Ferrum Phosphoricum

Mental Symptoms — Indifference to ordinary matters.

Doss of courage and hope, better after sleep.

Trifles seem like moun- tains, annoyed at trifles.

Hyperemia of the brain, produc- ing delirium, maniacal mood, mania transitoria.

Delirium tremens, very talkative.

Dizziness from congestion, conse- quences of anger.

Head and Scalp — Rush of blood to the head.

Headache from a gouty predisposition {Natr. sulph.).

Dull, heavy pain on top, during profuse menses, from cold.

Bruising, pressing or stitching pain and soreness to the touch.

Pain as if a nail

were being driven in one side, over the eye.

Congestive head- aches, hammering pain, worse right side ; pressing a cold object against the spot seems to relieve the pain ; relieved by nosebleed.

Headache with vomiting of undigested food, top of head sensitive to cold air, noise, jar ; cannot bear to have the hair touched.

Dull right-sided headache from vertex to right supra-orbital region.

Ill effects of sun-heat (follow with Calc. fthos.).

It is the chief remedy in headaches of children, throbbing sensation in the head, red face and suffused eyes ; worse from shaking the head, stooping and motion.

Blind headache, sick headache, with vomiting of undigested food ; vertigo, with rush of blood to the head.

Symptoms of men- ingitis, with drowsiness and heaviness.

First stage of erup- tions on the scalp ; soreness of scalp ; sensitive to cold and touch.

Suffused eyes.

Acute hypersemia of the conjunc- tiva.

Inflammation of the eyes, with acute pain, without secretion of mucus or pus.

Acute conjunctivitis.

Conjunc- tivitis, with relaxation of conjunctiva and photophobia.

Pain in the eyeball, aggravated by moving the eyes.

Retinitis.

Eyes inflamed, red, with burning: sensation, sore and red-looking:, and retinal congestion.

Sensation as if grains of sand were under eyelids.

Encysted tumor of the lids.

Stye on lower lid of right eye.

Neuralgia along inner orbit and nose.

Sensitive to noise.

" Earache after exposure to cold or wet." (Copeland.) Inflammatory earache, with burning or throbbing pain, or sharp, stitching pain.

Tension, throb- bing and heat in the ears.

Noises in the ears arising through blood-pressure, from relaxed condition of the veins not return- ing the blood properly.

First stag:e of otitis; radiating pains, pulsation in the ear ; every impulse of the heart is felt there.

Quick pulse, should be feeble and compressible, indicating marked debility.

Circumscribed, dark, inflammatory appear- ance.

Deafness from inflammatory action, or suppuration when there is cutting pain, tension or throbbing.

Tinnitus aurium.

A marked tendency of the inflammatory process to be diffused instead of circumscribed ; dark, beefy redness of

parts, mucopurulent discharge, if any, and a tendency to hemorrhage; the complete establishment of the discharge is not followed by the relief of the pain; paroxysmal and radi- ating character of the pain.

Inflammation of the external ear.

Mastoid process swollen and sore.

Chronic, non-sup- purative catarrh of the middle ear, with thickening of mem- brana tympani and probable anchylosis of small bones.

First stage of all colds in the head, predisposition to catch cold.

Smarting, especially in the right nasal passage, worse on inspiration.

Nasal catarrh, with trickling sensations.

Congested nasal mucous membranes.

Catarrhal fever.

Epis- taxis, especially in children, and a concomitant of other com- plaints.

Nosebleed of bright red blood.

"Its indication in beginning of colds or in congestion of the mucous membranes anywhere is similar to Aco?iite, but its period of usefulness is much longer.

Unless Aconite be given immediately after ex- posure in my experience it is useless, but the remedial value of Ferrum phos. continues for several hours." [R.

S.

Cope- land.]

A florid complexion, with less nerve tension than that of Bellad.

Faceache, with flushing, heat and quickened pulse ; worse on moving ; with throbbing or pressing pain, flushed face, with accompanying sensation of coldness in the nape of the neck ; flushed face when a precursor of recurring headaches.

Anaemic, chlorotic face; earthy, pale, sallow.

Cheek sore and hot, when cold applications are grateful.

Congestive or inflammatory tic douloureux.

Tongue

Furred tongue, or clean and red, with headache.

Inflammation of the tongue with dark red swelling.

Inflammation of the fauces.

Redness and pain without exudation.

Ulcerated throat, to relieve congestion,

heat, fever, pain and throbbing.

Sore throat, dry, red, inflamed, with much pain.

Pharyngeal abscess.

Red and inflamed tonsils and swollen glands.

First stage of diphtheria to lessen the fever.

Hemorrhages from pharynx, larynx, trachea and, perhaps, bronchi.

Acute catarrhal affections of the Eusta- chian tubes.

