Kalium nitricum

Kalium nitricum
(nitrate of potassium-saltpeter)
* Often indicated in asthma, also valuable in cardiac asthma; of great value in sudden
dropsical swellings over the whole body.
* Gastro-intestinal inflammation, with much debility, and relapse in phthisis, call for this
remedy.
* Suppurative nephritis.
Head
- Scalp very sensitive.
- Headache, with vertigo, as if falling to right side and backwards; worse, stooping.
- Ennui.
Eyes
- Vision becomes clouded.
- Turbid corpus vitreum. [Arn.; Ham.; Solan.n. ; Phos.]
- Variegated-colored rings before eyes.
- Burning and lachrymation.
Nose
- Sneezing.
- Swollen feeling; worse, right nostril.
- Point red and itching.
- Polypus. [Sang. nit.]
Mouth
- Tongue red, with burning pimples; burns at tip.
- Throat constricted and sore.
Stool
- Thin, watery, bloody.
- Membranous shreds, with tenesmus.
- Diarrhoea from eating veal.
Female
- Menses too early, profuse, black; preceded and with violent backache.
- Leucorrhoea.
- Burning pains in the ovarian region only during menses. [Zinc. after.]
Respiratory
- Hoarseness.
- Dry, morning cough, with pain in chest and bloody expectoration.
- Bronchitis, with sharp, short, dry, hacking cough.
- Asthma, with excessive dyspnoea, nausea, dull stitches, and burning in chest.
- Dyspnoea so great that breath cannot be held long enough to drink, though thirsty.
- Chest feels constricted.
- Oppression worse in morning.
- Sour-smelling expectoration.
- Expectoration of clotted blood, after hawking mucus.
- Acute exacerbations in phthisis; congestion of lungs.
- Spasmodic croup; paroxysm of crowing.
- Laryngeal diphtheria.
Heart
- Pulse weak, small, thready.
- Violent stitch in praecordia, and beating of heart.
Extremities
- Stitches between shoulder-blades.
- Tearing and sticking in shoulders and joints.
- Hands and fingers seem swollen.
Modalities
- Worse, eating veal; towards morning and in afternoon.
- Better, drinking sips of water.
Relationship
- Antidotes : Opium; Nitr. sp. dulc.
- Antidote to Opium and Morphine poisoning, 8-10 grains to glass of water.
- Compare : Gun-powder (Nitre with sulphur and charcoal-2x trit. "Blood poisoning." Septic
suppuration. Protractive against wound infection. Antidote to Ivy and Primula rash [Clarke]
Herpes facialis; crops of boils. Carbuncles).
- Osteo-myelitis.
- Cannab. sat. (which contains a large amount of Kali nit).
- Lycop.; Sanguin.; Allium sat.; Antimon. iod.
Dose
- Third to thirtieth potency.