Kalium bromatum
kali-broBromide of Potash Like all Potash Salts, this weakens the heart and lowers temperature. Brominism is caused by it. General failure of mental power, loss of memory, melancholia, anæsthesia of the mucous membranes, especially of eyes, throat, and skin; acne; loss of sexual desire, paralysis. Leading remedy in psoriasis. Nodular form of chronic gout. Symptoms of apoplectic attacks, uræmic or otherwise; somnolence and stertor, convulsions, aphasia, albuminuria. Epilepsy (with salt-free diet).
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Sensation as if bowels were falling out. Cholera infantum, with reflex cerebral irritation, jerking and twitching of muscles. Green, watery stools with intense thirst, vomiting, eyes sunken. Prostration. Internal coldness of abdomen. Diarrhœa, with much blood. Green, watery stools. Retraction of abdomen.
Loss of memory ; had to be told the word before he could speak it. Hands constantly busy ; all sorts of fearful delusions ; walks the room groaning, bemoaning his fate ; full of fear. Unsteady. Fits of uncontrollable weeping andprofound melancholic delusions. Depressed: low spirited. Nervous anxiety. Night terrors of children (not from indigestion) with screaming. Unconsciousness of what is occurring around them. Cannot recognize or be comforted by their friends. Sometimes followed by squinting. Seminal emissions, with depressed spirits, dull thought, backache, staggering gait and great weakness. Nervous ; restless ; cannot sit still, but must move about, or otherwise occupy oneself ; often suits nervous women. Spasms : from fright, anger, or other emotional causes, occurring in plethoric, nervous persons, or in women at time of menses ; during parturition ; from sexual excitement. Too great reflex excita bility ; sleeplessness ; during teething, whooping cough, or laryn gismus stridulus ; from Bright’s disease. Sleepless ; restless ; can only calm herself by incessant occupa tion. Night terrors of children ; grind teeth in sleep ; moans ; cries ; horrible dreams. Loss of sensibility; of body generally; of fauces, larynx, urethra, etc. Important Italics . Characteristic, or Queer Symptoms. Memory absolutely destroyed ; anaemia ; emaciation. Single words forgotten ; syllables dropped. Singled out as an object of divine wrath. Imagines she is a devil ; cannot sleep ; fears to be alone. A remedy of delirium tremens. Frightful imaginings (in late pregnancy) have committed, or are about to commit some great crime or cruelty ; such as murdering her child or husband. Hallucinations of sight and sound, with or without mania, precede brain and paralytic symptoms. Delirium with delusions : is pursued ; will be poisoned ; is selected for divine vengeance ; her child dead. Dread of impending destruction to all near to her. Acute mania, with fullness of blood vessels of brain. Feels as if he will go out of his mind. Melahcholia ; profound depression ; feeling of moral deficiency ; frequent weeping, low-spirited and childish ; profound indiffer ence almost disgust for life. Brain feels too tight ; with a feeling of anaesthesia of brain. Cholera infantum. Brain irritated, face flushed, pupils dilated, eyes sunken, rolls head, wakes shrieking, extremities cold.
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