Kali Chloricum

Potassium chlorate, KClO3.

Preparation for use , Solutions in water (triturations).

Authorities. ( 1 to 16 , from Martin's provings, Archiv f. Hom., 16, 1, 181).

1 , Blaufuss took 1 grain (first and second days), 3 grains (fourth day), 10 grains (eighth day); 2 , Graefe took one dose of 1 grain; 3 , Hilpert took various doses, 1 to 5 grains; 4 , Horn, various doses of 1 to 5 grains; 5 , Kunzmann, various doses, 1 to 5 grains; 6 , Martin, various doses, 1 to 5 grains and 3d trit.; 7 , Oehler, doses 1 to 5 grains; 8 , Reichmann, 1 to 5 grains; 9 , Vulpius, 1 to 5 grains; 10 , Werther, 1 to 3 grains; 11 , Wilken, repeated doses of 4 grains; 12 , Chisholm, in Hufeland's Journ., ii, p. 84, effects of 30 grains daily for twenty-one days for faceache; 13 , Rollo, from the English of Jugler, ii, p. 131, effects of 64 to 120 grains within a week; 14 , Swediaur, Maladies Syphilit., 1801; 15 , Wendt, Mat. Med., 2d ed; 16 , Ferrier Samml., etc.; 17 , Dr. Tully's provings, Bost. Med. and Surg. J., 1832, vol. 6, p. 327, E. J. D. took a scruple at one dose; 17 a , same, took 1/2 ounce; 17 b , same, took 1 ounce; 17 c , same, took 1/2 ounce; 17 d , same, 1 ounce; , a gentleman took 1/2 ounce, from Tully; , same, took 1 ounce; , William Stevens, "On the Blood," p. 156, general effects; , Hutchinson, Lancet, 1858, effects of 15-grain doses every four hours for two days in case of carbuncle; , same, boy, aged 8, took 8 grains three times a day for four days for ophthalmia; , same, effects in a little girl with ophthalmia; , Dr. Henry Osborn, Lancet, 1859, p. 364, took a dose of 5 grains, after a few weeks 10 grains, and after a few months 15 grains, also effects of solution used for cleaning teeth, symptoms similar to former but less severe; , Isambert, effects of 1 to 20 grammes, Bost. Med. and Surg. J., 1860, p. 32; , John S. Tuttle, suffering from phthisis, effects of daily doses of 3/4 ounces, Br. Med. J., 1861; , Dr. Ferris, effects of "a large spoonful" taken by accident, Phil. Med. Times, 1873; , Chevallier, fatal poisoning by a dose of 20 grammes, repeated the next day, Gaz. Méd. de Paris, Aug. 28th, 1875.

MIND

• Slight acceleration of spirits for two days (after 15 grains), 23.
• Sad, without desire to live, apathetic mood, with chilliness, in the evening; recurring several evenings, 6.
• Ill-humor without cause, following great liveliness, 3.
• Ill-humored, anxious, hypochondriac condition of the ganglionic nerve, persisting until relieved by twice repeated bleeding of the nose, 4.
• Almost complete loss of consciousness, suddenly after a glass of wine, 1.

HEAD

• Confusion and Vertigo.
• Confusion of the head, 1, 9 , etc.; without headache, 5 ; on walking in the open air, 6.
• Confusion in the occiput, with a peculiar sensation in the muscles of the nape of the neck, 11.
• Vertigo, with congestion of blood to the head, after violent motion, 5.
• A small drink of beer intoxicates very easily, 1.
• General Head. [10.]
• Congestion of the brain to such an extent that one-half of the head, face, and nose felt paralyzed; for two days (after 15 grains), 23.
• Sense of congestion of the head, accompanied by pain in the forehead (after 5 grains); continuing about two days (after 10 grains), 23.
• Headache, 3 ; with vertigo, 7.
• Constant headache, 3.
• Quite violent headache, 3 ; in evening, relieved next day, 9.
• Cutting pain in the head, extending into the malar bones, 4.
• Forehead.
• Tension in the forehead, 3.
• Tension across the forehead, followed by sneezing and catarrh, 4.
• Headache in the frontal region ("S. "?).
• Drawing in the forehead, recurring, 6. [20.]
• Frequently-recurring jerking in the upper and lower portion of the frontal bone, 1.
• Temples.
• Pain in the temporal region, 4.
• Headache in the left temple, 6.
• Sticking pain in the right temporal region, now appearing and now disappearing; returning again very violently after six days, 9.
• Parietals.
• Headache in the left side, 4.
• Occiput.
• Pain in the occiput in the evening, at times extending down into both jaws, 9.

