According to Dr. Kent, this medicine can offer complete
cure from epilepsy,
but it is not necessary that a single dose may produce that effect. Sometimes,
it has to be repeated over a long time (with some intervals in between). During
these interval periods, other types of treatments have to be administered. The
difficulty about Kali Sulph is that there is no given detail about the kind of
epilepsy amenable to Kali Sulph, because complete proving has never been done
with that purpose in mind. This is why most homoeopaths do not give much importance
to Kali Sulph. Had the proving been done, it would obviously be known what kind
of epilepsy should be treated with it. Under
the present circumstances, we can only say that if an epilepsy could not be
treated with any analogous remedy, Kali Sulph should also be tried.
In addition to skin
diseases, Kali Sulph is also useful in the treatment of diseases
affecting the mucous membranes. It is said that some patients of Lupus can be totally cured
with Kali Sulph. Similarly, malaria
going out of hand can be treated very well with Kali Sulph, provided
it fits the constitution of the patient.
Kali Sulph must be used in the treatment of chronic catarrhal conditions,
especially when the discharge becomes green.
Kali Sulph is called the Pulsatilla of biochemy because most of its symptoms
resemble those of Pulsatilla, for example, the worsening of the symptoms with
heat, and getting relief with the cold and open air. This feature is very important regarding the diagnosis for Kali
Sulph. The full clinical picture of
Pulsatilla would, however, distinguish it from Kali Sulph. In other words, the
presence of most but not all of the symptoms of Pulsatilla would be taken as
the indication for Kali Sulph. In this situation, it will be found an effective
treatment for almost all of the diseases mentioned under the chapter of Kali
Sulph. In Kali Sulph, the muscles tend
to be flabby and without proper tone.
Kali Sulph would be useful in the treatment of patients with liver
disorder and dilatation of the muscles of the heart. It will tone the cardiac musculature but has to be administered in a low
potency over a long period. Within a few months, the patient feels much better.
He feels invigorated and to a large extent the fatty degeneration of the liver
and the excessive amount of fat under the skin starts to melt away. These kinds
of symptoms are more common in women, especially after childbirth. The liver
becomes fatty, the muscles become flabby, the heart becomes weak, and the
patient becomes short of breath. The legs of the women become heavy and
swollen. Light touch bothers them while
deep pressure offers relief. In such patients, Kali Sulph being the proper
analog would offer great relief. In
Kali Sulph, the headache becomes
worse on movement and is relieved in the open air. The pain spreads to the
eyes, forehead and on both sides of the head. The head feels tight and there is
a feeling of being suffocated. The eyelids
stick together due to a yellowish discharge. There is lot of itching
and watering from the eyes. Small pimples form over the eyelids. The cornea
becomes hazy. Once again, if Kali Sulph is the proper match for the disposition
of the patient, it will cure all these eye ailments.
The ears discharge a yellowish coloured, offensive smelling liquid.
There is dryness in the middle ear. At the outset, the
discharge is watery, which then becomes thick and yellowish in colour. Once the
disease is well established, the discharge becomes greenish and smells terrible.
There is bleeding from inside the ears. These complications gradually keep on
progressing and after many years, the drums (tympanic membrane) become thick,
the discharge becomes extremely foul smelling and deafness develops. If Kali Sulph happens to
be the appropriate matching remedy, its use in the beginning of the disease will
prevent all these complications. In Kali Sulph, there is intense itching inside the ears
and behind the ears with lots of noises being heard.
In the eczema
associated with Kali Sulph, boils and blisters develop. There is a feeling of burning. The skin looks like frog’s
skin i.e. yellow in colour and without any healthy lustre. It commonly
happens in the diseases
of the liver and the spleen. Anaemia
and tuberculosis also make the face look yellow and without natural glare.
This facial appearance helps in making the proper diagnosis. It is an art to
make the diagnosis based on the facial appearane and the symptoms pertaining to
the eye. In Germany, a number of such experts can be found. Kali Sulph is very
effective in the treatment of all such infectious
diseases, provided it is analogous to the nature of the patient.
In the nature of the Kali Phos patient, there is chronic
irritation of the bladder; urination
is very frequent, and especially worse at night. The patient sees distressing dreams. Sleep
is not peaceful. The patient feels dizzy in a heated room after dinner. The
head feels tense.
The hair
tends to fall and there is dryness over the scalp. The lips become fissured. According to Dr. Kent, Kali Sulph is useful
in the treatment
of warts over the lips. Kali Sulph is also useful in the treatment of the skin cancer called Epithelioma. Blisters
form inside the mouth. The tongue is covered with yellow sticky
secretions. The chest rattles though the cough is dry. The tongue becomes
dry. The tonsils
swell and cause difficulty in swallowing. The patient dislikes eating eggs, bread, meat, hot food and hot drinks. After
taking food, there is a feeling
of pain, burning and cramping over the stomach. On coughing, the patient vomits; the vomit contains
undigested food and the sputum from the lungs. The abdomen becomes bloated
with gas and is tense. The patient cannot pass flatus. The soft
pitting swelling, common in liver diseases is noticed on the face
and over different parts of the body. The abdomen hurts at night. Diarrhoea and
severe constipation alternate with each other. The piles happen to be inside as well as on the
outer surface of the skin and tend to bleed.
In Kali Sulph, the patient feels severe
griping after having been to the lavatory. This is also common in
Merc Corr. In Merc Corr, the pain starts during defacation and continues
afterwards. The stools are
thin, darkish in colour, cause tearing pain and smell terrible. In Kali Sulph,
there is severe itching.
The lining of the kidney tubules becomes inflamed and is associated with a
light to severe kind of piercing pain over the kidneys. Sometimes the patient
also passes albumin in the
urine. The urine is deep coloured, abundant and causes burning.
Sometimes, it is in the form of a continuous dribble. It looks as if the kidneys are constantly producing offensive
smelling infected urine.
Kali Sulph is also very useful in the treatment of sexual impotence and weakness in
men. It is also useful in the treatment of continuous vaginal discharge,
inflammation and burning. The uterus
moves away from its normal position. During menstruation, there is a
feeling of pain over the uterus, as well as a feeling of downwards pressure.
Inside the windpipe (trachea), the expectoration may be
green, yellow or sometimes mucoid. There is a feeling of dryness and
scraping inside the throat which is worse on taking food and when the
person is in bed. There is a sort of hissing inside the trachea. Other
symptoms of Kali Sulph are hoarseness
of voice, repeated common cold, the onset of asthma
in a closed room and difficulty in breathing which gets worse on coughing, lying down, walking and in the
evening. In the open, the suffering becomes less. The cough becomes
worse in the presence of nasal catarrh. On being exposed to cold, the
chest rattles. There is a feeling of choking, burning pain and
unease. The cough at night is dry
while in the morning there is a lot of expectoration
with it. The ailments become aggravated with a sudden change in weather or if it becomes too cold. However, normally, the symptoms of Kali Sulph become worse in hot
weather like Pulsatilla, as if this remedy is full of
contradictions. Regarding the nature of the patient and the severity of thirst, it
shows the same