Kali Bromatum - Mouth symptoms - T.F. Allen

MOUTH

Mouth

General Mouth.

Fetor in the mouth,

Speech.

After awaking, speech is difficult, slow, and not seconded as usual by the operations of the intellect (after one and two hours),

Hesitating speech,

Occasional stammering (after continued doses),

Unable to speak,

Lips

Ropy mucus on the tongue, lips, and inside the mouth,

Gums and teeth

Gums.

Painful gums, sometimes red and swollen,

Saliva

Dryness of the mouth,

Long-lasting dryness of the mouth (after the increase of saliva) occasioning a desire to drink, sometimes very urgent (after a few minutes),

Saliva.

Increased secretion of saliva,

Increased secretion of saliva, with frequent spitting (after a few minutes),

Transient increase of saliva and mucus in the mouth,

Slight increase of the salivary secretion (immediately),

Profuse secretion of tenacious saliva, with fetor from the mouth,

Salivation,

Salivation, not copious, but merely disagreeable,

The buccal mucus becomes sticky,

The salt found in the saliva (after half an hour),

Tongue

Tongue.

Tongue, red, dry, and enlarged (in a few hours),

Tongue moist and red at first, but after a few days it has a tendency to drying and browning,

Coated tongue (second day),

Foul breath and a white tongue, involving the edges as well as the dorsum, and not necessarily furred, with great languor and sleepiness,

Tongue presented every appearance of the effects of a corrosive poison,

Disordered action of the tongue; difficult speech,

Taste

Salivation and salt taste in the mouth,

Taste.

Very foul taste in mouth (after a few minutes),

Slightly salt taste (immediately),

Taste weakened (after three days),

The tongue does not taste,

Fauces

Irritation of the mucous membrane of the mouth and fauces; the tongue was painful and the papillae very prominent, with redness and burning through the whole of the mouth and fauces as after some acrid substance,