KALI BICHROMICUM
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- fat, light-haired persons who suffer from catarrhal, syphillitic or psoric affections
- fat, chubby, short-necked children disposed to croup and croupy affections
- affections of the mucous membranes - eyes, nose, mouth, throat, bronchi, gastro-intestinal and genito-urinary tracts
- discharge of a tough, stringy mucus which adheres to the parts and can be drawn into long strings
- complaints occurring in hot weather
- liability to take cold in open air
- rheumatism alternating with gastric symptoms, one appearing in the fall and the other in the spring
- rheumatism and dysentery alternate
- pains in small spots, can be covered with point of finger
- pains shift rapidly from one part to another
- pains appear and disappear suddenly
- neuralgia every day at same hour
- gastric complaints from bad effects of beer
- loss of appetite
- weight in pit of stomach
- flatulence worse soon after eating
- vomiting of ropy mucus and blood
- round ulcer of stomach
- pressive pain in root of nose
- discharge of plugs, clinkers
- tough, ropy, green fluid mucus from nose
- clear masses from nose with violent pain from occiput to forehead if discharge eases
- ulceration of septum, with bloody discharge or large flakes of hard mucus
- diphtheria with pseudo-membranous deposit, firm, pearly, fibrinous, prone to extend downwards to larynx and trachea
- oedematous, bladder-like appearance of uvula
- much swelling of uvula, but little redness
- violent, rattling cough, with gagging from viscid mucus in the throat
- cough worse when undressing
- croup, hoarse, metallic, with expectoration of tough mucus or fibro-elastic casts in morning on awakening
- croup with dyspnoea, better by lying down
- deep-eating ulcers in fauces, often syphilitic
- headache preceded by blurred vision or blindness
- headache requires lying down
- headache with aversion to light and noise
- sight returns as headache increases
- prolapsus uteri, seemingly in hot weather
- sexual desire absent in fleshy people
- worse heat of summer
- worse hot weather
- skin symptoms are better in cold weather