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