KALI CARBONICUM

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

  • Whimsical
  • Irascible
  • Irritable to the highest degree
  • Quarrels with family
  • Never wants to be alone
  • Fear of the future
  • Fear of death
  • Fear of ghosts
  • Wakeful when alone
  • Sleepless when alone
  • Horrible dreams when alone
  • Never at peace
  • Full of imaginations
  • Oversensitive to everything
  • Sensitive to atmospheric changes
  • Cannot get the room at the right temperature
  • Sensitive to every draft of air
  • Complaints worse in wet weather
  • Complaints worse in cold weather
  • Sensitive to the cold
  • Always shivering
  • Nerves feel the cold
  • Neuralgias shoot here and there when it is cold
  • Pains change place and go into the cold part
  • Sticking pains
  • Burning pains
  • Tearing pains
  • Pains fly around from place to place
  • Pains cutting like knives
  • Pains like hot needles
  • Stinging pains
  • Burning pains in internal parts
  • Burning pains in dry passages
  • Burning in the anus and rectum like a hot poker
  • Haemorrhoids burn like coals of fire
  • Symptoms come on at 2, 3, or 5 o'clock in the morning
  • Cough greatest at three, four or five o'clock in the morning
  • Febrile state occurs from 3-5 in the morning
  • Asthmatic dyspnoea attack at 3 o'clock in the morning
  • Wakes with fear at 3 o'clock in the morning
  • Fear of death at 3 o'clock in the morning
  • Fear of the future at 3 o'clock in the morning
  • Worries about everything at 3 o'clock in the morning
  • Body is cold
  • Requires much clothing to keep warm
  • Sweats copiously
  • Copious, cold sweat upon the body
  • Sweats upon the slightest exertion
  • Sweats where the pain is
  • Sweat over the forehead
  • Cold sweat on the forehead with headache
  • Neuralgia of the scalp
  • Neuralgia of the eyes
  • Neuralgia of the cheek bones
  • Nervous shooting pains
  • Violent pains here and there in the head
  • Head feels crushed
  • Cutting and stabbing in the head
  • Violent congestive headaches
  • Head feels full
  • Head hot on one side and cold on the other
  • Forehead covered with cold sweat
  • Catarrhal congestive headache
  • Nose opens up and mucous membranes become dry and burn in cold air
  • Nose stuffs up in a warm room
  • Cannot breathe through nose in a warm room
  • Head most painful when nose is open
  • Cold air feels hot
  • Chronic catarrh
  • Headache from riding in the cold wind
  • Headache from a cessation of catarrhal discharge
  • Thick, fluent, yellow nasal discharge
  • Dryness of the nose
  • Stuffing up of the nose
  • Nose fills up with yellow mucus in the morning
  • Hawks up dry, hard crusts in the morning
  • Crusts bleed when blown out
  • Subject to sore throat
  • Always taking cold
  • Enlarged tonsils
  • Enlargement of parotid glands
  • Chronic hardness of parotid glands
  • Great knots below the ear
  • Knots behind the jaw
  • Shooting, darting pains when moving in open air
  • Enlarged glands sore and painful when struck by air
  • Acute colds extend into the chest
  • Chronic catarrh of the chest
  • Chronic bronchitis
  • Dry, barking, hacking cough in cold air
  • Copious expectoration of mucus when it becomes warm
  • Dry, hacking cough with morning expectoration
  • Violent, spasmodic cough with gagging or vomiting
  • Head feels as if it would fly to pieces when coughing
  • Face becomes puffed when coughing
  • Eyes seem to protrude when coughing
  • Swelling between the eyelids and eyebrows that fills up when coughing
  • Dry, hacking, incessant, gagging cough with whooping
  • Blowing of blood from the nose
  • Vomiting of everything in the stomach
  • Expectoration of blood-streaked mucus
  • Pneumonia
  • Sensitiveness of the body to weather changes
  • Sensitiveness to cold air
  • Sensitiveness to wet
  • Continuous dry, hacking cough, with gagging
  • Flying neuralgic pains
  • Tendency to dropsies
  • Feet bloat
  • Fingers puff
  • Back of hands pit upon pressure
  • Face looks puffy and waxy
  • Heart is weak
  • Fatty degeneration of the heart

Allen's Keynotes

  • diseases of old people, dropsy and paralysis; with dark hair, lax fibre, inclined to obesity
  • after loss of fluids or vitality, particularly in anaemic
  • stitching, darting pains, worse during rest and lying on affected side
  • cannot bear to be touched
  • starts when touched ever so lightly, especially on the feet
  • great aversion to being alone
  • bag-like swellings between the upper eyelids and eyebrows
  • weak eyes after coition, pollution, abortion, or measles
  • stomach distended, sensitive; feels as if it would burst
  • excessive flatulency, everything she eats or drinks appears to be converted to gas
  • nosebleed when washing the face in the morning
  • toothache only when eating; throbbing; worse when touched by anything warm or cold
  • backache, sweating, weakness; after abortion, labor, or metrorrhage; when eating; while walking feels as if she must give up and lie down
  • cough: dry, paroxysmal, loosens viscid mucus or pus which must be swallowed
  • cough: spasmodic with gagging or vomiting
  • hard, white or smoky masses fly from throat when coughing
  • asthma, relieved when sitting up or bending forward or by rocking; worse from 2 to 4 a.m
  • difficult swallowing
  • sticking pain in pharynx as of a fish-bone
  • food easily gets into the windpipe
  • heart: tendency to fatty degeneration; as if suspended by a thread

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