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Kalium bromatum (Kali‑br.)

Kalium bromatum (Kali‑br.) appears in the repertory in 805 rubrics. Of these, 59 are single-remedy rubrics in which only this remedy is listed, and 42 are small rubrics with no more than two other remedies. The emphasis lies on Delusions, which with 106 rubrics form the largest group, on Children with 98 rubrics, and on Fear; added are Anxiety, Sadness, and Mistakes in speaking. The picture that emerges is of a person who feels persecuted, accused, and forsaken by God, and of a child whose nights are ruled by terror.

Guilt and persecution

The delusions revolve around accusation and punishment. Listed are the illusion of being punished, of being accused of theft, and of being persecuted for stealing from or robbing a friend. Hotel guests abuse and insult the person, the landlord's bills appear as conspiracies against the father, and a policeman is coming into the house. The rubric of distance from God sums up the basic tone: "Delusions – forsaken, is – God, by". The small rubric of being the object of divine vengeance stands beside it. The guilt appears as a burden that strikes back from outside.

Danger from close by

The threat comes not from strange powers but from those nearest. A single-remedy rubric describes the feeling of danger emanating from one's own family, another the fear of impending destruction of everything in the surroundings, and a third the delusion that the destruction of all people in the surroundings is threatened. Small rubrics add the idea of killing spouse and children or the whole family with an ax. Alongside stands the delusion that a brother fell overboard before one's eyes. Where the danger lies in one's own house, no safe place is left to the person.

Disintegration of the self

Delusions about body and mind are numerous: mind and body are separated, the legs are scattered all over the sidewalk, parts of the body are growing as if they were becoming too long; a small rubric names an inner emptiness. Added are rubrics of mental deterioration: aphasia, in which one can pronounce every word said to one but otherwise cannot speak, loss of speech from amnesia, difficulty in writing, and mistakes in which opposite words, "hot" for "cold," are used. The delusion of having experienced everything before also belongs here.

The child and the night

The rubrics on Children are closely tied to teething. Dentition produces anxiety, fear, and night terrors, and pavor nocturnus occurs with screaming, followed by squinting. A single-remedy rubric describes shrieking screaming on waking with clouding of consciousness and subsequent squinting. The child screams terribly, frightfully, sleepwalks, and the anxiety rises at night. The adult's fear has its counterpart here: their bed too is a place of solitude, for a single-remedy rubric records fear of being alone in the evening in bed.

Climacteric and epilepsy

Alongside stand rubrics of life upheavals and of convulsive disorder. In the climacteric, complaining without cause, anxious sadness, and anxiety about health accumulate. In epilepsy, bipolar disorder is listed as a single-remedy rubric, as is indifference, and before convulsions the delusion of being swollen.

Summary

Kalium bromatum portrays a person in whom guilt turns into persecution and for whom home becomes a place of danger. Speech, self-feeling, and the hold in faith are lost, and in childhood the same pattern shows itself as night terror attached to teething.

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