Kali bichromicum
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
KALIUM BICHROMICUM
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Keynotes
Kali bichromicum
Potassium Bichromate. K2Cr20^.
Fat, light-haired persons who suffer from catarrhal, syphilitic 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 genitourinary tracts — discharge of a tough, stringy mucus which adheres to the parts and can be drawn into long strings (compare, Flyd., Fys.).
Complaints occurring in hot weather.
Fiability 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 (Abrot.).
Pains : in small spots, can be covered with point of finger (Ign.) ; shift rapidly from one part to another (Kali s., Lac c., Puls.) ; appear and disappear suddenly (Bell., Ign., Mag. p.).
Neuralgia every day at same hour (Chin. s.).
Gastric complaints : bad effects of beer ; loss of appetite; weight in pit of stomach; flatulence; < soon after eating; vomiting of ropy mucus and blood; round ulcer of stomach (Gym.).
Nose : pressive pain in root of nose {in forehead and root of nose, Stict.) ; discharge of plugs, ‘‘ clinkers ; ’’ tough, ropy, green fluid mucus; in clear masses, and has violent pain from occiput to forehead if discharge ceases.
Ulceration of septum, with bloody discharge or large flakes of hard mucus (Alum., Sep., Teuc.).
Diphtheria : pseudo-membranous deposit, firm, pearly, fibrinous, prone to extend downwards to larynx and trachea (Lac c. — reverse of, Brom.).
(Edematous, bladder-like appearance of uvida; much swelling, but little redness (Rhus).
Cough : violent, rattling, with gagging from viscid mucus in the throat; < when undressing (Hep.).
Croup: hoarse, metallic, with expectoration of tough mucus or fibro-elastic casts in morning on awakening; with dyspnoea, > by lying down (worse when lying down, Aral., Lach. ).
Deep-eating ulcers in fauces; often syphilitic.
Headache : blurred vision or blindness precedes the attack (Gels., Lac d.); must lie down; aversion to
KAI^I light and noise; sight returns as headache increases (Iris, Nat., Lac d.).
Prolapsus uteri, seemingly in hot weather.
Sexual desire absent in fleshy people.
affections.
After: Canth. or Carb. ac. has removed the scrapings, in dysentery.
After: Iod. in croup, when hoarse cough, with tough membrane, general weakness and coldness are present; Cal. in acute or chronic nasal catarrh.
Ant. t. follows well in catarrhal affections and skin diseases.
Aggravations. — Heat of summer; hot weather.
Amelioration.. — Skin symptoms are better in cold weather (reverse of. Alum, and Pet.).
What the other books say about Kali bichromicum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Kali bichromicum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Kali bichromicum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Kali bichromicum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Kali bichromicum in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Kali bichromicum — Keynotes, pp. 148–149. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/kali-bichromicum. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.