Phosphoricum acidum

Common name: glacial phosphoric acid.

It produces nervous prostration and debility; an atonic condition of the gastro-intestinal tract and bone affections (D.).

Best suited to persons of originally strong constitutions, who have become debilitated by loss of vital fluids, sexual excesses (Chin.), violent acute diseases (Calc-P., Psor., Sel.), chagrin, or a long succession of moral emotions, as grief, care, disappointed affection (A.).

Also useful in diseases of children and young people who grow too rapidly (Calc. for those who grow too fat) (A.).

Pale, sickly complexion (Ferr., Puls., Sep.) (A.).

Eyes sunken and surrounded by blue margins (Cina, Staph.) (A.).

Eyes like glass, without lustre (Lyc.).

Chronic effects of grief; hair turns gray; hopeless, haggard look (N.).

GROWS TOO FAST AND TOO TALL (N.).

Palpitation in young persons growing too fast, after onanism (Phos.) (N.).

Great physical and mental weakness from ovarian diseases or sexual excesses (N.).

Great debility with perspiration during the day (not so marked as Acon., however).

Nervous debility arising from continued grief or over-exertion of mind (D.).

Debility from loss of fluids, without pain, or only with burning (Phos.).

Pain in the back and limbs as if beaten (A.).

Soreness in the limbs, as from rowing, especially in the morning.

FORMICATION (Agar., Alum., Bar-C., Carb-S., Cocc., Ferr., Lyc., Nat-M., Nux-V., Phos., Rhod., Rhus-T., Sec., Sulph., Tarent.).

Burning of the lower half of the body: the limbs feeling cold.

The pains are only severe during rest, relieved by motion (Rhus-T.), and the nightly pains from pressure (Rhus-T.).

Pains, as from a knife, scraping the periosteum.

Inflammation of the bones, with burning at night.

Swelling of the bones (Calc-P., Merc., Sil.).

Offensive caries of the osseous structures (Asaf., Aur., Calc-F.).

Bruised feeling in the muscles (Arn., Bry., Cimic.) and burning in the spine (Phos.) (D.).

Patient trembles, legs weak; stumbles easily or makes missteps (Nat-M.) (A.).

Neurosis in stump after amputations (Cepa, Hyper.) (A.).

CLAMMY, STICKY TONGUE (Puls.) (Ra.).

Ulceration of the soft palate (Aur., Cinnb., Kali-B., Lach., Lyc., Merc., Merc-C., Nat-M., Nit-Ac., Phos., Sanic., Sil.).

Mercurial syphilitic ulceration of the lips, guns and soft palate, with swelling of the bones (Hm.).

Bread tastes bitter (Asaf., Calc-P., Chin., Chin-S., Dig., Ferr., Merc., Nux-V., Phos., Puls.) (G.).

Gluey matter on the tongue, in choleraic diseases (Puls.) (G.).

At night he bites his tongue involuntarily.

Useful in typhus or typhoid fever (Bapt., Hyos., Kali-P., Lach., Nux-V., Op., Rhus-T.).

Meteoristic distension of the abdomen, with rumbling and gurgling (Carb-V., Lyc., Nat-S., Nux-M., Puls.) (N.).

Cerebral typhoid or typhus; complete apathy and stupor; takes no notice, "lies like a log" (Carb-V.), utterly regardless of surrounding (A.).

Aversion to acids (Abies-C., Bell., Cocc., Ferr., Ferr-M., Ign., Nux-V., Sabad., Sulph.) (K.).

Desire for pungent things (Ars., Ast-R., Cist., Fluor-Ac., Hep., Lac-C., Nat-P., Sang.) (K.).

Intestinal hæmorrhage; blood dark (Ham.) (A.).

Diarrhœa after fright (Acon., Arg-N., Gels., Ign., Kali-P., Op., Phos., Puls., Verat.) (K.).

Diarrhœa from taking acids (Aloe, Ant-C., Brom., Coloc., Lach., Nux-V., Sulph.) (A.).

