- The Saltpetre of the Alche mists, Kali-n is known in old-school practice principally as a “refrigerant diuretic” and as the active agent in the well known “nitre papers,” which are burnt, producing fumes to allay attacks of asthma🩺 AsthmaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- A solution of saltpetre as an application was an old remedy for inveterate mange in cats.
- Nitre with sulphur🌿 SulphurMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. and charcoal forms gunpowder🌿 GunpowderMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- A teaspoonful of this in hot water🌿 WaterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. was a favorite remedy for gonorrhea🩺 GonorrheaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. among soldiers in the days when black🌿 BlackMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. powder was used.
- Affects the respiratory organs, kidneys, heart and blood vessels.
- Secretions are increased into cavities.
- Sudden dropsical swellings over the whole body.
- Pains are dull stitching, throbbing.
- Wooden, numb ness.
- Very weak.
- AsthmaChronic respiratory disease causing difficulty breathingA condition characterized by spasms in the bronchi of the lungs, causing difficulty in breathing, typically from an allergic reaction or hypersensitivity. and cardiac asthma.
- Relapsing tuberculosis🩺 TuberculosisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Hemorrhagic tendency.
- Rheu matism.
- Gastro-intestinal inflammation with much debility and relapse in tuberculosis.
- Suppurative nephritisInflammation of the kidneysAn inflammatory condition of the kidneys, affecting their filtering units, which can cause pain, blood in urine, or swelling..
- Incontinence of urine in children.
- COMMENTS-Kali-n has been extensively proved by homeopaths and symptoms have been added from cases of poisoning, so that its characteristics are well defined.
- It is almost equal to Kali-c in producing stitching pains and it is similar to it in having a cough at 3 a.m.
- Severe stitching, cutting, lancinating, tearing and pressing pa ins.
- As with many other Kalis, there is external sensitiveness of scalp, of abdomen, of testes.
- Kali nitricum Diabetes insipidus🩺 Diabetes InsipidusClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Bedwetting.
- Painful colicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants..
- DiarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day. and dysenteryIntestinal infection with severe bloody diarrheaInfection of the intestines resulting in severe diarrhea with the presence of blood and mucus in the feces..
- Sexual excite ment.
- Pain in testes and cords.
- Menorrhagia🩺 MenorrhagiaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. with flow of ink-like blackness.
- “The pain-like contraction in the eyes, forehead and face concentrates in the tip of the nose.
- Swollen feeling in right nostril, which is painful on pressure, sore pain in upper part of right nostril with external sensitiveness,” these two last symptoms led to the cure of large nasal polyps🩺 Nasal PolypsClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. in a girl.
- In a poisoning case, during the recovery there was intense vertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement. with tinnitusRinging or buzzing in the earsThe perception of noise or ringing in the ears when no external sound is present., which should indicate Kali-n in some cases of Meniere's disease.
- Easy intoxication by wine or beer was noted by several provers.
- A peculiar symptom is a sour taste in the throat.
- In the asthmatic state the breathlessness is so great that the patient, though thirsty, can only drink a sip at a time between the breaths.
- Allen defined the asthma of Kali-n as asthma with excessive dyspneaDifficulty or shortness of breathLaborious or painful breathing, often associated with respiratory or cardiac conditions., faintness and nausea with dull stitches or with burning pain in chest, rather free expectoration.
- Temperature-External coldness, chin, skin.
- Extraordinary shiverings not bet ter by hot drinks or coverings.
- Coldness in afternoon with thirst, or coldness, preceded by headache.
- Quotidian fever, with drawing pains in limbs.
- Profuse and colliquative sweat in morning, especially on chest.
- Internal burning.
- Excessive distention of abdo men.
- Griping about umbilicus.
- Stitching and sticking pai ns.
- Violent pain in right side after eating veal.
- Peritonitis🩺 PeritonitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Incarceration of flatus, especially in afternoon and evening🌿 EveningMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- Very loud rumbling in abdomen.
- Better hot food.
- Aversion to beef, eggs, meat, veal.
- Worse from eating veal, causing headache, diarrhea.
- Worse from cold food, fats, rich food, milk🌿 MilkMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- Worse from beef, fish, lobster, oysters.
- Worse from beer, wine, bread, coffee, rice, soup, watery fruits and vegetables
