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KALIUM CARBONICUM
Potassium carbonate
Clinical Picture:Pains; stitching, darting, worse during rest and lying on affected side (stitching, darting, better during rest and lying on painful side Bryonia alba).
Cannot bear to be touched; worse when touched even lightly, especially on the feet.
Great aversion to being alone (Arsenicum album, Bismuthum oxydatum, Lycopodium clavatum. Desires to be alone: Ignatia amara, Nux vomica).
Bag-like swellings between the upper eyelids and eyebrows.
Backache with profuse sweating, weakness; after abortion, labour, men-orrhagia; with 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; spasmodic with gagging or vomiting of food; hard, white or smoky masses fly from throat when coughing (Badiaga, Chelidonium majus).
Feels ill the week before menstruation; backache, before and during menses.
Modalities:
Worse:
Touch.Better:
After coitus.
In cold weather.
From soup and coffee.
In the mornings about three o'clock.
Lying on the painful side.
Week before menstruation.
In warm weather.
Though moist.
During day.
While moving about.
Relations:
Complementary to Carbo vegetabilis. Similar to Bryonia alba and Lyco-podium clavatum.
Natrium muriaticum, Nitricum acidum or when Stannum metallicum, though apparently indicated, fail.
Summary of Indications:
Pain syndromes - low backache - menstrual disorders - bronchitis.
Antidotes:
Camphora officinalis
Coffea crude