Involuntary stools with passage of flatus (Aloe, Nat-S., Sulph.) (A.).

Soft stools (Alum., Aur-M., Bapt., Calc., Hep., Merc., Nit-Ac., Phos., Plat., Sulph., Sulph-Ac.).

PAINLESS, WATERY DIARRHOEA (Chin., Podo., Puls., Ricin.) (N.).

White or gray watery diarrhœa (Calc., Iod., Podo.) (N.).

Undigested, painless stools (Arg-N., Chin., Ferr., Podo., Sulph.) (Bt.).

The diarrhœa, although of long continuance, does not seem to debilitate much; the mother wonders that the child remains so strong with it all (G.).

DIARRHOEA WITH RUMBLING (Podo.), METEORISM; BUT NOT SO MUCH WEAKNESS AS WOULD BE EXPECTED (N.).

Urine loaded with phosphates and showing a greasy pellicle (D.).

GLYCOSURIA AND POLYURIA (Nat-M., Sulph.) (D.).

Very profuse, watery or milky urine (N.).

MUST OFTEN RISE AT NIGHT IN ORDER TO PASS LARGE QUANTITIES OF COLOURLESS URINE (Merc., Sulph.) (N.).

Urine like milk mixed with jelly-like pieces and pain in the kidneys (N.).

White jelly-like flocculi in the urine (N.).

He lies down stupid (Arn., Bapt., Hell., Hyos., Lyc.).

BAD EFFECTS FROM SORROW (Gels., Ign., Nat-M., Puls., Sep.).

Disinclination to talk, with moroseness and low-spiritedness (Ign., Nat-M., Sep.).

APATHETIC, LISTLESS (Apis, Carb-V., Chin., Crot-C., Hell., Lil-T., Mezer., Nat-C., Nat-M., Nat-P., Onos., Op., Phos., Plat., Puls., Sep., Staph.) (N.).

WANTS NOTHING AND CARES FOR NOTHING (G.).

Indifferent to the affairs of life (Sep.) (N.).

Indifferent to those things that used to interest her the most (G.).

HOME-SICKNESS (Aur., Caps., Carb-An., Caust., Ign., Kali-P., Mag-M., Merc., Nat-M., Nit-Ac., Petr., Puls., Sil., Sulph., Verat.) (K.).

UNCONSCIOUS OF ALL SURROUNDINGS, BUT CAN BE AROUSED TO FULL CONSCIOUSNESS (Arn., Bapt.) (N.).

Slow grasp (Nat-M., Sil.) (B.).

Can't collect his ideas, hunts for words (Nux-M.) (B.).

Hysteric affections of young women, with excessive sensibility and irritability (Apis, Ign., Nux-M., Puls.) (G.).

Hypochondriasis from sexual abuse (Bt.).

LOSS OF MEMORY (Calc., Kali-P., Lyc.) (Bt.).

Disposed to weep (Ign., Nat-M., Puls., Sep.) (A.).

ABASHED, SAD, DESPAIR OF CURE (A.).

Mild, yielding disposition (Puls.) (A.).

MUTTERING OR UNINTELLIGIBLE DELIRIUM (Hyos.) (A.).

Headache, usually from behind forward, made worse by least motion and noise, especially music (A.).

Dreadful pain on the top of the head, as though the brain were crushed (after long-continued grief) (G.).

Cerebral weakness from brain-fag (Kali-P.) (Bt.).

Headache of school-girls from eye-strain, or overuse of eyes (Calc-P., Nat-M.) (N.).

OCCIPITAL HEADACHE AND PAINS IN THE NAPE OF THE NECK, FROM EXHAUSTED NERVE POWER, OR EXCESSIVE GRIEF (N.).

SEVERAL EMISSIONS IN ONE NIGHT (Nux-V.) (A.).

ONANISM (Chin., Dios., Nux-V., Staph.); WHEN THE PATIENT IS DISTRESSED BY THE CULPABILITY OF HIS INDULGENCE (N.).

