Kali sulphuricum

as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927

Kalium Sulfuricum

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General

Potassium Sulphate Ailments accompanied by profuse desquamation. Applicable to the later stages of inflammation. Yellow, mucous and serous discharges, profuse and intermittent. Has been found of much use in oxaluria.

Modalities

Worse, in evening, heated room. Better, cool, open air.

Head

Rheumatic headache, beginning in evening. Bald spots. Dandruff and scaldhead.

Face

Aches in heated room. Epithelioma.

Ears

Eustachian deafness. Discharge of yellow matter (Hydr).

Nose

Cold, with yellow, slimy expectoration. Nose obstructed. Smell lost (Nat mur). Engorgement of the nasal pharyngeal mucous membrane, mouth breathing, snoring, etc, remaining after removal of adenoids.

Stomach

Tongue coated yellow and slimy. Insipid, pappy taste. Gums painful. Burning thirst, nausea, and vomiting. Load feeling. Dread of hot drinks.

Abdomen

Colicky pains; abdomen feels cold to touch; tympanitic, tense. Yellow, slimy diarrhœa. Constipation, with hæmorrhoids (Sulph).

Male

Gonorrhœa; discharge slimy, yellowish-green. Orchitis. Gleet.

Female

Menses too late, scanty, with feeling of weight in abdomen. Metrorrhagia.

Respiratory

Coarse rales. Rattling of mucus in chest (Tart em). Post-grippal cough, especially in children. Bronchial asthma, with yellow expectoration. Cough; worse in evening and in hot atmosphere. Croupy hoarseness (Hep; Spong).

Extremities

Pain in nape, back and limbs, worse in warm room. Shifting, wandering pains.

Skin

Psoriasis (Ars; Thyroid). Eczema; burning, itching, papular eruption. Nettle-rash. Polypi. Epithelioma. Seborrhœa. Favus. Ring-worm of scalp or beard with abundant scales.

Fever

Rise of temperature at night. Intermittent fever, with yellow, slimy tongue.

Relationships

Compare: Kali sulph chromico.––Alum of chrome-3x (Produces in the nasal passages very fine threads from the septum to external wall; affections of nasal fossæ and hay-fever. Chronic colds. Sneezing, red, watery eyes, irritation of mucous membrane). Pulsat; Kali bich; Nat m.

Dose

Third to twelfth potency.

What the other books say about Kali sulphuricum

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Kali sulphuricum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
Kali sulphuricum in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.

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Cite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Kali sulphuricum — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/kali-sulphuricum. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.