Kali nitricum

 Nitrum. Nitre. Saltpetre. Nitrate of Potassium. Potassic Nitrate. KNO3. Trituration. Solution.

 Asthma. сhest, pain in. сolic. Diabetes insipidus. Dysentery. Dysmenorrhoea. Enuresis. Gastritis. Headache. Heart, affections of. Herpes preputialis. Menière s disease. Menorrhagia. Nose, bleeding of. Peritonitis. Phthisis. Pleurisy. Pneumonia. Polypus. Rheumatism. Vertigo.

 K. n. is known in old-school practice principally as a refrigerant diuretic, and as the active agent in the well-known nitre papers, which are burnt for producing fumes to allay attacks of asthma. It has also been used in rheumatism, and for incontinence of urine in children. It has been extensively proved by homoeopaths, and symptoms have been added from cases of poisoning, so that its characteristics are well defined. It is almost equal to K. ca. in producing stitching pains; and it is like it in having a cough at 3 p.m The pains produced by K. n. are very severe-stitching, cutting, lancinating, tearing, and pressing. And there is, as with many other Kalis, much external sensitiveness-of scalp; of abdomen; of testes. That its anti-asthmatic properties are homoeopathic is abundantly shown in the respiratory symptoms it produces. Its diuretic properties are utilised homoeopathically in diabetes insipidus, and its use in enuresis must come in the same category. K. n. acts with great intensity on the abdominal and pelvic organs, producing most painful colics, diarrhoea, and dysentery; in the male sexual sphere, excitement and pain in testes and cords; in the female, menorrhagia with flow of ink-like blackness. This is very characteristic. Another characteristic of K. n. is Lying down; lying right side; uncovering head (pain in parietal region). Suited to: asthmatic constitutions and chest complaints.

 Antidoted by: Smelling Nit. sp. dul. Ipec. relieved the cough. Smelling сamph. intensified the sufferings. Follows well: Aco. in dysentery, and is followed well by Nux in the same. Also follow well: вell., сalc., Puls., Rhus, Sep. K. n. antidotes the renal symptoms of сaust. сompare: Arn., Dros., Nat. m., Nit ac.

 Eating veal.

 Excitement after a glass of wine as if he had taken too much. Anxiety and agitation. Despondency, out of humour, uneasy. Ennui; lachrymose mood, sad expression. Fretful; peevish. Disinclined to think or work. Half stupor. Discouragement and fear of death.

 Confusion almost like intoxication. Vertigo; on sleeping; tends to fall forwards; to right and backwards after drinking beer. Fainting fits with vertigo in morning on standing, on sitting down; afterwards obscuration of sight with great weakness and drowsiness; pain in small of back And constriction in abdomen; staggering gait with vertigo. Vertigo and tinnitus. Headache in vertex on rising. Headache, after eating veal. Headache, with contraction of eyelids, from one evening to another, insupportable on stooping head. Headache, alternately with cramp-like tearing in joints of fingers. Stunning (stupefying) heaviness of the head, in morning, as after intoxication. Pressive pains in head, by motion of a carriage. Headache with heat; by unbinding hair. Painful sensitiveness of scalp. Scurfy spots on head. Profuse falling out of hair.
 Burning in eyes, with lachrymation and photophobia,.
 Shooting in ears, in evening,.
 Burning, in nose, with digging, and clawing pain,.
 Pale and sickly complexion. Face sunken, cold nose. Muscles of face convulsed, jerking. Heat on face without rapid pulse. Redness and tension in cheeks, with.

 Toothache, with lancinating drawing, or tearing pains in teeth and head. Shooting in carious teeth, when touched. Pulsative toothache, at night,.
 Fetid breath. - вurning blister at tip of tongue. - сrawling on tongue. Tongue loaded with a white coating. Taste: disagreeable; nauseous; disgusting; sourish, in throat in morning on rising.
 Sore throat, with shooting pain and inflammation of velum palati, and uvula (during deglutition). Impeded deglutition from tension and cutting in the larynx. Loss of speech. Nocturnal pain in throat, as if it were contracting with obstructed respiration.

 Want of appetite, with burning and continued thirst. Appetite, principally in evening. Ravenous hunger returned between 10 and 11 p.m, and alternated with cutting pain in region of right umbilicus. Ravenous hunger without real appetite. - сannot drink for want of breath, drinks in sips. Painful sensation in upper orifice of stomach.

 Nausea, as if about to vomit, especially at night. Heaving, ineffectual retching after each dose of 30th, mouth gets sore, feels altogether poorly (Cooper). Retching, and vomiting of mucus, mixed with blood. Pains in stomach, with a sensation as if something were turning about in it. Gnawing, spasmodic weakness, and pressure on epigastrium. Faint-like weakness at stomach pit. Violent cramps in stomach, with contractive pain (esp. after eating veal). Shootings in stomach and epigastrium. Sensation of coldness, or of burning in stomach. Inflammation of stomach. Severe gastric pain recurs after every meal for years after a single large dose (Fraser).
 Exceedingly violent pain in abdomen after eating veal, especially at right side. Excessive distension of abdomen. Griping about umbilicus; and beneath short ribs left side; by emission of (fetid) flatus. Griping and cutting in abdomen before normal stool. Stitching and sticking pains; abdomen swollen and very tender to touch; coldness of lower extremities; stiff feeling in affected parts as if made of wood (peritonitis). - сutting pains, which disappear towards evening. Shooting pains in abdomen. Incarceration of flatus, especially in afternoon and evening. Very loud rumbling in abdomen.
 Faeces hard, difficult, and retarded, evacuated with much effort (by violent pressing). Urgent want to evacuate, with tenesmus. Soft faeces, with cutting pains. Diarrhoea after eating veal. Stools: watery; thin faecal; bloody; soft and diarrhoea-like; sluggish; hard like sheep s dung. - вefore stool: violent colic; urging. During stool: cutting colic in whole intestinal canal; tenesmus. After stool: cutting colic; tenesmus; burning and stinging in anus. Diarrhoea, sometimes without pain, or colliquative. Frequent pressing in rectum. Dysentery with much cutting pain, great thirst and icy coldness of feet.

