Kali-sulphuricum: Potassium-sulphate
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 2003 Mar / Apr VOL V NO 2.
Dr Ajit Kulkarni
'Kali-s

Fat, fair and forty. Chlorotic.
Torpid processes. Sluggishness of body and lack of physical irritability; (but not of mind) lack of reaction; well selected remedies fall short in action. Schuessler’s biochemic Puls.
Pains: Sharp. Cutting. Piercing (Arg-n). Stitching (ears). Tearing. Festering. Burning (Med). Shifting (Puls). Rheumatic (Kalm). Neuralgic. Deep seated. Maddening. Painful warts (Nit-ac).
Catarrhal discharges: Profuse; earlier thin yellow, watery, later thick, ripened, deep yellow or greenish pus; slimy, serous or degenerated secretion; brownish (ears). Intermittent; fetid; occ. bloody. Third stage of inflammation. With soreness. Effusions. Favours resorption.
Desquamation: Tendency to; after scarlatina, measles, erysipelas; epidermis.
Growths: Warts. Polypoid excrescences, soft. Epithelioma (Acet-ac, Ars). Cancers (with Fer-p).
Degeneration: Fatty ; glands; liver; heart.
Pre-disposition to phthisis. It is a good substitute for Sul in TB (like Sul-i). Lupus.
Dropsy after scarlatina. Pulsation all over the body. Surging of blood in the body. Trembling and quivering.

Joints: Fungoid inflammation while swelling. Migratory rheumatism.
Epilepsy chorea.
Causation: Ill effects of chill when overheated. Injuries. Suppressed eruptions, gonorrhea, syphilis.
Biochemically : It is the function remedy of the epidermis and of the epithelium present in the epithelial cells of skin and mucosae. Kali-s which is in reciprocal action with iron affects the transfer of inhaled oxygen to all the cells containing iron. It affects the access of oxygen and so facilitates the formation of new epithelium. When a sulphate and any oxide of iron comes into contact with decomposing organic substances, they surrender their oxygen and form suppurate or iron. With more oxygen added, this may be further decomposed into sulphuric acid and an oxide of iron.
In other words, it helps to convey oxygen to the cell structure and thus has a boosting influence on metabolism. Its deficiency causes due probably to retrograde metamorphosis (fatty degeneration of inflammatory products and of effete epithelium etc) resulting in yellow, slimy discharges and epidermal or epithelial desquamation.

Mind: Tense in temperament (like Nux-v) but sluggish and inactive (like Puls). Easily angered; very irritable and quarrelsome. Hurried. Impatient (Arg-n). Excitable. Oversensitive; to noise. Easily frightened; startling from fright; fear of falling. Timidity.
Anxiety in stomach, chest, heart; in open air; from warmth; while walking on waking, evening-night in bed. Hysterical symptoms. Emotions cause faintness / goneness in pit of stomach. Amiable, friendly. Seems to be thinking of something far away.
Desires and rejects the things. Desire to lie down, but lying aggravates, so one must walk for relief. Lack of confidence. Conservative (like Kali-c). Aversion to work, business and company. Irresolute. Mental exertion aggravates.

Select Particulars
Head: Vertigo < rising or looking up, > lying. Every moment in fear of falling or dare not leave the room. Staggers while walking.
Various headaches: Catarrhal. Gastric. Rheumatic, < in warm room, in evening, motion; > walking in open air (Puls). Dull, befogged feeling in head, feeling to lose her senses. Great pain on moving head from side to side or backwards, can move it forwards without pain.
Hot (fore-) head, cold vertex.
Scalp: Yellow, scaly dandruff, moist, sticky. Scald head. Psoriasis. Crusta lactea. Falling of hair. Bold spots, also beard (after gonorrhea).

