====== KALIUM ARSENICOSUM ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Kali Arsenicosum.</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s2}}Potassium Arsenite (Fowler's Solution). {{anchor:s3}}As2O3K2O.</span>

{{anchor:s4}}A short proving, Med. and Surg. {{anchor:s5}}Journ., 1848, p. 459; physiological and pathogenetic effects by Berndt and Cattell; see Allen's Encyclopaedia, vol. 5, p. 212; pathogenetic effects observed by Hering, MSS.

====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ======

{{anchor:s7}}- <span grade2>Melancholy and jealousy</span>, N. N.; <span grade2>Affection of uterus</span>, Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 11, p. 350; <span grade2>Neuropathia</span>, Gradowicz, Med. Ztg., vol. 3, p. 180, 1846; <span grade2>Psoriasis</span>, Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 11, p. 350.

====== MIND. [1] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s9}}Scolding, morose, retired, quarrelsome and discontented, jealous, indifferent to everything, scarcely answered questions addressed to her, or replied to them in a peevish tone; eyes had a fixed look, face looked frightened and anxious; agg. every third day.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s10}}~</span> <span grade3>Melancholy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s11}}(In sick:) Thought her head felt larger.\\ {{anchor:s12}}(In sick:) Headache in left parietal bone, as if it was sore and pressed upon by a hand; behaves like a crazy person.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s13}}Constricted feeling in head, as if there was a wound on parietal bone which was being scratched; the place feels hot; pressure does not relieve.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s14}}~</span> <span grade2>Neuropathia.</span>

====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ======

{{anchor:s16}}(OBS:) Crusta lactea.

====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s18}}Startled look, with protruding, brilliant eyes, pale face and sunken cheeks.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s19}}~</span> <span grade2>Neuropathia.</span>\\ {{anchor:s20}}(In sick:) Protrusion of eyeballs.\\ {{anchor:s21}}Conjunctiva glassy.\\ {{anchor:s22}}(In sick:) Dyspnea; injected conjunctivae, and eyeballs fixed.\\ {{anchor:s23}}(In sick:) Right eye weaker; watery, as after weeping.

====== UPPER FACE. [8] ======

{{anchor:s25}}(OBS:) Nodular eruption on face; boils.\\ {{anchor:s26}}(OBS:) Furfuraceous eruption in beard.

====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s28}}Tongue coated on edges only with mucous stripes.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s29}}~</span> <span grade2>Neuropathia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s30}}In middle towards tip of tongue smooth red spot with troublesome burning and numbness.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s31}}~</span> <span grade3>Neuralgia of tongue.</span>\\ {{anchor:s32}}(In sick:) Tongue swollen, felt too large in mouth.

====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ======

{{anchor:s34}}(In sick:) Sensation in throat and larynx as if forced asunder.

====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s36}}For one or two hours, repeated every five or ten minutes, sensation as of a ball rising from pit of stomach to larynx threatening suffocating, amel. by loud belching.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s37}}~</span> <span grade2>Neuropathia.</span>

====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s39}}From pit of stomach to spine an anxious feeling, accompanied by palpitation, not perceptible objectively.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s40}}~</span> <span grade2>Neuropathia.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s41}}Empty feeling in stomach.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s42}}~</span> <span grade2>Neuropathia.</span>

====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s44}}Violent diarrhea.</span>

====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s46}}Cauliflower excrescence of os uteri, with flying pains, pressure below os pubis, and stinking discharge.</span>

====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s48}}Pulse weak and contracted.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s49}}~</span> <span grade3>Melancholy and jealousy.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s50}}Pulse small, scarcely perceptible, rapid.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s51}}~</span> <span grade2>Neuropathia.</span>

====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s53}}Varicose veins of legs.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s54}}Ulcers on legs with general psoriasis.</span>

====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======

{{anchor:s58}}Cannot sit up in bed: on account of weakness.\\ {{anchor:s59}}Walking: causes perspiration.

====== NERVES. [36] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s61}}Such weakness she cannot sit up in bed; a loud noise or sudden, unexpected motion throws her whole body into a tremor.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s62}}~</span> <span grade2>Neuropathia.</span>

====== TIME. [38] ======

{{anchor:s64}}Night: intolerable itching of eruption.

