Kalium bichromicum Anhängsel
[Frans Vermeulen]
Why do you have to be a non-conformist like everybody else?
[James Thurber]
Nasal discharge: stingy.
TOXICITY Contact with skin may
causes burns, eczema, or ulcers; can be fatal if absorbed through skin.
Ulcerations at first may be painless, but may penetrate to the bone producing
'chrome
holes.' Known to be a human carcinogen. Internally a corrosive poison.
When inhaled, extremely destructive to tissues of the mucous membranes and
upper respiratory tract. May cause ulceration
and perforation of the nasal septum. Symptoms may include sore throat,
coughing, shortness of breath, and laboured breathing. May produce pulmonary
sensitization or allergic asthma. Higher exposures may cause pulmonary oedema.
Swallowing can cause severe burns of the mouth, throat, and stomach, leading to
death. Can cause sore throat, vomiting, diarrhoea. May cause violent
gastroenteritis, peripheral vascular collapse, dizziness, intense thirst,
muscle cramps, shock, coma, abnormal bleeding, fever, liver damage and acute
renal failure.
PROVINGS •• Drysdale
- 17 provers [11 males, 6 females], 1844; method: doses
of 1-100 drops of saturated solution, several times daily for periods varying
from several days to 2-3 weeks; also repeated doses of 1st, 2nd
and 3rd dils.
•• Austrian proving - 13 provers [11 males, 2 females], 1845; method: repeated doses
of solution, and of several C- or D-potencies.
Affinity
MUCOUS MEMBRANES [air passages; NOSE; pharynx; stomach; duodenum].
Fibrous tissue. Ligaments. JOINTS. Skin. Circulation. Kidneys. Root of nose,
tongue, penis, etc. R side. L. side.
<: MORNING/after sleep/2-3 h./COLD [damp/open
air/spring/undressing/winter]/protruding tongue/hot
weather/beer/alcohol/suppressed catarrh;
>: Heat/cold weather [> skin symptoms]/eating/vomiting/short
sleep/motion;
Main symptoms
[Morrison] "Something gluey about them; carries the properness of
the Kali's a little bit further; goes into DETAILS;
the perfect bureaucrats."
Everything on a REGULAR basis.
[dinner, sex, going out, fishing, procedures, tempo, life].
KEEP REGULAR HOURS. Conformist. Living according to a routine.
Goes by the book. RULES. Narrow-minded.
Aversion to troubles.
Sucking up. Self-occupied.
• "Mostly interested in their own little existence."
[Morrison]
Like to be with family.
• "Kali bich. patients are quite closed
into their own world. They neither seek nor need company. They have emotions,
of course, but they do not show them. A Kali bich.
man feels perfectly content to stay alone, or only with his wife. He could be a
literary man, focussed on his own particular field, and content to remain so.
He doesn't want any kind of interference. Even if someone comes to the door and
rings the bell, he may not answer it. The Kali bich.
patient wants to spend time only with his family. He will be unlikely to have
many friends outside the family, and whatever friend he may have he will
welcome visits only infrequently. Taken to the extreme, then, Kali bich. patients become misanthropic and antisocial. They
close themselves into their narrow world.... There is a peculiar characteristic
of the mental state which I have noticed in Kali bich.
patients; because of their narrowness and lack of social contact, they seem to
become excessively conscientious in explaining things to others.... He is
trapped in his narrow, step-by-step, routinized way
of thinking, and he naturally assumes that others think the same way." [Vithoulkas]
CHILLINESS.
< Becoming COLD. G Increased thirst. G Desire for BEER. Yet < from
beer. • "The chronic beer drinker is fairly typical of Kali-bi."
[Borland] • "One also finds it repeatedly stressed in the materia medica that beer is not
well tolerated and from this association it has said that Kali bichromicum is particularly suitable for the gastritis of
beer drinkers." [Leeser] [Beer yeast has a high
chromium content.] G Eating > mental symptoms; may also > in general.
• "Feeling of cold, trembling and hunger, > eating."