EYE

• Redness of both eyes in the evening, with some pain, 3.
• Tendency to rush of blood to both eyes, 3.
• Feeling of strength in the eyes, 3. [30.]
• Cramp in the left eye, 8.
• Twitching in the canthi, 3.
• Violent pressure in the eyes, 4.
• Some stitches in the eyes, 11.
• Jerking in the inner canthi, 3.
• Pain in the upper lid, in the evening, 3.
• Detected in the tears, 24.
• Appearance of light before both eyes, when coughing or sneezing, 5.

EAR

• Roaring in the ears, with a painful bloody stool, 3.

NOSE

• Objective.
• Sneezing, 8 ; with violent catarrh, 9 ; followed by catarrh, 4. [40.]
• Frequent sneezing, 3, 6.
• Slight increase of secretion from pituitary membrane, 24.
• Violent catarrh, 3, 9.
• Violent catarrh, with much sneezing and profuse secretion of mucus, quite unusual, 6.
• Bleeding from the right nostril, 8.
• Nosebleed twice, 4.
• Violent nosebleed, 3.
• Detected in the nasal mucus, 24.
• Nosebleed at night, 4.
• Subjective.
• Drawing at the root of the nose, 6. [50.]
• Irritation at the root of the nose, 3.
• Irritation in the nose, frequent sneezing, with increased secretion of mucus; this occurred also next day, with jerking in the masseter muscles, which also recurred subsequently, 3.

FACE

• Tension in the face, with pressure towards the eyes, especially on the right side, 8.
• Drawing and tension in the right half of the face, 6.
• At times sticking in various parts of the face, 9.
• Increased sensitiveness of the whole face, 3.
• Cheeks.
• Tension in the right cheek beneath the eye, extending thence to the ear, afterwards on the left side, 6.
• Drawing tension in the right cheek, followed by an inclination to sneeze, 6.
• Drawing in the right cheek and in the gum, with a kind of cramp in the muscles of the right cheek, 6.
• Drawing in the right cheek, with pain in the lobule of the right ear, at one time more beneath the orbits, at another more in the masseter muscles, 6. [60.]
• Violent drawing in the right cheek, 6.
• Tensive drawing in the left cheek near the orbital margin, 6.
• Cramplike drawing in the cheeks, extending into the joint of the lower jaw, at times with slight tearing in the upper jaw, 9.
• Drawing pain in the right cheek until he sneezes, 6.
• Pressive pain in the right malar bone beneath the margin of the orbit, followed by tension in the whole cheek and temple, 6.
• Lips.
• Blue lips, 26.
• Swelling of the upper lip; of the lower lip, 8.
• Chin.
• Cramplike pressure in the articulation of the lower jaw, with some stitches in both the jaw and teeth, especially of the right side, 9.
• Jerking in the nerves of the lower jaw at the foramen maxillare posticum, 3.

