# Kali Carbonicum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
Source:  Derived  from  potassium  carbonate  (K₂CO₃),  a  chemical  compound,  prepared  for. homeopathic  use  through  serial  dilution  and  succussion  to  eliminate  toxicity  and  enhance. therapeutic action. Traditional  Context:  Historically  employed  in  homeopathy  for  respiratory,  cardiovascular,. musculoskeletal, psychological, and systemic disorders , particularly those involving weakness,. stitching pains, and sensitivity to cold. It is noted for symptoms such as asthma, palpitations, back. pain, anxiety, and exhaustion, often aggravated by cold, night (especially 2–4 a.m.), or lying on the. affected side, and ameliorated by warmth, motion, or sitting up. Modern  Context:  Indicated  for  respiratory  conditions (e.g.,  asthma,  chronic  obstructive. pulmonary disease), cardiovascular conditions (e.g., palpitations, heart failure), musculoskeletal. conditions (e.g.,  lumbago,  arthritis),  psychological  conditions (e.g.,  anxiety,  depression),  and. systemic conditions (e.g., chronic fatigue, edema). It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms. characterized  by  stitching  pains,  respiratory  distress,  cardiac  irregularities,  anxiety,  or. weakness, typically exacerbated by cold, night, or rest, and often seen in individuals with chronic. respiratory conditions, cardiovascular issues, or stress-related anxiety. The remedy is particularly. relevant for those with a chilly, sensitive constitution, often presenting with physical symptoms like. dyspnea or back pain alongside psychological symptoms like irritability or fearfulness, commonly. observed  in  patients  with  asthma,  heart  failure,  or  generalized  anxiety  disorder  triggered  by. environmental or emotional stressors.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from: Cold (weather, air, drinks), night (especially 2–4 a.m.), lying on the affected. side,  rest,  exertion,  emotional  stress,  cold  drinks,  damp  weather,  morning,  solitude,. menstruation.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Obstinate and dogmatic.
- Narrowminded, rigid, strong imprinted beliefs.
- Deep desire for routine, 
propriety.
- Impractical, stoic.
- Refusal to admit to sickness.
- May mislead others by acting healthier than they 
are.
- Antagonism with herself.
- Quarrels with family.
- Peevish and irritable, after sex.
- Im petuous.
- Desire for 
company, yet treats them outrageously and worse from consolation.
- Alternating mood, at one time good an d quiet, at another excited and angry at trifles.
- Frequently hopeful, 
frequently despondent.
- Indifference with bodily exhaustion.
- Sad ness in open air.
- Great depression.
- Want of 
self-confidence.
- Mental dullness.
- Weakness of memory for expressing oneself.
- I mpaired intellect.
- Absentminded, forgetful.
- At 
a loss to know how to say what she wishes.
- Sudden attack of unconsciousness.
- Sensation as if bed were 
sinking.
- Desire to be carried.
- Full offear and imaginations.
- Frightened from touch.
- Fear of death when alone.
- Imagines himself sick.
- Fears of the future, of the unknown, of ghosts.
- Fear of losing control.
- Kleptomania.
- Anxiety, in stomach.
- Anxious about his own diseased condition.
- Anxiety from flatulence when lying on right 
side.
- Anxiety, excitement when hungry.
- Nervous excitability, hysteria, sudden shrieking.
- Hypersensitive to pain, noise touch.
- Easily startled, starts when touched especially on feet, on dropping to 
sleep.
- Starting from noise.
- Never quiet or contented.
- Admonitions causes weeping.
- Weeping when telling of 
her sickness.
- Weeping with headache.
- Abdomen - Yellow, scaly spots on ab 
domen.
- Distension and coldness of abdomen.
- Hard, tympanitic and cold.
- Abdomen feels as if it would burst.
- Hard distension of abdomen with painfulness 
Kali carbonicum of umbilical region.
- Throbbing at navel.
- Much flatulence.
- Incarceration of flatus with colic.
- Pain from left side through abdomen, must turn on right side before he can rise.
- Cutting pain as if intestines 
were torn.
- Feeling as if a cold fluid passed through intestines during menses.
- Sensa tion of a lump rising from 
the abdomen, to throat and on coughing.
- Swelling of inguinal glands.
- Obstinate and dogmatic.
- Narrowminded, rigid, strong imprinted beliefs.
- Deep desire for routine, 
propriety.
- Impractical, stoic.
- Refusal to admit to sickness.
- May mislead others by acting healthier than they 
are.
- Antagonism with herself.
- Quarrels with family.
- Peevish and irritable, after sex.
- Im petuous.
- Desire for 
company, yet treats them outrageously and worse from consolation.
- Alternating mood, at one time good an d quiet, at another excited and angry at trifles.
- Frequently hopeful, 
frequently despondent.
- Indifference with bodily exhaustion.
- Sad ness in open air.
- Great depression.
