Kali Phosphoricum

Weakness of sight, loss of perceptive power, after diphtheria, from exhaustion.

Excited, staring appearance of the eyes.

Strabismus or loss of accommodation after diph- theria.

Drooping of eyelids.

Inco-ordination of ocular muscles and loss of accommodation for near objects.

Sensa- tion of sand or sticks in the eyes.

Soreness of eyeballs — sore around edges of lids and burn as though full of smoke.

Eye- lids twitch, sight blurred.

Black spots before the eyes.

Deafness from want of nervous perception, with weakness and exhaustion of the nerves.

Noises in the ears from nervous exhaustion, on falling asleep.

Discharges of foul, offensive, ichorous pus from the ears.

Ulceration of membrana tympani and middle ear suppurations ; when dis- charges are foul, ichorous, offensive, fetid or sanious.

Atrophic conditions in old people, tendency of the tissues to shrivel up and become scaly.

Humming and buzzing in the ears {Magnes. phos.).

Itching in the auditory canal.

Hearing supersensitive, cannot bear any noise.

Epistaxis in weak, delicate constitutions, predisposi- tion to same.

Ozsena, offensive yellow crusts, ulcers.

Thick yellow discharge.

Sneezes from slightest exposure.

Yellow

Iyivid and sunken, with hollow eyes.

Red, hot, burning face and forehead ; at other times pale and yellow.

Neuralgic faceache, with great exhaustion after the attack.

Right-sided neuralgia, relieved by cold applications.

Neural- gic stitches from upper teeth to left ear.

Pain in maxillary bones, better from eating, speaking and touch.

L,oss of power in facial muscles, causing contortions.

Itching of face under beard ; pimples.

Facial paralysis from working in the water.

Hydroa on lips.

Pimples and sore crusts on lips.

Peeling of skin.

Stomatitis ; breath offensive, fetid.

Gums spongy and receding.

Noma, cancrum oris ; ashy-gray ulcers.

Offensive odor from mouth.

Saliva profuse, thick and salty.

Tongue

Excessively dry in the morning.

Feels as if it would cleave to the roof of the mouth.

Tongue white, slimy, brownish like French mustard.

Inflammation of the tongue when excessive dryness occurs or exhaustion sets in ; edges of tongue red and sore.

Predisposition to bleeding of the gums ; red seam on the gums.

Severe pain in decayed or filled teeth.

Tooth- ache alternates with frontal headache.

Toothache of highly nervous, delicate or pale, emotional persons, with easily-bleed- ing gums ; they have a bright red seam or line on them.

Nervous chattering of the teeth.

Speech slow and inarticu- late.

Gums spongy and receding.

Teeth feel sore.

Grind- ing of teeth.

Tonsils large and sore, with white, solid deposits like diphtheritic membrane.

Throat very dry ; desire to swal- low all the time.

Hoarseness and loss of voice.

Salty mucus raised from throat.

Gangrenous sore throat.

Croup, last stage, syncope and nervous prostration.

After-effects of diph- theria.

Weakness of sight, nasal speech and paralysis of any part.

Malignant gangrenous conditions, prostrations, etc.

Paralysis of the vocal cords.

Gastric Symptoms

Gastric ulcer, because this is a disturb- ance of the trophic nerves.

Excessive hungry feeling soon

after taking food.

A nervous "gone sensation " at the pit of stomach.

Gaseous eructations.

Gastritis when treatment has been delayed with asthenic conditions.

Indigestion with nervous depression.

Stomach-ache from fright or excitement.

Very thirsty.

Nausea and vomiting of sour, bitter food and of blood.

Empty, gnawing sensation relieved by eating.

Belching of gas tasting bitter and sour.

Constant pain at epigastrium in a small spot.

Deep green or blue vomiting from brain troubles.

Weakness in the left side under the heart.

Splenic troubles, flatulence with distress about the heart, or left side of stomach.

Abdomen swells, dry tongue, etc.

Typhoid fever, debility and other characteristic symptoms of this drug.

Abdomen distended with gas.

Bearing down pains.

Colic in hypogastrium with ineffectual urging to stool ; better bending double.

Collapse, livid, bluish countenance and low pulse.

Diarrhoea ; painless, watery, from fright or other depressing causes, with great prostration ; stools putrid, like rice water, bloody, carrion-like odor.

Putrid and typhoid dysentery.

Watery stool with imperative call, followed by tenesmus.

Cholera symptoms.

Noisy, offensive flatus.

Pro- fuse, painless, offensive and imperative stool while eating, fol- lowed by unsatisfied urging.

Rectum burns and feels sore after movements, prolapsed.

Bowels constipated.

