# Kali Bromatum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Emotional Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Night

## Keynote Indications
Like all potash salts, this weakens the heart and lowers temperature. Causes brominism. 
Symptoms of allopathic overdoses are added to the proving sy mptoms and the clinical experience of 
homeopaths. 
Alberton noted that Kali -br. has been given allopathically in epileptic and other convulsive disorders with the 
idea of over whelming the disease rather than of curing it. The effect has been to reduce or p revent the 
recurrence of epileptic attacks at the expense of keeping the patient constantly under the influence of the drug 
and producing a state of mental imbecility, “decreasing the excitability and power of the motor cells of 
the brain.” 
Hare noted that  the keynotes for the bromides include general weakness and feebleness of the nervous 
system, post typhoid and post -puerperal insanity, senile softening of the brain and irritation of the gastro -
intestinal mucus membrane. 
Kali-br. affects the mind and nerves, producing failure of mental power, loss of memory.  Melancholy. 
General numbness and anesthesia of mucus membranes especially of eyes, throat and skin.  
Skin eruptions, psoriasis. Acne, especially at puberty and at the menstrual period. Clarke knew of no remedy 
of such universal useful ness in cases of simple acne as in Kali -br. 30c. Moist eruptions and pityriasis of the 
scalp. Seborrhea. Erythema nodosum. 
Epilepsy, associated with sexual excess or abuse in men and with menses in women. Attacks during the new 
moon, followed by headaches. Onset of diseased condition is slow without any pain. Convulsions. Parkinson's 
disease. Numbness of whole 
body. Symptoms of strokes.  Paralysis. Aphasia, somnolence and stertor. Loss of se xual desire. Sexual 
fantasies, satyriasis and nymphomania. Uremia. Albuminuria. Nodular form of chronic gout.  
Kali bromatum

