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Kali Chloricum

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General

General action :

The chlorate, most poisonous of all the salts of Potash, lowers the temperature, depresses and paralyses the heart, irritates the mucous membranes, producing gangrenous ulcerations from the mouth to the anus, violent, acute nephritis, and profound prostration.

Face and Mouth :

Gangrenous ulceration in the mouth, (exactly similar to cancrum oris), with hard swelling, profound prostration, albuminuria, haematuria, dyspnoea, etc.

Throat

Swelling of the submaxillary glands.

Internal throat red and oedematous, swallowing difficult, with rawness, dryness and scraping.

Stool

Blood and mucus, violent cutting pains, great prostration.

Urinary Organs

Acute nephritis.

Urine bloody, scanty, albuminous.

Heart and Pulse :

Heart's action very feeble, weak, soft pulse.

Coldness in the praecordial region.

Skin

General cyanotic hue, especially of the lips and extremities.

Fever

Tendency to coldness, especially with cold limbs.