# Kali Nitricum

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

## Keynote Indications
The Saltpetre of the Alche mists, Kali-n. is known in old -school practice principally as a 
“refrigerant diuretic” and as the active agent in the well known “nitre papers,” which are burnt, producing fumes 
 
 
to allay attacks of asthma. 
A solution of saltpetre as an application was an old remedy for inveterate mange in cats. Nitre with sulphur 
and charcoal forms gunpowder. A teaspoonful of this in hot water was a favorite remedy for gonorrhea among 
soldiers in the days when black powder was used. 
Affects the respiratory organs, kidneys, heart and blood vessels. Secretions are increased into cavities. 
Sudden dropsical swellings over the whole body.  Pains are dull stitching, throbbing. Wooden, numb ness. 
Very weak. 
Asthma and cardiac asthma. Relapsing  tuberculosis. Hemorrhagic tendency. Rheu matism. Gastro-intestinal 
inflammation with much debility and relapse in tuberculosis. Suppurative nephritis. Incontinence of urine in 
children.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better lying down, lying on right side, uncove ring head, gentle motion, drinking water in sips. 
Worse cold, damp, taking cold, morning, afternoon. Worse lying with head low, walking, breathing, eating veal, 
coffee, wine, beer.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Peevish, fretful.
- Bored.
- Mental wea riness from lack of occupa tion or interest.
- Discouragement.
- Sadness when alone.
- Aversion to thinking in morning.
- Fear of death.
- Anxiety and congestion to chest.
- Anxiety 
during headache.
- Peevish, fretful.
- Bored.
- Mental wea riness from lack of occupa tion or interest.
- Discouragement.
- Sadness when alone.
- Aversion to thinking in morning.
- Fear of death.
- Anxiety and congestion to chest.
- Anxiety 
during headache.

### Vertigo
- Fainting fits with vertigo in morning, worse on standing, better sitting down.
- Vertigo and tinnitus.
- COMMENTS - Kali-n.
- has been extensively proved by homeopaths and symptoms have been added from 
cases of poisoning, so that its characteristics are well defined.
- It is almost equal to Kali-c.
- in producing stitching 
pains and it is similar to it in having a cough at 3 a.m.
- Severe stitching, cutting, lancinating, tearing and pressing pa ins.
- As with many other Kalis, there is external 
sensitiveness of scalp, of abdomen, of testes.
- Kali nitricum 
Diabetes insipidus.
- Bedwetting.
- Painful colic.
- Diarrhea and dysentery.
- Sexual excite ment.
- Pain in testes and 
cords.
- Menorrhagia with flow of ink-like blackness.
- “The pain-like contraction in the eyes, forehead and face concentrates in the tip of the nose.
- Swollen feeling 
in right nostril, which is painful on pressure, sore pain in upper part of right nostril with external sensitiveness,” 
these two last symptoms led to the cure of large nasal polyps in a girl.
- In a poisoning case, during the recovery there was intense vertigo with tinnitus, which should indicate Kali -n.
- in some cases of Meniere's disease.
- Easy intoxication by wine or beer was noted by several provers.
- A peculiar 
symptom is a sour taste in the throat.
- In the asthmatic state the breathlessness is so great that the patient, though thirsty, can only drink a sip at a 
time between the breaths.
- Allen defined the asthma of Kali -n.
- as asthma with excessive dyspnea, faintness 
and nausea with dull stitches or with burning pain in chest, rather free expectoration.

### Head
- Headache with vertigo, as if falling to right side and backwards, worse stoop ing.
- Head pain, better 
motion of carriage.
- Pains in occiput, better letting hair down.
- Scalp very sensitive.
- Headache with vertigo, as if falling to right side and backwards, worse stoop ing.
- Head pain, better 
motion of carriage.
- Pains in occiput, better letting hair down.
- Scalp very sensitive.

### Eyes
- Burning in eyes, with lachrymation and photophobia.
- External angle of right eye twitches, worse 
chewing.
- Vision becomes clouded.
- Turbid corpus vitreum (Arn., Ham., Phos.).
- Transient blindness.
- Colored 
circles before eyes.
- In evening, candles appear surrounded by a rainbowlike halo.

### Ears
- Shooting in ears.
- Inflammation and swelling of lobe of right ear.
- Chronic deafness from paralysis of 
auditory nerve.
- Vertigo and tinnitus.
- Tinkling and ringing in ears.

