Kali Phos. 435After it has shown some benefici al effect, another dose in high potency will show surprisingly good re sults. For the anorexia, due to a stomach or liver disorder, Nux Vo mica is the best. The effect of Nux Vomica on sleep is similar to that of Kali Phos. Nux Vomica is useful in treating the insomnia and restlessness aris ing from drinking tea or coffee, but in case of inso mnia due to nervousness and anxiety, Kali Phos should be used. The patients of Kali Phos and Arse nic are usually very neat and tidy but unfortunately their body secretions become very foul smelling and putrid during the severity of the illness and fever. Because the foul smell of secretions is common in other medicines too, one should not consider the foul smell as a diag nostic sign for Kali Phos. Most bodily secretions happen to be foul smelling in contagious diseases and infections.
Kali Phos ranks high in the cure of such a patient. Ferrum Phos 6X and Kali Phos6X combined given five to six times a day along with Pyrogenium 200 and Typhoidinum 200, work very well in a typhoid patient who has a tendency towards constipation. The patient of Kali Phos lik es cold and sour drinks. Kali Phos is very effective in the inflammatory conditions of the liver and the intestines . It also works for irritable bowel syndrome (an intestinal disorder of psychologi cal origin). One or two doses of Kali Phos are very effective in the treatment of acute dysenteric symptoms associated with severe cramps in the abdomen (tenesmus). It should be remembered that Kali Phos and nothing else will work for gastro-intestinal disturbances associated with nervousness and anxiety. Kali Phos should especial ly be used when all other similar medicines have failed.
Kali Phos is usually used as a tonic in combination with Mag Phos and Calacarea Phos. But if the symptoms of Kali Phos are obvious, then the ef fect of Kali Phos would diminish in the presence of other medicines. In this situation, one should keep in mind that if the diagnosis is correct then that one particular medicine could hit the target, with the blessings of A llah. One or two doses can cure the patient, and if by chance it does not help, then other appropriate medicines should be sought. Regarding the disease pattern of so me medicines, the symptoms shift from right to left or from left to right. In Kali Phos, like Lachesis, the symptoms move from left to right. In Kali Phos, it is not the disease itself which transfers from left to right but simply the pain moves from Kali Phos. 436left to right, while in Lachesis, the disease itself tends to shift from left to right.
Clinical Observations
In the diarrhoea of Kali Phos associated with fear and anxiety , the stools are watery and foul smelling causing weakness. The dysentery in Kali Phos is associated with th e passage of mucous without blood, but sometimes there could be fresh bleeding. It is the irritation of the nerves in the walls of the intestines that increases their mobility. The adjacent loops of the gut rub against each other, causing inflammation, production of mucous and then bleeding. Kali Phos works on the bladder rendered irritable due to exposure to cold . Some people suffer from frequent urination, more so in cold weather. On exposure to the cold, the bladde r becomes irritable, leading to the frequent passage of urine but there is no associated burning. The urine is cl ear like water, showing that there is no infection.
Instead it is mere irritation of the bladder. As in the common cold, there is excessive running of the nose but no physical discomfort. It is the frequent wiping of the nose that causes inflammation inside the nose. If this bladder condition of a Kali Phos patient does not abate soon, inflamma tion will ensue; even infection can set in. Sometimes in a patient of Kali Phos, the headache resulting from mental fatigue ma y apparently get better but the associated mental stress becomes directed towards the kidneys. As a result of this, the patient passes an abundant amount of urine every few minutes or so (polyuria). Su ch episodes occur in people involved in serious literary work. Highly in tellectual work and mental anguish may cause migraine or headache or sometimes frequent urination. Kali Phos is also the remedy for sexual weakness resulting from nervous tension .
Kali Phos should also be remembered in women who tend to abort . In general, in the beginning of pregnancy, Viburnum Opulus Q is used to prevent the abortion. In the second and third month, Sabinais used, while in the fourth and fifth months, Kali Carb is used. However if the abor tions occur because of the patient being highly-strung and anxious, Kali Phos would be the best treatment. Kali Phos is deeply related to the aborting tendency secondary to mental stress. These women should be made to take Kali Phos 1000 (even when not pregnant) once or twice a month. At the onset of Kali Phos. 437bleeding during pregnancy, Kali P hos should be combined with Ferrum Phos. Kali Phos is also worth remembering in the treatment of angina . In angina, it should be combined with Mag Phos but other appropriate medicines may be used.
