Kissingen
Bad Kissingen mineral spring water · Mineral
Kissingen mirrors the action of its chief constituent Natrum muriaticum and produces a significant eliminatory crisis in the first week of use, with reappearance of old complaints, altered secretions, and moral and physical prostration. It is especially suited to abdominal affections, intestinal atony, liver and spleen disorders, gout, and convalescence from typhoid and cholera.
Key symptoms
- Reappearance of old and long-forgotten ailments during healing crisis
- Brownish loose bilious stools during eliminatory crisis
- Turbid urine rapidly putrefying with sediment
- Increased secretion from bronchial, genital, ocular, and skin membranes
- Intestinal atony with catarrhal condition of digestive tract
- Affections of liver, spleen, and intestinal glands
- Moral and physical prostration during crisis phase
Worse (aggravation)
- Initial aggravation of old symptoms in the first or second week of treatment
Better (amelioration)
- After the initial eliminatory crisis passes, progressive cure follows
Cold, chlorinated, gaseous, saline Springs of Kissingen in Bavaria (Source Rakoczy). Dilution.
Clinical
Albuminuria. Constipation. Corns. Diabetes. Diarrhœa. Gout. Hæmorrhoids. Liver, affections of. Mesenteric glands, affections of. Noises in ears. Rectum, affections of. Spleen, affections of. Warts.
Characteristics
The water of Kissingen has been proved by Carl Preu, and observations have been made on its general effects. The composition of the solid constituents is very complicated, but Nat. mur. is the leading ingredient, existing in the proportion of 5.82 out of a total of 8.55 in the 1,000. It compares with Nauheim, Kreutznach, and, to some extent, with Vichy. Constantin James gives an excellent account of its action, and one of especial interest to homœopaths, as it bears strongly on the doctrine of chronic diseases and the homœopathic aggravation. The dose is from three to six glasses of the water in the morning and two at 4 p.m.; but the general rule is that no more is to be drunk than the stomach …
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