Stools dark brown, streaked with yellowish-green mucus.

Paretic condition of rectum and colon.

Hemorrhoids, sore, painful and itching.

Intense sexual desire ; priapism in the morning.

Impotence and painful emissions at night, without erection.

Sexual instinct depressed, much of the time en- tirely dormant.

Utter prostration and weak vision after coitus.

Phagedenic chancres.

Balanitis.

Female : Menses premature and profuse in nervous subjects.

Irregular, scanty, almost black, offensive odor.

Amenorrhoea with depression of spirits, lassitude, and general nervous debility.

Dull headache with menses, very tired and sleepy, legs ache, stitching all through pelvis and womb.

Pain in left side and ovaries.

Intense

pain across the sacrum.

Leucorrhoea, yellowish, blistering, orange-colored, scalding, acrid.

Intense sexual desire after menses.

Menstrual colic in pale, lachrymose, nervous females.

Hysteria, sensation of a ball rising in throat.

Nervousness.

Enuresis in larger children.

Paretic con- ditions of bladder.

Incontinence of urine from nervous de- bility.

Frequent urination or passing of much water, frequent scalding.

Bleeding from the urethra.

Incontinence from paralysis of the sphincter of the bladder.

Cystitis in asthenic conditions with prostration.

Bright's disease of the kidneys.

Diabetes with nervous weakness, voracious appetite, etc.

Gonorrhoea with discharge of blood.

Urine quite yellow like saffron.

Itching in urethra.

Cutting pain in bladder and urethra.

Threatened miscarriage in nervous subjects.

Puerperal mania, childbed fever.

Feeble and ineffectual labor- pains, spurious labor-pains, tedious labor from constitutional weakness.

Mastitis when the pus is brownish, dirty-looking, offensive odor, adynamic condition.

Respiratory Symptoms

Asthma, from the least food.

Asthma (large doses and often repeated, 3X), depressed condition of nervous system.

Eoss of voice from paralysis of vocal cords.

Hay asthma.

Hoarseness with exhausted feeling from over- exertion of the voice, if rheumatic or nervous.

Cough from irritation in the trachea, which feels sore.

Expectoration thick, yellow, salty, fetid.

Chest very sore.

Whooping cough in the highly nervous, with great exhaustion.

Acute oedema of lungs, spasmodic cough with frothy, serous masses being brought up in excess and threatening suffocation.

Shortness of breath when going up-stairs, or on any exertion.

Croup, last stage, extreme weakness, pale or livid countenance.

Ciculatory Organs

Feeling of faintness in nervous people, or dizziness from weak action of the heart.

Faintness from fright, fatigue, etc.

Intermittent action of the heart, with nervous sensitiveness, from emotions, grief or care, with palpi- tation.

Functional disturbances of the heart with weak, anxious, nervous state.

Palpitation from slightest mental

emotion or from walking up-stairs.

Pulse intermittent, irreg- ular, or below normal.

Palpitation after rheumatic fever, with exhaustion.

Anaemia, blood poor, palpitation with sleepless- ness and restlessness.

Sluggish circulation.

Back and Extremities

Spinal anaemia.

Idiopathic softening of the spinal cord, patient has trouble in guiding himself ; loss of power of movement, he tumbles and trips easily.

Paralytic or rheumatic lameness, with stiffness after rest, yet becoming better by gentle motion.

Pain in back and extremities, re- lieved by motion, aching between scapulae.

Finger tips as if asleep.

Itching of palms and soles.

Itching of legs at night with numbness and weakness.

Burning of feet — fidgety feel- ing in feet.

Pains worse on rising from a sitting posture and by violent exertion.

Bruised and painful feelings in parts af- fected, also discoloration.

Acute and chronic rheumatism, pains disappear on moving about, severe in the morning after rest and on first rising from a sitting position, parts feel stiff.

Exertion and fatigue aggravate.

Stiffness, paralytic tendency.

Pain in the hips.

Paralyzing, drawing pain in sole of foot.

Chilblains on the toes.

Muscular weakness after severe illness.

Nervous Symptoms

The great nervous tissue salt.

Neural- gic pains occurring: in any organ, with depression, failure of strength, sensitiveness to noise and light, improved during pleasant excitement, and by gentle motion, but most felt when quiet or alone.

Sciatica.

Dragging pain down back of thigh to knee, torpor, stiffness, great restlessness and pain, nervous exhaustion, etc.

Nervousness without any reasonable cause ; patient sheds tears and makes "mountains out of molehills." Paralysis of any part of the body, partial, paraplegia, hemiplegia, facial, or of the bladder, upper lid, etc.

Paralysis usually comes on sud- denly.

Atrophic paralysis.

