Kalium ferrocyanatum
Potassium ferrocyanide · Mineral
Kalium ferrocyanatum is a remedy rivalling Sepia in uterine affections and Kali carbonicum in cardiac symptoms. It suits small, anemic, weak women with uterine hemorrhage, bearing-down sensation, and fatty degeneration of the heart. Periodicity in complaints, debility, tremors, and chlorosis are characteristic general features.
Key symptoms
- Bearing-down uterine sensation with gastric sinking
- Menses too frequent and too profuse
- Passive uterine hemorrhages
- Heart disease with frequent attacks of aching and sharp plunging pain
- Palpitation accompanying or independent of heart pain
- Debility, tremors, and numbness
- Wandering neuralgic pains with periodicity
- Chlorosis with anemia and weakness
Worse (aggravation)
- Moving about
- Exertion
Better (amelioration)
- Rest
Kali ferrocyanidum, Kali ferrocyanuratum, Yellow Prussiate of Potash, Potassic Ferrocyanide. K4Fe (CN)6 3H2O. Trituration. Solution.
Clinical
Chlorosis. Debility. Dysmenorrhœa. Dyspepsia. Heart, fatty degeneration of. Leucorrhœa. Menorrhagia. Rheumatism.
Characteristics
The Ferrocyanide of Potash is prepared "by fusing animal substances such as the cuttings of horns, hoofs, and skins with Carbonate of Potash in an iron pot, lixiviating the crude product with water, and purifying the salt with crystallisation" (Brunton). In the old school the only uses made of this salt are as a test, and in the preparation of Hcy. ac. Thanks to a proving made under the guidance of J. B. Bell, homœopaths have found in it a remedy rivalling Sepia in the uterine sphere, and Kali c. in its action on the heart. The Kali element seems the predominating power in this salt. The bearing-down sensation and the gastric sinking are prominent indications. Menses too frequent and too profuse. Passive uterine hæmorrhages. There is …
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