By Valerie Sadovsky, RSHom(NA), CCH
Remedy chart
After calcium and phosphorus, potassium is the 3rd most abundant element in the human body. Together with sodium, potassium regulates the sodium-potassium balance which affects water retention and stimulates kidney function. Potassium is involved in nerve transmission and muscle contraction and is essential for protein synthesis and for the conversion of blood sugar into glycogen. In addition it promotes the disposal of the body’s wastes. Potassium depletion causes the body to retain more fluid. High doses may enhance the excretion of sodium, thus decreasing blood volume and blood pressure.
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ESSENCE There is right and there is wrong, no questions asked. Rigidly adheres to a code of ethics and rules. It is very difficult for the patient to express feelings and he exercises strong control over his emotions. Duty is one of the most important concepts for Kali Carb. He will not park in a yellow zone. He will always return to a shop to give back change if he was given too much. He sees things in black and white. MENTAL SYMPTOMS - Strong sense of DUTY … MORALISTIC … PROPER … conservative … loyal … rigid, unable to break even a trivial rule - Strong mental CONTROL and fear of LOSING CONTROL … dogmatic … dislikes change - Irritable, esp. with member of family, esp. when someone doesn’t follow the rules - Fears: impending disease (disease = being out of control) … being alone … dark … ghosts … poverty (money = stability) GENERAL SYMPTOMS - VERY CHILLY, < COLD - Extremely sensitive to DRAFTS, touch, noise - Profuse PERSPIRATION on slight exertion … very susceptible to catching cold after overheating (due to profuse perspiration) - General aggravation 2-4 a.m. (some say 2-5 a.m.) - SHARP, STITCHING PAINS anywhere are very characteristic. - Major remedy for FLUID RETENTION or excessive dryness (skin, mucous membranes, etc.)
PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS Head: HAs, esp. sinus, esp. above eyes (Kali-bi below eyes) ... swelling of the eyelids … ptosis ... bag-like swelling of the upper lid near to the inner corner ... marked edema of the conjunctiva, esp. allergic variety … falling of hair from eyebrows (Thuj.) ... chronic, thick nasal catarrh … sinusitis … tinnitus. Chest: spasmodic, rib-racking cough, tickling in the throat, < 2-4 a.m., < morning on waking; thick, purulent sputum with a cheesy taste ... whooping-cough ... bronchitis … pneumonia, with sharp, stitching pains on inspiring … asthma, difficult respiration, > sitting upright, > leaning bent forward with elbows resting on the knees, > lying propped-up. Heart: angina pectoris … congestive heart failure ... palpitations with flushes of heat and dyspnea … fast developing heart problems GI: anxiety or bruised feeling in the epigastrium … sensitive, distended stomach and abdomen … fullness, from little food, as if full of water … peptic ulcer … gastritis … ulcers … vomiting/ gagging from cough … desire for sweets … constipation, esp. before or during menses … hemorrhoids, burning, shooting, stitching pains, < at night Female: COMPLAINTS AFTER CHILDBIRTH, MISCARRIAGE or HYSTERECTOMY … menses acrid, excoriating … mens. pains extending down the thighs … labor pains centered in the back ... swelling of breasts … fibroids Urinary: kidney stones with stitching pains … renal failure with swelling, even dropsy, most noted about eyes … UTIs Back & Extremities: COMPLAINTS AFTER BACK INJURY … back and legs give out, feel heavy … pain from hip to knee ... soles hypersensitive … back pain, > lying on a hard surface ( Nat-mur., Rhus-tox, Sepia), pressure; < menses, sitting, walking … back pain drives out of bed at night, must rise in order to turn-over … sciatica, esp. right-sided … deforming arthritis .. joint pains, < cold and cold damp … gout Sleep: waking at night, esp. 2 to 4 a.m. |
ETIOLOGIES BACK or PELVIC INJURY … female: never well since labor, abortion, hysterectomy (injury to pelvic area) … never well since pneumonia … overstrain AFFINITIES Muscles & ligaments [HEART; uterus; LUMBAR] ... SEROUS & mucous membranes [CHEST (right lower); joints] … eyes MODALITIES <: COLD [AIR; water; drafts; changes; after overheating; after exertion; damp weather; winter] … 2-3 A.M. … lying on painful side … lying on left side … loss of fluids … after labor … before menses … by a sudden or unguarded motion … after sex (= lost control) >: WARMTH [getting warm; dry warm weather] … sitting with elbows on knees (in respiratory complaints) … open air SENSATIONS Numbness or coldness of single parts (abdomen, fingers, etc.) … parts lain on are painful or go to sleep ... burning sensations … as if the back, hips, knees or legs would give way … stomach as if full of H2O PAINS SHARP STITCHING … SHOOTING … stabbing … throbbing … burning DISCHARGES Profuse and acrid … fetid, yellow-green or crusty PRIME INDICATIONS 1. Strong mental control and sense of duty. 2. Emotions felt in stomach (like a blow). 3. Worse 2-4 AM 4. Stitching pains. 5. Very chilly; susceptible to colds due to profuse perspiration. 6. Swelling of upper eyelids. NOTES - Weakness of the muscles, of heart, of the back, of limbs, weakness of intellect. Fibrous tissues, ligaments of joints of uterus of lumbar back are particularly affected-producing relaxation, joints give way, back feels as if broken, the patient feels compelled to lie down or lean on something (Murphy) - "Very marked hoarding instinct. Essentially POSSESSIVE. Hold on to everything, to life (afraid of dying), to their partner (even when they appear to dislike him/her), to their children (even when they appear to be nothing but a worry to them and when they treat them none too well), and to their money" (Borland). Possessive of members of the family, yet are unpleasant to them and MAKE LIFE DIFFICULT for them (rubric: Desire for company, yet treats them outrageously). - "Surprising inability to stand up for themselves. They get very irritable, but if they themselves are attacked, particularly if they are unjustly accused, they tend to become silent and cannot make any reply. They feel miserable and hurt, but cannot fight back" (Borland). - It is noteworthy that in Kali-carb the pathology does not progress to either depression or confusion or deeper mental states. Instead the pathology is confined mainly to the physical body (Morrison) INIMICAL Phos (same kind of fears: ghosts, being alone, etc.) SOURCES Boger, Synoptic Morrison, Desktop Guide Murphy, Homeopathic Remedy Guide Watson, Kali-carb Vermeulen, Prisma |
