Materia Medica de A a Z

PHOSPHORUS (phos)

Region

CAVITIES (Head. LUNGS. Heart). CIRCULATION (Blood. BLOOD-VESSELS. Arteries). MUCOUS MEMBRANES (STOMACH. BOWELS. Lungs - lower). NERVES (Brain. Cord). Bones (Jaw; upper. Shin. Spine). Liver.

Worse

LYING ON (LEFT or painful side. BACK). SLIGHT CAUSES (EMOTIONS. Talking. Touch. Odors. Light). COLD (HANDS - in water. Open air). WARM INGESTA. Salt. Puberty. Sexual excesses. Weather (Sudden changes. Windy. Cold. Thunderstorms). Morning and evening. Mental fatigue.

Better

Eating. Sleep. Cold (Food. Water; to face). Rubbing (Magnetic). Sitting up.

General

Active metabolism. Rapid growth. Insidious onset, gradually increasing debility, ending in severe or rapid disease (Tarn.). Recurring effects, colds, croup, bleedings, etc. HÆMORRHAGE; vicarious; blood-streaked discharges of ulcers, etc. Decomposition. Polypi. Symptoms due to heart and lung affections. Tall, gracile, nervous and delicate. Phthisical habit. Acidosis. Weak spells; in joints; agg. exertion. Emptiness; in chest, stomach, etc. Acute senses. Erethistic exhaustion. TIGHTNESS; chest (l), cough, etc. Spots; pains or soreness in. Internal paralysis; throat, rectum, etc. Internal itching, tickling. Throbbings, here and there. Numbness. Jerkings, localised; subsultus. Joints stiff, with little pain. Human barometer..................... Amative, but excitable and easily irritated. Anxious; fears being alone, twilight, ghosts, thunder-storms, etc. Quickly prostrated by unpleasant impressions. Timid and irresolute. VERTIGO; accompanies many symptoms; floating; on waking; whirling; amel. stool. Head, heavy, aches over one eye; with hunger; agg. children; agg. lying on r. side; amel. cold. Burning in temple. Cold occiput. Vertex throbs. Dandruff. Bald spots. Lachrymation, in wind. Vision; flashes; halos; red; green; black; amel. shade; narrow fields of; colored, then migraine. Choroiditis. Retinitis albuminurica. Glaucoma. Ears; echoes or reverberations in; deaf to human voice. Otitis; media. Mastoiditis. Nose; nervous motion of alæ; coryza, flows and stops; on alternate sides; swelled; caries; ulcer, etc. Epistaxis; of youths; then pneumonia; with cough, etc. Sneezing; agg. odors, smoke, etc. with dyspnoa. Descending nose colds. Sensitive smell. ale about nose and mouth. Changing, sickly face; hollow eyes, with blue rings. Numb teeth. Gum sore behind central incisors. Palate itches. Abscess of hard palate. Sour taste and eructations. As of cotton or something hanging in throat. CRAVES COLD DRINKS WHICH amel., but are VOMITED IN A LITTLE WHILE; after chloroform. Regurgitates ingesta. Waterbrash. Ravenous hunger; nightly; precedes attacks. Craves salt; what is refused when offered. Burning in gullet and stomach, agg. eating. Pressure above epigastrium. Stomach; EMPTY, HOLLOW FEELING IN; as if hanging down; agg. emotions; tremor, flutter or rolling over in. Sore spot in epigastrium. Rubs abdomen for amel.. Stool, like cooked sago; granular; slender; tough; diarrhoic, gray, bluish, watery, pouring out, painless, nervous, involuntary, exhausting. Anus open; prolapsed. Dysentery. Urinates, then weak. Pellicle on urine. Periodical albuminuria. Sexually erethistic, but impotent. Prolonged menses; replaced by smarting leucorrhoa. Oppressed for breath; agg. least motion. Tight, suffocating breathing, agg. cough. Larynx, raw, sore, furry; pains on speaking. Voice, low, hoarse, agg. evening; croupy, then bronchitis. Cough; hard, wheezing; dry; violent; painful; tickling; hacking; exhausting; with retching, burning in air-passages or trembling; agg. change of temperature, before strangers, laughing, exertion or singing. Expectoration; easy, bluish, rusty, salty, foamy or cold. Pneumonia; l. lower lung; secondary, with sopor. Chest full, heavy; stitches (l. upper); pains into throat or r. arm or alternating sides; rattling, agg. cold drinks. Dry, burnt feeling in chest with cough, at first dry then loose. Heart, pains into r. arm; violent palpitation from least thing; during goitre, etc.; weak; fatty; orgasms to. Left infra-mammary pain. Mammary abscess. Between scapulæ; cramp; burning. Spinal irritation, agg. heat. Pain forward from l. scapula. Tearing in l. shoulder at night. Burning spot in lumbar region. Numb fingers and toes. Palms burn. Paralyzing stitches in hips; then up back. Pain in tibiæ; periostitis. Ankles, as if to break. Suppressed foot-sweat. Tottery; stumbles easily. Icy cold feet. Toes cramp. Blood red spots. Thin, foul, bloody pus. Pyæmia. Yellow spots on abdomen. Jaundice; as a concomitant. Skin burns on shaving. Fatty cysts. Sleepless; eyes won't stay shut; from internal heat. Sleepy by day, sleepless before midnight. Sleeps in cat naps. Dreams, of fire; lewd. Somnambulism. Congestion to head, lungs, etc. Soft pulse. Coldness in cerebellum; of knees, in bed. Chilly in a warm room; down back. Craves ices, during the chill. Burning heat; local; up back. Hectic. Sweaty; early morning; sticky; without relief. Painless fevers.

Complementary: Lyc, Sang, Sep.

Antidotes: Coff, Nux-v.

Related: Caust, Conium, Sil.