Kali-ars, Kalium arsenicosum

Anxiety

• Health-based anxiety include hypochondria, excessive grooming, and even fear of heart attacks
• Racing thoughts and difficulty sleeping
• Fear of death or dying
• Feeling cold
• Vulnerable to panic attacks.

Modalities

Worse

• Cold: Air, Drafts, Feet getting. Uncovering
• Change of temperature or weather
• Warmth (itching). Becoming heated
• Every other day, morning: 1-3 a.m. (Ars.); 2-3 a.m.
• Touch. Noise. Eating
• Milk. Ice-cream. Quinine
• Walking (fast). Motion Exertion. Ascending
• Suppressed sweat, eruptions

Better

• Warmth
• Rainy days
• Eructations
• Rest

Highlights

• A very deep and long-acting medicine.
• Complaints associated with eruptions of long before, or at present.
• Tendency towards malignancy.
• Chilly, nervous, restless, anemic. Puffy under the eyes. Pale, waxy, clammy. Emaciated, old-looking. Lack of vital heat, a constitutional coldness with aversion to and < from everything cold.
• Wants very warm clothing and warm room even in Summer (Psor)
• Gouty. Neurotic.

Nerves:

• Tremors; from loud noise or ‘sudden unexpected motion.’ Numbness in limbs. Tingling in limbs.
• Weakness, as in patients heading towards phthisis, Bright’s disease / Gout); Unwilling to move (opp. Ars.).
• Sensitive to Touch/ Noise, esp. Voice.
• Convulsions, with consciousness, clonic. Epilepsy (all KALIs). Hysterical epilepsy. Paralysis.

Tissues:

• Arthritis: Syphilitic pains agg at change of weather. Pains burning, stitching. “Itching, jerking, twitching, burning, nausea and constriction.” Pulsation all over body. Gouty nodosities; < change of weather. Fissures about flexures of joints.
• Mucous membranes: Catarrhal inflammation and ulceration.
• Anemia. Chlorosis. Pale and waxy complexion, with sweat. Veins of legs varicose.
• Edema of chronic nephritis or myocardial weakness (Ars); under eyelids, of face, of limbs (with rheumatic stiffness).
• Discharges: Bloody, yellow, offensive.
• Muscles flabby. Glands atrophy. Bones and other tissues necrosed. Inflammation in many organs and glands; esp. stomach, liver, kidneys. Fatty degenerations (all KALIS).
• Growths: Small nodules under skin. Warts grow rapidly. New growths; lupus; epithelioma; cancerous ulceration; skin cancer, where suddenly an alarming malignancy sets in without any external signs. Presents a good picture of malignancy coupled with a history of eruptions. Parakeratosis (horniation) of corns, warts.

• Conscientious; emphasis on morality. Nervous, anxious and restless, contentious, curt, jealous, oversensitive etc, like
• Nervous tremors from a loud noise or a sudden motion;
• Globus hystericus.
• Apprehension in pit of stomach from emotions.

PARTICULARS

Head:

• Headaches: Gastric, catarrhal; chronic periodic sick headaches, after suppressed eruptions or malaria; toxic, uremic. Worse: uncovering head, cold (opp. Ars.), sleep, lying down, eating. Better: hot drinks, warm wrapping, heat. Hot head, cold limbs.
• Eyes:

• Brilliant, glassy, fishy, protruding. Veins injected, eyeballs fixed, with dyspnea. Cornea: spots on; ulceration.
• Lower lids swollen (Upper Kali-c).

Ears:

• Pain < evening and night, cold air, > heat. Tinnitus and deafness; after quinine.

Nose:

• Chronic catarrh; since childhood. Discharge offensive, acrid, bloody, yellow-green, burning. Sneezing frequent and violent.

Face:

• Expression: anxious, frightened, startled, staring. Looks sickly, haggard, pinched, sunken and oldish; pale and waxy; muddy. Periodical pain (neuralgic or rheumatic).
• Acne, pustular, < during menses. Boils. Rash. Nodular eruptions. Epithelioma.

Mouth:

• Vesicles. Ulcers. Toothache < eating, menses, cold. Tongue: inflammation, swelling (or feels swollen); burning; dry; clean red like raw beef, coated on edges only; cancer. Taste abnormal. Dry. Salivation.

