Kalium sulphuricum

Potassium sulphate · Potassium sulfate, sulfate of potash, Vesuvian salt, glaserite. · Mineral

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Kali. sulph. is most appropriate for people who tend to be conservative and anxious to do things right, down to the last detail. They are often hurried, anxious, restless, easily startled, and irritable. Dutiful in loving relationships, they may be self-sacrificial because of the connection this gives them with others.

The remedy’s classic affinities are with the skin and the respiratory system. It is commonly prescribed for peeling skin conditions such as eczema and psoriasis, and may also be appropriate for ringworm, polyps, oily skin problems, and skin cancer. The skin is characteristically chapped, scaly, or peeling, and there may be sore areas with thin, yellow, watery discharges.

Chronic respiratory problems are a further key affinity of Kali. sulph. It is used for chronic catarrh, or mucus in the nose, larynx, bronchi, or ears, and for asthma. The nose is typically highly congested, with rattling mucus in the lungs and loss of the sense of smell. There may be smelly, long-standing discharges in the ears, with frequent inflammation and glue ear.

Key symptoms

Yellow, slimy mucous discharges from all mucous membranes
Ailments with profuse desquamation of skin
Tongue coated yellow and slimy; insipid pappy taste
Applicable to later stages of inflammation
Eustachian deafness; yellow discharge from ears
Cold with yellow slimy expectoration; obstructed nose
Gonorrhoea with yellowish-green slimy discharge
Menses too late and scanty with weight in abdomen
Dread of hot drinks; burning thirst with nausea
Rheumatic headache beginning in the evening

Worse (aggravation)

For warm air; for warm, stuffy rooms; in the evening; for noise; for sympathy; for eggs.

Better (amelioration)

For open air; for cold air; for walking; for fasting.

William Boericke

Homoeopathic Materia Medica · 1901

Potassium Sulphate (KALI SULPHURICUM)

Ailments accompanied by profuse desquamation. Applicable to the later stages of inflammation. Yellow, mucous and serous discharges, profuse and intermittent. Has been found of much use in oxaluria.

Head

Rheumatic headache, beginning in evening. Bald spots. Dandruff and scaldhead.

Ears

Eustachian deafness. Discharge of yellow matter (Hydr).

Nose

Cold, with yellow, slimy expectoration. Nose obstructed. Smell lost (Nat mur). Engorgement of the nasal pharyngeal mucous membrane, mouth breathing, snoring, etc, remaining after removal of adenoids.

Face

Aches in heated room. Epithelioma.

Stomach

Tongue coated yellow and slimy. Insipid, pappy taste. Gums painful. Burning thirst, nausea, and vomiting. Load feeling. Dread of hot drinks.

Abdomen

Colicky pains; abdomen feels cold to touch; tympanitic, tense. Yellow, slimy diarrhœa. Constipation, with hæmorrhoids (Sulph).

Male

Gonorrhœa; discharge slimy, yellowish-green. Orchitis. Gleet.

Female

Menses too late, scanty, with feeling of weight in abdomen. Metrorrhagia.

Respiratory

Coarse rales. Rattling of mucus in chest (Tart em). Post-grippal cough, especially in children. Bronchial asthma, with yellow expectoration. Cough; worse in evening and in hot atmosphere. Croupy hoarseness (Hep; Spong).

Extremities

Pain in nape, back and limbs, worse in warm room. Shifting, wandering pains.

Fever

Rise of temperature at night. Intermittent fever, with yellow, slimy tongue.

Skin

Psoriasis (Ars; Thyroid). Eczema; burning, itching, papular eruption. Nettle-rash. Polypi. Epithelioma. Seborrhœa. Favus. Ring-worm of scalp or beard with abundant scales.

Modalities

Worse, in evening, heated room. Better, cool, open air.

Relationship

Compare: Kali sulph chromico.--Alum of chrome-3x (Produces in the nasal passages very fine threads from the septum to external wall; affections of nasal fossæ and hay-fever. Chronic colds. Sneezing, red, watery eyes, irritation of mucous membrane). Pulsat; Kali bich; Nat m.

Dose

Third to twelfth potency.

James Tyler Kent

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · 1905

Two very deep acting remedies unite to form this one. It was left to Schüessler to show its first curative powers.

Dewey's work, on the "Tissue Remedies" gives the best presentation from the biochemic view. The writer gathered the symptoms from reported cures for many years, and found that they were justified by the study of the two remedies entering into the formation.

Generals

Many of these symptoms come out upon the sick as aggravations. Some of these are only cured symptoms. This arrangement could be improved upon much by provings. If the reader will carefully use this remedy as herein directed he will be astonished at its depth of action, and if he uses it high he will be surprised at the length of action of every dose.

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John Henry Clarke

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1900

Kali sulphas. Potassium Sulphate. K2SO4. Trituration.

Clinical

Antrum of Highmore, disease of. Asthma. Cataract. Catarrh. Chorea. Dandriff. Dyspepsia. Eczema. Epithelioma. Eustachian catarrh. Gleet. Gonorrhœa. Itch. Nails, diseased. Nettle-rash. Ozæna. Polypus. Psoriasis. Rheumatism. Rhus poisoning. Vertigo. Whooping-cough.

Characteristics

Schüssler's account of this remedy is as follows: K. s., which in reciprocal action with iron effects the transfer of the inhaled oxygen to all the cells, is contained in all the cells containing iron. A deficiency of K. s. causes: "A sensation of heaviness and weariness, vertigo, chilliness, palpitation of the heart, anxiety, sadness, toothache, headache, and pain in the limbs." These are < in a room; in warmth; towards evening; > in open, cool air. "There ensues a desquamation of cells of the epidermis and epithelium, which have been loosened from their connection because they were not sufficiently provided with oxygen. The scaling off of these epithelial cells is …

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