Materia Medica de A a Z

KALI BICHROMICUM (kali-bi)

REGION

MUCOUS MEMBRANES: Air passages. NOSE. Pharynx. Stomach. Duodenum. Fibrous tissue. Ligaments. JOINTS. Skin. Circulation. Kidneys. Root of nose, tongue, or penis, etc.

WORSE

COLD: Damp. Open air. Spring. Undressing. MORNING; after sleep. 2-3 A.M. Protruding tongue (Cist.). Hot weather. Alcohol. Beer. Suppressed catarrh.

BETTER

Heat. Motion.

GENERAL

Slow, deep processes; little fever, but great weakness. Sickly, chilly and cachectic. Fair, fat and sluggish. Bitings, like bugs. ADHESIVE SECRETIONS; STICKY taste, expectoration, leucorrhoa, foot-sweat, etc. STRINGY, TOUGH, lumpy or thick discharges. Fibrous exudates going downward. Yellow, eyes, vision, tongue, etc. Slow reaction. Heaviness. Crusts in nose, on skin, etc. Pains in small spots; jump about and finally attack stomach. Sharp stitches. Ascending; gastric pains, chills, heats, etc. Furred membranes. Old catarrhs. Ulcers; with dark dots, deep, perforating, round; look punched out; septal; peptic; with overhanging edges or thick crusts. Like a solid block on forehead. As of a hair on tongue, in nostril, etc. Internal itching; vagina, lungs, etc. Cracking joints..................... Indifferent. Indolent. Pains outward along (r) brow. Bristling hair. Blindness, then pain over one eye, agg. cold, amel. pressing on root of nose. Migraine. Vision seems crossed, amel. looking with one eye. Eye-lids red, itching, swelled, granular. Nose pains at bridge or root; pressure or stuffed at root; retains foul secretions. Abscess. Ozona. Nasal discharges, acrid; profuse; green clinkers. Nasal diphtheria. Snuffles. Radiating toothache; with swelled glands. Tongue, glistens; cracked, smooth or heavy, lemon yellow cast; pains when protruded. Sticky mouth. Sweet, metallic taste. Hawks thick mucus; must wipe it away. Odema of uvula. Fissured pharynx. Throat; dry; burning in; something sticks in; with pains into neck and shoulders. Craves beer. Regurgitates liquids. Vomits bright yellow water. Sore spot in stomach, or food lies like a load. Constriction from liver to shoulder. Gelatinous stools or gushes of brown, frothy water, then burning and tenesmus, agg. after rising. Heavy kidneys. A drop remains after urinating. Constriction at root of penis. Acrid leucorrhoa. Milk is stringy. Hoarseness. Laryngitis. Tickling cough, after eating; with eructations; amel. heat; then vertigo. Under sternum; rawness; pains through to back. As of a bar across chest. Asthma. Deep cough with stringy expectoration. Heart weak; feels cold. Paralytic weakness of hands. Sciatica, agg. flexing leg. Sore heels. Pains along border of foot. Stubborn suppuration. Pustules with black apices. Skin, amel. in cold air. Hot flushes, then sticky sweat, then chill. Cold sweat on hands and feet. Chill with sweat.

Complementary: Ars, Phos, Psor.

Related: Kali-c, Merc, Phyt, Puls.