Nitrum

COMMON NAME:

      NITRATE OF POTASH

Symptoms

      In the morning sensation of debility with sensation of heat in the face and hot forehead.

Greater debility when sitting than when moderately exercising.

Tearing and stinging in the limbs and joints.

Tingling in the ears (Am-C., Calcarea, Carbo vegetabilis, Chin-S., Colchicum, Graphites, ign., Kali carb., Laur., Mur-Ac., Nux vomica, Sepia, Sulphur, Veratrum) (N).

Deafness from paralyses of auditory nerve (Phos). (N).

Inflammation of internal organs (Ferr-P.)

Bad effects from veal.

Useful in bronchitis (Bryonia, Kali carb., Lycopodium, nat-S., phosphorus, pulsatilla, Seneg).

Cough aggravates,.

ONE OF THE VERY BEST REMEDIES, GENERALLY IN CASES OF ASTHMA (Ars, Kali bichromicum, Lycopodium, Nat-S., Sulphur).

VERY VALUABLE IN CARDIO-ASTHMA (Arsenicum, Aurum, Cat., Digitalis, Lachesis, Natrum muriaticum, Spigelia, Sulphur).

ABUNDANT PALE URINE (Acet-Ac., Arsenicum, else., Helonias, Lycopodium, Mercurius, Natrum muriaticum, Acid phosphoricum., Sepia, Sulphur, Uran.).

Frequent and profuse urine (Phos-As., Sulphur) (G).

Of very great value in sudden dropsical swelling over the whole body (Apis, Arsenicum, Kali carb., Phosphorus).

Catamenia too early and too profuse with black blood. (Cyclamen, Kali-N.).

AGGRAVATION:

      In the after-noon; towards morning; from taking veal; and from coughing.

AMELIORATION:

      From moderate exercise; and from sitting.

RELATIONSHIP:

      Remedies following: Belladonna, Calcarea, Pulsatilla, Rhus- T., Sepia and Sulph.

ANTIDOTE:Dulcamara

Adolph Lippe

Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)