Kaliums vergleich
Jan Scholten:
Principles
of kaliums = duty. Are very conscientious/people with
strong principles, they have their rules and norms and they stick to them: 'a
man of his word'. They are therefore very reliable, correct, stable and
self-assured. They have a great sense of duty, are serious and responsible. In
the course of time, however, this can go too far and the negative side might
start to come up: being rigid, dogmatic, moralistic, conservative, stoic. In order to live according to their
principles, they have to control the other aspects of their life, such as
emotions. They prefer routine to new and unexpected things. Playful and
artistic traits are hardly acknowledged. That is why they seem to be
materialistic, but they are more pragmatic and down to earth than egoistic.
Closed: this control is expressed physically in
the form of constipation or difficult labours. They hold on to things, are
closed and reserved. In spite of, or perhaps because of, this control there are
many fears, but these are often only felt physically in the form of stomach
problems. They can also be quite 'jumpy', as unexpected things are not under
their control. Connected to this is their great sensitivity to being tickled.
Tickling makes you laugh, you have to surrender to your emotions, and their
control does not allow this.
Optimism: They are closed and do not easily
share their inner feelings. But they are not melancholic, like the Natriums. One could sooner call them optimistic. They
achieve what they want to achieve, through perseverance and hard work.
Work tasks: Their sense of duty is expressed in
their work, their tasks. Perhaps 'task' is an even better theme for the Kaliums than 'duty'. They are very task-conscious. They are
very hard workers, able people, and the builders of society. They are practical
and pragmatic. They work hard and steadily, although they don't overdo it. They
are not real workaholics. They have a sort of fatherly aura.
Professions in which they thrive are e.g.
manager, policeman, judge, translator, and bookkeeper.
Family: They are, on the whole, very family
orientated. The family is very important to them and they work hard to support
them.
General characteristics: They are quite heavily
built, stout and robust as a reflection of their inside. The Kali's in general are quite cold, but this depends on the
component element.
The order, from being very cold to being quite
warm, is roughly: Kali-ars. (1 h.), Kali-bi. Kali-c. Kali-p (neutral). Kali-m. Kali-n. Kali-br. Kali-s. (5 h.) and Kali-i. (5 h.). They are also very sensitive
to draught, especially Kali-c. The time modality is very strong: < around 3
h. Sometimes this is from 2 - 4 h. or from 3 h. (Cupr.
Thuja).
All complaints can be aggravated then:
sleeplessness, stomach pains, sciatica, etc. They have a desire for sweets and
an aversion to meat. < from coition/during menses. Also < from
touch/exertion;
> movement/sitting/leaning forwards.
Complaints: Very typical stitching pains, sometimes
sharp or drawing. Discharges are copious, usually thick (Kali-n thin),
sometimes tough (Kali-bi) and yellow to yellow-green. Weakness and anaemia can
occur in later stages. Oedema everywhere, particularly around the ankles and
the eyelids, with a most typical symptom of swelling of the medial side of the
upper eyelid. Colds and sinusitis can occur in all the Kaliums,
usually with copious discharges.
Asthma < 3 h. > sitting and < lying
down. Pneumonia with stitching pains in pleura. Affections of the heart,
ranging from simple palpitations and high blood pressure to hardening of the
arteries and (sudden) heart attacks. All the emotions are held inside, until
suddenly the heart gives up.
Many stomach complaints. Their stomach is highly
sensitive, Also prone to stomach pains and ulcers. A typical process is that
they transfer their fears to their stomach (Kali-c.). The whole region of the
solar plexus becomes very sensitive. Constipation. Menses often copious,
sometimes early, sometimes late.
They can also get a copious, creamy, yellow
leucorrhoea. There is much rheumatic affection: inflamed joints with
deformities (hips and knees). Often needed in backaches with sciatica. Sciatica
< pressure/lying on the painful side/menses.
Kalium Family: [Donald A. Davis M.D.]
Kaliums do not have an attractive or
outstanding personality. For their use in general practice, there are 1 or 2
remedies with a definite/easily discernible/characteristic picture, but the
Kali family, as a whole, lacks that dynamic power of some of the other groups.
K as an element, isolated and purified, has no
recorded proving. A compilation of the characteristics of this group must
suffer from human error, sifted from a multitude of provings/poisonings/empirical
uses of the individual Kalis.
K and all its compounds are water soluble,
hence very universally distributed. In earths crust 2,45% K/in human body 0,35%
K.
