Kalium Nitricum

Mind

(Kalium nitricum)

Difficult thinking in morning.

Anxiety ; ennui, melancholy, weeping mood. (Natr. mur., Nux m., Ign., Puls .)

Head

(Kalium nitricum)

Confusion of the head ; vertigo.

Dullness, stupefaction, and heaviness of the head.

Violent pressive headache, especially in forehead.

Constrictive pain in back of head ; parts feel as if stiff ; forcing to bend head backward ; better after tying up the hair.

Hot spots on the head.

Headache on vertex, like pulling of the hairs.

Sensitiveness of the scalp to touch. (Carb. v., Cinch., Merc., Natr. mur., Nitr. ac.)

Small, scurfy spots on head ; itching.

Eyes

(Kalium nitricum)

Transient blindness.

Rings of variegated colors before the eyes.

Burning in eyes, lachrymation, and aversion to light, especially in morning ; after washing in cold water.

Ears

(Kalium nitricum)

Deafness ; rushing, ringing, and roaring in the ears. (Cinch., Merc., Sil., Sulph.)

Stitches in ear worse at night, and when lying on the affected side.

Tensive pain behind the ear.

Nose

(Kalium nitricum)

Loss of smell, with coryza ; sneezing ; mucus passes through posterior nares into fauces.

Nosebleed ; dryness and stoppage of nose.

Nostril swollen, and painful to pressure.

Bones of nose sore to touch.

Face

(Kalium nitricum)

Pale, sickly expression ; sunken ; nose cold. (Ars., Camph., Verat. alb.)

Acute tearing pains in cheeks. ( Cinch., Chin. s., Spig .)

Mouth

(Kalium nitricum)

Gums red, swollen ; bleed easily. (Merc., Nitr. ac.)

Throbbing, tearing toothache ; worse from cold things. (Ant. crud., Calc. c., Staph.)

Disagreeable, disgusting taste.

Sour taste in throat, in morning, on rising.

Dryness of mouth and tongue. ( Ars., Bry., Nux m .)

Tongue burns at tip, as if cut ; burning pimples.

Tongue coated with white mucus.

Offensive odor from the mouth. ( Ars ., Hep. s., Merc., Iodi., Nitr. ac .)

Throat

(Kalium nitricum)

Burning in throat ; cutting pains, with impeded deglutition.

Hawking of sweetish, tough mucus from throat.

Rawness and scraping in throat. (Amm. carb., Caust.)

Sore throat ; uvula and tonsils red. (Bell.)

Stomach

(Kalium nitricum)

Violent hunger, or loss of appetite.

Violent thirst.

Cannot drink for want of breath.

Nausea ; qualmishness ; violent vomiting of mucus, with blood.

Faint-like weakness at pit of stomach. ( Cimic., Ign., Petrol., Puls .)

Cold feeling or burning in stomach ; inflammation.

Sharp, sticking pains ; hinder breathing.

Pressure and gnawing in pit of stomach.

Abdomen

(Kalium nitricum)

Violent colic, worse on right side ; griping and cutting about the umbilicus. ( Coloc .)

Abdomen distended, with much rumbling ( Cinch., Carb. v., Lyc., Sulph .) ; emission of offensive flatus.

Stool

(Kalium nitricum)

Watery, thin, fecal ; bloody ; soft, with colic.

Diarrhoea from eating veal ; constipation.

Urinary Organs

(Kalium nitricum)

Frequent urination, and discharge of much pale urine, with reddish clouds.

Mucous sediment ; salts increased ; sp. gr. 1030-1040.

Dysuria ; frequent desire, with burning ; only few drops at first ; after irritating medicines ; gonorrhoeal extension.

Male Organs.- (Kalium nitricum)

Violent erections, with increased desire.

Female Organs.- (Kalium nitricum)

Menses suppressed ; too early and profuse.

Menstrual blood black as ink ( Croc., Cycl., Sabin .) ; pains in abdomen, small of back, and thighs. ( Cimic., Puls .)

Respiratory Organs.- (Kalium nitricum)

Aphonia ; roughness and scraping in larynx, with hoarseness.

Cannot drink for want of breath ; has to take drinks in little sips.

Little children take hold of the cup with both hands, and take greedily one sip after another.

Paroxysms of difficult and rapid breathing, evening and night ; less in morning ; oppressed breathing on ascending stairs. ( Ars ., Ascl., Calc. c., Merc.)

Asthma ; cannot lie in horizontal position ; violent gasping and suffocation. ( Ars ., Ipec., Samb.)

Cough ; awakens at 3 A. M. with violent, stupefying headache ; in open air ; worse ascending, or when holding breath ; with cutting and stitches in chest ; expectoration of coagulated blood ; after hawking mucus.

Dull tightness and constriction of chest, as if lungs were constricted from back.

Stitches on drawing long breath, or coughing. (Bry.)

Congestion to chest.

Heaviness and tightness of chest, like a great load, pressing thorax together ; dyspnoea to suffocation ; the latter out of proportion to the slight congestion or hepatization.

Suppuration of lungs, with profuse (colliquative) sweat. ( Hep. s., Phos .)

Heart and Pulse.- (Kalium nitricum)

Palpitation on rising or moving about quickly, with heat of face and oppression of chest.

Violent audible palpitation ( Spig .), with dyspnoea and great anxiety ; has to sit up in bed. ( Acon .)

Pulse usually full, hard, accelerated ; slow, mornings, weak, and thready.

Neck and Back.- (Kalium nitricum)

Stiffness, and paralyzed feeling in neck and back.

Small of back feels bruised.

Pressure and burning in back ; relieved by motion.

Drawing pain in region of kidneys.

Limbs

(Kalium nitricum)

Trembling, lameness, and paralytic feelings in limbs.

Rheumatic pains ; stitching pains at night.

Parts feel as if made of wood.

Paralysis of limbs ; debility of limbs.

Generalities

(Kalium nitricum)

Twitching and trembling of muscles over whole body.

Great exhaustion and debility ; tremulous weakness.

Sensation as if parts, or whole of body, were of wood.

Formication ; constrictive feeling in many parts.

Haemorrhages of bright-red blood. (Acon., Erig., Ham ., Ipec., Sec .)

Sudden swelling of body, neck, thighs.

Skin

(Kalium nitricum)

Itching pimples ; small pustules.

Pricking, like needles, then burning.

Burning vesicles filled with yellow serum ; on scratching they burst.

Sleep

(Kalium nitricum)

Yawning and drowsiness.

Restless sleep at night ; sleepless after midnight ; nightmare.

Fever

(Kalium nitricum)

Chill and coldness in afternoon and evening ; increased from motion ; passing off when lying.

Chill, with subsequent sweat ; no intervening heat.

Coldness and shivering, with thirst.

Heat at night, without thirst, and without subsequent sweat.

Debilitating sweat from least exertion. (Calc. c., Chin. sulph., Hep. s., Merc., Phos ., Sulph.)

Profuse, cold, clammy night sweats. ( Ars., Phos., Merc .)

Amelioration

Therapeutic Range.- (Kalium nitricum)

Strangury, after abuse of Cantharis, turpentine, and abuse of condiments ; dysuria ; enuresis ; Bright's disease ; diabetes ; diarrhoea ; peritonitis ; pneumonia ; asthma ; phthisis ; rheumatism ; oedema ; paralysis ; cardialgia ; cardiac failure ; chorea.

Compare

(Kalium nitricum)

Acon., Canth., Tereb., Ars.

Antidote

(Kalium nitricum)

Nitr. sp. d. Camph. increases the pains ; Nitr. relieves strangury after abuse of Canth., turpentine, and the abuse of condiments.

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