KALI BICHROMICUM

KALI BICHROMICUM [Kali-bi]
Thick, gluey, adherent discharges. Pains -spotty, wandering, periodic. Rheumatism <-> Gastric or respiratory symptoms.
COMMON NAME	:	Bichromate of Potash
FAMILY	:	Mineral salt PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION: -Mucus membrane-Copions, viscid, ropy mucorrhoea -Ulceration -Liver-Congestion, hypertrophy, fatty degeneration -Kidney-Tubular inflammation -Ulceration -Albuminuria -Skin-Pustular inflammation -Fibrous tissue or periosteum-Acute inflammation -Hypertrophy.
A/F	:	-Indulgence in beer and malt liquors
MODALITIES	:	< Heat of summer < Wrapping up > Heat < Hot weather < Hot weather 2 > Pressure < Autumn < Uncovering 2 > Motion < Spring < Touch < Rest < Stooping < Sitting < Open air < Morning after sleep 3 < 2 -3 a.m. < Protruding tongue < Alcohol, beer < Suppressed catarrh < COLD 3, damp 2 < Summer (though not heat).
MIND	:	-Narrowness - on all three levels, typically a closed personality. Closed, rigid, proper. -Very conscientious and capable, rather conservative and conformists. -Rigidly adhere to the routine. -Long-winded. Explain things excessively. Step-by-step, routinized way of thinking. -Do not show their emotion and don't tend to complain of their mental or emotional problems. -Sadness after annoyance. Gloomy, indifference to business affairs. -Irritability > after eating. Easily angered and upset. -Anthropophobia - Avoids human society. -Practical, materialistic point of view. -Feel isolated and apart from social contact. -Peevish withdrawal from sullen indifference.
GUIDING INDICATIONS	:	-It affects the mucous membranes of the air passages, nose, pharynx, stomach, duodenum. -Discharges are adhesive, sticky, VISCID, GLUEY, ROPY, stringy, tough, lumpy, or thick YELLOW (Hydr) discharges. Yellowness of discharges, especially tongue etc. -Pain -in SMALL SPOTS, can be covered with point of finger, WANDERING (Berb, Form, Kali-s, Puls), shift rapidly from one part to the other and appear and disappear suddenly and finally attack the stomach. -Stubborn suppurations. Tendency to ulcerations. Ulcers with dark dots, deep punched out, perforating, round with over-hanging edges or thick crusts. Septal or peptic ulcers. -Indolent or sluggish reaction in many conditions; ulcers, inflammations etc. -Diseased conditions progress slowly but deeply, causing great weakness bordering on paralysis, but little fever. Anaemia and absence of fever are characteristic. -Kali-bi is generally chilly yet symptoms occur and aggravate in hot summer weather, such as skin disease, rheumatism, dysentery etc. -Alternating symptoms-Rheumatism alternating with gastric symptoms, one appearing in the fall and the other in the spring. -Rheumatism and dysentery alternate. -Neuralgia every day at same hour. -Head-Blurred vision or blindness precedes the attack, must lie down, aversion to light, noise, sight returns as headache increases. -Headache over eyebrows. Pressing frontal pain or neuralgia. -Aching and fullness in glabella, root of nose. -From suppressed catarrh. -Bones and scalp feel sore. -Headache in small spots. -Eye-Swelling of lids. -PHOTOPHOBIA and visual disturbances before or with headache. -Ear-Viscid, ropy, yellow discharge. -Nose-Snuffles of children especially fat, chubby babies. -Pressure and pain at ROOT OF NOSE (Stict, Kali-i) 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. -Loss of smell. -Coryza with obstruction of nose. -Violent sneezing. -Has violent pain from occiput to forehead if discharges ceases. -Chronic coryza. SINUSITIS. -Post-nasal drip (Cor-r). -Polyps (Calc, Sang, Teucr). -Nasal voice. -Face-Neuralgia from suppressed coryza. -Mouth-Sensation of hair on tongue (Crab apple, Sil). -Ropy