Kali bichromicum

as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931

KALIUM BICHROMICUM

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Keynotes

Slow, deep processes; little fever, but great weakness. Sickly, chilly and cachectic. Fair, fat and sluggish. Bitings, like bugs. ADHESIVE SECRETIONS; STICKY taste, expectoration, leucorrhœa, foot-sweat, etc. STRINGY, TOUGH, lumpy or thick discharges. Fibrous exudates going downward. Yellow, eyes, vision, tongue, etc. Slow reaction. Heaviness. Crusts in nose, on skin, etc. Pains in small spots; jump about and finally attack stomach. Sharp stitches. Ascending; gastric pains, chills, heats, etc. Furred membranes. Old catarrhs. Ulcers; with dark dots, deep, perforating, round; look punched out; septal; peptic; with overhanging edges or thick crusts. Like a solid block on forehead. As of a hair on tongue, in nostril, etc. Internal itching; vagina, lungs, etc. Cracking joints. .................... Indifferent. Indolent. Pains outward along (r) brow. Bristling hair. Blindness, then pain over one eye, < cold, > pressing on root of nose. Migraine. Vision seems crossed, > looking with one eye. Eye-lids red, itching, swelled, granular. Nose pains at bridge or root; pressure or stuffed at root; retains foul secretions. Abscess. Ozœna. Nasal discharges, acrid; profuse; green clinkers. Nasal diphtheria. Snuffles. Radiating toothache; with swelled glands. Tongue, glistens; cracked, smooth or heavy, lemon yellow cast; pains when protruded. Sticky mouth. Sweet, metallic taste. Hawks thick mucus; must wipe it away. Œdema of uvula. Fissured pharynx. Throat; dry; burning in; something sticks in; with pains into neck and shoulders. Craves beer. Regurgitates liquids. Vomits bright yellow water. Sore spot in stomach, or food lies like a load. Constriction from liver to shoulder. Gelatinous stools or gushes of brown, frothy water, then burning and tenesmus, < after rising. Heavy kidneys. A drop remains after urinating. Constriction at root of penis. Acrid leucorrhœa. Milk is stringy. Hoarseness. Laryngitis. Tickling cough, after eating; with eructations; > heat; then vertigo. Under sternum; rawness; pains through to back. As of a bar across chest. Asthma. Deep cough with stringy expectoration. Heart weak; feels cold. Paralytic weakness of hands. Sciatica, < flexing leg. Sore heels. Pains along border of foot. Stubborn suppuration. Pustules with black apices. Skin, > in cold air. Hot flushes, then sticky sweat, then chill. Cold sweat on hands and feet. Chill with sweat.

Worse

COLD: Damp. Open air. Spring. Undressing. MORNING; after sleep. 2-3 A.M. Protruding tongue (Cist.). Hot weather. Alcohol. Beer. Suppressed catarrh.

Better

Heat. Motion.

Region

MUCOUS MEMBRANES: Air passages. NOSE. Pharynx. Stomach. Duodenum. Fibrous tissue. Ligaments. JOINTS. Skin. Circulation. Kidneys. Root of nose, tongue, or penis, etc.

Relationships

Complementary: Ars. Pho. Psor. Related: Kali-c. Merc. Phyt. Pul.

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 Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
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.

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Cite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Kali bichromicum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/kali-bichromicum. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.