Synonyms. kali phosphate. Potassium phosphate. Common name. Phosphate of Potassium. Preparation. Triturations.
GENERAL ANALYSIS AND THERAPEUTICS.
Kali phos. is one of the twelve tissue remedies of Schuessler. From the suggestions of Schuessler and from clinical experiences we obtain what knowledge we have of its action, which seems to be chiefly upon the nervous system. It has proved to be a remedy of great value in nervous diseases, especially such as result from a lack of nerve force, neurasthenia, mental and physical debility, etc., due to impaired nerve energy. It is especially useful in young people and in the aged. Brain fag. Wasting muscular diseases. Atrophic diseases in old people. It is also useful in conditions due to low blood states, such as gangrene, phagedenic states, adynamic or typhoid conditions. Septic haemorrhages. Foul discharges, especially in diarrhoea and dysentery. Cholera. It has been found useful in asthma. Paralysis. Enuresis.
CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS.
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. Cerebral anaemia. Headache of students and those worn out by fatigue. Headaches are relieved by gentle motion. Headache, with weary, empty, gone feeling at stomach (Ignatia, Sepia).
Eyes. Weakness of sight; loss of perceptive power; after diphtheria. from exhaustion. Drooping of eyelids (Causticum, Gelsemium).
Ears. Humming and buzzing in the ears.
Nose. Nasal discharge, with offensive odor.
Face. Livid and sunken, with hollow eyes. Right-sided neuralgia, relieved by cold applications.
Mouth. Breath offensive, foetid. 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 (Mercurius).
Throat. Gangrenous sore throat. Paralysis of the vocal chords.
Stomach. (Ignatia, Sepia, Sulphur).
Abdomen. Diarrhoea; foul putrid odor, occasioned by fright, with depression and exhaustion. Diarrhoea while eating. Dysentery; stools consist of pure blood; patient becomes delirious; abdomen swells. Cholera; stools have the appearance of rice water (Veratrum, Arsenicum). Prolapsus recti (Ignatia, Podophyllum).
Female Organs. Menstruation too late or too scanty in pale, irritable, sensitive, lachrymose females (Pulsatilla). Too profuse discharge, deep-red or blackish-red, thin and not coagulating; sometimes with offensive odor.
Male Organs. 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 Organs. Asthma; least food aggravates. Short of breath on going up stairs. Cough; yellow expectoration.
Limbs. Paralytic lameness in back and extremities. Exertion aggravates. Pains with depression and subsequent exhaustion.
Aggravation. From eating; from cold; in early morning.
Amelioration. From warmth.
Compare. Arsenicum, Causticum, Lachesis, Gelsemium, Acid Muriaticum
ALLEN CORSON COWPERTHWAITE was born at Cape May, New Jersey, May 3, 1848, son of Joseph C. and Deborah (Godfrey) Cowperthwaite. He attended medical lectures at the University of Iowa in 1867-1868, and was graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1869. He practiced his profession first in Illinois, and then in Nebraska. In 1877 he became Dean and Professor of Materia Medica in the recently organized Homeopathic Department of the State University of Iowa, holding the position till 1892. In 1884 he accepted the chair of Materia Medica, Pharmacology, and Clinical Medicine in the Homeopathic Medical College of the University of Michigan. He removed to Chicago in 1892, and became Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College. From 1901 he also served as president of that College. He is the author of various works, notably "Insanity in its Medico-Legal Relations" (1876), "A Textbook of Materia Medica and Therapeutics" (1880), of "Gynecology" (1888), and of "The Practice of Medicine " (1901).