ClarkePreparation Solution in distilled water. Trituration.
Sources 5 entries across 5 books: Clarke, Hering, T. F. Allen, Dewey, Hempel
Dose
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No dose stated in the library’s books
Reason for useClarke
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 homoeopathic 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 Thuja 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.
By regionClarke
Head Head feels full.
Eyes Profuse lachrymation.
Stomach 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 oesophagus, lasted two hours, > by eating.
Respiratory Organs 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.
Lower Limbs Legs feel as though he could not move them, tremble on attempting to stand.
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