Many drug pictures have come from
chemical/allopathic/poisonous effects.
Organic potassium is a powerful neutralizer. It
is a powerful flushing agent, hence it is good for constipation and as an
improver of circulation. K is one of the minerals present in blood plasma/all
tissues/plants.
The Kali’s in
general: moralistic, rule-bound, dutiful, dependent on the family.
Characterized by an easy suppression of feelings, deep feelings and intense
physical pathology. They are very attached to the family (pets), to certain
ideals.
Clarke: "Kaliums,
in general, cause great disturbances in the circulation of fluids in the
tissues." The organic compounds are also good for pelvic disorders.
Allopathically used in chemistry and medicine:
Kali-ars. a diuretic
and complexion clearer,
Kali-bi. an antiseptic for wounds, Bitartarate as a saline purgative,
Kali-i. for syphilis,
Kali-n for fevers,
Kali-perm as an oxidizing agent.
The principal points are all mucous membranes,
the cardiovascular system (blood itself) the kidneys, connective tissue,
glandular organs. The motor cardiac centers are
influenced by potassium.
The Kalium mind:
forgetful with mental lassitude and sluggishness/easily annoyed and irritated
by trifles. A harsh temper when aroused and are apprehensive, ill at ease and
rather averse to society.
[Kali-i.: mean (to
own) family]. In the kidneys, the Kaliums produce an
increase in the flow of urine and elimination of the alkali salts so that the
total solids are increased.
Vergleich: In alle:
Repertorium:
Cardiac depression with a soft, irregular, and
intermittent pulse is a characteristic.
Conditions are afebrile.
Mentality is relatively weak, being not so
clear cut as the Natriums.
Left side (not
Kali-c.).
Anti-tubercular remedies.
< any disturbance in the fluid balance in
the body (coition).
> warmth/rest/plentiful amount of
substantial food.
Constipation rare.
Most hate cold and are < by it.
Offensiveness of some excretions.
Fat, chubby person.
Plethoric people who have a false anaemia or
pseudo-plethora or fleshy people who are watery, anaemic and obese give a
better picture.
Characteristics: paralytic effects,
weakness,
ulceration of the mucous
membranes/of the skin,
tissue waste,
myocardial weakness,
deficiency of red corpuscles,
early morning time < 2 - 5 h.
more or less pronounced
Pain sharp, cutting, quick, jabbing
pains; and nearly all of the pains > motion.
The Potassium salts: solid tissues (blood
corpuscle) than to the fluids (blood plasma) of the body; The fibrous tissues
particularly affected: the ligaments of joints/the uterus/the back.
Conditions in which these tissues are relaxed:
joints give way/back feels „As if broken“, the patient feels compelled to lie
down, even in the street.
SENSE of duty/stick to the rules and
principles/responsible/work hard to support their family.
Carcinoid
Caust: = Phos + analytischer
Geist + bringt versprochene Empfindsamkeit entgegen/= Sulph
+ empfindsam - egoistisch. WEAK
(faint-like weakness/sinking of strength with trembling from care, grief, or
sorrow of long standing or from disease) progressing till gradually appears
paralysis and attacks, in general, r.; involving both voluntary and involuntary
muscles/also a local paralysis of the vocal cords, muscles of deglutition, of
the tongue, eyelids, face, bladder, and extremities. Drooping of the eyelids.
Neuralgic affections generally obstinate. Mentally melancholic/sad and
hopeless/apt to look on the dark side of everything. Timid and nervous anxiety.
With this, restless at night when the legs are always on the go. The most
frequent sensation is one of soreness and rawness. Passes stool best standing,
and dribbles urine on exertion, coughing or sneezing, even involuntarily during
sleep. There are the raw haemorrhoids < walking or straining (voice). Cough
doesn’t seem deep enough to afford relief. Used for the after effects of burns.
Gun.
Kali-acet: WEAK/trembling/anxiety in the
whole body and mind of transient duration and appearing in paroxysms/offensive
SWEAT from 22 h. to 1 h./polyuria/16 h. headache.
Kali-ars: = Ars-ähnlich/=
Kalium + Angst. Hartnäckige Hauterkrankung mit Rissen/bösartige
Tendenz/Disposition to restlessness/fault finding/exaction/scolding/quarrelsome/discontent. The skin is the main point as a
result of the effect on the cardiovascular system. (branlike
desquamation following measles is typical. The skin symptoms (painful herpes, phagdenic ulcers with a deep base and turned up edges to
itching psoriasis)
itch mainly, are < night (Ars)/when the patient undresses; < warmth. Skin
pale/dirty yellow/muddy.
