kalium muriaticum

[Sarvadaman Oberoi]

Joy Lucas wrote March 23, 2007 4:39 AM
I would still like to know where and how the mind sx arise and how the post 1986 data has
been incorporated. Many thanks, Joy

Dear Joy,

1986 Revised Ed. incorporates additional proving data of 1972-74 whereas earlier 1974 Ed has data only from 1970-72 provings.
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Sarvadaman Oberoi

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EXTRACTS

PROVING OF KALI MURIATICUM CCRH Rev Ed. 1986

“Kali mur. has not been proved but Martin and Tully have proved Kali chloricum, potassium chlorate. The provings of which were published in 1832. Allen in his encyclopaedia has reproduced these provings.

Kent (8) has published picture of Kali mur. which does not clearly men­tion about the source of provings. The description of the symptoms appears to denote only, a collection of clinical data.

Boericke(19), Clarke(10), Hughes(ll), Farrington(12), have described Kali chloricum in their materia medica as an independent remedy.

Hering(4) has amalgamated the proving symptoms of the Kali chlori­cum and that of Schussler's compilation under one head Kali mur. But this mixing up of this symptomatology is not useful for a clinical study since no distinguishing signs and symptoms have been mentioned. Clarke has therefore rightly suggested keeping these symptoms separatelv. “
PROVING OF KALI MURIATICUM

