Mercurius biniodatus cum kali iodatum
Edwin M. Hale著 — Materia Medica and Special Therapeutics of the New 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Historical reference for practitioners and students.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.
Volume I — Appendix
(Double Iodide of Mercury and Potassium.)
Description. — It is a yellow salt, made by adding Potassium iodide to a hot concentrated solution of Mercuric iodide, and cooling. Long yellow crystals are deposited from the mother liquor. These crysials, when heated, first give off water, and then melt into a red liquid, from which some of the Mercuric iodide separates. It is soluble in alcohol and ether, but water decomposes it, separating about one-half the Mercuric iodide; then the liquid yields by evaporation a saline mass.
This salt is also readily made by boiling a solution of Potassium iodide with Mercuric oxide.
Preparations. — Triturations.
(No Provings.)
It causes profuse, watery mucous discharge from the throat, nose,
and deeper air- passages. 0 Influenza, with profuse, irritating discharges. 0 Secondary and tertiary syphilis.
Volume II — Special Therapeutics
Double Iodide of Mercury and Potassium, HgK2I4.
This is a canary-yellow salt, formed by the chemical union of one equivalent of red Iodide of mercury and two equivalents of Iodide of potassium. It is freely soluble in water.