Kalium Arsenicosum

Excerpted from their book: Absolute Homeopathic Materia Medica

Fowler’s Solution      Kali-ar.

REGION

Skin

Mucous membranes

Blood

Cardiovascular system

Nerves. Solar plexus

Kidneys

Every tissue generally

 WORSE

COLD: Air, drafts, becoming, feet getting. Uncovering

Change of temperature or weather

Warmth (itching). Becoming heated

Every other day, morning: 1-3 a.m. (Ars.); 2-3 a.m.

Touch. Noise. Eating

Milk. Ice-cream. Quinine

Walking (fast). Motion Exertion. Ascending

Suppressed sweat, eruptions

 BETTER

Warmth

Rainy days

Eructations

Rest

MONOGRAM

• Highlights: A very deep and long-acting medicine. Complaints associated with eruptions of long before, or at present. Tendency towards malignancy. Takes cold easily, from drafts, from being heated and then chilled. Inveterate skin diseases.
• Make-up: Chilly, nervous, restless, anemic. Puffy under the eyes. Pale, waxy, clammy. Emaciated, old-looking. Lack of vital heat, a constitutional coldness with aversion to and < from everything cold. Wants very warm clothing and warm room even in Summer (Psor.). Averse to open air. Coldness of many parts. Gouty. Neurotic.

 Nerves:

• Tremors; from loud noise or ‘sudden unexpected motion.’ Numbness in limbs. Tingling in limbs.
• Weakness, as in patients heading towards phthisis, Bright’s disease (or gout); unwilling to move (opp. Ars.). Sensitive to touch, to noise, esp. voice. Convulsions, with consciousness, clonic. Epilepsy (all KALIs). Hysterio-epilepsy. Paralysis.

 Tissues:

• Rheumatic, gouty and syphilitic pains; < at change of weather. Pains burning, stitching. “Itching, jerking, twitching, burning, nausea and constriction.” Pulsation all over body. Gouty nodosities; < change of weather. Fissures about flexures of joints.
• Mucous membranes: Catarrhal inflammation and ulceration.
• Blood: Anemia. Chlorosis. Pale and waxy complexion, with sweat. Veins of legs varicose.
• Dropsies: Edema of chronic nephritis or myocardial weakness (Ars.); under eyelids, of face, of limbs (with rheumatic stiffness).
• Discharges: Bloody, yellow, offensive.
• Muscles flabby. Glands atrophy. Bones and other tissues necrosed. Inflammation in many organs and glands; esp. stomach, liver, kidneys. Fatty degenerations (all KALIS).
• Growths: Small nodules under skin. Warts grow rapidly. New growths; lupus; epithelioma; cancerous ulceration; skin cancer, where suddenly an alarming malignancy sets in without any external signs. Presents a good picture of malignancy coupled with a history of eruptions. Parakeratosis (horniation) of corns, warts.

 Comments:

• An minus its temperament (fastidious, austere, miser, greedy), and plus calcareous (gout) and other Kali features (like rheumatism), and a prominent skin phase.

        Mind:

• Conscientious; emphasis on morality. Nervous, anxious and restless, contentious, curt, jealous, oversensitive etc, like
• Neuropathia: Nervous tremors from a loud noise or a sudden motion; globus hystericus.
• Apprehension in pit of stomach from emotions.

PARTICULARS

Head:

• Headaches: Gastric, catarrhal; chronic periodic sick headaches, after suppressed eruptions or malaria; toxic, uremic. Worse: uncovering head, cold (opp. Ars.), sleep, lying down, eating. Better: hot drinks, warm wrapping, heat. Hot head, cold limbs.
• Eyes:

• Brilliant, glassy, fishy, protruding. Veins injected, eyeballs fixed, with dyspnea. Cornea: spots on; ulceration. Lids: lower swollen (upper Kali-c.).

Ears:

• Pain < evening and night, cold air, > heat. Tinnitus and deafness; after quinine.

Nose:

• Chronic catarrh; since childhood. Discharge offensive, acrid, bloody, yellow-green, burning. Sneezing frequent and violent.

Face:

• Expression: anxious, frightened, startled, staring. Looks sickly, haggard, pinched, sunken and oldish; pale and waxy; muddy. Periodical pain (neuralgic or rheumatic).
• Acne, pustular, < during menses. Boils. Rash. Nodular eruptions. Epithelioma.

 Mouth:

• Vesicles. Ulcers. Toothache < eating, menses, cold. Tongue: inflammation, swelling (or feels swollen); burning; dry; clean red like raw beef, coated on edges only; cancer. Taste abnormal. Dry. Salivation.

 Throat:

• Choking, with saliva. Globus, > eructations. Dry and sore; burning; torn as if; ulcerated.