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better when busy mentally and physically. Skin better in cold weather. Worse from mental 
exertion. Worse from emotions, anger, fright, worry, grief. Worse at night. Worse at 2 a.m. Worse periodically, 
new moon. Worse at summer, hot weather. Worse from puberty. Worse before, during and after menses. 
Worse unsatisfied sexual desire. Worse sexual excess. Cough worse lying down.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Brain fag from grief and anxiety.
- Failing brain-power (Anae., Bar-c., Phos.).
- Loss of memory.
- Forgetful 
on waking in morning.
- Senile softening of the brain.
- Weak memory, confused thoughts.
- Perception slow, 
answers slowly.
- Mistakes in speaking or writing.
- Confu sion as to his identity, over daily affairs.
- Amnesic aphasia.
- Aphasia, 
from embolism of middle cerebral artery.
- Forgets how to talk, has to be told the word before he can speak it.
- Ailments after emotional excitement.
- Nervous irritability from severe illness or death of a friend, loss of property 
or reputation.
- Wrings hands, hands and fingers in constant motion.
- Feeling of helplessness, in afternoon.
- Fits of uncontrollable weeping.
- Extremely sensitive to pain.
- Fidgety, busy hands, fumbles in his pockets.
- Hurried when eating.
- Moves arms 
about wildly.
- Headstrong and haughty when sick.
- Domineering.
- Loss of self-confidence.
- Constant fear of breaking down under stress.
- Constant worry, fears to see people or to be spoken to.
- Fear of 
being alone, of his own shadow, to walk past certain corners, of a ringing doorbell.
- Fear of new people.
- Fear 
of insanity.
- Fear of being poisoned (Hyos.).
- Sadness in morning on waking.
- Melan choly, much concerned about health, com plains without cause.
- Deep 
depression with painful delusions andpersistentinsomnia.
- Profound indifference and disgust for life.
- Suicidal depression, mania with trembling.
- Manic depression.
- Schizophrenia.
- Religious depression.
- Feeling of moral deficiency; want of moral feeling.
- Imag ines he is singled out as an 
object of divine wrath.
- Dread of impending destruction of all near to her.
- Remorse, wrings hands, bursts in to 
tears.
- Active delirium.
- Delirium with delusions.
- Paranoid delusions, thinks he is pursued.
- Suspicious, delusions 
of conspiracies, that his life is threatened.
- Delusion he will com mit some great crime, that she will murder her 
children or husband, that her child is dead.
- Delusion that he is a devil.
- Hallucinations of sight and sound, with or without mania, precede brain and paralytic symptoms.
- Horrible 
visions, can't be comforted by friends.
- Mental symptoms after a stroke.
- Chronic alcoholism.
- Brain fag from grief and anxiety.
- Failing brain-power (Anae., Bar-c., Phos.).
- Loss of memory.
- Forgetful 
on waking in morning.
- Senile softening of the brain.
- Weak memory, confused thoughts.
- Perception slow, 
answers slowly.
- Mistakes in speaking or writing.
- Confu sion as to his identity, over daily affairs.
- Amnesic aphasia.
- Aphasia, 
from embolism of middle cerebral artery.
- Forgets how to talk, has to be told the word before he can speak it.
- Ailments after emotional excitement.
- Nervous irritability from severe illness or death of a friend, loss of property 
or reputation.
- Wrings hands, hands and fingers in constant motion.
- Feeling of helplessness, in afternoon.
- Fits of uncontrollable weeping.
- Extremely sensitive to pain.
- Fidgety, busy hands, fumbles in his pockets.
- Hurried when eating.
- Moves arms 
about wildly.
- Headstrong and haughty when sick.
- Domineering.
- Loss of self-confidence.
- Constant fear of breaking down under stress.
- Constant worry, fears to see people or to be spoken to.
- Fear of 
being alone, of his own shadow, to walk past certain corners, of a ringing doorbell.
- Fear of new people.
- Fear 
of insanity.
- Fear of being poisoned (Hyos.).
- Sadness in morning on waking.
- Melan choly, much concerned about health, com plains without cause.
- Deep 
depression with painful delusions andpersistentinsomnia.
- Profound indifference and disgust for life.
- Suicidal depression, mania with trembling.
- Manic depression.
- Schizophrenia.
- Religious depression.
- Feeling of moral deficiency; want of moral feeling.
- Imag ines he is singled out as an 
object of divine wrath.
- Dread of impending destruction of all near to her.
- Remorse, wrings hands, bursts in to 
tears.
- Active delirium.
- Delirium with delusions.
- Paranoid delusions, thinks he is pursued.
- Suspicious, delusions 
of conspiracies, that his life is threatened.
- Delusion he will com mit some great crime, that she will murder her 
children or husband, that her child is dead.
- Delusion that he is a devil.
- Hallucinations of sight and sound, with or without mania, precede brain and paralytic symptoms.
- Horrible 
visions, can't be comforted by friends.
- Mental symptoms after a stroke.
- Chronic alcoholism.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo, as if ground gave way, worse stooping.
- Vertigo with palpitations, nausea and even 
unconsciousness.
- Dizziness, noises in ear, nervous excitement, sleepless.
- Staggering gait.
- COMMENTS - Kali-br.
- has a very profound action on the generative organs and the mental side of the 
generative sphere causing sensual, lascivious fancies, satyriasis and nymphoma nia, and finally impotence 
and wasting of the sexual organs.
- Epilepsy, particularly cases associated with sex ual excess or abuse in men and those in which the fits occur 
during or near the menstrual period in women.
- Epilepsy after fright, anger, or childbirth.
- Can be affected by 
phases of the moon.
- Headache after the attack.
- Spasms from fright, anger or emotions.
- Spasms in nervous, plethoric persons during childbirth.
- Staggering 
gait, ataxia, numbness and tingling in legs and spine with increase in sexual appetite.
- Paralysis with twitchings of the limbs.
- Fidgeting of the hands and feet (Hyos.).
- Reflexes are dimini shed and 
there is loss of general sensibility and also of certain parts, particularly fauces, larynx and urethra.
- Benumbed 
sensation of the brain.
- Schizophrenia, manic depression.
- Suicidal depression.
- Depressed, melancholic, uncon trollable weeping.
- Laughing and crying fits.
- Disordered faculties.
- Fear of going insane, fear of losing mental or emotional control.
- Memory loss, amnesia (Anae.).
- Aphasia.
- Chronic insomnia, especially in the el derly (Calc., Ars.).
- Insomnia due to worry, mortification, grief, fina ncial 
shock and loss (Aur.).
- Restlessness and sleeplessness from worry.
- Drowsiness.
- Deep sleep may be broken by a start, though waking is very difficult.
- Confused dreams.
- Night terrors in children 
where they scream, without recollection of the terror (Tub.
- , Calc.).
- Grind teeth and moan while sleeping.
- Sleepwalking.
- Cholera infantum with hydrocephalic symptoms.
- Dentition.
- Whooping cough.
- Bright's disease.
- Acne, 
particularly relating to hormonal changes.
- Sebaceous cysts and wens.
- Growths.
- Ovarian cysts, fibroids and fatty tumors.
- Uterine hemorrhage, with ovarian tumors.
- Metrorrhagia or menorrhagia, may arise from reflected irritation and may be accom panied with sexual 
excitement.
- Hering noted that Kali-br.
- is useful for “flooding, especially in young women.” 
Amory Hare noted that pulmonary edema or suffocative bronchitis may develop in the lungs.
- The patient may 
become cachectic and the condition can resemble typhoid fever.
- Wenzel Heyberger recorded a case of diabetes in a woman, 68, cured with Kali - br.
- The patient had been ill 
five months and was reduced to a skeleton.
- She first noticed a remarkably good appetite, but after meals had 
heartburn and belchings.
- She had polyuria and frequent distur bances at night to pass water.
- Weak in the head, confused, memory  
impaired.
- Vision was almost gone.
- Rushing and roaring in ears.
- Tormenting thirst.
- Stools difficult and delayed.
- Powders medicated with Kali-br.
- 2c were given, one every six hours.
- The first night the patient slept without disturbance and the quantity of urine and proportion of sugar diminished.
- After about six weeks, the improvement seemed to stop and Kali -br.
- was given in allopathic doses, but this 
aggravated the condition.
- Kali-br.
- 2c was resumed and the case went to a cure.
- Hale cured with Kali -br.
- many cases of cholera infantum and one case of “violent periodic umbilical colic, 
leaving tenderness on pressure.” The characteristic hour of recurrence was 5 p.m.
- Buford used it extensively in such cases and in potencies approaching the crude form.
- Kali -br.
- i s more 
particularly adapted to persons inclined to obesity, to children, and to nervous women.
- More symptoms have 
been noted on the right side than on the left.

