KALI BICHROMICUM (K2Cr2O7) ESSENCE Common traits of all Kali's: conservative, regular, proper, down to earth.

"Lot of emphasis on morality and what is right, what is wrong. Black and white issues. Each of them with a slightly different flavor." "Something gluey about them; carries the properness of the Kali's a little bit further; goes into DETAILS; the perfect bureaucrats" (Morrison) MENTAL SYMPTOMS - Everything on a REGULAR basis (dinner, sex, going out, etc.) KEEP REGULAR HOURS conformist living according to a routine ... goes by the book RULES narrow-minded - Irritability, gloominess (when he feels his material needs are not being met) GENERAL SYMPTOMS - CHILLY and < becoming cold - Alternation of complaints from one spot or organ system to another - Pains felt in one small spot - Periodicity; complaints at the same hour daily - Obesity - General aggravation from beer - Yellowness: of discharges, eyes, tongue ETIOLOGIES Suppressed discharges change of weather to hot indulgence in beer AFFINITIES MUCOUS MEMBRANES fibrous tissue ... ligaments ... JOINTS skin circulation kidneys root (nose, tongue, penis) MODALITIES <: COLD (damp; open air; spring; undressing; winter) MORNING after sleep 2-5 a.m. hot weather warm wet weather (rheumatism) beer alcohol suppressed catarrh from sex (very char.) >: heat motion cold weather (skin symptoms) ... eating short sleep SENSATIONS Of a HAIR (on tongue, nostril, etc.) heaviness in parts as of a bar across the chest PAINS Appear and disappear SUDDENLY ... in SMALL SPOTS sharp burning shoot and shift rapidly from site to site diagonal pains (e.g., right big toe, then left little finger; right forearm, then left elbow) DISCHARGES THICK (lumpy, jelly-like) STRINGY (can be pulled out in strings) adherent exudate on mucous surfaces (bleeding when removed) YELLOW white NOTES - Often the patient gives a five paragraph answer when a simple sentence would suffice; he seems to cling to your attention. It is unusual for a Kali-bi patient to complain of mental or emotional problems, instead he focuses on his physical pathology (Morrison) - Kali-bi is suited to FAT, fair, fleshy, light complexioned persons, subject to catarrhs or with syphilitic or scrofulous history - Often like to polish things (cars, trophies, etc.)

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KALI BICHROMICUM (K2Cr2O7) PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS Head: Main remedy for SINUSITIS (pressure and fullness at root of nose, stringy and yellow discharge when acute, stringy and white when chronic); colds extending to sinuses (per Morison 70% of the maxillary and 30% of the frontal sinusitises = Kali-bi) thick crusts in the nose which adhere and cause bleeding if removed HAs (in one small spot; photophobia and then loss of vision; from suppressed discharges) pain, heaviness or burning at the root of the nose perforating ulcer of the septum sensation of a hair on the tongue (Sil.) Chest: asthma, < at night, esp. 1-2 a.m. productive cough with thick or stringy green sputum in asthma or bronchitis rattling respiration in sleep Extremities: wandering arthritis ... joint pains alternate with respiratory or GI symptoms ... pains in joints or muscles come and go suddenly arthritic pains, < in warm weather. GI: GI symptoms alternate with rheumatism or asthma gastritis with burning pains in the stomach ... peptic ulcers chronic intestinal ulceration (it vies with Mercury - Hering) pains felt in a small spot vomit ing ropes or strings of mucous ... diarrhea (in the summer, < morning, < beer) colitis eating anything causes nausea food lies like a load in the stomach cravings: BEER (causes diarrhea), sweets, acid drinks ... aversion: meat Urogenital: kidney stones with pain radiating to the bladder Skin: ulcers - dark, "punched out" (round, deep) with typical (stringy) discharge PRIME INDICATIONS 1. Regularity; rules; conformist. 2. Worse 2-5 AM; regular and periodic. Skin and rheumatic problems worse in summer, respiratory ailments and digestive disorders worse in spring and autumn. 3. Pain in small spots. 4. Chilly. 5. Thick, tough, stringy discharges; the more acute, the more yellow; the more chronic, the more white. DIFFERENTIALS - Whooping cough: mucus, Cocc-cacti - clear stringy, Kali-bi - yellow stringy - Rhus-t: Rhus-t, > of pain on moving affected part, > warmth; eruptions of Kali-bi begin in hot weather, those of Rhus-t in cold Sulph: sensation of hair in throat Nose: Kali-bi - pain at the bridge of nose; stuffed feeling at the root of nose. Sticta - forehead and root of nose SOURCES Farrington H., Homeopathy Gibson, Study of Remedies Gunavante, Genius Morrison, Desktop Guide Murphy, Homeopathic Remedy Guide Vermeulen, Synoptic

2004 Valerie Sadovsky, April 2004