Eyes: Troubles after eyestrain, burning, photophobia. Conjunctivitis; yellowish or greenish, watery or purulent mucus from the eyes, yellow crusts on the eyelids; Ophthalmia Neonatorum (Puls).
Cornea: abscess; ulceration; spots.
Cataract, opacity of the crystalline lens.
Hypopyon (Hep).
Ears: Otitis media; recidivous; discharge thin bright, yellow, greenish, brown, or white purulent, offensive, < evening (Puls), stinking.
Pain into the ear, sharp, cutting, stitches, piercing below the mastoid process.
Deafness from congestion of the tympanic cavity or with catarrh and swelling of the eustachian tube. Polypoid excrescence closes the meatus near the opening, causing deafness.
Noises; ringing; roaring; rushing in.
Nose: Tendency to take cold; when once heated cannot cool off without taking cold. Yellow, slimy (or stringy) discharge; thick alternating with watery; lumpy in ozaena. Loss of smell and taste. Nose obstructed; discharge from p.n. Epistaxis.
Engorgement of the nasal pharyngeal mucous membrane; mouth breathing, snoring, wheezing, etc., remaining after removal of adenoids.

Face: Pale. Greasy. Chlorotic. Sickly. Epithelioma on right cheek, extending from lower eyelid to alae nasi; size of silver dollar; eye sympathetically affected either through extension of disease process or through irritating discharge; ulcerative stage, indurated base, wall-like hard elevated edges.
Blisters on lips and inside mouth. Warts on lip. Lower lip swollen; desquamation; dry. Prosopalgia.

Mouth: Tongue coated yellow and slimy, with dyspepsia, in malaria; sometimes with whitish edge; at base. Warts on. Taste insipid, pappy, lost.
Aphthae. Gums bleeding; chronic painfulness; white.
Toothache: Worse warm room towards evening; better in cool open air.
Throat: Hoarseness croupy (Hep, Spong) from cold air, overexertion (ie heat). Constriction. Dryness. Tonsils swollen. Adenoids; mouth breathing; snoring after excision. Pharyngitis. Mucus; easily hawked up; < morning.
Stomach: Desires: Sour, sweets, cold drinks, milk, and cold things. Averse to: bread, eggs, meat, warm food or drink.
Nausea; after cold drink; during headache. Solar plexus, obstructed flatulence. Sensation as of a load at the pit of stomach, with a yellow mucus coating on tongue. Gastralgia after chilling. Chronic catarrh of the stomach and duodenum. Repeated vomiting of a whitish substance. Burning heat or coldness. Colicky pains.
Abdomen: Gastro-duodenal catarrh with jaundice. Colicky pains; abdomen feels cold to touch. Pain in abdomen just above the angle of the crest of the ilium; on a line towards the umbilicus, deep within beside the right hip.
Obstructed flatulence. Tympanitic, tense abdomen.
Typhlitis¹,to aid the obsorption of any secretion and to lessen tendency to inflammatory condition in abdomen.
Rectum: Constipation; stool large like sheep’s dung, usually light-coloured and bilious, with hemorrhoids (Sul), yellow tongue.
Diarrhea; yellow, slimy, after midnight, morning; chronic. Symptoms of cholera; black, thin, offensive stools in whooping cough.