SEMINAL EMISSIONS WHEN PRESSING AT STOOL (Nat-M., Sel., Sulph.,) (C.).

DEBILITY, RELAXATION OR IMPOTENCE FROM SEXUAL EXCESSES (Agn., Calad.) (D.).

THE SEMEN IS DISCHARGED SHORTLY AFTER AN ERECTION, OR WITHOUT ERECTION (Graph., Lyc., Nur-V., Sulph.).

FREQUENT, PROFUSE AND DEBILITATING EMISSIONS (Nat-P., Nux-V., Phos., Sulph., Zinc.) (A.).

SEMINAL EMISSIONS AFTER COITUS (Calc., Graph., Nat-M.) (A.).

Dragging pains in the testicles (Cann-S., Gels., Iod., Kali-C., Lach., Med., Sumb.), especially after seminal emissions (K.).

Exhaustion after coition (Calc.), also after pollutions (Chin.) (C.).

Spermatorrhœa (Arg.-N., Gels., Kali-P., Nat-M., Phos., Sep.) (D.).

Too early and too long menstruation (Calc., Ferr., Sec.) (G.).

Profuse leucorrhœa, with itching, some days after the menses (Alum., Ars., Calc., Caust., Hydr., Kali-P., Kreos., Merc., Nat-M., Nit-Ac., Puls., Sab., Sulph.) (G.).

Metritis with great debility and slow fever (Calc., Chin., Kali-P., Lach.) (G.).

Scanty milk (Agn., Bry., Caust., Dulc., Puls., Urt-U.) (G.).

Vertigo in the morning, towards evening, when standing and walking (Chin., Kali-P., Nux-V., Phos.) (C.).

Roaring in the ears, with difficult hearing (Puls.) (C.).

Pulse irregular, intermittent (Dig., Mur-Ac., Nat-M.) (C.).

Hair turns grey early (Lyc.), or falls off (Nat-M., Sep.) (C.).

FREQUENT URINATION DURING CHILL OR FEVER (Merc.) (K.).

FAINTNESS AFTER EATING (Bar-C., Bufo, Caust., Mag-M., Nux-V., Plan., Sang.), AFTER EMISSION (Asaf.), OR ON EXCITEMENT (Coff., Ign., Lach., Nux-M., Op., Sumb., Verat.) (K.).

Chest weak from talking or coughing (Stann.) (N.).

Cough with purulent and offensive expectoration (Calc., Merc., Sep.) and pains in the chest, (Bry., Kali-C., Phos.) (N.).

Cough with salty expectoration (Kali-I., Nat-M., Puls.) (N.).

Cough on slightest exposure (Hep., Kali-C., Rumx, Sil.) (D.).

Cough from tickling in the chest about the ensiform cartilage, worse in the evening on lying down (Puls.) (D.).

Weakness of the chest causes dyspnœa; the patient can hardly talk (D.).

NIGHT-SWEATS TOWARDS MORNING (Kali-C., Merc., Nit-Ac.) (A.).

Sleepy by day, but wakeful at night (Nux-V., Staph.) (B.).

AGGRAVATION: From bad news; from depressing emotions; from masturbation; from sexual excesses; from draft or wind; from snowy air; from mental affections; from over-study; from loss of vital fluids; from talking; from noise; from music; and from acids.

AMELIORATION: After short sleep; from warmth; from pressure; and by motion.

RELATIONSHIP: Compare: Arn., Bapt., Chin., Ferr., Graph., Hep., Ign., Kali-P., Lach., Lyc., Mur-Ac., Nat-M., Nit-Sp-D., Nux-V., Op., Phos., Pic-Ac., Puls., Rhus-T., Sep., Sil., Sulph., Thuj., Verat. and Zinc.

Phos-Ac. acts well before or after Chin., in colliquative sweats, diarrhœa, debility, etc., and after Nux-V. in fainting after a meal and seminal emissions.

Antidotes: Camph., Coff.