Unusual symptoms, „As if the head were too
large“/tongue burning/numb/feels too large;
Suppression of emotion with intense pathology; Ars has intense anxiety about health. This salt has very
strong fear and anxiety about heart disease and panic about their heart. Mucous
is watery and acrid; sinus infections with watery, burning mucous. There is
intense dependence on the family: “my family is the only thing keeping the wolf
away from the door”. Very fastidious about the home for the purpose of staying
safe. There is the dependence on self to keep the home perfect. Fastidious
cleanliness. Chilly remedy. Fear of
cancer, but heart disease is the worse fear; certainty about having a heart attack,
the only question is when.
„As if a ball rising from the pit of the
stomach to the larynx“ causing suffocation and „As if a red hot iron or poker
in the anus“.
Kali-bi: Magen/Pylorus (langsam/bösartig)/Geschüre schmerzlos mit senkrechtem Rand mit dicker/zäher Eiter/Characteristic
discharge from the mucous membranes of tough stringy mucus or muco-pus which adheres to the part and can be drawn out in
strings. The formation of plugs or clinkers on the
mucous membranes (nose/false
membranes in croup and diphtheria with a hoarse, metallic cough/casts of
bronchial tubes in fibrinous bronchitis). Secretions
yellow/discharges of jelly-like mucus.
There is occurrence of pain in small spots
which can be covered with the tip of the finger, alternating shifting
conditions as pains wandering from part to part. Rheumatic pains # gastric
symptoms or with dysentery, headache # blindness.
Punched out, perforating ulcers occurring on
skin, mucous membranes and affecting bones (vomer and
palate).
Indigestion from drinking beer; weight in the
pit of the stomach immediately after eating food for which there is no
appetite. The hair sensation on the back of the tongue and in the left nostril
is pronounced.
Kali-br: Kalium + bürokratisch/not
extensively proven. Effect upon the sensorium:
a besotted state or stupor resembling acute alcoholism from which the patient
can be aroused. Big loss of
memory and a peculiar hesitancy in remembering
words that he knows perfectly well. The nervous system is affected, being
agitated with fearful delusions, great mental depression + weeping
and wringing of the hands. The mental state
corresponds to the night terrors of children who start awake and then cannot be
comforted. The hallucination of the child is that he is being hunted and chased
by some horrible person or thing. The mental agitation is reflected in the
hands which are continually being wrung or are working at something. This
mental state, plus the overwhelming effect of the Bromium
causing bronchial difficulties as croup (child).
The essence of Bromium
is someone is out to get me so in Kali-bro the delusion is fear of betrayal by
the family. They are highly suspicious, delusion will go to hell. Feel singled
out by Divine Wrath; forsaken by God so they need to perform their duty to
avoid being forsaken. Betrayal theme in the Aurums, Cuprums
and Kalis. Highly religious. End stage can become
violent as a result of their delusions. Restless hands; hand-wringing. Prays a
lot for God’s protection. Delusion committed crime. Fear of being poisoned is a
KEYNOTE. Mental restlessness and anxiety, can go into a paranoid rage and
violence. Nightmares of being deceived and of betrayal.
Pathologically, mostly neurological disorders
such as epilepsy, meningitis and ALS. Nerve conditions, seizures and numbness.
Deep, scaring cystic acne.
Waking at Kali times: 2 to 4 AM with
palpitations and terrible anxiety, needs to go to ER to get worked up. Kali
typically suppresses emotion all day such that the symptoms surface at night
with a full-blown panic.
Kali-br: = Puls +
grober Haut/different skin eruptions almost
everywhere on the bodys surface. These are rose colored, acneic, and are aggravated
during the hot summer and relieved by cooler weather
Kali-c: = Ars – Selbstvertrauen; Schwäche/Frost/Schmerz
im Lumbalbereich/Schweiß/Abmagerung; stitching/lancinating/jerking pain.
Pneumonia (lower r. lobe),
stitching pains without relation to the respiratory system and not relieved by
strapping or lying on the affected side.
There is also a puffiness above the
eyes between the brow and the upper lid (not
when occuring in family).
