Kalium bromatum
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
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Keynotes
Slow onset. No pain. General numbness; < occiput. .................... Depressive delusions. Nervous. Suspicion; fears people, yet can't be alone, in the dark, etc.; looks on all sides; fidgety, busy hands, fumbles. Moves arms about wildly. Mania. Night terrors. Melancholy; remorse, wrings hands, bursts into tears, etc. Slow hesitates; omits or mixes up words. Indifference. Hebetude. Poor memory. Brain-fag. Vertigo, as if ground gave way. Catarrh descends to larynx (Am-bro.). Cutting colic. Green, watery stool; with rapid collapse. Cholera infantum. Depressed sexual power. Flooding of young women. Croupy cough. Cool skin. Acne. Sleepy. Antidote: Zin-pho.
Worse
Mental exertion. Emotions. Periodically: Night. Summer. New moon. Sexual excesses. Puberty.
Better
When busy.
Region
MIND. NERVES: Brain. Spine. Genitals. Larynx. Skin.
Relationships
Related: Calc-c. Con. Op. Stram.
What the other books say about Kalium bromatum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Kalium bromatum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Kalium bromatum in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Kalium bromatum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Kalium bromatum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/kalium-bromatum. 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 Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.