Materia Medica de A a Z

KALIUM BROMATUM (kali-br)

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, anæsthesia 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, uræmic or otherwise; somnolence and stertor, convulsions, aphasia, albuminuria. Epilepsy (with salt-free diet).

Mind

Profound, melancholic delusion; feeling of moral deficiency; 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 (Tarent). 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 (Sul-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 (Ph-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. Anæsthesia 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.