[Hughes]
<: WARM WET weather/SUMMER/spring/autumn/summer < fibrositis, skin irritation, acne, sciatica. Spring and
autumn < respiratory affections, bronchitis, asthma, dysenteric diarrhoea.
< 2-5 h.;
<: On WAKING;
Pains appear and disappear SUDDENLY.
Pains shift rapidly form one part to another [e.g. wandering rheumatic
pains]. Pains appear every day at the same hour [regular basis].
Pain in SMALL SPOTS. Ulcers look punched out. Sore spot in stomach.
THICK, STRINGY, yellow [or white] DISCHARGES.
Sensation of a HAIR [tongue, nostril, palate, etc.]. Rheumatic
affections [fibrositis] # digestive disorders.
Type.
• "In the industrial poisoning in the English factories it is
always striking [Drysdale] that fat and light haired
people are especially susceptible to Kali bi., which can serve as a
constitutional sign. [Leeser]
Likewise in these workers in chrome factories the modality of aggravation
of many symptoms in hot weather was observed."
[This may be linked to the fact that there is wide geographical
variation as to adult body content of chromium (Europeans and N. Americans 6 mg
in body content, African natives 7.45 mg,
Middle East inhabitants 11.8 mg, Far East inhabitants 12.5 mg.]
Migraine, pain in a SMALL SPOT. Preceded by visual disturbances
[blindness, blurred vision, dim vision]. Starts at night. Pain > firm
pressure [on root of nose], warmth.
< Cold, stooping. And Nausea and vomiting of white, ropy mucus. And
Aversion to light and noise.
• "Feeling well all day till about 19 h., when I had sudden feeling
as if a black plate were placed before both eyes at a distance of about ten
paces, so that
I was unable to recognise any object at that distance. As I was looking
through a closed window I thought that might be the cause of difficulty, but on
turning round and speaking to a person standing about two paces from me I was
unable to recognise him, vision being so obscured; this lasted about 10
minutes, when obscuration gave way to sensation as if a veil were hanging
before
eyes, and were drawn upwards and downwards; this, however, soon
disappeared, and the former condition returned. I washed the eyes in cool
water, hoping thereby to find relief (eyes had
already begun to be painful), but it was of no avail; after lasting
about 15 minutes obscuration disappeared, and a kind of vertigo set in [quite
similar to that which follows too large an amount
of alcoholic stimulants].
[Hughes] This lasted 2 or 3 minutes, when it disappeared, giving place
to a violent headache (frontal and
orbital regions), at times associated with sticking pains in eyes and tearing
in ears;
whole attack lasted till 21 h. "
Important remedy for sinusitis. [pressure and fullness at root of nose,
stringy and yellow discharge when acute, stringy and white when chronic].
Colds extending to sinuses.
P Digestion. Stomach upset by simplest of foods. Repletion after only a
few mouthfuls of food. Sudden nausea. Stomach pains - in a small spot - coming
on between 2 h. and 5 h. Heartburn immediately or soon after eating. Heartburn
at night; awakes with/from it. Marked < starchy food (potatoes).
And tongue thick yellow coated. Mervyn, Vitamins and Minerals. Rubrics Mind Anxiety, before
menses. Confusion, at night on waking.
Delusions, has committed a crime, he will become insane from pain.
Mental symptoms > when eating. Fear of death before menses. Indifference, to
external things. Aversion to reading. Desires rest.
Vertigo:
> Tea/warm soup.
Head:
Pain, comes and goes with the sun, > epistaxis,
periodical (every day at the same hour), > tea forehead, middle, frontal
sinuses from chronic coryza sides, in a small spot
pressing, vertex, as from a weight.
Eye:
Lachrymation, from tobacco smoke. Sensation as
if loose. Pain, burning, from looking steadily at an object, from tobacco
smoke. Winking, during epilepsy.
Vision:
Blurred, before headache. Colours, red, yellow. Diplopia,
vertical.
Hearing: Impaired, cannot tell direction of sound.
