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Kali Brom

Bromide of potash
45 sectionsBoericke · 15Clarke · 30

At a glance

Cardinal features · auto-extracted from Boericke · Clarke
  • Symptoms of apoplectic attacks
  • Night terrors

Essence

Prologue
Boericke

Bromide of Potash (KALI BROMATUM)

  • Like all Potash Salts, this weakens the heart and lowers temperature.
  • Brominism is caused by it.
  • General failure of mental power, loss of memory, melancholia, anaesthesia of the mucous membranes, especially of eyes, throat, and skin; acne; loss of sexual desire, paralysis.
  • Leading remedy in psoriasis.
  • Nodular form of chronic gout.
  • Symptoms of apoplectic attacks, uraemic or otherwise; somnolence and stertor, convulsions, aphasia, albuminuria.
  • Epilepsy (with salt-free diet).
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Keynotes

Characteristics (part 1)
Clarke

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 homeceopaths.
  • 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

seborrhcea. 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.

Characteristics (part 2)
Clarke

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 cedema 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

heemorrhage—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.

Causation

Causation
Clarke
  • Anger.
  • Fright.
  • Emotional disturbance.
  • Worry.
  • Business losses and embarrassments.

Sexual excess. Sexual abuse.

Mentals

Mind
Boericke
  • Profound, melancholic delusion; feeling of moral deficiency; religious depression; delusions of conspiracies against him.
  • Imagines he is singled out as an object of divine wrath.
  • Loss of memory.
  • Must do something-move about; gets fidgety (Tarant).
  • Fear of being poisoned (Hyos).
  • Amnesic aphasia; can pronounce any word told, but cannot speak otherwise.
  • Night terrors.
  • Horrid illusions.
  • Active delirium.
Symptoms — Mind
Clarke

Unconscious of what is occurring around them; cannot recognise, nor be comforted

by, their friends—Memory absolutely destroyed; anzemia; 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 anzemia.—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.

Generals

Symptoms — Generalities
Clarke

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.

Modalities

Modalities
Boericke
Better
when occupied mentally or physically

Head

Head
Boericke
  • Suicidal mania with tremulousness.
  • Face flushed.
  • Numb feeling in head.
  • Brain-fag.
  • Coryza with tendency to extension into throat.
Symptoms — Head
Clarke

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 anzesthesia 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 —Anzemia 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.—Seborrhcea.—Pityriasis.

Eyes

Symptoms — Eyes
Clarke

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; conjunctivee

congested.—Eyes suffused.—Squinting; after night terrors of children.

Ears

Symptoms — Ears
Clarke

Ringing in ears.—Roaring in ears at night synchronous with pulse——Sounds echo in

ears; headache.—Hardness of hearing.

Nose

Symptoms — Nose
Clarke

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

nose.

Face

Symptoms — Face
Clarke

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.

Mouth

Symptoms — Mouth
Clarke

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.

Symptoms — Teeth
Clarke

Odontitis of children.—Difficult dentition of children—Vomiting and diarrhoea of

teething children.

Throat

Symptoms — Throat
Clarke

Anesthesia of mouth, throat, and pharynx; (chronic alcoholism).—Dysphagia of

liquids (in infants); can swallow only solids.—Uvula and fauces congested, then

cedematous.—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.

Throat
Boericke

Congestion of uvula and fauces. Anaesthesia of fauces, pharynx, and larynx. Dysphagia, especially of liquids (Hyos).

Stomach

Stomach
Boericke

Vomiting, with intense thirst, after each meal. Persistent hiccough (Sulph ac).

Symptoms — Appetite
Clarke

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.

Symptoms — Stomach
Clarke

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 mecontum.—Weakness of stomach;

dyspepsia.—Troublesome pressure at stomach after dinner.

Abdomen

Abdomen
Boericke
  • Sensation as if bowels were falling out.
  • Cholera infantum, with reflex cerebral irritation, jerking and twitching of muscles.
  • Green, watery stools with intense thirst, vomiting, eyes sunken.
  • Prostration.
  • Internal coldness of abdomen.
  • Diarrhoea, with much blood.
  • Green, watery stools.
  • Retraction of abdomen.
Symptoms — Abdomen
Clarke

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 diarrhoea 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.

Stool

Symptoms — Stool
Clarke

Painless diarrhoea, 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 diarrhoea, 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 diarrhoea 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;

feeces flattened; flatulent distension of bowels; patient pale and sickly-looking (polypus of

rectum).—Blind, intensely painful varices with black stools ——Pain in hemorrhoids, fissure of

rectum and painful growths.

