Phosphoricum Acidum

General

PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM. [Phosph. ac.] Glacial phosphoric acid. Hahnemann. HPO3.

Mind

► Unconsciousness, no complaints, even pinching is not noticed. ► Weak memory. ► Incapacity for thought in the morning. ► Delirium : quiet with great stupefaction and dulness of the head ; unintelligible muttering delirium. ► Indifference and unwillingness to speak. ► Answers either reluctantly and slowly, or short and incorrectly. ► Homesickness, with inclination to weep. ► Hysteria, in women of dark complexion, during change of life. ► Sadness, grief and disposition to weep. ► Ailments from grief, sorrow, homesickness or disappointed love ; particularly with drowsiness, night-sweats toward morning, emaciation.

Sensorium

► Vertigo : in typhus, so that they fall ; when they sit up ; lying in bed, as if the feet were going up, with head remaining still ; after reflection. ► Stupefying pain in the forehead, with somnolency without snoring, the eyes being closed. ► Confusion and painful cloudiness of the head, especially on awaking. ► Sensation as if intoxicated, in evening, in warm room, with humming in head, which feels as if it would burst, when coughing.

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.

Outer Head

► Periosteal pains compel motion. ► Bones ache, feel as if scraped ; better in motion ; when lying, the pain shifts to side on which he lies. ► Hair : turns grey, early ; or flaxen and very greasy ; falls off, especially after grief and sorrow. ► Itching of the scalp.

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.

Ears

► Intolerance of noise, especially of music. ► Nervous deafness, after typhoid diseases. ► Dull hearing : stupefaction ; especially to distant sounds. ► Every sound re-echoes loudly in the ears. ► Shrill sound in ears on blowing nose. ► Otalgia, stitches in ears and drawing pains in cheeks and teeth ; aggravated only from music.

Nose

► Fetid smell from the nose. ► Sense of smell too acute. ► Discharge of bloody pus from the nose. ► Nosebleed in typhus, giving no relief. ► Swelling on dorsum of nose, with red spots ; scurfs.

Face

► Skin of face feels tense, as if white of an egg had dried on it. ► Hippocratic face, lips and tongue very pale. ► Sensation as if lower jaw was going to break. ► Eruption on the face, yellow-brown crusts. ► Burning in skin of cheeks. ► Pimples on forehead and body of onanists. ► Hairs of the beard fall out, especially after grief and sorrow. ► Sensation of coldness on one side of the face.

Teeth

► Bleeding, swollen gums ; tearing pains in teeth worse when warm in bed, and from heat or cold ; burning in front teeth during the night. ► Teeth become yellow and feel dull. ► Hollow teeth ache only when food gets into them.

Tongue, Etc

► Red streak in middle of tongue. ► Tongue and lips pale in typhus. ► Tough, clammy mucus in mouth and on tongue. ► Burning in tongue ; tongue swollen. ► Smarting in mouth when masticating. ► Tongue smarts only at night. ► Bites the side of tongue involuntarily ; also at night.

Mouth

► Dryness of mouth and throat ; grey-whitish coating of tongue. ► Tenacious mucus in mouth and fauces. ► Cancrum oris following measles in syphilitic children.

Throat

► Dryness of palate and whole mouth, without thirst. ► Velum palati feels excoriated, with burning. ► Sore throat, soreness, scraping, stinging, worse swallowing food. ► Hawks up tough mucus. ► Nasal voice.

Desires And Aversions

► Loss of appetite ; the little food taken comes up with acid eructations ; half an hour after eating, crampy pains in stomach, with distress from acid eructations. ► Unquenchable thirst. ► Inclination for warm food. ► Longs for something refreshing and juicy ; bread is too dry. ► Desires for beer and milk. ► Aversion to coffee, wine, beer, or spirituous liquors. ► Sour food causes bitter eructations or flatulency. ► Canine hunger : 37.

Eating And Drinking

► After eating : 36.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Nausea, as if at the palate.

Stomach

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

Hypochondria

► Heaviness, stitches, burning of one spot in region of liver in passage of gall-stones ; jaundice in scrofulous children, or from grief.

Abdomen

► Rumbling in abdomen, and noise as from water. ► Meteoristic distention of the abdomen ; rumbling and gurgling ; painless stool.

Stool, Etc

► Diarrhoea : does not debilitate ; from acids ; in young persons who grow too rapidly. ► Stools : involuntary, liquid, grey ; yellow, mixed with mucus, undigested, greenish-white, painless ; escape with the flatus ; yellow, watery, with meal-like sediment. ► Hemorrhoids : bleeding, with intolerable pain in sitting ; with cramps of the upper arm, forearms and wrist. ► Intestinal hemorrhage in typhoid.

Urine

► Looks like milk mixed with jelly-like, bloody pieces ; decomposes rapidly ; passed in large quantities at night, clear like water. ► Constant urging to urinate. ► Involuntary urination. ► Few drops of white, gleety discharge, mornings, and discharge of prostatic fluid in the evening.

