- Like all potash salts, this weakens the heart and lowers temperature.
- Causes brominism.
- Symptoms of allopathic overdoses are added to the provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces. sy mptoms and the clinical experience of homeopaths.
- Alberton noted that Kali-br has been given allopathically in epileptic and other convulsive disorders with the idea of over whelming the disease rather than of curing it.
- The effect has been to reduce or p revent the recurrence of epileptic attacks at the expense of keeping the patient constantly under the influence of the drug and producing a state of mental imbecility, “decreasing the excitability and power of the motor cells of the brain.” Hare noted that the keynotes for the bromides include general weakness and feebleness of the nervous system, post typhoid and post-puerperal insanity, senile softening of the brain and irritation of the gastro-intestinal mucus membrane.
- Kali-br affects the mind and nerves, producing failure of mental power, loss of memory.
- Melancholy.
- General numbness and anesthesia of mucus membranes especially of eyes, throat and skin eruptions, psoriasis🩺 PsoriasisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Acne, especially at pubertyAdolescent sexual maturity phaseThe stage of physical growth and hormonal changes when a child's body matures into an adult body capable of reproduction. and at the menstrual period.
- Clarke knew of no remedy of such universal useful ness in cases of simple acne as in Kali-br.
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- Moist eruptions and pityriasis of the scalp.
- Seborrhea.
- Erythema nodosum🩺 Erythema NodosumClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Epilepsy🩺 EpilepsyClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., associated with sexual excess or abuse in men and with menses in women.
- Attacks during the new moon, followed by headaches.
- Onset of diseased condition is slow without any pain.
- Convulsions.
- Parkinson's disease.
- Numbness of whole body.
- Symptoms of strokes.
- ParalysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body..
- Aphasia, somnolence and stertor.
- Loss of se xual desire.
- Sexual fantasies, satyriasis and nymphomania.
- Uremia🩺 UremiaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Albuminuria.
- Nodular form of chronic gout🩺 GoutClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Kali bromatum COMMENTS-Kali-br has a very profound action on the generative organs and the mental side of the generative sphere causing sensual, lascivious fancies, satyriasis and nymphoma nia, and finally impotence and wasting of the sexual organs.
- EpilepsyNeurological disorder causing seizuresA neurological disorder marked by sudden recurrent episodes of sensory disturbance, loss of consciousness, or convulsions., particularly cases associated with sex ual excess or abuse in men and those in which the fits occur during or near the menstrual period in women.
- Epilepsy after fright, anger, or childbirth.
- Can be affected by phases of the moon.
- Headache after the attack.
- Spasms from fright, anger or emotions.
- Spasms in nervous, plethoric persons during childbirth.
- Staggering gait, ataxiaLoss of full control of bodily movementsA neurological sign consisting of lack of voluntary coordination of muscle movements that can include gait abnormality., numbness and tingling in legs and spine with increase in sexual appetite.
- Paralysis with twitchings of the limbs.
- Fidgeting of the hands and feet (Hyos.).
- Reflexes are dimini shed and there is loss of general sensibility and also of certain parts, particularly fauces, larynx and urethra.
- Benumbed sensation of the brain.
- Schizophrenia, manic depression.
- Suicidal depression.
- Depressed, melancholic, uncon trollable weeping.
- Laughing and crying fits.
- Disordered faculties.
- Fear of going insane, fear of losing mental or emotional control.
- Memory loss, amnesia (Anae.).
- Aphasia.
- Chronic insomniaPersistent inability to fall or stay asleepA sleep disorder marked by difficulty falling asleep, waking up too early, or unrefreshing sleep., especially in the el derly (Calc.🌿 Calc.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., Ars.🌿 Ars.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Insomnia due to worry, mortification, grief, fina ncial shock and loss (Aur.🌿 Aur.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Restlessness and sleeplessness from worry.
- Drowsiness.
- Deep sleep may be broken by a start, though waking is very difficult.
- Confused dreams.
- Night terrors in children where they scream, without recollection of the terror (Tub.🌿 Tub.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
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- Grind teeth and moan while sleeping.
- Sleepwalking.
- Cholera🩺 CholeraClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. infantum with hydrocephalic symptoms.
- Dentition.
- Whooping cough.
- Bright's disease.
- Acne, particularly relating to hormonal changes.
- Sebaceous cysts and wens.
- Growths.
- Ovarian cysts🩺 Ovarian CystsClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., fibroids and fatty tumors.
- Uterine hemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse., with ovarian tumors.
- Metrorrhagia or menorrhagia🩺 MenorrhagiaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., may arise from reflected irritation and may be accom panied with sexual excitement.
- Hering noted that Kali-br is useful for “flooding, especially in young women.” Amory Hare noted that pulmonary edemaSwelling caused by excess fluid in tissuesA condition characterized by an excess of watery fluid collecting in the cavities or tissues of the body. or suffocative bronchitisInflammation of the bronchial tubesInflammation of the mucous membrane in the bronchial tubes, typically causing bronchospasm and coughing. may develop in the lungs.
- The patient may become cachectic and the condition can resemble typhoid fever🩺 Typhoid FeverClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Wenzel Heyberger recorded a case of diabetes in a woman, 68, cured with Kali-br.
- The patient had been ill five months and was reduced to a skeleton.
- She first noticed a remarkably good appetite, but after meals had heartburn and belchings.
- She had polyuriaAbnormally excessive urinationThe production of abnormally large volumes of dilute urine, causing frequent urination. and frequent distur bances at night to pass water🌿 WaterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- Weak in the head, confused, memory impaired.
- Vision was almost gone.
- Rushing and roaring in ears.
- Tormenting thirst.
- Stools difficult and delayed.
- Powders medicated with Kali-br.
- 2c were given, one every six hours.
- The first night the patient slept without disturbance and the quantity of urine and proportion of sugar diminished.
- After about six weeks, the improvement seemed to stop and Kali-br was given in allopathic doses, but this aggravated the condition.
- Kali-br.
- 2c was resumed and the case went to a cure.
- Hale cured with Kali-br many cases of cholera infantum and one case of “violent periodic umbilical colicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants., leaving tenderness on pressure.” The characteristic hour of recurrence was 5 p.m.
- Buford used it extensively in such cases and in potencies approaching the crude form.🌿 Form.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- Kali-br i s more particularly adapted to persons inclined to obesity, to children, and to nervous women.
- More symptoms have been noted on the right side than on the left
