Kali bichromicum
kali-bicKALIUM BICHROMICUM
Bichromate of Potash The special affinities of this drug are the mucous membrane of stomach, bowels, and air-passages; bones and fibrous tissues. Kidneys, heart, and liver are also affected. Incipient parenchrymatous; nephritis. Nephritis with gastric disturbances. Cirrhosis of liver. Anæmia and absence of fever are characteristic. General weakness bordering on paralysis. Read on in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, General →
These texts come from 5 classic Materia Medicas dating from 1908 to 1931, now in the public domain. They record what their authors observed and taught, as historical reference for students and practitioners of homeopathy — not current clinical evidence. Nothing on this page is medical advice: for any health problem, see a qualified doctor.
Where each author writes about Kali bichromicum
A map of the books. Each number counts the sections, or the paragraphs the author labelled himself, that one book gives a topic, and opens the first of them in that book. Kent and Farrington wrote lectures, so only what they labelled is counted.
| Topic | Boger | Allen | Boericke | Kent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keynotes | 1 | 1 | none | none |
| General | none | none | 1 | none |
| Modalities | 2 | none | 1 | none |
| Head | none | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Face | none | none | 1 | 1 |
| Eyes | none | none | 1 | 1 |
| Ears | none | none | 1 | 1 |
| Nose | none | 1 | 1 | none |
| Mouth | none | none | 1 | none |
| Throat | none | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Stomach | none | none | 1 | none |
| Abdomen | none | none | 1 | 1 |
| Rectum | none | none | 1 | none |
| Urinary | none | none | 1 | 1 |
| Male | none | none | 1 | none |
| Female | none | none | 1 | none |
| Respiratory | none | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Heart | none | none | 1 | none |
| Back | none | none | 1 | none |
| Extremities | none | none | 1 | none |
| Skin | none | none | 1 | none |
Relationships
- Complementary:
- Arsenicum album (Boger),
- Myrica cerifera (Boger),
- Phosphorus (Boger),
- Psorinum (Boger),
- Pulsatilla (Boger)
- Related:
- Arsenicum iodatum (Boger),
- Berberis vulgaris (Boger),
- Causticum hahnemanni (Boger),
- Chelidonium majus (Boger),
- Graphites (Boger),
- Guaiacum (Boger),
- Hydrastis canadensis (Boger),
- Kali carbonicum (Boger),
- Mercurius solubilis (Boger),
- Phytolacca decandra (Boger),
- Pulsatilla (Boger)
- Similar:
- Lac caninum (Allen)
As each book states it.
Kali bichromicum in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica
Cyrus Maxwell Boger · 1931
KeynotesSlow, 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.
Words in capitals are Boger's highest grade.
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H.C. Allen · 3rd edition (1910) · Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel
KeynotesKali bichromicum Potassium Bichromate. K2Cr20^. Fat, light-haired persons who suffer from catarrhal, syphilitic or psoric affections. Fat, chubby, short-necked children disposed to croup and croupy affections. Affections of the mucous membranes — eyes, nose, mouth, throat, bronchi, gastro-intestinal and genitourinary tracts — discharge of a tough, stringy mucus which adheres to the parts and can be drawn into long…
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Ernest Albert Farrington · 4th edition, revised and enlarged by Harvey Farrington (1908) · Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel
LectureLecture LXXI — Kali bichromicum Today I shall lecture on Kali bichromicum, or the Bichromate of Potash. You would expect in a drug having the combination of this one, to obtain not only the results of potash, which forms the base of the salt, but also the modifying influence of the chromic acid.
Read Farrington on Kali bichromicum in full →Kali bichromicum in Homoeopathic Materia Medica
William Boericke · 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927)
GeneralBichromate of Potash The special affinities of this drug are the mucous membrane of stomach, bowels, and air-passages; bones and fibrous tissues. Kidneys, heart, and liver are also affected. Incipient parenchrymatous; nephritis. Nephritis with gastric disturbances. Cirrhosis of liver. Anæmia and absence of fever are characteristic. General weakness bordering on paralysis.
- General
- Modalities
- Head
- Face
- Eyes
- Ears
- Nose
- Mouth
- Throat
- Stomach
- Abdomen
- Stool
- Urinary
- Male
- Female
- Respiratory
- Heart
- Back
- Extremities
- Skin
- Relationships
- Dose
Kali bichromicum in Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica
James Tyler Kent · 2nd edition (preface dated 1 September 1911)
LectureKalium Bichromicum This remedy is recognized by most physicians by the copious ropy mucous discharges from all mucous membranes, but it is also a most important remedy in rheumatic affections of the joints with swelling, heat and redness, whenever these conditions wander around from joint to joint. The bones all over the body feel bruised, and caries is reckoned among its symptoms.
Read Kent on Kali bichromicum in full →Where the repertories grade Kali bichromicum highest
Rubrics in which Kali bichromicum has the top grade (Kent’s 3, Bönninghausen’s 4). Each page lists every remedy in the rubric with its grade.
- Generalities, plethoraKent’s Repertory · 76 remedies
- Generalities, periodicityKent’s Repertory · 83 remedies
- Generalities, mucous secretions increasedKent’s Repertory · 118 remedies
- Generalities, swelling in generalKent’s Repertory · 118 remedies
- Fever, coldnessBönninghausen’s Pocket-Book · 142 remedies
- Fever, FeverBönninghausen’s Pocket-Book · 212 remedies
- Fever, FeverKent’s Repertory · 283 remedies
- Stomach, disorderedKent’s Repertory · 62 remedies
- Stomach, heavinessKent’s Repertory · 151 remedies
- Stomach, appetiteKent’s Repertory · 297 remedies
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