Kali citricum

      Citrate of Potash. Potassic Citrate. K3C6H5O7. Solution. Trituration.

Clinical

*Bright’s disease.

Characteristics

The *Citrate of Potash has been used in solution (eight to ten grains to a wine glass of water) to assist the action of the kidneys in sufferers from bright’s disease who were under the absolute skim-milk dietary. It has also been used in the same way, in old school practice, as a solvent for gouty concretions about joints. *Kali-cit. has not been proved, but “Agricola ” (*H. w., xxv. 446) has recorded the effect of a large dose given by an allopath to a patient suffering from suppressed kidney action after influenza. In three days the kidneys acted freely, but these new symptoms were set up: Tympanites, constant flow of mucus from anus, awful gastric and abdominal pains, “as if a machine were at work inside, skinning the inside of the stomach and the whole length of the intestinal tube.” Flatus was constant and in great amount, producing a pain of its own, which was a prominent feature. This pain as if machinery were at work inside recalls a pain of *nitricum acidum

John Henry Clarke

John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica