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1. Wittgenstein intérprete de sí mismo (TLP, 6.54)
Kali Sulphuricum is under-prescribed despite the fact that there are many clear indications for its use. It has often been stressed that Potassium Sulphate is found abundantly in the flower of Pulsatilla and that this may explain the great similarity of the two remedies. Kali Sulphuricum is often called “an irritable
Pulsatilla” (though Pulsatilla can be irritable enough!). The remedies are similar in their physical pathologies - catarrh of the ears, arthritis, and, most especially, chronic sinus and respiratory symptoms, especially asthma.
The personality of Kali Sulphuricum is soft and rather timid like Pulsatilla but with an unexpected harshness or irritability underneath. The patient may complain about lack of self-confidence, ennui and depression. He is also conservative and anxious to follow rules to the smallest detail, as is true of most of the Kali salts.
MENTALS
Irritability.
Depression and indolence.
Lack of self-confidence.
GENERALS
Warm-blooded, worse from heat or warm wraps.
Generally better from cold and open air.
Hates being over-heated though complaints may be worse cold.
General aggravation from changes of weather, from cold weather.
General aggravation from walking in open air.
General aggravation in a warm room.
HEAD
Chronic otitis with glue ear, sometimes with yellowish otorrhea.
Chronic nasal obstruction, often yellowish post-nasal discharge, worse if much over-heated, worse from cold or cold weather.
Snoring.
Headache, worse from warm room, better walking in the open air.
Yellowish exudate on tongue and in pharynx.
Hay fever.
Yellowish flaking from scalp.
GASTROINTESTINAL
Craves: Sweets. Cold food.
Aversions: Eggs. Warm drinks.
CHEST
Asthma, worse evening or at night, better from open air.
Wheezing and rattling in chest during sleep, especially in children (Kali-Bi, Ant-T).
Wheezing worse in a warm room, better cool air.
Bronchitis with loose sounding cough, expectoration thick and yellow and must be swallowed, worse winter.
Snoring.
EXTREMITIES
Arthritis, worse heat, worse evening, better cold weather or cold applications (Lac-C, Led, Guai, Puls, Sulph).
Wandering arthritis (Form, Berb, Puls, Kali-Bi).
Cold hands and feet (opposite Sulph).
SLEEP
Terrifying dreams - ghosts, death, robbers, murder.
SKIN
Epithelioma. Psoriasis. Eczema, better open air.
CLINICAL
Allergy. Arthritis. Asthma. Bronchitis. Colds. Eczema. Otitis media. Psoriasis. Sinusitis.
Skin cancer. Tuberculosis.
COMPLEMENTARIES
Puls. Carb-V.
COMPARISONS
Puls - Warm-blooded and worse from heat, asthma and allergy, nasal catarrh, wandering arthritis.
Sang. Sulph. Calc-S. Other Kali's.
KALMIA
Kalmia is a remedy to be thought of when we find the combination of neuralgia and rheumatism (Spig, Cimic, Berb). Severe pain is generally described by the patient with his first words to us. Furthermore, when superficial pathology (rheumatism, etc.) is suppressed, we find cardiac disorders, especially rheumatic or other valvular disorders in Kalmia.
GENERALS
Pains extend from above downward (both as in radiation of the pain and as in involvement of new joints and muscle groups as the disease progresses to lower areas).
Pains increase and decrease during day, with the sun (Glon, Stann, Sang, etc.), though some cases may have an aggravation at night.
Chilly. Cold aggravates.
HEAD
Facial neuralgia, especially right-sided.
Post-shingles neuralgia.
Face pain, most severe, extending to the teeth or about the eyes.
Stiffness around the eyes and the eyelids (Ruta).
Iritis.
Pains about the eyes, worse during the day, worse moving the eyes.
Headache extending from neck or back to the head (Gels, Sil, Sang).
CHEST
Chest pain radiating to left hand and arm (whether from rheumatism, intercostal neuralgia, or cardiac complaints).
Organic heart disease, especially from suppressed arthritis.
