Kreosotum Beechwood Kreosote Indications / Symtoms : Pulsations all over the body, and profuse bleeding from small wounds. Very severe, old neuralgic affections; pains rather aggravated by rest. Excoriating, burning, and offensive discharges. Hæmorrhages, ulcerations, cancerous affections. Rapid decomposition of fluids and secretions, and burning pains. Overgrown, poorly developed children. Post-climacteric diseases. Tumefaction, puffiness, gangrene. Ailings of teething children Description : Mental.--Music causes weeping and palpitation. Vanishing of thought; stupid, forgetful, peevish, irritable. Child wants everything but throws it away when given. Head.--Dull pain, as from a board pressing against forehead. Menstrual headache. Occipital pain (Gels; Zinc pic). Eyes.--Salty lachrymation. Lids red and swollen. Ears.--Eruption around and pimples within. Difficult hearing and buzzing. Face.--Sick, suffering expression; hot, cheeks red. Mouth.--Lips red, bleeding. Very painful dentition; child will not sleep. Very rapid decay of teeth, with spongy, bleeding gums; teeth dark and crumbly (Staph; Ant c). Putrid odor and bitter taste. Nose.--Offensive smell and discharge. Chronic catarrh of old people. Acrid rawness. Lupus (Ars). Throat.--Burning, choking sensation. Putrid odor. Stomach.--Nausea; vomiting of food several hours after eating; of sweetish water in the morning. Feeling of coldness, as of ice water in stomach. Soreness; better eating. Painful hard spot. Hæmatemesis. Bitter taste after a swallow of water. Abdomen.--Distended. Burning hæmorrhoids. Diarrhœa; very offensive; dark brown. Bloody, fetid stools. Cholera infantum in connection with painful dentition, green stools, nausea, dry skin, exhaustion, etc. Urine.--Offensive. Violent itching of vulva and vagina, worse when urinating. Can urinate only when lying; cannot get out of bed quick enough during first sleep. Dreams of urinating. Enuresis in the first part of night. Must hurry when desire comes to urinate. Female.--Corrosive itching within vulva, burning and swelling of labia; violent itching between labia and thighs. During menses, difficult hearing; buzzing and roaring; eruption after. Burning and soreness in external and internal parts. Leucorrhœa, yellow, acrid; odor of green corn; worse between periods. Hæmorrhage after coition. Menses too early, prolonged. Vomiting of pregnancy, with ptyalism. Menstrual flow intermits (Puls); ceases on sitting or walking; reappears on lying down. Pain worse after menses. Lochia offensive; intermits. Respiratory.--Hoarse, with pain in larynx. Cough; worse evening, with efforts to vomit, with pain in chest. Raw burning in chest; pains and oppression. Cough after influenza (Eriodyction). Winter coughs of old people, with heavy pressure on sternum. Gangrene of lungs. After every cough, copious, purulent expectoration. Hæmoptysis; periodic attacks. Sternum feels pressed in. Back.--Dragging backache, extending to genitals and down thighs. Great debility. Extremities.--Pain in joints, hip and knee. Boring pain in hip-joints. Scapulæ sore. Skin.--Itching, worse towards evening. Burning in soles. Senile gangrene. Small wounds bleed freely (Crot; Lach; Phos). Pustules and herpes. Ecchymosis; dorsal surface of fingers and hands eczematous. Sleep.--Disturbed with tossing. Paralytic sensation in limbs on waking. Anxious dreams of pursuit, fire, erections, etc. Modalities.--Worse, in open air, cold rest, when lying; after menstruation. Better, from warmth, motion, warm diet. Relationship.--Antidote: Nux. Inimical: Carbo. Complementary in malignant diseases: Ars; Phos; Sulph. Guaiacol (is the principal constituent of Kreosote, and similar in action. Used in pulmonary tuberculosis. Dose 1 to 5 m). Matico-Artanthe or Piper augustifolia, (Gonorrhœa, hæmorrhage from lungs; catarrhal conditions of genito-urinary organs and gastro-intestinal tract. Topically a hæmostatic. Difficult, dry, deep, winter cough. Use tincture). Compare also: Fuligo ligni; Carbol ac; Iod; Laches. Dosage : Third to thirtieth potency. The 200th in sensitive patients Group : Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D.
Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D.