MOUTH

• Teeth.
• The teeth become blunted, 12. [70.]
• Toothache in the upper jaw, 4.
• Pain extending from the temporal bone to the eye teeth, 4.
• The gum becomes bright-red, 12.
• Gums.
• Reddens the gums much faster than mercury, 19.
• The gum bleeds easily when brushing the teeth as usual, 6.
• Tongue.
• Tongue white, 12 ; in the middle, 13.
• Tongue coated, 14 ; with the diarrhœa, 2.
• Back of the tongue coated, 6.
• Two symmetrical ulcers on the sides of the tongue, each about the size of a four penny piece, 20.
• Feeling of coldness on the tongue, immediately, 6. [80.]
• Coldness on the tongue and in the throat, lasting five minutes; immediately, 6.
• Fine sticking-burning on the tongue, 6.
• General Mouth.
• Mucous membrane of the mouth and throat appeared tanned, as if this had been effected by tannic acid (after 15 grains), 23.
• ["Mr. Hutchinson has recently drawn our attention to some interesting cases illustrative of the power of the chlorate of potash to produce a form of stomatitis exactly resembling one over which it possesses specific curative powers"], 20.
• *Most acute ulcerative and follicular stomatitis. The whole mucous surface was red and tumid, and in the cheeks, lips, etc., were numerous gray-based ulcers, 21.
• Stomatitis, not so severe as in the preceding, 22.
• Muscles of the palate felt contracted (after 15 grains), 23.
• Saliva.
• Traces of it are detected in saliva (after five minutes), 24.
• Increased secretion of saliva, 6.
• Profuse secretion of acid saliva, .*

THROAT

• Dryness of the throat, 3.
• Dryness in the throat and chest with violent cough, as after inhaling sulphur vapor (occurring after every dose of 1/4th or 1/5th grain, in a girl suffering from faceache).
• Scraping in the throat, 6.
• Pressive pain in the throat and stomach, with inclination to eructate, 6.
• Rawness in the throat, 6.
• Difficult swallowing, 9.

STOMACH

• Appetite.
• Increase of appetite, 24.
• Great hunger at an unusual time, 4. [110.]
• Paroxysms of ravenous hunger, disappearing after a drink of fresh water; afterwards loss of appetite, 4.
• Deficiency of appetite (second day), continuing (fourth day), 17c.
• Considerable diminution of appetite for several days, 17a.
• Appetite much diminished (second day), lasting three or four days, 18.
• Loss of appetite, 6.
• Thirst.
• Thirst, after large doses (in several syphilitic patients), 13, 14.
• Eructation.
• Eructations, 4.
• Eructations and nausea, 6.
• Violent eructations, with alternating pains in the thorax and abdomen, 7.
• Eructations of air, 6. [120.]
• Sourish eructations, 8.
• Slight pyrosis (after large dose of too concentrated solution), 24.
• Nausea and Vomiting.
• Nausea, with slight shivering, immediately, 5.
• Nausea and three or four attempts to vomit, though nothing but air was ejected (about the time the Opium was taken), 18a.
• Incessant vomiting (fourth day), and finally death, 25.
• Stomach.
• Feeling of warmth in the stomach, 6.
• Warmth in the stomach, 4.
• (Gastralgia), 15.
• Cardialgia (within an hour), 18a.
• Moderate degree of cardialgia, 17b. [130.]
• Pressure in the epigastric region, 1.
• Pressure in the stomach with a feeling of emptiness, 6.
• Pressure in the pit of the stomach with an apathetic mood and chilliness, 6.

ABDOMEN

• Tensive pressure in the right hypochondrium, disappearing after the emission of flatus, 5.
• Sensation of weight and tension in the umbilical region, with considerable pain, which resembled the commencements of colica ileus, or common colic (first night), relieved by Opium; returning for three or four days, 18a.
• Frequent moving about in the abdomen, with inclination to diarrhœa, 6.
• Flatulence (second day); lasting (fourth day), 17c ; (within an hour), 18a.
• Much flatulence during the day, 6.
• Much flatulence for several days, 17a.
• Troublesome degree of flatulence, all the afternoon, 17b.
• Inability to sleep on account of flatulence and epigastric distress (first night), returning for three or four days; relieved by Opium each day, 18a.
• Pain in the abdomen, 1. [150.]
• (Pain in the abdomen and diarrhœa), (after 232 grains in seven days, in a syphilitic), 13.
• Pain in the bowels became very severe (fourth day), 25.
• Griping in the abdomen, 8.
• Violent colic (first dose), 27.
• Pain in the pelvic region recurs after repeated doses and continues with diarrhœa for ten days, 7.

