Phosphorus

► 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.

► Nervous vertigo ; or vertigo from abuse of narcotics, coffee ; also, on rising from bed, or a seat, with fainting ; worse mornings and after meals. ► Confusion as from watching ; confusion and heaviness, worse in vertex and sinciput ; vertigo, tendency to fall forward. ► Better in cold air and with head uncovered. ► Apoplexy, grasps at the head ; mouth drawn to the left.

► 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.

► Scaly, bald spots on the head. ► Head affected : from taking cold ; from remaining in hot rooms ; after having the hair cut. ► Tension in face and skin of forehead, frequent only one side ; worse from change of temperature and while eating ; better after eating ; with anxiety. ► Dandruff copious, falls out in clouds ; roots of hair get grey and hair comes out in bunches ; scratching makes itching worse, or burning and itching relieved at time, but worse after scratching.

► 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.

► Difficult hearing, especially of human voice ; also after typhus ; hardness of hearing, with cold extremities. ► Sounds reverberate in the ears ; especially music. ► Shooting through ears, especially at night ; ear-discharges. ► Congestion to ears, with throbbing. ► Noises in ears, roaring, from rush of blood. ► Polypi in the ears.

► Coryza : fluent, dulness of head, sleepiness, especially during the day and after meals ; blowing blood from nose ; alternating fluent and dry, with frequent sneezing ; dry, forming crusts, adhering firmly ; profuse discharge, flowing down into fauces ; neck swollen ; eyes staring, consequent on the resulting, stagnation of blood ; scarlatina. ► Profuse discharge of green (or yellow) mucus from the nose ; without coryza ; also after frequent flowing of blood ; polypus. ► Polypi nasi, when they bleed easily. ► Severe hemorrhage from nose, in diphtheria, following detachment of the membrane from the nose. ► Sneezing causes pain in the throat. ► Sensation of fulness in nose, especially high up in left nostril, with loose mucus. ► Chronic inflammation of the nasal membrane ; with suppressed or oversensitive smell. ► Nose swollen, red, shining and inner nose very dry. ► Necrosis ; periosteum raised and forms a new stratum of bone. ► Wing-like motion of the alae nasi. ► Freckles on the nose.

► Face : pale, ashy ; sickly yellow ; livid ; bloated, lips blue ; hippocratic. ► Circumscribed red spots on the cheeks. ► Puffiness under the eyes. ► Eyes sunken, with blue rings around. ► Burning throbbing, in region of antium. ► Twitching, tearing, darting and tension in cheek-bones and jaw, with threatening caries. ► Pains from forehead into eyes (right), and from vertex and temples down upon the zygoma. ► Tearing about lower margin of right orbit, extending under right ear, involving also bones of face, as if everything was torn out.

► Lips dry, with sooty coating. ► Necrosis of the lower jaw, rarely of the upper. ► Tearing in jaw-bones, evening, worse lying down, better moving the jaw. ► Parotitis, when suppuration sets in. ► Tough, viscous expectoration, hangs on lips and tongue in typhoid conditions. ► Nose, lips, mouth and throat dry ; no relief from water.

► Toothache ; from washing clothes ; from having the hands in cold or warm water. ► Pricking and stinging in decayed teeth. ► Gums stand off from teeth and bleed easily.

► Taste : bitter ; slimy ; sour, after drinking milk. ► Tongue : dry, immovable, covered with black crusts, cracked, parched, or glossy ; dry, coated white, with stinging in the tip ; coated yellowish ; coated only in the middle.

► Aphthous patches on roof of mouth and tongue. ► Soreness of mouth, easily bleeding. ► Saliva increased, tasting saltish or sweetish.

► Swelling of right tonsil ; mucus in throat, removed with difficulty ; is quite cold as it comes into mouth ; mucus white, nearly transparent, in lumps. ► Tonsils and uvula much swollen ; uvula elongated ; with dry and burning sensation. ► Muscular angina, with fatty degeneration. ► Rawness and scraping in pharynx, worse toward evening ; hawking in morning. ► Dryness of throat day and night ; it fairly glistens. ► Sensation as of cotton in throat. ► Burning in the oesophagus ; spasmodic stricture.