Farringtons or Nash: sweat + backache +
weakness often are the symptoms upon which the complaint is, "Oh, my back
this", and "Oh, my back that". Over-sensitiveness to
(unexpected) touch when starting is out of portion to the touch. Soles of the
feet sensitiv. Flatulence.
Hahnemann: ulceration in the lungs.
Kali-cy.: Zungenkrebs
Kali-hy: < seashore. Powerful
solvent of tumors/products left in the tissues after
acute inflammatory infections.
Kali-i:
= Merc-ähnlich; Bindegewebe
infiltriert/Drüsen vergrößert;
pale, delicate people who flush easily. Scrofula rather than syphilis; Wasting
and exhaustion, anguish, diffused sensitiveness (glands).
Idea
is that they have to do their duty to have a right to existence/work hard more
than is required/when retired their problems start because now they are free
and have no work to do.
Kali-m: = Sulph in chronische
Krankheit + schwerfällig. Secretions
white/exudations/eruptions of tissues. Fibrinous
exudations and discharges tough. Blood clots readily causing
embolism/indurations/hard
swellings. duty to be a good mother
and take care of the family.
Kali-chl. = Kali- + Nieren/= Kali-m + Oxygen
Kali-n: = Kali-c + (Nacht)SCHWEIß/schlaffe Muskeln/träge Verdauung/used to be an old stand-by as sweet spirits of
nitre for children who refused to urinate with fever. Peevish fretfulness and
ennui,
with acute external sensitiveness.
Pain stitching/cutting/stabbing (chest) chronic phthisis. Asthmatic picture
with loose rattling cough at 3 h. Sour taste in the throat.
Main problem on abdominal and pelvic organs,
causing colic, diarrhoea and dysentery. Ink-black menorrhagia
differentiates.
Kali-p: = Puls + reizbar + < Kälte/= Kali-c + erschöpft/NerVOUS/Kali symptoms that run through the
remedy, namely, early morning waking, the peculiar mouth, the severe action on
the skin,
< after coitus/sensitive to
touch. Mechanical injuries/blows, indulged or suppressed sexual excitement.
Morose/irritable/profoundly depressed/lethargic/unsociable person. Everything
is just too much.
In spite of the sluggishness, there is an
easily aroused temper, causing the patient to fly into such a passion that
articulation is practically lost. feels obliged to have lot of contacts/theme
is the duty to keep up their study and circle of friends.
SensiTIV to all impressions (from shock,
mental or physical/from overstrain or overdrain of
the system). It is indicated in menstrual headaches and neurasthenia.
Excretions golden or orange yellow.
Kali-s: = Schusslers Pulsatilla/= „Chronisches" Puls + reizbar + Heißes abgeneigt/eigensinnig/=
Misschung Puls + Sulph/= Rhus-t + heißblutig/indications: discharges YELLOW/denuded and
scaling of epidermal and mucous surfaces with yellow catarrh, < warmth/>
in open air. All symptoms < in the evening. a good partner/will go through
adversities to save their relation.
Sycotic miasm
The
appreciation; they have strong feelings about
their own area of expertise. They are industrious when life is going well; but
if not, they can appear lazy. If they feel insulted or abused by family
members, they will become harsh, whiny, irritable (can sound like that with
their practitioner about the lack of appreciation they feel from family).
Dutiful out of a need for appreciation.
Fears burglars and things hurting the family.
They are hot and the most selfish of the Kali’s.
Their timidity is from holding back so others will like them.
Big arthritis remedy: joint pain, worse hot and
worse evening; better iced and cold. Cold hands and feet (opp
of Sulph). Big childhood ear infection remedy; thick
discharges, glue ear. Chronic sinus infections with thick green/yellow
discharges.
Boa has a lot
of Kalium aspects.
Vergleich Rosaceae mit Kaliums.
[Dr. Herbert A. Roberts]
Clarke: lists 21 Kaliums,
the majority having been well proven. T. F. Allen said the Kali salts were
insidious in action and destructive of every organ and tissue in the body, so
it is natural they are frequently indicated in
glandular dysfunction. No doubt the predominant
action of the group is anti-syphilitic. There are the manifestations of primary
syphilis, ulceration of mucous membranes, even destruction of bony structure as
in the nose,
as well as other symptoms of the miasm. On the other hand there is the marked sycotic trend as shown by the catarrhal discharges, and it
has a field in acute gonorrhoea.
