The pure Bromide of Potash is dissolved in distilled water (1 to 99) for the first dilution.
General Action
Like other potash salts it weakens the heart and lowers the temperature. Its chief interest lies in the “Bromism” caused by it, the seat of which is in the spinal cord or the nerves leading to the brain cells. Tetaniform convulsions and even opisthotonos in animals; in man, general failure of mental power, especially loss of memory and of words and melancholia, anaesthesia of the mucous membranes, especially of eyes and throat, and of the skin; acne; loss of sexual desire, imbecility, idiocy, paralysis.
Generalities
Emaciation. Marasmus. Diminishes the retrograde metamorphosis of tissue. Diminishes mucous secretions. Capillary circulation affected, independent of heart and arteries. Threw himself down, closed his eyes, seemed above the earth, quite happy. Crouched by the fireside all day, devoid of energy and resolutions. Convulsions, (>) appearance of eruption, papules of acne united in areas, on these areas yellowish points beneath skin, on the surface a crust, and where this was rubbed the surface became peculiarly papillated. Ataxia of limbs and tongue and impeded articulation. Restlessness. Aversion to exercise. Lazy, indifferent and sleepy. Weakness; muscular, and bruised feeling in limbs and loins; muscular, becoming paralysis. Inability to hold herself upright. Fainting. Inability to move or feel. Diminished nervous sensibility in general and especially diminution of reflex sensibility. Insensibility.
Clinical Convulsions, epileptiform in character, but it is doubtful whether the drug really cures true epilepsy; it certainly suppresses the convulsions for the times, in many cases, but it does not seem to remove the constitutional tendency to their recurrence; nearly all cases of epilepsy are obliged to continue taking the drug, often in increasing doses, in order to obtain its palliative effect.
Mind
Delirium. Delusions about persecution and violence. Imagined that he was singled out for Divine vengeance, loudly deplored his fate, but at intervals fell asleep suddenly, then sound sleep, next day he walked the room, groaning and wringing his hands, said the officers were in search of him for robbing a friend. Delusion that she was deserted by her friends, hence she passed her waking moments, which were not many, in tears, another delusion that she saw her child dead, and when it was brought to her she refused to acknowledge that it was hers or resembled the one she imagined dead. Delusion that lewd women had got into his mother’s house, that he was pursued by the police, that his life was threatened by members of his family, that he had gold sewed up in his clothing, his appearance and manner similar to those of a drunken man, except that he was very pale, pulse slow, skin cool, pupils contracted, manner excited and rambling, hands constantly busy timid and suspicious, attempted to throw himself from a window and battered down a door to escape from danger. Delusions, with melancholy, imagined that she was insulted and that the weekly bills of the landlord were evidences of a conspiracy against her father, gave a loud shriek and declared that she had seen her brother fall overboard. Violent excitement, glorying in his imaginary power of mind and body, then despondent, sullen, often lachrymose, frequently even despairing. Feeling that everything felt, seen or thought had been experienced before, as in a dream. Hallucinations of sight and sound, with or without mania, precede apathy and paralysis.
Singing and dancing, saving that he was the happiest man alive then crying bitterly. Bursting into tears without cause. Sadness; and indifference, almost disgust for life; and feeling of approaching death; and absent-minded, childish, giving way to her feelings. Anxiety. Listlessness. Confusion. Inability to concentrate thoughts, slow perception. Thinking power slow. Loss of will power on waking, with torpor. Inability to express oneself. Weak, and in talking and writing substituted one word ending in “tion” for another. Dull in morning, and depressed, irregular in gait, on afternoon helpless. Stupefaction; (<) well- educated and active people. Coma.
Memory lost; with amnesic aphasia (Cannab. ind.); for single words, or one syllable is constantly dropped whenever that word is spoken, or two words are always interchanged; forgot certain syllables or parts of certain words and did not speak these. Writing almost unintelligible from omission of words or parts of words, words are often repeated or misplaced. Memory impaired.
