Kali-c, Kalium carbonicum

Between Lyc , Ars Nat-m

• It is a Polycrest with a lot of Peculiarities.
• It is located between Lyc , Ars and Nat-m
  • Very polite and self-extended like Nat-m (Kali-c ₳ Nat-m)
  • More accurate than Nat-m like Ars (Ars ₳ Kali-c)
  • Milder than Ars like Lyc (Kali-c ₳ Lyc)

Core theme

• High health anxiety. (Kali-c ₳ Nit-ac)
• Anovulation when the menses are suppressed altogether for several months.
• High sensitivity to sound and waking up
• Chest Anxiety
• Task-Oriented
• Chilly

Mind

Task-oriented

• High sense of responsibility
• He is a completely Task-oriented, while
  • Aur is a Moral-Oriented (Aur ₳ Kali-c)
  • Nux-v is Goal-Oriented (Kali-c ₳ Nux-v)
  • Carc is obsessed with getting approval (Carc ₳ Kali-c)
  • Ars is Detailed / Ambitious oriented

Routinism

• A good programmers and second-rate manager.
• A calm and routinist, who gets anxious if he gets out of the routine.
• Worried about the unlimited space and time, therefor has to make a regular schedule.
• Gradually sinks into his self-made schedules.
• He even has structure in his speech.

General

• Severe Weakness/ Fainting / Lethargy (Carb-v ₳ Kali-c)
• Sensitive to touch: Pain begins with touch esp feet
• Body is weak, puffy and fleshy
• Chilly
  • Cold and chilly , who shivers but not too much
  • Agg with all kinds of cold and recovery with heat
  • He is cold and catch cold easily

Chief Complaints

1. Asthma, tuberculosis, pleurisy , Pneumonia
2. Cardiovascular disorders - coronary artery disease
3. Constipation, Hemorrhoids
4. Amenorrhoea
5. Low-back pain
6. Psoriasis, Tinea capitis and favus

Respiratory tract

Kali-c like other Kaliums is widely used in respiratory tracts.

Inflammatory states

• Asthma, Tracheitis , Laryngitis, Bronchiolitis (Kali-c ₳ Phos)
• Prolonged complications of measles such as cough and pneumonia (Carb-v, Dros, Sul)
• Serous mucosal involvement (Apis, Bry), (Bry ₳ Kali-c)

Asthma : ant-t. ars. ip. kali-ar. kali-c. nat-s. nux-v. puls. samb.

Second stage of bronchitis : ant-t. kali-c. lyc. phos. puls. sulph

Pleurisy : apis ars. bry. kali-c. Merc. nat-m. phos. sulph

Pneumonia, specific localization of specific symptoms: Bry, Kali-c, Lyc, Phos, Sul

Pneumonia, second stage : Ars. Kali-c. Laur, Lyc. Phos. Sep, Sul

Cough

• Intense / Dry/ Suffocating Cough
• Esp after midnight, 2 -4 A.M (The most important Peculiarity)

Coughing - SUFFOCATIVE, cough - midnight - after

Coughing - SUFFOCATIVE, cough - morning - 5 a.m.

Coughing - WHOOPING, cough - midnight, after - after, 3 a.m.

• Irritation/ Tickling/ Itching / Tightness in larynx Con, Sang, Caust, Lach, Puls, Dros
• Spastic attacks Hyos, Dros, Bell, Spong, Squil, Samb

Coughing - SPASMODIC, cough - midnight - after

Coughing - PAROXYSMAL, cough, attacks - consisting of, few coughs - short coughs

Coughing - PAROXYSMAL, cough, attacks - temperature, change of

• Cough + Belching / Vomiting of undigested food

• Viscous sputum that must be swallowed. (Caust, Kali-bi, Seneg, Hep)
• Cough with White-gray /Hard sputum (Chel)

Lungs - EXPECTORATION, general - swallow, must, what has been loosened

Lungs - EXPECTORATION, general - copious

Lungs - EXPECTORATION, general - copious - warm room

Lungs - EXPECTORATION, general - tough

Lungs - EXPECTORATION, general - viscid

Lungs - EXPECTORATION, general - bloody, spitting up - acrid  SIL

Lungs - EXPECTORATION, general - yellow - orange colored

Chest anxiety

• Anxiety / Fear is coming from Stomach / Epigastrium (Mez) (Kali-c ₳ Mez)

