KALI CARBONICUM
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- diseases of old people, dropsy and paralysis; with dark hair, lax fibre, inclined to obesity
- after loss of fluids or vitality, particularly in anaemic
- stitching, darting pains, worse during rest and lying on affected side
- cannot bear to be touched
- starts when touched ever so lightly, especially on the feet
- great aversion to being alone
- bag-like swellings between the upper eyelids and eyebrows
- weak eyes after coition, pollution, abortion, or measles
- stomach distended, sensitive; feels as if it would burst
- excessive flatulency, everything she eats or drinks appears to be converted to gas
- nosebleed when washing the face in the morning
- toothache only when eating; throbbing; worse when touched by anything warm or cold
- backache, sweating, weakness; after abortion, labor, or metrorrhage; when eating; while walking feels as if she must give up and lie down
- cough: dry, paroxysmal, loosens viscid mucus or pus which must be swallowed
- cough: spasmodic with gagging or vomiting
- hard, white or smoky masses fly from throat when coughing
- asthma, relieved when sitting up or bending forward or by rocking; worse from 2 to 4 a.m
- difficult swallowing
- sticking pain in pharynx as of a fish-bone
- food easily gets into the windpipe
- heart: tendency to fatty degeneration; as if suspended by a thread
