(Bichromate of Potassium)
The special affinities of this drug are the mucous
membrane of stomach, bowels, and air passages; bones and fibrous tissue.
Kidneys, heart, and liver are also affected. Incipient parenchymatous;
nephritis. Nephritis with gastric disturbances. Cirrhosis of liver. Anemia
and absence of fever are characteristic. General weakness bordering on
paralysis. It is especially indicated for fleshy, fat, light complexioned
persons subject to catarrhs or with syphilitic or scrofulous history.
Symptoms are worse in the morning; pains migrate quickly, rheumatic
and gastric symptoms alternate. More adapted to subacute rather than the
violent acute stage. Mucous membranes everywhere are affected. Catarrh of
pharynx, larynx, bronchi and nose, and a tough, stringy, viscid
secretion is produced, which condition is a very strong guiding symptom
for this drug. Perforation of the septum. Chronic atonic catarrh.
Polypus. Dilatation of stomach and heart. | ||
| Head. Vertigo
with nausea when rising from seat. Headache over eyebrows, preceded
by blurred vision. Aching and fullness in glabella. Semilateral
headache in small spots, and from suppressed catarrh. Frontal pain; usually
over one eye. Bones and scalp feel sore. | ||
| Eyes.
Supraorbital neuralgia, right side. Eyelids burn, swollen, edematous.
Discharge ropy and yellow. Ulcers on cornea; no pain or photophobia.
Descemetitis, with only moderate irritation of eye. Croupous
conjunctivitis; granular lids, with pannus. Iritis, with punctate deposits
on inner surface of cornea. Slight pain, with severe ulceration or
inflammation. [Con. opposite.] | ||
| Ears. Swollen,
with tearing pains. Thick, yellow, stringy, fetid discharge. Sharp stitches
in left ear. | ||
| Nose. Snuffles
of children, especially fat, chubby babies. Pressure and pain at root of
nose, and sticking pain in nose. Septum ulcerated; round ulcer.
Fetid smell. Discharge thick, ropy, greenish yellow. Tough, elastic
plugs from nose; leave a raw surface. Inflammation extends to frontal
sinuses, with distress and fullness at root of nose. Dropping from
posterior nares. Loss of smell. Much hawking. Inability to breathe
through nose. Dryness. Coryza, with obstruction of nose. Violent
sneezing. Profuse, watery nasal discharge. Chronic inflammation of
frontal sinus with stopped-up sensation. | ||
| Face. Florid
complexion. Blotchy, red appearance. Acne. Bones sensitive, especially
beneath orbits. | ||
| Mouth. Dry;
viscid saliva. Tongue mapped, red, shining, smooth, and dry, with
dysentery; broad, flat, indented, thickly coated. Feeling of a hair on
tongue. | ||
| Throat. Fauces
red and inflamed. Dry and rough. Parotid glands swollen. Uvula relaxed,
edematous, bladder-like. Pseudomembranous deposit on tonsils and
soft palate. Burning extending to stomach. Aphthae. Diphtheria, with
profound prostration and soft pulse. Discharge from mouth and throat, tough
and stringy. | ||
| Stomach. Nausea
and vomiting after beer. Load immediately after eating. Feels as if
digestion had stopped. Dilatation of stomach. Gastritis. Round ulcer of
stomach. Stitches in region of liver and spleen and through to spine.
Dislikes water. Cannot digest meat. Desire for beer and acids. Gastric
symptoms are relieved after eating, and the rheumatic symptoms reappear.
Vomiting of bright yellow water. | ||
| Abdomen.
Cutting pain in abdomen, soon after eating. Chronic intestinal ulceration.
Soreness in right hypochondrium, fatty infiltration of liver and increase
in soft fibrous tissue. Painful retraction, soreness and
burning. | ||
| Stool.
Jelly-like, gelatinous; worse, mornings. Dysentery; tenesmus, stools
brown, frothy. Sensation of a plug in anus. Periodic constipation, with
pain across the loins, and brown urine. | ||
| Urine.
Burning in urethra. After urinating a drop seems to remain which cannot
be expelled. Ropy mucus in urine. Urethra becomes clogged up.
Congestion of kidneys; nephritis, with scanty, albuminous urine and casts.
Pyelitis; urine mixed with epithelial cells, mucus, pus or blood.
Hematochyluria. | ||
| Male. Itching
and pain of penis, with pustules. Ulcers, with paroxysmal stitches;
aggravated at night. Constriction at root of penis, at night on awakening.
Syphilitic ulcers, with cheesy, tenacious exudation. Erections. | ||
| Female. Yellow,
tenacious leucorrhea. Pruritus of vulva, with great burning and excitement.
Prolapsus uteri; worse in hot weather. | ||
| Respiratory.
Voice hoarse; worse, evening. Metallic, hacking cough. Profuse, yellow
expectoration, very glutinous and sticky, coming out in long, stringy,
and very tenacious mass. Tickling in larynx. Catarrhal laryngitis cough has
a brassy sound. True membranous croup, extending to larynx and nares.
Cough, with pain in sternum, extending to shoulders; worse when undressing.
Pain at bifurcation of trachea on coughing; from mid sternum to
back. | ||
| Heart.
Dilatation, especially from coexisting kidney lesion. Cold feeling around
heart. | ||
| Back.
Cutting through loins; cannot walk; extends to groins. Pain in
coccyx and sacrum extending up and down. | ||
| Extremities.
Pains fly rapidly from one place to another. [Kali-s.; Puls.] Wandering pains,
along the bones; worse cold. Left sided sciatica; better, motion. Bones
feels sore and bruised. Very weak. Tearing pains in tibia;
syphilitic rheumatism. Pain, swelling and stiffness and crackling of all
joints. Soreness of heels when walking. Achilles tendon swollen and
painful. Pains in small spots. | ||
| Skin. Acne.
Papular eruptions. Ulcer with punched out edges, with tendency to
penetrate and tenacious exudation. Pustular eruption, resembling smallpox,
with burning pains. Itching with vesicular eruption. | ||
| Modalities.
Better, from heat. Worse, beer, morning, hot weather,
undressing. | ||
| Relationship.
Compare: Hep.; Calc. In the
production of false membranes compare: Sul-ac.; Ip. Antidote: Ars.; Lach. | ||
| Dose. Third
trituration, also thirtieth attenuation and higher. The lower preparations of this salt should not be kept too long. |