STOMACH - ANXIETY - excitement, after

CHEST - ANXIETY in - Heart, region of - sitting, while

STOMACH - ANXIETY - Epigastrium - excitement; emotional

MIND - ANXIETY - hungry, when

MIND - ANXIETY - cramp - during - Stomach, in

MIND - ANXIETY - stool - after - bloody

MIND - ANXIETY - lying - side, on - right - flatulence; from

STOMACH - NAUSEA - vomit; sensation as if about to - anxiety; with

CHEST - ANXIETY in - Heart, region of - night - midnight - after - 2 h

CHEST - ANXIETY in - night - midnight - after - 2 h

• Emptiness Illusion: As if there is a deep hole behind him
• Throbbing sensation in the back of the stomach

GI tract

Constipation

• Large, difficult stools (Nat-m, Sul) (Kali-c ₳ Sul)

• Pain and burning after defecation
• Stitching pain up to two hours before defecation
• Incomplete Emptying / Defecation (Nux-v, Sep, Sil, Nat-m)
• Constipation Before / During Menses (Sil, Graph)

Abdominal Colic

• In acute abdominal pain that improves with bending forward, first give Coloc 30, then Coloc 200, then Caust, then Kali-c (Caust ₳ Kali-c) (Coloc ₳ Kali-c)
• Heartburn and epigastric pain (Flatulence / Cramps /Nausea / Hungriness ) esp 2 A.M. agg

Female remedy

PMS

• Dysmenorrhea (Lach, Puls, Sul), Esp severe weakness
• Abdominal colic before menses followed by pain and irritability + Back pain
• Pre-menses symptoms (Bell, Puls) such as breast pain (Lac-c, Calc)

Amenorrhoea

• When Nat-m, which is selected correctly, does not work
• Suppressed menses: Long delay and low volume (Puls, Nat-m, Sep, Lyc, Calc, Graph) due to various reasons such as
  • Anemia (Puls)
  • Panic attacks (Nux-m, Ign)
• Menses starts again immediately (Lyc, Calc, Lach)

• Note: Do not give Kali-c during menses, since it causes heavy bleeding
• It is Contraindicated in Fibroid + Severe bleeding
• Prolonged / Copious menses (Sabin, Phos) containing Bright clots (Kali-c ₳ Sabin)

Peculiarities

• Sexual intercourse agg (Agar) (Agar ₳ Kali-c): General aggravation / Eye weakness / Abortion / Ejaculation
• Acidified menstrual blood (Lach)
• Abortion tendency

Back pain

• Low-back pain: Coccyx is the center of pain

  Pelvis - PAIN, coccyx, tailbone

• Down-Extending pains esp buttocks, groin, or along legs (Berb) (Berb ₳ Kali-c)

Back - PAIN, lumbar - extending to - buttocks / Glutei muscles, to and thighs / Legs, down the

Pelvis - ACHING, pain - aching, ilium, crest of - extending to knee

Pelvis - DRAWING, pain, buttocks - drawing, sacrum

Pelvis - SHARP, pain, buttocks - sharp, sacrum - extending to - gluteal and hips

Pelvis - SHARP, pain, buttocks - sharp, sacrum - pregnancy

• 2-3 A.M agg ( Am-m)getting out of bed and walking to get better

Back - PAIN, back - night - 3 a.m

Back - PAIN, back - night - 3 a.m. - driving him out of bed

Back - PAIN, lumbar - night - 3 a.m., driving him out

• Pain starts in Walking / Sitting upright. Pain forces him to go bent over (Sul)

Back - PAIN, lumbar - walking, while - bent compelled to

Back - PAIN, back - walking, while - bent, compelled to

Back - PAIN, back - sitting, while - bent - has to sit

Back - PAIN, back - sitting, while - erect

• Pressure amel: Better by leaning on something firm (Nat-m, Lyc, Sep)

Back - DRAWING, pain - drawing, lumbar - lying, while - amel

Back - PAIN, back - lying, while - hard, on something, amel : NAT-M

Back - ACHING, pain - pressure, amel.

• Walking agg: He has to stop walking and lie down

Back - PAIN, back - walking, while

• Sharp /Stinging pain, like a stitch

Back - SHARP, pain - night - 3 a.m., must get up and walk

Back - SHARP, pain - sharp, lumbar - extending to - buttocks, 3 a.m.

