Kalium Arsenicosum

Fowler's Solution

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

(KALI ARSENICUM)

The Kali ars patient tends towards malignancy, and inveterate skin diseases. He is restless, nervous and anæmic.

Skin

Intolerable itching, worse undressing. Dry , scaly, wilted. Acne; pustules worse during menses. Chronic eczema; itching worse from warmth , walking, undressing. Psoriasis , lichen. Phagedænic ulcers. Fissures in bends of arms and knees. Gouty nodosities; worse, change of weather. Skin cancer, where suddenly an alarming malignancy without any external signs sets in. Numerous small nodules under skin.

Female

Cauliflower excrescences of os uteri, with flying pains, foul smelling discharge, and pressure below pubis.

Relationship

Radium .

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency.

Kalium Arsenicosum across the other classic books

Kalium Arsenicosum appears in 5 of the 13 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 — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Potassium arsenite, As2O3K2 Preparation , Solution in water. Authorities. Dementia, 3. Inflammation of tarsi, 3. The eyes are suffused with tears, 2. Conjunctiva injected; or glassy, 1. The conjunctiva is slightly inflamed, 2. Conjunctivitis, 3. Sight dim, 3. Constriction of the throat, 3. Submaxillary glands swollen…”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“Cardio-vascular system. Touch. Noise. Cold feet. 1-3 A.M. Rainy days. Nights are filled with suffering. Aversion to open air. Palpitation; with nephritis. Burning, in throat, aching in stomach, etc. Passes much gas, then diarrhœa. Black leg ulcer, running bloody, foul water; with cutting, burning, itching and dyspnœa…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Kali arseniatum. Potassium arsenite. KH 2 ASO 3 . "Fowler's Solution," the form in which Kali ars . has been tested, consists of Arsenious acid 1 part, Carbonate of potash 1 part. Compound tincture of lavender 3 parts, distilled water 95 parts. Dilutions should be made from this. Bright's disease / Cancer / Deafness /…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Potassium Arsenite (Fowler's Solution). As 2 O 3 K 2 O. A short proving, Med. and Surg. Journ., 1848, p. 459 ; physiological and pathogenetic effects by Berndt and Cattell ; see Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 5, p. 212 ; pathogenetic effects observed by Hering, MSS. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Melancholy and jealousy , N. N. …”

Kalium Arsenicosum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Kalium Arsenicosum in 1,140 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (134), MIND (99), SKIN (78), STOMACH (73), GENERALITIES (72).

RESPIRATION - ASTHMATIC - midnight,after - 2 to 3 a.m.
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - midnight - after - 2 to 3 a.m.
EYE - SWOLLEN - lids - lower lids
COUGH - NIGHT - midnight - after - 3 a.m.
COUGH - NIGHT - midnight - after - 2 a.m.
GENERALITIES - COLD - place,entering a,agg.
RECTUM - DIARRHOEA - night - midnight - after
MIND - ANXIETY - health,about
FACE - DISCOLORATION - pale - lips
FEMALE GENITALIA - LEUCORRHOEA - offensive
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - midnight,after
FEVER - HECTIC fever
CHILL - WARM - room - amel
PERSPIRATION - PROFUSE - night
GENERALITIES - NIGHT - midnight - before
GENERALITIES - UNCOVERING - agg.
LARYNX TRACHEA - CATARRH
MIND - RESTLESSNESS,nervousness - anxious,etc.
MIND - SUSPICIOUS
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Elbow

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