Garrison’s fever cases
🌡️ Kali-bi. in Fevers & Phlegm Cases
🟢 Step 1: Begin with the most basic concept
Kali-bichromicum = sticky phlegm + yellow heat.
• Wherever it acts → you’ll see glue-like mucus, thick, stringy, or bright yellow watery
discharges.
• Constitutionally, it loves fat, sluggish, phlegm-loaded people.
👉 Always remember: phlegm + yellow + fat = Kali-bi.
🟢 Step 2: Accidental overdose story (Dischere)
• Dr. Martin Dischere once mistakenly overdosed himself on Kali-bi.
• What happened? He vomited a huge amount of bright yellow water, very bitter.
• This told doctors something important:
• Kali-bi. produces yellow, bitter vomiting.
• It produces it in large quantities, even more than one drinks.
👉 Clinical hint: If you see vomiting of yellow water, think of Kali-bi.
🟢 Step 3: Garrison’s fever cases (application of this hint)
Case 1: The laborer
• Had intermittent fever (like malaria), lasting a month.
• Pains + paroxysms of fever every day at 1 p.m.
• Just before Garrison arrived → he vomited a large amount of bright yellow water.
• Prescription: Kali-bi. 1x in water, teaspoon every 2 hours.
• Result: Cured at once.
👉 Why? Because the “yellow water vomiting” guided the doctor.
Case 2: The woman
• Sick for 9 months under allopathic doctors.
• Confined to house for 2 months, told “you can’t recover.”
• Symptom: In the morning, vomited much more than she drank 😲 — a big bowl of yellow water.
• Again, the hallmark = “yellow watery vomiting in excess.”
• Kali-bi given → cure.
So what do we learn?
🔑 Kali-bi is not just for catarrh & ulcers → it can cure intermittent fevers, especially when vomiting
= bright yellow water, large amounts.
🟢 Step 4: Goullon’s fat man story
• A man of colossal, formless body (classic Kali-bi constitution).
• Chronic complaint: phlegm stuck in chest, especially mornings.
• Tried home remedies, mineral waters — nothing helped.
• Prescribed: Kali-bi. 2x, few grains in hot water every evening.
• In 2 weeks:
• Chest free, phlegm gone.
• Bowels regular.
• He could walk again.
👉 This shows Kali-bi clears chronic phlegm accumulation in fat people.
🟢 Step 5: Clinical pearls
• Vomiting of bright yellow, watery fluid → key guiding symptom.
• Vomiting more than what was ingested → strong keynote.
• Secretions & excretions are yellow (phlegm + heat).
• Specially suits fat, sluggish people overloaded with mucus.
🟢 Final Summary (memory hook 🎯)
Think of Kali-bi as the Yellow Flood 🌊💛:
• Wherever it goes, it pours out yellow watery stuff — nose, stomach, chest, even stools.
• The flood is sticky, gluey, or in excess.
• It drowns fat, phlegmy people in mucus — until Kali-bi itself saves them.
