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Kalium sulphuricum (Kali‑s.)

Kalium sulphuricum (Kali‑s.) appears in 376 rubrics in the Repertory. Of these, 3 are single-remedy rubrics in which only this remedy is listed, and 18 are small rubrics with at most two other remedies. The emphasis lies on Mistakes, Fear and Anxiety, Irritability and Children. The specific material is small but shows a recognizable pattern: moods and needs turn into their opposite.

Alternation and contrast

Company is refused and sought, one rubric alternating with the other. Likewise cheerfulness and sadness merge into each other. There is cheerfulness with loquacity, sadness after cheerfulness, and involuntary laughing with sadness, as in the rubric "Sadness – laughing – involuntary, with". The loquacity can be frank, while speech is hampered by stiffness of the tongue.

Mistakes, discouragement and fear

Mistakes, with 30 rubrics, are the most frequent theme, extending to misjudging measures and sizes. The person is "Discouraged – mistakes, after quickly"; this is a single-remedy rubric. The fear concerns falling at night, and a second single-remedy rubric links anguish with heat. Anxiety from pain in the region of the heart and ailments from music are added.

Children and hysteria

In older children insight is lacking; they are obstinate and unreasonable. Hysteria appears in the evening and with the desire to injure oneself; there is also lamenting in melancholy and sadness.

Summary

The picture is that of a person who does not commit himself: he seeks and avoids company, laughs in grief, and quickly loses courage after mistakes. A core of insecurity and self-reproach suggests itself but can be read only from the accumulation of the Mistakes rubrics.

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