Nose: Sense of fulness at
root of nose. Heat, expired air feels hot; in root. Obstruction, alternating
sides, in warm wet weather. Odours, imaginary, of putrid eggs. “As if nose were
made of parchment”. < Pressure of glasses. Mouth Ropy mucus during epileptic
convulsions. Ropy saliva. Taste, sweetish, after smoking. Throat Choking, <
clothing, on waking from nightmare. Pain, > after swallowing constrictive,
when moving jaw from side to side.
Stomach: Eructations, salty.
Heaviness, after beer, after chocolate, after meat. Nausea, < coffee.
Vomiting, after coffee, after milk, < stooping; tendency to vomiting from
slightest pressure on pit of stomach. Rectum Diarrhoea, after beer. Female Prolapsus, uterus, in hot weather. Chest Sensation of
coldness in region of heart. Back Pain, cervical region, on blowing nose, <
raising arms, < turning head; sacral region, during coition; coccyx, in
morning on waking, > after rising [in morning], < sitting. Dreams Of someone
sitting crosswise over chest and belly, which caused choking sensation.
Suffocation. Perspiration Profuse, while sitting quietly. Skin Eruptions, in
summer. Itching, > cold air.
Generals: Lying, pain goes to side not lain on. Slow
motion >. Pain, bones as if broken; in small spots.
Food and Drinks:
Aversion to: Beer/meat/water/fruit/drinks/smoking/sour;
Desire: Beer/sour drinks/cold drinks/pickles/sour/wine;
< Beer/sight of food (meat)/meat/sour drinks/chocolate [= heaviness
in stomach, and meteorism]/coffee/farinaceous
food/fruit/ice/milk/tea;
>: Soup/tea;
[Farokh Master]
Compare the materia
medica of Chromic acid.x
Mind:
Conscientious and develops a guilt feeling
easily. (Rubric - delusions, crime, had committed a crime;)
Easily vexed; vexation in any form leads
to anginal pains, migraine, rheumatism and gastric
ulcers. (Rubric - Indifference, apathy after the least vexation, with distress
or pain in
stomach; Sadness after vexation).
Family oriented person, who prefers to
spend most of their time at home.
Frequently gets late for everything
because of the compulsions.
Keeps covering his mouth with hands when
talking (Rubrics - Gestures, makes - hands; involuntary motions of the -
covering - mouth with hands).
Endogenous depression due to anxiety out -
of proportion from minor disputes or vexations.
Depression is characterized by: - Anxiety,
waking on. - Business, aversion to. - Business, incapacity for. - Indifference
to external things. - Laziness.
- Loathing for life. The depression is
temporarily better after meals.
Man of details wants details from others
and explains everything in great details to others.
Reserved, quiet individual; avoids any
form of socialization. - Fear of open space. - Misanthropy.
Physicals:
Fat person and chubby children.
Alternating symptoms - rheumatism with
gastric symptom or rheumatism with amoebic dysentery or rheumatism with
sinusitis or rheumatism with catarrhal headache.
Lack of vital heat, sensitive to cold
climate, cold air.
Neuralgic pain in small spots that can be
covered with the tip of the finger.
Pains appear and disappear suddenly.
Quick wandering pains that finally affect
the stomach.
Tough, lumpy and stringy discharge that
adheres to the part and can be drawn out in the strings.
Yellowness - yellowish discharges, yellow
tongue, yellow vision and yellow discoloration of the eyes.
Modalities:
<: 2.30 h./Beer/meat/cold damp
weather/after eating/touch/sitting and stooping;
>: Warmth of bed/in open air;
[M.L. Tyler]
One spots Kali-bi. by its stringiness, its
spottiness, its yellowness.
In Crocus the haemorrhages
draw out into long black strings; but with Kali-bi. it is the purulent, or
mucous discharges, from whatever source, that draw out into long strings (strings
even "from mouth to floor"). Stringy discharges from
nose/throat/ear/eye/chest/vulva/urethra - "urine alkaline and ropy";
vomit of like character, even the milk looking like "Stringy matter and
water", suggest Kali-bi. Though the drug also tends to produce "lumpy
masses" (mucous), tough and of all degrees from bland to very offensive;
white - yellow - green.
