KALI CARBONICUM
Source indications
Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica
- Whimsical
- Irascible
- Irritable to the highest degree
- Quarrels with family
- Never wants to be alone
- Fear of the future
- Fear of death
- Fear of ghosts
- Wakeful when alone
- Sleepless when alone
- Horrible dreams when alone
- Never at peace
- Full of imaginations
- Oversensitive to everything
- Sensitive to atmospheric changes
- Cannot get the room at the right temperature
- Sensitive to every draft of air
- Complaints worse in wet weather
- Complaints worse in cold weather
- Sensitive to the cold
- Always shivering
- Nerves feel the cold
- Neuralgias shoot here and there when it is cold
- Pains change place and go into the cold part
- Sticking pains
- Burning pains
- Tearing pains
- Pains fly around from place to place
- Pains cutting like knives
- Pains like hot needles
- Stinging pains
- Burning pains in internal parts
- Burning pains in dry passages
- Burning in the anus and rectum like a hot poker
- Haemorrhoids burn like coals of fire
- Symptoms come on at 2, 3, or 5 o'clock in the morning
- Cough greatest at three, four or five o'clock in the morning
- Febrile state occurs from 3-5 in the morning
- Asthmatic dyspnoea attack at 3 o'clock in the morning
- Wakes with fear at 3 o'clock in the morning
- Fear of death at 3 o'clock in the morning
- Fear of the future at 3 o'clock in the morning
- Worries about everything at 3 o'clock in the morning
- Body is cold
- Requires much clothing to keep warm
- Sweats copiously
- Copious, cold sweat upon the body
- Sweats upon the slightest exertion
- Sweats where the pain is
- Sweat over the forehead
- Cold sweat on the forehead with headache
- Neuralgia of the scalp
- Neuralgia of the eyes
- Neuralgia of the cheek bones
- Nervous shooting pains
- Violent pains here and there in the head
- Head feels crushed
- Cutting and stabbing in the head
- Violent congestive headaches
- Head feels full
- Head hot on one side and cold on the other
- Forehead covered with cold sweat
- Catarrhal congestive headache
- Nose opens up and mucous membranes become dry and burn in cold air
- Nose stuffs up in a warm room
- Cannot breathe through nose in a warm room
- Head most painful when nose is open
- Cold air feels hot
- Chronic catarrh
- Headache from riding in the cold wind
- Headache from a cessation of catarrhal discharge
- Thick, fluent, yellow nasal discharge
- Dryness of the nose
- Stuffing up of the nose
- Nose fills up with yellow mucus in the morning
- Hawks up dry, hard crusts in the morning
- Crusts bleed when blown out
- Subject to sore throat
- Always taking cold
- Enlarged tonsils
- Enlargement of parotid glands
- Chronic hardness of parotid glands
- Great knots below the ear
- Knots behind the jaw
- Shooting, darting pains when moving in open air
- Enlarged glands sore and painful when struck by air
- Acute colds extend into the chest
- Chronic catarrh of the chest
- Chronic bronchitis
- Dry, barking, hacking cough in cold air
- Copious expectoration of mucus when it becomes warm
- Dry, hacking cough with morning expectoration
- Violent, spasmodic cough with gagging or vomiting
- Head feels as if it would fly to pieces when coughing
- Face becomes puffed when coughing
- Eyes seem to protrude when coughing
- Swelling between the eyelids and eyebrows that fills up when coughing
- Dry, hacking, incessant, gagging cough with whooping
- Blowing of blood from the nose
- Vomiting of everything in the stomach
- Expectoration of blood-streaked mucus
- Pneumonia
- Sensitiveness of the body to weather changes
- Sensitiveness to cold air
- Sensitiveness to wet
- Continuous dry, hacking cough, with gagging
- Flying neuralgic pains
- Tendency to dropsies
- Feet bloat
- Fingers puff
- Back of hands pit upon pressure
- Face looks puffy and waxy
- Heart is weak
- Fatty degeneration of the heart