Kalium chloricum

as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927

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General

Chlorate of Potassium - K clo. 3 Acts very destructively upon the kidneys, producing a croupous nephritis, hemoglobinuria, etc. Parenchymatous nephritis with stomatitis. Produces most acute ulcerative and follicular stomatitis. Noma. Toxæmic conditions of pregnancy (urinary symptoms). Chronic nephritis; hepatitis. Septicæmia. Anæmia.

Mouth

Profuse secretion of acid saliva. Whole mucous surface red, tumid, with gray-based ulcers. Tongue swollen. Stomatitis-aphthous and gangrenous. Fetor. Mercurial stomatitis (as a mouth wash).

Stomach

Feeling of weight in epigastric and umbilical region. Flatulence. Vomiting of greenish-black matter.

Stool

Diarrhœa; profuse, greenish mucus.

Urinary

Albuminous, scanty, suppressed. Hæmaturia; diuresis. Nucleo- albumin and bile, high Phosphoric acid, with low total solids.

Skin

Jaundice. Itching miliary or papular eruptions. Discolored; chocolate tint.

Dose

Second to sixth potency. Use cautiously locally as it is poisonous.

What the other books say about Kalium chloricum

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

Kalium chloricum 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). Kalium chloricum — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/kalium-chloricum. 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 Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.