Kalium Cyanatum

Potassium Cyanide

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

(KALI CYANATUM)

Sudden sinking sensation. Cancer of tongue and agonizing neuralgia have been benefited by this drug. Sick headache; sciatica; epilepsy.

Tongue

Ulcer of tongue, with indurated edges. Speech difficult. Power of speech lost but intelligence intact.

Face

Severe neuralgia in temporal region, recurring daily at same hour. Pain in orbital and supra-maxillary region, with screaming and loss of consciousness.

Respiratory

Cough prevents sleep; respiration weak; cannot take deep breath.

Modalities

Worse , from 4 am to 4 pm.

Relationship

Compare: Platin; Stann; Cedron; Mezer; Mur ac .

Dose

Sixth potency and 200th.

Kalium Cyanatum across the other classic books

Kalium Cyanatum appears in 4 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 cyanide, KCy. Preparation , Triturations. Authorities.”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Kali Cyanidum. Kali Cyanuretum. Cyanide of Potash. Potassic Cyanide. KCN. Solution. Trituration. Apoplexy / Asthma / Cancer / Cheyne-Stokes breathing / Ciliary neuralgia / Epilepsy / Headache / Neuralgia / Rheumatism / Speech, lost / Tongue, cancer of The Cyanide of Potash is much used in photography, and being for…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Potassium Cyanide. K. C. N. Proved by Lembke in 1st and 2d triturations. Toxicological reports ; see Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 5, p. 323 . CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Neuralgic headaches , Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 11, p. 348 ; Affection of chest , Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 11, p. 39. Double vision. Agonizing attacks of…”

Kalium Cyanatum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Kalium Cyanatum in 40 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (6), SLEEP (5), EYE (4), BACK (3), HEAD (3).

VISION - DIPLOPIA
EYE - STARING
EXTREMITIES - WEAKNESS - Leg
EXTREMITIES - HEAVINESS, - Lower Limbs - afternoon - 4 p.m.
EYE - TENSION - canthi,internal
CHEST - PAIN - forenoon - 10 a.m.
EXTREMITIES - TREMBLING - Foot - convulsive
MIND - IRRITABILITY - absent persons,with
SLEEP - DREAMS - exciting
SLEEP - SLEEPINESS - evening - 8 p.m.
VERTIGO - OBJECTS - move
URINE - ODORLESS
PERSPIRATION - COLDNESS. - after
EYE - MOVEMENT,eye balls,constant - convulsive
LARYNX TRACHEA - PAIN, - larynx - swallowing,on
COUGH - SLEEP, - preventing
HEAD - PAIN, - Vertex - forenoon
HEAD - PAIN, - Forehead,in - walking in open air, - while
MOUTH - CANCER - Tongue
RESPIRATION - PAROXYSMAL

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