====== KALIUM SULPHURICUM ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Kali Sulphuricum.</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s2}}Sulphate of Potash. {{anchor:s3}}K2 SO4.</span>

{{anchor:s4}}One of the Twelve Tissue Remedies introduced by Schuessler. {{anchor:s5}}Needs proving.

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

{{anchor:s7}}- <span grade2>Vertigo</span>, Schlegelmann, Schuessler's Biochem., p. 75; <span grade2>Falling off of hair</span>, Wesselhoeft, Schuessler's Tissue Remedies, p. 27; <span grade2>Ear affection</span>, Wesselhoeft, Schssler's Tissue Remedies, p. 25; <span grade2>Disease of antrum Highmori</span>, Wesselhoeft, Schuessler's Tissue Remedies, p. 26; <span grade2>Ozaena</span>, Wesselhoeft, Schuessler's Tissue Remedies, p. 27; <span grade2>Whooping cough</span>, Wesselhoeft, Schuessler's Tissue Remedies, p. 25; <span grade2>Whooping cough</span>, Knerr, Schuessler's Tissue Remedies, p. 26; <span grade2>Chorea</span> (13 cases), Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 11, p. 343; <span grade2>Articular rheumatism</span>, Schlegelmann, Schuessler's Biochem., p. 75; <span grade2>Epithelioma</span> (2 cases), Orth, Schuessler's Biochem., p. 68; <span grade2>Itch eruption in children</span>, Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 11, p. 352; <span grade2>Ivy poisoning</span> (Rhus tox.), Wesselhoeft, Schuessler's Tissue Remedies, p. 26.

====== SENSORIUM. [2] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s9}}Dreadful vertigo, especially on rising from lying, on standing from sitting, and when looking upwards; every moment in fear of falling and dare not leave her room.</span>

====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s11}}Rheumatic headache, agg. in warm room and in evening, amel. in open air.</span>

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s13}}Great pain on moving head from side to side or backwards; can move it forward without pain.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s14}}Yellow scales (dandruff) on scalp.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s15}}Bald spot as large as a silver dollar on left side of head; hair falls out easily when combing, all over head, also hair of beard.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s16}}~</span> <span grade3>After gonorrhea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s17}}Copious scaling of scalp, moist and sticky.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s18}}Yellow dandruff.</span>

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s20}}Purulent or yellow mucus in eye diseases.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s21}}Catarrh of conjunctiva, with yellow secretion.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s22}}Ophthalmia neonatorum.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s23}}Eyelids, with thin, yellow crusts.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s24}}Discharge from eyes yellow, slimy, or sticky watery.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s25}}Cataract.</span>

====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s27}}Deafness caused by catarrh and swelling of Eustachian tube and middle ear.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s28}}Watery, mattery discharge from ear; yellow slimy tongue.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s29}}Secretion of thin, yellow, sticky fluid after inflammation.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s30}}Brown offensive secretion from right ear; polypoid excrescence closes meatus near opening; entirely deaf in right ear for eight weeks.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s31}}Stinking otorrhea of four years' standing.</span>

====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s33}}Taste and smell lost.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s34}}~</span> <span grade3>Ozaena.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s35}}Coryza, yellow mucous discharge.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s36}}Thick, yellow, offensive discharge, alternating with watery discharge for eighteen months; left nostril agg.; menses every three weeks; takes cold easily.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s37}}~</span> <span grade3>Ozaena.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s38}}About once a week a thick, dark brown, semi-fluid accumulation of pus formed in upper left nostril, on being blown out emitted a terrible stench; about a month previous a piece of carious bone was taken from antrum Highmori, through an upper left alveolus, from which a tooth had been drawn four years previous.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s39}}Old catarrh with yellowish viscous secretion.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s41}}Faceache, agg. in warm room and in evening; amel. in cool or open air.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s42}}Epithelioma on right cheek, extending from lower eyelid to ala nasi; size of a silver dollar; ulcerating stage; indurated base and wall-like, hard, elevated edges (greatly improved).</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s43}}Epithelioma, size of half dollar, situated on right side of nose just under canthus of eye; eye sympathetically affected, either through extension of disease process, or through irritating discharge, entrance of which was facilitated by a slight destruction of edge of lower lid at canthus; conjunctivitis palpebrarum et bulbi, with haziness of cornea.</span>