Sore throats of singers and those who use the voice daily.

Gastric Symptoms

Aversion to meat and milk.

Thirst for cold water.

Desire for some stimulant, brandy, ale.

Greasy eructation.

First stage of gastritis, with pain, swelling and tenderness at the pit of the stomach.

Dyspepsia with flushed, hot face, epigastrium tender to the touch.

Furred tongue, beating and throbbing pain, red, flushed face, vomiting of undi- gested food.

Indigestion from relaxed condition of blood vessels of the stomach, pain after taking food and on pressure.

Deathly sickness at the stomach.

Inflammatory stomach- ache in children from chill, with loose evacuations.

Vomiting of bright-red blood.

Flatulence bringing back the taste of the food eaten, loss of appetite, distaste for milk.

After eating, nausea and vomiting of food; vomited matters are sometimes very sour; cannot take acids, herrings, meat, or coffee and cakes.

Persistent vomiting of food.

Vomits some- times before breakfast.

Abdomen and Stool

First stage of all gastric and enteric fevers ; the chilly stage, also in the first stage of cholera and of peritonitis.

Constipation with heat in the lower bowel, associated with prolapse and hemorrhoids and aversion to meat diet.

Diarrhoea.

Cholera infantum, with red face, full, soft pulse ; stools watery, even bloody, after checked perspiration.

Stool watery, contains mucus and blood; urging, but no tenes- mus.

Diarrhoea from a relaxed state of the intestinal villi, not taking up the usual amount of moisture.

Stools undigested.

Diarrhoea caused by a chill.

Dysentery (alternately with Kali mur.).

Hemorrhoids, inflamed or bleeding, bright-red blood with a tendency to coagulate, before any induration occurs.

Disposition to prolapsus recti.

Inflamed and incarcerated her- nise.

Intestinal and thread-worms.

Frequent desire to urinate ; urine spurts out with every cough.

Hsematuria.

First stage of cystitis with heat, pain or feverishness.

Diabetes when there is a quickened pulse or when there exists pain, tension, throbbing or heat or congestion in any part of the system.

Incontinence of urine from weakness of the sphincter.

Diurnal enuresis de- pending on irritation of the neck of the bladder.

Ischuria ; suppression of the urine with heat, especially in little children.

Any inflammatory pain in the kidneys.

Bright's disease with febrile disturbances.

Irritation at the neck of the bladder and prostate.

Symptoms are worse the longer the patient stands and better after urinating.

Polyuria simplex, exces- sive secretion of urine.

Varicocele with pain in testicles.

Bubo with heat, throbbing or feverishness.

First stage of orchitis or of epididymitis and gonorrhoea.

Seminal emissions.

Fer- ritin phos. has a close relationship with conditions of irrita- bility of the womb, associated with trouble in the bladder, and also with the lining membrane of the womb.

Menstrual colic with flushing of the face and quickened pulse, vomiting of undigested food, sometimes tasting acid.

First stage of metritis to remove fever, pain and heat.

Excessive congestion at the monthly periods, blood bright red.

Menses every three weeks ; profuse, with pressure in abdomen and small of the back and pain on top of the head.

Bearing-down sensations and constant, dull ovarian pains.

Dysmenorrhcea with frequent urging to urinate.

Congestive dysmenorrhcea pains before, and during first days of flow.

Vaginismus ; vaginitis, vagina dry and hot, pain in the vagina on coition or examination.

Spasm of the vagina on account of the increased sensitiveness and dryness.

Pregnancy and Labor

First stage of mastitis.

Morning sickness of pregnancy, with vomiting of food as taken, with or without acid taste.

After pains and as a preventive of the fever of lactation.

Respiratory Symptoms

Acute, febrile or initiatory stage of all inflammatory affections of the respiratory tract.

Rhinitis,

laryngitis, trachitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, pleurisy and pleuro-pneumonia.

Bronchitis of young children.

Phthisis florida.

Expectoration scanty, blood-streaked, chest sore, bruised.

It is the chief and first remedy for the stitches in the side, catch in the breath, dyspnoea and cough, and should be continued until free perspiration is established.

Conges- tion of the lungs with debility and oppression.

Hsemoptysis after a concussion or fall, with short, oppressed breathing and high fever.

In bronchial affections with heat and burn- ing soreness, no expectoration.

In chronic bronchitis when a fresh aggravation sets in.

Short, painful, tickling cough from an irritation or tickling in the windpipe.

Spasmodic cough with involuntary emission of urine.

Hard, dry cough with soreness of the lungs.

Cough with rattling of mucus in chest, worse at night.

Croup, for the febrile symptoms.

Whooping cough with vomiting of food ; loss of voice, hoarse- ness, huskiness after singing or exertion of speaking, sore- ness, irritation and pain in the larynx.