Clinical Acute mania, with sleeplessness and strange illusions, fear of being poisoned, of being pursued, etc. Suicidal mania, with tremulousness and twitching of muscles. Brain fag, with a numb feeling in the head, and feeling as if he would lose his reason. Loss of memory, a kind of aphasia in which words and syllables are forgotten and omitted. Profound melancholia, with irritability and weeping, or with religious delusions. Cerebral anaemia, with cold extremities, drowsiness or complete coma, dilated pupils. Night terrors in children, with shrieking in sleep, trembling, etc. (compare with Stramonium).
Head
Aching; developing a sort of Dullness and giddiness, as in some forms of typhus; with heaviness and pressure on forehead and temples. Confusion; when walking; with heat. Heaviness. Vertigo; with confusion; with drowsiness and sometimes with stupor; with faintness and nausea; on standing up, (<) walking, as if ground gave way and the sense of resistance were lost, with staggering. Pain in forehead and occiput; in r. frontal protuberance after a simple dinner, (<) 9 P.M. Pityriasis of scalp.
Clinical It has been used for congestive headaches, with benumbed feeling in the brain, or with vertigo.
Eyes
Hollow, fixed. Expressionless, lustreless. Hazy condition of bloodvessels. Glazed. Retinal vessels contracted. Pupils dilated; and uncontrollable; contracted. Bloodvessels on fundus enlarged. Congestion of disc and retina; C. of conjunctiva. Sensibility of conjunctiva deadened. Constant closing of lids, more noticed when sitting than lying. Drooping of lids; so that they hang far over balls. Lids heavy. Vision disturbed; weak; lost.
Ears and Nose
Roaring in ears at night in bed, synchronous with pulse. Hearing disturbed; weakened; lost. Nose full of thick mucus and yellow scabs. Nasal mucus contained the salt. Smell weakened.
Face
Pale; ashy; and suffering. Yellow, cachectic; dirty yellow. Thin. Expression wearied; and anxious. Stupefied expression; becoming that of imbecility, then of idiocy. Looked queer in evening, next morning as if frightened.
Mouth
Gums painful, sometimes red and swollen. Tongue red, dry and enlarged; R. and moist, then dry and brown; T. coated; T. painful and papillae prominent, with roughness and burning through mouth and fauces; disordered action, difficult speech. Speech hesitating; stammering; slow; slow, difficult and not seconded by operations of intellect. Inability to speak. Dry mouth. Mucus increased; M. becomes sticky; ropy M. on mouth, lips and tongue. Salivation; then dryness of mouth, with thirst. Frequent spitting of viscid saliva. Saliva contained the salt. Fetor; becoming nauseous; with white tongue, with languor and sleepiness. Taste salt; T. foul; weakened; lost.
Throat
Mucus membrane of fauces injected; palate and pharynx, and swollen, uvula swollen. Congestion of uvula and fauces, then oedema. Tickling. Irritation of T. and stomach; of fauces, with oedema and redness, sometimes with paleness of the parts. Dryness of T. and vicinity; of oesophagus. Anaesthesia of fauces; of pharynx and larynx; of velum palati, uvula and upper part of pharynx; of mucous membrane of fauces and upper respiratory organs; in region of veil of palate, so that touch did not cause vomiting, but movements of deglutition were intact. Swallowing difficult; in morning on waking; impossible.
Clinical Anaesthesia of the throat, the effect of alcohol.
Stomach
Appetite increased; decreased; less for breakfast, lost for dinner; lost. Thirst; but inability to drink only a mouthful, as cool water is unpleasant; for cold drinks. Craving for wine. Aversion to coffee. Eructations; nauseous. Nausea; at thought of tobacco; (<) lying on l. side, with pain in stomach. Retchings. Vomiting; repeated, serous; of frothy mucus. Fulness in epigastric region, with heat and pressure. Fulness in epigastric region, with heat and pressure. Habitual gastralgia. Pinching or constriction. Agony in region. Anxiety. Peculiar pressure in epigastric region. Oppression after dinner. Burning; then empty feeling, (>) eating. Weakness. Sore feeling.
Clinical Persistent hiccough.
Abdomen
Rumbling. Flatulence. Emission of flatus. Pain; sudden, disturbing rest at night; in course of ascending colon; in umbilical region; periodical, in umbilical region, with sensitiveness to touch; flatulent, in region of duodenum at 4.30 A.M., (>) watery diarrhoea during the day. Warmth. Uneasiness.
Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.