Kousso Hagenia Abyssinica (KOUSSO - BRAYERA) Indications / Symtoms : A Vermifuge-Nausea and vomiting, vertigo, prćcordial anxiety slowing and irregular pulse, subdelirium and collapse. Rapid and extreme prostration. To expel tapeworm. Description : Relationship.--Compare: Mallotus-Kamala-An efficient remedy for tapeworm in 30-60 minims of tincture taken in cinnamon water. Dosage : 1/2 oz. Mix with warm water and let stand 15 minutes; stir well and administer. May be preceded by a little lemon juice (Merrell). Group : Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D.
Kola Kola-nut (STERCULIA) Indications / Symtoms : Neurasthenia. Regulates the circulation, is tonic and anti-diarrheic, regulates cardiac rhythm and acts diuretically. Weak heart. The remedy for the drinking habit. It promotes the appetite and digestion, and lessens the craving for liquor. Asthma. Gives power to endure prolonged physical exertion without taking food and without feeling fatigued. Description : Relationship.--Coca. Dosage : Three to ten drops, even one dram doses, three times a day Group : Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D.
Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D.
Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D.
Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D.
Kaolinum Bolus alba (China Clay) Alumina Silicate (KAOLIN) Indications / Symtoms : A remedy for croup and bronchitis Description : Nose.--Itching and burning. Discharge yellow. Sore, scabby, stopped up. Respiratory.--Soreness of chest along trachea; cannot stand percussion. Gray sputa. Capillary bronchitis. Larynx and chest sore. Membranous croup-extends down trachea. Dosage : Lower triturations Group : Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D.
Kalmia latifolia Mountain Laurel Indications / Symtoms : A rheumatic remedy. Pains shift rapidly. Nausea and slow pulse frequently accompanying. Has also a prominent action on the heart. In small doses, it accelerates the heart's action; in larger it moderates it greatly. Neuralgia; pains shoot downwards, with numbness. Fulgurating pains of locomotor ataxia. Protracted and continuous fevers, with tympanites. Paralytic sensations; pains and aching in limbs accompany nearly every group of symptoms. Albuminuria. Description : Head.--Vertigo; worse stooping. Confusion of brain. Pain in front and temporal region from head to nape and to teeth; from cardiac origin. Eyes.--Vision impaired. Stiff, drawing sensation when moving eyes. Rheumatic iritis. Scleritis, pain increased by moving the eye. Face.--Neuralgia; worse right side. Stitches in tongue. Stitches and tearing in bones of jaw and face. Stomach.--Warm, glowing sensation in epigastrium. Nausea; vomiting. Pain in pit of stomach; worse by bending forward; relieved by sitting erect. Bilious attacks, with nausea, vertigo, and headache. Sensation of something being pressed under the epigastrium. Urinary.--Frequent, with sharp pains in lumbar region. Post-scarlatinal nephritis. Heart.--Weak, slow pulse (Dig; Apoc can). Fluttering of heart, with anxiety. Palpitation; worse leaning forward. Gouty and rheumatic metastasis of heart. Tachycardia, with pain (Thyroid). Tobacco heart. Dyspnśa and pressure from epigastrium toward the heart. Sharp pains take away the breath. Shooting through chest above heart into shoulder-blades. Frequent pulse. Heart's action tumultuous, rapid and visible. Paroxysms of anguish around heart. Female.--Menses too early, or suppressed, with pain in limbs and back and inside of thighs. Leucorrhśa follows menses. Back.--Pain from neck down arm; in upper three dorsal vertebrć extending to shoulder-blade. Pain down back, as if it would break; in localized regions of spine; through shoulders. Lumbar pains, of nervous origin. Extremities.--Deltoid rheumatism especially right. Pains from hips to knees and feet. Pains affect a large part of a limb, or several joints, and pass through quickly. Weakness, numbness, pricking, and sense of coldness in limbs. Pains along ulnar nerve, index finger. Joints red, hot, swollen. Tingling and numbness of left arm. Sleep.--Sleepless, wakes very early in morning. Modalities.--Worse, leaning forward (opposite, Kali carb); looking down; motion, open air. Relationship.--Compare: Kalmia contains Arbutin g v. Derris pinuta (of great service in neuralgic headaches of rheumatic origin). Compare: Spigelia; Pulsat. Complementary: Benz acid. Dosage : Tincture, to sixth potency. Group : Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D.
Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D.
Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D.
Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D.
Kali sulph Potassium Sulphate Indications / Symtoms : Ailments accompanied by profuse desquamation. Applicable to the later stages of inflammation. Yellow, mucous and serous discharges, profuse and intermittent. Has been found of much use in oxaluria. Description : Head.--Rheumatic headache, beginning in evening. Bald spots. Dandruff and scaldhead. Ears.--Eustachian deafness. Discharge of yellow matter (Hydr). Nose.--Cold, with yellow, slimy expectoration. Nose obstructed. Smell lost (Nat mur). Engorgement of the nasal pharyngeal mucous membrane, mouth breathing, snoring, etc, remaining after removal of adenoids. Face.--Aches in heated room. Epithelioma. Stomach.--Tongue coated yellow and slimy. Insipid, pappy taste. Gums painful. Burning thirst, nausea, and vomiting. Load feeling. Dread of hot drinks. Abdomen.--Colicky pains; abdomen feels cold to touch; tympanitic, tense. Yellow, slimy diarrhœa. Constipation, with hæmorrhoids (Sulph). Male.--Gonorrhœa; discharge slimy, yellowish-green. Orchitis. Gleet. Female.--Menses too late, scanty, with feeling of weight in abdomen. Metrorrhagia. Respiratory.--Coarse rales. Rattling of mucus in chest (Tart em). Post-grippal cough, especially in children. Bronchial asthma, with yellow expectoration. Cough; worse in evening and in hot atmosphere. Croupy hoarseness (Hep; Spong). Extremities.--Pain in nape, back and limbs, worse in warm room. Shifting, wandering pains. Fever.--Rise of temperature at night. Intermittent fever, with yellow, slimy tongue. Skin.--Psoriasis (Ars; Thyroid). Eczema; burning, itching, papular eruption. Nettle-rash. Polypi. Epithelioma. Seborrhœa. Favus. Ring-worm of scalp or beard with abundant scales. Modalities.--Worse, in evening, heated room. Better, cool, open air. Relationship.--Compare: Kali sulph chromico.--Alum of chrome-3x (Produces in the nasal passages very fine threads from the septum to external wall; affections of nasal fossæ and hay-fever. Chronic colds. Sneezing, red, watery eyes, irritation of mucous membrane). Pulsat; Kali bich; Nat m. Dosage : Third to twelfth potency. Group : Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D.
Kali salicylicum Silicate of Potash Indications / Symtoms : A deep-acting remedy. Lassitude is very marked. Desire to lie down all the time. Emaciation. Description : Head.--Absent-minded, anxious, indolent, timid. Feeble will power. Head congested, blood surges from body to head. Vertigo, coldness of head; photophobia. Nasal catarrh, discharge bloody, excoriating, offensive nose, swollen, ulcerated. Gastric.--Weight in stomach after eating, nausea, pain, flatulence. Pain in liver region. Constipation. Construction of anus during stool. Extremities.--Stiffness over body and limbs. Creeping sensation over limbs. Twitching of muscles. Weak and weary. Modalities.--Worse, open air, drafts, cold, exertion, motion uncovering, bathing. Dosage : Higher potencies Group : Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D.
Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D.
Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D.