### Head
- Heaviness of head, confusion, slow speech, staggers as if drunk.
- Numbfeeling in head, worse occiput.
- Severe throbbing, aching, in occipital region.
- Headache from concussion of brain.
- Headache after epi leptic 
attack.
- Migrain e with flushed face, throbbing temples, injected conjunctiva, photophobia.
- Congestive 
headaches.
- Mercurial headache.
- Brain irritated.
- Anemia of brain from loss of fluids.
- Symptoms of apoplexy.
- Constrictive sensation in brain as if too tight.
- Drooping of h ead, cannot hold it erect.
- Incipient meningitis.
- Hydrocephalus.
- Scalp feels tight.
- Seborrhea.
- Pityriasis.
- Heaviness of head, confusion, slow speech, staggers as if drunk.
- Numbfeeling in head, worse occiput.
- Severe throbbing, aching, in occipital region.
- Headache from concussion of brain.
- Headache after epi leptic 
attack.
- Migrain e with flushed face, throbbing temples, injected conjunctiva, photophobia.
- Congestive 
headaches.
- Mercurial headache.
- Brain irritated.
- Anemia of brain from loss of fluids.
- Symptoms of apoplexy.
- Constrictive sensation in brain as if too tight.
- Drooping of h ead, cannot hold it erect.
- Incipient meningitis.
- Hydrocephalus.
- Scalp feels tight.
- Seborrhea.
- Pityriasis.

