Kalium Bromatum

by C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica

REGION

MIND.
NERVES: Brain. Spine. Genitals.
Larynx.
Skin.

WORSE

Mental exertion.
Emotions.
Periodically: Night. Summer. New moon.
Sexual excesses.
Puberty.

BETTER

When busy.

Slow onset. No pain. General numbness; < occiput. .................... Depressive delusions. Nervous. Suspicion; fears people, yet can't be alone, in the dark, etc.; looks on all sides; fidgety, busy hands, fumbles. Moves arms about wildly. Mania. Night terrors. Melancholy; remorse, wrings hands, bursts into tears, etc. Slow hesitates; omits or mixes up words. Indifference. Hebetude. Poor memory. Brain-fag. Vertigo, as if ground gave way. Catarrh descends to larynx (Am-bro.). Cutting colic. Green, watery stool; with rapid collapse. Cholera infantum. Depressed sexual power. Flooding of young women. Croupy cough. Cool skin. Acne. Sleepy.

Antidote: Zin-pho.

Related: Calc-c. Con. Op. Stram.

Kalium Bromatum across the other classic books

Kalium Bromatum 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 HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Potassium Bromide. (KBr) Adapted to large persons inclined to obesity; acts better in children than in adults. Loss of sensibility , fauces, larynx, urethra, entire body; staggering, uncertain gait; feels as if legs were all over sidewalk. Nervous, restless; cannot sit still, must move about or keep occupied; hands…”
Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Potassium bromide. Preparation , Triturations. Authorities.”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Bromide of Potash (KALI BROMATUM) Like all Potash Salts, this weakens the heart and lowers temperature. Brominism is caused by it. General failure of mental power, loss of memory, melancholia, anæsthesia of the mucous membranes, especially of eyes, throat, and skin; acne; loss of sexual desire, paralysis. Leading…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“PERCEPTION, changed (Mental or visual) PUBERTY AND YOUTH SPEECH, affected”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Bromide of Potassium. Potassic Bromide. K. Br. Solution. Trituration. Acne / Aphasia / Apoplexy / Asthma / Cholera infantum / Chordee / Colic / Diabetes / Emissions / Epilepsy / Erythema nodosum / General paralysis of insane / Hæmorrhoids / Impotence / Laryngeal crises / Laryngismus / Locomotor ataxy / Nightmare /…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Potassium Bromide. K. Br. For general effects and experiments with the crude drug, see Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 5, p. 264 . We need provings, particularly with the higher potencies, to bring out the finer characteristics of the drug. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Melancholy and loss of memory ; Affection of mind at…”
Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: potassium bromide. It produces blotches on the skin simulating acne, for which it is a remedy (D.). Vertigo, as if the ground gave away (B.). Cerebral depression (Kali-P., Phos.) (D.). BRAIN-FAG (Kali-P., Sil.) (B.). LOSS OF MEMORY (Con., Gels., Kali-P., Lyc., Nux-V., Phos., Sil.) (Bt.). Forgets how to…”
Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“I do not know much about this remedy from a homœopathic standpoint. It first gained a reputation with the old school profession for its sleep-producing qualities and its power over epileptic seizures. As usual, it was pushed for these things until they found it was a dangerous remedy in the large doses which they had…”

Kalium Bromatum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Kalium Bromatum in 569 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in MIND (149), EXTREMITIES (80), FEMALE GENITALIA (35), GENERALITIES (35), SKIN (26).

EXTREMITIES - TREMBLING - something is to be done,when
GENERALITIES - TREMBLING - internally - something is to be done,when
MIND - DELUSIONS, - vengeance,thinks he is singled out for Divine
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Lower Limbs - sciatica - suddenly,come and go
GENERALITIES - NUMBNESS - externally - whole body
EXTREMITIES - RESTLESSNESS - Hand
FEMALE GENITALIA - SUBINVOLUTION
FACE - ERUPTIONS - acne
EXTREMITIES - RESTLESSNESS
MIND - MANIA,madness
COUGH - SPASMODIC
FACE - ERUPTIONS
MIND - EXCITEMENT,excitable
STOOL - HARD
MIND - WEEPING,tearful mood,etc.
SLEEP - DREAMS - frightful
MIND - DULLNESS,sluggishness,difficulty of thinking and comprehending
MIND - SADNESS,mental depression
FEMALE GENITALIA - PAIN - Ovaries - sexual desire,during
LARYNX TRACHEA - INSENSIBILITY of larynx

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