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Kalium Bichromicum

30C / 200CKali Bich
Bichromate of Potash · "The Stringy Discharge Remedy"
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🎯 It acts primarily on mucous membranes, producing thick, stringy, ropy secretions, and affects bones and fibrous tissues.
📖 Boericke writes:
(KALI BICHROMICUM)
The special affinities of this drug are the mucous membrane of stomach, bowels, and air-passages; bones and fibrous tissues. Kidneys, heart, and liver are also affected. Incipient parenchrymatous; nephritis. Nephritis with gastric disturbances. Cirrhosis of liver. Anaemia and absence of fever are characteristic. General weakness bordering on paralysis. It is especially indicated for fleshy, fat, light complexioned persons subject to catarrhs or with syphilitic or scrofulous history. Symptoms are worse in the morning;pains migrate quickly, rheumatic and gastric symptoms alternate. More adapted to subacute rather than the violent acute stage. Mucous membranes everywhere are affected. Catarrh of pharynx, larynx, bronchi and nose, and atough, stringy, viscid secretion is produced, which condition is a very strong guiding symptom for this drug.Perforation of the septum. Chronic atonic catarrh. Polypus. Dilatation of stomach and heart.
👤 Constitution
•Fleshy, fat, light-complexioned persons; often those with a history of catarrh, syphilis, or scrofula.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Symptoms are worse in the morning; pains migrate quickly, rheumatic and gastric symptoms alternate.
introduction
Catarrh of pharynx, larynx, bronchi and nose, and a tough, stringy, viscid secretion is produced, which condition is a very strong guiding symptom for this drug.
introduction
Perforation of the septum.
introduction
Aching and fullness in glabella.
head
Fetid smell.
nose
Discharge thick, ropy, greenish-yellow.
nose
Loss of smell.
nose
Coryza, with obstruction of nose.
nose
Violent sneezing.
nose
Tongue mapped, red, shining, smooth, and dry, with dysentery; broad, flat, indented, thickly coated.
mouth
Uvula relaxed, oedematous, bladder-like.
throat
Round ulcer of stomach.
stomach
🩺 Systems & Indications
👤HEAD
Useful for frontal headaches and localized head pain associated with sinus congestion.
Vertigo with nausea when rising from seat.
Headache over eyebrows, preceded by blurred vision.
Aching and fullness in glabella.
Semilateral headache in small spots, and from suppressed catarrh.
Frontal pain; usually over one eye.
Bones and scalp feel sore.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
↑Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
3X
Decimal
🕒As directed
📝Third trituration
Primary Dosage
30C
Centesimal
🕒As directed
📝Also higher attenuations
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Lachesis Mutus →Arsenicum Album →
🔄 Compare With
Bromium →Hepar Sulphuris Calcareum →Tartaricum Acidum →Sulphur →Antimonium Tartaricum →Ipecacuanha →Calcarea Carbonica →Ammonium Causticum →Sulphuricum Acidum →Indium Metallicum →
📚 Sources & References

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