Kalium sulphuratum
Potassium sulphide (hepar/liver of sulphur) · Mineral
Kalium sulphuratum produces a picture of violent gastric and esophageal inflammation with burning throughout the digestive tract and a rapid strong pulse. Initial chilliness followed by fever and sweat with burning skin characterizes the febrile gastric picture. The gradual onset of facial redness accompanying violent stomach inflammation is a distinguishing feature.
Key symptoms
- Violent gastric and intestinal irritation with convulsive vomiting
- Initial ineffectual vomiting followed by forcible expulsion of stomach contents
- Great heat in mouth, throat, esophagus, and stomach
- Redness of face gradually increasing with gastric inflammation
- Constriction in throat with burning pain
- Hiccough and extreme thirst
- Great chilliness followed tardily by fever with burning skin and rapid pulse
Hepar sulphuris kalinum. Sulphurate of potassium. (A dark brown mass resulting from the fusion of Sulphur and Potassium Carbonate, consisting of the Pentasulphide and the Hypersulphate of Potassium, K2S3 + K2S2O3). Trituration.
Clinical
Gastric fever. Gastritis. Hiccough. Œsophagitis.
Characteristics
Observations have been made on two persons with large doses, and violent effects ensued, which are recorded by Allen. The violence of the gastric intestinal irritation was the chief feature. An accompanying redness of the face may prove a guiding symptom. The vomiting was at first ineffectual, and afterwards convulsive. Great chilliness at first, followed tardily by fever and sweat with burning skin and very strong and rapid pulse.
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