# Kali Chloricum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Syphilitic Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Kali-chl. is not to be confused with the chloride that constitutes Schiissler's Kali -m. Hering 
amalgamated the symptoms of the two under the heading Kali- m., but Clarke kept them separate. Kali-chl. is 
an exceedingly active poison. It has long been used in the old school in solution as a wash for sore mouth and 
foul ulcers. 
Hutchinson observed a number of cases in which it produced the very condition that it was give to cure, the 
“most acute ulceration and follicular stomatitis. The whole mucus surface was red and tumid and in the cheeks, 
lips, etc., were numerous gray-based ulcers.” 
Fatal poisoning has occurred, death occur ring in convulsions. The blood is disorga nized and after death, the 
liver, spleen and kidneys are found softened and filled with disorganized blood, this should give it a place in 
cases of lardaceous and fatty degeneration of solid viscera. The mouth, hypochondria and rectum are the most 
affected. 
Profound prostration, coldness in different parts and organs. Easy hemorrhages, nosebleed, bloody stools etc. 
Hemoglobinuria. Anemia. Septicemia. Noma. Discharges are fetid. Gray, white, plastic exudates. 
Chronic nephritis. Parenchymatous nephritis with stomatitis. Acute ulcerative and follicular stomatitis. Scurvy. 
Hepatitis. Lardaceous and fatty degeneration of liver, spleen and kidneys and other solid organs. Toxemic 
conditions of pregnancy with urinary symptoms.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better from nosebleed, mental symptoms. Worse from cold, coughing, sneezing, ajar, mercury.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Cheerfulness alternating with sad ness.
- Confusion while walking in open air.
- Confusi on from wine.
- Delusion he must starve.
- Refuses to eat.
- Desires death during chill.
- Cheerfulness alternating with sad ness.
- Confusion while walking in open air.
- Confusi on from wine.
- Delusion he must starve.
- Refuses to eat.
- Desires death during chill.

### Face
- Swollen, she can hardly see in the morning.
- Neuralgic pains, worse talk ing, eating or slight touch, 
followed by numbness.

### Mouth
- Whole mucus surface red, tumid with gray -based ulcers.
- Stomatitis, aphthous and gangrenous.
- Fetor.
- Noma.
- Scurvy.
- Salivation, profuse secretion of acid saliva.
- Tongue, swollen, cold.
- Mercu rial stomatitis 
(as a mouth wash).
- Nose - Bleeding at night, only from right nostril.

### Throat
- Cold feeling in throat.
- COMMENTS - Rushmore recorded a proving of Kali-chl.
- in an unmarried woman, 50, short, brunette, who had 
goiter in early life, which disappeared under the ap plication of iodine.
- Later on, a fibroid tumor developed in 
the uterus.
- For this the patient was advised to take crude potassium chlorate, dissolved in water, daily.
- Symptoms observed included an increased moral irritability.
- Felt dreadfully dull and stupi d.
- Dizzy on stooping 
and rising.
- Slight headache over eyes, objects appear double, beside each other.
- Face swollen so she could 
hardly see on rising in morning.
- Smarting of tongue.
- Kali-chl.
- took away her desire for acids.
- Diminished appetite.
- Much commoti on and flatulence in abdomen.
- Increased urine.
- Dreams of terrible things never thought.
- Great coolness, shivering on cold days, seemed as if it cooled off her 
blood.
- Clumsiness.
- General bloated feeling.
- In the provers, great weakness manifested.
- Rheumatic  and neuralgic pains, many oc curring in the facial 
nerves.
- Facial paralysis.
- Pimples in various parts, between lip and chin.
- The heart was the seat of much dis -
turbance, and a coldness was felt about the précordia.
- Disordered stomach and bowels.
- Excited sexual organs.
- Allen credited Kali -chl.
- with the cure of “Dysentery with most violent cutting pains as from knives, frequent 
stools, tenesmus, making the patient cry out, evacuations very small, almost pure blood, great pros tration.” 
Allen noted that it cured epithelioma of the face and of the great toe.

### Chest
- Constriction of chest, as from sulphur fumes.
- Coldness in precordial region.
- Right pulse full, left small.
- Coldness in blood.
- Kidneys - Nephritis.
- Urine albuminous, scanty, suppres sed.
- Albumin and bile, high phosphoric acid with low 
total solids.
- Hematuria, diuresis.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Sudden, incessant vomiting of all food, of offensive dark green mucus.
- Stomach cold.
- Sensations  
of a weight in the epigastric and umbilical regions.
- Flatulence.
- Griping colic with shifting of flatulence and diarrhea, followed by continuous rectal pain.

### Extremities
- Ankles swell in the evening.
- Arms, feet cold.

### Skin
- Cold.
- Jaundice.
- Discolored, chocolate tint.
- Pimples between lip and chin.
- Itching miliary or papular 
eruptions.