Kali Nitricum. (Nitrum.)
By Constantine Hering — The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica
Nitre. KNO 3 .
Proved by Hahnemann and his provers, also by Engler, Hecker, Heisterbergkh, Kneschke, Kummer, Richter, Siebenhaar, Jörg, Assman, Alexander, Rummell, Schroeder, Lier, Frienzelberger, Nicol, Traub, Frank, Muhlenbein, and others See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 5, p. 355 .
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Polypus of nose , Kippal, Org., vol. 3, p. 96 ; Use in dysentery , Gauwerky, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 446 ; Pains in chest , Gregg, p. 20 ; Affections of chest , Arnold, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 823 ; Pneumonia , Hocking, Raue's Rec., 1874, p. 149 ; Anthrodynia , Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 11, p. 349 ; Rheumatism , Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 11, p. 349.
MIND [1]
Depression ; anxiety ; peevishness ; delirium.
SENSORIUM [2]
Fainting fits, with vertigo in morning when standing, > when sitting down ; afterwards obscuration of sight, with great weakness and drowsiness ; pain in small of back and constriction in abdomen ; staggering gait, with vertigo. θ Vertigo.
INNER HEAD [3]
Headache in vertex on rising.
SMELL AND NOSE [7]
Sore pain and swollen feeling in right nostril, painful on pressure.
Mucous polyp of right side, very large, and distending nose.
Polypus of right nostril, growing more rapidly after each attack of headache, which was > by camphor.
UPPER FACE [8]
Small pustules on face.
TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE [11]
Sour taste.
Tongue coated white.
INNER MOUTH [12]
Fetid odor from mouth.
APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS [14]
Little appetite, with much thirst.
Thirst, drinks a sip at a time for want of breath.
SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH [17]
Faintlike weakness about pit of stomach.
ABDOMEN AND LOINS [19]
Violent colic, more in right side of abdomen, > by emission of flatus.
Stitching and sticking pain ; abdomen swollen and very tender to touch ; coldness of lower extremities ; numb and stiff feeling of affected parts, as if they were made of wood. θ Peritonitis.
STOOLS AND RECTUM [20]
Diarrhœa after eating veal.
Stools : watery ; thin, fecal ; bloody ; soft or diarrhœa-like ; sluggish ; hard, like sheep dung.
Before stool : violent colic ; urging.
During stool : cutting colic in whole intestinal canal ; tenesmus.
After stool ; cutting colic ; tenesmus ; burning and stinging in anus.
Frequent pressing in rectum.
In dysentery, after Acon., when latter fails to remove cutting pain, great thirst and icy coldness of feet ; followed well by Nux.
URINARY ORGANS [21]
Frequent urging to urinate, at first only a few drops, then usual stream.
Burning in urethra while urinating, and greatly diminished urine.
Profuse emission of urine, as clear as water. θ Diabetes insipidus.
FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS [23]
Suppression of menses.
Menstrual blood black as ink, with much suffering.
Thin, white mucous leucorrhœa, with pain in small of back, as if bruised.
INNER CHEST AND LUNGS [28]
Violent stitch in upper part of sternum, from without inward, on left side.
Stitches in middle of chest, extending to both sides and toward axilla, when walking (during menses).
Stitches in left side of chest, toward back, and below l. mamma.
Sticking below short ribs of right side, toward back, apparently behind liver.
Stitching pains in chest greatly impeding respiration.
Congestion to lungs in tuberculosis.
Severe stitches in left side of chest in evening, causing shortness of breath ; severe cough, with expectoration of blood ; synochal fever ; full, hard and quick pulse ; heaviness and dulness of head ; delayed, hard stool ; red or turbid urine ; great and constant thirst. θ Lung affections.
Pneumonia, with excessive heat and thirst, > by copious perspiration and profuse hemorrhage.
Relapse induced by exposure ; distressing dyspnœa ; cannot lie with head low ; wants to be fanned to keep from suffocating ; thirst, drinks only sip at time for want of breath ; pulse rapid ; cough, with purulent expectoration. θ Pneumonia.
Severe, acute pains in chest, cutting like a knife, and shooting from centre of sternum to armpit and sides of chest below ; cough and expectoration. θ Suppressed syphilis.
Oppression of chest in phthisical subjects, when constant irritation to cough and expectoration, often bloody in character, causes an evening fever with hot hands and cheeks.
Useful in all stages of phthisis, but particularly for acute exacerbations with much cough, dull headache and severe pain in chest ; cough caused by tickling in middle of chest, very severe, taking away breath, with audible palpitation of heart, expectoration often mixed with coagulated blood.
HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION [29]
Acute rheumatism, with endocarditis.
UPPER LIMBS [32]
Pimples on right forearm, discharge water when scratched.
Boil at lower part of thumb.
LIMBS IN GENERAL [34]
Anthrodynia in several joints.
Formication in hands and feet.
REST. POSITION. MOTION [35]
Cannot lie with head low, on account of dyspnœa.
Standing : vertigo.
Sitting down : vertigo > ; debility <.
Rising : headache on vertex.
Walking : stitches in middle of chest.
Gentle motion : debility >.
NERVES [36]
Debility felt more when sitting than during gentle motion.
SLEEP [37]
Sleep restless, with nightmare.
Insomnia after midnight ; light morning sleep.
On awaking, pain in small of back.
TIME [38]
Aggravation : 3 A. M.
Morning : vertigo ; light sleep.
Evening : severe stitches in left chest ; fever with hot hands and cheeks.
After midnight : insomnia.
LOCALITY AND DIRECTION [42]
Right : sore pain and swollen feeling in nostril ; mucous polyp in side of nostril ; violent colic more in side of abdomen ; sticking below short ribs ; pimples on forearm.
Left : violent stitches on side of sternum ; or stitch in side of chest.
From without inward : violent stitch in sternum.
SENSATIONS [43]
As if parts of whole body were made of wood.
Pain : in small of back ; in vertex.
Severe pain : in chest.
Cutting : pains in chest ; colic, in intestinal canal.
Shooting pains : from centre of sternum to armpit and sides of chest below.
Violent stitch : in upper part of sternum.
Stitches : in middle of chest ; in left side of chest and below mamma.
Stitching and sticking pains in abdomen.
Sticking : below short ribs of right side.
Violent colic : in right side of abdomen.
Burning and stinging : in anus.
Burning : in urethra.
Sore pain : in right nostril.
Pressing : in rectum.
Constriction : in abdomen.
Swollen feeling : in right nostril.
Heaviness and dulness : of head.
Faintlike weakness : about pit of stomach.
Numb and stiff feeling : of affected parts.
Tickling : in middle of chest.
Formication : in hands and feet.
Coldness : of lower extremities.
TISSUES [44]
Acute rheumatism, with endocarditis.
TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES [45]
Touch : abdomen very tender.
Pressure : nostril painful.
SKIN [46]
Vesicles full of thin yellow fluid.
STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION [47]
Asthmatic constitutions.
Girl ; polypus.
Man, æt. 35, syphilitic subject ; pains in chest.
Woman, æt. 72 ; pneumonia.
RELATIONS [48]
Compare : Lycop . in lung affections ; Canthar . and Camphora in renal diseases.