Homeopathy LibraryKalium Bromatum
Reason for use
The physiological action of this drug is not fully determined, yet it is quite probable that its chief action is upon the nervous system, affecting most prominently those portions of the spinal cord which receive and transmit reflex impulses, causing diminished reflex excitability of the nerve centers.
It next acts upon the peripheral ends of the efferent nerves, causing paralysis, and finally affects the cerebrum, causing dilated pupils, intoxication, weakness of mind, hallucinations, etc.
The heart is directly paralyzed under its influence, while through spasms of the vaso-motor system it causes contraction of the blood vessels, followed by dilatation.
It thus causes primarily a depressed circulation in the cranium and throughout the body, lessening the blood supply, and thus causing, in connection with the action upon the nervous system, functional paralysis of nearly all the organs and tissues of the body.
The subsequent dilatation gives rise secondarily to congestion, exciting the depressed nerve centers to a morbidly increased action, both sensory and motor, giving rise to hyperaesthesia and convulsions, thus, according to Dr. Hale , becoming " homoeopathic to all the morbid conditions and symptoms in which it has been found useful by the allopathic school ."
Upon the skin the action is quite characteristic.
Aside from the peripheral anaesthesia before mentioned, it causes acne-like eruptions, especially upon the face, neck, and shoulders, small boils, papules, pustules, and corroding ulcers.
Characteristic symptoms.
▲ Worse
In the evening
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Mind
(Kalium bromatum)
Frightful images at night during pregnancy, or in children who awake screaming, unconscious, recognize no one ; followed by squinting.
Delirium, with delusions ; thinks he is pursued, will be poisoned (Hyos.) ; is selected for divine vengeance ; that her child is dead, etc.
Delirium tremens ; flushed face ; horrid illusions. (Bell.)
Melancholy, with delusions.
Inability to express one's self.
Loss of memory ; single words are forgotten or syllables are dropped ; amnesic aphasia.
Head
(Kalium bromatum)
Brain irritated, face flushed, pupils dilated, eyes sunken ; rolls head ; awakes now and then, screaming ; extremities cold ; cholera infantum.
Active congestion ; inflammation before effusion has occurred. (Acon., Bell.)
Eyes
(Kalium bromatum)
Vision dim ; pupils dilated ; squinting. ( Hyos .)
Gaze fixed ; eyes sunken ; lusterless.
Face
(Kalium bromatum)
Face pale, but otherwise appeared as one drunk, with hallucinations, etc.
Mouth
(Kalium bromatum)
Tongue red, dry, enlarged ; red, later dry and brown ; white, involving edges as well as dorsum.
Difficult speech ; action of tongue disordered (Gels.) ; stammering.
Breath fetid, with white tongue.
Throat
(Kalium bromatum)
Anesthesia of mouth, throat, and pharynx ; chronic alcoholism.
Stomach
(Kalium bromatum)
Thirst intense, with dry mouth.
Sick and giddy ; repeated retching and vomiting.
Stool
(Kalium bromatum)
Discharges watery ; cholera infantum, especially with cerebral irritation and collapse.
Flatulent colic in children and hysterical women. ( Asaf .)
Urinary Organs
(Kalium bromatum)
Diabetes, urine loaded with sugar.
Profuse, with abundance of phosphates.
Dribbling of urine at beginning of stool.
Incontinence of urine.
Male Organs.- (Kalium bromatum)
Desire lessened even to impotence. (Agn.)
Seminal emissions, with depressed spirits, dull thought, backache, staggering gait ; great weakness. (Phos. ac.)
Female Organs.- (Kalium bromatum)
Painful flushings and congestion to head during climaxis. (Sang.)
Ovarian neuralgia from ungratified sexual desire ; nervous unrest. (Cimic.)
Pruritus of vulva from ovarian or uterine irritation. (Calad.)
Subinvolution and fibroids have been cured.
Respiratory Organs.- (Kalium bromatum)
Paroxysmal, dry cough, at intervals of two or three hours ; difficult respiration ; followed by vomiting of mucus or food ; worse at night and when lying down ; like whooping cough.
Heart and Pulse.- (Kalium bromatum)
Heart lacks energy ; sounds seem distant and feeble ; slow, fluttering.
Pulse accelerated, later becomes slower ; slow, small, weak.
Generalities
(Kalium bromatum)
Nervous, busy, must occupy one's self ; often in nervous women.
In coordination of muscles ; nervous weakness ; even paralysis of motion and numbness.
Unsteady gait, reeling as if drunk, with rolling and staggering ; as one walks with locomotor ataxia. (Alum.)
Weakness of extensors of legs and feet.
Temperature lowered, with coldness of extremities ; hands and wrists icy-cold and wet ; cerebral irritation, in cholera infantum.
Sleep
(Kalium bromatum)
Sleeplessness, especially in anaemic patients, or nervous persons who are exhausted but irritated. (Coff. c.)
Skin
(Kalium bromatum)
Acne of face, shoulders, and chest in young, fleshy people of gross habits. (Carb. an.)
Large, indolent, painful pustules ; boils.
Pustular ulcerations, and small boils. (Hep. s.)
Aggravation
Therapeutic Range.- (Kalium bromatum)
Delirium tremens ; puerperal mania ; melancholia ; insomnia ; epilepsy and epileptiform affections ; nervous excitement, irritation, and congestion of cerebral meninges ; ataxia ; anaesthesia ; paralysis ; migraine ; tetanus ; spermatorrhoea ; impotence ; hypertrophied organs, including fibroids and sub-involution ; ovarian cysts ; dyspepsia of drunkards ; cholera infantum ; diabetes ; paralysis of sphincters ; pruritus ; nymphomania ; ovarian neuralgia ; whooping cough ; acne ; pustular eruptions ; ulcerations.
Conditions
(Kalium bromatum)
Especially adapted to large, fleshy people, particularly children.
Compare
(Kalium bromatum)
Acon., Ambra gris., Hyos., Gels., Bell., Camph., Nux v., Zinc.
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