- Want of 
self-confidence.
- Mental dullness.
- Weakness of memory for expressing oneself.
- I mpaired intellect.
- Absentminded, forgetful.
- At 
a loss to know how to say what she wishes.
- Sudden attack of unconsciousness.
- Sensation as if bed were 
sinking.
- Desire to be carried.
- Full offear and imaginations.
- Frightened from touch.
- Fear of death when alone.
- Imagines himself sick.
- Fears of the future, of the unknown, of ghosts.
- Fear of losing control.
- Kleptomania.
- Anxiety, in stomach.
- Anxious about his own diseased condition.
- Anxiety from flatulence when lying on right 
side.
- Anxiety, excitement when hungry.
- Nervous excitability, hysteria, sudden shrieking.
- Hypersensitive to pain, noise touch.
- Easily startled, starts when touched especially on feet, on dropping to 
sleep.
- Starting from noise.
- Never quiet or contented.
- Admonitions causes weeping.
- Weeping when telling of 
her sickness.
- Weeping with headache.
- Abdomen - Yellow, scaly spots on ab 
domen.
- Distension and coldness of abdomen.
- Hard, tympanitic and cold.
- Abdomen feels as if it would burst.
- Hard distension of abdomen with painfulness 
Kali carbonicum of umbilical region.
- Throbbing at navel.
- Much flatulence.
- Incarceration of flatus with colic.
- Pain from left side through abdomen, must turn on right side before he can rise.
- Cutting pain as if intestines 
were torn.
- Feeling as if a cold fluid passed through intestines during menses.
- Sensa tion of a lump rising from 
the abdomen, to throat and on coughing.
- Swelling of inguinal glands.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo on turning around, when rapidly turning head or body, when walking.
- Vertigo from riding in a 
carriage.
- Vertigo, as if proceeding from stomach.
- Must lie down as soon as vertigo comes on, otherwise he is 
thrown down.
- Vertigo, as after intoxication.
- Vision - Vision weak after measles, miscar riage, after sex.
- Spots, gauze and black points before the eyes.
- Bright sparks, blue, green spots, drops.
- Muscae volitantes while reading or looking at a bright light.
- Sees sparks, during cough.
- Can't fix sight of any object steadily without water run ning from eyes and feeling 
of dizziness.
- COMMENTS - Generally very sensitive to changes in weather, particularly sensitive in affected area.
- Chilly, 
tendency to take cold.
- Symptoms worse when body temperature is low, aversion to open air.
- Very sensitive to 
drafts, will catch a cold at every little draft.
- Cannot tolerate drafts (Nux-v., Calc., Hep., Sulph.).
- Easily startled by any noise, especially if unexpected.
- Cannot bear to be touched, starts when touched ever 
so lightly, especially on the feet.
- Generally right sided, particularly the base of the right lung, and the apices, 
according to Goullon.
- Worse exertion.
- Characteristic sweat, backache and weakness, particularly in conditions of debility from loss of fluids.
- Keynote 
bag-like swellings or puffiness around the upper eye, eyebrow, can be between the eyebrows.
- Alternating 
symptoms.
- Organ pathology due to suppressed mental symptoms.
- Constant backache, with a giving out feeling in the back and legs, or as if the back was broken.
- The pain may 
extend downwards to the buttocks and even to the knee.
- Pain from hip to knee (more especially if right sided).
- Lower backache, especially during labor, menstrual cramps.
- Lumbago.
- Hip joint disease.
- Spasms, pu erperal convulsions and paralysis.
- Twitching of muscles, rigidity of 
muscles, muscular atony.
- Disposition to over lifting.
- Stitching pains, pulsations, better by pres sure and by lying flat on the back.
- Sharp, stabbing pains that are 
worse motion.
- Sticking, burning, sharp pains l ike knives or needles.
- Sharp pains, wandering and stabbing, 
especially with arthritis.
- Osteoarthritis, deformative arthritis and migratory arthritis, pains that go from joint to joint.
- Burning and stabbing 
pains in the fingers and toes.
- Gout, gouty arthrit is.
- Stiffness in neck and shoulders.
- Pain worse motion, with 
sharp pains.
- Edema.
- Peripheral edema, varicose veins.
- Affinity for tissues.
- Tumors, cancers and fibroids.
- Affects the blood and circulation.
- Anemia with great debility, 
skin watery, milky white.
- Hemorrhages.
- Dropsical disorders.
- Ulcers, bleeding at night.
- Throbbing of blood vessels all over body and to ends of fingers and toes.
- Irregular heart.
- Fatty degeneration 
of the heart and other muscles.
- Sensation as if the heart were suspended by a thread.
- History of heart attack.
- Great affinity for the lungs.
- Pneumonia and pleurisy (Bry.), worse coughing or movement, better pressure.
- Chronic re spiratory problems in the elderly (Phos.).
- Sharp, stabbing, and stitching pains in the lungs.
- Oppression of breathing.
- Shortness of breath.
- Asthma, better sitting up in bed or on all fours.
- May sit up in bed 
 
