– Jan Scholten

Kali bromatum has a very nice picture with its characteristic symptom ‘delusion he is the object of God’s vengeance’. This symptom shows us the various aspects of the remedy: guilt, religion, psychosis, duty.

Concepts Kali Bromatum

Principles, duty Guilt

Closed Restlessness, escape

Optimism Passion, instinct

Work, task Psychotic

Family

Group analysis

The group analysis gives us the theme: they feel guilty when they don’t do their duty. As long as they can fulfil their task and keep doing their work, everything is fine. But when they can’t do this anymore they start to feel very guilty. They always feel a strong urge to work, they like having something to do. When they aren’t busy doing something they can’t get rid of their energy. So they start wringing their hands. It is as if they have to have ‘a job at hand’ in order to feel happy.

Another variation is that they may feel that passion should be trustworthy. You are allowed to be passionate, but it should be within the context of a stable relationship, linked to your task as a partner. Duty and passion should go together. Problems may start if one of the partners becomes unfaithful or wants a divorce. Then they will feel cheated. They will either blame the partner, or start to ask themselves ‘What have I done wrong?’. This may lead to depression, sleeplessness or even psychotic states.

Case

A man, aged 60, suffers from bronchitis. He has had many treatments with antibiotics. He has slight fevers with perspiration. In the morning he has to cough up an accumulation of mucus from his throat. The mucus is stringy, almost black, or yellow. He is short of breath and very sensitive to draught, always has to wear a scarf. Lately he has a swollen sub-maxillary gland on the left side and a croaking voice.

He also suffers from an inflamed testicle, painful on pressure, and decrease of sperm.

Past history: bronchitis since childhood.

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[…] in Kali Bromatum Patient are having following symptoms. People suffer from Restless sleep. Extreme drowsiness but […]

– A.W. Cowperthwaite.

