Kalium nitricum, also called Nitrate of Potassium or Saltpetre, serves as a powerful homoeopathic medicine.
It acts strongly on the respiratory tract, heart, kidneys, and gastrointestinal system.
Moreover, it supports both acute and chronic inflammatory conditions.
It also aids suppurative states and burns, constriction, vertigo, and sudden weakness.
Additionally, it suits patients with asthmatic tendencies, nephritic disorders, and cardiac congestion.
Common Name
English: Nitrate of Potassium, Saltpetre
Respiratory Conditions
Kalium nitricum relieves dry, hacking coughs, especially in the morning with bloody expectoration.
It also eases bronchitis with sharp, short coughs and chest tightness.
Furthermore, it supports cardiac asthma with burning chest pain and dyspnoea.
It helps patients struggle to drink due to breathlessness.
Moreover, it alleviates spasmodic croup, laryngeal diphtheria, acute pulmonary congestion, and phthisis relapses.
Headache and Fatigue
Kalium nitricum eases dull headaches with vertigo, often felt backward or to the right.
It also relieves mental fatigue, peevishness, despondency, and lack of initiative.
Additionally, it reduces scalp sensitivity to touch and pressure.
It helps with morning vertex headaches and heaviness, often after intoxication.
Vision Disturbances
Kalium nitricum aids cloudy vision and variegated rings before the eyes.
It supports patients with photophobia, burning, and lachrymation, worse in the morning.
Nasal Congestion and Sore Throat
Kalium nitricum reduces sneezing and right-sided nasal congestion.
It also soothes a red, swollen, itchy nose and nasal polyps.
Moreover, it relieves sore throat with constriction and burning tongue pain.
It eases pimples on the tongue tip and throat irritation.
Gastrointestinal Disorders
Kalium nitricum aids retching and vomiting of mucus, sometimes mixed with blood.
It supports thin, watery, bloody stools with tenesmus and abdominal griping.
Additionally, it eases diarrhoea after rich meats, with burning GI mucosa.
It strengthens patients with debility and relapse from chronic infections.
Urinary and Inflammatory Conditions
Kalium nitricum relieves burning urination in suppurative nephritis.
It also eases frequent urination and supports dropsical swellings of face and limbs.
Menstrual and Reproductive Issues
Kalium nitricum helps early, profuse, black menses with violent backache.
It also relieves burning ovarian pain and leucorrhoea with internal heat.
Circulatory Weakness
Kalium nitricum strengthens weak, thready pulses and palpitations.
It supports cardiac congestion and dyspnoea during exertion.
Musculoskeletal Pain
Kalium nitricum eases rheumatic, tearing pain in shoulders and large joints.
It also relieves stiffness, numbness, and tingling in limbs.
Furthermore, it supports patients with finger cramps, joint rigidity, and paralytic leg weakness.