 
with pillows (Ars.), may sleep sitting up.
- Coughs worse from 2 a.m.
- to 4 a.m.
- Dry, paroxysmal cough, loosens viscid mucus or pus which must be 
swallowed.
- Spasms with gagging or vomiting of ingesta.
- Expectoration of hard, white or smoky masses, which 
fly from the throat when coughing, with globules of pus.
- Tendency to sinus headaches.
- Useful for sick headaches.
- Violent headaches about the inner temples, violent 
stitching or jerking pains, on one side of the head or both.
- One sided headache with nausea.
- Pressure and 
drawing in forehead extending into eyes  and root of nose.
- Congestion to head and heat of face often 
accompany the headaches.
- Toothache, only when eating.
- Easy chok ing, foodeasily gets into windpipe.
- Difficulty swallowing.
- Pain in the 
back when swallowing.
- Fish bone sensation in the throat, general tendency to stitching pains.
- Disordered digestion, flatulence, distention, constipation.
- Gas, bloating, craving for sweets (Lyc.).
- Intolerance 
for milk, aversion to brown bread.
- Colic pains, severe colitis.
- Lack of muscular control especially with u rologic 
things.
- History of diabetes.
- Premenstrual syndrome with bloating, wa ter retention.
- Very sensitive breasts, painful before the period.
- Backache with period, or 
preceding period.
- Insufficient labor pains, transferred labor.
- Labor pains felt in back (Cimic., felt in thighs).
- Insomnia, cannot relax, without reason.
- Unrefreshed sleep.
- Drowsiness, while eat ing.
- Worse after sex, feel 
weak and prostrated (Sil., Calc.), sleepless after sex.
- Complaints after sex in males, especially complaints of 
the eyes.
- One case of a headache that Clarke cured was better by lying down, better by a tight band around the head.
- A man had an ulcer of the right leg with swelling of the ankle and he complained of waking at 2 a.m.
- Kali -c.
- 30c cured, but in the meantime he developed a great weakness of the right thigh, as if it would give out when 
walking.
- The symptom “pain from the hip to the knee” led to a cure in a woman, 73, stout, short, pale and of very soft 
tissue, who had for four months suffered from rheumatic pains, and an offensive vaginal discharge.
- A local practitioner was consulted and pronounced it cancer of the womb in an advanced stage and gave her 
four months to live.
- She described to Clarke the pain as be ing all around the lower abdomen and a ‘‘dull, 
heavy, depressing, dead pain, commencing at the inner part of the top of the right hip, iliac crest and extending 
to the knee.” 
The pain was so severe it made her feel quite sick and faint.
- The discharge was very offensive like decaying 
meat.
- Great weakness and trem bling accompanied the discharge.
- Urine was almost like blood at times, and 
had a sandy sediment.
- Kali-c.
- 1,000c.
- was given and at once improvement set in.
- In a few months all the bad symptoms had 
disappeared and never returned.
- The patient lived ten years after this episode.
- Id of Stettin, Germany, recorded the case of a woman, 65, who suffered from chronic bronchial catarrh and 
emphysema.
- In November, 1886, she had asthmatic complaints, depriving her of sleep with cough and mucus 
expectoration difficult to raise.
- She was so weary when eating that she fell asleep and could not finish her meal.
- Tired after eating.
- In the morning, passed much flatulence.
- Kali-c.
- 10c removed the condition in a few days.
- The following March after a cold there was a recurrence, but without the weariness, and Kali-c.
- failed.
- Ars.
- 15c 
rapidly cured.
- The same patient also had a toothache alternating with tearing, stitching pain in left breast and under left false 
ribs.
- The side pains were worse at night, especially in evening as soo n as she lay down, worse lying down, 
particularly worse lying on the right (painless) side.
- Not influenced by pressure or motion.

