Kalium cyanatum
Potassium cyanide · Mineral
Kalium cyanatum is indicated in desperate conditions including tongue cancer, agonizing neuralgias, and epilepsy. The characteristic sudden sinking sensation and loss of speech with preserved intelligence are guiding features. Severe facial neuralgias recurring at the same hour daily distinguish this remedy.
Key symptoms
- Sudden sinking sensation
- Cancer of tongue with ulcer and indurated edges
- Agonizing temporal neuralgia recurring daily at the same hour
- Speech difficult or completely lost with intact intelligence
- Sciatica and epilepsy
- Cough preventing sleep with weak respiration
- Pain in orbital region with screaming and loss of consciousness
Worse (aggravation)
- 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Potassium Cyanide (KALI CYANATUM)
Sudden sinking sensation. Cancer of tongue and agonizing neuralgia have been benefited by this drug. Sick headache; sciatica; epilepsy.
Tongue
Ulcer of tongue, with indurated edges. Speech difficult. Power of speech lost but intelligence intact.
Face
Severe neuralgia in temporal region, recurring daily at same hour. Pain in orbital and supra-maxillary region, with screaming and loss of consciousness.
Respiratory
Cough prevents sleep; respiration weak; cannot take deep breath.
Modalities
Worse, from 4 am to 4 pm.
Relationship
Compare: Platin; Stann; Cedron; Mezer; Mur ac.
Dose
Sixth potency and 200th.
Kali Cyanidum. Kali Cyanuretum. Cyanide of Potash. Potassic Cyanide. KCN. Solution. Trituration.
Clinical
Apoplexy. Asthma. Cancer. Cheyne-Stokes breathing. Ciliary neuralgia. Epilepsy. Headache. Neuralgia. Rheumatism. Speech, lost. Tongue, cancer of.
Characteristics
The Cyanide of Potash is much used in photography, and being for this reason an accessible poison, numbers of cases of suicide and attempted suicide by its means have occurred. It is from the symptoms observed in such cases that a great part of the pathogenesis is built up; but it has also been proved by Lembke and others. The apoplectic and epileptic symptoms of Hydrocy. ac. were reproduced in the salt, and one very pronounced symptom was slow breathing. Loss of consciousness and vision occurred, and as consciousness and vision returned, vision was double. Strong tetanic convulsions. In one poisoning case the fingers were stretched out and spasmodically contracted. In another case, after the failure of all efforts to restore the patient …
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