with languor and sleepiness; pale and cold.─Fetid breath; a peculiar sickening odour; tongue white.─Saliva profuse, with fetid breath.─Suppressed salivation in teething children.

Anæsthesia of mouth, throat, and pharynx; (chronic alcoholism).─Dysphagia of liquids (in infants); can swallow only solids.─Uvula and fauces congested, then œdematous.─Dryness of throat.─Diphtheritis with quick pulse; fever; dry tongue; offensive breath; highly injected and dusky red fauces; patches of wash-leather exudation on tonsils or pharynx.

Taste: foul; salty; lost.─Anorexia, foul breath, white tongue, involving edges as well as dorsum, and not necessarily furred; great languor; violent headache; loathing vomiturition or vomiting of mucus; saltish taste in mouth.─Thirst intense with dry mouth.─(Children who from time of birth can swallow solids with ease, yet choke every time they try to drink).─Troublesome pressure at stomach after dinner; lassitude.

Repeated retching and emesis; sick and giddy.─Hysterical women who vomit their food after each meal, esp. if subjected to exciting emotions.─Vomiting: with intense thirst; of drunkards after a debauch; in whooping-cough; of meconium.─Weakness of stomach; dyspepsia.─Troublesome pressure at stomach after dinner.

Enlargement of liver and spleen.─Small tumour in region of spleen.─Sensation as if bowels were falling out.─Internal coldness of abdomen.─Abdomen sunken, almost stuck to vertebral column (cholera infantum).─Colic in young children; walls of belly are retracted and hard, while intestines can be seen at one spot contracted into a hard lump, of size of a small orange, travelling from one part of intestines to another; attacks frequent and excruciating, unconnected with diarrhœa or constipation, but often associated with an aphthous condition of mouth.─Periodic colic in infants, occurring about 5 p.m.─Flatulent colic in children and hysterical women.─Ascites of hepatic or splenic origin.

Painless diarrhœa, with great chilliness, even in a hot room. Stools: watery (like rice-water); painless.─Frequent, green, watery discharges, with violent abdominal spasms, during which abdomen gets hard; thrush in mouth; convulsive motions of eyes and limbs.─Bloody muco-purulent diarrhœa, with intense thirst, vomiting, eyes sunken, pupils dilated, skin corrugated and spotted blue, body cold, tongue red and dry, pulse imperceptible, urine suppressed.─Cerebral irritation during cholera infantum. Asiatic cholera, first stage, vomiting, cramps, rice-water discharges restores secretion of urine.─Constipation; stools very dry, hard and infrequent.─Retention of meconium, with vomiting of all food and obstinate constipation.─During stool: sensation as if bowels were falling out; dribbling of urine.─Spasmodic stricture of sphincter ani.─Constant diarrhœa and more or less tenesmus, and passage of much blood; on making efforts to expel, protrusion of several elongated bodies resembling earthworms; with this expulsion there was always a yellow, very fetid discharge; fæces flattened; flatulent distension of bowels; patient pale and sickly-looking (polypus of rectum).─Blind, intensely painful varices with black stools.─Pain in hæmorrhoids, fissure of rectum and painful growths.

Pain in region of kidneys extending in direction of ascending colon; afterwards copious urine.─Neuralgia of neck of bladder.─Diminution of sensibility of urethra.─Urine: profuse with thirst; with abundance of phosphates; copious, pale; scanty, even suppressed in collapse; scanty, dribbling a few drops at beginning of every stool.─Incontinence of urine.─Thin, yellowish urine.─Nocturnal involuntary emissions of urine.─Emaciation; paleness; skin cold and dry pulse rapid and feeble; tongue red and tender; gums spongy and bleeding thirst excessive; appetite voracious; bowels constipated; urine pale, frequent, large quantity, of high density, and loaded with sugar; liver tumid and tender (diabetes mellitus).

Sensual and lascivious fancies and dreams.─Excessive sexual desires, with constant erections at night.─Satyriasis.─Diminution of sexual desire; lessened even to impotence.─Erections at night; backache uncontrollable fidgetiness.─Impotence with melancholy, loss of memory nervous prostration; epilepsy.─Effects of sexual excesses, such as impotency, paralysis and spasms from exhaustion of spinal cord.─Seminal emissions, with depressed spirits, dull thought, backache, staggering gait and great weakness.─Spermatorrhœa, before paralytic symptoms have set in; erections normal but teasing and persistent, with nocturnal emissions and nervous disturbances growing out of unsatisfied sexual desire.─Chordee during gonorrhœa.