Valvular heart disease, cardiac hypertrophy or endocarditis - even resulting in advanced congestive heart failure.
Chest pains or palpitations worse from lying on the left side, better lying on the back.
Palpitations can be very intense; visible lifts and loud murmurs are also well documented with this remedy.
EXTREMITIES
Arthritic pains which radiate downward.
Joint pains which move to involve joints progressively from above downward.
Sudden, severe, acute arthritis, worse night, worse motion.
Pain in the shoulder, especially when the pain extends to the elbow, wrist or hand. Bursitis.
Knee pain and inflammation.
CLINICAL
Angina. Arrhythmia. Arthritis. Bursitis. Fibrositis. Gout. Headache. Neuralgia - facial, intercostal, etc. Valvular disease.
COMPLEMENTARY
Spig.
COMPARISONS
Spig - Combination of neuralgia and heart disease, palpitations and murmur, angina, rheumatism.
Berb - Sharp, neuralgic types of pains in rheumatism.
Lach. Cact. Spong. Phos. Ran-B. Rhus-T. Ruta. Bry. Cimic. Abrot.
KREOSOTUM
Kreosotum is known for its usefulness in cases of vaginal, cervical and uterine excoriation,
inflammation and hemorrhage. It is an important remedy in all menstrual and hormonal disturbances. In any inflammation of mucous membranes which gives rise to purulent infections resulting in friability of the tissues and bleeding we must consider Kreosotum.
MENTALS
Irritable and peevish. Irritable children and infants.
Sensitive to music.
Fear and aversion to sex in women.
GENERALS
Excoriation and inflammation of the mucous membranes.
Hemorrhages and abnormal bleeding.
Great offensiveness in the inflamed part.
Pulsations through the whole body.
Left-sided complaints.
General aggravation from 6 PM to 6 AM.
HEAD
Headache, worse before menses or during menses.
Intense headache with radiation to the root of teeth, as from a nerve.
MOUTH
Salivation during pregnancy.
Mouth offensive, especially from inflamed gums or decayed teeth.
DECAYOFDECIDUOUSTEETH, “Teeth decay as fast as they rise past the gums”.
Difficult dentition; child is irritable and crying (Cham, Calc-P).
Gums inflamed, spongy, and bleed or ulcerate easily.
GASTROINTESTINAL
Craves: Smoked flavored food.
Nausea and vomiting before and during menses; during pregnancy.
Gastritis or sluggishness of the digestion with vomiting of undigested food hours after ingestion.
Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy.
Waterbrash.
Severe constipation, shrieking during stool.
UROGENITAL
LEUKORRHEAWITHPUTRID, EXCORIATINGDISCHARGESANDGREATITCHING.
Leukorrhea which causes itching, swelling and excoriation of the vulva, excoriation extending even to the thighs, and causes tremendous burning when urine passes over the area.
Leukorrhea worse during pregnancy, worse before menses.
Severe dyspareunia.
Cervicitis. Cervical dysplasia.
Malignancy of the cervix, uterus or vagina.
Sudden urging to urinate; enuresis with deep sleep.
Menses cease on walking.
Menses excoriating and offensive; heavy flow and clotted.
Metrorrhagia, worse coition.
Premenstrual syndrome with irritability, headache, nausea, etc.
CHEST
Cough and bronchitis with putrid or bloody expectoration.
Cough when changing position in bed.
“Cough provokes yawning”, is considered a keynote by many authors.
EXTREMITIES
Pain in thumb, especially the left side.
Itching and excoriation of the skin, especially in skin folds.
CLINICAL
Bronchitis. Cough. Dentition. Dysmenorrhea. Dyspareunia. Gastritis. Gastroenteritis. Headache.
Hemorrhage. Malignancy. Metrorrhagia. Premenstrual Syndrome. Pyorrhea. Vaginitis.
COMPARISONS
Sep - Vaginitis, excoriating discharge, painful coition, premenstrual syndrome, nausea of pregnancy, headache.
Murx. Nit-Ac. Merc. Merc-C. Ter. Ars. Garb-An. Calc-P.