RECTUM AND ANUS

• A troublesome degree of proctica marisca took place immediately, and was not subdued for ten days, 18a.
• Persistent pain in the rectum, 3.
• Urging to stool, 8.
• Constant desire for stool, with a normal evacuation, 6.

STOOL

• Diarrhœa.
• Violent diarrhœa, always liquid, at last after six days consisting only of mucus, continuing till the ninth day, 2. [160.]
• (Painful diarrhœa), 15.
• Copious alvine evacuation, which resembled the operation of a full dose of a refrigerant purging salt (after three hours), 17d.
• Fæces soft, without pain during the evacuation, 3.
• Stool somewhat thinner than usual, 3.
• Liquid stool the next morning, 6.
• Liquid stools with pain in the pelvic region for ten days, 7.
• Thin liquid stool, 6.
• Fæces lighter colored than natural for then days, 18a.
• Fæces often tinged with green, 24.
• Stool very dry, at last mixed with mucus and blood, 3. [170.]
• Stool harder than usual, 4.
• Stool hard and dry, 3.
• Stool very indolent, delayed; only occurring at 11.30 P.M., 6.
• Constipation.
• Torpor of the intestines, indicated by costiveness, which was immediately attended with a moderate degree of proctica marisca, continuing third day, 18.
• The usual evening stool is omitted, 1.

URINARY ORGANS

• Itching in the urethra, 3.
• Micturition.
• Unusual desire to urinate, 7.
• Frequent urging to urinate, 6.
• Frequent micturition (after 20 grammes daily), 24.
• Frequent micturition and a discharge of nearly double the quantity of urine, with considerable of that sort of irritation about the bladder and urethra which the experimenter remembers having formerly experienced not only from Nit. of Potassa, but from Carb. of Potassa (during urinating), 18a. [180.]
• Inability to empty the bladder, 21.
• Urine.
• (It acts as a diuretic, especially in dropsy), 16.
• Obvious increase of urine in the evening and night, 17c.
• Urinary secretion nearly doubled at night (first night), 18.
• Hæmaturia, 26.
• (The urine which was previously turbid became clear; it had become turbid after doses of 1 grain); this followed a subsequent 5-grain dose, 5.
• Urine very turbid, 4, 5, 6, 9.
• Urine strongly acid and deposits urates abundantly, 24.
• Traces of it in the urine (after fifteen minutes), 24.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Violent erections with emissions, 3. [190.]
• Continued violent erections, with itching on the scrotum, 3.
• Very much depressed sexual desire, with chilliness and apathetic mood, 6.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• Irritation to cough in the larynx, 6.
• Hoarseness, 3.
• Cough, 9.
• Violent cough with catarrh, 7.

CHEST

• Rush of blood to the chest, 1.
• Constriction in the chest as from sulphur fumes (in a girl suffering from pain in the face), repeated three times (after 1/4th gr. of 5th trit.).
• Tightness of the chest, 6.
• Painful pressure in the left costal region, superiorly, 6. [200.]
• Oppression of the chest, with violent beating of the heart, 1.
• Oppression of the chest, with a sensation as if the lungs were constricted with a fine thread; this continued till the next morning when a new dose was taken; in the afternoon the pain in the chest returned with renewed violence, and in the evening without farther cause had become exceedingly annoying; this continued three days, but entirely disappeared on the fourth day, so that a new dose was taken, which also caused oppression of the chest, lasting two days, 11.
• Detected in the milk of two nurses who were taking it as a medicine, 24.

