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Kali Sulphuratum

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Kali Sulphuratum · Sulphurated Potash (Potassium Sulphide) · "The Potassium Liver of Sulphur"
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🎯 It acts as a powerful irritant to the gastrointestinal tract, causing violent inflammation, burning pain, and convulsive vomiting.
📖 Clarke writes:
Hepar sulphuris kalinum. Sulphurate of potassium. (A dark brown mass resulting from the fusion of Sulphur and Potassium Carbonate, consisting of the Pentasulphide and the Hypersulphate of Potassium, K2S3 + K2S2O3). Trituration.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
Violent gastric intestinal irritation
Violent effects from large doses
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
Redness of the face (may prove a guiding symptom)
Vomiting: at first ineffectual, afterwards convulsive
Great chilliness at first
Fever and sweat following tardily
Burning skin
Very strong and rapid pulse
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Violent burning pain and heat in the stomach and around the navel.
Clarke
Convulsive vomiting of stomach contents, frothy substances, blood, and purulent membrane pieces.
Clarke
Redness of the face that develops gradually, becoming persistent and general.
Clarke
Great initial chilliness followed tardily by fever and profuse sweat.
Clarke
Stupid and unconscious state with deathlike paleness and sunken face.
Clarke
Throat and fauces appear dry and reddish-brown with burning pain.
Clarke
Constant inclination to vomit without being able to do so initially.
Clarke
Pulse is irregular, very small, and almost suppressed.
Clarke
Sensation of suffocation with inability to expand the chest.
Clarke
Esophagus is painful to pressure on the neck.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Use when there is a state of stupidity, unconsciousness, and collapse.
Stupid and unconscious, with small, contracted, irregular pulse, deathlike paleness, and sunken face.
📚 Sources & References
Clarke's DictionaryAllen's EncyclopediaBoericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaPhatak's Concise MM

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