Its most characteristic
pains appear in spots. The characteristic pains of Berb.
radiate from a centre: those that suggest Kali-bi. occur in small spots which
can be "covered with the tip of a finger". Such pains occur in some
of its headaches (semilateral headaches in small
spots/dull pain or stitches in r. chest over a circumscribed spot/in r. hypochondrium: just to l. of ensiform
cartilage: in sacrum). Though it has also shooting and stitching pains.
Ulceration typically
round-deep-looking as if punched out. In mucous membranes
(stomach/skin/eyes/bones). Scars they leave are of like character-depressed,
round, "as if punched out".
Yellow : vision (Cina)/sclerotics (Chel.,
etc.)/discharges (ear/nose/eye)/vomit/sputum.
Tongue may be glazed, red, cracked, or "coated as with yellow
felt". Clarke (Dictionary) makes a great point of its usefulness where
large quantities of yellow watery fluid are vomited (these occur in the provings) and he gives cases.
HERING gives a case of the
vomiting of pregnancy cured by Kali-bi. "Sudden nausea; yellow coated
tongue; inward coldness and heat of face; constipation; violent abdominal
pains; faintness." Again, "Long, and continued vomiting during
pregnancy; can retain no food in stomach; great emaciation and debility".
KENT (Lesser Writings)
details a stomach case cured by Kali-bi., where "There were no catarrhal
symptoms of nose or chest, and no thick, ropy discharges, therefore Kali-bi.
was neglected. The stomach symptoms alone guided to its use, as he had no other
symptoms of importance." "Here the patient looked over the provings, and underscored such symptoms as he had suffered
from".
Among them, "Weak
digestion; stomach disordered by mildest food (as with chrome washers).
Incarceration of flatulence in stomach and lower abdomen. Feeling of emptiness
in stomach, with want of appetite at dinner. Wakes in the night with great
uneasiness in stomach, and soreness and tenderness in a small spot to left of xiphoid appendix. Sudden violent burning constrictive pain
in anterior surface of stomach. Repletion after a mouthful of food, not helped
by Lycopodium. Also, cutting as with knives: unable
to digest potatoes or starchy foods".
Among other characteristics:
rheuma: wandering in type: or # with catarrh/with
stomach troubles.
UseFUL
in diseases of mouth and throat, in tonsillitis, diphtheria, croup; in asthma, bronchitis,
whooping-cough, and in stomach troubles (ulceration) the round variety. But
everywhere it cures specifically mucous membranes affected in its own peculiar
way, and finding them thus, proceeds to mend them.
Effect on the workers in
chrome. "For the first few days there is discharge of clear water from the
nose, with sneezing, chiefly on going into the open air; then soreness and
redness of nose with sensation of fetid smell. Then PAIN and tenderNESS, most at the junction of the cartilage, and the
septum ulcerates quite through, while the nose becomes obstructed by the
repeated formation of hard, elastic plugs (called by the workmen clinkers).
Finally, the membrane loses its sensibility and remains dry, with the septum
gone, and frequently loss of smell for years. HUGHES (Pharmacodynamics).
KENT (Lectures): Its
principal use is in diseases of mucous membranes catarrhal affections with its
peculiar symptoms. It has been able to bring out in its provings
symptoms from all the mucous membranes of the body. Slow, but intense
inflammations of mucous membrane wherever it attacks. Of course he gives the
thick, ropy or stringy, yellowish or yellow-green discharges eye, ear, nose,
throat, trachea, etc.
Pains < coughing.
Mouth, often foul odour:
teeth loose; gums sore, oozing blood. Tongue ulcerated, becomes thick, dry,
smooth, red, cracked, shines like glass bottles. Tongue, thick, dry, bright
red.
Pains wander, shoot, tear:
wander form joint to joint and bone to bone, sometimes felt deep in the bones.
< beer: morning
diarrhoea, < beer.
Besides the round ulcers,
Kent notices, ragged, eating ulcers (old leg ulcers). The peculiar feature
being that when the old ulcer heals in heals with a depressed surface, deep in,
“As if it had had
a false healing”.
Stomach like a leather bag.
Digestion seems to have ceased. Food lies in stomach like a load.
