Kalium carbonicum, also known as potassium carbonate, is a mineral salt with various uses including as a food additive, in glass production, and as a fertilizer. It commonly affects individuals with a chilly constitution and is associated with ailments such as respiratory issues, digestive disorders, and menstrual problems. Its therapeutic applications include treating anemia, asthma, backache, and various gastrointestinal and uterine disorders.

1. KALIUM
CARBONICUM

2. INTRODUCTION:
• Source: Mineral kingdom
• Synonyms: Carbonate of potassium, Potassium carbonate
• Family: Mineral salt
• Formula: K2 CO3
• Prover: Dr Hahnemann
• Duration of Action: 40-60 days
• Miasmatic Background: Psora
• Diathesis: Tubercular
• Thermal Relationship: Chilly patient

3. RIGHT SIDED
MEDICINE

4. USES:
•Food: lower the acidity of wine and food additive in
products like baking powder.
•Production of Glass and soap
•Fire extinguishers
•Fertilizer
•Water softening
•Ink and toners
•Disinfectants and cleaning products

5. CONSTITUTION:
• Dark skinned and haired, but of lax fibre
with an inclination to obesity. (Am-c.,
Graph.).
• Especially in diseases of old people who
are fleshy with a dropsical condition.
• Puffiness of upper eyelids.
• After loss of fluids or vitality, particularly
in the anemic (Chin., Ph-ac., Phos., Psor.).

6. AILMENTS FROM:
• Catching cold
• Overstrain
• Suppression of eruptions in childhood
• Closing of ulcers or fistulous openings
• Miscarriage, labour, sexual excess
• Loss of vital fluids
• Ice cream, iced water.

7. SEAT OF ACTION:
Respiratory system, mucous membranes, digestive
tract, ovaro uterine system, heart, liver, kidneys.

8. DRYNESS OF ALL
THE TISSUES IN
BODY
STITCHES

9. MIND:
•Despondent.
•Alternating moods.
•Very irritable.
•Never quiet or contented.
•Obstinate and hypersensitive to pain, noise, touch.

10. •Full of fear and imaginations
•Anxiety felt in stomach.
•Sensation as if bed were sinking.
•Never wants to be left alone.
•Great aversion to being alone (Ars., Bism., Lyc).

11. GUIDING SYMPTOMS:
• LOSS OF VITAL FLUIDS, particularly in case of anaemia.
• PAINS, stitching, darting. worse on rest and on lying down on
affected side. (stitching, darting, better during rest and lying
on painful side, Bry).
• Cannot bear to be touched, starts when touched ever so lightly,
especially on the feet.
• Very inclined to take cold

12. BACKACHE
SWEAT
WEAKNESS

14. HEAD:
• Vertigo on turning.
• Headache from riding in cold wind.
• Headache comes on with yawning.
• Nausea on riding in carriage.
• Loose feeling in head.
• Great dryness of hair; falls out. [Fluor. ac.]

15. EYES:
BAG-LIKE SWELLING BETWEEN
THE UPPER EYELIDS AND EYEBROWS.
• Spots, gauze, and black points before eyes.
• Lids stick together in morning.
• Asthenopia.
• Weak sight from excessive sexual indulgence.
• On shutting eyes, painful sensation of light
penetrating the brain.

16. EARS:
•Stitches in ears.
•Itching, cracking, ringing and roaring.

17. NOSE:
NOSEBLEED WHEN WASHING THE FACE IN
THE MORNING (AM-C., ARN.).
•Nose stuffs up in warm room.
•Thick, fluent, yellow discharge.
•Postnasal dropping. [Spigel.]
•Sore, Ulcerated nostrils; bloody nasal mucus.

18. MOUTH:
TOOTHACHE ONLY WHEN EATING;
THROBBING; < WHEN TOUCHED BY
ANYTHING WARM OR COLD.
• Gums separate from teeth; pus oozes out.
• Pyorrhea.
• Tongue white.
• Much saliva constantly in mouth.
• Bad, slimy taste.

19. THROAT:
DIFFICULT SWALLOWING; STICKING
PAIN IN PHARYNX AS OF A FISHBONE
(HEP, NIT-AC)
•Food easily gets into the windpipe; pain in back
when swallowing
•Dry, parched, rough.
•Mucus accumulation in the morning.

20. STOMACH:
EVERYTHING SHE EATS OR DRINKS
APPEARS TO BE CONVERTED TO GAS
• Gastric disorders from ice water.
• Feeling of lump in pit of stomach.
• Dyspepsia of old people; burning acidity, bloating.
• Nausea- better lying down. Disgust for food.
• CONSTANT FEELING AS IF STOMACH WERE
FULL OF WATER.
• Easy choking when eating.

21. AVERSION
CRAVING

22. • After eating - burning from stomach to throat ; colic
renewed ; abdomen distended ; especially after
soup or coffee ; sour eructations ; nausea, faintness.

24. ABDOMEN:
PAIN FROM LEFT HYPOCHONDRIUM -
MUST TURN ON RIGHT SIDE BEFORE
HE CAN RISE.
• Old chronic liver troubles with soreness.
• Jaundice and dropsy.
• Distension and coldness of abdomen.
• Abdomen distended with wind.
• Incarceration of flatus with colic.

