Kali carbonicum

[Kali-c.]

Mind.-- Angry and irritable. Very easily frightened. Anxious fears. Reticent.

Vertigo.-- Seeming to come from stomach. Dizziness. Sudden unconsciousness.

Head.-- Congestion to with throbbing and roaring therein. Unilateral headache, with nausea. Pressive pain in occiput. Stitches in temples and forehead, Headache when driving. Worse: Stooping, moving it, eyes or lower jaw. Better: Warmth, raising up.

External Head.-- Painful gatherings, like progressing boils, paining more from motion and external pressure, less from warmth, with coincident itching seemingly in skull bones. Falling of hair, especially from temples, brove and beard, with great dryness thereof. Violent burning itching in early morning and evening, often becoming moist after scratching. Takes cold in, especially from staying in a draft while heated. Great coldness of. Worse: Early in morning, in cold. Better: In warmth.

Eyes.-- Stitches in. Pimply eruption in brows. Sense of coldness in lids. Swelling and nightly agglutination of lids. Inclination to stars. Easily dazzled by light. Sparks before. Musca volitantes, when reading and looking into space. Swelling between brows and lids. Lachrymation.

Ears.-- Inflammatory swelling, with purulent discharge. Outward stitches in. Inflammation of parotid glands. Hearing dull, diminished.

Nose.-- Stuffed coryza, with ulcerated nostrils. Red and swelled, with internal soreness. Dull sense of smell.

Face.-- Yellow. Puffy. Swelling and redness of cheeks. Thick, ulcerated lips. Cracking, peeling lips. Freckles.

Teeth.-- Ache, when eating only. Twitching, tearing ache, with pain in facial bones. Sticking ache, with swollen cheeks.

Mouth.-- Sense of dryness in, with increased flow of saliva. Sticking sore throat when swallowing. Much mucus on palate. Swelling of, and vesicles on tongue.

Appetite: Aversion to rye bread. Great desire for sugar or sour things. Complaints from milk and warm food.

Taste: Bitter, in mouth.

Eructations: Sour, Heartburn.

Nausea: Inclination to vomit, Anxious, from emotions. Sour vomiting.

Throat.-- Sticking, Food lodges.

Stomach.-- Fullness after eating. Tension straight across. Anxiety at, Spasm of, renewed after every meal. Stitches in pit and hypochondriac, which take away his breath.

Hypochondriac: Pressure and sticking in region of oliver and kidneys. Pain when stooping, as the liver were wrenched.

Abdomen.-- Inactivity and coldness of, Great distension after eating. Emptiness. Stitches. Heaviness. Ascites. labor - like colic with pains in lumbar region. Stitches in inguinal region.

Flatulence: Incarcerated. Excessive discharge of flatus.

Stool.-- Mucus. Retarded, on account of inactivity of intestinal canal. Constipation, with difficult passage of too large sized feces, with inactivity of rectum.

Anus.-- Itching. Painful hemorrhoids.

Urine.-- Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty discharge of fiery urine. Burning in urethra when urinating.

Sexual Organs.-- Deficient or excessive sexual desire. Constant downward pressure toward female genitals. Stitches in pudendum.

Female.-- Menses: Too early. Too scanty. Suppressed. First menses appear with difficulty in young women. Discharge of blood during pregnancy. Burning leucorrhoea, passed with labor - like colic and pains in small of back.

Respiration.-- Difficult, whistling r. Spasmodic tightness of chest, early in morning, especially during motion.

Cough.-- Asthmatic, hacking cough, in short but frequently repeated attacks, excited by tickling in throat and larynx. Dry, tickling c., in evening and at night, with dislodgement early in morning and during day of tenacious mucus or yellow pus of a flat, sweetish or sour taste, which is not expectorated but swallowed. Spasmodic, early in morning, with retching and vomiting. Whooping cough, with inflammation of chest.

Larynx, etc.-- Rawness of throat and hoarseness, with excessive sneezing.

Chest.-- Spasm of, when coughing. Stitches in, with inflammation of lungs. (Ant-t.) Hydrothorax. Palpitation, with ebullition of blood early in morning. Suppuration of lungs and ulcerative phthisis. Emptiness in.

Back.-- Stiffness between scapulae. Pain in small of, with labor - like pains in abdomen. Lumbar pains after a fall. Drawing pain from the lumbar region into the middle of back.

Neck: Hard swelling of glands of. Goitre. Stiff nape.

Upper Extremities.-- Asleep sensation in arms when in cold air and alter violent exertion. Great weariness and powerlessness in arms early in morning in bed. Numb finger - tips.

Lower Extremities.-- Nightly tearing in legs. Burning and sticking in legs. Restlessness in legs in evening. Cold rest in evening in bed. Stinking foot sweat. Sensitive feet.

Generalities.-- Sticking pains in internal parts, as well as in muscles and joints. Tearing pains in limbs, with swelling, mostly during rest. Faint like weakness and trembling after walking. Great tendency to take cold after being overheated, with aversion to open air and drafts. Limbs pain whenever he rests them. Muscular twitchings. Paralysis. In the open air she seems better than in the room, except that the fever is more intense then. Complaints are worse at 2 or 3 o'clock in morning and during rest, than during day and when moving about. Cold hands and feet. Sensations of emptiness Agg. 2 - five AM

Tissues.-- Glands swollen and indurated after contusions.

Skin.-- Burning (and sticking) itching of. Burning itching spots, exuding a moisture when scratched. Anasarca. Bluish frost - bites. Ulcers which bleed every evening.

Sleep.-- Sleepiness early in evening. late falling to sleep. Twitchings during. Full of voluptuous fancies and anxious dreams. Waking up from.

Fever.-- Pulse: Very variable, often weak and slow, but also often remarkably accelerated and hard. Sometimes quick early in morning and slow in evening, seldom the reverse. Violent ebullition of blood, with throbbing in all blood vessels. Chill: Mostly in evening. Quickly follows the pains. Shuddering. Sometimes running over the body during day. Chilliness in evening, ceasing soon when near a warm stove and after lying down. Heat: In early morning in bed. Internal, with external shuddering. Sweat: Every night Early in morning. Easy, during day from motion and mental exertion. Principally in upper part of body, increased by warm drinks. Offensive or sour smelling. Entire want of natural perspiration and inability to sweat. Warm on forehead.

Relationship.-- Allied Remedies: Ap., Arg - n., Ars., Bry., Calc-c., Carb-c., Coccl., KALI-BR., Laur., Lyc., Mag-c., Nat - c, Nat - c, Nat-m., NIT-AC., Nurse, Phos, PULS, Sil.

Complementary: Carb-v., Phos., Nit-ac.