====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ======

{{anchor:s66}}Warmth: agg. dry chronic eczema.\\ {{anchor:s67}}Undressing: at night, itching of eruption agg.

====== FEVER. [40] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s69}}Temperature of surface diminished.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s70}}~</span> <span grade3>Melancholy and jealousy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s71}}Lassitude with febrile heat.\\ {{anchor:s72}}Perspiration when walking.

====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s74}}Worse every other day in the morning.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s75}}~</span> <span grade2>Neuropathia.</span>\\ {{anchor:s76}}For one or two hours, repeated every five or ten minutes; sensation of ball rising from pit of stomach to larynx.\\ {{anchor:s77}}Every third day; mind symptoms agg.

====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======

{{anchor:s79}}Left: headache in parietal bone.

====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======

{{anchor:s81}}Head felt larger; as if left parietal bone was sore and pressed upon by a hand; as if there was a wound on parietal bone which was being scratched; tongue felt too large; sensation in throat and larynx as if forced asunder; as if a ball was rising from pit of stomach to larynx.\\ {{anchor:s82}}Pain: in left parietal bone.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Flying pain: in uterus.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Troublesome burning: in middle towards tip of tongue; of eruption on trunk, legs and forearms.\\ {{anchor:s85}}Anxious feeling: from pit of stomach to spine, accompanied by palpitation.\\ {{anchor:s86}}Constricted feeling: in head.\\ {{anchor:s87}}Pressure: below os pubis.\\ {{anchor:s88}}Lassitude: with febrile heat.\\ {{anchor:s89}}Numbness: of middle towards tip of tongue.\\ {{anchor:s90}}Intolerable itching, stinging; of eruption on trunk, legs and forehead.

====== TISSUES. [44] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s92}}Phagedenic ulcers, deep base and turned up edges.</span>\\ {{anchor:s93}}Eruptions; lichen, psoriasis, icthyosis.\\ {{anchor:s94}}(OBS:) Rheumatic, gouty and syphilitic pains.\\ {{anchor:s95}}(OBS:) Gouty nodosities.

====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ======

{{anchor:s99}}Pressure: does not relieve constricted feeling in head.

====== SKIN. [46] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s101}}Dry, wilted skin; emaciated to a skeleton.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s102}}~</span> <span grade3>Neuropathia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s103}}Acne, appearance like that in early stage of variola.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s104}}Eruption covering entire body except scalp, comes out in red papula, varying in diameter from size of pin's head to that of a three cent piece; vesicles form on summit, suppurate, crusts form and fall off, leaving a sore which heals; the places occupied by these sores are marked by a dark colored cicatrix, and the skin generally has a dusky look; intolerable itching, stinging and burning, especially on undressing at night; it is worst on trunk, legs and forearms; mind much depressed.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s105}}Lichen confluens over whole body, except face, palms and soles, and part of chest; the rest studded with papulae, particularly distinct about outer sides of thighs, arms and back; they are covered with very minute, flimsy, whitish scabs, causing a powdery appearance of skin; head very scurfy; hair crisp and dry; often irritation in skin, which becomes reddened and cracked, particularly about bend of arms and knees.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s106}}Dry chronic eczema; skin of arms thicker and rougher than natural, covered with flimsy exfoliations of epidermis; very irritable, itching and tingling when she gets warm; intensely fissured about bends of elbows and wrists; occasional exacerbation, with eruption of distinct vesicles; languor and lassitude; pale, sallow complexion; menses irregular.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s107}}Patches of psoriasis on back, arms and spreading from elbows, and anteriorly on legs, size of a crown piece, and indolent.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s108}}Lepra.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s109}}Psoriasis: scaly itchings, causing him to scratch till an ichorous fluid discharges, forming a hard cake.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s110}}Discoloration of skin after psoriasis and lepra.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s111}}Psoriasis in numerous patches, with great itching; the patches becoming more active, scale off, and are replaced by smaller, they leave beneath them a red skin.</span>

====== RELATIONS. [48] ======

{{anchor:s113}}Compare <span grade2>Arsen.</span> which it greatly resembles; <span grade2>Cinchon.</span> in periodicity; <span grade2>Cicuta</span> in fixed eyeballs; <span grade2>Iodium, Kali bich., Merc. cor.</span>

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 06, 1888 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r220|Kalium arsenicosum]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r220|Kalium arsenicosum]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1888 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}