The acne and boils of Kali Phos are more on the abdomen and the back rather then on the face or othe r areas. Initially Kali Phos alone should be used for this, but other medicines should be looked for if there is no relief. When the skin diseases become suppressed and migrate to the deep internal organs , the nervous system becomes inflicted and loses its normal function. The body be comes cold and unable to defend itself. Kali Carb and Psori num are among those homoeopathic remedies that can immediately warm up the body and surface the disease out onto the skin. Kali Phos would certainly be indicated when diseases like measles and chicken pox, originating from the deep organs do not manifest their signs on the skin due to the suppressed nervous system. Kali Phos is completely different from Psorinum and other such medicines in its action.
Some homoeopath physicians wa rn that Kali Phos and other potassium salts should not be used dur ing a fever, but this is only true when the temperature is rising in the early stage of the disease. Once the fever starts lowering, any proper medication can be given to its advantage. Regarding the loss of memory and nervous breakdown, Kali Phos should be used in potency CM. Kali Phos, Calcarea Phos and Ferru m Phos combined in 6X potency are useful for the correction of anaemia and the general well being of children. If the child is congenitally weak, then one should also add Silicea. In the case of premature children, most of their organs, which were supposed to develop in the uterus, remain weak. Silicea is very useful to strengthen them. It is a very good remedy to improve such congenital weaknesses.
Detailed Symptomatology
Kali Phos. 438Kali Phos is also useful in the treatment of Puerperal fever alongside Pyrogenium and Sulphur. Potency: 6X to 30, 200, 1000, 10 0000 or 100 000 as indicated Kali Sulph. 439KALI SULPHURICUM (Sulphate of Potash)
Kali Sulph is a biochemic medicine, which contains the elements of Potassium and Sulphur. Sulphur and potassium being profoundly effective medicines, their compound i.e. Kali Sulph, also has quite a profound action. It affects each and every part of the body. It is difficult to include in one ch apter the large number of diseases, which can possibly be cured with Kali Sulph. Everybody should try to find out which diseases or symptoms can be treated with it. During a preliminary study, one could feel that Kali Sulph is a panacea for every kind of disease, yet its nature is not going to be a match for every kind of illness. Numerous illn esses are described in relation to Kali Sulph; however, the proper diagnos is of all of them is difficult, and so would be the treatment. Th is medicine should be studied at least ten to fifteen times.
Despite this, the physician would be at a loss to comprehend its effectiveness or non-effectiveness, in reference to the diseases mentioned under Kali Su lph in literatures. The mere presence of symptoms is not enough because the constitution of the patient also has to exac tly match that of the re medy. Once a complete match is arrived at, Kali Sulph ca n totally uproot even the most dangerous of diseases. According to Dr. Kent, this medicine can offer complete cure from epilepsy , but it is not necessary that a single dose may produce that effect. Sometimes, it has to be re peated over a l ong time (with some intervals in between). During thes e interval periods, other types of treatments have to be administered. The difficulty about Kali Sulph is that there is no given detail about the kind of epilepsy amenable to Kali Sulph, because complete proving has never been done with that purpose in mind.
This is why mo st homoeopaths do not give much importance to Kali Sulph. Had the proving been done, it would obviously be known what kind of epilepsy should be treated with it. Under the present circumstances, we can only say that if an epilepsy could not be treated with any analogous remedy, Kali Sulph should also be tried. Kali Sulph. 440In addition to skin diseases, Kali Sulph is also useful in the treatment of diseases affecting the mucous membranes. It is said that some patients of Lupus can be totally cured with Kali Sulph. Similarly, malaria going out of hand can be treated very well with Kali Sulph, provided it fits the consti tution of the patient. Kali Sulph must be used in the treatment of chronic catarrhal conditions , especially when the discharge becomes green. Kali Sulph is called the Pulsatilla of biochemy because most of its symptoms resemble those of Pulsatilla, for example, the worsening of the symptoms with heat, and getting relief with the cold and open air.
This feature is very important rega rding the diagnosis for Kali Sulph. The full clinical picture of Pulsat illa would, however, distinguish it from Kali Sulph. In other words, the presence of most but not all of the symptoms of Pulsatilla would be taken as the indication for Kali Sulph. In this situation, it will be found an effective treatment for almost all of the diseases mentione d under the chapter of Kali Sulph.