Nymphomania.─Sterility from excessive sexual indulgence.─Abolition of all sexual feeling during coition.─Aversion to coition; menses scanty.─Induration of uterus; enlargement of uterus (after parturition), with abnormal discharges.─Uterine fibroids.─Ovarian neuralgia from ungratified sexual desire; nervous unrest.─Neuralgia of ovaries; pain, swelling, tenderness of l. ovary, diminution of sexual desire.─Epilepsy from ovarian irritation.─Large tumour, smooth and tense, in hypogastric and r. iliac region; tumour slightly tender when pressed, and there is distinct fluctuation; measurement of abdomen taken in a line with crests of ilium shows an increase of size of ten inches; urine scanty and frequent calls to pass it (ovarian cystic tumour).─Abdomen large but not tense; on palpation, well defined, elastic tumour, yielding indistinct fluctuation, in l. iliac region, here also movements are felt as in quickening (ovarian enlargement).─Metrorrhagia from reflex irritation, or of nervous origin.─Menorrhagia, metrorrhagia, nymphomania, and menstrual epilepsy; nervous symptoms led to its use.─Menorrhagia from ovarian irritation caused by strong sexual desire.─Flooding, esp. in young women.─Erotomania, a few days after menses.─Before menses: headache.─During menses: epileptic spasms, nymphomania, itching, burning, and excitement in vulva, pudenda, and clitoris.─After menses: headache, insomnia, and heat in genitals.─Epileptic attacks at or near menstrual periods.─Scanty menstruation in fleshy women.─Change of life: restless, must be on the move; sleepless; trembling; flushings of face and much congestion of blood to head; palpitation of heart; menorrhagia.─Vaginismus.─Pruritus of external genitals; arising from irritation of uterus, or ovaries, or any hyperæsthesia of veins of that location; sexual excitement intense, often actual nymphomania.─Nymphomania during puerperal state.─Frightful imaginings at night, that she has committed some great crime as the murder of her children or husband (during pregnancy).─Morning sickness and vomiting during pregnancy.─Nervous cough during pregnancy, threatening abortion; the cough dry, hard, and almost incessant.─Convulsions during labour.─Enlarged uterus.

After parturition voice changed, whispering.─Hyperæsthesia of laryngeal nerves.─Loss of sensibility.─Chronic catarrh with purulent slate-coloured sputa.─Follicular and catarrhal laryngitis.─Laryngismus stridulus, uncomplicated, from neurosis or reflex irritation.─Laryngeal crises of locomotor ataxy.─Spasmodic, dry croup, occurring suddenly from reflex irritation, teething, worms, not catarrhal.─Membranous croup, with whitish exudation.─Breath hot and hurried.─Breathlessness, nervous headache, and want of sleep.─Spasmodic asthma; with dry, nervous, spasmodic cough, great tightness of breathing.─Paroxysmal, dry cough.─Dry, fatiguing cough at intervals of two or three hours, with difficult respiration, followed by vomiting of mucus and food, < at night and when lying down; tightness of chest when breathing.─Weak, nervous children, arouse with a dry, spasmodic cough, which greatly frightens them, causing them to cry out in terror.─Nervous, dry, hysterical cough of women, esp. if pregnant.─Whooping-cough, with spasmodic, dry cough; spasm of glottis; with convulsions.

Burning in chest.─Pneumonia in drunkards.

Feeble intermitting action; so nervous she must be busy and walk; slow and small pulse; heart's beat wanting in energy, and its sounds distant and feeble; action of heart slow and fluttering.─Pulse, accelerated, later becomes slower.─(Cardiac neuroses from spinal or uterine irritation.)

Tabes dorsalis from sexual excesses.─Backache; tired lameness of legs (seminal emissions).

Trembling of hands during voluntary motion; or, as in delirium tremens.─Hands and fingers in constant action; busy twitching of fingers.

Cannot stand erect; legs weak.─Unsteady gait; frequently taken for a drunken man.─Loss of sensibility; pinching or burning causes no pain (locomotor ataxia).