Pains most violent in a spot
you could put your finger on. Headache of that spot: patient says it is all there-at
that spot - or that it begins there, or spreads from there.
Complaints alternate or
move. When rheuma in on, the other complaints cease.
As the gouty state increases the catarrhal state of diarrhoea disappears.
[Farrington] especially
illuminating in regard to Kali-bi.
While there are evident
general resemblances to the Kalis, there are decided
differences arising from the acid combined with it. Chromic acid is a highly
irritating acid: a powerful escharotic destroying
animal tissues very rapidly, and penetrating quickly into the part, producing a
deep ulcer.
Acts on fat persons, on fat,
chubby children more than on adults.
Possesses great virtues in
inflammations of mucus surfaces, with tendency to plastic exudation and
pseudo-membrane. Causes on mucous membranes first violent inflammation with
much redness and swelling, and produces an excessive amount of mucus rapidly
turned into a fibrinous exudate:
tending to formation of false membranes. This character of exudation gives us
the well-known characteristic of Kali bi. - discharges ropy and stringy in pharyngitis, laryngitis, in coryza,
in the vomited matters of gastric catarrh: in leucorrhoea and discharges from
urethra. In the children it
helps, where there are tenacious, stringy and purulent ear discharges,
with stitching pains shooting into head and down into neck: glands (the parotid
of that side swollen), while pains shoot down into that parotid gland.
Useful in diphtheria, with
thick, yellow-looking membrane like wash-leather, and stringy discharges.
Specific ulcers on the fauces, which tend to perforate, surrounded by coppery-red
colour.
Nasal catarrh: first dry
with tickling and sneezing; < in open air: the secretion ropy and stringy,
collects in posterior nares: may or may not be
offensive.
Or in ozaena:
with plugs, or "clinkers". Lumps of hard green mucus are hawked form
posterior nares (morning). Ulcers carry out the
penetrating character of Chromic acid, and tend to perforate.
Croup in light-haired, fat
and chubby children, with smothering spells which wake them from sleep,
choking. Membrane forms thickly in larynx, narrowing it. Expectoration tough
and stringy with pieces like boiled macaroni. < from 3 - 5 h. May extend
down to bronchi: not common but very dangerous. Farrington says he remembers a
patient who, after taking Kali-bi. expectorated pieces looking like vermicelli
and having numerous little branches - probably casts of the ramifications of
the bronchial tubes. (Ip.)
Then the effect of Kali-bi.
on the mucous membrane of the stomach. The drug is so irritating as to produce
gastritis. Its symptoms vary in severity from those of simple indigestion to
those of malignant disease. Dyspepsia with supra-orbital headache, or with a
peculiar headache. The patient is affected with blindness-objects becoming
obscured and less distinct, and then the headache begins. It is violent: <
for light and noise, and sight returns as headache grows <. He says, there
are a number of remedies having blinding headache Caust.
(but it does not diminish as headache increases).
With this headache,
Farrington says, the face is apt to get blotched and bloated and covered with
pimples or acne. It is also sallow and yellowish, “As if the patient were
bilious”.
The stomach seems to swell up after a full meal, like Lycopodium.
Gastritis: the vomited
matter sour, mixed with clear mucus, or bitter, from admixture with bile.
Renewed with every attempt at eating or drinking, with distress and burning
rawness about the stomach. With this kind of vomit you may give Kali-bi. in the
vomiting of drunkards, and in the round, perforating ulcer of the stomach.
He notices the rash like
measles, for which it has been used. May follow Pulsatilla,
useful in the milder cases. "Kali-bi. is one of the best for measles"
with the catarrhal symptoms of Puls., eyes, ears,
mouth, with watery, yellowish-green secretions, only <, and advancing to
ulceration.
It produces papules, hard;
tend to develop into pustules, and even into ulcers.
Puls.
when the catarrhal symptoms are prominent and we have coryza
and profuse lachrymation.
Kali-bi. is to be used when,
instead of simple catarrh of the eyes, you have pustules developed on the
cornea. The throat is swollen and pains go from the throat into the ears, the
salivary glands are swollen, and there is catarrhal deafness.
