Kalium silicicum
Potassium silicate · Mineral
Kalium silicicum is a deep-acting remedy suited to debilitated, emaciated patients who are anxious, timid, and mentally sluggish with feeble willpower. It combines the chilly, yielding nature of Silica with potassium-type weakness and lassitude. Chronic conditions with marked emaciation, nasal catarrh, and neurological symptoms including twitching and creeping sensations characterize its use.
Key symptoms
- Profound lassitude with constant desire to lie down
- Emaciation and marked weakness
- Absent-minded, anxious, timid with feeble willpower
- Blood surges from body to head with vertigo and coldness of head
- Nasal catarrh with bloody, excoriating, offensive discharge
- Stiffness and creeping sensation over body and limbs
- Twitching of muscles with general weakness
Worse (aggravation)
- Open air
- Drafts
- Cold
- Exertion
- Motion
- Uncovering
- Bathing
Silicate of Potash (KALI SILICATUM)
A deep-acting remedy. Lassitude is very marked. Desire to lie down all the time. Emaciation.
Head
Absent-minded, anxious, indolent, timid. Feeble will power. Head congested, blood surges from body to head. Vertigo, coldness of head; photophobia. Nasal catarrh, discharge bloody, excoriating, offensive nose, swollen, ulcerated.
Gastric
Weight in stomach after eating, nausea, pain, flatulence. Pain in liver region. Constipation. Construction of anus during stool.
Extremities
Stiffness over body and limbs. Creeping sensation over limbs. Twitching of muscles. Weak and weary.
Modalities
Worse, open air, drafts, cold, exertion, motion uncovering, bathing.
Dose
Higher potencies.
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