Kalium Oxalicum

K. pm. is the well-known disinfectant, and has been chiefly used in medicine

as a local application in diphtheria and other conditions where there are fetid discharges. A

• ▸proving by H.
• ▸C.
• ▸Allen has brought out the fact that the medicine is homceopathic to both.
• ▸There

was intense irritation of nose, throat, and larynx, with sanious and bloody discharges, and

constant inclination to swallow, although swallowing gave great pain. Profuse salivation and

constant flow of ropy mucus from the stomach were among the noted effects. The uvula was

swollen and red. Extreme fetor of the breath and sanious discharges from the nose and intense

prostration appear to be the leading indications for it in diphtheria. (Kraft, who has used it largely

in diphtheria, gives it in this way: A few grains are dissolved in a tumbler of water, sufficient to

make it very red. A teaspoonful of this is put into another tumbler of water, and a teaspoonful out

of the second tumbler is given every hour or two). The swollen uvula is also noteworthy. The

• ▸exterior of the throat is very sensitive.
• ▸A patient of mine made a curious use of K.
• ▸pm.
• ▸externally.

He had a wart on the tip of his nose, for which I had given him 7huja internally, and externally in

vain, and after this Causticum internally, with no better success. He on his own account applied a

strong solution of K. pm. in the form of Condy's fluid, and it disappeared in a week.

Sharp pricking pains extending from throat to 1. mastoid process, apparently along

Eustachian tube.

Nasal discharge smarts and irritates —Sanious discharge; nares feel stuffed and full as

in catarrh; discharge blood-streaked, although he had no catarrhal symptoms two hours

before.—Discharge from nares and larynx streaked with blood.—Profuse bleeding from nose; on

every attempt to free the obstructed nose.

Countenance flushed.—Face pale, anxious-looking, and covered with a cold

sweat.—Face and lips pate, with continual rigors over whole body.

Mouth and lips very dry, lips smart when exposed to cold air.—Profuse flow of

saliva, with a burning, raw, smarting, nauseating pain in fauces, pharynx, and larynx, and

extending down cesophagus to stomach.—Constant inclination to swallow.—Increased flow of

saliva, runs constantly out of the mouth, with more pain and difficulty of swallowing.—Speech

painful, difficult; hoarse as from tonsilitis.

The throat was primarily affected.—Throat swollen and very painful—Small

ulcerated spots here and there on walls of throat, with stinging, burning pains.—Everything

hawked up is streaked with blood.—Constant, ineffectual, inclination to hawk something

up.—Throat dry, painful, with almost incessant attempts to swallow, from which it is almost

impossible to refrain.—Continual dryness in throat, with a slight, irritating, hacking cough on

attempting to swallow.—The whole throat and larynx feel as though the cavity was constricted,

apparently from thickening of mucous membrane.—Peculiar constrictive, smarting sensation in

throat and fauces, with the hot, burning sensation in cardiac end of stomach.—Acute pain in

throat, extending to ears and pharynx, and producing a titillating cough.—Throat feels raw, and

bleeds on attempting to hawk up the secretions, which appear to fill the cavity.—Posterior nares

painful.—Uvula, soft palate, and fauces mottled of a dark red colour, with livid spots here and

there.—Soft palate and uvula swollen, cedematous, dark red.—Fauces and pharynx red and

painful, efforts to swallow almost incessant, profuse flow of saliva which escapes by the mouth

on, account of the difficulty of swallowing.—Mucous membrane feels thickened.—Burning,

nauseating pain in fauces, extending down cesophagus to stomach, with dryness and constant

inclination to swallow.—Constant, intense, painful inclination to swallow.—Muscles of neck feel

sore, esp. digastric and stylo-hyoid, glands opposite hyoid bone swollen and very

painful—Considerable difficulty in opening mouth from soreness of parotid gland and muscles

of neck.

Appetite lost.—Thirst, but inability to drink.—Almost constant flow of ropy

mucus from stomach, which is ejected without pain, but in no way relieves the nausea.—Nausea

and constant inclination to swallow.—Could take no more of the drug from a loathing which

would almost produce vomiting to look at it; began to search, in vain, for an antidote.—Nausea

and vomiting, first of contents of stomach, then thick, ropy fluid, ejected without difficulty in

large quantities, with < of throat pain.—The vomiting, which had ceased last evening, returned in

aggravated form, attended with a burning, nauseating pain in stomach and duodenum, which

became almost insupportable—Deep-seated, sickening pain in stomach, with a raw dryness in

throat, and constant inclination to swallow.—Hot, burning pain in stomach, seeming to radiate

over whole epigastrium.—Hot, burning sensation in cardiac extremity of stomach, with peculiar

constricting and smarting sensation in throat, and inclination to swallow, &c., hot, uneasy,

constricting sensation through whole length of cesophagus, lasted two hours, > by eating.

Violent pains in abdomen and convulsions.—Scalding sensation extended over

abdomen, with tenderness on tolerably firm pressure.

Compelled to urinate frequently; urine copious, clear, watery —Urine

profuse and watery.

Aching in region of cricoid cartilage, < every attempt to

swallow.—Raw sensation in larynx.—Short, hacking cough, with a constant painful urging to

swallow, which = nausea and inclination to vomit with profuse lachrymation.—Constant short,

painful hacking cough, with blood-streaked sputa.—Coughing or even hacking brings up a

sanious fluid.

• ▸Cough.
• ▸Diphtheria.
• ▸Gastritis.
• ▸Ozeena.
• ▸Salivation.
• ▸Throat, sore.
• ▸Uvula, swollen.
• ▸Warts.

• ▸Compare: Other oxydising salts, especially K.
• ▸bi.
• ▸; also Mang.
• ▸, Caust.
• ▸, K.
• ▸ca.
• ▸; in

• ▸cedematous uvula, Mur.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Apis.
• ▸; in diphtheria, Diphth.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸cy.
• ▸, Ar.
• ▸t.
• ▸, K.
• ▸bi.
• ▸, K.
• ▸m.
• ▸; in thick,

• ▸ropy mucus, K.
• ▸bi.
• ▸K.
• ▸pm.
• ▸antidotes Opium.
• ▸A case of Opium poisoning is reported (H.
• ▸W.
• ▸,

xxxil1. 380), in which recovery took place after half an ounce of laudanum had been swallowed

• ▸by mistake.
• ▸Kali permang.
• ▸in dilute solution (gr.
• ▸ii.
• ▸to the pint) was given repeatedly and acted

promptly. Next day only dryness of mouth and throat was felt.