Kali Phosphoricum

Where do we find data concerning this remedy ?

In the same source as the preceding.

Are there any provings of this remedy ?

None except a few made with the highest potencies which are generally regarded as unreliable, as they were not thorough. Recently, however, the drug has undergone a more thorough proving by Dr. George Royal, of Iowa University, and his class.

What is the general application of this drug ?

In troubles of the nervous system ; it corresponds to the condition known as neurasthenia, and is a restorative in muscular debility following acute diseases.

What are the mental conditions calling for its use ?

There is a gloomy, depressed, irritable mental state ; trifles annoy ; the patient looks on the dark side of everything ; there is a loss of memory, crossness and fretfulness in children.

In what mental disease is it useful ?

Melancholia and mania ; somnambulism states, or any state where there is mental aberration ; hallucinations and illusions, puerperal mania and delirium tremens.

Give the typhoid symptoms of Kali phosphoricum.

There is a dry tongue, brown in color, foul and putrid diarrhoea, great debility, low pulse, offensive breath, and sordes on the teeth ; there is also great mental depression, delirium, etc.

Give indications for Kali phosphoricum in enuresis or wetting the bed.

Where it is due to a paralytic or paretic condition of the bladder or from nervous debility, there is inability to retain the urine.

What symptoms has Kali phosphoricum in the back ?

There is rheumatic lameness of the back, which is worse after rest and on just commencing to move ; it is especially worse on rising from a sitting position ; there seems to be a paralytic tendency.

What drug has the same symptoms ?

Rhus tox .