Kalium bichromicum appears in 11 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 HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Potassium Bichromate. (K2Cr2O7) Fat, light-haired persons who suffer from catarrhal, syphillitic or psoric affections. Fat, chubby, short-necked children disposed to croup and croupy affections. Affections of the mucous membranes - eyes, nose, mouth, throat, bronchi, gastro-intestinal and genito-urinary tracts …”
- Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Potassium bichromate. Preparation , Triturations. Authorities.”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Bichromate of Potash (KALI BICHROMICUM) The special affinities of this drug are the mucous membrane of stomach, bowels, and air-passages; bones and fibrous tissues. Kidneys, heart, and liver are also affected. Incipient parenchrymatous; nephritis. Nephritis with gastric disturbances. Cirrhosis of liver. Anæmia and…”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“MUCOUS MEMBRANES: Air passages. NOSE. Pharynx. Stomach. Duodenum. Fibrous tissue. Ligaments. JOINTS. Skin. Circulation. Kidneys. Root of nose, tongue, or penis, etc. COLD: Damp. Open air. Spring. Undressing. MORNING; after sleep. 2-3 A.M. Protruding tongue (Cist.). Hot weather. Alcohol. Beer. Suppressed catarrh. Heat…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Potassæ bichromas. Potassic dichromate. Bichromate of Potash. Red Chromate of Potash. K 2 Cr 2 O 7 . Solution in distilled water. Trituration. Acne / Anæmia / Asthma / Blotches / Bone, nodes on, exostoses / Bronchitis; croupous / Burns / Cachexia / Catarrh / Climacteric flushes / Coccygodynia / Conjunctivitis /…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Potassium Bichromate. K 2 Cr 2 O 7 . Prepared from the metal Chromium discovered by Vauquelin in 1797 in a Siberian mineral, composed of chromate of lead. Introduced by Drysdale, and extensively proved by himself, Dudgeon, Hamilton, Russell, Wright, Neidhard, Norton, Walker, Taylor, Turner, the Austrian provers…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — who the patient is, before what the remedy cures.
“This remedy is recognized by most physicians by the copious ropy mucous discharges from all mucous membranes, but it is also a most important remedy in rheumatic affections of the joints with swelling, heat and redness, whenever these conditions wander around from joint to joint. The bones all over the body feel…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Ill-humor; low-spirited; indifferent. Aversion to mental (and bodily) exertion. Sudden attacks of giddiness, when rising from a seat. Vertigo, with nausea, inclination to vomit; retching up of sour watery fluid. Headache in the forehead, often only over one eye. In the morning, when waking, pain in the forehead and…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: potassium bichromate Especially adapted to fat, light-haired people, and to scrofulous, catarrhal and syphilitic diseases (Bt.). Often called for in troubles of fat, fair and chubby children (D.). Complaints occurring in hot weather (Ant-C., Ars.) (A.). Cutaneous eruptions, worse in summer (Led.) (K.)…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Affections of the mucous membranes with discharge of tough, stringy, adherent mucus, which can be drawn out into long strings. Formation of jelly-like mucus on mucous membranes. Round deep ulcers, as if cut out with a punch. Diphtheritic membranes on mucous surfaces. Migratory pains, which appear and disappear…”
