Habitat The dilute acid of B. P. forms the homoeopathic 1x. In U.S. the first solution is made of glacial Phosphoric Acid

ClarkePreparation Dilution. solution is made of glacial Phosphoric Acid.

Sources 13 entries across 12 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Lippe …

Inner Head ► Chronic congestions to the head, caused by fright or grief. ► School-girl's headache : from overuse of eyes. ► Great heaviness of the head. ► Headache forces one to lie down and is insupportably aggravated from least shaking or noise, especially music. ► Headaches usually go from behind forward and are relieved by lying down.

Eyes ► Aversion to sunlight. ► Sees colors, as of the rainbow. ► Blindness, with frequent desire to wink. ► Torpid amaurosis, caused by debilitating losses. ► Eyes look glassy, lustreless ; also with staring. ► Pressing in eyes, as if eyeballs were too large. ► Burning of eyelids and corners of eyes, especially in evening by candle-light. ► Yellow spots in white of eye. ► Margins of lids swollen, red, rounded ; lashes fall out ; pus particles on the lashes or on the canthi. ► Coldness of inner surface or eyelids.

Stomach ► Sensation as if the stomach were being balanced up and down. ► Pressing in stomach, as from a heavy load.

Female Sexual Organs ► Ovaritis and metritis, from debilitating influences ; amenorrhoea. ► Uterus bloated, as if filled with wind. ► Dysmenorrhoea, with pain in region of liver. ► Menses too early and too long. ► Leucorrhoea yellow, mostly after menses, with itching. ► Uterine ulcer with copious, putrid, bloody discharge ; itching or corroding pain, or no pain.

Lungs ► Burning in whole chest, with pressure. ► Weak feeling in chest, from talking, coughing, or sitting too long ; relieved by walking. ► Spasm in chest and diaphragm, sudden and unexpected, must sit bent. ► Loud rattling and whistling in chest, with but little cough.

Neck And Back ► Formication in the back. ► Gnawing on the scapulae. ► Heaviness in lumbar region, increases to pain in the legs. θ Tabes dorsalis. ► Burning pain in a spot about small of back. ► Burning in lower half of body, from small of back to pit of stomach downward ; extremities are cold to touch.

Limbs In General ► Drawing and twitching-tearing in limbs. ► Smarting at night in bones of limbs. ► Limbs feel weak, from loss of fluids, with no other pain than burning. ► Formication in limbs. ► Feeling as if periosteum were being scraped with a knife, after injuries. ► Interstitial distention of the bones ; mercurial, syphilitic or scrofulous. ► Arthritic pains brought on by least cold, with irritable cough ; swallowing excites the pains ; fear of touching the parts. ► Cold hand and warm feet. ► Boils in the axillae, on the shoulders and nates.

Sleep ► Great drowsiness and apathy. ► Lies in a deep sleep, but when aroused, fully conscious. θ Typhoid. ► Awakened by : canine hunger ; dry heat ; sensation of falling ; sad thoughts.

Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chills, with shuddering and shaking, always in the evening. ► Chill and heat alternate frequently. ► During the chill peculiar cold sensation in tips of fingers and in abdomen, with weakness of arms and tearing in wrist-joints. ► Heat, but averse to uncovering. ► Internal heat, without being hot to the touch. ► Sweat : mostly on occiput and neck, with sleepiness during daytime ; profuse during night and in morning, with anxiety ; clammy. ► Intermittent fevers : shaking chills over whole body fingers being as cold as ice, without thirst followed by heat, without thirst, excessive heat, depriving one almost of consciousness. ► Thirst only during sweat. ► Typhoid fever : 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 11, 19, 20, 28, 29, 36, etc.

Skin ► Herpes dry or humid, squamous. ► Itching between fingers or in folds of joints, or on hands. ► Exanthemata, suppressed by cold, cause brain symptoms ; hardness of hearing or dropsy. ► Variola. ► In typhoid state, eruptions do not fill with pus, but degenerate into large blisters, which bursting, leave surface excoriated ; watery diarrhoea ; with subsultus tendinum ; fear of death. ► Warts, indented, pedunculated. ► Condylomata ; with bone pains ; complicated with chancre. ► Ulcers : like carbuncles on the skin, with a coppery circumference ; with smarting pain ; flat and itching. ► Parts get black.

Complementary —

Follows well Arsenicum Album, Belladonna, Calcarea Phosphorica +9

Compare Phosphorus, Cinchona Officinalis, Arnica Montana +19