25. STOOL:
• Large, difficult stools with stitching pain an hour before.
• Haemorrhoids, large, swollen, painful when coughing.
• THE HEMORRHOIDS BURN LIKE COALS OF FIRE.
• Itching and Burning in rectum and anus.
• Diarrhoea only by day.
• CONSTIPATION DURING MENSTRUATION.
• Unsuccessful desire for stool ; rectum feels weak to expel it.

26. URINARY SYSTEM:
INVOLUNTARY URINATION WHEN
COUGHING, SNEEZING, ETC.
• Obliged to rise several times at night to urinate.
• Pressure on bladder long before urine comes.

27. MALE:
•Complaints from coition.
•Excessive emissions, followed by weakness.

28. FEMALE:
• Menses early, profuse [Calc. c.] or too
late, pale and scanty, with soreness
about genitals; pains from back pass
down through gluteal muscles, with
cutting in abdomen.
• Feels badly, week before menstruation;
backache, before and during menses.

29. •Labor pains insufficient; violent backache;
wants the back pressed (Caust.)
•Uterine hemorrhage; constant oozing after
copious flow, relieved by sitting and pressure.

30. RESPIRATION:
ASTHMA RELIEVED WHEN SITTING UP
OR BENDING FORWARD OR BY ROCKING;
WORSE FROM 2 TO 4 A.M.
• Persons suffering from ulceration of the lungs
can scarcely get well without this anti-Psoric –
Hahnemann.
• Tendency to tuberculosis; constant
cold taking; better in warm climate.

31. • Cough: Dry, paroxysmal, loosens viscid
mucus or pus which must be swallowed;
spasmodic with gagging or vomiting of
ingesta; hard, white or smoky masses fly
from throat when coughing (Bad., Chel.).
• Expectoration must be swallowed; cheesy
taste; copious, offensive, lump.
• Cutting pain in chest; worse lying on
right side.

32. HEART:
TENDENCY TO FATTY DEGENERATION (PHOS.);
HEART AS IF SUSPENDED BY A THREAD (LACH.).
• Threatened heart failure.
• Palpitation and burning in heart region.
• Weak, rapid pulse; intermits- due to digestive
disturbance.

33. BACK:
• Backache, sweating, weakness
• After abortion, labor, metrorrhagia; eating.
• While walking feels as if she must give up
and lie down
• Stiffness and paralytic feeling in back.
• Lumbago with sudden sharp pains extending
up and down back and to thighs.
• Burning in spine. [Guaco.]

34. EXTREMITIES:
• Uneasiness heaviness, and tearing in limbs
and jerking.
• Limbs sensitive to pressure.
• Tearing in arms from shoulder to wrist.
• Lacerating in wrist joint.
• Paralysis of old people and dropsical
affections.

35. SLEEP:
• Drowsy after eating.
• Wakes about two o'clock and cannot sleep again.

36. MODALITIES:
AGGRAVATION:
• After coition
• Cold weather;
• Soup and coffee
• Morning
• 2-4 am
• Lying on left and painful side.
AMELIORATION:
• Warm weather
• While rocking
• During day
• Moving

37. RELATION:
•Complementary: Carb-v. (Lowness of vitality )
•Follows well: After, Kali-s., Nux-v, Phos.,
Stann. in loose, rattling cough.
•Antidotes: Camph, Coff.
•Compare: Bry., Lyc., Nat-m., Nit-ac., Stann.

38. • Kali salicylicum (vomiting during pregnancy; arteriosclerosis with
chronic rheumatism)
• Kali silicum (gouty nodosities)
• Kali aceticum (diabetes, diarrhea, dropsy, alkaline urine)
• Kali citricum (bright's disease)
• Kali ferrocyanatum (Fatty and functional heart troubles, passive
hemorrhage)
• Kali oxalicum (lumbago, convulsions)
• Kali picro-nitricum and kali pricricum (Jaundice)
• Kali tartaricum (paraplegia)
• Kali telluricum (garlicky breath, salivation, swollen tongue).

39. WILL BRING ON THE MENSES,
WHEN NAT-M., THOUGH
APPARENTLY INDICATED, FAILS.
—HAHNEMANN.

40. • Comparison Fear of being alone: Arg-n, Ars, Con,
Gels, Hyos, Lyc, Phos.
• Worse after eating: Aloe, Ars, Bry, Calc, Caust, Coloc,
Kali-bi, Lyc, Nat-m, Nux-v, Phos, Puls, Sep, Sil, Sulph
• Lying on painful side: Acon, Ars, Bar-c, Hep, Iod,
Kali-c, Nux-m, Phos, Sil.

41. DOSE:
• Thirtieth and higher.
• Sixth trituration
• Do not repeat too often.
USE CAUTIOUSLY IN OLD GOUTY CASES,
ADVANCED BRIGHT'S AND TUBERCULOSIS.

42. THERAPEUTIC VALUE:
• Anaemia
• Asthma
• Backache
• During labour
• Fatty degeneration
of heart
• Headache
• Cold
• Cough
• Ear and eye affections
• Gastrointestinal
troubles
• Menstrual disorders
• Uterine disorders.

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