Urinary

Symptoms — Urinary Organs
Clarke

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).

Urinary
Boericke

Sensibility of urethra diminished. Urine profuse, with thirst. Diabetes (Phos ac).

Female

Female
Boericke
  • Pruritus.
  • Ovarian neuralgia with great nervous uneasiness.
  • Exaggerated sexual desire.
  • Cystic tumors of ovaries.
Symptoms — Female Sexual Organs
Clarke

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 1. 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 iltum 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 1. 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 hyperesthesia 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.

Male

Male
Boericke

Debility and impotence. Effects of sexual excesses, especially loss of memory, impaired co-ordination, numbness and tingling in limbs. Sexual excitement during partial slumber.

Symptoms — Male Sexual Organs
Clarke

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.—Spermatorrheea,

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 gonorrheea.

Respiratory

Respiratory
Boericke

Spasmodic croup. Reflex cough during pregnancy. Dry, fatiguing, hacking cough at night.

Symptoms — Respiratory Organs
Clarke

After parturition voice changed, whispering.—Hypereesthesia 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.

Chest

Symptoms — Heart and Pulse
Clarke

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.)

Neck & Back

Symptoms — Back
Clarke

Tabes dorsalis from sexual excesses.—Backache; tired lameness of legs (seminal

emissions).

Upper Limbs

Symptoms — Upper Limbs
Clarke

Trembling of hands during voluntary motion; or, as in delirium

tremens.—Hands and fingers in constant action; busy twitching of fingers.

Lower Limbs

Symptoms — Lower Limbs
Clarke

Cannot stand erect; legs weak.—Unsteady gait; frequently taken for a

drunken man.—Loss of sensibility; pinching or burning causes no pain (locomotor ataxia).

Extremities

Extremities
Boericke

Fidgety hands; busy twitching of fingers. Jerking and twitching of muscles.

Skin

Skin
Boericke
  • Acne of face, pustules.
  • Itching; worse on chest, shoulders, and face.
  • Anaesthesia of skin.
  • Psoriasis.
Symptoms — Skin
Clarke

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.

Sleep

Sleep
Boericke
  • Restless sleep.
  • Extreme drowsiness.
  • Sleeplessness due to worry and grief and sexual excess.
  • Night terrors.
  • Grinding teeth in sleep.
  • Horrible dreams.
  • Somnambulism.
Symptoms — Sleep
Clarke

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

anzemic 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.

Fever

Symptoms — Fever
Clarke

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).

Clinical

Clinical
Clarke
  • Acne.
  • Aphasia.
  • Apoplexy.
  • Asthma.
  • Cholera infantum.
  • Chordee.
  • Colic.
  • Diabetes.
  • Emissions.
  • Epilepsy.
  • Erythema nodosum.
  • General paralysis of insane.
  • Hemorrhoids.
  • /mpotence.
  • Laryngeal crises.
  • Laryngismus.
  • Locomotor ataxy.
  • Nightmare.
  • Nose, eruption on.
  • Ovaries,
  • affections of.
  • Paralysis.
  • Paralysis agitans.
  • Polypus (rectal).
  • Psoriasis.
  • Screaming.
  • Sebaceous
  • cysts.
  • Seborrheea.
  • Se/f-abuse.
  • Sensibility, loss of.
  • Sleeplessness.
  • Somnambulism.
  • Speech,
  • affections of.
  • Syphilis.
  • Tetanus.
  • Urine, incontinence of.

Relations

Relations
Clarke
  • K.
  • bro.
  • is antidoted by: Vegetable acids, oils, Camph.
  • , Nux v.
  • , Zinc.
  • /t antidotes:
  • Lead-poisoning.
  • /t 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).

Posology

Dose
Boericke

A few grains of the crude salt to the third trituration. Remember the unstable character of this salt. Said to be much more active if salt is eliminated from the diet.

Classical Posology

Acute
  • 30C or 200C · repeat every 1–4 h depending on intensity
  • Stop on improvement · reassess in 24–48 h
  • For sensitive / elderly / paediatric: prefer LM1 or 30C
Constitutional
  • 200C or 1M single dose · wait 4 weeks
  • Alternative: LM1 daily × 10 days · ascend on retest
  • Hering's-Law follow-up adapts the next script
Citations: Organon §246 (interval / repetition) · §161 (plussed water) · §282 (LM ascension) · Kent on selection · Vithoulkas on second prescription. Open Repertify for the case-specific dose with the rule cited inline.
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