Kalium iodatum

by C.M. Boger — General Analysis

ADHESIVE, adherent, torn, loose, etc. (Comp. Sticky)
AIR Open, Amel.:- IN ROOM, agg., air hunger, etc.
BONES.
DRUGS, abuse of., Agg.
FOAMY, frothy
GREENISH
NOSE AND ACCESSORY CAVITIES
PRESSURE, Agg., lying on painful or affected side, etc., Agg.
SALTINESS, taste, smell, fishy odors, etc.
UNCOVERING, Amel., cold applications, Amel., warm wraps, Agg.
5 A.M.

Kalium iodatum across the other classic books

Kalium iodatum appears in 9 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.
“[Symptoms taken from patients have been selected with care, and only when clearly the effect of the drug. Cases have been selected with a view of furnishing a complete account of the action of the drug; many cases that added nothing new and only increased the bulk of the matter, have been omitted here as elsewhere.]…”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Iodide of Potassium (KALI HYDRIODICUM) The profuse, watery, acrid coryza that the drug produces serves as a sure guiding symptom, especially when associated with pain in frontal sinus. It acts prominently on fibrous and connective tissues, producing infiltration, œdema, etc. Glandular swellings . Purpura and…”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“Glands. Frontal sinus. Nose. Eyes. Lungs: Upper. Lobe. Periosteum. Heat. Pressure. Touch. Night. Damp. Mercury. Changing weather. Jolting. Cold foods. Motion. Cool air. Open air. Incipient organic changes; gouty-rheumatic, syphilitic, rickety, etc. Many and diverse symptoms. Feels used up. Cachexy. Stubborn…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Potassium Iodide. Kali hydriodicum. KI. Solution. Trituration. Actinomycosis / Aneurism / Anhidrosis / Bright's disease / Bubo / Bunions / Cancer / Caries / Cold / Condylomata / Consumption / Cough / Croup / Debility / Dropsy / Ears, otalgia; tinnitus / Emaciation / Erythema nodosum / Eyes, affections of / cysts on…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Potassium Iodide. KI. Observations have been chiefly clinical, made on the sick with large doses of the crude drug. See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 5, p. 331 . It needs proving. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Hydrocephalus , Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 11, p. 345 ; Syphilitic choroiditis ; Disseminate choroiditis , Norton's Opth…”
Kent — The mental and general picture — who the patient is, before what the remedy cures.
“This remedy is an antipsoric and antisyphilitic. It has been used very extensively by the old school as an antisyphilitic, but in the very large doses which they used it became to a great extent allopathic to the disease, because of the tremendous effect it produced upon the economy, and implanted its own miasm, and…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Great talkativeness and inclination to jest. Every little noise makes one start. Heat in the head, with redness and burning of the face. Headache and heaviness in the head (5 A.M.); better after rising. Feeling of heaviness in the forehead (in the afternoon). Lancinations and dartings over the left eye and in the left…”
Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Cough with profuse, thick, green, salty expectoration, from deep down, as if from mid-sternum, with pain through to back; great weakness and night sweats. Stitches through the lungs; in middle of sternum; through sternum to back or deep in chest; < walking. Irresistible desire for open air; walking in open air does…”

Kalium iodatum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Kalium iodatum in 1,595 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (245), HEAD (149), ABDOMEN (87), FACE (84), GENERALITIES (81).

MOUTH - PAIN - Tongue - root - night before going to sleep
MOUTH - ULCERS - base black - milky
NOSE - DISCHARGE, - greenish-black
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - crusty - mercury,after abuse of
HEAD - PAIN, - midnight, - 5 a.m.
NOSE - PAIN in - bones - pulsating
NOSE - PAIN in - gnawing - in nasal bones
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - roseola - syphilitic
THROAT - PAIN - stinging - talking,while
CHEST - HEPATIZATION of lungs - right
MOUTH - ULCERS - edges elevated - irregular
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Lower Limbs - sciatica - air,open,amel.
HEAD - PAIN, - morning - waking,on - 5 a.m.
NOSE - PAIN in - burning,smarting - bones
HEAD - PAIN, - stitching - Forehead - eyes,over - left
FACE - PAIN - mercury,after
MOUTH - PAIN - Tongue - root
NOSE - DISCHARGE, - copious - with stuffing of head
THROAT - PAIN - talking
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - rheumatic - syphilitic

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Kalium iodatum across the other classic books

Kalium iodatum appears in 9 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.

“[Symptoms taken from patients have been selected with care, and only when clearly the effect of the drug. Cases have been selected with a view of furnishing a complete account of the action of the drug; many cases that added nothing new and only increased the bulk of the matter, have been omitted here as elsewhere.]…”

Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.

“Iodide of Potassium (KALI HYDRIODICUM) The profuse, watery, acrid coryza that the drug produces serves as a sure guiding symptom, especially when associated with pain in frontal sinus. It acts prominently on fibrous and connective tissues, producing infiltration, œdema, etc. Glandular swellings . Purpura and…”

Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.

“Glands. Frontal sinus. Nose. Eyes. Lungs: Upper. Lobe. Periosteum. Heat. Pressure. Touch. Night. Damp. Mercury. Changing weather. Jolting. Cold foods. Motion. Cool air. Open air. Incipient organic changes; gouty-rheumatic, syphilitic, rickety, etc. Many and diverse symptoms. Feels used up. Cachexy. Stubborn…”

Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.

“Potassium Iodide. Kali hydriodicum. KI. Solution. Trituration. Actinomycosis / Aneurism / Anhidrosis / Bright's disease / Bubo / Bunions / Cancer / Caries / Cold / Condylomata / Consumption / Cough / Croup / Debility / Dropsy / Ears, otalgia; tinnitus / Emaciation / Erythema nodosum / Eyes, affections of / cysts on…”

Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.

“Potassium Iodide. KI. Observations have been chiefly clinical, made on the sick with large doses of the crude drug. See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 5, p. 331 . It needs proving. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Hydrocephalus , Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 11, p. 345 ; Syphilitic choroiditis ; Disseminate choroiditis , Norton's Opth…”

Kent — The mental and general picture — who the patient is, before what the remedy cures.

“This remedy is an antipsoric and antisyphilitic. It has been used very extensively by the old school as an antisyphilitic, but in the very large doses which they used it became to a great extent allopathic to the disease, because of the tremendous effect it produced upon the economy, and implanted its own miasm, and…”

Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.

“Great talkativeness and inclination to jest. Every little noise makes one start. Heat in the head, with redness and burning of the face. Headache and heaviness in the head (5 A.M.); better after rising. Feeling of heaviness in the forehead (in the afternoon). Lancinations and dartings over the left eye and in the left…”

Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.

“Cough with profuse, thick, green, salty expectoration, from deep down, as if from mid-sternum, with pain through to back; great weakness and night sweats. Stitches through the lungs; in middle of sternum; through sternum to back or deep in chest; < walking. Irresistible desire for open air; walking in open air does…”