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Phosphorus
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Origin Mineral · Simple
ClarkePreparation solution in absolute alcohol. Trituration of Red amorphous Phosphorus.
Sources 20 entries across 18 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …

Dose Boericke
3X–30X
Third to thirtieth potency. Should not be given too low or in too continuous doses. Especially in tuberculous cases. It may act as Euthanasia here

By regionHering
Mind ► Stupor, delirium, grasping at flocks. ► Hysterical alternation of laughing and weeping. ► Great indifference ; answers no questions, or replies wrongly. ► Gloomy, taciturn. ► Dejection, thought he would die. ► Fearfulness, as if something were creeping out of every corner. ► Anxious, restless : at twilight ; when alone ; about the future ; during a thunder-storm ; with palpitation. ► Melancholy, sheds tears ; or, with attacks of involuntary laughter. ► Amativeness. ► Apathy ; indifference, even toward his own children. ► Excitable, easily angered and vehement, from which he afterwards suffers. ► Mind is overactive. ► Irritability of mind and body ; prostrated from the least unpleasant impression. ► While reflecting, headache and dyspnoea ; feeling of apprehension at pit of stomach ; weak feeling in head. ► Any lively impression is followed by heat, as if immersed in hot water.
Inner Head ► Cold, crampy pain on whole left side of head. ► Sensation of coldness in cerebellum, with sensation of stiffness in the brain. ► Pulsation in left temple. ► Headache over left eye. ► Headache every other day. ► Weight and throbbing in forehead on waking, better by cold washing, worse on stooping ; sometimes lasts all day. ► Impending paralysis of brain and collapse ; burning pain in brain. ► Congestion to head ; burning, stinging pains and pulsations commencing in occiput. ► Sick headache with pulsations and burning, mostly in forehead ; with nausea and vomiting, from morning until noon ; worse from music, while masticating and in warm room. ► Hot vertex after grief. ► Headache in forehead as if a weight pressed it down into the eyes. ► Softening of brain, with persistent headache, slow answering questions, vertigo, feet drag, formication, numbness in the limbs. ► Acute atrophy of brain and medulla oblongata, with uraemia.
Eyes ► When reading, letters look red. ► After reading, dull pain deep in eyes ; black spots pass before the eyes, worse from looking at bright objects and in lamplight ; better in twilight. ► Contracted pupils. ► Glaucoma. ► Momentary blindness, as from fainting. ► Amblyopia from loss of fluids ; also in morbus Brightii. ► Has stopped rapidly increasing myopia. ► Paroxysms of nyctalopia ; or, of a sensation as if things were covered with a gray veil. ► Green halo around the candle. ► Subacute conjunctivitis, lachrymation ; swelling and suppuration of lids, and meibomian glands, with itching and burning pains. ► Aching in eyes, forehead and orbits. ► Small burning spots on the eyeballs. ► Fungus oculi. ► Eyelids tremble and quiver ; eyes fill with tears.
Stomach ► Severe pressure in stomach, after eating with vomiting of food. ► Oppression and burning in stomach ; loss of appetite, inextinguishable thirst, worse after eating or drinking. ► Cardialgia, with gnawing ; worse from motion. ► Cramps in stomach radiating to the liver. ► Fulness and painfulness in stomach ; sometimes a gurgling and stitching in pit of stomach. ► Hemorrhage from stomach, better from drinking cold water. ► Goneness in region of stomach. ► Gastritis, with heart-burn, ending in an unconquerable scratching in the throat.