====== LOWER FACE. [9] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s45}}Blistered lips and mouth.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s46}}~</span> <span grade2>Whooping cough.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s47}}Lower lip swollen.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s48}}~</span> <span grade2>Epithelioma.</span>

====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s50}}Toothache agg. in warm room and toward evening, amel. in cool open air.</span>

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s52}}Loss of taste.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s53}}~</span> <span grade2>Ozaena.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s54}}Insipid, pappy taste.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s55}}Tongue: coated with yellow mucus; yellow, slimy, sometimes with whitish edge.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s57}}Sensation of faintness at stomach, and befogged feeling in heard, fearing to lose her reason.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s58}}Pressure and feeling of fullness in stomach with a yellow mucus coating on tongue.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s59}}Indigestion, with sensation of pressure as of a load, and fullness at pit of stomach.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s60}}~</span> <span grade2>Dyspepsia.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s61}}Chronic catarrh of stomach; yellow, slimy coated tongue.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s62}}Catarrh of stomach and duodenum, with a yellow coated tongue; jaundice from it.</span>

====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s64}}Gastro-duodenal catarrh; jaundice.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s65}}Hard and tympanitic abdomen.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s66}}~</span> <span grade3>Whooping cough.</span>

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s68}}Diarrhea: yellow, slimy or watery mattery stools.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s69}}Black, thin, offensive stools.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s70}}~</span> <span grade3>Whooping cough.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s71}}Habitual constipation with coated tongue.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s72}}Hemorrhoids with catarrh of stomach and yellow, mucus coated tongue.</span>

====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s74}}Gonorrhea of glans or urethra; discharge purulent, yellow mucous, or greenish.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s75}}Orchitis after suppression of gonorrhea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s76}}Gleet.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s78}}Menses, too late and too scanty, with a feeling of weight and fullness in abdomen.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s79}}Menses every three weeks.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s80}}~</span> <span grade2>Ozaena.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s81}}Headache during menses.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s82}}Metrorrhagia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s83}}Leucorrhea yellowish, or watery mattery.</span>

====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s86}}Hoarseness after taking cold.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s87}}Bronchitis, if mucus is distinctly yellow and slimy, thin, or watery mattery and profuse.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s88}}Yellow mucus coughed up without great exertion.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s89}}~</span> <span grade3>Bronchitic asthma.</span>

====== COUGH. [27] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s91}}Whooping cough, with retching, without vomiting; inflammatory catarrhal stage; decidedly yellow, slimy expectoration.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s92}}Last stage of whooping cough; blistered lips and mouth; black, thin, offensive stools five times a day, hard, tympanitic abdomen; wasted to a shadow, given up to die.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s93}}Coarse rales; cannot cough up large amount of mucus.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s94}}~</span> <span grade3>Pneumonia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s95}}Yellow mucous expectoration.</span>

====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s97}}Inflammation of lungs, with wheezing; if yellow, loose rattling phlegm be coughed up with difficulty, or sputa consist of watery matter.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s98}}Pneumonia with coarse rales, cannot cough up mucus.</span>

====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s100}}Pains in back, nape of neck, or in limbs; periodical agg. in evening, or in warm room; amel. in cool or open air.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s101}}Backache and pains in limbs; agg. in warm room and towards evening, amel. in cool open air.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s102}}Stiff neck, head inclined towards left; shoulder raised.</span>

====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s104}}Eruption in left axilla, about neck and on back of both hands (Rhus poisoning).</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s105}}Scaly eruption mostly on arms, amel. from hot water.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s107}}Varicose ulcer on right leg just above instep, after kick of a horse three years ago; eight inches in circumference, concave, dark blue, emitting a stinking odor.</span>