Kali phos Phosphate of Potassium Indications / Symtoms : One of the greatest nerve remedies. Prostration. Weak and tired. Especially adapted to the young. Marked disturbance of the sympathetic nervous system. Conditions arising from want of nerve power, neurasthenia, mental and physical depression, are wonderfully improved this remedy. The causes are usually excitement, overwork and worry. Besides, it corresponds to states of adynamia and decay, gangrenous conditions. In these two directions it has won many clinical laurels. Remember it in the treatme Description : Mind.--Anxiety, nervous dread, lethargy. Indisposition to meet people. Extreme lassitude and depression. Very nervous, starts easily, irritable. Brain-fag; hysteria; night terrors. Somnambulance. Loss of memory. Slightest labor seems a heavy task. Great despondency about business. Shyness; disinclined to converse. Head.--Occipital headache; better, after rising. Vertigo, from lying, on standing up, from sitting, and when looking upward (Granat). Cerebral anćmia. Headache of students, and those worn out by fatigue. Headaches are relieved by gentle motion. Headache, with weary, empty, gone feeling at stomach (Ign; Sep). Eyes.--Weakness of sight; loss of perceptive power; after diphtheria; from exhaustion. Drooping of eyelids (Caust). Ears.--Humming and buzzing in the ears. Nose.--Nasal disease, with offensive odor; fetid discharge. Face.--Livid and sunken, with hollow eyes. Right-sided neuralgia relieved by cold applications. Mouth.--Breath offensive, fetid. Tongue coated brownish, like mustard. Excessively dry, in the morning. Toothache, with easily-bleeding gums; they have a bright-red seam on them. Gums spongy and receding (Caps; Hamam; Lach). Throat.--Gangrenous sore throat. Paralysis of the vocal cords. Stomach.--A nervous "gone" sensation at the pit of the stomach (Ign; Sep; Sulph). Feels seasick without nausea. Abdomen.--Diarrhśa; foul, putrid odor; occasioned by fright, with depression and exhaustion. Diarrhśa while eating. Dysentery; stools consist of pure blood; patient becomes delirious; abdomen swells. Cholera; stools have the appearance of rice water (Verat; Ars; Jatrop). Prolapsus recti (Ign; Pod). Female.--Menstruation too late or too scanty in pale, irritable, sensitive, lachrymose females. Too profuse discharge, deep-red or blackish-red, thin and not coagulating; sometimes with offensive odor. Feeble and ineffectual labor pains. Male.--Nocturnal emissions; sexual power diminished utter prostration after coitus (Kali carb). Urinary Organs.--Enuresis. Incontinence of urine. Bleeding from the urethra. Very yellow urine. Respiratory.--Asthma; least food aggravates. Short breath on going upstairs. Cough; yellow expectoration. Extremities.--Paralytic lameness in back and extremities. Exertion aggravates. Pains, with depression, and subsequent exhaustion. Fever.--Subnormal temperature. Modalities.--Worse, excitement, worry, mental and physical exertion; eating, cold, early morning. Better, warmth, rest, nourishment. Relationship.--Compare: Kali hypophosph (Debility with wasting of muscular tissue. Phosphaturia with general anćmia or leucocythemia. Effects of excessive tea drinking. Chronic bronchitis where the expectoration is thick and fetid, sometimes scanty and tough. Dose.--5 grains of crude to 3x). Genista.--Dyer's Weed--(contains scopolamin; frontal headache and vertigo, worse motion, better open air and eating. Dry throat, awakes with waterbrash. Itching eruption on elbows, knees and ankles. Promotes diuresis in dropsical conditions). Macrozamia Spiralis (Extreme debility after severe illness; collapse. Weariness from no assignable cause, no pains. Boring pain at vertex; vomiting and retching all night; impossible to open eyes, giddiness and cold). Zinc; Gels; Cimicif; Laches; Mur ac. Dosage : Third to twelfth trituration. The highest potencies seem to be indicated in certain cases Group : Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D.
Kali perman Permanganate of Potassium Indications / Symtoms : Intense irritation of nose, throat, and larynx. Diphtheria. Dysmenorrhśa. Bites of serpents and for other animal poisons. Septic conditions; tissues infiltrated with tendency to sloughing. Description : Respiratory.--Bleeding from nose. Nasal discharge. Smarts and irritates. Constrictive, smarting sensation in throat. Larynx feels raw. Short, hacking cough. Throat.--Swollen and painful. Everything hawked up streaked with blood. Posterior nares painful. Muscles of neck feel sore. Swollen uvula. Fetor of breath. Dosage : Locally, 1 dram to a quart of water, to correct fetor in cancer, ulcer, ozćna, and other foul odors. Also as an injection in leucorrhśa and gonorrhśa. Internally, 2x dilution in water. Saturated solution locally in eruption of smallpox. Group : Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D
Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D.
Kali nitric Nitrate of Potassium-Saltpeter Indications / Symtoms : 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. Description : 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. Diarrhœa from eating veal. Female.--Menses too early, profuse, black; preceded and with violent backache. Leucorrhœa. 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 dyspnœa, nausea, dull stitches, and burning in chest. Dyspnœa 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 præcordia, 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. Relationship.--Antidotes: 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) Herpes facialis; crops of boils. Carbuncles). Osteo-myelitis. Cannab sat (which contains a large amount of Kali nit). Lycop; Sanguin; Allium sat; Antimon iod. Dosage : Third to thirtieth potency. Group : Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D.
