Kalium sulphuricum

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

Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.

REGION

EPITHELIUM: Respiratory organs. Skin.
Glands.

WORSE

Warmth; room; air.
Noise.
Consolation.
Evening.

BETTER

Cool air.
Walking.
Fasting.

Torpid processes. PROFUSE, DEEP YELLOW DISCHARGES; thin or sticky. Suppuration. Stitching, tearing, festering pains, that shift about. .................... Hurried. Irritable. Yellow, slimy tongue. As of a heavy load on stomach. Oxaluria. Pyelitis. Croupy hoarseness. Coarse rattle in chest. Arthritic nodes. Rheumatism, < heat. Dry skin. Desquamation. Ulcers ooze thin, yellow water. Profuse, easy sweat.

Related: Pul.

Kalium sulphuricum across the other classic books

Kalium sulphuricum appears in 8 of the 21 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 — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Potassium sulphate, K2 Common names , Sal catharticum. Preparation , Triturations or solutions in water. Authorities. Face red, 5. Features and eyes distorted, 5. Lower lip swollen, 3. Lips, gum, and tongue white, 5. Burning heat in the mouth, stomach, and abdomen, 1. Burning thirst, 5. Nausea and vomiting, 1…”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Potassium Sulphate (KALI SULPHURICUM) Ailments accompanied by profuse desquamation. Applicable to the later stages of inflammation. Yellow , mucous and serous discharges, profuse and intermittent. Has been found of much use in oxaluria. Rheumatic headache, beginning in evening. Bald spots. Dandruff and scaldhead…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“MOTION, Amel. RATTLING SUPPURATION WANDERING, changeful, shifting pains (Comp. Here and There.)”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Kali sulphas. Potassium Sulphate. K 2 SO 4 . Trituration. Antrum of Highmore, disease of / Asthma / Cataract / Catarrh / Chorea / Dandriff / Dyspepsia / Eczema / Epithelioma / Eustachian catarrh / Gleet / Gonorrhœa / Itch / Nails, diseased / Nettle-rash / Ozæna / Polypus / Psoriasis / Rheumatism / Rhus poisoning /…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Sulphate of Potash. K 2 SO 4 . One of the Twelve Tissue Remedies introduced by Schuessler. Needs proving. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Vertigo , Schlegelmann, Schuessler's Biochem., p. 75 ; Falling off of hair , Wesselhœft, Schuessler's Tissue Remedies, p. 27 ; Ear affection , Wesselhœft, Schüssler's Tissue Remedies, p. 25 …”
Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“Kalium Sulphuricum Two very deep acting remedies unite to form this one. It was left to Schüessler to show its first curative powers. Dewey's work, on the " Tissue Remedies " gives the best presentation from the biochemic view. The writer gathered the symptoms from reported cures for many years, and found that they…”
Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Yellow or greenish discharges from mucous membranes; cough loose and rattling. Rheumatic pains in joints; moving from joint to joint. Modalities: in open air. The chronic of Pulsatilla. When writing upon the Kalis I left this one out. There is no proving (deserving the name) of this drug, but like some other remedies…”

Kalium sulphuricum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Kalium sulphuricum in 1,126 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (128), HEAD (112), SKIN (75), MIND (74), STOMACH (74).

BACK - PAIN - air - in cold - amel.
COUGH - RATTLING - hoarseness, - without
HEAD - DANDRUFF - yellow
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - scaly - yellow
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - air, - open amel.
MIND - ANXIETY - warmth,from
FACE - PAIN - cold air agg. - amel.
FACE - PAIN - warm bed agg. - room agg.
HEAD - ERUPTION - moist - yellow
NOSE - CANCER - epithelioma
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Hip - walking - amel.
MALE GENITALIA - EMPYOCELE
EAR - DISCHARGES - thin
EAR - DISCHARGES - watery
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Thigh - walking - amel.
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - stitching - Lower Limbs - walking, - amel.
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - stitching - motion - amel.
FACE - CANCER - epithelioma
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Leg - walking - amel.
HEAD - ERUPTION - crusts,scabs - yellow

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