Homeopathy LibraryKali Carbonicum
Reason for use
The most characteristic indication is a stitching pain, or a series of sharp stitching pains, which may be felt in any part of the body, as in colics, during labor, or in any kind of troubles, which are accompanied by these sharp, stitching pains,--called also jerking pains. One of the best of remedies following childbirth, and its consequences.
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Head
Violent headaches about the inner temples; violent stitching or jerking pains, on one side of the head or both. Affections of the hair of the head; eyebrows. Dazzling of the sight preventing clear vision; spotted vision, i.e. , there appears to be a spot, or spots between the eyes and the object looked at.
Stool And Anus
Obstruction from inactivity of the bowels, as a want of proper peristaltic motion; affections of the anus; stools too large in size; haemorrhoids.
Cough
Cough with expectoration bloody, acrid, or purulent.
Sexual.-- Male : Complaints in the male from coition, from involuntary seminal emissions. Female : Prominent remedy for vaginal troubles; also for the uterus. Pain like labor pains; false pains, which usually come in the back, and pass down over the buttocks, through the gluteal muscles; labor pains ceasing, or too weak. Menstruation too late, a long interval elapsing between the periods; menses too scanty; menses suppressed; menstrual blood acrid. Complaints after parturition.
Sleep
Waking too early, particularly at three or four o'clock in the morning; sleepiness in the evening; sleeplessness after midnight; sleeplesness in general.
Sensations-- Sharp stitching or jerking pains ; cutting or jerking in inner parts, or sometimes both; sensations of knocking, or throbbing, or jumping in outer parts; great weakness of the joints.
Generalities
Affections in general, occurring in the right hypochondriac region; right abdominal ring; left chest; left upper extremity; external and internal ears; of the inner surface of the liver; inner region of the kidneys; lower part of the chest; shoulder; shoulder-joint; elbow and elbow-joint; hollow of the elbow; wrist-joint: big toe; tips of the toes; joints of the legs in general; joints of the toes. Disgust of food in general. Obstructed flatus. Aversion to the open air. Subsultus tendium . Inflammatory swelling of the part, with the characteristic (stitching or jerking) pains. Dryness of the skin.
Worse.-- Worse after midnight; after sexual intercourse; in cold air; on getting cold; during eating; after eating; from getting heated; during menstruation; from suppressed menstruation; lying on the side (either); looking at an object fixedly; from involuntary pollutions; when writing.
Better.-- From eructation; while sitting in a bent position, on getting warm; from warmth in general; in warm air.
Remedies following:-- Arsen., Lycop., Pulsat., Phosphor., Sepia, Sulphur .
Antidotes
Spirits of Nitre, Dulcam .
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