Kalium muriaticum
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
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Keynotes
WHITENESS. MILKY WHITE, viscid, sticky, thick, slimy or lumpy secretions. Catarrhs. Toughness. Tough, plastic or fibrinous exudates. Hard deposits. Stubborn infiltrations. Swelled glands. Sore, cutting (outward-Asaf.) or stitching, shifting pains. Crawling. Numbness. Slow re-action. .................... Irritable or angry; at trifles. Discontent, discouraged; fears evil. Sits in silence. Stunning shock in or a leaden load holds occiput down; < binding hair, > wraps. Brain feels loose. Copious, white dandruff. Head sweats. Pustular cornea. Cloudy lens. Scintillations on coughing. Snapping, itching or as of a plug in ears. Deafness. Eustachian occlusion or soreness. Face bluish; sunken. Eruption around mouth. Tongue mapped; gray or white at base. Aphthæ. Scorbutic gums. Salty taste. Throat grayish-white; ulcerated; chronic sorethroat. Tonsils swelled; inflamed. Hawks out thick white mucus. Loathes fat or rich foods. Nausea; with shivers. Stomach heavy; at night. Vomits food. Fulness in abdomen after eating. Pale, hard or flocculent stools. Anus, sore, < walking or stools; itching or crawling, after stool. Piles. Dribbling urination. Nephritis. Difficult or oppressed breathing. Bronchitis. Expectoration sticky or flies from mouth. Dark, clotted or tarry menses. Rawness in chest. Flushes of heat in chest. Coldness at heart. Painful breasts before or at menses. Heaviness under r. shoulder. Buzzing under l. scapula. Backache, > lying. Lightning pains from small of back to feet. Cold hands and feet. Cramps in limbs; in legs. Twitching thighs. Tension in legs alternates with tension in arm (l). Cold foot-sweat. Cutting in bones (Saba.). Branny skin. Anxious dreams.
Worse
Open air. Cold drinks, drafts. Heat of bed. Lying. Night. Dampness. Motion. Sprains. Fats. Rich foods. During menses.
Better
Cold drinks. Rubbing. Letting hair down.
Region
EPITHELIUM: Throat. Eustachian tube. Middle ear. Mucous glands. Occiput (l). Muscles. Joints. Shoulder (R). One side, < left. Crosswise.
Relationships
Complementary: Calc-s. Follows: Fer-p. Related: Bry. Pul.
What the other books say about Kalium muriaticum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Kalium muriaticum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Kalium muriaticum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/kalium-muriaticum. 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.