Phosphoricum Acidum

Disposition to weep, as from nostalgia

Bad effects from grief, sorrow, unfortunate love, with great emaciation, sleepiness, and morning sweat

Sadness and uneasiness respecting the future

Anxious inquiries respecting the disease under treatment

Restlessness and precipitation

Silent (sadness) peevishness and aversion to conversation

Great indifference

A complete indifference to everything; not a soporous, delirious, or irritable condition, but simply an indifferent state of mind to all things; patient does not want anything, nor to speak, shows no interest in the outside world (may occur in any disease in fevers of very low type)

Difficulty of comprehension, patient will think a little while about a question, perhaps answers it, then forgets all about it; dizziness of the mind

When reading, a thousand other thoughts came into his head, could not rightly comprehend anything; what he read became as if dark in his head and he immediately forgot all; what he had long known he could only recall with difficulty

Inability to endure noise or conversation

Dulness and indolence of mind, with want of imagination

Weakness of memory

Imbecility

Cannot connect his thoughts

Paucity of ideas and unfitness for intellectual labour

Illusions of the senses; hears a bell pealing; sees only ciphers before his eyes.

Vertigo: head sinks forward or backward; on closing eyes; at climaxis with flushes and sweat; in typhus; when lying in bed, as if fee; were going up and he was standing on his head; after reflection

Stupefaction in forehead, with somnolency without snoring, eyes closed

Head bewildered, as after intoxication or immoderate pollutions

Sensation as if intoxicated, evening, in warm room, with humming in head, which feels as if it would burst when coughing

Stunning vertigo when standing and walking, esp. in evening

Pressure as from a weight in head, or as if vertex had been beaten

Headache in morning

Aching with tingling in head

Headache usually from behind forward

Constant headache, which compels to lie down, < to an insupportable degree by the slightest commotion or by noise

Heaviness of head, as if full of water

Violent pressure in forehead in morning on waking

As if temples and sides of head were squeezed together by forceps

Cramp-like and hard pressure in head, < by pressing on head and by turning it I also by meditation and by going up stairs, but esp. after midnight, in the part which presses pillow

Compression in brain

Tearing headache

Lancinations in temples or above eyes

Stitches over one (the r.) eye

Jerks or shocks, blows and hammering in head

Drawing pains in bones of occiput

Grey, lank hair, like tow

The hair becomes grey early or flaxen, and very greasy, falls off; also hair of beard, esp. after grief and sorrow

Pain in bones of skull; it feels as if somebody scraped the swollen and tender periosteum with a knife, < at rest, > from motion; caries of skull with burning pain

Itching of scalp.

Eyes dull, glassy (but without lustre), downcast

Pressure in eyes, with sensation as if eyeballs too large; as if eyeballs were forcibly pressed together and into head

Coldness in internal surface of lids

Eyes dazzled on looking at bright objects

Burning pain in lids and their angles, esp. by candle-light in evening

Inflammation in eyes, with congestion of veins in internal angles

Agglutination, mornings

Inflammation of lids

Hordeolum

Yellow spot in sclerotica

Lachrymation

Pupils dilated

R. pupil much dilated, l. pupil constantly normal

Fixed look

Sight confused as if directed through a mist

Myopia

Black band before eyes; ciphers; sees objects lying near him (outside sphere of vision) moving

A dull, shooting, burning pain forced r. eyeball to its outer canthus; could then see nothing with this eye but a limitless white expanse with fiery points falling on it; later, expanse became fiery and the falling points dazzling white.

Shootings in ears, sometimes with drawing in cheeks, jaws, and teeth, < only by sound of music

At every stroke of a bell or musical note stitches in ears like earache, also on singing himself; non-musical sounds had no effect

Cramp-like drawings in ears

Inability to endure music, noise, and conversation

Every sound re-echoes loudly in the ears

Nervous deafness, shrill sounds most painful and most distressing (R.

T.

C.)

Deafness for distant sounds

Squeaking in ear on blowing nose

Roaring in ears with difficult hearing.

Swelling on bridge of nose with red spots.—(Redness of tip of nose with dyspepsia

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Each dose (3x) goes to his nose as effervescing waters do, and < the redness (agg

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Scabs on nose

Disposition to put fingers into nose

Itching on point of nose; must scratch there

Fetid exhalation from nose

Discharge of (bloody) pus from nose

Epistaxis (dark blood)

Violent coryza, with redness of margins of nostrils

Fluent coryza, with cough and burning pain in chest and throat.

