Kalium carbonicum

Common name: potassium carbonate.

Adapted to weak, anæmic and easily exhausted patients, who are always tired and suffer from backache (D.).

Swelling and induration of the glands (after contusions) (Con.).

Sensation of hollowness in the whole body (Cocc.).

Great liability to catch cold after having been heated.

Aversion to open air and air draughts.

Stinging pain in the muscles and in internal parts (Apis, Nit-Ac., Sil.).

Tearing pain in the limbs, with swelling and aggravation during rest.

After exertion, like exercise in walking, attacks of faintness and trembling come on.

Very great weakness, drops down in chair (N.).

Painful sensitiveness of the limbs on pressure.

Twitching of the muscles (Bell., Cupr., Hyos., Mygale, Tarant.).

In the open air she appears to be better than in the room; only the fever is higher in the open air.

Parotitis (Apis, Bell., Brom., Merc., Puls., Rhus-T., Sil.).

When he shuts his eyes painful sensation from light penetrating into the brain.

DRYNESS OF THE SKIN (Apis, Ars., Bell., Bry., Cham., Chin., Colch., Dulc., Eup-P., Kali-Ars., Led., Lyc., Nux-M., Olnd., Op., Petr., Phos., Plb., Sec., Seneg., Stram., Sulph., Teucr.).

Itching of the body during menstruation (Graph., Phos.) (D.).

Great dryness of the hair (Alum., Calc., Fluor-Ac., Med., Phos., Plb., Psor., Sulph., Thuj.) (N.).

SAC-LIKE SWELLING BETWEEN THE EYE-BROWS AND EYE-LIDS (N.).

Wakes in the morning at about 1 or 3 o'clock and cannot sleep again, from wakefulness (N.).

Pain in the back at 3 A.M., driving out of bed (N.).

Backache extending into gluteal muscles and thighs or down legs (N.).

Constipation (Ant-C., Bry., Coloc., Merc., Nat-M., Nux-V., Op., Plb., Sep., Sulph.).

Stool large and difficult, with stitching pains an hour or two before (A.).

Amenorrhœa with backache (Sep.) (D.).

Menses too early and too profuse and too long-lasting (Chin., Ferr., Puls., Sab., Sec., Ust.) (D.).

FEELS BADLY WEAK BEFORE MENSTRUATION (Cimic., Cocc., Ferr., Mag-C., Nat-M., Nux-M.) (A.).

BACKACHE, BEFORE AND DURING MENSES (Am-C., Bar-C., Berb., Calc., Caust., Hydr., Kreos., Lach., Lyc., Mag-C., Mag-M., Nux-V., Puls., Sang., Zinc.) (A.).

"Will bring on the menses, when Nat-M., though apparently indicated fails" (Hn.).

DELAYED FIRST MENSES (Calc-P., Caust., Ferr., Graph., Lyc., Nat-M., Puls., Senec., Sep., Sulph., Tub., Zinc.). (B)

Yellow leucorrhœa, with much burning and itching (Kreos., Sep.) (G.).

In labour the pains begin in the back, and instead of coming around in front like labour-pains pass off down the buttocks or gluteal muscles (N.).

LABOUR-PAINS INSUFFICIENT: VIOLENT BACKACHE; WANTS THE BACK PRESSED (Caul., Caust., Nux-V.) (A.).

Complaints after parturition (Chin., Ferr., Nat-M., Sep., Sulph.) (G.).

Complaints in the male from coition, from involuntary seminal emissions (G.).

Weakness in the knee after coition (Agar., Calc., Con., Lyc., Petr., Sep., Sil.) (K.).

DIM VISION, AFTER COITION (Chin., Kali-P., Nat-P., Phos., Sep., Sil.) (K.).

Foamy urine, with thick, tough, red sediment (B.).

OEDEMATOUS SWELLING OF ONE FOOT ONLY (K.).

Stitches in the liver; worse in the cold air (Bry., Chel., Phos.) (Mr.).

Heat and burning pain in the hepatic region (Sulph.) (C.).

Great aversion to being alone (Ars., Bism., Lyc., Stram.; desires to be alone- Ign., Nux-V., Sep.) (A.).

Peevish (Bry., Nux-V., Sulph.) (B.).

Easily startled (Bor., Gels., Puls.) (B.).

CANNOT BEAR TO BE TOUCHED; STARTS WHEN TOUCHED LIGHTLY, ESPECIALLY ON THE FEET (Arn.) (A.).

Talks of pigeons flying in the room, which he tries to catch with his hand (Bt.).

Very easily frightened (Nit-Ac.) (C.).

Anxiety with fear about her disease (C.).