### Eyes
- Eyes sunken, lusterless, gaze fixed.
- Eyeballs move in every direction.
- Squint ing after night terrors of 
children.
- Vision dim.
- Pupils dilated, with heavy lids and drowsiness.
- Vessels of fundus enlarged, conjunctiva 
congested.

### Ears
- Hardness of hearing.
- Ringing in ear.
- Sounds echo in ears, headache.
- Roaring synchronous with pulse, 
at night.

### Face
- Acne in young people.
- Acne worse before menses.
- Pimples on face, cheeks and forehead.
- Bluish -
red eruptions.
- Itching pimples, pustules leave scars.
- Complexion yellow, cachectic.
- Face flushed.
- Face 
pale, appeared as one drunk 
with hallucinations.
- Expression wearied, anxious, dull, stupefied, imbecile, expressionless.
- Papular rash.

### Mouth
- Fetid breath, a peculiar sickening odor, profuse s aliva.
- Suppressed saliva tion in teething children.
- Foul, salty taste.
- Loss of taste.
- Numbness.
- Difficult speech, stammering.
- Nose - Smell impaired.
- Erythematous swelling of nose.
- Coryza with tendency to extension into throat.
- Thick 
mucus and yellow scabs in nostrils.
- Perspiration - Sweat abundant, viscid, all over, long lasting and exhausting (ague).

### Throat
- Congestion of uvula and fauces, then edematous.
- Anesthesia of fauces, pharynx and larynx.
- Hoarseness, extremely painful and disagreeable.
- Dryness of throat.
- Dysphagia of liquids, can swallow only 
solids, especially in children (Hyos.).
- Lar yngismus stridulus, uncomplicated, from neurosis or reflex irritation.
- Spasmodic croup.
- Chronic catarrh.
- Diphtheria with quick pulse, fever, dry tongue, and offensive breath.
- Tongue - Tongue protrudes with a jerk, chorea.
- Tongue is red, brown, dry, enlarged, tender.
- White tongue.

### Chest
- Burning in chest.
- Tightness of chest when breathing.
- Constitutions - Nervous constitutions.
- Children who can swallow solids with ease from birth, yet choke when 
they try to drink.
- Cough - Cough dry, hard and almost inces sant.
- Dry, fatiguing, paroxysmal cough.
- Dry, spasmodic cough in 
 
 
weak, nervous children.
- Dry cough due to reflex action from stomach, intestines or uterus.
- Hack ing cough at 
night.
- Whooping cough.
- Nervous cough during pregnancy.
- Weakens the heart and lowers temperature.
- Feeble heart with intermitting action.
- Action of heart slow 
and fluttering.
- Heart's beat weak, sou nds distant and feeble.
- Pulse, accelerated, later becomes slower and 
small.
- Cardiac neuroses from spinal or uterine irritation.
- Kidneys - Diabetes mellitus (Ph-ac.).i Urethra numb, sensibility diminished.
- Incontinence of urine.
- Involuntary 
nocturnal emiss ions of urine.
- Neuralgia of neck of bladder.
- Urine profuse with thirst.
- Urine copious, pale, 
abundance of phosphates.
- Urine scanty, even suppressed in collapse.
- Urine dribbling a few drops at beginning 
of every stool.
- Asthma with dry cough, tosses arms about wildly.
- Asthma of nervous origin .
- Spasmodic asthma of 
children.
- Infantile capillary bronchitis with severe dyspnea.
- Pneumonia in alcoholics.
- Great dyspnea, breath 
hot, hurried.
- Spasmodic croup.
- Cough dry, fatiguing, hacking cough at night.
- Copious, whitish expectoration 
in torpid cases of bronchitis.
- Reflex cough during pregnancy.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Dyspepsia.
- Weakness of stomach.
- Persistent hiccough  (Sul-ac.).
- Vomiting of all drinks and 
intense thirst, with cholera infantum.
- Vomiting with intense thirst after each meal.
- Vomiting of mucus.
- Hysterical 
vomiting after exciting emotions.
- Vomiting of alcoholics after a debauch.
- Morning sickness.
- Abdomen sunken, almost stuck to vertebral column.
- Retraction of abdo men with spasms.
- Prostration.
- Ascites of hepatic or splenic origin.
- Flatulent colic.
- Colic in young children.
- Cutting colic.
- Internal 
coldness of abdomen during painless diarrhea.
- Sensation as if bowels were falling out.
- Trembling sensation 
in bowels.
- Enlargement of liver and spleen.
- Small tumor in region of spleen.
- Taste foul, salty, lost.
- Intense thirst with dry mouth.
- Dysphagia of liquids (Hyos.).
- Troublesome pressure 
at stomach after diner, lassitude.
- Anorexia.

