Kalium nitricum
de H. A. Roberts — The Rheumatic Remedies
Historical reference for practitioners and students.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.
Kali nit. is marked for rheumatic conditions having tearing shooting, drawing pains.
Most symptoms occur in the evening or after midnight; again symptoms showing themselves during the day disappear on lying down in the evening.
HEART
STICKING PAINS IN PRÆCORDIAL REGION.
PALPITATION, < MIDNIGHT.
ACUTE ENDOCARDITIS IN RHEUMATIC FEVER.
NECK AND BACK
TEARING IN MUSCLES EXTENDING FROM RIGHT SHOULDER TO HEAD.
Stiffness of neck and back.
Tensive pain in sternocleidomastoid muscle.
STICKING BENEATH LEFT SCAPULA IN EVENING, BENEATH RIGHT AT NIGHT.
Sticking in right lumbar region when sitting.
PAIN IN RIGHT LUMBAR REGION WAKING AT 2 A.M., PREVENTING LYING ON BACK, > BY WALKING AND > BY RUBBING.
BRUISED PAIN IN MORNING ON WAKING AT 3 A.M., PREVENTING TURNING OVER.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
Tearing pains in left shoulder < 2 a.m. to 5 a.m., > rising.
Pain in right arm extending to wrist, awaking at 3 a.m.
Drawing tearing in fingers toward evening.
Rheumatic pain in left arm, on raising arm, < moving it backward; rheumatic pain in right arm.
Tearing in right arm, < at shoulder.
Tearing extends to the wrist on motion, > by violent motion.
Tearing in humerus.
Drawing in left deltoid.
TEARING IN ELBOW AND WRISTS, FINGER JOINTS AND BENEATH THE NAILS.
TEARING AND TWISTING IN ELBOWS EXTENDING TO WRISTS AND KNUCKLES.
CRUSHING PAINS BENEATH THE NAILS, > RUBBING HANDS.
Tearing extending up dorsal surface of left forearm.
Tearing pain in bones of left hand just back of little finger.
CRAMP-LIKE PAIN IN KNUCKLES ALTERNATING WITH HEADACHE.
SPRAINED, TEARING PAINS IN JOINTS OF FINGERS.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
PAIN IN BONES OF RIGHT LEG FROM HIP TO TOES FROM 1 A.M. TO 4 A.M., > RISING, > WALKING.
Sticking in right leg when standing, > motion.
TEARING IN PERIOSTEUM OF LEFT TIBIA IN AFTERNOON.
Sprained feeling in right ankle.
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL
STICKING IN RIGHT SHOULDER, THEN IN KNEE; IN KNEES, ELBOWS AND SHOULDER JOINTS < IN AFTERNOON THAN IN FORENOON, LASTING LONGER IN LEFT ELBOW, < MOTION.
Pains in right hip and left shoulder and ankles, < walking, > upward and backward motion.
AGGRAVATIONS
FROM WINE OR BEER; AFTER EATING VEAL.
DRAFT OF AIR.
WASHING IN COLD WATER.
3 A.M.
AMELIORATIONS
BY WALKING.
RUBBING.
On rising.
Motion.
CONCOMITANTS
STICKING PAINS.
COUGH AT 3 A.M.
Excessive sensitiveness externally.
Menorrhagia with flow of inky blackness.
Pains are stitching, cutting, lancinating, tearing and pressing.