====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ======

{{anchor:s109}}Pain in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s110}}Acute and wandering rheumatism of joints.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s111}}After being chilled while overheated, frightful pains in right shoulder and violent fever; pains leave shoulder and attack left knee, then go from joint to joint, and again several joints affected at a time; maddening pains, unceasing, day and night.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s112}}~</span> <span grade3>Articular rheumatism.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s113}}Pains passing from joint to joint; serous exudations.</span>

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

{{anchor:s117}}Rising from lying: dreadful vertigo.\\ {{anchor:s118}}Sitting: dreadful vertigo.\\ {{anchor:s119}}Standing: dreadful vertigo.\\ {{anchor:s120}}Moving head from side to side or backwards: great pain.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s122}}Chorea.</span>

====== SLEEP. [37] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s124}}Very vivid dreams.</span>

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

{{anchor:s126}}Evening: rheumatic headache agg.; faceache agg.; toothache agg.; pains in back and limbs agg.

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

{{anchor:s128}}Pains grow agg. in warm room and in evening; amel. in open, cool air.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Hot water: scaly eruption on arms amel.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Warm room: rheumatic headache agg.; faceache agg.; toothache agg.; pains in back, neck and limbs agg.\\ {{anchor:s131}}After being chilled while overheated: frightful pains in right shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Open air: rheumatic headache amel.; faceache amel.; toothache amel.; pains in back, neck and limbs amel.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Cold water: eruption amel.

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s135}}Intermittent fever with yellow, slimy coated tongue.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s136}}Rheumatic fever; pains shifting, wandering.</span>

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

{{anchor:s138}}Five times a day: black, thin, offensive stools.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Periodical pains: in back, neck and limbs agg. in evening.\\ {{anchor:s140}}About once a week: a thick, dark brown semi-fluid accumulation of pus formed in upper left nostril.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Every three weeks: menses.\\ {{anchor:s142}}For eight weeks: entirely deaf in right ear.\\ {{anchor:s143}}For eight months: effects of ivy poisoning.\\ {{anchor:s144}}For eighteen months: thick, yellow, offensive discharge from nose.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Four years' standing: stinking otorrhea.

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

{{anchor:s147}}Right: brown offensive secretion from ear; entirely deaf for eight weeks; epithelioma on cheek; epithelioma on side of nose; varicose ulcer on leg just above instep; frightful pains in shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Left: bald spot on side of head; a thick dark brown semi-fluid accumulation of pus formed in upper nostril; a piece of carious bone was taken from antrum Highmori through an upper alveolus; head inclined to shoulder; eruption in axilla; pains leave shoulder and attack knee.

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

{{anchor:s150}}Pressure as of a load: at pit of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Pains: in back; nape of neck; in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Maddening pains: in joints.\\ {{anchor:s153}}Frightful pains: in right shoulder; in left knee; from joint to joint.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Great pain: in head.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Acute and wandering rheumatism of joints.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Rheumatic headache.\\ {{anchor:s157}}Pressure: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Feeling of fullness: in stomach; at pit of stomach; in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Befogged feeling: in head.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Faintness: at stomach.\\ {{anchor:s161}}Burning, itching papular eruption.\\ {{anchor:s162}}Itching pimples arising singly on skin.

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s164}}Its sphere of action is in lymphatic vessels; when there is a lack of this substance, a yellow mucous catarrh arises or a yellow sticky discharge from isolated places on membranes.</span>\\ {{anchor:s165}}Secretions from mucous membranes yellowish; green.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Catarrhs, colds, with yellow, slimy secretions or expectoration of watery matter.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Inflammations, with yellow, slimy or serous secretions.\\ {{anchor:s168}}In third stage of inflammation, resolution, when a yellow mucous discharge occurs.\\ {{anchor:s169}}Effusions, watery mattery; favors resorption.\\ {{anchor:s170}}Fungoid inflammation of joints; white swelling.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s171}}Migratory rheumatism of joints.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s172}}Wasted to a shadow.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s173}}~</span> <span grade2>Whooping cough.</span>\\ {{anchor:s174}}Epithelioma; soft polypi.\\ {{anchor:s175}}Ailments accompanied by desquamation, peeling off skin, or with itching pimples arising singly on skin.