 Stomach:

• Desires: Sour, sweet, warm things. Averse to food, meat.
• Worse after: Fats, cold food and drinks, milk, ice-cream (when overheated).
• An anxious, or empty sinking sensation (when faintness) from pit of stomach to spine, with palpitation. Obstinate forms of gastritis, acute or chronic.
• Intense nausea with most complaints, during pregnancy, < cold things.

 Abdomen:

• Enteritis and ulceration. Peritonitis. Tympanitic distension. Dropsy.
• Liver painful; jaundice; gall-stone colic. Catarrh of colon (mucous colitis).

 Rectum:

• Burning; with piles, < walking. Diarrhea < night, after midnight, milk, cold drinks. Constipation.

 Urinary:

• Nephritis (all KALIS), cutting and stitching pains, edema; Addison’s disease. Bladder: catarrhal inflammation. Incontinence. Not finished sensation.

 Male:

• Testes hard, painful, swollen. Erections feeble. Seminal emissions.

 Female:

• Burning. Leucorrhea offensive, acrid, burning.
• Menses: Acrid, offensive, scanty; absent or suppressed.
• Cauliflower excrescences, with flying pains, pressure below os pubis and stinking discharge. Cancer of uterus (palliative).
• Mammae: Milk suppressed.

 Respiratory:

• After suppressed eruptions: Hoarseness, aphonia. Asthma, < every other day, 2-3 a.m., touch, noise.
• Cough: Wet in morning, dry at night; choking, asthmatic cough, in cold, anemic subjects; with fever; gastric; spasmodic; < 2-3 a.m., cold.
• Expectoration: Muco-purulent with specks of blood.
• Tropical eosinophilia, fever from 4 p.m. lasting all night, cough worse during fever, after eating and again 2-4 a.m.; patient has black otorrhea (is warm blooded), allergic to dust, thirstless; > in wet weather.
• Chest: Constriction. Oppression. Inflammation of lungs; pleura (with effusion). Threatened phthisis, patient with unmanageable chilliness.

 Heart:

• Pericarditis. Anxious and violent palpitation; with nephritis, with anxiety in stomach. Cardiac and anemic murmurs. Myocardial weakness; dropsy.
• Pulse: Weak, small, imperceptible; contracted; rapid.

 Back:

• Cold and sensitive to cold air. Stiffness. Much pain and tenderness down spine. Spinal irritation.

 Locomotor:

• Rheumatic and neuralgic pains in limbs; during chill, in cold air, > heat. Limbs numb and tingle. Aching in (right) shoulder and elbow joints followed by herpetic eruption. Skin of arms thickens and roughens (of soles, Ars.). Gouty nodosities.
• Sciatica, extending downwards. Muscular contraction of knees. Crampy feeling in legs, with partial loss of motion and sensation, livid in places, tending to slough.

 Sleep:

• Restless, disturbed, by horrid dreams. Late falling to. Yawning. Sleeps with one hand over the heart region.

 Skin:

• Most troubles have a skin phase or base. Neuro-skins. Allergic skins. Dry, wilted (dull), wrinkled, inelastic; muddy, cicatrices (of eczema) remain dark-colored.
• Chronic dry eczema, scales (larger than of ), intense itching < night, warmth (of bed), walking, undressing, on uncovered parts.
• Herpes: Papules, then vesicles, then pustules which dry up into scabs. Herpes zoster esp. right. Psoriasis. Rash. Lichen confluens. Intertrigo. Boils; to remove the tendency. Exanthemata. Erysipelas. Lepra. Epithelial cancer.
• Phagadenic ulcers, with deep base and turned up edges, ichorous, black, offensive discharge.

 Thermic:

• Chill and coldness dominate; even during fever. Internal heat with external chill or coldness. Temperature intense or subnormal.
• Sweat profuse, cold, offensive, from weakness, slight exertion like eating; with chill; in chronic cases. But otherwise absent.
• Chronic intermittent fever; after abuse of quinine. Febrile complaints after suppression of sweat from entering a cold damp room or cellar. Hectic fever.
• Scarlatina: Brain and kidney affected; coma alternating with delirium; subsultus (twitching); renal elements (casts) in urine, edema pulmonum with uremic symptoms (cp. Ter.).

 Relations:

• Kali-ar. may be a member of the radioactive group (Calc-f., Phos., Plb., Stront-c. ).
• Compare: , Carc., Chin., Kali-sil., Psor., Rad-met., Rumx., X -ray.
• Antidote: Kali-i. (to overdosing).
• Complementary: Nat-m.
• Collateral: , Ars-i., Hep., Kali-bi., Sil., Syph., Thuj.