Kalium nitricum
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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General
Nitrate of Potassium Saltpeter Often indicated in asthma, also valuable in cardiac asthma; of great value in sudden dropsical swellings over the whole body. Gastro-intestinal inflammation, with much debility, and relapse in phthisis, call for this remedy. Suppurative nephritis.
Modalities
Worse, eating veal; towards morning and in afternoon. Better, drinking sips of water.
Head
Scalp very sensitive. Headache, with vertigo, as if falling to right side and backwards; worse, stooping. Ennui.
Eyes
Vision becomes clouded. Turbid corpus vitreum (Arn; Ham; Solan n; Phos). Variegated-colored rings before eyes. Burning and lachrymation.
Nose
Sneezing. Swollen feeling; worse, right nostril. Point red and itching. Polypus (Sang nit).
Mouth
Tongue red, with burning pimples; burns at tip. Throat constricted and sore.
Stool
Thin, watery, bloody. Membranous shreds, with tenesmus. Diarrhœa from eating veal.
Female
Menses too early, profuse, black; preceded and with violent backache. Leucorrhœa. Burning pains in the ovarian region only during menses (Zinc after).
Respiratory
Hoarseness. Dry, morning cough, with pain in chest and bloody expectoration. Bronchitis, with sharp, short, dry, hacking cough. Asthma, with excessive dyspnœa, nausea, dull stitches, and burning in chest. Dyspnœa so great that breath cannot be held long enough to drink, though thirsty. Chest feels constricted. Oppression worse in morning. Sour-smelling expectoration. Expectoration of clotted blood, after hawking mucus. Acute exacerbations in phthisis; congestion of lungs. Spasmodic croup; paroxysm of crowing. Laryngeal diphtheria.
Heart
Pulse weak, small, thready. Violent stitch in præcordia, and beating of heart.
Extremities
Stitches between shoulder-blades. Tearing and sticking in shoulders and joints. Hands and fingers seem swollen.
Relationships
Antidotes: Opium; Nitr sp dulc. Antidote to Opium and Morphine poisoning, 8-10 grains to glass of water. Compare: Gun-powder (Nitre with sulphur and charcoal-2x trit. "Blood poisoning. " Septic suppuration. Protractive against wound infection. Antidote to Ivy and Primula rash (Clarke) Herpes facialis; crops of boils. Carbuncles). Osteo- myelitis. Cannab sat (which contains a large amount of Kali nit). Lycop; Sanguin; Allium sat; Antimon iod.
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency.
What the other books say about Kalium nitricum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Kalium nitricum in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Kalium nitricum — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/kalium-nitricum. 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.