► Wants to eat, but as soon as food is offered, does not want it. ► Hunger : must eat during the chill, before he can get up ; at night, feels faint. ► Wants cold food and drink, ice cream, etc. ► Thirst, longs for something refreshing. ► Aversion to sweets, or to meat. ► Want of appetite, from fulness in the throat. ► Loss of appetite, alternating with bulimia ; burning, cutting, pressing in stomach, nausea and vomiting.

► Eructations : frequent, empty ; spasmodic ; sour. ► Regurgitation of food without nausea ; also in mouthfuls. ► Sourish, offensive fluid ejected in large quantity, looking like water, ink and coffee-grounds ; after food, or even a swallow of water. ► As soon as water becomes warm in stomach, it is thrown up. ► Food scarcely swallowed, comes up again ; spasms of oesophagus at cardiac end. ► Constant nausea. ► Vomiting ; of bile ; of blood.

► 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.

► Jaundice : with pneumonia or brain disease ; during pregnancy ; from nervous excitement. ► Acute yellow atrophy of the liver ; malignant jaundice. ► Diffuse hepatitis ; liver hard, large with subsequent atrophy.

► Very sensitive abdomen, painful to touch ; rolling and rumbling in abdomen ; during and after drinking. ► Painful feeling of weakness across whole abdomen, worse in hypogastric region after a short walk ; must lie down. ► Shooting in the abdomen, with empty feeling. ► Sensation of coldness in the abdomen. ► Abdomen flaccid, with chronic loose bowels. ► Tympanitis, mostly about the coecum and transverse colon.

► Stools : profuse, watery, pouring away as if from a hydrant, better after sleeping ; copious, light colored ; greenish, bloody ; bloody, with small white particles, like opaque frog's spawn ; painless, blood-streaked, like flesh-colored water. ► Chronic painless diarrhoea of undigested food, with much thirst for water during the night. ► Frequent diarrhoea, during cholera time. ► Painless debilitating diarrhoea, worse mornings. ► Constipation, faeces slender, long, dry, tough and hard, like a dog's ; voided with difficulty. ► Bleeding hemorrhoids. ► Ulceration of the rectum, with discharge of pus and blood ; tenesmus. ► Anus feels as if it was open.

► Profuse, pale, watery ; frequent and scanty ; turbid, whitish, like curdled milk, with brick-dust sediment and variegated cuticle on surface ; with red sediment. ► Haematuria, from debility after sexual excesses ; blood deficient in fibrin. ► Glycosuria, with phthisis. ► Albumen and exudation cells in urine ; Morbus Brightii. ► Twitching and burning in the urethra with frequent desire to urinate.

► Sexual excitement, frequent erections and emissions, or irresistible desire for coitus. ► Lascivious, strips himself, sexual mania. ► Impotence after excessive excitement and onanism. ► Hydrocele after gonorrhoeal, orchitis, with sexual weakness ; also, after seminal losses.

► 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.

► Labor-pains distressing, but of little use ; cutting pains through the abdomen. ► Ulceration of the mammae, with hardness ; red spots or streaks ; fistulous openings, with burning, stinging, and watery, offensive discharge ; also so soon as pus forms. ► Cancer mammae, with sharp, lancinating pains ; or bleeding easily.

► Hoarseness, with cough and rawness in larynx and bronchia ; worse in the evening. ► Aphonia ; from prolonged, loud talking ; catarrhal and nervous ; larynx sensitive to touch. ► Cannot talk on account of pain in larynx. ► Larynx feels as if lined with fur. ► Laryngeal croup ; aphonia ; rapid sinking ; cold sweat ; dropped jaw ; sunken face ; rattling breathing ; also, with tendency to frequent relapses.

