Kali Ferrocyanatum

Potassium ferrocyanide (Blut-laugen-salz).

Preparation , Triturations.

Authorities.

1 , Dr. James B. Bell, provings Hahnemann. Month., 2, 43, D. R., a man aged 27, took 1/2 grain of 1st trit., at 3 P.M.; 2 , Miss H. R., aged 28 (subject to dysmenia), took 2 grains of 3d trit. in some water, at 10 P.M.; 2 a , same prover took 4 grains of 3d trit., eight days later; 3 , Dr. Burleigh Smart, Amer. J. Med. Sc., 15, p. 365, effects of continued "full doses" in patients.

MIND

• Feeling of sadness and some disposition to tears, caused by an impression that he was soon to die and leave his friends; disposition to take a sad view of the beauties of autumn; the apprehension of approaching sickness and death can be overcome by reason, but soon returns (in the afternoon, third day), 1.
• Irritable and easily vexed (second day), 2.

HEAD

• Vertigo, coldness, and numbness, with a sensation of gastric sinking, sometimes universal tremors, as in an ague fit, 3.

NOSE

• Desire to sneeze, very soon, 1.
• Much sneezing during the forenoon, and mucous discharge from the nose (second day), 1.

MOUTH

• Ptyalism, with redness, swelling, and tenderness of the gums, and aphthæ of the mouth and fauces, 3.

THROAT

• For three days the throat feels dry and sore on waking, but soon after expectoration came on with relief, 1.
• Wakes early, with a sensation as though the pharynx was raw and the tonsils swollen; relieved after rising by expectoration of creamlike mucus (second day), 1.

STOMACH

• Slight nausea for a few minutes, while dressing in the morning (second day), 2. [10.]
• Sensation of gastric sinking, 3.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Male.
• Almost involuntary coition in a half waking state, with imperfect erection; too early emission and little pleasure (first night), 1.
• Emission of semen, with indistinct amorous dreams (second and third nights), 1.
• Female.
• Leucorrhœa, all day; is subject to it only just after menses (second day), 2.
• Menses came on four days too late (after eleven days); the usual pain commenced at the proper date, but the flow did not begin as usual with the pain; bearing-down pains much less than usual (curative?), 2a.

HEART AND PULSE

• Lessens the action of the heart, diminishes the number of its beats in a minute, and softening and lessening the volume of the pulse, 3.
• A full dose of this substance will often reduce the number of pulsations in a well person ten beats in a minute, in a few minutes after being taken, 3.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Pain in the shoulder-joints on motion, in the morning, on rising (second day), 2.
• Fingers slightly swollen about the joints, in the morning on rising (second day), 2.
• Lameness of the fingers and wrist-joints of both hands, left rather worse, in the morning on rising (second day), 2.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Pain and lameness in right hip-joint, early in the morning, going off in the afternoon; only felt when walking (second day); felt for three or four days, at times worse in the forenoon, 1. [20.]
• Pain through the hips, lower part of the back, and bowels, like the pain she feels during the menses; same bearing-down or dragging-down feeling; left hip more than the right; feels irritable and easily vexed (is subject to these feelings during the menses, but they are not now present); after a ride in a carriage in the afternoon (second day), 2.
• Severe pain in the knees, on stooping, in the afternoon (second day), 2.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

• Sometimes universal tremors, as in an ague fit, 3.
• Numbness, 3.
• (Morning) pains all disappeared about 2 P.M. (second day), 2.

FEVER

• Coldness, 3.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), On waking, throat dry, etc.; on waking, pharynx raw, etc.; while dressing, nausea; on rising pain when moving shoulder-joints; on rising, lameness of fingers, etc.
• ( Forenoon ), Only when walking, pain, etc., in hip-joint.
• ( Afternoon ), On stooping, pain in knees.