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Thick, gluey, adherent discharges.
Pains -spotty, wandering, periodic.
Rheumatism <-> Gastric or respiratory symptoms.
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COMMON NAME
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Bichromate of Potash
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FAMILY
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Mineral salt
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PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION
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| - | Mucus membrane - Copious, viscid, ropy mucorrhoea
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| - | Liver - Congestion, hypertrophy, fatty degeneration
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| - | Kidney - Tubular inflammation, Ulceration, Albuminuria
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| - | Skin - Pustular inflammation
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| - | Fibrous tissue or periosteum - Acute inflammation.
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A/F
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| - | Indulgence in beer and malt liquors |
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MODALITIES
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| < | Summer (though not heat)
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MIND
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| - | Narrowness - on all three levels, typically a
closed personality. Closed, rigid, proper.
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| - | Very conscientious and capable, rather conservative and conformists.
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| - | Rigidly adhere to the routine.
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| - | Long-winded. Explain things excessively. Step-by-step, routinized way of
thinking.
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| - | Do not show their emotion and don't tend to complain of their mental or
emotional problems.
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| - | Sadness after annoyance. Gloomy, indifference to business affairs.
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| - | Irritability > after eating. Easily angered and upset.
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| - | Anthropophobia - Avoids human society.
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| - | Practical, materialistic point of view.
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| - | Feel isolated and apart from social contact.
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| - | Peevish withdrawal from sullen indifference. |
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GUIDING INDICATIONS
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| - | It affects the mucous membranes of the
air passages, nose, pharynx, stomach, duodenum.
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| - | Discharges are adhesive, sticky, VISCID, GLUEY, ROPY, stringy, tough, lumpy,
or thick YELLOW (Hydr) discharges. Yellowness of discharges, especially
tongue, etc.
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| - | Pain in SMALL SPOTS, can be covered with point of finger, WANDERING (Berb,
Form, Kali-s, Puls), shift rapidly from one part to the other and appear and
disappear suddenly and finally attack the stomach.
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| - | Stubborn suppurations. Tendency to ulcerations. Ulcers with dark dots, deep
punched out, perforating, round with over-hanging edges or thick crusts.
Septal or peptic ulcers.
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| - | Indolent or sluggish reaction in many conditions; ulcers, inflammations,
etc.
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| - | Diseased conditions progress slowly but deeply, causing great weakness
bordering on paralysis, but little fever. Anaemia and absence of fever are
characteristic.
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| - | Kali-bi is generally chilly yet symptoms occur and aggravate in hot summer
weather, such as skin disease, rheumatism, dysentery, etc.
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| - | Alternating symptoms - Rheumatism alternating with gastric symptoms, one
appearing in the fall and the other in the spring.
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| - | Rheumatism and dysentery alternate.
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| - | Neuralgia every day at same hour.
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Blurred
vision or blindness precedes the attack, must lie down, aversion to light,
noise, sight returns as headache increases.
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Headache
over eyebrows. Pressing frontal pain or neuralgia.
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Aching
and fullness in glabella, root of nose.
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From
suppressed catarrh.
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Bones
and scalp feel sore.
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Headache in small spots.
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| - | PHOTOPHOBIA and visual disturbances before or with headache.
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| - | Ear - Viscid, ropy, yellow discharge.
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| - | Nose - Snuffles of children especially fat, chubby babies.
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| - | Pressure and pain at ROOT OF NOSE (Stict, Kali-i) and sticking pain in nose.
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| - | Septum ulcerated, round ulcer.
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| - | Discharge thick, ropy, greenish yellow, tough elastic plugs from nose, leave
a raw surface.
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| - | Coryza with obstruction of nose.
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| - | Has violent pain from occiput to forehead if discharges cease.
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| - | Chronic coryza. SINUSITIS.
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| - | Post-nasal drip (Cor-r).
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| - | Polyps (Calc, Sang, Teucr).
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| - | Face - Neuralgia from suppressed coryza.
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| - | Mouth - Sensation of hair on tongue (Crab-a, Sil).
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| - | Tongue - Mapped red shining smooth (Pyrog, Lach, Ter) and dry.
