Kalium carbonicum
von H. A. Roberts — The Rheumatic Remedies
Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.
Kali carbonicum is one of our leading remedies in metastases of rheumatic troubles to the heart, when the characteristic heart symptoms are present.
The tearing, sticking pains < when at rest and > from warmth will serve to bring this remedy to mind.
It is most frequently indicated in elderly people with a tendency to put on fat, who are pale and inclined to œdematous conditions most noticeable in the face.
HEART
STITCHES ABOUT HEART AND THROUGH TO SCAPULÆ.
PALPITATION OF HEART.
INTERMITTENT HEART ACTION.
Crampy pain about heart.
Sensation as of bands about heart.
Pains < on inspiration but not exercise.
NECK AND BACK
Stiffness of nape of neck, mornings.
Back of neck stiff with shooting pain through chest.
Stiffness of left neck with pains extending to scapulæ, < after waking and laughing.
Stiffness with stitching pains in right neck.
Stiffness between the shoulder blades.
TEARING PAINS IN SCAPULÆ.
Stinging pains in scapulæ when in motion.
Stitches from apex of scapulæ to pit of stomach during manual labour.
Drawing pain in small of back.
Pain in small of back < standing or walking.
Pain in small of back following a fall.
PRESSIVE PAIN IN SMALL OF BACK.
SHARP PAINS IN SMALL OF BACK.
BACKACHE, WHILE WALKING.
Bruised pain in back while at rest.
SHARP STITCHING PAINS IN BACK WAKING HIM AT 3 A.M., COMPELLING HIM TO GET UP AND WALK ABOUT, WHICH <.
Pains shoot from loins into nates.
STITCHING PAINS SHOOTING FROM BACK INTO GLUTEI AND THIGH.
Backache as if it would break.
Tearing in lumbar region on respiration.
Pain across sacrum with stiffness in small of back.
GNAWING PAIN IN COCCYX.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
TEARING PAIN IN LEFT SHOULDER JOINT.
Pain as from blows under right shoulder when moving or touching it.
Cracking in shoulder when moving joint.
Weakness and loss of power in arms.
WEAKNESS IN JOINTS OF ARMS, MORNINGS, arms become numb and cold.
THROBBING PAIN IN UPPER LEFT ARM, INTERMITTENT.
DRAWING AND TEARING PAIN IN ELBOW, ESPECIALLY THE BEND OF ELBOW.
Weakness and cramps in hands and fingers.
Numbness of hands and arms.
LAMENESS AND STIFFNESS OF WRISTS.
DULL PRESSING AND TEARING BETWEEN THUMB AND INDEX FINGER.
Fingers cramp while sewing.
Two fingers of left hand burn like glowing coals.
STITCHING TEARING IN FINGER JOINTS.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
CRAMPY PAIN IN HIP and knee joints.
PARALYTIC WEAKNESS IN HIP JOINT.
PAIN IN RIGHT HIP, < every change of position.
VIOLENT STICKING PAIN IN THIGH AND KNEE.
Sharp drawing pains in right knee and thigh, < at night.
TWITCHING OF MUSCLES OF THIGH.
Numbness and falling asleep of whole leg.
DIFFICULTY IN MANAGING LEGS ON GOING UP OR DOWN STAIRS.
Dull pain in sides of knee.
TEARING PAIN IN KNEES < AT NIGHT.
RHEUMATIC PAINS < AT NIGHT, AS IF IN BONES OF LEG.
TEARING PAIN IN TIBIA WITH PAINS AS IF IN PERIOSTEUM WHEN TOUCHED, WITH FEELING OF TENSION.
Drawing pain in tibia with aching in joints.
Ulcerative pain in tibia.
Tearing pain in ankles.
Tearing pain along inside of foot and in sole.
TEARING PAIN IN TOES.
TEARING IN GREAT TOE.
STINGING AND BURNING OF GREAT TOE AND IN BALL OF TOE.
TIPS OF TOES VERY PAINFUL WHEN WALKING.
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL
WEAKNESS OF LIMBS. PAINS MOSTLY IN UPPER ARMS AND LOWER LEGS.
COMPLAINTS GO FROM ABOVE DOWN.
PAINS DRAWING, TEARING, STICKING IN LIMBS.
JERKING OF LIMBS ON GOING TO SLEEP.
LIMBS PAINFUL WHEN RESTING UPON ANYTHING.
TEARING RHEUMATIC PAINS IN BONES.
JOINTS
SWOLLEN AND PUFFY RED.
CONCOMITANTS
OLD PEOPLE WHO ARE FAT.
WEAKNESS WITH PALE ŒDEMATOUS FACE.
DISTENSION OF ABDOMEN AFTER EATING.
PUFFY SAC-LIKE APPEARANCE BETWEEN EYE AND EYEBROW.
AGGRAVATIONS
Walking,
Warmth.
WRITING (hand).
TOUCH OF PART.
REST.
3 A.M.
WHILE LYING DOWN.
AMELIORATIONS
LYING ON BACK (lumbago).
WARMTH OF BED.