Kalium citricum
Potassium citrate · Mineral
Kalium citricum has its primary application in kidney affections, especially Bright's disease with suppressed urinary secretion. The remedy picture from large-dose observations includes violent gastric and abdominal pains likened to a machine working inside, with tympanites and constant mucous flow from the anus. Its internal pain character recalls Nitricum acidum.
Key symptoms
- Tympanites with constant flow of mucus from anus
- Awful gastric and abdominal pains as if machinery working inside
- Constant and profuse flatus causing its own distinctive pain
- Sudden free kidney action after urinary suppression
Citrate of Potash. Potassic Citrate. K3C6H5O7. Solution. Trituration.
Clinical
Bright's disease.
Characteristics
The Citrate of Potash has been used in solution (eight to ten grains to a wineglass of water) to assist the action of the kidneys in sufferers from Bright's disease who were under the absolute skim-milk dietary. It has also been used in the same way, in old-school practice, as a solvent for gouty concretions about joints. K. cit. has not been proved, but "Agricola" (H. W., xxv. 446) has recorded the effect of a large dose given by an allopath to a patient suffering from suppressed kidney action after influenza. In three days the kidneys acted freely, but these new symptoms were set up: Tympanites; constant flow of mucus from anus; awful gastric and abdominal pains, "as if a machine were at work inside, skinning the inside of the stomach and the whole length of the intestinal tube." Flatus was constant and in great amount, producing a pain of its own, which was a prominent feature. This pain as if machinery were at work inside recalls a pain of Nit. ac.
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