Materia Medica de A a Z

KALI IODATUM = KALI HYDRIODICUM (kali-i)

region

Glands. Frontal sinus. Nose. Eyes. Lungs (Upper. Lobe). Periosteum.

Worse

Heat. Pressure. Touch. Night. Damp. Mercury. Changing weather. Jolting. Cold foods.

Better

Motion. Cool air. Open air.

GENERAL

Incipient organic changes; gouty-rheumatic, syphilitic, rickety, etc. Many and diverse symptoms. Feels used up. Cachexy. Stubborn chronicity. Arterio-sclerosis. Craves motion in open air. Various symptoms. Crushing or sharp stitching pains. Weakness. COPIOUS, watery, acrid, salty, thick, green or foul discharges. Catarrh. Pains long after trauma. Diffuse soreness; of affected part. Odematous swelling..................... Irritable, harsh tempered and cruel. Can't think. Despondent. Bad temper. Harsh. Head bone pains, lightning like, agg. warmth or lying on part. Big head and small jaws; rickets. Tender spots on head. Bilateral headache. Scalp sore; fissured. Burning, watery, puffy eyes. Chemosis. Tinnitus. Acrid coryza with dyspnoa and salivation. Burning throb in nasal and accessory cavities. Colds from every damp day. Red, swelled nose; tight pain at root, zygomæ and root of tongue. Takes cold. Violent sneezing. Acrid, watery coryza, agg. cool air. Ozona. Glutinous mucus on lips in A.M. [Zin-cl. (Zinc-m)]. Nagging toothache. Taste salty; bitter on waking. Salivation. Sore-throat of speakers [Aru-t.(Arum-t)]. Flatulence; squeaking. Early diarrhoa of phthisis. Frequent stools and urine. Leucorrhoa, corrosive; like meat washings. Air hunger; with flatulency, in A.M.; awakens strangling. Whistling, asthmatic breathing. Raw air-passages. Croupy hoarseness. Dry bronchitis. Frothy expectoration. Backward chest pains. Pneumonia. Pain, sternum to back. Painful lumps; in scalp. Giant urticaria. Chilly in bones; in painful parts. Heat in evening; uncovers, then chills. Alternate heat and chill. Heat with shudders. Hot and dry, then drenching sweat. Profuse night sweats, which amel.. Actinomycosis.

Antidotes: Merc, Nit-ac.

Related: Iod, Sulph, Syph.