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

{{anchor:s179}}After kick of a horse three years ago: varicose ulcer on right leg.

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s181}}Jaundice caused by gastro-duodenal catarrh.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s182}}Suppressed rash of measles or other eruptive diseases, with harsh and dry skin.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s183}}Abundant scaling of epidermis.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s184}}Promotes desquamation after erysipelas; accelerates removal of scabs in smallpox.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s185}}Scarlet fever; stage of desquamation.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s186}}Burning, itching, papular eruption exuding pus-like moisture.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s187}}Recurring eruption of fine red pimples running together, presenting a red, swollen appearance; a thoroughly alkaline fluid oozes out copiously; after subsiding cuticle comes off in fine scales; itches and stings intensely amel.; formerly by cold water, lately by hot.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s188}}Scurfs, scaling, chapping.</span>\\ {{anchor:s189}}Sores on skin, with yellow, sticky secretions on limited portions, or discharges of thin, watery matter, sometimes with peeling of surrounding skin.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s190}}Epithelial cancer, discharge thin, yellow, serous.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s191}}Eczema, or skin affections; discharge decidedly yellow, slimy, sometimes sticky or watery mattery; when suddenly suppressed.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s192}}Effects of ivy poisoning (Rhus tox.) for eight months; repeatedly broke out with small, hard, herpetic vesicles, forming a thin scab, with itching and some moisture; eruption appears in left axilla, about neck and on back of both hands; she has a sensation of faintness at stomach and befogged feeling in head, fearing to lose her reason; very vivid dreams.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s193}}Nettlerash, with or without yellow slimy tongue, generally caused by indigestion.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s194}}Itch eruption in children.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s195}}Chafing of children.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s196}}Diseased condition of nails, shown in interrupted growth.</span>

====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======

{{anchor:s198}}Child, aet. 18 months; whooping cough.\\ {{anchor:s199}}Boy, aet. 10, small, dark, lean; whooping cough.\\ {{anchor:s200}}Girl, aet. 19, light complexion, scrofulous; ear affection.\\ {{anchor:s201}}Woman, aet. 25, single, dark complexion, suffering eight months; ivy poisoning (Rhus tox.).\\ {{anchor:s202}}Woman, aet. 25, married, dark complexion; ozaena.\\ {{anchor:s203}}Man, aet. 26, healthy, powerful; articular rheumatism.\\ {{anchor:s204}}Man, aet. 27, dark; falling off of hair, after gonorrhea.\\ {{anchor:s205}}Man, aet. 30, light complexion; disease of antrum Highmori.\\ {{anchor:s206}}Man, aet. 33, light complexion; ozaena.\\ {{anchor:s207}}Woman, aet. 54; vertigo.\\ {{anchor:s208}}Man, aet. 55, factory operative, ulcer on side of nose for four years, at first there was a somewhat reddened spot which was moderately elevated, and which became afterward covered with a horny crust, which later, dropping off, left an ulcer which steadily increased in depth and breadth; epithelioma.\\ {{anchor:s209}}Widow, aet. 70, suffering for years; epithelioma.

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

{{anchor:s211}}Compare: <span grade2>Kali mur.</span>, in deafness, hoarseness, pertussis; <span grade2>Natr. mur.</span>, in deafness, pains in stomach, coarse rales, profuse exudations.\\ {{anchor:s212}}Compatible: <span grade2>Acet. ac.</span>, in itching and redness of skin; <span grade2>Arsen., Calc. ostr., Hepar, Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sepia, Silica, Sulphur.</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:r200|Kalium sulphuricum]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r200|Kalium sulphuricum]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1888 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}