Kalium Nitricum

Scalp very sensitive. Headache, with vertigo, as if falling to right side and backwards; worse, stooping. Ennui.

• ▸Vision becomes clouded.
• ▸Turbid corpus vitreum (Arn; Ham; Solan n; Phos).
• ▸Variegated-colored rings before eyes.
• ▸Burning and lachrymation.

• ▸Sneezing.
• ▸Swollen feeling; worse, right nostril.
• ▸Point red and itching.
• ▸Polypus (Sang nit).

Tongue red, with burning pimples; burns at tip. Throat constricted and sore.

Thin, watery, bloody. Membranous shreds, with tenesmus. Diarrhoea from eating veal.

Menses too early, profuse, black; preceded and with violent backache. Leucorrhoea. Burning pains in the ovarian region only during menses (Zinc after).

• ▸Hoarseness.
• ▸Dry, morning cough, with pain in chest and bloody expectoration.
• ▸Bronchitis, with sharp, short, dry, hacking cough.
• ▸Asthma, with excessive dyspnoea, nausea, dull stitches, and burning in chest.
• ▸Dyspnoea so great that breath cannot be held long enough to drink, though thirsty.
• ▸Chest feels constricted.
• ▸Oppression worse in morning.
• ▸Sour-smelling expectoration.
• ▸Expectoration of clotted blood, after hawking mucus.
• ▸Acute exacerbations in phthisis; congestion of lungs.
• ▸Spasmodic croup; paroxysm of crowing.
• ▸Laryngeal diphtheria.

Pulse weak, small, thready. Violent stitch in praecordia, and beating of heart.

Stitches between shoulder-blades. Tearing and sticking in shoulders and joints. Hands and fingers seem swollen.

Bright's disease.

Characteristics—The Citrate of Potash has been used in solution (eight to ten grains to a

wineglass of water) to assist the action of the kidneys in sufferers from Bright's disease who

were under the absolute skim-milk dietary. It has also been used in the same way, in old-school

• ▸practice, as a solvent for gouty concretions about joints.
• ▸K.
• ▸cit.
• ▸has not been proved, but

• ▸"Agricola" (H.
• ▸W.
• ▸, xxv.
• ▸446) has recorded the effect of a large dose given by an allopath to a

patient suffering from suppressed kidney action after influenza. In three days the kidneys acted

freely, but these new symptoms were set up: Tympanites; constant flow of mucus from anus;

awful gastric and abdominal pains, "as if a machine were at work inside, skinning the inside of

the stomach and the whole length of the intestinal tube." Flatus was constant and in great

amount, producing a pain of its own, which was a prominent feature. This pain as if machinery

were at work inside recalls a pain of Nit. ac.

Antidotes: Opium; Nitr sp dulc.

Antidote to Opium and Morphine poisoning, 8-10 grains to glass of water.

• ▸Compare: Gun-powder (Nitre with sulphur and charcoal-2x trit.
• ▸"Blood poisoning.
• ▸" Septic suppuration.
• ▸Protractive against wound infection.
• ▸Antidote to Ivy and Primula rash (Clarke) Herpes facialis; crops of boils.
• ▸Carbuncles).
• ▸Osteo-myelitis.
• ▸Cannab sat (which contains a large amount of Kali nit).

Lycop; Sanguin; Allium sat; Antimon iod.

Third to thirtieth potency.