Kali carbonicum
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
KALIUM CARBONICUM
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Keynotes
Kali carbonicum
Potassium Carbonate.
For diseases of old people, dropsy and paralysis; with dark hair, lax fibre, inclined to obesity (Am. c.. Graph.).
After loss of fluids or vitality, particularly in the an?emic (Cinch., Phos. ac., Phos., Psor.).
Pains stitching, darting, worse during rest and lying on affected side (stitching, darting, better during rest and lying on painful side, Bry.).
Cannot bear to be touched ; starts when touched ever so lightly, especially on the feet.
desires to be alone, Ign., Nux).
Bag-like swellings between the upper eyelids and eyebrows.
Weak eyes; after coition, pollution, abortion, measles.
Stomach ; distended, sensitive ; feels as if it would burst ; excessive flatulency, everything she eats or drinks appears to be converted into gas (Iod.).
Nosebleed when washing the face in the morning (Am. c., Arn.).
Toothache only when eating; throbbing; < when touched by anything warm or cold.
Backache, sweating, weakness ; after abortion, labor.
metrorrhagia; 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; spasmodic with gagging or vomiting of ingesta; hard, white or smoky masses fly from throat when coughing (Bad., Chel.).
Feels badly, week before menstruation: backache, before and during menses.
Labor pains insufficient ; violent backache ; wants the back pressed (Caust.).
Asthma, relieved when sitting up or bending forward or by rocking; worse from 2 to 4 a. m.
Persons suffering from ulceration of the lungs can scarcely get well without this anti-psoric. — Hahnemann.
Difficult swallowing; sticking pain in pharynx as of a fish-bone (Hep., Nit. ac.) ; food easily gets into the windpipe; pain in back when swallowing.
Constipation : stool large, difficult, with stitching, colic pains an hour or two before.
Heart: tendency to fatty degeneration (Phos.) ; as if suspended by a thread (Lach.).
Very much inclined to take cold.
Compare: Bry., Lyc., Nat. m.. Nit. ac., Stan.
Follows well: after. Kali s., Phos., Stan, in loose, rattling cough.
Will bring on the menses, when Nat. m., though apparently indicated, fails. — Hahnemann.
What the other books say about Kali carbonicum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Kali carbonicum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Kali carbonicum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Kali carbonicum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Kali carbonicum 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 carbonicum — Keynotes, pp. 152–154. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/kali-carbonicum. 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.