Kali Picricum

by John Henry Clarke — A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

Potassium picrate. C 6 H 2 K(NO 2 ) 3 O. Trituration (which must be made with great care, on account of the explosive nature of the salt).

Clinical

Eructations / Jaundice

Characteristics

Allen quotes from Wolff and Gouzee the following constant pathogenetic effects observed in patients to whom K. pi. was given for intermittent fever: jaundice; diarrhœa; pain in pit of stomach; violent eructations; colic; urine clear, brownish red, not from bile pigment, but from large quantities of urate of ammonia. K. pi. is an intensely yellow salt, and yellow substances generally act powerfully on the liver, as is the case with Picric acid itself and its other salts.

Relations

Compare: Pic. ac., Fe. pi.

Kali Picricum across the other classic books

Kali Picricum appears in 2 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 picrate (or picro-nitrate), C6H2 Authority. Icterus ; diarrhœa; pain in the pit of the stomach; violent eructations; colic; urine clear, brownish-red, not containing any coloring matter from the bile, but large quantities of urate of ammonia. 1.”

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