The chronic Kali patient exhibits the classical
stature of the sycotic - rather short than tall,
chubby to obesity, and with an accompanying anæmia.
Here we have the perfect field for homoeopathic therapeutics in endocrine
imbalance, for there is a wealth of characteristic mental symptoms varying from
the dull mentality with loss of memory and inability to exert the mind, even to
softening of the brain, through all the states of nervous
excitability (with or without intelligent
co-ordination) to the high-strung nervous patient who borders on insanity or is
actually insane. These people are easily startled at the slightest noise;
fearful, apprehensive, expect to die shortly and fear death. They may be as sad
as the Natrums at times, but they are even more
fearful. The Natriums have aggravation from mental
exertion, but the Kalis cannot concentrate enough to
bring on an aggravation. Clinically, the following brief summary suggests
fields of special usefulness in glandular dysfunctions, and indicates further
study:
Kali-acet. in
diabetes.
Kali-ars. for exophthalmic goitre. Quarrelsome, discontented, jealous;
the mental symptoms recur every 3rd day.
Kali-br. and Kali-p.
are the most mentally degenerate of the Kalis; both
have developed softening of the brain in their clinical picture. Both have done
good work in the backward children and the aged.
In the adolescent Kali-br.
is often useful for acne appearing at that period. Kali-br.
emissions, impotence and masturbation; in women: affections of the ovaries.
Kali brom.'s peculiar mental symptom is that, when
walking,
is sure he cannot pass a certain point ahead of
him.
Kali-p. has marked flushing (young people -
they flush and pale because of nervousness and it aggravates the nervous
strain). There is marked anæmia; disturbance of the
menstrual function; atrophy of the male organs; nymphomania. Sexual excitement,
either indulged or suppressed, aggravates all symptoms.
Kali-c. is such a polychrest
that it is difficult to limit it to a brief citation without omitting salient
points. However, it is marked by such a great weariness that she wants to lie
down, even in the street. It is exceedingly useful
in the menopause, in disorders of pregnancy and
in disordered menstrual functions. It is anæmic and
obese, with atony of the muscles.
Kali-ferrocy.
deserves a wider use than it has received. It was well proven by Bell, who
found that "it rivals Sepia in the uterine sphere". Chlorotic and debilitated; they suffer from dysmenorrhoea,
dyspepsia and fatty
degeneration of the heart - an exemplification
of Allen's estimate of the family.
Kali-i. one of our
great goitre remedies and it also has atrophy of testes and mammae.
Life seems insupportable to this patient; he awakens at night to dread the
return of dawn.
Kali-m. is the outstanding member of this
family for swollen glands; in fact, swelling is one of its characteristics, for
it is very useful in swellings following blows, cuts and bruises. It may be
indicated in glandular troubles following vaccination, and in Hodgkin's
disease. The Kalis tend to white mucous surfaces, and
Kali-m. is perhaps the most marked for this symptom. Silica has such a vital
relationship to growth, development and functions
of mind and body that it is difficult to limit
our view of it to brief mention. It affects the development of the bony
structure and teeth, and is useful in knitting tissues after operation or
trauma, or in removing keloid or abnormal scar
tissue. There is profound action on the blood, and this, together with its
affinity for glandular swellings, is the key to its suppurative
tendency. A weak spine, brain fag, feeble circulation, caries, abscesses and
fistulas,
hernias and even hydrocele,
give some idea of its depth and breadth of action. This is one of the few
remedies listed as clinically useful in elephantiasis. Remember that
vaccination or suppressed footsweat may be the cause
of your Silica condition, and that your Silica
child is the classic problem "angel child".
MacRepertory comparison:
Kali
salts the following characteristic Causticum mind
symptoms appear:
Kaliums Anarchist;
revolutionary
Dictatorial,
domineering, dogmatic, despotic
Fear;
something will happen;
Industrious,
mania for work
Injustice,
cannot support
Obstinate,
headstrong
Passionate
Self-control
(wants to control himself/loss of self-control)
Control and lack of it is also seen in Causticum characteristic symptoms such as: paralysis of throat,
larynx and respiratory system preventing mucus being expelled,
involuntary urination on coughing or laughing,
contracted tendons or paralysis in the extremities. Avarice, selfishness,
greed, egotism, envy and self centredness.
Issues of self worth/feel haven’t been given
their due/are determined to get it.
Vorwort/Suchen Zeichen/Abkürzungen Impressum