### Head
- Burning in top of head and soles of feet.
- Headache from riding in cold wind.
- Headache comes on 
with yawning.
- Wakes from headache.
- Headache into eyes, worse motion, sneezing, coughing, stooping, 
yawning.
- Headache better when raising the head and pressing the forehead.
- Headache on riding in carriage.
- Catarrhal, congestive headaches,  better free dis charge from nose.
- One -sided headache with nausea.
- Throbbing and humming.
- Sensation as if something loose in head, turning, twisting towards the forehead.
- Aching in occiput.
- Sharp pains in forehead, temples.
- Pressing as of a stone in forehead and vertex.
- Pressure 
and drawing tearing in forehead.
- Great dryness of hair.
- Hair, dry, falls out (Fl -ac.) from eyebrows, temple s 
and beard.
- Painful tumors on scalp.
- Wens on scalp.
- Burning in top of head and soles of feet.
- Headache from riding in cold wind.
- Headache comes on 
with yawning.
- Wakes from headache.
- Headache into eyes, worse motion, sneezing, coughing, stooping, 
yawning.
- Headache better when raising the head and pressing the forehead.
- Headache on riding in carriage.
- Catarrhal, congestive headaches,  better free dis charge from nose.
- One -sided headache with nausea.
- Throbbing and humming.
- Sensation as if something loose in head, turning, twisting towards the forehead.
- Aching in occiput.
- Sharp pains in forehead, temples.
- Pressing as of a stone in forehead and vertex.
- Pressure 
and drawing tearing in forehead.
- Great dryness of hair.
- Hair, dry, falls out (Fl -ac.) from eyebrows, temple s 
and beard.
- Painful tumors on scalp.
- Wens on scalp.

