- Source: Derived from potassium carbonate (K₂CO₃), a chemical compound, prepared for homeopathic use through serial dilution and succussion to eliminate toxicity and enhance therapeutic action.
- Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for respiratory, cardiovascular,.
- Musculoskeletal, psychological, and systemic disorders , particularly those involving weakness,.
- Stitching pains, and sensitivity to cold.
- It is noted for symptoms such as asthma, palpitations, back pain, anxiety, and exhaustion, often aggravated by cold, night (especially 2–4 a.m.), or lying on the affected side, and ameliorated by warmth, motion, or sitting up.
- Modern Context: Indicated for respiratory conditions (e.g., asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), cardiovascular conditions (e.g., palpitations, heart failure), musculoskeletal conditions (e.g., lumbago, arthritis), psychological conditions (e.g., anxiety, depression), and systemic conditions (e.g., chronic fatigue, edema).
- It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by stitching pains, respiratory distress, cardiac irregularities, anxiety, or weakness, typically exacerbated by cold, night, or rest, and often seen in individuals with chronic respiratory conditions, cardiovascular issues, or stress-related anxiety.
- The remedy is particularly relevant for those with a chilly, sensitive constitution, often presenting with physical symptoms like dyspnea or back pain alongside psychological symptoms like irritability or fearfulness, commonly observed in patients with asthma, heart failure, or generalized anxiety disorder triggered by environmental or emotional stressors.
- COMMENTS-Generally very sensitive to changes in weather, particularly sensitive in affected area.
- Chilly, tendency to take cold.
- Symptoms worse when body temperature is low, aversion to open air.
- Very sensitive to drafts, will catch a cold at every little draft.
- Cannot tolerate drafts (Nux-v.🌿 Nux-V.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., Calc.🌿 Calc.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., Hep.🌿 Hep.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., Sulph.).
- Easily startled by any noise, especially if unexpected.
- Cannot bear to be touched, starts when touched ever so lightly, especially on the feet.
- Generally right sided, particularly the base of the right lung, and the apices, according to Goullon.
- Worse exertion.
- Characteristic sweat, backache and weakness, particularly in conditions of debility from loss of fluids.
- Keynote bag-like swellings or puffiness around the upper eye, eyebrow, can be between the eyebrows.
- Alternating symptoms.
- Organ pathology due to suppressed mental symptoms.
- Constant backache, with a giving out feeling in the back and legs, or as if the back was broken.
- The pain may extend downwards to the buttocks and even to the knee.
- Pain from hip to knee (more especially if right sided).
- Lower backache, especially during labor, menstrual cramps.
- Lumbago.
- Hip joint disease.
- Spasms, pu erperal convulsions and paralysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body..
- Twitching of muscles, rigidity of muscles, muscular atony.
- Disposition to over lifting.
- Stitching pains, pulsations, better by pres sure and by lying flat on the back.
- Sharp, stabbing pains that are worse motion.
- Sticking, burning, sharp pains l ike knives or needles.
- Sharp pains, wandering and stabbing, especially with arthritis.
- Osteoarthritis, deformative arthritis and migratory arthritis, pains that go from joint to joint.
- Burning and stabbing pains in the fingers and toes.
- Gout🩺 GoutClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., gouty arthrit is Stiffness in neck and shoulders.
- Pain worse motion, with sharp pains.
- Edema.
- Peripheral edema, varicose veins🩺 Varicose VeinsClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Affinity for tissues.
- Tumors, cancers and fibroids.
- Affects the blood and circulation.
- AnemiaLack of healthy red blood cells or hemoglobinA condition marked by a deficiency of red blood cells or of hemoglobin in the blood, resulting in pallor and weariness. with great debility, skin watery, milky white🌿 WhiteMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- Hemorrhages.
- Dropsical disorders.
- Ulcers, bleeding at night.
- Throbbing of blood vessels all over body and to ends of fingers and toes.
- Irregular heart.
- Fatty degeneration of the heart and other muscles.
- Sensation as if the heart were suspended by a thread.
- History of heart attack.
- Great affinity for the lungs.
- Pneumonia🩺 PneumoniaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. and pleurisy🌿 PleurisyMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. (Bry.🌿 Bry.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.), worse coughing or movement, better pressure.
- Chronic re spiratory problems in the elderly (Phos.🌿 Phos.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Sharp, stabbing, and stitching pains in the lungs.
- Oppression of breathing.
- Shortness of breath.
- Asthma, better sitting up in bed or on all fours.
- May sit up in bed with pillows (Ars.🌿 Ars.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.), may sleep sitting up.
- Coughs worse from 2 a.m to 4 a.m.
- Dry, paroxysmal cough, loosens viscid mucus or pus which must be swallowed.
- Spasms with gagging or vomiting of ingesta.
