Phosphoricum Acidum

▲   GENERAL

Dose

First potency.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

BETTER, from keeping warm. WORSE, exertion, from being talked to; loss of vital fluids; sexual excesses. Everything impeding circulation causes worse of symptoms.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Oenotherra Biennis ^{Oenothera Biennis} - Evening primrose - (Effortless diarrhoea with nervous exhaustion. Incipient hydrocephaloid. Whooping-cough and spasmodic asthma). Nectranda amare ( Watery diarrhoea, dry tongue, colic, bluish ring around sunken eyes, restless sleep.) China ^China; Nux Vomica ^Nux; Picricum Acidum ^Pic-ac.; Lactic Acid. ^Lactic-ac.; Phosphorus ^Phos.

Antidotes

Antidotes: Coffea Tosta ^Coffea.

▲   MIND

Mind

Listless

Impaired memory ( Anacardium ^Anac.) Apathetic, indifferent

Cannot collect his thoughts or find the right word

Difficult comprehension

Effects of grief and mental shock

Delirium, with great stupefaction

Settled despair.

Aversions, dislikes; thinking

Dazed

Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusions

Symptoms follow intense emotions

fright

ailments from grief

disappointed love

Excitement

ailments from emotional excitement

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

indifference, apathy, etc.

indifference, apathy, etc.; during chill

indifference, apathy, etc.; to everything

indifference, apathy, etc.; during fever

irritability

love; silent grief

quiet disposition

unhappy; sadness, mental depression; from masturbation

Home-sickness (see desires home)

Uncooperative; refuses to eat

Intellectual faculties

impaired thinking; difficulty concentrating

impaired thinking; dull, sluggish

impaired thinking; imbecility

impaired thinking; weakness of mind

ideas; deficiency of ideas

Memory

forgetful

forgetful; of words while speaking

weakness of memory

Ailments after death of part of body

Quiet, peace (or lack of); quiet disposition

feeling of tranquillity

Mental symptoms from sexual excesses

Talking, conversation

answers not lucid; slowly

dislike of talking, desire to be silent, taciturn

Unconsciousness

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Dull headache after coition; from eye-strain ( Nat Mur ^Nat-m.) Vertigo toward evening, when standing or walking

▲   HEAD

Head

Heavy; Confused

Worse, Shaking or noise

pressure on top

Brain

insufficient oxygen to brain

inflammation of brain; at spine

Headache

Pain as if temples were crushed together

crushing headache

Heaviness (see pain; pressing); from mental exertion

Pain, headache

eyes and vision (affecting or affected by); from straining eyes

from emotions

from exertion; mental exertion

from certain movements; rising (see morning, noon, night, etc., on rising, also movement; raising head); from lying

with other pains; pain in nape of neck

school girls

back of head (occiput)

from emotions; after grief

sides; one side

pressing (see bursting, pulling); top of head (vertex)

inward

Scalp

Hair gray early in life; falls out

Hair thins out, turns gray early.

Skin and scalp; perspiration; back of head (occiput)

▲   EYES

Eyes

Blue rings around

Lids inflamed and cold

Pupils dilated

Glassy appearance

Averse to sunlight; sees colors as if a rainbow

Feel too large

Amblyopia in masturbators

Optic nerves seem torpid

Pain as if eyeballs were forcibly pressed together and into head.

Glassy appearance

Pain; burning, smarting, gnawing, biting

Vision

Dim

▲   EARS

Ear

Roaring, with difficult hearing

Intolerant of noise.

Noises in ear

while lying

roaring

Pain

inside (in ear canal)

cramp in

pulling in ear

Hearing

Impaired

▲   FACE

Face

Pale, earthy; feeling of tension as from dried albumen

Sensation of coldness of one side of face.

Inflammation; around bones of face

Skin

discoloration; pale

out-breaks on skin; crusty, scabby; lips

▲   NOSE

Nose

Bleeding

Bores fingers into nose

Itching.

Nose bleed; from blowing the nose

Discharge

Running or blocked nose (coryza); cold air

▲   MOUTH

Lips

Lips dry, cracked

Gums and teeth

Bleeding gums; retract from teeth

Teeth feel cold

Teeth; deposits on teeth during illness (see mucus)

Saliva

Dryness

Tongue

Tongue swollen, dry, with viscid, frothy mucus

At night, bites tongue involuntarily.

▲   THROAT

Throat

Tickling in the air passages; in trachea (wind pipe)

▲   CHEST

Chest

Heart; Palpitation in children, who grow too fast; after grief, self-abuse

Pulse irregular, intermittent.

Heart

palpitations

palpitations; anxiety

Movements in and of chest; fluttering

Respiration

Chest troubles develop after brain-fag

Hoarseness

Dry cough from tickling in chest

Salty expectoration

Difficult respiration

Weak feeling in chest from talking ( Stannum Metallicum ^Stann.) Pressure behind the sternum, rendering breathing difficult.

▲   COUGH

Cough

Dry cough

evening; lying down

Tickling

on talking

in bronchia; where bronchia join (behind middle of breast bone)

chest

in wind pipe

Violent

▲   SKIN

Skin

Pimples, acne, blood-boils

Ulcers, with very offensive pus

Burning red rash

Formication in various parts

Falling out of the hair ( Nat Mur ^Nat-mur.; Selenium ^Selen.) Tendency to abscess after fevers.

