Homeopathy Remedy Kali Iodatum


Kali Iodatum homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Kali Iodatum…


      A first dilution is made by dissolving 1 part of Iodide of Potassium in 99 parts of water.

General Action

      The action of this salt differs from that of Iodine as shown by the depressing action of Potassium and by less tendency to febrile excitement. In the respiratory tract we find catarrhal inflammation, with freer secretions and less fever ( it has produced bloody expectoration). The increased salivation and urine followed by nephritis are similar to Iodine.

Generalities

      Emaciation (Iodium). Marasmus resembling the third stage of phthisis. Nervous mobility. Trembling. Spasms. Subsultus tendinum. Attacks of jerking of limbs, (<) l. arm, and of face, (<) l. side, with anxiety, apprehension and palpitation, one attack ended with vomiting and headache, once violent rolling of l. eyeball, pupils contracted, facial muscles contracted l. corner of mouth drawn downward, mouth opened and closed numberless times while uttering unintelligible words, short rapid respiration, pulse hard and full, forehead, neck and chest covered with sweat, face red, unconsciousness, after the paroxysm trembling, weeping, complaints of heaviness of l. arm, abdomen small, soft, tongue white rather than yellow, efforts to vomit, (>) vomiting. Continual, complaints.

Sticking in l. lower jaw, in tibia, l. thigh, l. forearm, in the bones, in forenoon. Tearing here and there. Pinching here and there, (<) evening. Gnawing in r. upper teeth in forenoon, then in l. ear, at last in tendon of hollow of l. knee. Anguish. Agitation and nervous uneasiness. Distressing condition of nervous system. Nervous susceptibility exaggerated. Sensation of turning around. Malaise. Vague indescribable feeling in head, back and limbs. Restlessness. Weakness. Affects the fibrous structures, as the periosteum and capsular ligaments of joints. Most symptoms arise during rest and are (>) motion.

Clinical The use of the drug in massive doses for symptoms of secondary syphilis, such as caries of the bones, syphilitic inflammations of the eyes, etc., etc., should not be included under the proper homoeopathic application of the drug (though Iodine is certainly homoeopathic to some stages of syphilis).

Mind

      Half mad all night. Talkative and full of jokes. Sadness. Anxiety. Fright at every trifle. Apprehensive and lachrymose in evening. Irritable; especially towards his children; and excited, quarrelsome. Weeping from the slightest cause. Dreads the return of dawn, and the trivial details of life seem insupportable. Always troubled. Troublesome and unreasonable impressions easily strengthened into fixed ideas.

Head

      Aching; at 5 A.M., (>) rising, with heaviness of it. Heaviness; on stooping; after dinner, making her fretful; and Dullness. Congestion. Intoxicated feeling. Vertigo. Forehead, stitches on stooping; tearing or jerking S. in l. sinuses; tearing in r. side in evening, transiently, (>) pressure, with sticking; digging in l.; aching; aching in sinuses and r. ethmoid cells; heaviness in afternoon; heaviness in l. side of sinciput in morning after rising; H. in sinciput and vertex in evening and night, with sensitiveness to touch.

Temple, sticking in l. at 6 P.M., with tearing; heaviness in r.; painful throbbing in l. in evening. Vertex, stitches in front of in evening; pinching here and there; pain as if it would be forced asunder, (>) external warmth but often returning, with external heat in vertex, but general chilliness; tension, with sticking in it and with tearing in l. temple extending into nape. Sticking in upper part of r. parietal bone. Screwing together from both sides in morning, (>) open air; S. in upper part of r. side, gradually spreading. Heaviness in sides in morning. Occiput, pain; heaviness towards evening; tension in bones, with stitches. Pain in scalp on scratching, as if ulcerated.

Clinical Frontal headaches, particularly over eyes and root of nose, associated with catarrh, at root of nose and in the frontal sinuses, the pain is most violent, lancinating, pulsating, etc.

Eyes

      Surrounded by dark rings; and sunken. Ferrety in morning. Cellular tissue about them oedematous. Protruding. Discharge of purulent mucus in morning. Constant oscillation, inability to fix them, pupils dilated. Fixed. Dullness. Tearings beneath l. Pain waking him, with lachrymation and burning in nose and throat. Biting in r., (>) scratching, recurring in evening. Burning in afternoon; in evening, with purulent mucus; with redness of lids and with lachrymation of r. eye. Uneasy feeling in l. in morning on waking, external edge of periosteum of orbit tender on pressure, l. lids swollen and infiltrated, next morning r. eye similarly affected, next day a peculiar pain in a direct line from external border of one orbit to that of the other.

Lachrymation; of r. eye. Balls painful on movement. Balls felt as if in a rubber covering which kept up a constant contraction. Lids, swelling; S. of upper, (<) tarsal regions, which were bluish- red; purulent mucus in canthi; twitching of lower impairing vision; stitches in l. lower; cutting in r. external canthus in evening; burning so that she cannot endure any light in the evening. Conjunctivae injected. Conjunctivitis; characterized by great vascularity and chemosis. Orbital margin, gnawing on r. lower; painful drawing in r. upper. Sensitiveness to light and vision obscured by undulations. Vision dim. V. double. V. disturbed.

Ears

      Sticking in r. during the day; in l. in evening in bed, extending into head; extending into l. Tearing now in r., now in l.; deep in r. in forenoon; in r. in evening, making it sensitive; in front of l., extending into temple, in bones; in front of r., extending into temple, making the whole side painful. Piercing pain, (<) r. Gnawing within and behind l. Boring. Indescribable pain extending outward from l. in evening, and if she moves the hand towards the ear, even without touching it, it creeps over the side of the face, as if mesmerized. Feeling as if something had fallen in front of them; with tearing in them. Itching in l. Crackling in r. on attempting to swallow. Ringing; and buzzing. Sounds as of a river sweeping by. Sounds as of rain on the roof. Hearing almost gone.

Nose

      Tearing in upper part of l. nostril. Burning; in nostrils; in upper part, with feeling as if a leaf were in front of it; and in throat. Stoppage, with running of clear water. Tingling prickling, with violent paroxysmal sneezing, alternately r. and l. nostril occluded, heat in nasal sinuses, acrid discharge from anterior nares. Sneezing; and running of clear water; ineffectual efforts at S. Coryza; with redness of mucous membrane of eyes, nose, throat and palate, with lachrymation, violent sneezing, running of water, frequent irritation to cough and swelling of upper lids; with laryngitis, conjunctivitis, oedema of lids, loss of smell, dyspnoea, stopped, in morning on waking. Running from N.; of burning water, making the skin sore; a stream of hot fluid, waking at 3 A.M., with salivation, at 7 A.M. Schneiderian membrane fully congested, frequent and prolonged sneezing. Discharge of thick yellow mucus. Violent bleeding. Loss of smell.

Clinical Profuse acrid coryzas, the excoriating water flows in a stream. Nasal catarrh which seems to involve the ethmoidal cells and frontal sinuses, with most terrible pains, at times with sudden suppression of the watery excoriating discharge from the nostrils. Valuable in certain forms of hay fever.

Face

      Pale. Red; with throbbing in superficial vessels. Yellow. More yellowish-green than dead white. Bistre-colored. Earthy. Discolored. Swelling; of l. cheek; (<) eyelids and submaxillary region. Distention of cheeks and submaxillary spaces, with stiffness. Emaciation, and of neck. Cheeks wrinkled, flabby. Visage lengthened. Look quick and anxious; L. earnest, wild, uncertain; excited, sometimes depressed; sad. Countenance that of a drunkard. Sticking in l. cheek, with jerking, then sensitiveness. Tearing in l. zygoma in morning when lying on it, with sticking. Malar-bones sensitive to touch. Lost the power of moving cheeks and lips and unable to masticate.

Jaws, stitches from l. upper to parietal bone in morning in bed; tearing in l. lower and in corresponding teeth; T. in both sides of lower as if it would be torn out; gnawing in both sides of lower; excruciating, pain in shocks like neuralgia, and in teeth; stiffness; stiffness and uneasiness; immobility. Lips dry and cracked; full of glutinous mucus in morning after waking; painful drawing in r. side of upper and in gum; sensitiveness of upper and of nostril, even when not touched.

Mouth

      Teeth. Jerking or shooting in r. eye-tooth, (<) lying down till midnight and from 4 to 5 A.M., (<) cold, (>) warmth, at one time pain as if the tooth would break or as if a worm were digging in it. Tearing in l. upper; in r. upper molars and in margin of r. orbit; in lower in evening and feeling as if a weight hung from lower jaw. Griping in a l. lower hollow molar in evening. Pain in upper and in upper jaw. Ulcerative pain in evening, night and next morning. Painful drawing in a l. lower molar. Throbbing in a hollow T. when walking in open air. Grumbling in a hollow l. lower molar. Feeling too long in evening and painful. Gum swollen and painful; r. S., with ulcerative pain; S. about a hollow tooth; stitches during the day; ulcerative pain in r. lower.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

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.