BLACK LETTER SYMPTOMS.
Nose: Septum narium completely ulcerated away.
Entire cartilaginous septum
destroyed, and the whole nasal mucus membrane in a state of purulent
inflammation: the disease had been mistaken for syphilis.
Nose very dry with a feeling
of pressure in the nasal bones.
Dryness of nose.
Formation of plug in
nostrils.
Pressive
pain in root of nose.
Nose stuffed up, especially
upper part; difficulty in detaching thick mucus, which more readily passes by
posterior nares.
Clinkers in nose; if allowed
to remain a few days can be easily detached; if pulled away too soon, leave
soreness at root of nose and intolerance to light.
Discharge of tough green
masses, or hard plugs.
Mucus tough, ropy, green,
bloody; in clear masses; violent pain from occiput to
forehead if discharge ceases.
Fetid smell from nose.
Ear: Chronic
suppuration; membrana tympani perforated; secretion
is often more mucus than pus; discharge yellow, thick, tenacious, so that it
may be drawn through perforation in strings; lancinations, sticking sensations.
Mouth: Tongue smooth,
red and cracked.
Dry
Syphilitic affections of
mouth and fauces.
Hawking of thick gelatinous
mucus in the morning.
Hawking of a considerable
quantity of tenacious mucus in a.m.
On root of uvula, right
side, an excavated sore, half the size of a split pea, with a reddish areola,
containing a yellow tenacious matter.
Deep-eating ulcers of fauces, often syphilitic.
Diphtheria:
pseudo-membranous deposit, firm, pearly, fibrinous;
apt to extend downwards to larynx and trachea: bladder-like appearance of
uvula, much swelling, little redness.
Stomach: Complete
loss of appetite.
Vomiting.
Nausea and vomiting of
drunkards.
Diarrhoea-like stool
consisting of brown frothy water (with excessively painful pressure, urging and
tenesmus.
Bad effects of
over-indulgence in beer; great weight in pit of stomach; flatulence;.
Prolapsus
uteri, seemingly from hot weather.
Rough, hoarse voice.
Cough: (in early
hours) with expectoration of which mucus "as tough as pitch", which
could be drawn out into strings.
Expectoration of very tough
mucus, so viscid that it drew in strings down to the feet.
Cough with pain, from
mid-sternum through to back; severe stitching, or weight and soreness in chest.
Cough (in early hours) on
waking, with dyspnoea; > lying down.
Cough hoarse, metallic, in
croup (membranous) or diphtheria; expectoration of tough mucus or fibro-elastic
casts.
Expectoration is very
glutinous and sticky; adhering to fauces, teeth,
tongue and lips, finally leaving mouth in long, stringy and very tenacious
mass.
Back: Sharp, stinging
pain in region of kidneys.
Pain in coccyx while
sitting.
Neuralgia every day at the
same hour.
Pains appear rapidly and
disappear suddenly. (Bell.).
Pains in small spots which
can be covered with the point of finger.
Pains attack first one part,
then reappear in another.
Affections of any mucous
membranes, with discharges of tough, stringy, adherent mucus, or can be drawn
out into long strings.
Ulcers; deep yellow, dry,
oval, edges overhanging, bright red areola; base hard, corroding; becoming
deeper; blackish spot in centre; cicatrix remaining depressed; deep as if cut
out with a punch, edges regular.
Complaints < in hot
weather.
SUGGESTIVE SYMPTOMS AND
SENSATIONS.
Milk, as it flows from
breasts, has appearance of being composed of stringy masses and water.
As if head would burst: as
if nose would burst.
Nose feels too heavy.
As if loose bones rubbed
against each other in nose.
As of a hair high up in left
nostril.
Insular large patches on
tongue.
A hair on back of tongue.
Pains in spots, can be
covered with finger tip.
Or pains mostly stitching
and shooting.
Burning headache with
vertigo, during which all objects appeared to be enveloped in a yellow mist.
Pain in head at a point.
Periodic attacks of semilateral headaches on small spots that could be covered
with point of finger.
Blindness followed by
violent headache, must lie down; aversion to light and noise. Slight returns
with increasing headache.
