KALIUM BICHROMICUM 30

Action of Medicine:

• Affections of the mucous membranes - eyes, nose, mouth, throat, bronchi, gastro-intestinal and genito-urinary tracts - discharge of a tough, stringy mucus which adheres to the parts and can be drawn into long strings
• Rheumatism alternating with gastric symptoms, one appearing in the fall and the other in the spring; rheumatism and dysentery alternate.
• Diphtheria: pseudo-membranous deposit, firm, pearly, fibrinous, prone to extend downwards to larynx and trachea.
• Cough: violent, rattling, with gagging from viscid mucus in the throat. Croup: hoarse, metallic, with expectoration of tough mucus or fibro-elastic casts in morning on awakening; with dyspnea.
• Better- from heat. Worse- beer, morning, hot weather, undressing.

Reference: > Nature's Materia Medica by Robin Murphy, A Manual of Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacology by Blackwood, Alexander Leslie