### Eyes
- Asthenopia.
- Sharp pains in eyes.
- Pressure in and above eyes.
- Eyes as if pressed inward, while reading.
- Soreness of  external canthus, with burning pain.
- Small round ulcers on cornea.
- Painful sensation of light 
penetrating the brain on shutting the eyes.
- Deep pain in eyes, with lachrymation and photophobia.
- Lachrymation when yawning.
- Lids stick together in morning.
- Swelling of eyelids.
- Enormous bag-like swelling 
under and over eyes.
- Swelling of glabella between brows.
- Cold eyelids.

### Ears
- Stitches in ears from within outwards.
- Itching in ears.
- Purulent discharge from ears.
- Discharge of yellow 
liquid cerumen.
- Right ear is hot, left is pa le and cold.
- Itching, cracking, ringing and roaring.
- Noises in ear with 
headache.
- Noise is disagreeable.
- Intolerance of human voice.

### Face
- Haggard, exhausted look.
- Bloated in morning.
- Pale, sickly, sallow with sunken eyes.
- Freckles.
- Light 
brown spots, old warts, papulous e ruptions.
- Pimples on face and eyebrows, with redness and swelling.
- Inflammation and swelling of parotids.
- Swelling of lower jaw and submaxillary glands.
- Tearing stitches in cheek.
- Cramps in jaws.
- Drawing pain in face.
- One cheek hot, the other cold.
- Scurf o n upper lip.
- Lips peel, chapped.

### Mouth
- Offensive odor from mouth every morning, like old cheese.
- Much saliva constantly in mouth.
- Bad, 
slimy taste.
- Mouth covered with painful, burning vesicles.
- Aphthae.
- General dryness of mouth without thirst, 
with stricture of 
esophagus in gastritis.
- Sticking and biting in posterior portion of palate.
- Burning, soreness or painful pimples 
on tip of tongue.
- Gums separate from teeth.
- Itching in gums, pus oozes out.
- Nose - Swollen, hard, red, covered with pimples.
- Itching, burning in nose.
- Sore, scurfy, crusty nostrils.
- Ulcerated nostrils.
- Dryness of nose alternating with obstruc tion.
- Chronic cat arrh.
- Chronic colds.
- Breathes 
through mouth.
- Obstruction better walking in open air.
- Stuffs up in warm room.
- Descending coryza.
- Coryza 
during menses.
- Post-nasal dripping (Spig.).
- Fetid, thick, fluent, yellow -green, crusty discharge.
- Bloody nasal 
mucus.
- Nosebleed on washing face in morning.
- Ulcerative pain in right nostril.
- Perspiration - Offensive or sour smell ing sweat.
- Scanty sweat, foul on feet.
- Perspires on slightest exertion.
- General inability to sweat.
- Sweats on painful part, on affected part.
- Sweat s mostly on upper parts.
- Sweats at 
night, without relief, with cough.
- Perspires on every mental exertion, reading, writing.
- Perspires after 
pneumonia.
- Perspires after eating.
- Easily sweats, excited by exercise during day.
- Warm drinks aggravates.

### Throat
- Dry, parched, rough.
- Hoarseness and loss of voice.
- Stri cture of esopha gus.
- Swallowing difficult, 
food slowly descends, remains halfway in esopha gus with gagging and vomiting.
- Small particles of food go 
easily in windpipe.
- Sticking pain as from fish bone or splin ters.
- Stinging pain when swallowing.
- Sore throat, 
always takes cold and the cold settles in throat.
- Throat feels as if squeezed, as if lungs came into throat.
- Catarrhal aphonia with violent sneezing.
- Scratching and stinging in throat and chest during cough.
- Hawks up 
tough mucus in morning.
- Tonsils enlarged.
- Swelling of cervical glands.
- Tongue - Tongue, gray-white.
- Tip of tongue burns as if raw.
- Burning, soreness or painful pimples on tip of 
tongue.
- Tongue covered with painful, burning vesicles.
- Tongue coated gray, in sick headache.

### Chest
- Dyspnea  or  wheezing,  with  a  sensation  of  tightness  or  suffocation,  resembling.
- asthma or COPD, worse with cold, night (2–4 a.m.), or lying flat.
- Dry or hacking cough, with a tendency to aggravation in cold air, resembling chronic.
- bronchitis, aggravated by rest, cold drinks, or morning.
- Chest  oppression  or  rattling  mucus,  with  a  sensation  of  heaviness,  resembling.
- pulmonary edema, worse with exertion or night.
- Tendency  to  respiratory  hypersensitivity,  with  aggravation  in  chilly  or  asthmatic.
- states.
- Palpitations  or  irregular  heartbeat,  with  a  sensation  of  fluttering  or  pounding,.
- resembling supraventricular tachycardia or atrial fibrillation, worse with exertion,.
- night, or emotional stress.
- Chest  pain  or  angina,  with  a  stitching  or  squeezing  sensation,  resembling  heart.
- failure or angina pectoris, aggravated by cold, rest, or lying on the left side.
- Edema or swelling, particularly in the ankles or hands, resembling congestive heart.
- failure, worse with cold, exertion, or night.
- Tendency to cardiovascular hypersensitivity, with aggravation in stressed or chilly.
- states.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Anxiety felt in stomach.
- Easy choking when eating.
- Gagging.
- Fullness even after little drink or 
food.
- Feeling of lump in pit of stomach.
- Stomach feels as if it would burst.
- Constant feeling as if stomach 
were full of water.
- Epigastric pain to back.
- Epigastrium is very sensitive externally.
- Gastric disorders from ice 
 
