Kalium muriaticum

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.

Open air. Cold drinks, drafts. Heat of bed. Lying. Night. Dampness. Motion. Sprains. Fats. Rich foods. During menses.

Cold drinks. Rubbing. Letting hair down.

EPITHELIUM: Throat. Eustachian tube. Middle ear. Mucous glands. Occiput (l). Muscles. Joints. Shoulder (R). One side, < left. Crosswise.

Complementary: Calc-s. Follows: Fer-p. Related: Bry. Pul.

Cloride of Potassium - KCl Although not proven, this remedy has a wide clinical use, through its introduction by Schuessler. It certainly is of great value in catarrhal affections, in

sub-acute inflammatory states, fibrinous exudations, and glandular swellings. White or gray coating of base of tongue, and expectoration of thick, white phlegm, seem to be special guiding symptoms. Bursitis præpatellaris.

Worse, rich food, fats, motion.

Imagines he must starve. Headache, with vomiting. Crusta lactea. Dandruff.

Cheek swollen and painful.

White mucus, purulent scabs. Superficial ulcer. Trachoma. Corneal opacities.

Chronic, catarrhal conditions of the middle ear. Glands about the ear swollen. Snapping and noises in the ear. Threatened mastoid. Great effusion about the auricle.

Catarrh; phlegm white, thick. Vault of pharynx covered with adherent crusts. Stuffy cold. Nosebleed (Arn; Bry).

Aphthæ; thrush; white ulcers in mouth. Swollen glands about jaw and neck. Coating of tongue grayish-white, dryish, or slimy.

Follicular tonsillitis. Tonsils inflamed; enlarged so much, can hardly breathe. Grayish patches or spots in the throat and tonsils. Adherent crusts in vault of pharynx. "Hospital" sore throat. Eustachian catarrh.

Fatty or rich food causes indigestion. Vomiting of white, opaque mucus; water gathers in the mouth. Pain in the stomach, with constipation. Bulimia; hunger disappears by drinking water.

Abdominal tenderness and swelling. Flatulence. Thread-worms, causing itching at the anus.

Constipation; light-colored stools. Diarrhœa, after fatty food; clay- colored, white, or slimy stools. Dysentery; purging, with slimy stools. Hæmorrhoids; bleeding; blood dark and thick; fibrinous, clotted.

Menstruation too late or suppressed, checked or too early; excessive discharge; dark-clotted, or tough, black blood, like tar (Plat). Leucorrhœa; discharge of milky-white mucus, thick, non-irritating, bland. Morning sickness, with vomiting of white phlegm. Bunches in breast feel quite soft and are tender. Respiratory Organs.––Loss of voice; hoarseness. Asthma, with gastric derangements; mucus white and hard to cough up. Loud, noisy stomach cough; cough short, acute, and spasmodic, like whooping-cough; expectoration thick and white. Rattling sounds of air passing through thick, tenacious mucus in the bronchi; difficult to cough up. Back and Extremities.––Rheumatic fever; exudation and swelling around the joints. Rheumatic pains felt only during motion, or increased by it. Nightly rheumatic pains; worse from warmth of bed; lightning-like from small of back to feet; must get out of bed and sit up. Hands get stiff while writing.

Acne, erythema, and eczema, with vesicles containing thick, white

contents. Dry, flour-like scales on the skin (Arsenic). Bursitis.

Compare: Bellad which Kali mur follows well in catarrhal and hypertrophic conditions. Kino (otorrhœa, with stitches in right ear); Bry; Mercur; Puls; Sulph.

Third to twelfth potency. External use in skin affections with burning sensation.