Kalium picricum
Potassium picrate · Mineral
Kalium picricum is a liver remedy whose intensely yellow color reflects its affinity for biliary and hepatic function. Its documented effects include jaundice, diarrhea, gastric pain, and violent eructations. The urine has a characteristic brownish-red color from ammonium urate rather than bile pigment.
Key symptoms
- Jaundice following administration for intermittent fever
- Violent eructations
- Diarrhea with pain in pit of stomach
- Urine clear and brownish-red from large quantities of ammonium urate
- Colic
Potassium picrate. C6H2K(NO2)3O. Trituration (which must be made with great care, on account of the explosive nature of the salt).
Clinical
Eructations. Jaundice.
Characteristics
Allen quotes from Wolff and Gouzee the following constant pathogenetic effects observed in patients to whom K. pi. was given for intermittent fever: jaundice; diarrhœa; pain in pit of stomach; violent eructations; colic; urine clear, brownish red, not from bile pigment, but from large quantities of urate of ammonia.─K. pi. is an intensely yellow salt, and yellow substances generally act powerfully on the liver, as is the case with Picric acid itself and its other salts.
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