 Frequent want to urinate, and profuse emission of a clear urine, with a reddish cloud. - вurning in urethra while urinating and greatly diminished urine.
 Erections, increased sexual desire and pleasure. Prickling sticking in glans. Smarting in orifice of prepuce. Frequent itching of glans. Swelling in left epididymis. After unsatisfied desire, violent drawing tension and pressure in both testes, extending along cords into abdomen, lasting some hours, testicles very painful. Sensitiveness of both testes which are drawn up with a pressive sensation in them.
 Catamenia too early, and too profuse, with discharge of blood black as ink. Menses retarded; suppressed. Abortion at second month. - вefore and during catamenia, violent pains in abdomen and sacrum. White serous leucorrhoea, which stiffens linen, and is discharged during the sacral pains. Frequent sticking beneath left female breast.

 Hoarseness, with roughness and scraping in throat. Tension, and incisive pains in larynx, with obstructed deglutition. Irritation to cough caused by tickling in larynx. Sudden violent irritation to cough in right side near pit of throat, as if in right bronchus, neither painful nor, itching; it could be suppressed by a slow, deep breath and by an effort of will. - сough with expectoration and pressive pain beneath sternum. - сutting under sternum when coughing. Pressing pain under sternum when coughing with a feeling of warmth in same locality. - сough, which awakens patient about 3 p.m, with violent headache. - сough in open air, or when going up stairs, also whenever the breath is held in. Dry cough, especially in morning. When coughing, incisive pains in chest, until the mucus is detached. - сough, with shootings in chest, and expectoration of pure blood. - сough, with purulent expectoration, and colliquative sweats.
 Cannot drink for want of breath; must take it in little sips; children take cup in both hands and drink greedily one sip after another. Obstructed respiration, which does not permit lying down with the head low. Oppression on chest, when ascending. Pain in chest with pressive tension, accompanied by a sensation of roughness under sternum, which excites violent coughing. - сontractive pain in chest, commencing from the back, with sensation of constriction in lungs. Lancinations in chest, especially when taking a full inspiration, when lying down, and when coughing, accompanied by excessive anguish and oppression. Inflammation of lungs. Sticking in left side near sternum. Sticking in left side of chest, cutting and tearing in lungs.

 Violent palpitation of heart, especially when lying in bed, at night, waking him. Stitches in heart. Full pulse.

 Pain in nape of neck, extending into shoulders, as if hair were violently pulled. Shooting pains in sacral region. Violent pains in loins, night and morning, on waking. Pains in back on stooping. Full, tense feeling in back as if kidneys engorged (removed at once by 1x dil. - сooper). Aching in lumbar region, during repose, by lying on right side.
 Drawing in limbs with paralytic weakness. Tearing in limbs, day and night, , but for a short time only, by friction. Rheumatic pains and stitches in limbs and joints.
 Rheumatic tearing in shoulders, at night. Tearing and shooting in joints of arms, elbow, hands and fingers, principally at night, with heaviness, a sensation as if the hand were too large, and swelling of fingers. Numbness and tingling in arms and hands. Drawing and tearing in arms, from shoulder to fingers. Wrenching pain in joints of fingers. Paralysis of the arms after each dose of K. n., crude, taken for headache several times repeated. Weakness in arms, hands, and fingers, which prevents the holding of anything firmly. - сramp-like tearing in joints of fingers, alternating with headache. - сramps and rigidity in joints of fingers.
 Rheumatic pains in the legs. Tearing in legs. Great lassitude and paralytic weakness in legs, after short walk. Jerking tearing in soles. Numbness and tingling in feet. - сontraction of toes.

 Affected parts feel numb, as if made of wood. Tearing, shooting, and drawing pains. Most symptoms occur in evening, after midnight, and in afternoon. The symptoms which have manifested themselves during the day disappear on lying down in evening. Rapid swelling of whole body. Great dejection in morning, with sensation of heat in face, and burning in forehead. Inflammation of internal organs. Lassitude, which is greater when seated than during movement.

 Lancinations in skin, pricking like needles, followed by burning, principally in face. Tubercles, size of a pea, also on face. - вurning vesicles, filled with yellowish serum, which break when scratched, and then cease to burn. Sudden dropsical swelling.

 Drowsiness during day. Disturbed sleep at night; constant dreaming, with frequent awakening. - сoma somnolentum. Anxious and uneasy dreams about dangerous situations. Nightmare.

 Pulse full, hard, and rapid. Pulse slow in morning, rapid in afternoon and evening. Extraordinary shiverings not by hot drinks or coverings. Shivering in evening, with pain. - сoldness in afternoon, with thirst; or coldness, preceded by headache, with adipsia, and followed by nocturnal heat, without thirst or sweat. Quotidian fever, with drawing pains in limbs. Profuse and colliquative sweat. Sweat in morning, especially on chest.

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