HEART AND PULSE

• Heart's Action.
• Distinctly perceptible (to the touch) though not accelerated beating of the heart, with coldness in the præcordial region, 6.
• Violent but regular beating of the heart (80), 5.
• Violent, almost audible beating of the heart, oppression of the chest and cold feet, 1.
• Pulse.
• Pulse increased in frequency, 1.
• Accelerated pulse, 14.
• Pulse accelerated to 80, 1.
• (Pulse 90 in a syphilitic after taking 116 grains in seven days), 13. [210.]
• Pulse accelerated, 86 (usually 65), 9.
• Pulse 70 (usually 64 to 67), (soon after 5 grs.); even after sixty to seventy hours it was still beating 72, 3.
• Pulse 74 (usually 70), 8.
• Pulse 78, after twenty-four hours 74 (usually 70), 4.
• The pulse which before taking the drug was usually 65, rose within three hours to 80 and then to 90 for several hours together, 9.
• Obvious and unequivocal diminution of the pulse, both in fulness and force, commencing within an hour and continuing through the evening and night, 18a.
• Pulse 96, which was an accidental increase of 24 beats, before taking; 80 (after half an hour), 68 (after one hour), which was 4 beats less than natural, 17.
• Pulse 80, before taking; 64 (after one hour), varying from 56 to 65, a slight exertion or motion raising it to the latter number, and quiet for a time reducing it to the former, at the same time it was considerably smaller and weaker (after two hours); 64 (after three and four hours), 17b.
• Pulse 76, before taking; diminished considerably in force, and also reduced about 10 beats in frequency (after one or two hours), 17.
• Pulse 76, before taking; 56, small and weaker (after one hour); 56 when perfectly quiet, but by a slight exertion or motion it would rise to 64 (after two hours); still smaller and weaker, 48 (after four hours); 36 (after four or five hours), 17d. [220.]
• Pulse in the right hand full, soft, slow, 68, intermitting every 25 to 30 beats, not harmonious with the beat of the heart (80 to the minute); in the left hand it was small, soft, very compressible, lasting two hours, .

NECK AND BACK

• Slight sense of pain and weight in the lumbar region (after 20 grammes daily), 24.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Drawing in the forearms, 3.
• Drawing and tearing in both wrists, 6.
• Slight tearing in the right wrist and along the ulna, 6.
• Greatly inflamed hang-nails, quite unusual, 6.
• Cramp in the index finger of the right hand, 8.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Drawing in the thigh, 3.
• Violently sticking pains in the right knee-joint, 9.
• Cramp in the lower leg, 8.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

• Objective. [230.]
• Terrible convulsions, followed by death; next day the body had turned slate-color, 27.
• Great weariness and desire to sleep, returning after every dose, 3.
• Weakness, 5.
• Great weakness, with the diarrhœa, transient, 2.
• Subjective.
• Feeling of discomfort, 11.
• Rheumatic pains in different parts of the body, 9.

SKIN

• Objective.
• Congestion of the surface, 26.
• Eruptions, Dry.
• Numerous small red papules, 1.
• Pimples on the forehead, 3.
• Pimples on the lower lip, with great rush of blood to the eyes, 1. [240.]
• Pimples between the lip and chin, 3.
• Pimples on the thigh and on the right corner of the mouth, 7.
• A pimple with unusual burning on the left cheek, 6.
• Itching in the skin at night; on the next morning there appeared small red pimples on the legs and shoulders, not on the joints; they dry up after forty-nine hours, and are followed by the appearance of some pimples on the face, 8.
• Rash, with some painful pimples on the left shoulder, for ten days, 4.
• Eruptions, Moist.
• Itching vesicles on the back of the right hand, 6.
• Pimples itching very much, with small vesicles on the back of the left hand, disappearing in the course of the day, but returning the following morning, 6.
• Eruptions, Pustular.
• Several pustules filled with matter, surrounded by a red areola, not itching very much, 3.
• Subjective.
• Itching over the whole body (first day); on the next day more in the face, 7.
• Itching over the whole body in the evening in bed, 1. [250.]
• Much itching on the head and other portions of the body, 6.
• Violent itching over the whole body, 10.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

• Sleeplessness.
• Uneasy sleep, 3.
• Uneasy sleep, wakes towards morning, quite contrary to habit, from an anxious dream, lying on the back, with loud snoring and great difficulty of breathing, 6.
• Sleep restless, frequently interrupted by heavy dreams, 1.
• Sleep restless, full of vexing dreams, very unusual, 6.
• Dreams.
• Many dreams of the occurrences of the day previous, 7.
• Voluptuous dreams, with profuse emissions, 3.
• Quiet dreams of prophecies of death, 6.
• Quiet dreams of death from nervous fever, 6.

