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Note: Wherever it is found,
"<" denotes aggravation (worse by) and ">" denotes
amelioration (better by) |
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| COMMON NAME |
: | Bichromate
of Potash |
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| 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. |
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| A/F |
: | -Indulgence
in beer and malt liquors |
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| MODALITIES |
: | <
Heat of summer < Wrapping up < Hot weather < Autumn < Uncovering < Spring < Touch < Rest < Stooping < Sitting < Open air < Morning after sleep < 2-3 a.m. < Protruding tongue < Alcohol, beer < Suppressed catarrh < COLD, damp < Summer (though not heat) > Pressure > Heat > Motion |
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| 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. |
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| 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 < soon after eating. -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 (for women), 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). |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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