Homoeopathy — Page 435
Kali Phos. 435 After it has shown some beneficial effect, another dose in high potency will show surprisingly good results. For the anorexia, due to a stomach or liver disorder, Nux Vomica is the best. The effect of Nux Vomica on sleep is similar to that of Kali Phos. Nux Vomica is useful in treating the insomnia and restlessness arising from drinking tea or coffee, but in case of insomnia due to nervousness and anxiety, Kali Phos should be used. The patients of Kali Phos and Arsenic are usually very neat and tidy but unfortunately their body secretions become very foul smelling and putrid during the severity of the illness and fever. Because the foul smell of secretions is common in other medicines too, one should not consider the foul smell as a diagnostic sign for Kali Phos. Most bodily secretions happen to be foul smelling in contagious diseases and infections. Kali Phos ranks high in the cure of such a patient. Ferrum Phos 6X and Kali Phos6X combined given five to six times a day along with Pyrogenium 200 and Typhoidinum 200, work very well in a typhoid patient who has a tendency towards constipation. The patient of Kali Phos likes cold and sour drinks. Kali Phos is very effective in the inflammatory conditions of the liver and the intestines. It also works for irritable bowel syndrome (an intestinal disorder of psychological origin). One or two doses of Kali Phos are very effective in the treatment of acute dysenteric symptoms associated with severe cramps in the abdomen (tenesmus). It should be remembered that Kali Phos and nothing else will work for gastro-intestinal disturbances associated with nervousness and anxiety. Kali Phos should especially be used when all other similar medicines have failed. Kali Phos is usually used as a tonic in combination with Mag Phos and Calacarea Phos. But if the symptoms of Kali Phos are obvious, then the effect of Kali Phos would diminish in the presence of other medicines. In this situation, one should keep in mind that if the diagnosis is correct then that one particular medicine could hit the target, with the blessings of Allah. One or two doses can cure the patient, and if by chance it does not help, then other appropriate medicines should be sought. Regarding the disease pattern of some medicines, the symptoms shift from right to left or from left to right. In Kali Phos, like Lachesis, the symptoms move from left to right. In Kali Phos, it is not the disease itself which transfers from left to right but simply the pain moves from