Roger notes
Just remember the very proper, going towards rigid conservative kind of personality, moralistic, too controlled, where they accept, accept problems and then instead of reacting on an emotional level, they hold it all inside and finally something will break down on the physical plane. That’s Kali Carbonicum. Like Kali Arsenicum, they have this anxiety in the solar plexus or a sense of fear in the solar plexus. In the books you see it listed under "anxiety about health" in capitals, but it is really not that strong. It’s much less strong than some of these other remedies we have talked about. So it’s a little bit misleading the way it’s listed. Another place it’s misleading is in talking during sleep. You see it is one of the only capitals, with what other remedy? Belladonna. Staphysagria is italics and Staphysagria does have talking during sleep. Staphysagria is a lot of talking whenever they are alone, their subconscious sort of perks up because everything is so suppressed and they start talking and Staphysagria probably the main remedy for talking to themselves. People that are talking to themselves.
Kali Carb has problems with insomnia. Either they can’t fall asleep, or they fall asleep and they wake up at what time? 2 or 3, 2-4, something like that. They have a general aggravation at that time, 2-4. It can be asthma. It can be stomach problems or other conditions like arthritic pains, or they wake up and they can’t go back to sleep.
Kali Carb is probably one of the main remedies for asthma. The asthma is such that they can’t lie down. They have to be propped up on pillows. The other remedy I told you that has to be propped up, sitting up with respiratory problems? Carbo Veg and they are worse lying down, not only with the chest condition, but also headache and other things. Carbo Veg is the main remedy for headaches lying down. So, they want to sit propped up with the asthma, and they get relief either sitting up straight or sitting bent forward with their head all the way down to their knees and like that. All the way down to their knees. So, you will get confusion there with Lachesis, Arsenicum, Spongia, mostly those remedies that want to lean forward. But if you get it that they want to lean all the way forward down onto their knees, that’s mostly Kali Carb. In asthma. It seems that Kali Carb mostly affects the lungs. It affects the kidneys and it infects the joints. Those are probably the three places that it hits the most. Whereas Bichromicum will go mostly to the sinuses. Kali Carb will go mostly to the joints and to the lungs. With the lungs, it gets asthma. With the kidneys, it is one of the main remedies for kidney stones. One of the main remedies for kidney stones and for other kinds of kidney disorders, so what happens? It gets to be edema but where? Around the eyes. Especially the inner upper part of the eyelid. But anywhere around the eyes. Like Apis and other remedies.
They are worse cold. They are worse drafts. They get deformitive arthritis and it’s almost a specific for deformitive arthritis. It’s the main remedy to think of. They get sciatica, lumbago. He has to get out of bed. He’s forced to get out of bed with the sciatica, and he has to sit up to turn over. He can’t just turn over in bed. He has to either sit up or even get up in order to switch sides. He cries out with the pains and the pains are stitching pains like Hepar, Argentum Nitricum, Nitric Acid, Silica, etc. In Kail Carb stitching pains is a keynote. Painful hemorrhoids, constipation. It’s one of the main remedies for that. Craving for sweets. 2-3 A.M. aggravation. They tend to be stout, but not just obese. They can. They are listed under obesity. They can be skinny definitely.
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Kali Carbonicum
Elderly persons with dark hair, lax fibre, inclined to obesity; feeble circulation; anaemic, broken-down constitutions; tendency to local congestions.
Mental slackness and weakness; disinclined to any exertion; peevish; unreasonable apprehensions; easily frightened; intolerant of least touch (esp. if unexpected) and of pain; dreads solitude.
Great debility with easy sweating and constant, weary backache > pressure.
Sharp, stitching pains; motion < lying affected side; characteristic region is between right hip and right knee on outer side of thigh.
Right-aided ailments.
Bag-like swelling between eyebrows and lids; a sagging of the tissues rather than oedema.
Catarrhal conditions of all mucous membranes; of respiratory tract with dryness and discharge of tenacious mucus, gen. scanty, difficult to dislodge; often with gagging and vomiting of ingesta.
Impaired digestion with great flatulent distension; abdomen sensitive to touch, constipation; capricious appetite with strong desire for sweet or sour things; assoc. neurasthenic conditions.
Chronic pelvic disorders in women: periods excessive; profuse leucorrhoea of mucus and pus; patient feels sadly weak before menstrual period.
Patient < cold, takes cold easily; open air, lying affected side; 2-4 a.m.; while eating and just after, e.g. toothache; < coitus.
Note: Acute or chronic conditions.
© 2003-2004 Valerie Sadovsky, http://www.homeopathyplanet.com/AudeSapere
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