Kalium bichromicum

Kalium bichromicum
(bichromate of potash)
* The special affinities of this drug are the mucous membrane of stomach, bowels, and airpassages; bones and fibrous tissues.
* Kidneys, heart, and liver are also affected.
* Incipient parenchrymatous; nephritis.
* Nephritis with gastric disturbances.
* Cirrhosis of liver.
* Anaemia and absence of fever are characteristic.
* General weakness bordering on paralysis.
* It is especially indicated for fleshy, fat, light complexioned persons subject to catarrhs or
with syphilitic or scrofulous history.
* Symptoms are worse in the morning; pains migratequickly, rheumatic and gastric
symptoms alternate.
* More adapted to subacute rather than the violentacute stage.
* Mucous membranes everywhere are affected.
* Catarrh of pharynx, larynx, bronchi and nose, and a tough, stringy, viscid secretion is
produced, which condition is a very strong guiding symptom for this drug.
* Perforation of the septum.
* Chronic atonic catarrh.
* Polypus.
* Dilatation of stomach and heart.
Head
- Vertigo with nausea when rising from seat.
- Headache over eyebrows, preceded by blurred vision.
- Aching and fullness in glabella.
- Semilateral headache in small spots, and from suppressed catarrh.
- Frontal pain; usually over one eye.
- Bones and scalp feel sore.
Eyes
- Supra-orbital neuralgia, right side.
- Eyelids burn, swollen, oedematous.
- Discharge ropy and yellow.
- Ulcers on cornea; no pain or photophobia.
- Descemetitis, with only moderate irritation of eye.
- Croupous conjunctivitis; granular lids, with pannus.
- Iritis, with punctuate deposits on inner surfaceof cornea.
- Slight pain, with severe ulceration or inflammation. [Conium opposite.]
Ears
- Swollen, with tearing pains.
- Thick, yellow, stringy, fetid discharge.
- Sharp stitches in left ear.
Nose
- Snuffles of children, especially fat, chubby babies. Pressure and pain at root of nose, and
sticking pain in nose.
- Septum ulcerated; round ulcer.
- Fetid smell. Discharge thick, ropy, greenish-yellow. Tough, elastic plugs from nose; leave a
raw surface.
- Inflammation extends to frontal sinuses, with distress and fullness at root of nose.
- Dropping from posterior nares. [Hydr.]
- Loss of smell.
- Much hawking.
- Inability to breathe through nose.
- Dryness.
- Coryza, with obstruction of nose.
- Violent sneezing.
- Profuse, watery nasal discharge.
- Chronic inflammation of frontal sinus with stopped-up sensation.
Face
- Florid complexion.
- Blotchy, red appearance.
- Acne. [Juglans; Kal. ars.]
- Bones sensitive, especially beneath orbits.
Mouth
- Dry; viscid saliva.
- Tongue mapped, red, shining, smooth, and dry, with dysentery; broad, flat, indented, thickly
coated.
- Feeling of a hair on tongue.
Throat
- Fauces red and inflamed.
- Dry and rough.
- Parotid glands swollen.
- Uvula relaxed, oedematous, bladder-like.
- Pseudo-membranous deposit on tonsils and soft palate.
- Burning extending to stomach.
- Aphthae.
- Diphtheria, with profound prostration and soft pulse.
- Discharge from mouth and throat, tough and stringy.
Stomach
- Nausea and vomiting after beer.
- Load immediately after eating.
- Feels as if digestion had stopped.
- Dilatation of stomach.
- Gastritis.
- Round ulcer of stomach.
- Stitches in region of liver and spleen and through to spine.
- Dislikes water.
- Cannot digest meat.
- Desire for beer and acids.
- Gastric symptoms are relieved after eating, and the rheumatic symptoms reappear.
- Vomiting of bright yellow water.
Abdomen
- Cutting pain in abdomen, soon after eating.
- Chronic intestinal ulceration.
- Soreness in right hypochondrium, fatty infiltration of liver and increase in soft fibrous
tissue.
- Painful retraction, soreness and burning.
Stool
- Jelly-like, gelatinous; worse, mornings.
- Dysentery; tenesmus, stools brown, frothy.
- Sensation of a plug in anus.
- Periodic constipation, with pain across the loins, and brown urine.
Urinary
- Burning in urethra.
- After urinating a drop seems to remain which cannot be expelled.
- Ropy mucus in urine.
- Urethra becomes clogged up.
- Congestion of kidneys; nephritis, with scanty, albuminous urine and casts.
- Pyelitis; urine mixed with epithelial cells, mucus, pus, or blood.
- Haematochyluria.
Male
- Itching and pain of penis, with pustules.
- Ulcers, with paroxysmal stitches; aggravated at night.
- Constriction at root of penis, at night on awakening.
- Syphilitic ulcers, with cheesy, tenacious exudation.
- Erections. [Picric. ac.]
Female
- Yellow, tenacious leucorrhoea.
- Pruritus of vulva, with great burning and excitement.
- Prolapsus uteri; worse in hot weather.
Respiratory
- Voice hoarse; worse, evening.
- Metallic, hacking cough.
- Profuse, yellow expectoration, very glutinous and sticky, coming out in long, stringy, and
very tenacious mass.
- Tickling in larynx.
- Catarrhal laryngitis cough has a brassy sound.
- True membranous croup, extending to larynx and nares.
- Cough, with pain in sternum, extending to shoulders; worse when undressing.
- Pain at bifurcation of trachea on coughing; frommid-sternum to back.
Heart
- Dilatation, especially from coexisting kidney lesion.
- Cold feeling around heart. [Kali nit.]
Back
- Cutting through loins; cannot walk; extends to groins.
- Pain in coccyx and sacrum extending up and down.
Extremities
- Pains fly rapidly from one place to another. [Kali sulph.; Puls.]
- Wandering pains, along the bones; worse cold.
- Left-sided sciatica; better, motion.
- Bones feel sore and bruised.
- Very weak.
- Tearing pains in tibia; syphilitic rheumatism. [Mez.]
- Pain, swelling and stiffness and crackling of all joints.
- Soreness of heels when walking.
- Tendo Achilles swollen and painful.
- Pains in small spots. [Oxalic ac.]
Skin
- Acne.
- Papular eruptions.
- Ulcer with punched-out edges, with tendency to penetrate and tenacious exudation.
- Pustular eruption, resembling smallpox, with burning pains.
- Itching with vesicular eruption.
Modalities
- Better, from heat.
- Worse, beer, morning, hot weather, undressing.
Relationship
- Compare : Tart. emet.; Brom.; Hepar; Ind.; Calc.; Ant. cr.
- In the production of false membranes compare : Brom.; Ammon. caust.; Sulph. ac.; Ipecac.
- Antidotes : Ars.; Lach.
Dose
- Third trituration, also thirtieth attenuation and higher.
- The lower preparations of this salt should not be kept too long.