### Mouth
- Tongue loaded with a white coating.
- Tongue red with burning pimples.
- Burning blister at tip of tongue.
- Crawling on tongue.
- Taste disagreeable, nauseous, disgusting, sour.
- Fetid breath.
- Throat constricted and sore.
- Nose - Violent coryza with obstruction of nose, and loss of smell.
- Sneezing.
- Swollen feeling, worse in the right 
nostril.
- Burning in nose with digging and clawing pain.
- The nasal bones are painful, especially to the touch.
- Swelling of interior of nose.
- Ulcers in the nostrils covered by a scurf.
- Nosebleed with acrid blood.
- Polyps (Thuj., 
Sang-n.).
- Point red and itching.
- Perspiration - Profuse perspiration every alternate night (Nit-ac.).

### Throat
- Laryngeal diphtheria.
- Sore throat with shooting pain.
- Nocturnal pain in throat, as if it were contracting.
- Impeded swallowing from tension and cutting in the larynx.
- Hoarseness.
- Loss of speech.

### Chest
- Chest feels constricted.
- Oppression on chest, when ascending.
- Contractive pain in chest.
- Sticking in 
left side near sternum.
- Inflammation of lungs.
- Constitutions - Suited to asthmatic constitutions and chest complaints.
- Violent stitch in précordia and beating of heart.
- Palpitations, worse lying.
- Pulse is weak, small  and 
thready.
- Kidneys - Diabetes insipidus.
- Dull kidney pains.
- Burning in urethra while urinating and greatly diminished 
urine.
- Frequentand profuse emission of clear urine.
- Rapid gasping breathing, sits upright.
- Congestion of right lung.
- Dyspnea so great that breath cannot 
be held long enough to drink, though thirsty.
- Asthma with excessive dyspnea, nausea, dull stitches and 
burning in chest.
- Spasmodic croup, paroxysm of crowing.
- Bronchitis with sharp, short, dry, hack ing cough.
- Acute exacerbations in tuberculosis.
- Dry, morning cough with pain in the chest and bloody expectoration.
- Sour-
smelling expectoration.
- Expectoration of clotted blood after hawking mucus.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Faint-like weakness at stomach pit.
- Epigastric or sub -sternal pains go towards axilla.
- Gnawing, 
spasmodic weakness, and pressure on epigastrium.
- Burning in stomach.
- Severe pain after every meal.
- Nausea, as if about to vomit worse at night.
- Ineffectual retching.
- Vomiting of mucus, mixed with blood.
- Teeth - Toothache, with sharp drawing, or tearing pains in teeth and head.
- Shooting in carious teeth, when 
touched.
- Pulsative toothache, at night, worse by cold things.
- Swelling of gums, of an inflammatory or scorbutic 
character, they bleed readily.
- Temperature - External coldness, chin, skin.
- Extraordinary shiverings not bet ter by hot drinks or coverings.
- Coldness in afternoon with thirst, or coldness, preceded by headache.
- Quotidian fever, with drawing pains in 
limbs.
- Profuse and colliquative sweat.
- Sweat in morning, especially on chest.
- Internal burning.
- Excessive distention of abdo men.
- Griping about umbilicus.
- Stitching and sticking pai ns.
- Violent 
pain in right side after eating veal.
- Peritonitis.
- Incarceration of flatus, especially in afternoon 
and evening.
- Very loud rumbling in abdomen.
- Better hot food.
- Aversion to beef, eggs, meat, veal.
- Worse from eating veal, causing headache, 
diarrhea.
- Worse from cold food, fats, rich food, milk.
- Worse from beef, fish, lobster, oysters.
- Worse from beer, 
wine, bread, coffee, rice, soup, watery fruits and vegetables.

### Urinary & Genital
- Profuse menses, black like ink.
- Menses too early, profuse, preceded and with violent backache.
- Burning pains in the ovarian region only during menses (Zinc, after menses).
- Leucorrhea.

### Extremities
- Drawing in limbs with paralytic weakness.
- Rheumatic pains and stitches in limbs and joints.
- Stitches 
between shoulder blades.
- Tearing and sticking in shoulders and joints.
- Hands and fingers seem swollen.

### Neck & Back
- Aching in lumbar region.
- Pains in back on stooping.
- Shootings in and between scapula.
- Pains extend 
into the chest.
- Shooting pains in sacral region.
- Violent pains in loins on waking.
- Feeling in back as if kidneys 
engorged.

### Skin
- Lancinations in skin.
- Pricking like needles, followed by burning.
- Tubercles, size of a pea.
- Burning 
vesicles filled with yellowish serum, which break when scratched.
- Sudden dropsical swelling.

### Sleep
- Drowsiness during day.
- Disturbed sleep at night, constant dreaming, with frequent awakening.
- Anxious 
and uneasy dreams about dangerous situations.
- Nightmare.
- Coma.