Discoloration; bluish; spots

Abnormal growths

wart-like growth

ulcers; bleeding

ulcers; discharges; offensive

ulcers; painless, slow developing

ulcers; with jagged margins

ulcers; coming and going quickly

ulcers; painless

Inactivity

Like insects crawling on skin

Out-breaks on skin

herpetic; moist

painful

pimples

rash (see granular)

suppressed

Pain

like bruising

burning; spots

Sensitive

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back and neck

Pain in back and limbs, as if beaten.

Pain

sore, bruised, beaten; neck

Neck

neck

burning; neck

Perspiration; neck

Back

Boring pain between scapulae

Curvature of spine (scoliosis)

Pain

from sexual excesses

pulling; lumbar (lower half of back)

Weakness (tired feeling, in spine)

sexual excesses

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Stomach; Craves juicy things

Sour risings

Pressure as from a weight, with sleepiness after eating ( Fel)

tauri.) thirst for cold milk.

Distention and fermentation in bowels

Enlarged spleen ( Ceanothus Americanus ^Ceanoth.) Aching in umbilical region

Loud rumbling.

Swashing

Bladder

urging to urinate (unhealthy desire); ineffectual

urging to urinate (unhealthy desire); sudden

urination; interrupted (intermittent); urine flows so thick, with cheesy masses like curdled milk

Stomach

desires, cravings; fruit

desires, cravings; juicy things (see refreshing things)

desires, cravings; refreshing things

without thirst

Eating

Symptoms following sour food and drink

Stomach; burping, belching; food (regurgitation)

Nausea

Nausea

Stomach; nausea; in throat

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Diarrhoea

after certain foods or drinks; solid food

after catching cold; in summer

without weakness

Involuntary stool

on passing flatulence

Stool

Diarrhoea, WHITE, watery, involuntary, Painless, with much flatus; not specially exhausting

Diarrhoea in weakly, delicate rachitic children.

Copious

which does not exhaust

Grey

Food appears to be passed undigested (lientery)

Light-coloured

Thin, liquid

pouring out

Watery

like rice water

white

White

greyish white

Yellow

bright

whitish

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Frequent, profuse, water, Milky

Micturition, preceded by anxiety and followed by burning

Frequent urination at night

Phosphaturia.

Albuminous (white, thick)

Cloudy

when standing up

Colour

pale

pale; while perspiring

Copious

during period

Milky

like curdled milk

Sediment

bloody

phosphates

Sugar in urine

Male

ACID.) Sexual power deficient; testicles tender and swollen

Eczema of scrotum

Oedema of prepuce, and swollen glans-penis

Male

thick emission from penis

thick emission from penis; frequent

thick emission from penis; emission of prostatic fluid

during erections

during stool

during stool; difficult stool

Female

Female; flatulence from vagina

Genitals

Male; Emissions at night and at stool

Seminal vesiculitis ( Oxalicum Acidum ^Oxal)

Parts relax during embrace ( Nux Vomica ^Nux.) Prostatorrhoea, even when passing a soft stool

Herpes preputialis

Sycotic excrescences ( Thuja ^Thuja.)

Milk scanty; health deteriorated from nursing.

Male; erections; after emission

Menses

Female; Menses too early and profuse, with pain in liver

Itching; yellow leucorrhoea after menses

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Weak

Tearing pains in joints, bones, and periosteum

Cramps in upper arms and wrists

Great debility

Pains at night, As if bones were scraped

Stumbles easily and makes missteps

Itching, between fingers or in folds of joints.

Coldness

upper limbs; hands

lower limbs; foot

Heat; foot; burning

Heaviness; tired limbs

Diseased hip-joint (see pain in hip)

Inflammation

bones

leg; shin bone

Sensation of lightness

Numbness (see tingling); foot

Pain

in bones

lower leg; growing pains

aching; leg

shin

scraping

bones

leg, bones

sore, bruised; joints

morning

sore, bruised; hip

tearing; upper limbs; joints

Skin; itching; like insects crawling on skin

Weakness; leg

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Chilliness

Profuse sweat during night and morning

Low types of fever, with dull comprehension and stupor.

Continued fever

evening

dazed from fever

Internal heat

▲   GENERALITIES

Fatigue

Lethargic, tired

after eating

Sleep and dreams

Somnolency

Lascivious dreams with emissions.

Dreams; amorous

Sleepiness, tiredness

Sleeplessness, insomnia; night; after midnight

Perspiration

Daytime

During anxiety

Clammy

Profuse

Other symptoms worse after perspiring

Generalities

Morning

Evening

General physical anxiety

Bones; decay of bone; around the bone

Dehydration

Inflammation

bones

bones; around the bone

Insensitive to pain (see irritability)

Lack of irritability

Numbness; externally

Pain

bones

around the bone

burning externally

constricting; internally

as if scraped; around the bone

Symptoms after perspiration

Pulse

abnormal

frequent, accelerated, elevated, exalted, fast, innumerable, rapid

intermittent

irregular

weak

Lack of reaction

Symptoms from masturbation

Symptoms after sexual intercourse; symptoms after sexual excesses

Symptoms not symmetrical; symptoms on one side

Swelling

bones

around the bone

Temperature (felt and effects of temperature); cold feeling; lack of vital heat

from becoming cold

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness)

morning

on rising

after rising

after eating

after emission

from slight exertion

from breast feeding

paralytic

sliding down in bed

walking

Weariness (see weakness)

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