 
water.
- Dyspepsia of old people, burning acidity , bloating.
- Everything eaten seems to turn into gas.
- Flatulence, distended and sensitive.
- Salty, sour regurgitation.
- Sour belchings.
- Sour eructations before 
menses.
- Nausea on every inward emotion.
- Nausea with faintness and anxiety.
- Nausea, better lying do wn.
- Nausea at sight of food, in morning.
- Vomiting of sour mucus, ingesta and slime.
- Nocturnal vomiting of food.
- Nausea during pregnancy.
- Stools - Stools, difficult, large, hard lumps, with sharp pains.
- Stool like sheep's dung.
- Large discharge of blood 
with natural 
stool.
- Stools followed by burning or torn feeling.
- Insufficient soft stool after much pressure most of it remains.
- Teeth - Tearing, lancinating pains.
- Drawing pains.
- Tearing pain in teeth, jaws.
- Stitches in teeth with swelling 
of cheeks.
- Toothache  only while eating.
- Toothache, alternating with stitching pains in left breast, only while 
eating.
- Looseness of teeth.
- Gums separate from teeth.
- Pyorrhea.
- Itching in gums, pus oozes out.
- Temperature - Chills with dyspnea, hot hands and sleepiness in open a ir.
- Frequent shuddering during day.
- Chilly in morning.
- Internal heat with external chilliness.
- Internal burning.
- Fever with surging of blood or 
throbbing in blood vessels.
- Fever with dyspnea.
- Disgust forfood or ravenous appetite.
- When hungry, feels anxious, nauseated, nervous, tingling, 
palpitation etc.
- Wants to eat frequently but least food oppresses her.
- Disgust for food.
- Milk and warm food 
disagree.
- Diarrhea worse milk.
- Ice water disagrees.
- Aversion to meat.
- Desire for sweets or acids.

### Urinary & Genital
- Copious, painful pollutions with painful erections.
- Strange, uneasy feeling in genitals.
- Chronic 
gonorrhea, painful scanty discharge, burnin g during and after urination.
- Complaints after sex.
- Excessive 
emissions, followed by weakness.
- Prostration after sex, often with shuddering.
- Sleeplessness and 
uneasiness for 2 or 3 days after sex.
- Aversion to sex.
- Amenorrhea with backache.
- Difficult first menses.
- Menses, delayed in young girls with chest 
symptoms and ascites.
- Suppressed menses with anasarca or ascites.
- Itching of vulva before menses.
- Premenstrual syndrome, swollen breasts, water retention.
- Menses irritating, pungent odor.
- Violent colicky 
pain before menses.
- Menses, early with profuse discharge (Calc.).
- Menses too late,  
Kali carbonicum pale, scanty with soreness about genitals.
- Profuse and long-continued menses of bright red 
blood.
- Menorrhagia, better taking bath.
- Uterine hemorrhage, constant oozing after copious flow with violent 
backache, relieved from sitting and pres sure.
- Hemorrhages after curetting or other treatments.
- Leucorrhea 
with labor-like pains causing itching and burning, better washing.
- Soreness of genitals during sex and during 
menses.
- Uterine tumors, cysts.
- Eclampsia, better belchings.
- Impending miscarriage with pains from back into 
buttocks and thighs.
- Labor pains inefficient.
- Labor pains felt in back, down the hips and thighs.
- Complaints 
after childbirth or miscarriage.
- After miscarriage, when there is great weakness of back.
- Puerperal fever 
with cutting pain in hypogastrium with black and scanty urine.
- Promotes expulsion of moles.