Common name.-Bromide of Potash. Preparation.-One part of

GENERAL ANALYSIS
The physiological action of this drug is not fully determined, yet it is quite probable that its chief action is upon the nervous system, affecting most prominently those portions of the spinal cord which receive and transmit reflex impulses, causing diminished reflex excitability of the nerve centers. It next acts upon the peripheral ends of the peripheral ends of the efferent nerves, causing paralysis and finally affects the cerebrum, causing dilated pupils, intoxication, weakness of mind, hallucinations, etc. The heart is directly paralyzed under its influence, while through spasms of the vaso-motor system it causes contraction of the blood vessels, followed by dilatation. It thus uses primarily a depressed circulation in the cranium and through out the body, lessening the blood supply, and thus causing, in connection with thee action upon the nervous system, functional paralysis of nearly all the organs and tissues of the body. The subsequent dilatation gives rise secondarily to congestion, exciting the depressed nerve centers to a morbidly increased action, both sensory and motor, giving rise to hyperaesthesia and convulsions, thus, according to Dr. Hale, becoming “homoeopathic to all the morbid conditions and symptoms in which it has been found useful by the allopathic school.” Upon the skin the action is quite characteristic. Aside from the peripheral anaesthesia before mentioned, it causes acne-like eruptions, especially upon the face, neck and shoulders, small boils, papules, pustules, and corroding ulcers.
CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS.
Mind. Night terrors in children with shrieks in sleep, trembling, etc. Delirium, with delusions; thinks he is pursued, will be poisoned (Hyos.); is selected for Divine vengeance; that her child is dead, et; fits of uncontrollable weeping. Delirium tremens; flushed face; horrid illusions (Bell.). Melancholia, with delusions. Inability to express one’s self. Memory impaired; single words are forgotten or syllables are dropped; amnesic aphasia. Writing almost unintelligible from omission of words or parts of words; words repeated or misplaced. Head Brain irritated, face flushed, pupils dilated, eyes sunken; rolls head; awakes now and then, screaming; extremities cold; cholera infantum. Active congestion; inflammation before effusion has occurred (Acon., Bell.). Eyes. Vision dim; pupils dilated; squinting (Hyos.). Gaze fixed; eyes sunken; lusterless. Face. Face pale, but otherwise appeared as on drunk, with hallucinations, etc. Mouth. Tongue red, dry, enlarged ; red; later dry and brown; white, involving edges as well as dorsum. Difficult speech; action of tongue disordered (Gels.); stammering. Breath foetid, with white tongue. Throat. Anaesthesia of mouth, throat end pharynx; chronic alcoholism. Stomach. Thirst intense, with dry mouth. Sick and giddy; repeated retching and vomiting. Stool. Discharges watery; cholera infantum, especially with cerebral irritation and collapse. Flatulent colic in children and hysterical women (Asaf.). Urinary Organs. Diabetes, urine loaded with sugar. Urine copious, pale, watery. Profuse, with abundance of phosphates. Dribbling of urine at beginning of stool. Incontinence of urine. Thin, yellowish urine. Male Organs. Desire lessened even to impotence (Agn.). Seminal emissions, with depressed spirits, dull thought, backache, staggering gait; great weakness (Phos.ac.).. Female Organs. Painful flushings and congestion to head during climaxis (Sang.)… Ovarian neuralgia from ungratified sexual desire; nervous unrest (Cimic..). Pruritus of vulva from ovarian or uterine irritation (Calad.). Subinvolution and fibroids have been cured. Respiratory Organs. Paroxysmal, dry cough, at intervals of two or three hours; difficult respiration; followed by vomiting of mucus or of food; worse at night and when lying down; like whooping cough. Heart and Pulse. Heart lacks energy; sounds even distant and feeble; slow. fluttering. Pulse accelerated, later becomes slower; slow, small, weak. Generalities. Nervous, busy, must occupy one’s self; often in nervous women. Incoordination of muscles; nervous weakness; even paralysis of motion and numbness. Unsteady gait, reeling as if drunk, with rolling and staggering; as one walks with locomotor ataxia (Alum.). Weakness of extensors of legs and feet. Temperature lowered, with coldness of extremities; hands and wrists icy-cold and wet; cerebral irritation, in cholera infantum. Sleep. Sleeplessness, especially in anaemic patients, or nervous persons who are exhausted but irritated (Coff.c.). Skin. Acne of face, shoulders and chest in young, fleshy people of gross habits (Carb. an.). Large, indolent, painful pustules; boils (Hep.s.). Conditions. Especially adapted to large fleshy people, particularly children. Compare. Acon., Ambra gris., Bell., Camph., Gels., Hyos., Nux v., Zinc.
THERAPEUTICS
The clinical range of Kali brom. has already been pretty well outlined in thee forgoing symptoms, which need not be repeated. It may be indicated in acute mania; melancholia; brain fag, with numb feeling in head, as if he would lose his reason; cerebral irritation; cerebral anaemia; congestive headaches; migraine; delirium tremens; puerperal mania; insomnia; epileptiform convulsions (only palliative in true epilepsy), nervous excitement; irritation and congestion of cerebral meninges; ataxia; anesthesia, especially of throat from alcoholism; paralysis; tetanus; spermatorrhoea, impotence and other troubles, especially mental from sexual excesses; hypertrophied organs, including fibroids and subinvolution; ovarian and par-ovarian cysts; dyspepsia of drunkards; hiccough; cholera infantum; diabetes; paralysis of sphincters; pruritus; nymphomania; reflex cough in pregnant women; ovarian neuralgia, whooping cough, spasmodic croup recurring every night; acne; pustular eruptions; ulcerations.

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-Boericke. G.W

+ Bromide of Potash.

#General

Like all Potash Salts, this weakens the heart and lowers temperature. Brominism is caused by it. General failure of mental power, loss of memory, melancholia, anaesthesia of the mucous membranes, especially of eyes, throat, and skin; acne; loss of sexual desire, paralysis. Leading remedy in psoriasis. Nodular form of chronic gout. SYMPTOMS OF APOPLECTIC ATTACKS, uraemic or otherwise; somnolence and stertor, convulsions, aphasia, albuminuria. Epilepsy (with salt-free diet).