Female Sexual Organs ► Nymphomania. ► Sterility from excessive voluptuousness, or with late and profuse menses. ► Metritis after frequent pregnancies ; pyaemia and phlebitis ; fair, graceful women. ► Frequent and profuse metrorrhagia, pouring out freely and then ceasing for a short time. θ Cancer uteri. ► Pain in left ovarian region and down the inner side of thigh. ► Menses early, profuse, long-lasting ; or early, scanty and pale ; weeps before the menses ; during menses, pains in the small of the back ; palpitation. ► Amenorrhoea, with blood-spitting ; bleeding from the anus ; or haematuria ; menses suppressed, with milk in breasts. ► Stitches upward, from vagina into pelvis. ► Dull tearing in labia, during or after walking in open air. ► Leucorrhoea : with chlorosis ; instead of the menses ; watery, slimy or acrid, causing blisters.
Lungs ► Stitches in left chest, better lying on right side. ► Burning, piercing soreness and tension in chest. ► Congestion to chest ; anxiety ; worse from any emotion ; cramp between scapulae. ► Broncho-pulmonary catarrh, with dilatation, or fatty degeneration of heart. ► Pneumonia : dryness of air-passages ; excoriated feeling in upper chest ; great weight on chest or tightness ; chest sore, bruised ; well-developed co-existing bronchitis ; hepatization, especially of lower half on right lung. ► Latter part of the period of deposit and early part of that of absorption. ► Capillary bronchitis ; pulmonary oedema. ► Pleuritis ; late stages ; heart dilated ; purulent infiltration. ► Threatened paralysis of the lungs, prostration, viscid sweat ; small pulse ; face sunken ; rattling in the windpipe. ► Tuberculosis in the tall, slender or rapidly growing ; repeated haemoptysis ; great debility ; frequent attacks of bronchitis.
Neck And Back ► Back pains as if broken, impending all motion. ► Pain in small of back when rising from stooping. ► Burning in a small spot in small of the back, better from rubbing. ► Softening of the spine. ► Progressive locomotor ataxia. ► Pain in coccyx as if ulcerated, hindering motion, followed by painful stiff neck. θ Rachitis. ► Pains in the sacrum after confinement.
Limbs In General ► Hands and feet numb, clumsy ; ankles feel swollen and as if the skin was tense. ► Limbs tremble from every exertion ; also icy-coldness of limbs. ► When walking he makes missteps, from weakness. ► Swelling of hands and feet, with stinging pains.
Sleep ► Sleepy, coma vigil. ► Stupor, burning heat of head ; muttering delirium. θ Pneumonia. ► Sopor, dry lips, black tongue, open mouth. ► Sleepy all day, all night restless. ► Restless, especially before midnight. ► Awakens often from heat and ebullitions, or from hunger. ► Feels in morning as if he had not slept enough, or as if paralyzed. ► Somnambulism.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chill : generally only in the evening ; no thirst ; worse from uncovering ; veins on the hands swollen ; from evening until midnight, with great weakness and sleep ; at night, alternating with heat ; with diarrhoea ; chill descends, heat ascends, the back. ► Flushes all over, beginning in the hands. ► Heat, with anxiety and burning in face and hands, afternoon and evening. ► Sweat mostly on head, hands and feet, with increased urine, or only on forepart of body. ► Profuse night-sweat, worse during sleep. ► Clammy sweat. ► Intermittent fever, heat at night, beginning in stomach ; faint and hungry ; then chilly, followed by internal heat, especially in the hands, external cold continuing. ► Typhoid forms of fever.
Skin ► Burning in skin ; or burning and stinging ; restless, change of position. ► Blood-boils. ► Polypi bleeding readily. ► Open cancers bleeding easily. ► Vesicles around joints. ► Brownish spots here and there. ► Red spots ; petechiae. ► Dry, scaly, or pustulous eruptions ; psoriasis on knees and elbows. ► Scarlatina, with suddenly repelled rash ; chest affected ; typhoid symptoms, restless yet apathetic. ► Fistulous ulcers : erysipelatous ; pus thin, ichorous ; hectic.

Books*
Antidoted by Nux Vomica 3, Camphora 2, Coffea Cruda 2 +17
Complementary Cepa, Arsenicum Album, Arsenic Album +5
Follows well Calcarea Carbonica, Cinchona Officinalis, Kali Carbonicum +5
Compare Sepia Officinalis, Ammonium Muriaticum, Arsenicum Album +35

* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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