Circulatory Organs

First or congestive stage of carditis, pericarditis, endocarditis and arteritis.

In aneurism, to estab- lish normal circulation and remove complications arising from excessive action of the heart.

Dilatation of the heart or of the blood vessels, telangiectasi and nsevi.

Palpitation of the heart, pulse rapid and quick.

Varicose veins.

Phlebitis and lymphangitis, first stage.

Pulse full, round, not rope-like.

Back and Extremities

Stiff neck from cold.

Pains in the back, loins and over kidneys.

Also in knees and ankles, shooting pains.

Rheumatic pains worse on motion ; move- ment sets up and increases the pain.

Rheumatism felt only during motion and better from warmth.

Articular rheumatism, especially of the shoulder ; pains extend to the upper part of the chest, attack one joint after another ; muscular or siib- acute rheumatism.

Lameness, stiffness from cold.

Rheumatic pain in right wrist and in shoulder.

Inflamed fingers, first stage of whitlow.

Hip-joint disease for pain, throbbing, in- flammation and heat of the soft parts.

Strains of ligaments and tendons, tenalgia crepitans, creaking in the sinews at the

back of the hand.

Crick in the back (Calc. sulph.).

Hands swollen and painful.

Palms of hands are hot.

Nervous Symptoms

Malaise, weariness, great prostration, debility of children, with no organic lesion.

Feeling of indo- lence.

Feels the need of a stimulant.

Rheumatic paralysis.

Nervousness at night.

Convulsions with fever in teething children.

Epilepsy, with blood rushing to the head.

Conges- tive and inflammatory neuralgias from cold.

Sleeplessness from a hyperaemic condition of the brain.

Restless at night.

Anxious dreams ; drowsiness in the afternoon.

Febrile Symptoms

All catarrhal and inflammatory fevers during the chilly or initiatory stage, rigors, heat, quickened pulse and pain.

Rheumatic, gastric, enteric and typhoid fevers during the chilly stage, heat and feverishness at the beginning of any disease or ailment.

Intermittent fever with vomiting of food.

Simple cases of scarlet fever.

First stage of typhus.

Chill every day at i P.

M.

High fever, quick pulse and increased temperature ; copious night-sweats ; dry heat of palms, face, throat and chest.

Hyperemia ; from mechanical injuries, fresh wounds, not yet suppurating.

Capillary congestion, with burning of the skin, more exercise and warmth.

Abscesses, boils, car- buncles and felons ; at the commencement of these affections this remedy reduces heat, blood-accumulation, pain and throb- bing.

Chicken pox, erysipelas and erysipelatous inflamma- tions of the skin, for the fever and pain.

Suppurative pro- cesses on the skin with febrile symptoms.

Measles, scarlet fever and small-pox.

Pimples, acne, for the pain and heat and congestion.

Ulcers with febrile accompaniments.

Nsevus.

Anaemia, blood-poverty, want of red blood.

Leu- caemia.

Hyperemia, from relaxation of muscular fibres of blood vessels.

Pre-exudative stage of inflammation.

Hemor- rhages from any part of the body ; blood bright red, with a tendency to coagulate rapidly.

Epistaxis, especially in chil- dren.

Mechanical injuries, results of kicks, blows, falls and cuts, for the inflammatory symptoms.

Bone diseases when

the soft parts are red, inflamed and painful.

Dropsy from loss of blood and draining of the system.

Varicose veins in young persons.

Fractures, especially if soft parts are wounded.

First stage of ostitis.

Sprains externally as well as internally.

Glandular ulceration.

Wounds of the soft parts, with inflam- matory symptoms.

To be given in true chlorosis after Calc. phos.

Homoeopathic Data

Ferr. phos. was proved by J.

C.

Morgan, M.

D., in 1876.

The symptomatology is to be found in Alleys Encyclopedia, vol. x, and in the Cyclopedia of Drug Pathogenesis, vol. ii.

The wide and extensive usefulness of this drug is entirely owing to its introduction by Schiissler.

The provings up to the present time do not give a sufficient basis for the broad clinical applications that have been made of it according to the indications of Schiissler, although the provings, so far as they have gone, support these.

Administration

Triturations and dilutions from the 6x to the i2x are recommended by Schiissler, although for anaemia much lower preparations have been used, as the ix or 2x.

Competent and trustworthy observers have found it advisable not to use this remedy below the i2x at night, as it is exceed- ingly liable to cause sleeplessness.

Its external application is also recommended by Schiissler in such diseases as sprains, wounds, hemorrhages, hemorrhoids, etc.

Cures with the 200th potency are reported in catarrh, summer complaint, gonor- rhoea, etc.

Dr.

Morgan (the prover) uses the 30th potency in water in scarlatina.