HomeoRemedyKalium iodatum
Iodide of potassium
Main symptoms
- The profuse, watery, acrid runny nose (cold) that the drug produces serves as a sure guiding symptom, especially when associated with pain in frontal sinus.
- It acts prominently on fibrous and connective tissues, producing infiltration, swelling, etc.
- Glandular swellings.
- Purpura and haemorrhagic diathesis.
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- In acute form with evening remitting fever, going off in nightly perspiration.
- 2. Second stage, mucous membranes and skin ulcerations.
- 3. Tertiary symptoms; nodes.
- Give material doses.
- Diffused sensitiveness -(glands, scalp, etc).
- Joint and muscle pain in neck, back, feet, especially heels and soles; worse, cold and wet.
- Iodide of Potass. In material doses acts in the different forms of Fungoid disease. (thrush, ringworm, etc.)
- Symptoms like loss of weight, spitting of blood, etc.
- Tea-taster's cough due to inhaling the fungus; a also brings about often favorable reaction in many chronic ailments even when not clearly symptomatically indicated.
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- Sad, anxious; harsh temper.
- Irritable; congestion to head, heat and throbbing.
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Symptoms by body part
Head
Pain through sides of head. Violent headache. Cranium swells up in hard lump. Pain intense over eyes and root of nose. Brain feels enlarged. Hard nodes, with severe pain. Facial neuralgia. Lancinating pain in upper jaw.
Nose
Red, swollen. Tip of nose red; profuse, acrid, hot, watery, thin discharge. Ozaena, with perforated septum. Sneezing. Nasal mucus discharge, involving frontal sinus. Stuffiness and dryness of nose, without discharge. Profuse, cool, greenish, unirritating discharges.
Eyes
Conjunctiva red, injected; profuse watering eyes. Syphilitic iritis. Pustular keratitis and chemosis.
Ear
Noises in ear. Boring pain in ears.
Stomach
Saliva increased. Faintness at epigastrium. Cold food and drink, especially milk, aggravate. Much thirst. Throbbing, painful burning. Gas.
Female
Menses late, profuse. During menses uterus feels as if squeezed. Corrosive white vaginal discharge, with subacute inflammatory conditions of the womb in young married women. Crude, 3 times a day.
Respiratory
Violent cough; worse in morning. Pulmonary swelling. Larynx feels raw. Laryngeal swelling. Awakes choking. Phlegm coughed up like soap-suds, greenish. Pneumonia, when hepatization commences. Pneumococcic meningitis. Stitching pains through lungs to back. Dyspnoea on ascending, with pain in heart. Hydrothorax. Pleuritic effusion. Cold travels downward to chest.
Extremities
Severe bone-pains. Periosteum thickened, especially tibia; sensitive to touch. Joint and muscle pain; pains at night and in damp weather. Contraction of joints. Joint and muscle pain of knees with effusion. Pain in small of back and coccyx. Pain in hip, forcing limping. Nerve pain down the leg; cannot stay in bed; worse at night and lying on affected side. Formication of lower extremities when sitting, better lying down.
Skin
Purple spots; worse on legs. Acne, hydroa. Small boils. Glands enlarged, indurated. Hives. Rough nodules all over, worse any covering; heat of body intense. Fissured anus of infants. Tendency to oedematous swellings, eyelids, mouth, uvula, etc. Acne rosacea.
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