Kali iod.

A note about Kali iod.
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This medicine is a very much neglected remedy in Homeopathy at least in my consideration. The lamentable matter is that this medicine often gets defeated by Merc. Sol.in day to day practice.
Why? Because of the fact that both of them have extreme similarity in their symptomatology and we get confused which one to use.
★ Both of them have aggravation at night from sunset to sunrise
★Both of them are great cough remedies
★Both of them have offensive body odour
★Both of them have excoriating discharge 
★Both of them have extreme sensitiveness to damp /wet air = coryza
★Both of them have swollen & painful gum
★Both have paraphimosis & Chancre-like ulcer on genitals of both sex
★ Both of them are great itchy remedies 
★Both of them are very very weak
And for this reason one often commits mistake in prescription. It is olso due to the fact in the classroom lectures too this comparison is NEVER TAUGHT with emphasis.
So the differences between them should be searched in the others spheres.
1)Kali iod is not so thirsty as Merc.sol
2) Kali iod is extremely hot patient whereas Merc. Sol sensitive to hot & cold weather
3)Kali.iod though weak but he is extremely restless for getting relief of pain which is not with Merc.sol
4)Merc. Sol has extreme craving for bread mixed with butter which is lacking in Kali.iod.
5) Kali.iod has DIFFUSE SORENESS of a painful part like Arnica which is absent in Merc.sol
6)Merc. Sol is chronic patient of Dysentery whereas Kali.iod has extreme trouble with constipation and FLATULENCE like Lycopodium.
7)Kali.iod has general aggravation from COITION which is absent in Merc.sol
8)Chest pain of Merc.sol spreads in different direction where as in Kali.iod it goes from sternum to back
9)Cough of Merc.sol does not have the 3 AM -5 AM aggravation of Kali.iod and the sputum of Merc. sol. is yellowish, offensive and sometimes mixed with blood whereas it is very characteristic "SOAP-SUD LIKE" in Kali.iod.and SALTY in taste.
10)Merc.sol can't lie on right side whereas Kali.iod can't lie on PAINFUL SIDE. 
11)Kali.iod suffers from Anxiety;very much irritable towards his children,talkative full of jokes whereas Merc.sol suffers from depression; answers question slowly, difficulty in expressing his problem.
Above all the great advantage of Kali.iod.is that it often antidotes the overuse of Merc.sol in practice which Merc.sol can't do.
Dr.T.S.Saha