### Extremities
- Stitching  back  pain  or  lumbago,  with  a  sensation  of  sharpness  or  soreness,.
- resembling sciatica or osteoarthritis, worse with cold, rest, morning, or sitting.
- Joint  stiffness  or  swelling,  with  a  tendency  to  aggravation  in  damp  conditions,.
- resembling rheumatoid arthritis, aggravated by cold, night, or rest.
- Weakness  in  limbs  or  trembling,  with  a  sensation  of  heaviness,  resembling.
- fibromyalgia, worse with exertion or cold.
- Tendency to musculoskeletal hypersensitivity, with aggravation in inflammatory or.
- chilly states.
- Psychological:.
- Anxiety  or  fearfulness,  with  a  sensation  of  apprehension  or  dread,  resembling.
- generalized anxiety disorder, worse with night, solitude, or physical discomfort.
- Depression or low mood, with a tendency to feel hopeless or irritable, resembling.
- major depressive disorder, aggravated by cold, rest, or morning.
- Irritability  or  impatience,  with  a  tendency  to  feel  easily  provoked,  resembling.
- adjustment disorder, worse with emotional stress or night.
- Kali carbonicum (Potassium Carbonate) 1116.
- Tendency to psychological hypersensitivity, with aggravation during respiratory or.
- cardiovascular flare-ups.
- Systemic:.
- Chronic  fatigue  or  weakness,  with  a  sensation  of  prostration  or  exhaustion,.
- resembling chronic fatigue syndrome, worse with cold, exertion, or emotional stress.
- Chilliness or cold intolerance, with a sensation of shivering or sensitivity, resembling.
- systemic inflammatory response syndrome, aggravated by cold, night, or rest.
- Edema or fluid retention, with a sensation of puffiness or heaviness, resembling.
- systemic edema, worse with cold or exertion.
- Tendency to systemic irritability, with aggravation in fatigued or chilly states.

### Neck & Back
- Backache as if broken.
- Severe backache before and during menses, during pregnancy, labor  or 
after a miscarriage.
- Stiffness and paralytic feeling in back.
- Backache with weak feeling, must lie down.
- Backache, must rise in order to turn over in bed.
- Lumbago with sudden sharp pains extending up and down, 
back and down the thighs.
- Lower back feels  weak.
- Burning in spine (Gua.).
- Spine painful while eating.
- Pulsations in back.
- Gnawing pain in coccyx.
- Pain in buttocks and thighs and hip joint.
- Sharp pain in region of 
kidneys and right scapula.
- Tearing pain in lumbar region, impeding respiration.
- Swel ling of cervical glands.
- Breasts - Fine stitches in breasts.
- Swollen, sensitive and painful breasts, before menses.
- Causations - Ill effects of suppressions of eruptions in childhood.
- Never well since pneumonia, catching cold, 
overstrain.

### Skin
- Chronic  fatigue  or  weakness,  with  a  sensation  of  prostration  or  exhaustion,.
- resembling chronic fatigue syndrome, worse with cold, exertion, or emotional stress.
- Chilliness or cold intolerance, with a sensation of shivering or sensitivity, resembling.
- systemic inflammatory response syndrome, aggravated by cold, night, or rest.
- Edema or fluid retention, with a sensation of puffiness or heaviness, resembling.
- systemic edema, worse with cold or exertion.
- Tendency to systemic irritability, with aggravation in fatigued or chilly states.

### Sleep
- Yawns with headache.
- Sleepiness during forepart of day and during day.
- Drowsy after eating, falls 
asleep while eating.
- Sleeplessness from cough.
- Nocturnal restlessness before menses.
- Restless, dreamful 
sleep during menses.
- Twitching of limbs, grinding of teeth, crying while sleeping.
- Talks in sleep.
- Wakes at 1 
a.m.
- or 2 a.m., cannot sleep again.
- Wakes at about 2 a.m.
- to 4 a.m.
- with nearly all complaints.
- Horrid, anxious 
dreams with frequent aw aking and desire to urinate.
- Dreams of water, thieves, misfortunes, diseases, dead 
people.
- Erotic, imaginative, fantastic, sentimental.

### Generalities
- Sensation as if bed were sinking.
- Sensation of a lump rolling over on coughing, rising from right 
abdomen to throat.
- Pulsative pains and throbbings.
- Burning sensation and burning pains.
- Whole body as if it 
were hollow.