Throat:

• Choking, with saliva. Globus, > eructations. Dry and sore; burning; torn as if; ulcerated.

Stomach:

• Desires: Sour, sweet, warm things. Averse to food, meat.
• Worse after: Fats, cold food and drinks, milk, ice-cream (when overheated).
• An anxious, or empty sinking sensation (when faintness) from pit of stomach to spine, with palpitation. Obstinate forms of gastritis, acute or chronic.
• Intense nausea with most complaints, during pregnancy, < cold things.

Abdomen:

• Enteritis and ulceration. Peritonitis. Tympanitic distension. Dropsy.
• Liver painful; jaundice; gall-stone colic. Catarrh of colon (mucous colitis).

Rectum:

• Burning; with piles, < walking. Diarrhea < night, after midnight, milk, cold drinks. Constipation.

Urinary:

• Nephritis (all Kalis), cutting and stitching pains, edema; Addison’s disease. Bladder: catarrhal inflammation. Incontinence. Not finished sensation.

Male:

• Testes hard, painful, swollen. Erections feeble. Seminal emissions.

Female:

• Burning. Leucorrhea offensive, acrid, burning.
• Menses: Acrid, offensive, scanty; absent or suppressed.
• Cauliflower excrescences, with flying pains, pressure below os pubis and stinking discharge. Cancer of uterus (palliative).
• Mammae: Milk suppressed.

Respiratory:

• After suppressed eruptions: Hoarseness, aphonia. Asthma, < every other day, 2-3 a.m., touch, noise.
• Cough: Wet in morning, dry at night; choking, asthmatic cough, in cold, anemic subjects; with fever; gastric; spasmodic; < 2-3 a.m., cold.
• Expectoration: Muco-purulent with specks of blood.
• Tropical eosinophilia, fever from 4 p.m. lasting all night, cough worse during fever, after eating and again 2-4 a.m.; patient has black otorrhea (is warm blooded), allergic to dust, thirstless; > in wet weather.
• Chest: Constriction. Oppression. Inflammation of lungs; pleura (with effusion). Threatened phthisis, patient with unmanageable chilliness.

Heart:

• Pericarditis. Anxious and violent palpitation; with nephritis, with anxiety in stomach. Cardiac and anemic murmurs. Myocardial weakness; dropsy.
• Pulse: Weak, small, imperceptible; contracted; rapid.

Back:

• Cold and sensitive to cold air. Stiffness. Much pain and tenderness down spine. Spinal irritation.

Locomotor:

• Rheumatic and neuralgic pains in limbs; during chill, in cold air, > heat. Limbs numb and tingle. Aching in (right) shoulder and elbow joints followed by herpetic eruption. Skin of arms thickens and roughens (of soles, Ars.). Gouty nodosities.
• Sciatica, extending downwards. Muscular contraction of knees. Crampy feeling in legs, with partial loss of motion and sensation, livid in places, tending to slough.

Sleep:

• Restless, disturbed, by horrid dreams. Late falling to. Yawning. Sleeps with one hand over the heart region.

Skin

• Allergic skins. Dry, wilted (dull), wrinkled, inelastic; muddy, ) remain dark-colored.
• Chronic dry eczema, scales with intense itching that agg night, warmth of bed, walking, undressing, on uncovered parts.
• Herpes eruptions: Papules then vesicles then pustules which dry up into scabs and may ends in cicatrices of eczema
• Herpes zoster
• Psoriasis
• Lichen confluens. Intertrigo. Boils; to remove the tendency. Exanthemata. Erysipelas. Lepra. Epithelial cancer.
• Phagadenic ulcers, with deep base and turned up edges, ichorous, black, offensive discharge.

Relations:

• Kali-ar. may be a member of the radioactive group (Calc-f., Phos., Plb., Stront-c. ).
• Compare: , Carc., Chin., Kali-sil., Psor., Rad-met., Rumx., X -ray.
• Antidote: Kali-i. (to overdosing).
• Complementary: Nat-m.
• Collateral: , Ars-i., Hep., Kali-bi., Sil., Syph., Thuj.