PHOSPHORUS
By C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica
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. Thunder-storms.
- Morning and evening.
- Mental fatigue.
BETTER
- Eating.
- Sleep.
- Cold: Food. Water; to face.
- Rubbing (Magnetic).
- Sitting up.
- 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; < 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; > stool. Head, heavy, aches over one eye; with hunger; < children; < lying on r. side; > cold. Burning in temple. Cold occiput. Vertex throbs. Dandruff. Bald spots. Lachrymation, in wind. Vision; flashes; halos; red; green; black; > 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; < odors, smoke, etc. with dyspnœa. Descending nose colds. Sensitive smell. . Changing, sickly face; hollow eyes, with blue rings. Numb teeth. Gum sore . Palate itches. Abscess of hard palate. Sour taste and eructations. As of cotton or something hanging in throat. CRAVES COLD DRINKS WHICH >, but are VOMITED IN A LITTLE WHILE; after chloroform. . Waterbrash. ; nightly; precedes attacks. ; what is refused when offered. Burning in gullet and stomach, < eating. Pressure above epigastrium. ; EMPTY, HOLLOW FEELING IN; as if hanging down; < emotions; tremor, flutter or rolling over in. Sore spot in epigastrium. Rubs abdomen for >. , like cooked sago; granular; ; tough; diarrhœic, gray, bluish, , , painless, nervous, involuntary, . Anus open; prolapsed. Dysentery. Urinates, then weak. Pellicle on urine. Periodical albuminuria. , but impotent. Prolonged menses; replaced by smarting leucorrhœa. ; < least motion. Tight, suffocating breathing, < cough. , raw, sore, furry; pains on speaking. , low, , < evening; croupy, then bronchitis. ; hard, wheezing; dry; violent; ; ; hacking; exhausting; with retching, burning in air-passages or trembling; < change of temperature, before strangers, laughing, exertion or singing. Expectoration; easy, bluish, rusty, salty, foamy or cold. Pneumonia; ; secondary, with sopor. full, heavy; stitches (l. upper); or r. arm or alternating sides; rattling, < cold drinks. Dry, burnt feeling in chest with cough, at first dry then loose. , pains into r. arm; violent palpitation from least thing; during goitre, etc.; weak; fatty; orgasms to. Left infra-mammary pain. Mammary abscess. ; cramp; . Spinal irritation, < heat. Pain forward from l. . Tearing in l. shoulder at night. Burning spot in lumbar region. and toes. Palms burn. Paralyzing stitches in hips; then up back. Pain in tibiæ; periostitis. Ankles, as if to break. Suppressed foot-sweat. ; 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, , etc. Soft pulse. Coldness in cerebellum; of knees, in bed. Chilly in a warm room; down back. Craves ices, during the chill. ; ; . Hectic. Sweaty; early morning; sticky; without relief. Painless fevers.
Complementary: Lyc. Sang. Sep.
Antidotes: Coff. Nux-v.
Related: Caus. Con. Sil.