Kalium tartaricum
Potassium tartrate · Mineral
Kalium tartaricum is notable for its action on the lower limbs producing paraplegia, and on the gastrointestinal tract with vomiting of blackish-green fluid and stools like coffee-grounds. The picture suggests a serious toxic state with profound weakness and emaciation. Pain in the loins associated with paralysis is a characteristic feature.
Key symptoms
- Paraplegia with complete paralysis of thighs and legs
- Severe pain in loins
- Vomiting of blackish-green fluid
- Feces like coffee-grounds
- Great thirst with pain in umbilical region
- Tongue brown and dry
- Extreme weakness, can scarcely walk
Tartrate of Potash. Cream of Tartar. K2C4H4O6. Trituration. Solution.
Clinical
Paraplegia.
Characteristics
A few symptoms of this well-known substance are collected in Allen, and among them pain in loins and paraplegia are very noticeable. There is vomiting of blackish green fluid; fæces like coffee-grounds; and pain in umbilical region with great thirst.
Relations
Compare: Ant. t., Tart. ac.
8. Mouth
Tongue brown and dry.
11. Stomach
Great thirst and pain in umbilical region.─Violent vomiting and diarrhœa.─Vomits a blackish green fluid.─Inflammation of stomach and intestines.
12. Abdomen
Pain in umbilical region with thirst.─Flatulence and griping.─Diarrhœa; and violent vomiting.─Fæces like coffee-grounds.
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