Kalium permanganatum

by Constantine Hering — The Guiding Symptoms of our 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Historical reference for practitioners and students.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.

Permanganate of Potash. 2KMnO 4 .

Proved by H. C. Allen. See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 5, p. 351 .

CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.

Ulcerated throat , Woodgate, Hom. Rev., vol. 12, pp. 151, 152 ; Diphtheria (2 cases), Sprague, A. H. O., vol. 4, p. 360 ; Allen, A. H. O., vol. 3, p. 352 ; Nichol ; Œhme's Therap., p. 45 ; B. J. H., vol. 34, p. 386.

PALATE AND THROAT [13]

Sanious discharge from nares.

Tonsils and soft palate swollen and inflamed ; patches of whitish ulceration on tonsils ; pain in swallowing ; glands of neck tender. θ Ulcerated throat.

Tonsils swollen, and on each patches of ulceration of yellowish color ; much pain internally and externally.

Diphtheria, with ulceration, and gangrenous suppuration with fetid odor.

Violent headache ; throat swollen and painful, profuse salivation ; cervical glands swollen and painful ; fauces covered with peculiar wash leather, greyish membrane ; breath offensive from beginning, and thin, watery, sanious fluid escaping from nares excoriating upper lip ; dark colored offensive diarrhœa ; vomiting ; fluids taken by mouth return through nose ; general prostration. θ Diphtheria.

Comatose state ; prostration extreme ; nares completely plugged, fetor intolerable ; pulse intermitting. θ Diphtheria.

Pharynx swollen very much and covered with a yellowish membrane ; high fever ; unable to speak or swallow ; pulse 135 ; furred tongue ; fetid breath. θ Diphtheria.

Pharynx covered with yellowish pseudo-membrane, not very firmly attached ; extreme fetor of breath ; inability to swallow ; pulse 140 and feeble ; great prostration. θ Diphtheria.

Underneath a fetid, scab-like membrane considerable erosion of mucous membrane. θ Diphtheria.

Odor of breath unbearable ; fluids taken by mouth returned by nose ; general and excessive prostration ; great dyspnœa ; foul diphtheritic exudations all over fauces.

COUGH [27]

Expectoration very fetid.

STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION [47]

Girl, æt. 3 ; diphtheria.

Girl, æt. 6, suffering one week ; diphtheria.

Girl, æt. 7 ; diphtheria.

Girl, æt. 9, stout build ; diphtheria.

Girl, æt. 16 ; ulcerated throat.

Woman, æt. 25, cook ; ulcerated throat.

Kalium permanganatum across the other classic books

Kalium permanganatum appears in 5 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.
“Permanganate of Potash, 2KMnO4. Preparation , Triturations. Authorities. Head feels full (one hour after second dose, fourth day), 1. Profuse lachrymation (fifteen minutes after first dose, third day), 1. Sharp, piercing pain extending from the throat to the left mastoid process of temporal bone, apparently along the…”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Permanganate of Potassium (KALI PERMANGANICUM) Intense irritation of nose, throat, and larynx. Diphtheria. Dysmenorrhœa. Bites of serpents and for other animal poisons. Septic conditions; tissues infiltrated with tendency to sloughing. Bleeding from nose. Nasal discharge. Smarts and irritates. Constrictive, smarting…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Kali manganicum. Kali hypermanganicum. Permanganate of Potash. KMnO 4 . Solution in distilled water. Trituration. Cough / Diphtheria / Gastritis / Ozæna / Salivation / Throat, sore / Uvula, swollen / Warts K. pm. is the well-known disinfectant, and has been chiefly used in medicine as a local application in diphtheria…”
Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“KALI MANGANICUM. Potassic permanganate, K^MogOy. 1. Provingr.— i. a. Dr. H. C. ALLEN, April a+th, i86«, at 10.45 a-n>i took 6 gr. In to m. hot burning sensation in cardiac extremity ut'uomach, with peculiar constrictive smarting srn^ation in ihruat and tauce^, attended vrith >hght mcUnatioii] tu swallow, and hot…”

Kalium permanganatum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Kalium permanganatum in 34 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in THROAT (18), COUGH (5), LARYNX TRACHEA (5), NOSE (3), EXPECTORATION (1).

THROAT - MUCUS - bloody
THROAT - LIQUIDS taken are forced into nose
NOSE - LIQUIDS comes out through the nose on attempting to swallow
THROAT - INFLAMMATION
NOSE - PAIN in - posterior nares
THROAT - MEMBRANE,exudation,diphtheria,etc. - entire throat
THROAT - PAIN - burning - extending to - oesophagus
COUGH - SWALLOWING - agg.
THROAT - SWELLING - Uvula - oedematous
LARYNX TRACHEA - PAIN, - larynx - swallowing,on
THROAT - PAIN - extending to - ear - swallowing,on
NOSE - CORYZA - diphtheria,during
EXTERNAL THROAT - SWELLING - Sides
LARYNX TRACHEA - CROUP - membranous
EYE - LACHRYMATION - cough,with
THROAT - PAIN - extending to - ear
THROAT - MEMBRANE,exudation,diphtheria,etc.
THROAT - ULCERS
LARYNX TRACHEA - PAIN, - larynx
COUGH - CONSTANT

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