Kalium aceticum
Potassium acetate · Mineral
Kalium aceticum acts primarily on the kidneys and bowels, producing over-secretion of urine and diarrhea. The general symptoms include weakness, trembling, and profuse perspiration about the head. Symptoms are generally worse in the morning, with a characteristic headache appearing at 4 p.m.
Key symptoms
- Increased flow of urine, more watery and alkaline
- Griping diarrhea with bleeding hemorrhoids
- Profuse perspiration especially about the head
- Weakness and trembling
- Headache worse at 4 p.m.
- Constrictive dull pain in stomach extending to abdomen
- Dropsy: ascites and hydrothorax
Worse (aggravation)
- Morning
- 4 p.m. (headache)
Kali acetas. Acetate of Potash. Normal Potassic Acetate. KC2 H3 O2. Solution in distilled water.
Clinical
Diabetes. Diarrhœa. Dropsy. Hæmorrhoids. Urine, alkaline.
Characteristics
Kali acet. is a well-known diuretic (and in less degree cathartic) in allopathic practice. These actions are positive and direct; and the homœopathic uses are chiefly in cases of over-secretion of urine and in diarrhœa. One of the main purposes for which its diuretic and cathartic properties are sought by allopaths is as derivative in cases of dropsy, chiefly ascites and hydrothorax. It is quite possible that this action may be specific, that is homœopathic, and not merely derivative; for both Acet. ac. and the Kali cause great disturbance in the circulation of fluids in the tissues. A few provings have been made, and these have brought out a preponderance of abdominal and urinary symptoms─griping, diarrhœa, bleeding of hæmorrhoids, increased flow of urine, which was more watery and alkaline. Weakness; trembling; profuse perspiration, especially about the head. Symptoms generally were < in morning, but there was a headache, < 4 p.m.
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