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Kali Citricum

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Kali Citricum · Citrate of Potash · "The Alkalizing Potassium Salt"

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Exclusively Documented in Clarke

This remedy is documented exclusively in Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica. It does not appear in other classical references in this encyclopedia.

🎯 It acts primarily as a stimulant to kidney function and a potent irritant to the gastrointestinal tract.

📖 Clarke writes:

Citrate of Potash. Potassic Citrate. K3C6H5O7. Solution. Trituration.

👤 Characteristics

Sphere of Action & Core States

•Acts on the kidneys to assist function in Bright's disease

•Acts as a solvent for gouty concretions about joints

•Stimulates suppressed kidney action

•Induces tympanites

•Causes constant flow of mucus from anus

•Produces awful gastric and abdominal pains

•Causes constant and great amount of flatus

Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms

•Sensation as if a machine were at work inside, skinning the inside of the stomach and the whole length of the intestinal tube

•Pain from flatus is a prominent feature

•Pain as if machinery were at work inside (recalls Nitric acid)

•Kidneys act freely after large doses in cases of suppression

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Awful gastric and abdominal pains as if a machine were at work inside

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Sensation as if the inside of the stomach and intestines were being skinned

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Constant flow of mucus from the anus

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Severe tympanites (distension of the abdomen by gas)

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Constant and excessive flatus production

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Pain caused specifically by the presence of flatus

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Used to assist kidney action in Bright's disease

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Historically used as a solvent for gouty concretions about joints

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📋 Clinical Indications

Conditions Clarke associates with this remedy — no detailed symptom-by-system breakdown exists for this entry.

Bright's disease

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📚 Sources & References

✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaAllen's EncyclopediaPhatak's Concise MM

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