* Signs/Symptoms obtained during both the 1st proving (1970-72 Bhagalpur, Bihar; Lucknow U.P. Calcutta W.B.) and reproving. (1972-74 Midnapore W.B.)
MIND
Easily vexed, angered, with aversion to company.
Irritability*, angry from slightest provocation*, while speaking, easily excited.
Rage and fury at slightest provocation* with great mental restlessness, with lack of concentration* and feeling of emptiness in head with anxiety.
Quarrelsome with members of the family.
Feeling of sadness*, depression*, tearful disposition with anxiety* about life and own business, about future and about health.
Home sickness.
Dullness of mind, mind occupied with various thoughts.
Feeling of happiness, feeling of laziness*, changeable temperament - happy to melancholv.
Loquacity.
Indifference to study, to work, to people, to everything.
Desire to remain silent, calm, quiet, idle and in lonely places; for company, for music, to run away from the society, to weep.
Aversion to noise, to study, to talk*', to do work, to take bath in cold water, to sunrays, to friends, to company*, to eat, to drink, to religious work, to be disturbed.
Loss of memory - vacant thoughts - incapacity to think deeply. Forgetfulness.
Cannot remember the subject which he has read a few hours back, the names of things or persons .
DISCUSSION
The proving of Kali mur. was conducted between 1970-72 in three different drug - proving units of the Council namely at Bhagalpur (Bihar), Lucknow (U.P.) and Calcutta (West Bengal). The double blind technique was followed throughout the period of the proving. The data submitted by all these three units were significantly identical (only with minor deviations or differences occasionally in modalities and sensations). At times altogether a different symptom was recorded. This would seem to indicate that the provings were conducted sincerely and doubtlessly the results recorded faithfully.
Schussler, based on his chemicophysiological concept had suggested certain guiding symptoms and characteristic indications for the use of this salt in therapeutics. These same indications have been found useful in homoeopathic practice The present proving has confirmed and extended this symptomatology.
Martin and Tully have proved Kali chloricum a poisonous salt af potassium and Hering has amalgamated the symptoms of Kali chloricum and that of Schussler's Kali chloratum under one head-Kali chloricum. It appears that since no one had proved Kali mur, the authors had opted to do so. But Clarke had rightly pointed out in his “A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica” under Kali chloricum that it would be better to keep the symptomatology of bath these salts separately. The wisdom of Clarke can be appreciated now when the provings of Kali mur. are available. The symptom complex though not very different from that of Kali chloricum, exhibits its own sphere of action which can be identified separately.
Boericke and Dewey in their standard work on "Twelve Tissue Remedies" give a scheme on guiding symptoms but they contain mostly pathological states though valuable. In the present proving a rich symptomatology pertaining to mind has been elucidated. These symptoms were mostly exhibited in potencies above 12x upto 1000 centesimal. However 200 centesimal potency failed to give any of the mental symptoms recorded in the present proving. These are very important symptoms pointing to conditions like anxiety neurosis, schizophrenia. Important symptoms of loss of memory and changing moods are also demonstrated. Kali chloricum has also exhibited a similar picture (as described by Clarke).
Symptoms of vertigo and sensation of falling forward on changing posture seem to point to postural hypotension. Also vertigo and wheezing in the ears point to an aspect of Meniere's symptom complex. Kali mur. therefore can be an addition to the existing list of remedies for this syndrome. These symptoms also seem to point to circulatory disturbance .
Vertigo is often due to disturbance of fifth and the seventh cranial nerve apart from cerebellar and vestibular disturbance.
The associated symptom of headache may be due to involvement of preauricular branch of the occipital division of the trigeminal nerve.
Darkness before the eyes with anxiety and profuse lachrymation, dull vision and difficulty to see at night requiring straining pertain to the clinical usage of this remedy by Schussler in case of cataract.
The sensation of sand and dust particles in the eye may point to its applicability in granular conjunctivitis .
Involvement of the respiratory tract, particularly the throat and the lungs is markedly noticed through the whitish thick discharges and expectoration which indicate early inflammatory process. Pain in tonsils and the referred pain to the ear may indicate the eustachian tube involvement.
In the gastric sphere hyperacidity is commonly indicated. This also appears to show the symptoms pointing towards peptic ulcer. There is an increased flatulence showing digestive disorder.
Itching and tickling of anus with crawling sensation may point to the symptoms arising of pin and thread worm infestation.
The type of stools with flatulence and pain point towards dysentery, particularly that of amoebiasis or giardiasis.
In the urinary system polyuria with incontinence of urine appear to show weakness of the sphincter muscles and hence it may prove an useful addition to the remedies for enuresis.
Symptoms in chest, heart and pulse may indicate its need in rheumatic type or that of ischaemic disorders. This rheumatic type is more evident in the extremities.
The critical study of Schussler's indications mentioned under Kali muriaticum will indicate that whatever the guiding symptoms and characteristic indications he has included are based upon clinical and pathological symptoms. The symptoms are not complete and not qualified by appropriate modalities, sensations etc. and hence become only therapeutic hints for its prescriptions. Most of these indications and guiding symptoms have been found modified in the present proving which has widened the scope of the prescriptions of this remedy on many of the conditions mentioned by Schussler.
CONCLUSION
The symptomatology of Kali mur has exhibited its action confined to catarrhal and subacute inflammatory stages giving rise to thick whitish discharges. The action appears to be more marked on the mucus membrane of mouth, gastro-intestinal tract, salivary glands, respiratory tract and kidneys.
The symptoms of Kali chloricum which have been amalgamated by the various authors in the past, appear to be more deeper and stronger in action in conformity with the character of the salt. The symptom complex of Kali mur, exhibited by its independent proving though show similarity in its sphere of action but they are milder in form and at times show different symptom picture pointing to different disease conditions.
The present proving of Kali muriaticum has confirmed and extended the symptomatology of Schussler's indications which are based upon his theory of diseases having been caused by the deficiency of inorganic salts in the body. The present proving has not only substantiated the claim of Schussler but also has expounded the drug picture in greater details.
Comparing the therapeutic application of this drug with that of Schussler's indications based upon his physiopathological concepts, one finds the possibility of varied application of this drug in various disease conditions.
PSYCHE
Neurasthenia : -Anxiety-restlessness.
Schizophrenia: -Loss of memory-particularly whatever read just couple of hours

earlier-names of things or persons.

-Vacant thoughts.

-Sleeplessness-cannot sleep after midnight.

-Changeable temperament; happy to melancholy;

-Desire to remain silent and in lonely places; to run away from the

society.

-Quarrelsome.