Face pale, wan, with (lustreless) hollow eyes surrounded by a blue circle, and pointed nose

Drawings in cheeks and jaws

Irregular features

Heat of side of face on which he is not lying

Heat in face, with tension of skin of face, as if the white of an egg had dried upon it

Large pimples on face

Burning pain in cheeks

Humid and scabious tetters on cheeks, lips, and commissures

Lips dry, scurfy, covered with suppurating cracks, with pains as from excoriation

Yellow-brown, crust-like eruptions, with pus on lower lip towards corner of mouth

Pimples and scabs on red part of lips

Violent burning pain in r. lower lip, persisting when moving it

Pimples on chin

Swelling of sub-maxillary glands

Pain in lower jaw as if dislocated.

Toothache with tearing pain (burning in the front teeth), < by heat of bed and by cold or hot things

Violent pains in incisors at night

Violent aching in a hollow tooth when particles of food get into it, going off when they have been removed

The teeth are yellow

Gums bleeding easily, swollen, stand off from teeth

Painful nodosities in the gums.

Dryness of mouth and palate without thirst

Viscid, tenacious phlegm in mouth and on tongue

Shootings and burning sensation on tongue

Involuntary biting of tongue at night

Swelling of tongue, with pain when speaking

Red streak in middle of tongue, widens in front

Nasal tone of voice

Smarting in mouth during mastication of solid food

Excoriation and ulceration of velum palati, with burning pain.

Pain as from excoriation in throat, with smarting, scraping, and shooting, esp. during passage of food

Contractive pain in pit of throat

Hawking up of tough mucous phlegm.

Loss of appetite

Putrid, acid, herbaceous taste

Prolonged after-taste of food, and esp. of bread

Repugnance to bread, which seems bitter

Aversion to coffee

Violent thirst for cold milk or for beer, as well as in general for cool and juicy things; bread appears too dry

Insatiable thirst, excited by a sensation of dryness in whole body

Acids excite bitter risings and other inconveniences

Ate heartily, much oppressed after with flatulence

After a meal pressure, or a sensation of wavering in stomach, with confusion of head, uneasiness, fulness, and disposition to sleep, or dejection, as if about to faint.

Sour, incomplete, or burning risings

Constant nausea in throat

Nausea which compels lying down

Nausea at sight of food

Vomiting of food

Sour vomiting

Pressive pain in stomach, as from a weight, when fasting, and after any food whatever (with sleepiness), as also on touching pit of stomach

Sensation of coldness or of burning in stomach

Feeling in stomach as if everything had stuck fast and was dry.

Spasmodic aching, with (pressure and) anguish in hypochondria, and esp. in liver

Sensation as if liver were too heavy

Shootings in regions of liver and spleen

General tympanites with enlarged spleen

In navel periodical aching, squeezing

Contractions in abdomen on both sides of umbilical region

Spasmodic pains in abdomen, esp. in umbilical region

Shootings and cuttings in abdomen

Sensitiveness in lower caecal region

Burning sensation in hypogastrium

Meteoristic distension of and frequent grumbling and borborygmi in abdomen, as if from water in it; esp. when it is touched, and when the body is bent backwards and forwards

Production and expulsion of much flatus, esp. after eating acid things

Swelling of inguinal glands.

Hard faeces in small portions, difficult to evacuate

Frequent evacuations

Diarrhoea, particularly painless, which may be very fetid

Diarrhoea lasting a long time, apparently without any weakening effect

Stools: loose, slimy, whitish-grey; undigested, greenish-white

Yellowish and very offensive

Escape of stool when child is moved or turned

Involuntary stools of the consistence of pap (bright yellow), with sensation as if flatus were expelled

Choleraic diarrhoea as if rectum remained open.—(Chronic diarrhoea, thin and greenish, almost involuntary with gastric irritability

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In evening great discharge of garlic-smelling flatus; great yawning

Protrusion of haemorrhoidal tumours from rectum during stool

Intolerable pain in haemorrhoids when sitting

After stool tenesmus; sickening pain about navel

Tearing, smarting, and itching in anus and rectum

Itching prick on outer circumference of anus.