► Asthma, with fear of suffocation. ► Oppression and anxiety in the chest, worse evening and morning. ► Stridulous inspiration in evening in falling asleep ; nightly suffocative spells, as if lungs were paralyzed. ► Spasmodic contraction of chest. ► Noisy, panting breathing. ► Difficult inspiration, chest feels full and heavy, with tension. ► Short breath : after each cough ; oppression and palpitation from a short walk ; worse after evening. ► Fulness in the chest, as after eating too much.

► Dry, tickling, with tightness across chest ; hollow, spasmodic, from tickling in chest ; with trembling of whole body ; with sticking in epigastrium ; must press it with the hand ; nervous, when any one enters the room ; from strong odors ; before a thunder-storm. ► Cough, with stitches over one eye, splitting headache, burning dryness in throat ; hoarseness, aphonia ; soreness and roughness in larynx ; worse evening and night. ► Cough worse from change from warm to cold air ; from laughing, loud talking ; change of weather ; eating or drinking ; lying on the left side or back. ► While coughing, involuntary stool. ► Sputa : mostly in morning ; frothy, bloody, rust-colored ; purulent, white and tough ; cold mucus, tasting sour, salt or sweet.

► 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.

► Disease of the right heart, with consequent venous stagnation. ► Palpitation from every motion ; with rush of blood to the chest, especially in the rapidly growing youth. ► Great pressure on the middle of the sternum ; orthopnoea ; dyspnoea, with inability to exert himself ; palpitation. ► Dilatation of the heart, following endocarditis, or fatty degeneration. ► Pulse : accelerated, full and hard ; sometimes double ; small, weak and frequent.

► Yellow spots on the chest.

► 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.

► Swelling of axillary glands. ► Tearing in left shoulder, worse at night. ► Arms weak, can hardly move them, they tremble. ► Emaciation of the hands. ► Tremor of the hands. ► Finger-tips feel numb and insensible. ► Periodical contraction of the fingers like cramp. ► Veins on hands are distended. ► Burning palms ; or clammy sweat on the head and palms.

► Rheumatic stiffness of the knees ; pains from knees to feet. ► Swelling of the tibia. ► Pains in the soles of the feet, as if bruised. ► Nightly tearing in the feet, during pregnancy. ► Feet swollen in the evening. ► Feet icy-cold. ► Twitching of the feet.

► 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.

► Oversensitive to external impressions ; light, odors, noises, touch, etc. ► Pains tearing, drawing, tensive, excited by slightest chill ; body feels bruised, with sensation of coldness ; open air intolerable. ► Frequent fainting ; pale, cold ; sudden syncope, lying as if lifeless. ► Epilepsy, with consciousness. ► Spasms on the paralyzed side. ► Paralysis ; formication and tearing in the limbs ; anaesthesia ; increased heat.

► 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 : 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.

► Every other day : 3.

► Ebullitions and congestions. ► Fatty degeneration of liver, heart, kidneys, etc. ; anaemia. ► Chlorosis, with too rapid growth. ► Hemorrhages from internal organs. ► Small wounds bleed much. ► Fungus haematodes. ► Sprains ; joints easily dislocated. ► Glands enlarged, especially after contusions. ► Dropsy of the face, hands and feet. ► Swelling of the bones ; necrosis (lower jaw). ► Exostoses, especially of the skull ; tearing, boring pains ; worse at night, or from least touch. ► Hip-joint diseased ; oozing a watery pus.

► 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.

► Tall, slender (slim) women ; disposed to stoop. ► Nervous, weak ; desires to be magnetized. ► Grows too rapidly.

► Ill effects of excessive use : of salt ; of camphor ; of iodine. ► Phosphor. follows well after : Calc. carb., Chinchon., Kali carb., Lycop., Nux vom., Rhus tox., Silic., Sulphur. ► Complementary too Cepa and Arsen. ► Antidotes to Phosphor., Nux vom., Coffea, Tereb. ► Phosphor. antidotes : Tereb., Rhus ven. ► Inimical : Caustic. ► Acalypha indica is excellent in the haemoptysis of pulmonary tuberculosis ; severe fit of dry cough, followed by spitting of blood.