Male Sexual Organs

► Erections, without sexual desire ; morning when standing. ► During coition, sudden relaxation of penis preventing emission. ► Weakness after coition ; also after pollutions. ► Emission : frequent and debilitating, causing hypochondriasis ; from weakness of the parts, with onanism and very little sexual excitement ; during stool. ► Onanism, when patient is distressed by the culpability of his indulgence. ► Feeling of heaviness in glans, especially during urination ; also, with tingling, oozing vesicles around the fraenum ; in balanorrhoea. ► Swelling of the testes, with swelling and tension in the spermatic cords ; testes tender to touch ; gnawing pain or excoriated feeling in testes. ► Inflammatory swelling of scrotum. ► Formication of scrotum. ► Hair of sexual parts falls off. ► Herpes preputialis, with tingling. ► Sycotic excrescences, chronic, with heat, burning and soreness when sitting or walking. ► Fig warts, complicated with chancre.

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.

Pregnancy

► Itching, pricking like flea-bites between mammae, obliging her to rise at night. ► Sharp pressure in left mamma. ► Scanty milk, debility, great apathy. ► Deterioration of health from nursing.

Larynx

► Tenacious mucus in mouth and fauces, causes hawking. ► Contraction is suprasternal fossa, worse when bending neck. ► Hoarseness and roughness in throat, hindering speech. ► Burning in throat and chest.

Breathing

► Dyspnoea, as from weakness of chest ; caused by odors, by talking, or by any effort. ► Oppression of chest ; with contraction ; with anxiety ; when beginning to walk ; at night.

Cough

► Spasmodic tickling cough ; as from "down" in the larynx, suprasternal fossa, and whole chest as far as the epigastrium ; evening without, morning with expectoration of dark blood, or tenacious, whitish mucus of sourish, hereby taste. ► Restless but weak with haemoptysis.

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.

Heart And Pulse

► Stitches through the heart. ► Palpitation : in children and young persons who grow too fast ; after grief ; after self-abuse. ► Pulse irregular, sometimes intermitting one or two beats, generally small, weak or frequent, at times full and strong.

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.

Upper Limbs

► Tearing in shoulder and left hand. ► Burning as from a red-hot coal, in different parts of arm and on shoulder. ► Hydroadenitis in the axillae. ► Stiffness and cramp in joints. ► Shriveled, dry skin of hands and fingers. ► Wens on the hand, between metacarpal bones. ► Sharply marked deadness of one-half of the fingers. ► Hands tremble when writing. ► Burning of hands and heaviness ; blood rushes into them when they hang down. ► Boring, drawing, digging pains in nerves, awaken him from sleep.

Lower Limbs

► Heaviness and paralytic sensation in hip-joint, worse commencing to walk after sitting ; better after walking a little. ► Burning : in posterior muscles of thigh when standing better when walking ; in soles at night. ► Ulcers on lower leg. ► Pains in tibia and night. ► Blisters on balls of toes ; feet swollen and sweaty. ► Beating, swelling and burning in joint of big toe.

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.

Position, Etc

► Walking : 22, 26, 28, 33. Motion : 4, 28. Going backward : 4. Sitting : 2, 20, 26, 28, 33. Must rise : 24. Bending neck : 25. Lying down : 2, 3, 4, 36. Standing : 22, 33. Lifting : 4. Rest : 4.

Nerves

► Child weak, pale, cold ; painless stools. ► Weak from loss of fluids, grief, sorrow or unfortunate love ; from suppression of eruptions ; from talking. ► Trembling, legs weak, stumble easily, or make missteps. ► Fainting : after a meal ; from loss of fluids ; from emotions ; with desire to lie down. ► Cramps : spasmodic, in chest and diaphragm, in onanists. ► Spasm, painful, in hip-joint. ► Spasmodic jerking of head. ► Twitching or quivering in muscles of thigh. ► Tosses the hands about, restless in the evening.

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.

Time

► Morning : 1, 21, 22, 27, 40. Evening : 2, 5, 27, 36, 40. Night : 10, 11, 21, 23, 24, 26, 33, 34, 40, 44, 45. Day : 40.

Temperature And Weather

► Generally worse from uncovering, better from wrapping up. ► Worse in snowy air. ► Warm room : 2. Heat : 10 ; of bed : 10. Cold : 10. ► Averse to uncover : 40.

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.

Sides

► Right : 18, 23. Left : 18, 24, 32. Above downward : 31.

Tissues

► Hemorrhages, blood dark. ► Painless swelling of glands. ► Interstitial inflammation of bones ; scrofulous, syphilitic or mercurial. ► Bone diseases. ► Periosteal inflammation, with burning, gnawing, tearing pains. ► Caries, with smarting pains, not with necrosis. ► Emaciation ; also, of single parts. ► External parts become black.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Touch : 31, 34, 40. ► When after contusions periosteum feels as if scraped by a knife, worse at night. ► Smarting in all wounds.

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.

Stages And States

► Bad effects from growing too rapidly ; as if beaten in back and limbs.

Relationship

► Chinchon. before or after in colliquative sweat, diarrhoea and debility. ► If in syncope after a meal, Nux vom. is insufficient, give Phosp. ac. ► After Phosp ac. are frequently suitable : Cinchon., Ferrum, Rhus tox., Veratr. ► Antidotes to Phosp. ac. : Camphor., Coffee. ► Distinguished in typhoid from Mur. ac. by pallor, grey or colorless stools ; Nitr. spir. dulc. causes a sensorial apathy, a sort of half paralysis of the mental organs ; can be aroused, when he answers slowly but relevantly, and again goes into a stupor. (Relieved in typhoid after Phosp. ac. failed).