mucus, saliva. -Tongue-Mapped red shining smooth (Pyrog, Lach, Ter) and dry. -With dysentery, broad flat indented, thickly coated. -Throat-Inflammation. Ulceration. -Oedematous bladder-like appearance of uvula, much swelling but little redness. -Diphtheria, pseudo-membranous deposit firm pearly fibrinous deposit. Prone to extend downward to larynx and trachea. -Stomach-ULCERS. Cancer (Hydr). -Gastric symptoms <-> Rheumatic or respiratory symptoms (Dulc). -Indigestion from meat, drinking beer. -Constant nausea in alcoholics. -Vomiting of ropy, yellow mucus or water and blood. -Desire- Beer and -Aversion- Beer. -Loss of appetite, weight in pit of stomach, flatulence -Round ulcer of stomach. -Under sternum rawness, pains through to back. -Rectum-Diarrhea < morning, drives out of bed, beer, summer. -Diarrhea alternating with rheumatic complaints (Dulc). -R.S.-Hoarseness. Croup. -Violent, rattling with gagging from viscid mucus in the throat < when undressing. -Croup-hoarse metallic, with expectoration of tough mucus or fibro-elastic casts in morning on awakening, with dyspnoea > lying down. -Asthmatic, < 1-2 a.m. -Rattling respiration < in old people (Kali-s in children). -Respiration loud. -Cough < eating, morning on waking. -Expectoration-copious, stringy, tough, yellow/green. -C.V.S.-Coldness about the heart, deep in chest. -Urinary system-Ropy, viscid urine, obstructs urethra. -Pain from kidneys extends to bladder and to the knee. -After urination a drop seems to remain which cannot be expelled. -Haematochyluria. -Male genitalia-Desire diminished when puts on weight. -Female genitalia-Left sided ovarian cysts. -Prolapse of uterus < warm weather. -Leucorrhoea, yellow, tenacious. -Back-Pain in coccyx < sitting, during coition, before urination. -Pain in small spots, esp. angles of scapulae. -Extremities-Rheumatic symptoms <-> Gastrointestinal or Respiratory symptoms (Dulc). -WANDERING pains (Berb, Form, Kali-s, Puls). -Arthritic pain < cold and < summer. -Left sided sciatica, > motion, < warm weather. -Cracking joints. -Skin-Syphilitic ulcerations. -Itching > cold air (Fago).
KEYNOTES	:	-Discharges of a tough, stringy mucus adheres to the parts and can be drawn into a long string. -Pain in small spots can be covered with point of finger. -Pains shift rapidly from one past to another. -Neuralgia everyday at the same hour. -Deep perforating round punched ulcers. -Uvula oedematous.
NUCLEUS OF REMEDY	:	-Affections of the mucous membranes with catarrhal state. -Discharge from mucous membranes which are adhesive, sticky, stringy, tough, lumpy or thick and yellow discharges. -Tendency to ulcers- deep perforating, punched out. -Pains in small spots, shifting alternating complaints.
CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS	:	-Discharges-Adhesive sticky, stringy, yellow, tough lumpy or thick. -Pain covered with point of finger spotty pain. -Ulcers deep perforating round, punched with overhanging edges or thick crusts. -Rheumatism alternates with gastric symptoms or dysentery.
CLINICAL	:	-Bronchitis, Croup, Gastritis, Migraine, Nasal polyp, Obesity, Ovarian cyst, Peptic ulcer, Sciatica, Sinusitis, Ulcers. -When you are struck with a Kali-bi migraine that does not respond, always remember Iris versicolor.
REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS	:	-Complementary- Ant-t, Ars, Phos, Psor, Sep. -Compare-Amm-caust, Ant-cr, Ant-t, Brom, Dulc, Form, Hep-s, Hydr, Ind, Iod, Ip, Merc, Kali-c, Kali-s, Lith-c, Phyt, Puls, Sil, Stict, Sulp-ac. -Antidotes:- Ars, Lach, Puls. Please click here for more information about us For proof/evidence that Homeopathy is effective, please click here: Efficacy studies.

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