Back - SHARP, pain - sharp, lumbar - extending to - gluteal regions and hips

Back - SHARP, pain - sharp, lumbar - morning - 3 a.m.

• Back weakness, sweat esp after Abortion / Metrorrhagia
• As if his back is breaking

Back - BREAK, lumbar, as though the back will

• Pain similar to labor pain in Small of back

Back - LABOR-like, pain

Back - LABOR-like, pain - labor-like, small of back

Back - LABOR-like, pain - labor-like, small of back - extending, glutei muscles

Peculiar Symptoms

• Bag-like swelling between Eyelid / Eyebrow
• Nosebleeds, esp on morning washing of face (Am-c, Arn)
• Toothache only when eating: Sensitive to cold or hot things
• He feels that his heart is hanging by a thread (Lach)
• Stinging pains in the heart area
• Terrible dreams cause insomnia

Sehgal

·    Kali-c does not want to face reality and feels that running away from it will be helpful.

·    This is as per her experience and therefore she acts accordingly.

Delusions, abyss behind him; Forsaken feelings)	He can neither comebacks to his position nor is he able to adjust to the present state of affairs. He is forsaken by everyone, including both old and new relatives and she has no one on whom she can depend. To her, retracing would be like throwing herself in a sea of darkness.
Discontented, with herself and everything	( . She is not content with her situation i.e. everything around her and even with herself ().
Fear, poverty of NDIFFERENCE, pleasure to and money making	He is afraid of over poverty yet he is a indifferent to all pleasures and even to earning money.  (I).	For example, she is always worrying about her future and keeping a watchful eye on her spendings.  She has an unfounded apprehension.  "If we spend this much today, then where will we find the money for tomorrow." The next moment hope kindless her mind and then she fights with herself.  ()
Antagonism, with herself	He thinks everything is going well so "why should I worry so much."  But he has no self-confidence.  He is always in a state of confusion - he is sick; is not able to work; and therefore cannot make any active contribution; is obviously not liked by people and is therefore a misfit; thus goes her trend of thought.  This idea leads her to become indifference to 'Money -making, to pleasure' etc.

·    SHRIEKING, aid for and its supporting symptom

·    CLOSING  eyes amel are the two main indications of Kali-c).

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If her husband, son or anybody near to her, offers her some money or a chance to enjoy herself she will say, "I do not need it" etc.etc. Likewise we observe that she wants company because while alone, her problems are aggravated and many types of fears surround her.  Yet she hates the persons who are in her company and treats them violently beyond all measure.  (Company, desire for yet treats them outrageously).  She feels she is sick (Delusions, imagines herself sick) and because of this she is not liked by people and therefore imagines that they hurt her.  She is always fearful of being hurt (Fear, hurt of being).  When she loses an argument and her views are disapproved of, she feels hurt and weeps (Weeping, remonstrated with, when).  When she dwells on past disagreeable occurances, she becomes sad and weeps (Dwells, on past disagreeable occurances ; WEEPING, sad thoughts at).  In her mind she is in conflict with herself because she has moments of hopefulness and sad. These states keep on alternating and struggling with each other within her.  In the end, when she finds herself failing to sustain and keep up the hopeful ideas, she tries to take refuge in just one action or thought i.e. closing her eyes. She will keep on weeping while telling her sickness to her doctor, and will ask him to prescribe her a pill which could make her sleep forever, because she  thinks she is unable to put up with her presents states of affairs i.e. her sickness as well as her surroundings. When asked " Do you mean you want to commit suicide or do you desire deaths?"  She says, "No, I simply want to close my eyes and switch off the power of my perception, because of the things which I cannot tolerate and get away from.  There is no better way than to shut the window which opens out to them." (Closing eyes amel).

Strangely enough in the end, after going through the entire history, and getting information from her relatives, you will find that the things she is crying about are the product of her own imagination (Shrieking, imaginary appearance about).  This is more true as far as her complaints about her children are concerned (Impatient, children about, is).  She becomes more intolerant when she gets the idea that her own children are neglecting her or that her children are being ignored by anyone else.

This was with reference to a lady with cervical spondylitis, stiffness in the shoulder joints, elbows & fingers.  She belonged to a well-to-do family and was properly looked after.  But she felt that she was not treated well because of her sickness and supposed dependence upon others.