Kalium iodatum

by C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica

Historical reference for practitioners and students.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.

REGION

Glands.
Frontal sinus.
Nose.
Eyes.
Lungs: Upper. Lobe.
Periosteum.

WORSE

Heat.
Pressure.
Touch.
Night.
Damp.
Mercury.
Changing weather.
Jolting.
Cold foods.

BETTER

Motion.
Cool air.
Open air.
Incipient

organic changes; gouty-rheumatic, syphilitic, rickety, etc. Many and diverse symptoms. Feels used up. Cachexy. Stubborn chronicity. Arterio-sclerosis. Craves motion in open air. Various symptoms. Crushing or sharp stitching pains. Weakness. COPIOUS, watery, acrid, salty, thick, green or foul discharges. Catarrh. Pains long after trauma. Diffuse soreness; of affected part. Œdematous swelling. .................... Irritable, harsh tempered and cruel. Can't think. Despondent. Bad temper. Harsh. Head bone pains, lightning like, < warmth or lying on part. Big head and small jaws; rickets. Tender spots on head. Bilateral headache. Scalp sore; fissured. Burning, watery, puffy eyes. Chemosis. Tinnitus. Acrid coryza with dyspnœa and salivation. Burning throb in nasal and accessory cavities. Colds from every damp day. Red, swelled nose; tight pain at root, zygomæ and root of tongue. Takes cold. Violent sneezing. Acrid, watery coryza, < cool air. Ozœna. Glutinous mucus on lips in A.M. (Zin-cl.). Nagging toothache. Taste salty; bitter on waking. Salivation. Sore-throat of speakers (Aru-t.). Flatulence; squeaking. Early diarrhœa of phthisis. Frequent stools and urine. Leucorrhœa, corrosive; like meat washings. Air hunger; with flatulency, in A.M.; awakens strangling. Whistling, asthmatic breathing. Raw air - passages. Croupy hoarseness. Dry bronchitis. Frothy expectoration. Backward chest pains. Pneumonia. Pain, sternum to back. Painful lumps; in scalp. Giant urticaria. Chilly in bones; in painful parts. Heat in evening; uncovers, then chills. Alternate heat and chill. Heat with shudders. Hot and dry, then drenching sweat. Profuse night sweats, which >. Actinomycosis.

Antidotes: Merc. Nit-ac.

Related: Iod. Sul. Syph.

Kalium iodatum across the other classic books

Kalium iodatum appears in 12 of the 21 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“[Symptoms taken from patients have been selected with care, and only when clearly the effect of the drug. Cases have been selected with a view of furnishing a complete account of the action of the drug; many cases that added nothing new and only increased the bulk of the matter, have been omitted here as elsewhere.]…”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Iodide of Potassium (KALI HYDRIODICUM) The profuse, watery, acrid coryza that the drug produces serves as a sure guiding symptom, especially when associated with pain in frontal sinus. It acts prominently on fibrous and connective tissues, producing infiltration, œdema, etc. Glandular swellings . Purpura and…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“ADHESIVE, adherent, torn, loose, etc. (Comp. Sticky) AIR Open, Amel.:- IN ROOM, agg., air hunger, etc. BONES. DRUGS, abuse of., Agg. FOAMY, frothy GREENISH NOSE AND ACCESSORY CAVITIES PRESSURE, Agg., lying on painful or affected side, etc., Agg. SALTINESS, taste, smell, fishy odors, etc. UNCOVERING, Amel., cold…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Potassium Iodide. Kali hydriodicum. KI. Solution. Trituration. Actinomycosis / Aneurism / Anhidrosis / Bright's disease / Bubo / Bunions / Cancer / Caries / Cold / Condylomata / Consumption / Cough / Croup / Debility / Dropsy / Ears, otalgia; tinnitus / Emaciation / Erythema nodosum / Eyes, affections of / cysts on…”
Farrington — The differential diagnosis — remedy families narrowed through direct clinical comparison.
“The Iodide of Potassium, or Kali hydriodicum, does not, like the Bromide of Potassium, act on the higher tissues of the body. It seems to affect more the lowest tissues, as the fibrous, acting particularly on the periosteum and the connective tissue wherever they may be found. It attacks the nervous tissues…”
Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“We use this remedy for severe pains in the bones, where they swell. In violent headaches where the cranium swells up in hard lumps--pain being very intense. Syphilis.”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Potassium Iodide. KI. Observations have been chiefly clinical, made on the sick with large doses of the crude drug. See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 5, p. 331 . It needs proving. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Hydrocephalus , Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 11, p. 345 ; Syphilitic choroiditis ; Disseminate choroiditis , Norton's Opth…”
Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“2. A few years ago M. Benedikt made a series of experiments on frogs, by which, however, our knowledge of the remote action of Iod. was not essentially advanced. Like many other poisons, it paralyses voluntary motion in frogs, and produces this effect apparentlyby affecting the spinal cord. (BOEHM, in Ziemssen's…”
Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“This remedy is an antipsoric and antisyphilitic. It has been used very extensively by the old school as an antisyphilitic, but in the very large doses which they used it became to a great extent allopathic to the disease, because of the tremendous effect it produced upon the economy, and implanted its own miasm, and…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Great talkativeness and inclination to jest. Every little noise makes one start. Heat in the head, with redness and burning of the face. Headache and heaviness in the head (5 A.M.); better after rising. Feeling of heaviness in the forehead (in the afternoon). Lancinations and dartings over the left eye and in the left…”
Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Cough with profuse, thick, green, salty expectoration, from deep down, as if from mid-sternum, with pain through to back; great weakness and night sweats. Stitches through the lungs; in middle of sternum; through sternum to back or deep in chest; < walking. Irresistible desire for open air; walking in open air does…”

Kalium iodatum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Kalium iodatum in 1,595 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (245), HEAD (149), ABDOMEN (87), FACE (84), GENERALITIES (81).

MOUTH - PAIN - Tongue - root - night before going to sleep
MOUTH - ULCERS - base black - milky
NOSE - DISCHARGE, - greenish-black
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - crusty - mercury,after abuse of
HEAD - PAIN, - midnight, - 5 a.m.
NOSE - PAIN in - bones - pulsating
NOSE - PAIN in - gnawing - in nasal bones
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - roseola - syphilitic
THROAT - PAIN - stinging - talking,while
CHEST - HEPATIZATION of lungs - right
MOUTH - ULCERS - edges elevated - irregular
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Lower Limbs - sciatica - air,open,amel.
HEAD - PAIN, - morning - waking,on - 5 a.m.
NOSE - PAIN in - burning,smarting - bones
HEAD - PAIN, - stitching - Forehead - eyes,over - left
FACE - PAIN - mercury,after
MOUTH - PAIN - Tongue - root
NOSE - DISCHARGE, - copious - with stuffing of head
THROAT - PAIN - talking
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - rheumatic - syphilitic

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