Materia Medica de A a Z

PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM (ph-ac)

Region

MIND. Nerves. Metabolism. Sexual system. Spine (sensory nerves. Muscles). Bones.

Worse

DEBILITY from (LOSS OF FLUIDS. Sexual excesses. Fatigue. Fevers. Convalescence). EMOTIONS (chronic)(Grief. Chagrin. Mental shock. Unhappy love. Homesickness). Drafts. Cold. Music. Talking.

Better

Warmth. Short sleep. Stooling.

General

WEAK OR DEBILITATED, with free secretions. Slowness. Pains go to part lain on. Bruised soreness; like growing pains. Sense of pressure. Formication; at roots of hair; along spine, limbs, etc. Loose joints. Grows too fast..................... Quiet. Indifferent, APATHETIC, obtuse or torpid; with tendency to diarrhoa or sweatiness. Slow grasp. Can't collect his ideas; hunts for words. Poor memory. Dull despair. Averse to talking. Brain-fag. Mild delirium; easily aroused. Crushing weight on vertex. Early grayness. Falling hair. Dull, sunken eyes with blue circles; they feel pressed out. Eye-balls feel large. Pale, sickly face; white of egg seems dried on it. Bleeding gums. Slimy tongue. Craves juices. Sour stomach. PROFUSE, PAINLESS, DIRTY WHITE, WATERY or LIENTERIC STOOL; BUT LITTLE DEBILITY. THICK, MILKY URINE. Polyuria. Diabetes. Weak, relaxed genitals; suddenly during coitus. Pollutions. Takes colds; agg. draft on chest. Shaking cough. Twisting under xiphoid. Paralytic weakness along spine. Heavy fore-arms. Scraping bone-pains, at night. Clammy wrinkled skin. SLEEPY BY DAY; but wakeful at night. Cold parts; one side of face, abdomen, etc. Burning along spine; below waist; kidney region. Heat with sweat. Profuse sweats; agg. night; as a sequel. Sluggish, painless fevers.

Complementary: Chin.

Related: Gels.