Phosphorus - Generalities symptoms - Hering

GENERALITIES

Sleep

Sleepy, coma vigil.

Stupor, burning heat of head; muttering delirium. θ Pneumonia.

Sopor, dry lips, black tongue, open mouth.

Sleepy all day, all night restless.

Restless, especially before midnight.

Awakens often from heat and ebullitions, or from hunger.

Feels in morning as if he had not slept enough, or as if paralyzed.

Nausea and vomiting

Eructations frequent, empty; spasmodic; sour.

Regurgitation of food without nausea; also in mouthfuls.

Sourish, offensive fluid ejected in large quantity, looking like water, ink and coffee-grounds; after food, or even a swallow of water.

As soon as water becomes warm in stomach, it is thrown up.

Food scarcely swallowed, comes up again; spasms of oesophagus at cardiac end.

Constant nausea.

Vomiting; of bile; of blood.

Eating and drinking

Bad effects from excessive use of salt.

After eating sleepy; belches much even after a little food.

After eating 2, 4, 7, 17, 26. Eating or drinking 16, 17, 27. Drinking 19; cold water 17.

Tissues

Ebullitions and congestions.

Fatty degeneration of liver, heart, kidneys, etc.; anaemia.

Chlorosis, with too rapid growth.

Hemorrhages from internal organs.

Small wounds bleed much.

Fungus haematodes.

Sprains; joints easily dislocated.

Glands enlarged, especially after contusions.

Dropsy of the face, hands and feet.

Swelling of the bones; necrosis (lower jaw).

Exostoses, especially of the skull; tearing, boring pains; worse at night, or from least touch.

Hip-joint diseased; oozing a watery pus.

Contact, Injuries, etc.

Touch 19, 25. Pressure 27. Rubbing 31. Scratching 4. Contusions 44.

Nerves

Oversensitive to external impressions; light, odors, noises, touch, etc.

Pains tearing, drawing, tensive, excited by slightest chill; body feels bruised, with sensation of coldness; open air intolerable.

Frequent fainting; pale, cold; sudden syncope, lying as if lifeless.

Epilepsy, with consciousness.

Spasms on the paralyzed side.

Paralysis; formication and tearing in the limbs; anaesthesia; increased heat.

Temperature and weather

Warm room 3, 4. Warm washing 10. Cold, cold washing 2, 3, 10, 36. Change of temperature 4, 27. Thunder-storm 1, 27. Uncovering 40. Hair cut 4.

Chill, Fever and Sweat.

Chill generally only in the evening; no thirst; worse from uncovering; veins on the hands swollen; from evening until midnight, with great weakness and sleep; at night, alternating with heat; with diarrhoea; chill descends, heat ascends, the back.

Flushes all over, beginning in the hands.

Heat, with anxiety and burning in face and hands, afternoon and evening.

Sweat mostly on head, hands and feet, with increased urine, or only on forepart of body.

Profuse night-sweat, worse during sleep.

Clammy sweat.

Intermittent fever, heat at night, beginning in stomach; faint and hungry; then chilly, followed by internal heat, especially in the hands, external cold continuing.

Attacks

Every other day 3.

Sides.

Right 13, 28, 29. Left 2, 3, 7, 23, 28, 32. Above downward 23, 33, 40. Below upward 40.