### Urinary & Genital
- Spermatorrhea.
- Chordee during gonorrhea.
- Effects of sexual excesses, especially loss of memory, 
impaired co -ordination, numbness and tingling in limbs.
- Lessened desire, debility and impotence, with 
melancholy, epilepsy, nervous prostration.
- Lascivious fancies and dreams.
- Erections at night, with backache, 
uncontrollable fidgetiness.
- Im potence with melancholy, loss of memory, nervous prostration, epilepsy.
- Excessive sexual desire with constant erections at night.
- Satyriasis.
- Sexual excitement during partial slumber.
- Menses scanty.
- Epileptic attacks at or near menstrual periods.
- Menorrhagia with strong sexual 
desire.
- Headache, insomnia, and heat in genitals after menses.
- Metrorrhagia.
- Flood ing in young women with 
sexual desire.
- Sterility from excessive sexual indulgence.
- Sexual feeling lost.
- Aversion to sex (Sep.).
- Excessive 
sexual desire during menses.
- Nymphomania during puerperal state.
- Pruritus of external genitals.
- Voluptuous 
itching, ti ngling and irritation in external genitals.
- Ovarian neu ralgia.
- with great nervous uneasiness from 
ungratified sexual desire.
- Cystic tumors of ovaries.
- Ovarian swelling, tenderness of left ovary.
- Uterine fibroids.
- Induration of uterus.
- Enlargement of uterus.
- Subinvolution.
- Vaginismus.
- Convulsions during labor.
- Painful heat 
flushings and congestion to head during menopause.

### Extremities
- Jerking and twitching of muscl es.
- Fidgety hands, busy twitching of fingers.
- Hands and fingers in 
constant motion.
- Trembling of hands during voluntary motion.
- Unsteady gait.
- Cannot stand erect, legs weak.

### Neck & Back
- Backache, tired lameness of legs.
- Tabes dorsalis from sexual excesses.
- Causations - Ill effects of worry, anger, fright, emotional disturbance.
- Chorea from fright.
- Loss of business, 
reputation and embarrassment.
- Illness or death of a near friend.
- Sexual excess, sexual abuse.

### Skin
- Anesthesia of skin.
- Skin cold, clammy .Acne simplex andindurate, bluish red, pustular, worse on face 
and chest.
- Acne of face, cheeks and forehead.
- Pimples leave scars.
- Itching, worse on chest, shoulders and 
face.
- Psoriasis, syphilitic psoriasis.
- Moist ec zema of legs.
- Moist eruptions, scars remaining after eruptions.
- Eruption of small boils in successive crops with troublesome itching.
- Large indolent, pain ful pustules, boils.
- Seborrhea.
- Pityriasis.
- Rose-colored eruption on lower limbs.
- Long lasting scrofu lous ulcerations.
- Sebaceous 
cysts.
- Scars remaining after eruptions.

### Sleep
- Extreme drowsiness.
- Insomnia.
- Sleeplessness due to worry, grief and sexual excess.
- Sleeplessness 
in anemic patients or nervous persons.
- Sleepless, restless can only calm herself b y incessant occupa tion.
- Sleeplessness during convalescence from acute diseases.
- Restless sleep.
- Deep,  
profound sleep.
- Grinding teeth in sleep.
- Night terrors in children, awake scream ing, unconscious, 
recognizes no one, followed by squinting.
- Sleepwalking in children.
- Waking with severe headache in a child.
- Horrible dreams.

### Generalities
- Parts feel as if growing large.
- Paroxysms of numbness, feels as if needles were pricking him.
- Trembling sensation.