Various colours and bright
spots before eyes.
Objects seem to be covered
with a yellow veil.
Corneal ulcers; tend to bore
in without spreading laterally. Twanging like wires in left face and neck.
Tongue coated, as with thick
yellow felt.
Pug in throat, not relieved
by swallowing.
Ulcers in fauces-in pharynx: discharging cheesy lumps, often
offensive.
Dislike to meat.
Longing for beer: for acid
drinks.
Secondary bad effects from
malt liquors (larger beer).
Feeling of coldness, stomach and bowels.
Food lies in stomach like a
load. Digestion suspended.
Pains and uneasiness in
stomach alternate with pains in limbs.
Choking, as if something
hard all down oesophagus: then jumping and shaking, as if stomach jumped up.
Round ulcer of stomach.
Nausea with burning pain in
anus.
Nausea and vomiting of
drunkards.
Gastric pains relieved by
eating and rheumatic pains reappear; when gastric pains reach to any height,
rheumatic pains subside.
Curious sensation as if
something eating in bowels.
Gulping up of food
unchanged, not sour, with pain across middle of back.
Vomiting of greenish, watery
mucus in morning.
Dull pain or stitches in
right hypochondrium, especially when limited to a
small spot.
Spasmodic attacks resembling
those accompanying gall stones.
During emission of wind,
sweat all over body, especially face, from which it runs in streams.
Urine alkaline and ropy.
Tough mucus nearly strangles
him.
Sensation of lump, upper
part of trachea and hairs across base of tongue, which neither hawking,
swallowing nor eating relieves.
Profuse yellow, stringy
expectoration and much sweating.
Violent paroxysms of cough
with scanty expectoration of stringy mucus: or much viscid expectoration in
grey lumps.
Wakes with heaviness on
chest, as from a weight. Sensation of choking, on lying down.
Whooping-cough; mucus so viscid
that it stretched in long strings from mouth to ground.
Itching behind sternum,
causing violent, racking paroxysmal cough.
Cold sensation about heart;
tightness chest; Dyspnoea.
When stooping, sensation as
if something cracked across sacrum.
Cannot stoop or move from
pain.
Violent aching; pain in a
small spot in sacrum. < at night.
Pain in coccyx.
Pustules on arms; swelling
on arm, turned into large ulcer with overhanging edges.
Dry eruption like measles.
Small pustules over body
like small pox disappear without bursting.
Pustules as large as a pea,
with small black scab in centre on inflamed parts of skin.
Suppurating, solitary skin
tubercles, forming deep holes.
Itching, forearms and hands,
then intolerable pain and formation of numerous ulcers, from which above a
dozen nearly solid masses of matter fell on
striking the arm
firmly, leaving ulcers clean dry cavities.
Ulcers on wrist, oozed for
several months, left a cicatrix depressed as if scooped out.
Hands completely covered
with depressed cicatrices which look as if they had been punched out with a
wadding cutter.
Small pustules on roots of
nails. Fluid became thickened to a yellow tough mass.
Pains in shin bones
(syphilitic periostitis).
Rheuma
# periodic gastric symptoms; one appearing in the Fall, the other in the
Spring.
Could hardly sit down:
sensation of plug in anus. (Anac.).
< at 2 h. – 3 h.
Pains fly rapidly from one
place to another, not continuing long in any place, and intermittent.
SPECIAL LOCALITIES
Diphtheritic formations in
nose, mouth, fauces, pharynx, larynx, trachea,
bronchi, uterus, vagina.
Affections of any mucous
membranes with discharges of tough, stringy, adherent mucus, or can be drawn
out into long strings.
Rheumatic pains, alternating
with catarrh: with (above) gastric symptoms.
Bones : joints.
Eruption, covering nearly the
entire scalp: consists of a number of minute vesicles, closely crowded, and
filled with a transparent viscid fluid, which
burst and form thick,
laminated crusts of a dirty grey colour; or swelling of skin between patches of
eruption: much itching: agglutination of lids and
discharge of purulent
material from inner canthus: patches on face and
thick crusts around nostrils: external ears greatly swollen, red and glazed
behind ears excoriated with
profuse discharge patches of eruption deeply fissured in folds of neck with sero-purulent discharge fretful sucks with
difficulty, from stuffing of
nostrils; emaciation; green, slimy diarrhoea.