#Mind

Profound, melancholic delusion; feeling of moral deficiency; religious depression; delusions of conspiracies against him. Imagines he is singled out as an object of divine wrath. Loss of memory. Must do something-move about; gets fidgety. [TARANT.] Fear of being poisoned. [HYOS.] Amnesic aphasia; can pronounce any word told, but cannot speak otherwise. NIGHT TERRORS. Horrid illusions. Active delirium.

#Head

Suicidal mania with tremulousness. Face flushed. NUMB FEELING IN HEAD. Brain-fag. Coryza with tendency to extension into throat. #Throat

Congestion of uvula and fauces. ANAESTHESIA of fauces, pharynx, and larynx. Dysphagia, especially of liquids. [HYOS.]

#Stomach

Vomiting, with INTENSE THIRST, after each meal. PERSISTENT HICCOUGH. [SULPH. AC.]

#Abdomen

Sensation as if bowels were falling out. CHOLERA INFANTUM, with reflex cerebral irritation, jerking and twitching of muscles. Green, watery stools with intense thirst, vomiting, eyes sunken. Prostration. INTERNAL COLDNESS of abdomen. Diarrhoea, with much blood. Green, watery stools. RETRACTION of abdomen.

#Urinary.

Sensibility of urethra diminished. Urine profuse, with thirst. Diabetes. [PHOS. AC.]

#Male

Debility and impotence. Effects of sexual excesses, especially loss of memory, impaired co-ordination, numbness and tingling in limbs. Sexual excitement during partial slumber. #Female

Pruritus. Ovarian neuralgia with great nervous uneasiness. EXAGGERATED SEXUAL desires. Cystic tumors of ovaries.

#Respiratory

Spasmodic croup. Reflex cough during pregnancy. Dry, fatiguing, hacking cough at night.

Extremities._FIDGETY HANDS; busy twitching of fingers. Jerking and twitching of muscles.

#Skin

ACNE of face, pustules. Itching; worse on chest, shoulders, and face. Anaesthesia of skin. PSORIASIS.

#Sleep

Restless sleep. Extreme drowsiness. Sleeplessness due to worry and grief and sexual excess. Night terrors. Grinding teeth in sleep. Horrible dreams. Somnambulism.

#Modalities

BETTER, when occupied mentally or physically.

#Dose A few grains of the crude salt to the third trituration. Remember the unstable character of this salt. Said to be much more active if salt is eliminated from the diet.

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-H.C.Allen

+ Potassium Bromide K. Br.

#General
Adapted to large persons inclined to obesity; acts better in children than in adults. Loss of sensibility, fauces, larynx, urethra, entire body; staggering, uncertain gait; feels as if legs were all over sidewalk. Nervous, restless; cannot sit still, must move about or keep occupied; hands and fingers in constant motion; fidgety hands [fidgety feet, Zinc.]; twitching of fingers. Fits of uncontrollable weeping and profound melancholic delusions. Loss of memory; forgets how to talk; absent-minded; had to be told the word before he could speak it [Anac.]. Depressed, low-spirited, anxious, “feel as if they would lose their minds.” Inco-ordination of muscles [Gels]; nervous weakness or paralysis of motion and numbness. Restlessness and sleeplessness due to worry and grief, loss of property or reputation, from business embarrassments [Hyos.]. Night terrors of children [Kali p.]; grinding teeth in sleep, screams, moans, cries; horrible dreams, cannot be comforted by friends. Somnambulism [Sil.]. Spasms: from fright, anger or emotional causes in nervous plethoric persons; during parturition, teething, whooping-cough, Bright’s diseases. Epilepsy: congenital, syphilitic, tubercular; usually a day or two before menses; at new moon; headache follows attack. Cholera infantum, with reflex irritation of brain, before effusion; first stage of hydrocephaloid. Daily colic in infants about 5 A.M. [at 4 P. M.,., Col., Lyc.]. Nervous cough during pregnancy; dry, hard, almost incessant, threatening abortion [Con.]. Stammering; slow, difficult speech [Bov., Stram.]. Acne: simplex, indurata, rosacea; bluish-red, pustular, on face, chest, shoulders; leaves unsightly scars [Carbo an.]; in young fleshy persons of gross habits.

#Relations
One of the antidotes for lead poisoning. Often curative after Eugenia jambos in acne.

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