KALI BICHROMICUM (K2cr2o7)

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
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 … vomiting 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 / 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 … 2-5a.m. … hotweather … 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-biis 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.)
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