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| - | With dysentery, broad, flat, indented, thickly coated.
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| - | Throat - Inflammation. Ulceration.
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| - | Oedematous bladder - like appearance of uvula, much swelling but little
redness.
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| - | Diphtheria, pseudo-membranous deposit, firm pearly fibrinous deposit. Prone
to extend downward to larynx and trachea.
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| - | Stomach - ULCERS. Cancer (Hydr).
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| - | Gastric symptoms <-> Rheumatic or respiratory symptoms (Dulc).
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| - | Indigestion from meat, drinking beer.
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| - | Constant nausea in alcoholics.
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| - | Vomiting of ropy, yellow mucus or water and blood.
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| - | Desire - Beer and < beer.
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| - | Loss of appetite, weight in pit of stomach, flatulence < soon after
eating.
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| - | Under sternum rawness, pains through to back.
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| - | Rectum - Diarrhoea < morning, drives out of bed, beer, summer.
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| - | Diarrhoea alternating with rheumatic complaints (Dulc).
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| - | R.S. - Hoarseness. Croup.
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| - | Violent, rattling with gagging from viscid mucus in the throat < when
undressing.
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| - | Croup - hoarse, metallic, with expectoration of tough mucus or fibro-elastic
casts in morning on awakening, with dyspnoea > lying down.
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| - | Rattling respiration < in old people (Kali-s in children).
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| - | Cough < eating, morning on waking.
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| - | Expectoration - copious, stringy, tough, yellow/green.
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| - | C.V.S. - Coldness about the heart, deep in chest.
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| - | Urinary system - Ropy, viscid urine, obstructs urethra.
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| - | Pain from kidneys extends to bladder and to the knee.
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| - | After urination a drop seems to remain which cannot be expelled.
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| - | Male genitalia - Desire diminished in fleshy people.
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| - | Female genitalia - Left sided ovarian cysts.
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| - | Prolapse of uterus < warm weather.
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| - | Leucorrhoea, yellow, tenacious.
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| - | Back - Pain in coccyx < sitting, during coition, before urination.
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| - | Pain in small spots, esp. angles of scapulae.
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| - | Extremities - Rheumatic symptoms <-> Gastrointestinal or Respiratory
symptoms (Dulc).
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| - | WANDERING pains (Berb, Form, Kali-s, Puls).
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| - | Arthritic pain < cold and < summer.
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| - | Left-sided sciatica > motion, < warm weather.
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| - | Skin - Syphilitic ulcerations.
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| - | Itching > cold air (Fago). |
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KEYNOTES
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- Discharges of a tough, stringy mucus, adheres to
the parts and can be drawn into a long string.
- Pain in small spots, can be covered with point of finger.
- Pains shift rapidly from one past to another.
- Neuralgia everyday at the same hour.
- Deep, perforating, round, punched ulcers.
- Uvula oedematous.
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NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
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| - | Affections of the mucous membranes with catarrhal
state.
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| - | Discharge from mucous membranes which are adhesive, sticky, stringy, tough,
lumpy or thick and yellow discharges.
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| - | Tendency to ulcers, deep, perforating, punched out.
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| - | Pains in small spots, shifting, alternating complaints. |
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CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
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- Discharges adhesive, sticky, stringy, yellow,
tough, lumpy or thick.
- Pain covered with point of finger, spotty pain.
- Ulcers deep, perforating round, punched with overhanging edges or thick
crusts.
- Rheumatism alternates with gastric symptoms or dysentery.
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CLINICAL
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| - | Bronchitis, Croup, Gastritis, Migraine, Nasal
polyp, Obesity, Ovarian cyst, Peptic ulcer, Sciatica, Sinusitis, Ulcers.
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| - | When you are struck with a Kali-bi migraine that does not respond, always
remember Iris versicolor. |
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
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Followed Well By: Ant-t
Follows Well: Apis, Canth, Iod
Compare: Brom, Caust, Chrom-ac, Kali-c, Kali-I, Mez, Nit-ac
Antidoted By: Ars, Lach, Puls
It Antidotes: Merc, Merc-i-f, Merc-i-r
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