Nervous, busy, must occupy one's self; often in nervous women.─Inco-ordination of muscles; nervous weakness; even paralysis of motion and numbness.─Weakness of extensors of leers and feet.─Temperature lowered, with coldness of extremities; hands and wrists icy-cold and wet; cerebral irritation, in cholera infantum.

Skin cold, blue, spotted, corrugated (cholera infantum).─Moist eczema of legs with pityriasis of scalp.─Moist eruptions.─Slightly elevated, smooth, red patches, like urticaria, but with hardened bases, like erythema nodusum; itching at night in bed and in a high temperature; appear in winter.─Acne simplex and indurata; bluish red, pustular, < on face and chest; esp. in lymphatic constitutions.─Rose-coloured mammilated eruption on lower extremities; sometimes pustules in centre of patches that become umbilicated, exuding a creamy moisture and forming thick, yellow scabs.─Eruption of small boils in successive crops, mostly on face and trunk, with troublesome itching.─Large, indolent, painful pustules; boils.─Long-lasting scrofulous ulcerations.─Syphilitic psoriasis.

Sleepiness; deep sleep, often broken by a start, though waking is very difficult; confused dreams.─Sleepy; drops asleep in his chair; if aroused falls right asleep again; during day.─Sleepless; restless; can only calm herself by incessant occupation.─Sleeplessness: in anæmic patients, or nervous persons who are exhausted but irritated; from over-fulness of cerebral blood-vessels; during convalescence from acute diseases; in case of mercurial poisoning; accompanying mental anxiety, hysteria, pregnancy, and general nervous irritability; from sexual excitement.─Deep, profound, and quiet slumber.─Profound and yet disturbed sleep, always awakens with a mental struggle, not knowing at first where he was or what had become of him.─Night terrors of children; grinding teeth in sleep, moans, cries; horrible dreams.─Somnambulism in children.─Waking with severe headache in a child.

Body cold; skin corrugated and mottled.─Shivering with cold and cold skin, although child was covered with mustard plasters.─Chilliness and general feeling of coldness, more pronounced about extremities (ague).─Heat, like cold stage, not very strongly marked.─Head hot, feels as if in a furnace, with coldness and chills.─Sweat abundant and viscid, all over body; unusually long lasting and exhausting (ague).

Kalium bromatum

• Potassium Bromide affects the MIND AND NERVES, producing failure of mental power; general numbness, and anaesthesia of mucous membranes esp. of eyes, throat and skin.

• Its power over sexual sphere is very great; patient is sensual, with lascivious fancies; satyriasis and nymphomania.

• Epilepsy is associated, with sexual excess or abuse, in men; and in women fits occur during menses; fits usually occur during new moon and are followed by headaches.

• Onset of diseased condition is slow; without any pain.

• Paralysis.

• Weakens the heart and lowers temperature.

• Ill effects of worry, loss of business, reputation and embarrassment.

• Sexual excess, illness or death of a near friend.

• chorea from fright.

• Paralysis agitans.

• Mental exertion.

• Emotions - anger, fright, worry.

• Grief.

• Periodically; night, 2 a.m.

• Summer; new moon.

- Sexual excess.

• Puberty.

• Unsatisfied sexual desire.

• When busy mentally and physically.

- Depressive delusions; thinks he is pursued; will be poisoned; will commit some great crime, will murder her children on husband.

• Nervous.

• Brain fag, from grief and anxiety.

• Suspicious; looks on all sides; fears people yet can not remain alone, in the dark.

• Fidgety, busy hands, fumbles.

• Moves arms about wildly.

- Complete loss of memory, forgets how to talk, has to be told the word before he can speak it.

• Amnesic aphasia.

• Melancholy, much concerned about health, complains without cause.

• Remorse; wrings hands; bursts into tears.

• Slow, hesitates, omits or mixes up words in talking and writing.

• Profound indifference and disgust for life.

• Imagines he can not pass a certain point.

• Frequent shedding of tears.

• Night terrors in children, awake screaming, unconscious, recognizes no one; followed by squinting.

• Senile softening of the brain.

• Suicidal mania with trembling.

• Numb feeling in head, agg. occiput.

• Vertigo, as if ground gave way and staggering gait, agg. stooping.

• Symptoms of apoplexy.

• Violent headache or numbness felt in occiput; from concussion of brain.

• Sunken; eyeballs move in every direction.

• Squinting after night terrors, of children.

• Hardness of hearing.

