KALIUM NITRICUM mit generierter deutscher Übersetzung Lilienthal ll1 Pneumonia with excessive heat and thirst; dyspnea out of proportion to affection of the lung, amel. by copious perspiration and profuse hemorrhage. Hering hr1 With pneumonia - Relapse induced by exposure; distressed dyspnea; cannot lie with head low; wants to be fanned to keep from suffocation; thirst, drinks only sips at time for want of breath; pulse rapid; cough with purulent expectoration. Choudhuri cda1 In the first place, the pains of this remedy are stitching in character, of the type found in Bry. and Kali-c. Such pains may be felt anywhere and wherever found, they generaly tend to impede respiration. On this indication it may be used in pleurisy, as well as pneumonia. Its indications in the above complaints are severe cough with shortness of breath, expectoration of blood, red or turbid urine and great and constant thirst. A very great symptom here, as well as in asthma, is a peculiar dyspnea that prevents the patient from drinking as drinking brings on suffocation. If he is at all able to drink, he takes in small sips, so as not to bring on an interruption in breathing. This oppression of chest is considered an important landmark of the remedy. Chettri chex ... Dry morning cough with pain in chest and bloody expectoration. Excessive dyspnea, burning in chest. Short dry hacking cough. Expectoration of clotted blood; sour mucus.