Eruption began one ar and spread over half the head; greenish crusts, with
oozing of whitish, thick matter.
[Verena Berger]
Kalium bichromat
ist eine toxische Substanz, sie besteht aus orangefarbenen Kristallen oder
Pulver. Der Kontakt mit anderen Materialien kann, aufgrund seiner Neigung zu
Oxidation, Feuer auslösen, es wirkt brandfördernd
oder gar explosiv. Kalium bichromat findet vielfältig
Verwendung, in der Gerberei, in der Fotographie, bei bestimmten Druckverfahren u.a. Bei Hautkontakt entstehen Verbrennungen oder tiefe,
„fressende“ Geschwüre.
Allgemeine Wirkrichtung
Bei Atemwegserkrankungen, Schnupfen
und Entzündungen der Nasen-Nebenhöhlen. Von untergeordneter Rolle int die Behandlung von Schmerzen (Kopf, Gelenke,
Weichteile“).
Typische Symptome
Auslöser (Kälte, Entkleiden, aber
auch warmes Sommerwetter)
Empfindung / Erscheinung
Nase: Absonderungen: zäh, dick, fadenziehend
- meist gelb, gelb-grün, auch weißlich
Krusten und Borken in der Nase, Nasenbluten beim Ablösen, hinterlassen
rohe, wunde Stelle
oder „elastische Pfröpfe“ in der Nase
Trockenheit, Verstopfung, Bedürfnis zu schnäuzen, ohne Erfolg
drückender Schmerz und Völlegefühl im Bereich der Nasenwurzel
Schmerzen (Gelenke, Kopf)
erscheinen sehr pünktlich zur gleichen Zeit
erscheinen und vergehen plötzlich
an kleinen, eng begrenzten Stellen
wandern, wechseln schnell den Ort
weitere Empfindungen
Frieren
die ausgeatmete Luft fühlt sich heiß an
<:
morgens/erwachend/Kälte/Abkühlen/Entblößen;
Weitere Symptome
Bei der Konstitutionellen Behandlung
spielt das Wesen von Kalium bichromicume:
konservativ, regelhaft, geordnet, hält sich an Vorschriften, Regeln und
festgelegte Zeiten und Rituale.
Anwendung
Kalium bichromicum
ist eine wichtige Arznei für akute „Infekte“ im Bereich der Nase und der Nasen-Nebenhöhlen.
Leitend ist die zähe, fadenziehende Absonderung, die
trockene, verstopfte Nase mit dem Völlegefühl im Bereich der Nasenwurzel und
die Borken und Krusten in der Nase.
Die Verwendung der Arznei bei
rheumatischen Beschwerden und bei Kopfschmerz und Migräne spielt ebenfalls eine
Rolle, sie reicht allerdings in die konstitutionelle Behandlung hinein.
Schnupfen
Nase verstopft, trocken
zäher, fadenziehender Schnupfen, weißlich oder
gelb, gelb-grün
reichlich Krusten und Borken in der Nase, blutend und wund schmerzend
beim Ablösen
Verschlechterung am Morgen, beim Erwachen
Entzündung der Nasen-Nebenhöhlen
Absonderung wie beim Schnupfen (siehe oben)
drückender Schmerz und Völlegefühl im Bereich der Nasenwurzel
auch zäher Schleim im Rachen möglich, Räuspern, klebt beim Versuch
auszuspucken fest
Gesichtsschmerz an kleinen, eng umschriebenen Stellen
Verschlechterung am Morgen, beim Erwachen
Kopfschmerz
erscheint sehr pünktlich zur gleichen Zeit
erscheint und vergeht plötzlich
an kleinen, eng begrenzten Stellen
wandert, wechselt schnell den Ort
oft in Zusammenhang mit Entzündungen der Nasen-Nebenhöhlen
Vorwort/Suchen Zeichen/Abkürzungen Impressum