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Kalium Bromatum

30CKali Brom
Bromide of Potassium · "The Epilepsy Remedy with Acne"
kali-br.PolychrestMineralCommonPsoric
🎯 It acts as a depressant on the nervous system and heart, causing mental dullness, loss of memory, and skin eruptions.
📖 Boericke writes:
(KALI BROMATUM)
Like all Potash Salts, this weakens the heart and lowers temperature. Brominism is caused by it. General failure of mental power, loss of memory, , of the mucous membranes, especially of eyes, throat, and skin; ; loss of sexual desire, paralysis. Leading remedy in . Nodular form of chronic . Symptoms of apoplectic attacks, or otherwise; and stertor, , , . (with salt-free diet).
👤 Constitution
Individuals who are mentally sluggish, forgetful, and prone to melancholic or religious depression; often physically weak with a tendency toward heart weakness and skin eruptions.
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Symptoms of apoplectic attacks, or otherwise; and stertor, , , .
introduction
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mind
Numb feeling in head.
head
Persistent (Sulph ac).
stomach
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skin
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Useful for mental exhaustion, severe anxiety, and where the patient is restless and forgetful.
Profound, melancholic delusion; feeling of moral deficiency; religious depression; of conspiracies against him.
Imagines he is singled out as an object of divine wrath.
Loss of memory.
Must do something-move about; gets fidgety (Tarant).
Fear of being poisoned (Hyos).
Amnesic ; can pronounce any word told, but cannot speak otherwise.
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Horrid illusions.
Active .
🔑 Modalities
Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

3X
Decimal
📝A few grains of the crude salt to the third trituration. Said to be much more active if salt is eliminated from the diet.
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Tarentula HispanicaHyoscyamus NigerSulphuricum AcidumPhosphoricum Acidum

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

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Kalium Bromatum is listed in 184 rubrics across 18 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 45 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Nervous System43Mind30Female Sexual System18Skin15Male Sexual System15Respiratory System12Urinary System10Abdomen8Generalities8Locomotor System7Throat3Nose3Stomach3Teeth3Head3Modalities1Face1Circulatory System1

See all 184 rubrics for Kalium Bromatum