• Sounds echo in ears.

• Roaring synchronous with pulse; at night.

• Smell impaired.

• Coryza descends to larynx.

• Flushed; yellow cachetic.

• Expressionless.

• Acne on face.

• Difficult speech; stammering.

• Breath foetid.

• Numb.

• Tongue protrudes with a jerk; Chorea.

• Numb.

• Dysphagia of liquids (children) can swallow only solids.

• Vomiting; with intense thirst; after each meal; hysterical; after exciting emotions.

• Persistent hiccough.

• Spasms in, with retraction of walls.

• As if bowels were falling out.

• Cutting colic.

• Internal coldness.

• Green watery stools, with rapid collapse.

• Cholera infantum, with twitching and jerking of muscles, and retraction of abdomen.

• Rectal polypus; persistent diarrhoea, much blood expelled.

• Diabetes mellitus.

• Dribbling of urine at the beginning of stools.

• Urethra numb.

• Enuresis.

• Excessive sexual desire, with constant erections at night.

• Desire lessened, even impotence.

• Impotence; with melancholy epilepsy, nervous prostration.

• Nymphomania; during puerperal state.

• Sterility from excessive sexual indulgence.

• Ovarian neuralgia from ungratified sexual desire.

• Cystic tumours of ovaries.

• Flooding in young women, with sexual desire.

• Menorrhagia, from strong sexual desire.

• Fibroids.

• Subinvolution.

• Sexual feeling lost, aversion to coition.

• Croupy cough.

• Reflex cough during pregnancy.

• Breath hot; hurried.

• Asthma, with dry cough, tosses arms about wildly.

• Hands and fingers in constant motion.

• Twitching of fingers.

• Trembling of hands during voluntary motion.

• Unsteady gait.

• Can not stand erect, legs weak.

• Acne.

• Moist eczema of legs.

• Psoriasis.

• Skin cold; numb.

• Scars remaining after eruptions.

• Drowsiness; often broken by start.

• Sleeplessness, due to worry, grief and sexual excess.

• Night terrors.

• Somnambulism in children.

• Painful flushing of the face, during climacteric.

• Calc; Con; Op; Stram.

Loss of memory; had to be told word before he could speak it.

Night terrors of children, with screaming; cannot recognize nor be comforted by friends; sometimes followed by squinting.

Weak intermittent heart, must be busy with her hands (fidgety hands).

Fidgety hands, in constant motion.

Night terrors of children; grinding teeth in sleep; moans; cries; horrible dreams.

Loss of sensibility; body generally; also fauces, larynx, urethra, etc.

Adapted to large persons inclined to obesity; acts better in children than in adults. Loss of sensibility, fauces, larynx, urethra, entire body; staggering, uncertain gait; feels as if legs were all over sidewalk. Nervous, restless; cannot sit still, must move about or keep occupied; hands and fingers in constant motion; fidgety hands (fidgety feet, Zinc.); twitching of fingers. Fits of uncontrollable weeping and profound melancholic delusions. Loss of memory; forgets how to talk; absent-minded; has to be told the word before he could speak it (Anac.). Depressed, low-spirited, anxious, "feel as if they would lose their minds." Inco-ordination of muscles (Gels.); nervous weakness or paralysis of motion and numbness. Restlessness and sleeplessness due to worry and grief, loss of property or reputation, from business embarassements (Hyos.). Night terrors of children (Kali p.); grinding teeth in sleep, screams, moans, cries; horrible dreams, cannot be comforted by friends. Somnambulism (Sil.). Spasms: from fright, anger or emotional causes in nervous plethoric persons; during parturition, teething, whooping-cough, Bright's disease. Epilepsy: congenital, syphilitic, tubercular; usually a day or two before menses; at new moon; headache follows attack. Cholera infantum, with reflex irritation of brain, before effusion; first stage of hydrocephaloid. Daily colic in infants about 5 a. m. (at 4 p. m. Col., Lyc.). Nervous cough during pregnancy; dry, hard, almost incessant, threatening abortion (Con.). Stammering; slow, difficult speech (Bov., Stram.). Acne: simplex, indurata, rosacea; bluish-red, pustular, on face, chest, shoulders; leaves unsightly scars (Carbo an.); in young fleshy persons of gross habits.

. - One of the antidotes for lead poisoning. Often curative after Eugenia jambos in acne.