- Expectoration of hard, white or smoky masses, which fly from the throat when coughing, with globulesSmall medicated sugar pillsTiny spherical pills made of sucrose/lactose, used as a carrier for liquid homeopathic dilutions. of pus.
- Tendency to sinus headaches.
- Useful for sick headaches.
- Violent headaches about the inner temples, violent stitching or jerking pains, on one side of the head or both.🌿 Both.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- One sided headache with nausea.
- Pressure and drawing in forehead extending into eyes and root of nose.
- Congestion to head and heat of face often accompany the headaches.
- Toothache, only when eating.
- Easy chok ing, foodeasily gets into windpipe.
- Difficulty swallowing.
- Pain in the back when swallowing.
- Fish bone sensation in the throat, general tendency to stitching pains.
- Disordered digestion, flatulence, distention, constipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass..
- Gas, bloating, craving for sweets (Lyc.🌿 Lyc.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Intolerance for milk🌿 MilkMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., aversion to brown bread.
- Colic pains, severe colitisInflammation of the colon (large intestine)Inflammation of the inner lining of the colon, causing abdominal pain, cramping, or bloody diarrhea..
- Lack of muscular control especially with u rologic things.
- History of diabetes.
- Premenstrual syndrome with bloating, wa ter retention.
- Very sensitive breasts, painful before the period.
- Backache with period, or preceding period.
- Insufficient labor pains, transferred labor pains felt in back (Cimic., felt in thighs).
- InsomniaPersistent inability to fall or stay asleepA sleep disorder marked by difficulty falling asleep, waking up too early, or unrefreshing sleep., cannot relax, without reason.
- Unrefreshed sleep.
- Drowsiness, while eat ing.
- Worse after sex, feel weak and prostrated (Sil.🌿 Sil.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., Calc.), sleepless after sex.
- Complaints after sex in males, especially complaints of the eyes.
- One case of a headache that Clarke cured was better by lying down, better by a tight band around the head.
- A man had an ulcerOpen painful sore on skin or mucous membraneAn open sore on an external or internal surface of the body, caused by a break in the skin or mucous membrane. of the right leg with swelling of the ankle and he complained of waking at 2 a.m.
- Kali-c.🌿 Kali-C.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- 30c cured, but in the meantime he developed a great weakness of the right thigh, as if it would give out when walking.
- The symptom “pain from the hip to the knee” led to a cure in a woman, 73, stout, short, pale and of very soft tissue, who had for four months suffered from rheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues. pains, and an offensive vaginal discharge.
- A local practitioner was consulted and pronounced it cancer of the womb in an advanced stage and gave her four months to live.
- She described to Clarke the pain as be ing all around the lower abdomen and a ‘‘dull, heavy, depressing, dead pain, commencing at the inner part of the top of the right hip, iliac crest and extending to the knee.” The pain was so severe it made her feel quite sick and faint.
- The discharge was very offensive like decaying meat.
- Great weakness and trem bling accompanied the discharge.
- Urine was almost like blood at times, and had a sandy sediment.
- Kali-c.
- 1,000c. was given and at once improvement set in a few months all the bad symptoms had disappeared and never returned.
- The patient lived ten years after this episode.
- Id of Stettin, Germany, recorded the case of a woman, 65, who suffered from chronic bronchial catarrhInflammation of mucous membranes with dischargeExcessive buildup of mucus in the nose or throat, associated with inflammation of the mucous membrane. and emphysema🩺 EmphysemaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- In November, 1886, she had asthmatic complaints, depriving her of sleep with cough and mucus expectoration difficult to raise.
- She was so weary when eating that she fell asleep and could not finish her meal.
- Tired after eating.
- In the morning, passed much flatulence.
- Kali-c.
- 10c removed the condition in a few days.
- The following March after a cold there was a recurrence, but without the weariness, and Kali-c failed.
- Ars. 15c rapidly cured.
- The same patient also had a toothache alternating with tearing, stitching pain in left breast and under left false🌿 FalseMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. ribs.
- The side pains were worse at night, especially in evening🌿 EveningMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. as soo n as she lay down, worse lying down, particularly worse lying on the right (painless) side.
- Not influenced by pressure or motion.
- Temperature-Chills with dyspnea, hot hands and sleepiness in open a ir.
- Frequent shuddering during day.
- Chilly in morning.
- Internal heat with external chilliness.
- Internal burning.
- Fever with surging of blood or throbbing in blood vessels.
- Fever with dyspnea.
- Disgust forfood or ravenous appetite.
- When hungry, feels anxious, nauseated, nervous, tingling, palpitation etc.
- Wants to eat frequently but least food oppresses her.🌿 Her.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- Disgust for food.
- Milk and warm food disagree.
- DiarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day. worse milk.🌿 Milk.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- Ice water🌿 WaterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. disagrees.
- Aversion to meat.
- Desire for sweets or acids
