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Kalium Carbonicum

30C / 200CKali Carb
Carbonate of Potassium · "The 3 AM Waking Remedy"
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🎯 A deep-acting remedy for states of profound weakness, fluid retention, and sharp, stitching pains that are often worse in the early morning.
📖 Boericke writes:
(KALI CARBONICUM)
The weakness characteristic of all Potassium Salts is seen especially in this, with soft pulse, coldness, general depression, and very characteristic stitches, which may be felt in any part of the body, or in connection with any affection. All Kali pains aresharp and cutting; nearly all better by motion. Never use any Salts of Potash where there is fever (T. F. Allen). Sensitive to every atmospheric change, andintolerance of cold weather. One of the best remedies following labor. Miscarriage, for consequent debilitated states. Early morning aggravation is very characteristic. Fleshy aged people, with dropsical and paretic tendencies.Sweat, backache, and weakness. Throbbing pains. Tendency to dropsy. Tubercular diathesis. Pains from within out, and of stinging character. "Giving-out" sensation. Fatty degenerations. Stinging pains in muscles and internal parts. Twitching of muscles. Pain in small spot on left side Hypothyroidism. Coxitis.
👤 Constitution
•Fleshy, aged people with a tendency toward fluid retention (dropsy) and muscle weakness; they are often irritable, fearful, and sensitive to cold.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Sensitive to every atmospheric change, and intolerance of cold weather.
introduction
Sweat, backache, and weakness.
introduction
Very irritable.
mind
Anxiety felt in stomach.
mind
Headache from riding in cold wind.
head
Swelling over upper lid, like little bags.
eyes
Nose stuffs up in warm room.
nose
Ulcerated nostrils.
nose
Sour eructations.
stomach
Constant feeling as if stomach were full of water.
stomach
Excessive emissions, followed by weakness.
male
Menses early, profuse (Calc c) or too late, pale and scanty, with soreness about genitals; pains from back pass down through gluteal muscles, with cutting in abdomen.
female
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Indicated for irritable, fearful individuals who cannot bear to be left alone and are hypersensitive to their environment.
Despondent.
Alternating moods.
Very irritable.
Full of fear and imaginations.
Anxiety felt in stomach.
Sensation as if bed were sinking.
Never wants to be left alone.
Never quiet or contented.
Obstinate and hypersensitive to pain, noise, touch.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
Morning about 3
00 AM
↑Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
30C
Centesimal
🕒Do not repeat too often
📝Use cautiously in old gouty cases, advanced Bright's and tuberculosis.
Primary Dosage
6X
Decimal
🕒As directed
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
Carbo Vegetabilis →
🚫 Antidotes
Coffea Cruda →Camphora →
⏩ Follows Well After
Nux Vomica →
🔄 Compare With
Bryonia Alba →Phosphorus →Sepia Officinalis →Calcarea Carbonica →Lycopodium Clavatum →Kali Telluricum →Kali Aceticum →Kali Citricum →Kali Tartaricum →Stannum Metallicum →Kali Oxalicum →Ammonium Phosphoricum →
📚 Sources & References

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