Kalium Chloricum

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

Chlorate of Potassium-K clo. 3

(KALI CHLORICUM)

Acts very destructively upon the kidneys, producing a croupous nephritis, hemoglobinuria, etc. Parenchymatous nephritis with stomatitis. Produces most acute ulcerative and follicular stomatitis. Noma. Toxæmic conditions of pregnancy (urinary symptoms). Chronic nephritis; hepatitis. Septicæmia. Anæmia.

Mouth

Profuse secretion of acid saliva. Whole mucous surface red, tumid, with gray-based ulcers. Tongue swollen. Stomatitis -aphthous and gangrenous . Fetor. Mercurial stomatitis (as a mouth wash).

Stomach

Feeling of weight in epigastric and umbilical region. Flatulence. Vomiting of greenish-black matter.

Stool

Diarrhœa; profuse, greenish mucus.

Urine

Albuminous, scanty, suppressed. Hæmaturia; diuresis. Nucleo-albumin and bile, high Phosphoric acid, with low total solids.

Skin

Jaundice. Itching miliary or papular eruptions. Discolored; chocolate tint.

Dose

Second to sixth potency. Use cautiously locally as it is poisonous.

Kalium Chloricum across the other classic books

Kalium Chloricum 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 chlorate, KClO3. Preparation for use , Solutions in water (triturations). Authorities. ( 1 to 16 , from Martin's provings, Archiv f. Hom., 16, 1, 181).”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“Blood. Nerve sheaths. Mouth. Rectum. Kidneys. Cold. Mercury. Profound prostration. Coldness; and easy hæmorrhage; nosebleed, bloody stools, etc. Scurvy. Fetid mouth, lochia, etc. Gray, white, plastic exudates. .................... Swelled face, in morning, ankles in evening. Mercurial salivation. Aphthæ. Noma. Sudden…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Potassium Chlorate. Potassic Chlorate. KClO 3 . Trituration. Solution. Albuminuria / Aphthæ / Asthma / Cancrum oris / Clumsiness / Crusta lactea / Cystitis / Dysentery / Epithelioma / Hæmaturia / Hæmorrhages / Hæmorrhoids / Hangnails / Mercurial poisoning / Mouth, inflammation of / Nephritis / Neuralgia / Œdema /…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Vertigo, with congestion of blood to the head, after violent exercise. Easily intoxicated from small quantities of beer or wine. Vertigo, with headache. Tightness in the sinciput, with sneezing and coryza. Headache extending into both jaws. Luminous appearance before the eyes when coughing or sneezing. Redness in the…”

Kalium Chloricum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Kalium Chloricum in 574 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in MOUTH (63), EXTREMITIES (55), FACE (43), GENERALITIES (35), THROAT (33).

EAR - DISCHARGES - white - white,milky
EXPECTORATION - WHITE - opaque
STOOL - MUCOUS,slimy - white - milk white
EXPECTORATION - OPAQUE
MOUTH - INFLAMMATION - follicular,ulcerative
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - scaly - white
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - mealy - white
EXPECTORATION - MILKY
MIND - EAT,refuses to
THROAT - MEMBRANE,exudation,diphtheria,etc. - white
STOOL - MUCOUS,slimy - white
CHEST - PHTHISIS pulmonalis - pituitous
MOUTH - SWELLING
URETHRA - CHORDEE
EYE - INFLAMMATION - conjunctiva - pustular (including cornea)
MALE GENITALIA - INFLAMMATION - Penis - glans
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - scaly - bran-like
MOUTH - SCORBUTIC Gums
THROAT - MEMBRANE,exudation,diphtheria,etc.
FACE - ERUPTIONS - mouth - around

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