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KALI BICHROMICUM [Kali-bi]

KALI BICHROMICUM uses / KALI BICHROM uses / KALI BICH uses [Kali-bi uses]

Note: Wherever it is found, "<" denotes aggravation (worse by), ">" denotes amelioration (better by), "<->" denotes alternation (alternates with) and A/F is an abbreviation of, "Ailments from"

Thick, gluey, adherent discharges

Pains -spotty, wandering, periodic

Rheumatism <-> Gastric or respiratory symptoms

COMMON NAME

Bichromate of Potash

FAMILY

Mineral salt

PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION

-	Mucus membrane - Copious, viscid, ropy mucorrhoea

-	Ulceration

-	Liver - Congestion, hypertrophy, fatty degeneration

-	Kidney - Tubular inflammation, Ulceration, Albuminuria

-	Skin - Pustular inflammation

-	Fibrous tissue or periosteum - Acute inflammation

-	Hypertrophy

A/F

-	Indulgence in beer and malt liquors

MODALITIES

<	Heat of summer

<	Wrapping up

<	Hot weather

Autumn

<	Uncovering

Spring

Touch

Rest

Stooping

Sitting

Open air

<	Morning after sleep

2-3 a.m.

<	Protruding tongue

<	Alcohol, beer

<	Suppressed catarrh

<	COLD, damp

<	Summer (though not heat)

Pressure

Heat

Motion

MIND

-	Narrowness - on all three levels, typically a closed personality. Closed, rigid, proper

-	Very conscientious and capable, rather conservative and conformists

-	Rigidly adhere to the routine

-	Long-winded. Explain things excessively. Step-by-step, routinized way of thinking

-	Do not show their emotion and don't tend to complain of their mental or emotional problems

-	Sadness after annoyance. Gloomy, indifference to business affairs

-	Irritability > after eating. Easily angered and upset

-	Anthropophobia - Avoids human society

-	Practical, materialistic point of view

-	Feel isolated and apart from social contact

-	Peevish withdrawal from sullen indifference

GUIDING INDICATIONS

-	It affects the mucous membranes of the air passages, nose, pharynx, stomach, duodenum

-	Discharges are adhesive, sticky, VISCID, GLUEY, ROPY, stringy, tough, lumpy, or thick YELLOW (Hydr) discharges. Yellowness of discharges, especially tongue, etc

-	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

-	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

-	Indolent or sluggish reaction in many conditions; ulcers, inflammations, etc

-	Diseased conditions progress slowly but deeply, causing great weakness bordering on paralysis, but little fever. Anaemia and absence of fever are characteristic

-	Kali-bi is generally chilly yet symptoms occur and aggravate in hot summer weather, such as skin disease, rheumatism, dysentery, etc

-	Alternating symptoms - Rheumatism alternating with gastric symptoms, one appearing in the fall and the other in the spring

-	Rheumatism and dysentery alternate

-	Neuralgia every day at same hour

Head

-	Blurred vision or blindness precedes the attack, must lie down, aversion to light, noise, sight returns as headache increases
-	Headache over eyebrows. Pressing frontal pain or neuralgia
-	Aching and fullness in glabella, root of nose
-	From suppressed catarrh
-	Bones and scalp feel sore
-	Headache in small spots

-	Eye - Swelling of lids

-	PHOTOPHOBIA and visual disturbances before or with headache

-	Ear - Viscid, ropy, yellow discharge

-	Nose - Snuffles of children especially fat, chubby babies

-	Pressure and pain at ROOT OF NOSE (Stict, Kali-i) and sticking pain in nose

-	Septum ulcerated, round ulcer

-	Foetid smell

-	Discharge thick, ropy, greenish yellow, tough elastic plugs from nose, leave a raw surface

-	Loss of smell

-	Coryza with obstruction of nose

-	Violent sneezing

-	Has violent pain from occiput to forehead if discharges cease

-	Chronic coryza. SINUSITIS

-	Post-nasal drip (Cor-r)

-	Polyps (Calc, Sang, Teucr)

-	Nasal voice

-	Face - Neuralgia from suppressed coryza

-	Mouth - Sensation of hair on tongue (Crab-a, Sil)

-	Ropy mucus, saliva

-	Tongue - Mapped red shining smooth (Pyrog, Lach, Ter) and dry

-	With dysentery, broad, flat, indented, thickly coated

-	Throat - Inflammation. Ulceration

-	Oedematous bladder - like appearance of uvula, much swelling but little redness

-	Diphtheria, pseudo-membranous deposit, firm pearly fibrinous deposit. Prone to extend downward to larynx and trachea

-	Stomach - ULCERS. Cancer (Hydr)

-	Gastric symptoms <-> Rheumatic or respiratory symptoms (Dulc)

-	Indigestion from meat, drinking beer

-	Constant nausea in alcoholics

-	Vomiting of ropy, yellow mucus or water and blood

-	Desire - Beer and < beer

-	Aversion - Beer

-	Loss of appetite, weight in pit of stomach, flatulence < soon after eating

-	Round ulcer of stomach

-	Under sternum rawness, pains through to back

-	Rectum - Diarrhoea < morning, drives out of bed, beer, summer

-	Diarrhoea alternating with rheumatic complaints (Dulc)

-	R.S. - Hoarseness. Croup

-	Violent, rattling with gagging from viscid mucus in the throat < when undressing

-	Croup - hoarse, metallic, with expectoration of tough mucus or fibro-elastic casts in morning on awakening, with dyspnoea > lying down

-	Asthmatic < 1-2 a.m.

-	Rattling respiration < in old people (Kali-s in children)

-	Respiration loud

-	Cough < eating, morning on waking

-	Expectoration - copious, stringy, tough, yellow/green

-	C.V.S. - Coldness about the heart, deep in chest

-	Urinary system - Ropy, viscid urine, obstructs urethra

-	Pain from kidneys extends to bladder and to the knee

-	After urination a drop seems to remain which cannot be expelled

-	Haematochyluria

-	Male genitalia - Desire diminished in fleshy people

-	Female genitalia - Left sided ovarian cysts

-	Prolapse of uterus < warm weather

-	Leucorrhoea, yellow, tenacious

-	Back - Pain in coccyx < sitting, during coition, before urination

-	Pain in small spots, esp. angles of scapulae

-	Extremities - Rheumatic symptoms <-> Gastrointestinal or Respiratory symptoms (Dulc)

-	WANDERING pains (Berb, Form, Kali-s, Puls)

-	Arthritic pain < cold and < summer

-	Left-sided sciatica > motion, < warm weather

-	Cracking joints

-	Skin - Syphilitic ulcerations

-	Itching > cold air (Fago)

KEYNOTES

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

NUCLEUS OF REMEDY

-	Affections of the mucous membranes with catarrhal state

-	Discharge from mucous membranes which are adhesive, sticky, stringy, tough, lumpy or thick and yellow discharges

-	Tendency to ulcers, deep, perforating, punched out

-	Pains in small spots, shifting, alternating complaints

CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS

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

CLINICAL

-	Bronchitis, Croup, Gastritis, Migraine, Nasal polyp, Obesity, Ovarian cyst, Peptic ulcer, Sciatica, Sinusitis, Ulcers

-	When you are struck with a Kali-bi migraine that does not respond, always remember Iris versicolor

REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS

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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