FEVER

• Chilliness. [260.]
• Chilliness, 4.
• Chilliness over the whole body in the evening, 3.
• Chilliness in the open air, very unusual, lasting three days, 1.
• Chilliness, with stiffness of the hands, 6.
• Continued chilliness, 7, 8.
• Great chilliness, 6 ; in afternoon, 9.
• Remarkable chilliness for several days, 4.
• Great chilliness, even to shivering, 6.
• Shivering sensation, immediately, 6.
• Shivering over the whole body, 5, 6. [270.]
• Coldness in the præcordial region, 6.
• Remarkable coldness in the right arm, 8.
• Transient internal coldness in the right forearm, 6.
• Cold feet, with palpitation of the heart, 10.
• Cold extremities, 26.
• Cold shivers over the back and neck, with warm feet, 1.
• Heat.
• Intolerable heat in the bed, 1.
• Febrile condition, with violently throbbing pulse and heart, 1.
• Flushes of heat in the face, 3.
• Sweat.
• Detected in the perspiration, 24.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Afternoon ), Chilliness.
• ( Evening ), Sad, etc.; headache; pain in occiput; redness of eyes, etc.; pain in upper lid; chilliness.
• ( Night ), Nosebleed.
• ( Walking in open air ), Confusion of head.
• ( After violent motion ), Vertigo.

SUPPLEMENT: KALI CHLORICUM. Authorities.

28 , Dr. J. Lewis Smith, Med. Record, vol. xiii, 1878, p. 397; 29 , Dr. Hall, ibid.; ( 30 to 38 , A. Jocobi, M.D., ibid., vol. xv., p. 240, collection of cases); 30 , Seeligmüller reports fatal case of a boy, æt. six years; 31 , Lacombe, a man took 1 ounce instead of Sulphate of magnesia; 32 , Jacobi took single 1/2 ounce and 6-drachm doses; 33 , Dr. Fountain experimented on himself, taking over 1 ounce; 34 , Dr. Krackowizer, a young lady was told to use a mouth-wash and gargle of 1 ounce, but she swallowed the whole; ( 35 to 38 , Conrad Küster, D. Zeit. f. prak. Med., 1877, No. 33); 35 , a woman, æt. twenty years, vigorous, for mild angina had a strong solution for gargling and internal use; 36 , a man, æt. thirty years, for trifling maculated diphtheritic angina, had a strong solution as a gargle, and took lime-water internally; 37 , a boy, æt. three years, for same disease, gargle and administration of the Chlorate; 38 , a girl, æt. four years, for mild angina, gargles and administration of the Chlorate. [280.]

• Appears nearly well, both locally and generally, within two days; but in the afternoon very suddenly vomiting, yawning, apathy, bluish-white complexion, accelerated compressible pulse, skin cool. In the evening some urine, black, with greenish hue, albuminous, contained hæmatin. On the following days the color became more normal, and albumen less. On the fifth day the danger was over, but the pulse remained frequent a long time. No dropsy. A slight return of albumen on the sixteenth day, 38.
• The doctor found her dying at daybreak the following morning. Relatives said that vomiting and diarrhœa commenced in the evening, but that they all slept, and were awakened in the morning by the laborious breathing of the patient. The skin exhibited a peculiar dusky hue, 35.
• Copious greenish discharges, obstinate vomiting, and collapse, 30.
• A child, three or four years old, took 3 iij within twenty-four hours. When he saw the child it was unable to pass any urine, except a few drops of bloody urine, its face was livid, and death occurred within the following day, 28.
• An infant, under one year of age, took about 3i during a single night, with fatal result. There was suppression of the urine, and the face was livid, 29.
• Some malaise all the time. Urine albuminous; the urine was peculiarly black on the third or fourth day. Urine albuminous a year and a half after, 36.
• Urine black, a little greenish hue, moderately albuminous, the surface bluish white; the child dying. A good deal of vomiting, 37.
• Heaviness and dragging in the lumbar region, and increased renal secretion, 32.
• He hied in convulsions after having purged very freely, 31.
• She died within three days of nephritis, 34. [290.]
• Died within four days of nephritis, 33.