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Kalium Nitricum

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Nitrate of Potassium · Saltpeter · "The Asthma 3AM Remedy"
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🎯 Acts primarily on the respiratory system, kidneys, and gastrointestinal tract, particularly in cases of asthma, dropsy, and inflammation.
📖 Boericke writes:
Nitrate of Potassium-Saltpeter
(KALI NITRICUM - NITRUM)
Often indicated in asthma, also valuable in cardiac asthma; of great value insudden dropsical swellings over the whole body. Gastro-intestinal inflammation, with much debility, and relapse in phthisis, call for this remedy. Suppurative nephritis.
👤 Constitution
Individuals who are prone to respiratory weakness, fluid retention, and digestive sensitivities, often showing signs of significant physical exhaustion.
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
KALIUM NITRICUM Nitrate of Potassium-Saltpeter (KALI NITRICUM - NITRUM) Often indicated in asthma, also valuable in cardiac asthma; of great value in sudden dropsical swellings over the whole body.
introduction
Diarrhoea from eating veal.
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🩺 Systems & Indications
👤HEAD
Used for headaches involving dizziness and scalp sensitivity, particularly when worsened by stooping.
Scalp very sensitive.
Headache, with vertigo, as if falling to right side and backwards; worse, stooping.
Ennui.
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
3rd to 30th
Centesimal
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
OpiumNitri Spiritus DulcisAntimonium IodatumCannabis SativaAllium SativumLycopodium Clavatum
🔄 Compare With
Lycopodium ClavatumSanguinaria CanadensisSepticaeminumGunpowder
📚 Sources & References

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