Kalium bromatum

Kalium bromatum
(bromide of potash)
* Like all Potash Salts, this weakens the heart and lowers temperature.
* Brominism is caused by it.
* General failure of mental power, loss of memory,melancholia, anaesthesia of the mucous
membranes, especially of eyes, throat, and skin; acne; loss of sexual desire, paralysis.
* Leading remedy in psoriasis.
* Nodular form of chronic gout.
* Symptoms of apoplectic attacks, uraemic or otherwise; somnolence and stertor,
convulsions, aphasia, albuminuria.
* Epilepsy (with salt-free diet).
Mind
- Profound, melancholic delusion; feeling of moraldeficiency; religious depression;
delusions of conspiracies against him.
- Imagines he is singled out as an object of divine wrath.
- Loss of memory.
- Must do something-move about; gets fidgety. [Tarant.]
- Fear of being poisoned. [Hyos.]
- Amnesic aphasia; can pronounce any word told, but cannot speak otherwise.
- Night terrors.
- Horrid illusions.
- Active delirium.
Head
- Suicidal mania with tremulousness.
- Face flushed.
- Numb feeling in head.
- Brain-fag.
- Coryza with tendency to extension into throat.
Throat
- Congestion of uvula and fauces.
- Anaesthesia of fauces, pharynx, and larynx.
- Dysphagia, especially of liquids. [Hyos.]
Stomach
- Vomiting, with intense thirst, after each meal.
- Persistent hiccough. [Sulph. ac.]
Abdomen
- Sensation as if bowels were falling out.
- Cholera infantum, with reflex cerebral irritation, jerking and twitching of muscles.
- Green, watery stools with intense thirst, vomiting, eyes sunken.
- Prostration.
- Internal coldness of abdomen.
- Diarrhoea, with much blood.
- Green, watery stools.
- Retraction of abdomen.
Urinary
- Sensibility of urethra diminished.
- Urine profuse, with thirst.
- Diabetes. [Phos. ac.]
Male
- Debility and impotence.
- Effects of sexual excesses, especially loss of memory, impaired co-ordination, numbness
and tingling in limbs.
- Sexual excitement during partial slumber.
Female
- Pruritus.
- Ovarian neuralgia with great nervous uneasiness.
- Exaggerated sexual desire.
- Cystic tumors of ovaries.
Respiratory
- Spasmodic croup.
- Reflex cough during pregnancy.
- Dry, fatiguing, hacking cough at night.
Extremities
- Fidgety hands; busy twitching of fingers.
- Jerking and twitching of muscles.
Skin
- Acne of face, pustules.
- Itching; worse on chest, shoulders, and face.
- Anaesthesia of skin.
- Psoriasis.
Sleep
- Restless sleep.
- Extreme drowsiness.
- Sleeplessness due to worry and grief and sexual excess.
- Night terrors.
- Grinding teeth in sleep.
- Horrible dreams.
- Somnambulism.
Modalities
- Better, when occupied mentally or physically.
Dose
- A few grains of the crude salt to the third trituration.
- Remember the unstable character of this salt.
- Said to be much more active if salt is eliminated from the diet.