Vertigo, when rapidly turning the head or body (Con.) (C.).

Headache, in the mornings, on waking (Lach., Nat-M., Nux-V.) (C.).

Roaring, wheezing, cracking noises in the ears (Bor., Chin., Graph.) (C.).

Nose-bleed, when washing the face in the morning (Am-C., Ant-S., Arn., Calc-S., Dros., Kali-B., Tarant.) (A.).

Periodic epistaxis (Carb-V., Puls.) (K.).

Offensive odour from the mouth every morning, like old cheese (C.).

Foul, slimy taste in the mouth (Anac., Arn., Ars., Bry., Caps., Carb-V., Dros., Graph., Hep., Kali-B., Merc.) (C.).

Toothache: only when eating; throbbing; worse when touched by anything warm or cold (A.).

Face bloated (Apis, Ars., Ferr., Rhus-T., Sep., Sulph.) (C.).

Water-brash, after eating (Am-M., Bry., Calc., Chin., Ferr., Merc., Nat-M., Nux-V., Phos., Sep., Sil., Sulph.) (K.).

Pit of the stomach sensitive to touch (Nux-V.) (C.).

A constant feeling, as if the stomach were full of water (C.).

Dyspepsia of the aged (Ant-C., Carb-V., Lyc., Sulph.) (D.).

Before eating there is a faint feeling, sour eructations and heart-burn, and a nervous feeling; during meals the patient is sleepy, and after meals there is great flatulence; the belching is putrid, but it relieves (D.).

STOMACH FEELS AS IF IT WOULD BURST; EVERY THING EATEN SEEMS TO BE CONVERTED INTO GRASS (N.).

EXCESSIVE FLATULENCY (Arg-N., Carb-V., Chin., Lyc.) (A.).

Intense thirst: morning, noon and night (G.).

Disgust of food in general (Chin., Lyc., Sep., Sil.) (G.).

Sensation of a lump in the stomach (Bry., Nux-V., Puls.) (R.).

Distension of the abdomen after eating even a little (Lyc.) (R.).

Pain in the back when swallowing (A.).

Food easily goes into the wind-pipe (A.).

Stricture of the œsophagus (Nat-M.) (R.).

Swallowing difficult; food descends œsophagus very slowly (Ign., Phos.) (R.).

Sticking in the pharynx, as from a fish-bone (Bell., Hep., Nit-Ac., Sil.) (R.).

Dry cough, night-sweats, hectic fever; sometimes expectorates bloody pus (Bt.).

Yellow, green or crusty discharge from the nose (Kali-S., Puls., Sep.) (B.).

Respiration short, worse from least motion or walking (Ars., Dig., Phos.) (B.).

Pleurisy (Bell., Bry., Carb-An., Kali-B., Phos., Sil., Sulph.) (B.).

Dry, paroxysmal cough (Bell., Dros., Sil., Spong.) (A.).

While in the act of coughing, loosens viscid mucus or pus, which must be swallowed (A.).

Hard, white or smoky masses fly from the throat when coughing (Bad., Chel.) (A.).

Pain in the lower right chest through to the back (N.).

"Persons suffering from ulceration of the lungs can scarcely get well without this anti-psoric" (Hn.).

ASTHMA, RELIEVED WHEN SITTING UP OR BENDING FORWARD, OR BY ROCKING (Ars.); WORSE FROM 2 TO 4 A.M. (N.).

Pneumonia, after measles (K.).

Heart weak, irregular, intermits (Ferr., Nat-M., Phos.) (N.).

Tendency to fatty degeneration of the heart (Phos.) (A.).

Sensation as if the heart is suspended by a thread (Lach.) (A.).

Pneumonia in infants (Acon., Ant-T., Bry., Ferr-P., Ipec., Lob., Lyc., Merc., Nux-V., Op., Phos., Sulph.) (K.).

SPASMODIC COUGH, WITH GAGGING OR VOMITING OF INGESTA (Ipec.) (A.).

AGGRAVATION: In the morning; after exertion; in the open air; during rest; at 3 A.M.; after sexual intercourse; after eating; during menstruation; from suppressed menses; and lying on the painful side.

AMELIORATION: From eructation; while sitting in a bent position; on getting warm; from warmth in general; and in the open air.

RELATIONSHIP: Complementary to: Carb-V., Nit-Ac. and Phos.

Compare: Bry., Cact., Calc-Hyp., Carb-V., Chin., Dig., Kali-P., Lach., Lyc., Nat-M., Nit-Ac., Nux-V., Phos., Sep., Stann., Sulph. and Vib.

Follows well after: Kali-S., Phos and Stann. in loose, rattling cough.

Antidotes: Spirits of Nitre and Dulc.