Potassium Iodate in homeopathy: properties, benefits and uses (all you need to know)

What is potassium iodate?

Potassium iodatum is given in homeopathy for people with an increased tendency to catch colds and a weakness of the immune system, for a stubborn cough, chronic and asthmatic bronchitis. It is also used for diseases of the supporting and musculoskeletal system.

The remedy has also proven itself in the treatment of menopausal symptoms.

Leading symptoms

Ailments from mental overwork
Allergic runny nose with caustic nasal discharge and forehead pain
Inflammation of the urethra with thick, yellow-green discharge
Regression of the testicles / breasts
Rheumatic pains better from exercise and in the fresh air
Sciatic pain at night
Warm-blooded guy
Enlargement of the thyroid

Information about the agent

How do you recognize patients who need potassium iodate?

Potassium iodatum patients are extremely correct and conservative, have a high sense of morality, and are generally rather contradictory in character. In particular towards people close to them, they behave very unyieldingly, are irritable, and can react spitefully and quarrelsomely. They are very skittish, timid, have a bad memory. At the same time, they are ready to joke and like to hear each other talk.

Typical physical signs of a need for potassium iodate are an increased susceptibility to infections, susceptibility to fungal diseases and weak mucous membranes. One tends to runny nose with sharp discharges attacking the walls of the nose. Nasal breathing is severely restricted. One is hoarse, coughs hard, has swollen tonsils and a dry throat. There is an increased tendency to pneumonia when a cold starts harmlessly. There is a nagging, hot frontal headache and blurred vision. The eyelids are inflamed and swollen as in chronic conjunctivitis. The whole face is puffy, the lips are cracked. The patients show swollen joints or joint edema, report cutting pains in the bones with a feeling of frost. One feels as if bruised in the upper musculoskeletal system. Heels and soles of the feet hurt even without strain.

The food has a straw-like taste and is difficult to swallow. The tongue is coated white, has teeth marks on the side, the oral mucosa shows blisters. Chronic flatulence and heartburn set in. One tends to have yellow watery stools, which are scanty with violent cramps in the lower abdomen; the urine is dark in color, also scanty. Hot flashes at night. You wake up with heart palpitations, have nightmares, cry in your sleep. The hair roots are inflamed, one turns gray quickly and loses a lot of hair.

Women suffer from painful menstruation, report a painful twitching of the right ovary with a feeling of swelling. In general, sharp green-yellow discharge as well as increased white discharge is observed, as well as spontaneous flow of milk from one or both breasts. Men secrete greenish mucus from the urethra. The tip of the pe^is is swollen without pain, the testicles are reduced.

Modalities

Potassium iodatum is indicated for all typical symptoms that improve or worsen by the following modalities:

Improvement:

fresh air
Movement
Warm drinks
tightening of the arms and legs

Deterioration:

At night
closed spaces
Cold wet
muggy
Print
change of weather
Cold food
Cold milk

What are typical areas of application for potassium iodate?

conjunctivitis
hair loss
skin rashes
hay fever
colds
rheumatism
menopausal symptoms