Locomotor paralysis, loss of motor force, or stimulating power.

Creeping paralysis in which the progress is slow, and tendency to wasting of the body, with loss of sense of touch, facial paralysis.

Epilepsy, sunken countenance, coldness and palpitation after the attack.

Attacks come from a fright.

Hysteria, attacks from sudden emotion, feeling of a ball rising in the throat, nervous, rest-

less, fidgety feeling.

Trembling sensation.

General debility, with nervousness and irritability.

Bodily pains felt too acutely.

Easily startled.

Fears burglars.

Neurasthenia, especially from sexual excess, characterized by severe spinal irritation.

Paroxysms of pain, with subsequent exhaustion.

In- fantile paralysis.

Spinal anaemia from exhausting diseases, with laming pain, worse while at rest, but manifest on begin- ning to move.

Sleeplessness, after worry or excitement from nerv- ous causes.

Somnambulism, walking in sleep in children.

Yawning, stretching and weariness, with sensation of empti- ness at pit of stomach.

Hysterical yawning.

Constant dream- ing of fire, robbers, of falling, ghosts, etc.

Night terrors of children.

Awakening from sound sleep screaming with fright.

Lascivious dreams.

No desire to rise in the morning.

Twitching of muscles, on falling asleep.

Febrile Symptoms

Intermittent fever; fetid, debilitating, profuse perspiration.

Typhus, malignant, putrid, camp, nerv- ous or brain fevers.

The chief remedy in typhoid, gastric and enteric fevers with brown, dry tongue, petechias, sleeplessness, stupor, delirium, etc.

All typhoid and malignant symptoms are met by this drug.

High temperature.

Scarlet fever, putrid conditions of the throat, exhaustion, stupor, etc.

Ex- cessive and exhausting perspirations with fetid odor.

Perspira- tion while eating, with weakness at stomach.

Hay fever ; for nervous irritability.

Eczema if oversensitiveness and nervousness accom- pany it.

Felons, abscess and carbuncle when the matter becomes fetid.

Pemphigus malignus, blisters and blebs over the body, watery contents, skin wrinkled and withered- looking.

Greasy scabs with offensive smell.

Alopecia areata.

Irritating secretions on skin.

Itching of the inside of hands and feet where the skin is thickest.

Itching of the skin with crawl- ing sensation ; gentle friction agreeable, excess causes sore- ness and chafing.

Smallpox, putrid conditions.

Chilblains on the toes, hands or ears, tingling and itching pain.

Malig- nant pustule.

Anaemic conditions.

Losing flesh all the time.

Atrophy, wasting diseases with putrid stools.

Hemorrhages.

Blood dark, thin and not coagulating, putrid.

General de- bility and exhaustion.

Persons who suffer from suppressed sexual instinct or too much indulgence.

Serous, ichorous, sanious, foul and offensive exudations, corroding, chafing ex- udations.

Gangrenous conditions.

Mortification in the early stages.

Cancer ; for the pains, offensive discharges and dis- coloration.

Rickets with putrid discharges from the bowels.

Scurvy with gangrenous conditions.

Septic hemorrhages.

Sup- purations with dirty, foul, ichorous, offensive discharge of pus.

Leucaemia lienalis, typhus, putrid states.

Atrophic condition in old people, tissues dry, scaly, lack of vitality.

Discharges have a carrion-like odor.

Many symptoms of this remedy are aggravated by noise, by rising from a sitting posture, by exertion and continued exercise and after rest.

Cold air aggravates all pains.

The characteristic ameliorations are gentle motion, eating, under excitement and company ; worse when alone.

Pains and itchings worse 2 to 5 A.

M.

Homoeopathic Data

The remedy has been proved by the Provers' Union of Chicago, under the direction of Dr.

H.

C.

Allen, the salient features of which are included in the above symptomatology.

Another so-called proving has been made for Dr.

B.

Fincke, in a very sensitive young woman, with the cm. potency held between the fingers !

We must confess that we have not read the account of this heroic proving, as we could not conscientiously incorporate it in our treatise.

However, any one interested in this curiosity can find a re- port of it in the Proceedings of I.

H.

A.

Transactions, and also in The Medical Advance, March, 1892, in which number also Dr.

Allen's arrangement of his proving can be found.

A carefully prepared differential diagnosis of the phosphates from the imperfect materials, then in hand by the late Dr.

Samuel Lilienthal, can be found in the Transactions of the American Institute of Homoeopathy for 1890.

The drug merits more extended, careful provings with all potencies.

Administration

The lower potencies seem to work best ; thus the 2x or 3X in asthma is recommended by Schiissler.

However, the higher, 6x and i2x, and high potencies have all been employed with success.