kalium nitricum

Materia Medica

Often indicated in asthma, also valuable in cardiac asthma; of great value in sudden dropsical swellings over the whole body. Gastro-intestinal inflammation, with much debility, and relapse in phthisis, call for this remedy. Suppurative nephritis.

Head: Scalp very sensitive. Headache, with vertigo, as if falling to right side and backwards; worse, stooping. Ennui.

Eyes: Vision becomes clouded. Turbid corpus vitreum (Arn; Ham; Solan n; Phos). Variegated-colored rings before eyes. Burning and lachrymation.

Nose: Sneezing. Swollen feeling; worse, right nostril. Point red and itching. Polypus (Sang nit).

Mouth: Tongue red, with burning pimples; burns at tip. Throat constricted and sore.

Stool: Thin, watery, bloody. Membranous shreds, with tenesmus. Diarrhoea from eating veal.

Female: Menses too early, profuse, black; preceded and with violent backache. Leucorrhoea. Burning pains in the ovarian region only during menses (Zinc after).

Respiratory: Hoarseness. Dry, morning cough, with pain in chest and bloody expectoration. Bronchitis, with sharp, short, dry, hacking cough. Asthma, with excessive dyspnoea, nausea, dull stitches, and burning in chest. Dyspnoea so great that breath cannot be held long enough to drink, though thirsty. Chest feels constricted. Oppression worse in morning. Sour-smelling expectoration. Expectoration of clotted blood, after hawking mucus. Acute exacerbations in phthisis; congestion of lungs. Spasmodic croup; paroxysm of crowing. Laryngeal diphtheria.

Heart: Pulse weak, small, thready. Violent stitch in praecordia, and beating of heart.

Extremities: Stitches between shoulder-blades. Tearing and sticking in shoulders and joints. Hands and fingers seem swollen.

Modalities: Worse, eating veal; towards morning and in afternoon. Better, drinking sips of water.

Antidote

Opium; Nitr sp dulc

Antidote

to Opium and Morphine poisoning, 8-10 grains to glass of water

Compare

Gun-powder (Nitre with sulphur and charcoal-2x trit. "Blood poisoning. " Septic suppuration. Protractive against wound infection. Antidote to Ivy and Primula rash (Clarke)

Compare

Herpes facialis; crops of boils. Carbuncles). Osteo-myelitis.

Compare

Cannab sat (which contains a large amount of Kali nit).

Compare

Lycop; Sanguin; Allium sat; Antimon iod