Phosphoricum acidum
di H. A. Roberts — The Rheumatic Remedies
Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.
Characteristic are the bruised pains in all joints in morning, in arms and lower limbs and nape of neck; in hips, arms, thighs and nape as from growing pains, always accompanied by much prostration.
NECK AND BACK
Gnawing pains in scapulæ.
Burning and soreness between shoulders.
Violent pain in back on rising after stooping.
Burning pain in a spot in small of back.
Dull pains in loins, going down back of legs to lower part of calves, > by walking, rest or pressure.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
Tearing pains in shoulder and left hand.
Burning as from a red hot coal in different parts of arm and on shoulder.
Boring, drawing, digging pains in nerves, awaking from sleep.
Stiffness and cramps in joints.
Cramps in upper arm, forearms and wrists.
Stitches in finger joints.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
Painful spasm in hip joint.
Rheumatic pain running from gluteal muscles or hip down to left knee and often to calf of leg or ankle.
PAIN IN TIBIA AT NIGHT.
Beating, swelling and burning in joint of great toe.
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL
Drawing and twitching, tearing in limbs.
Sensation as if periosteum were being scraped with a knife.
Arthritic pains brought on by least cold, with irritable cough.
Bruised pains in all joints, in morning.
GROWING PAINS IN ALL LIMBS.
AGGRAVATIONS
Beginning to walk.
AMELIORATIONS
After sitting a while.
Slightly after walking.
Standing.
Motion.
CONCOMITANTS
VERY WEAK AND INDIFFERENT TO LIFE.
GREAT EXHAUSTION.
INTERSTITIAL INFLAMMATION IN SCROFULOUS, SYPHILITIC OR MERCURIAL PATIENTS.
GROWING PAINS.
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE GROWN TOO RAPIDLY.
WEAKNESS IN SMALL OF BACK FROM SEXUAL EXCESSES.