Urinary: Oxaluria. Pyelitis. Nephritis, with stitching pains; post scarlatinal chronic catarrh of bladder.
Male: Gonorrhea; discharge slimy, yellowish-green or thick yellow (Nat-s); old or advanced stage, but no stricture. Coronitis and orchitis, after suppr. gonorrhea.Syphilis, with evening aggravation. Sexual desire lost.
Female: Menses too late, scanty and feeling of weight in abdomen. Metrorrhagia. Leucorrhoea yellow, greenish, slimy or watery.
Frigidity. Prolapse. Builds to women subject to abortion. Morning sickness of pregnancy.
Respiratory: Tendency to take cold; when heated cannot cool off without taking cold. Every cold settles in the larynx; almost constant scraping.
Tendency to lower respiration tract affections: laryngitis, pharyngitis, bronchitis, bronchiolitis, asthma, pneumonia, whooping cough etc. with yellow, slimy or watery; easily expelled.
Pneumonia with wheezing; dyspnea < warm room; yellow, loose rattling phlegm or watery mucus; stage of resolution; coarse rales; tongue coated yellow and slimy.
Bronchial asthma; < warm season, warm room; with yellow expectoration. Suffocative feeling in hot atmosphere.
Cough < evening, lying, hot atmosphere, > cold air and drinks; post-grippal; cough hard coarse like croup; mucus slips back and is generally swallowed, in children.
Ratting of mucus in chest (Ant-t); during sleep, esp. in children; with or without cough; Premature mucous rales in chest (i.e. rales which appear before other symptoms). When a child has passed through broncho-pneumonia and seems to have recovered and after every charge in weather to cold, the child coughs and rattles in the chest; no expectoration; passive rattling cold; without prostration.
One of the most surprising remedies in catarrh of the chest.
Tuberculosis.
Heart: Palpitation from effects of heat. Dropsy from heart disease. Anxiety in chest.
Back: Pains, periodical, < evening, > open cool air.
Extremities: shifting, wandering pains. Rheumatic pains in joints, < heat, evening; > cold weather or cold application, fungoid inflammation of joints; arthritic nodes. Hip-joint disease.
Cold hands and feet (opp Sul). Chronic restless legs.
Nails diseased; growth interrupted. (Ant-c).
Sleep: Terrifying dreams; ghosts, death, robbers, murder, and violent struggling in their sleep.
Skin: Tendency to desquamation; abundant after measles etc.; hands; legs; yellow scales. Vesico-pustular and papular eruptions. Yellowish pustules and marked soreness. Nettle rash. Seborrhoea. Favus. Polyps. Scabs. Tubercles.
Eczema; burning, itching, papular eruptions; > open air; yellow greenish watery discharge; suppressed.
Ringworm of scalp or board with abundant scales (Mez).
Skin harsh and dry from suppression of eruptions or exanthema. Tuberculous ulcers with a continuous oozing of yellow pus and lymph. Various veins.
Erysipelas, blistering variety, to facilitate the falling off of scales. Boils after rheumatism. Lupus.
Epithelial cancer with discharge of thin yellow serous matter.

Thermic: Temperature rises in the evening until midnight, and then falls again (near morning).
Chronic intermittent fever with yellow, slimy coated tongue. Fevers from blood poisoning; gastric; enteric; typhoid. Scarlet fever, stage of desquamation, cold sweat, thirstless. Hectic.
Profuse, easy sweat < night (Merc).
Chill in evening (mingled with heat), then fever, no sweat.

Relations: Similar : Acet-ac, Ant-t, Aur-m., Bry, Calc, Carls, Iod, Kali-bi. Puls, Sep, Sil, Sul, Tub, (precedes well), X-ray.
Compare : Puls (soft and gentle; but Puls is more demanding and attention seeking ; more hot than Puls. Kali-s thirsty; Puls thirstless; Kali-s more obstinate and irritable than Puls; Puls more shy; Kali-s may be tense in temperament (like Nux-v), but sluggish and inactive (like Puls)]; Kali-s deeper acting than Puls. Hence when Puls fails to relieve permanently follow up with Kali-s if the patient remains hot; if the patient becomes chilly and is > rest, then follow with Sil).
Hydr (similar in dyspepsia; epithelioma; constipation; profuse sweat; opthalmia; but Hydr more sticky and ropy; ulcers in Kali-s oozing yellow pus while in Hydr atonic, senile and shallow; Hydr more senile, tumorous and cancerous).
Kali-s-chr. (very fine threads from the septum to external wall in the nosal passages; affection of nosal fossae and hay fever; Chronic colds; sneezing, red, watery eyes, irritation of mucous membranes).
Acutes: Hep, Kali-c, Kalm, Rhus-t.
Antidote to: Rhus poisoning.
Kali-s is a blend of Bry and Puls.

¹ Inflammation of caecum

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