Urgent want to urinate, with scanty emission of urine, paleness of face, heat, and thirst

Frequent and profuse emission of aqueous urine, which immediately deposits a thick and white cloud

Urine like milk, with sanguineous and gelatinous coagulum

Fetid urine

Flow of urine with spasmodic pains in loins

Urgent and irresistible desire to urinate

Urine like that which passes in diabetes mellitus

Anguish and uneasiness before urinating

Nocturnal enuresis

Children pass a great deal of water in bed at night; persons get up in the night to urinate and pass a great deal

Burning pain in urethra during and after emission of urine; cutting before

Creeping in urethra when not urinating

Spasmodic (painful) constriction of bladder (without urging)

Incisive pains in urethra when making water.

Lancinating pains in glans

Fine pricking at point of penis

Burning cutting in glans with an out-pressing pain in both groins

A feeling of heaviness in glans, esp. when urinating

Tingling and oozing vesicles round fraenum

Sycotic excrescences with heat and burning

Crop of warts on prepuce

A crop of pedunculated warts come round corolla glandis after taking Pho. ac. in summer drinks (agg

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Condylomata

Eruption on penis and scrotum

Inflammatory swelling of scrotum

Pain in testes when touched

Gnawing pain in testes

Swelling of testes (l.). while spermatic cord is enlarged, hard, and tightened

Absence of sexual desire

Frequent erections (in morning in bed; in morning when standing), without desire for coition

Weakness of sexual organs, with onanism, and little sexual desire

Exhaustion after coition

Frequent and very debilitating pollutions, esp. where the patient is much affected by the flow

Onanism; esp. when patient is much distressed by the culpability of the act

Discharge of semen when straining during an evacuation.

Oophoritis, metritis, or prolapsus from debilitating or emotional influences; amenorrhoea

Very irritable uterus

Uterine ulcer, with copious, putrid, bloody discharge, itching or corroding pain, or no pain

Hepatic pains during menses

Menses too early and too long; too copious; too late; dark clotted; preceded by leucorrhoea, and for one or two days by griping and rumbling in abdomen

Yellowish, itching leucorrhoea after menses

Distension of uterus as by gas

Itching pricking like flea-bites between mammae, obliging her to rise at night

Dysuria during pregnancy; cutting pains

Vomiting at sight of food during pregnancy

Puerperal convulsions; albuminuria; haemorrhage

Scanty milk with debility and great apathy

Deterioration of health during nursing

Constant vomiting of milk in a suckling; waxy face; blue rings round eyes; child does not cry; mother has little milk

Sharp pressure on l. breast; and nipple.

Voice nasal

Great hoarseness and roughness in throat

Pain in pit of throat, which contracts throat

Cough excited by a tickling and a scraping in larynx; or above epigastrium, which is dry in evening, and with a yellowish-white expectoration in morning

The cough is < morning and evening; during rest if one sits or lies long in the same position; after sleeping; from cold air; from loss of fluids.—(Cough after food of any kind.)

Cough with (nausea) vomiting of food and headache; involuntary emission of urine

During cough expectoration (of dark blood, or of tough white mucus, lasting acid), having an herbaceous smell and taste

Cough with purulent (very offensive) expectoration and pains in chest

Salty expectoration in morning.

Shortness of breath and inability to speak long, from weakness of chest

Capillary bronchitis, < evenings, with fever, pain under sternum, then violent sneezing, thirst and coryza, profuse, purulent secretion

Spasmodic and contractive oppression of chest, as if tightened

Weakness in chest after speaking

Pressure at chest often spasmodic or incisive

Pressive pain in middle of chest, < when expiring; felt as if sternum would be pressed out;

< by pressure with hand, stooping, coughing, &c

Pressure behind sternum rendering inspiration difficult

Lancinations in sides of chest

Burning and pressure in chest.

Stitches through heart

Palpitation: in young persons growing too fast; after onanism

Pulse irregular, with irregular beating of heart; pulse intermitting

Swollen veins.

Tension and cramp-like drawing in muscles of neck, esp. on moving head

Miliaria on neck

Boils under axillae; on nates

Boring pain between scapulae

Spondylitis of cervical vertebrae

Eruption, painful to touch, on back, shoulder-blades, neck, and chest

Burning pain in a spot above small of back

Itching stitch in coccyx; fine stitches in coccyx and sternum

Crawling (formication) tingling in back and loins.

Bruised feeling in hips, thighs, arms, nape, like growing pains; at same time repeated single tearing stitches in all these parts at once; the stitches occur on commencing to walk, esp. to go up stairs; bruised pain continues all the time

Bruised pain in all joints in morning, and in arms and legs

Burning, gnawing, tearing pains in bones of extremities

Weakness of extremities after loss of fluids.

