by Henry N. Guernsey — Key-Notes to the Materia Medica
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.
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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.
“[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.]…”
“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…”
“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…”
“Glands. Frontal sinus. Nose. Eyes. Lungs: Upper. Lobe. Periosteum. Heat. Pressure. Touch. Night. Damp. Mercury. Changing weather. Jolting. Cold foods. Motion. Cool air. Open air. Incipient organic changes; gouty-rheumatic, syphilitic, rickety, etc. Many and diverse symptoms. Feels used up. Cachexy. Stubborn…”
“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…”
“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…”
“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…”
“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…”
“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…”
“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…”
“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…”
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).