Boring, digging, drawing pain in l. shoulder-joint, intermittent, < lying on l. side, > moving arms

Cramp-like pressure in arms, hands, and fingers

Drawings and jerking tearings in arms and fingers

Eruption of pimples on arms

Drawing, incisive pains in joints of elbows, hands, and fingers

Sharp, shooting, boring pains under l. forearm near elbow, < at rest

Numbness in course of r. radial nerve

Weakness and trembling of arms

Trembling of hands (when writing)

Ganglion on back of hand

Skin of hands and fingers dry, shrivelled, parched

Fingers dead, sometimes on one side only, and within well-defined limits

Lancinations (stitches) in fingers and joints of fingers.

Swelling and furunculi on buttocks

Contusive pains in hips and thighs, esp. when walking or rising from a seat

On l. hip-joint and l. thigh, a neuralgic or rheumatic pain, from gluteal muscles or hip-joint, running down leg to knee, and often to calf or ankle; gets a little > after walking, but is still very bad

Cramp in coxo-femoral joint, with tearing throughout the limb, insupportable when seated, and during repose

Aching, cramp-like pains in thighs, legs, feet, and toes

Tearing throughout leg, with heaviness in joints

Weakness of legs, so that a false step (or tripping) occasions falling

Burning tearing in tibia at night

Pimples on knees and legs, which become confluent, and are transformed into easily bleeding ulcers

Itching ulcers on legs

Burning sensation in feet and soles, with excoriation between toes

Swelling of feet

Feet swollen and sore on putting on walking shoes

In evening spasmodic drawing in feet, < r. sole and ball of great toe, preventing sleep till midnight

Sweating of feet

Corns on feet

Blisters on balls of toes

Chilblains on toes

Swelling of joint of great toe, with burning, throbbing, and incisive, dull pains on being touched.

Insensibility of skin

Crawling tingling under skin

Formication of skin

Red and burning spots on limbs

Eruption like scarlatina

Erysipelatous inflammations

Eruption of small pimples, and of miliary pimples collected in clusters and red

Eruption of pimples with burning pain, or pain as from excoriation

Scabious vesicles

Humid and dry tetters, squamous; variola

Corns with shootings and burning pain

Chilblains

Wens

Warts: large, jagged, often pedunculated, exuding moisture and bleeding readily; indented

Condylomata

Furunculi

Flat, indolent ulcers, with secretion of a dirty-looking pus, and having a serrated bottom

Itching ulcers.

Great tendency to go to sleep during day, early in evening, and in morning, with difficulty in waking

Coma

Retarded sleep and sleeplessness at night, caused by agitation and dry heat

Arithmetical figures appear before eyes on falling asleep

Profound sleep; can scarcely be roused in morning

Jerking and involuntary movements of hands, moaning, talking, and singing, or an aspect during sleep at one time of laughing, at another of weeping, with eyes half-opened and convulsed

Anxious dreams of death, with fear on waking

Lascivious dreams, with emissions

Awakened by: canine hunger; dry heat; sensation of falling; sad thoughts

Patient though quite weak is rested by a very short sleep.

Pulse irregular, sometimes intermitting one or two beats, generally small, weak, or frequent, at times full and strong

Violent ebullitions with great restlessness

Swollen veins

Shuddering and shivering, sometimes with shaking, or with coldness in hands and fingers, generally in evening, and without thirst (followed by heat without thirst, or by excessive heat, depriving one almost of consciousness)

Sensation of coldness on one side of the face

Sensation of coldness, with shiverings and coldness in abdomen

Internal dry heat without being hot to touch; and without any complaint at any time of the day

General heat with loss of consciousness and somnolence

Heat in head with cold feet

Febrile heat in evening, without thirst, with anguish, and great activity of the circulation

Shivering alternately with heat

Malignant (typhus) fever with great weakness (quiet delirium with dulness of head), apathy, stupidity, aversion to conversation, diarrhoea, &c

Tertian ague with profuse perspiration, anxiety of look, thirst and vomiting

Night-sweat

Sweat in morning

Perspiration mostly on back part of head and in neck, with sleepiness during the day

Profuse perspirations during night and in morning, with anxiety

Great inclination to perspire during day and night; clammy perspirations.