Phosphorus

Common name: phosphorus.

Adapted to tall, slender persons of sanguine temperament, fair skin, delicate eye-lashes, fine blond or red hair, quick perceptions, and very sensitive nature (A.).

Useful for young people, who grow too rapidly, are inclined to stoop (to walk stooped- Sulph.) (A.).

Fistulous ulcers, with callous edges, secreting a thin, foul pus and of a blue appearance (Carb-V.) (Bt.).

Flushes all over, beginning in hands (N.).

BURNING HEAT RUNNING UP THE BACK AND BETWEEN SHOULDERS (N.).

Glandular swellings, especially after contusions (Con.).

Great debility of the nervous system (Ars., Con., Gels., Kali-P., Phos-Ac., Pic-Ac.).

EMACIATION (Abrot., Bar-C., Calc-P., Nat-M., Sanic., Sil., Tub.).

Burning in the body and limbs (Ars., Camph., Carb-V., Kali-P., Lach., Sec., Sulph.).

Morning weakness in the limbs in bed (Canth., Nat-M.).

Sensitiveness to cold weather and open air.

Easy-catching cold and from it tearing and stinging in the limbs.

TREMBLING OF THE LIMBS FROM SLIGHT EXERTIONS (Merc., Nat-M., Rhus-T., Sec.).

Weakness of the joints, especially the knees (Calc., Con., Kali-C., Lyc., Merc., Nat-M., Plb., Psor., Sep., Sulph.).

Cold legs and feet (Calc., Carb-V., Sep.) (Bt.).

Necrosis of the (left) lower jaw (A.).

Rachitis (Calc., Merc., Phos-Ac., Sil.).

SWELLING AND CARIOUS AFFECTIONS OF THE BONES (Asaf., Aur., Aur-M., Calc-F., Calc-P., Calc-S., Fluor-Ac., Merc., Sil.).

HAEMORRHAGES FROM VARIOUS ORGANS (Bell., Crot-H., Lach., Merc., Nit-Ac., Sec.).

SMALL WOUNDS BLEED MUCH (Lach., Nit-Ac.).

Sneezing and coryza from putting hands in water (Lac-D.) (A.).

Frequent blowing of blood in small quantity from the nose (Arn., Carb-S., Lach., Phos-Ac., Sulph.) (N.).

Polypus of the nose; easily bleeding (Calc., Calc-P., Thuj.) (N.).

Caries of the nasal bones (Aur., Kali-B.) (D.).

DIFFICULT HEARING, ESPECIALLY OF THE HUMAN VOICE (N.).

Oedema of the face, especially of the lids and around the eyes (Apis, Ars., Kali-C.) (N.).

Re-echoing of sounds in the ears (D.).

TOOTHACHE OF WASHER-WOMEN, OR FROM WASHING CLOTHES (N.).

Face semi-transparent, like polished ivory (Nat-M.) (Hm.).

Small bald spot over the ear (Dg.).

Hair falls out in bunches (Nat-M.) (A.).

Violent ebullitions and congestions (Acon., Ben., Ferr-P., Sang., Sulph., Verat-V.).

Great sensitiveness of the senses and giddiness (Bell., Coff., Nux-V.).

Great depression at twilight (G.).

Amativeness (Canth., Nux-V.) (G.).

Anxious and fearful before and during a thunderstorm (Gels., Nat-C., Nat-M., Sep.) (N.).

FEAR OF BEING ALONE (Arg-N., Ars., Bism., Camph., Crot-C., Gels., Hyos., Kali-C., Lyc.) (N.).

NYMPHOMANIA (Canth., Hyos., Stram., Verat.) (G.).

Fearfulness, as if something were creeping out at every corner (Hyos., Stram.) (G.).

Apathetic; unwilling to talk (Phos-Ac.); answers slowly; moves sluggishly (Gels.) (A.).

Clairvoyance (Anac., Cann-I., Crot-C., Hyos., Lach., Lyss., Nux-M., Op., Pyrus., Sil., Stram., Tarent.) (Bt.).

Laughing against the will (Cann-I., Ign., Nat-M., Sep., Tarent.). (Bt.).

DESIRES TO BE MAGNETIZED (Calc., Lach., Nat-C.. Sil.) (A.).

Restless, fidgety; moves continually; cannot sit or stand still for a moment (A.).

Dread of mental exertion (Kali-P., Lyc., Sil.) (D.).

Weary of life (Aur., Nux-V., Sep.) (A.).

FULL OF GLOOMY FOREBODINGS (Ars., Lach.) (A.).

Stools are soft (Alum., Hep., Merc., Nit-Ac., Sulph., Sulph-Ac., Thuj.).

Stools watery, with lumps of white mucus, or like little grains of tallow or sago (N.).

DISCHARGE OF MUCUS FROM THE WIDE OPEN ANUS, WITH TENESMUS (N.).

Chronic painless diarrhœa of undigested food (Ferr., Podo.) with much thirst for water during night (N.).

Diarrhœa, during cholera time (Camph.) (A.).

Diarrhœa, as soon as anything enters the rectum (A.).

Morning diarrhœa of old people (Ant-C., Gamb., Nat-S.) (A.).

Involuntary stool on coughing or sneezing (Bell., Merc., Rumx., Squil., Sulph.) (K.).

PROFUSE, EXHAUSTING DIARRHOEA POURING AWAY AS IF FROM A HYDRANT (Podo., Sulph.) (Ra.).

Green and bloody passages; the anus remaining open (Apis) (Ho.).

Constipation: The fæces being slender, long, narrow, dry, tough, and hard like a dog's; voided with difficulty (N.).

PAINLESS DIARRHOEA, WITH EXHAUSTION AND PROSTRATION (D.).

Acute yellow atrophy of the liver, or acute hepatitis, with tendency to formation of abscesses (D.).

Stitches in the liver (Bry., Chel., Merc.) (Bt.).

FATTY DEGENERATION OF THE LIVER, WITH MALIGNANT JAUNDICE (Crot-H., Lach., Merc.) (Bt.).

ENLARGED, CIRRHOSED LIVER (Mur-Ac.) (D.).

Fistulous openings and abscesses of the breast (Sil.) (Bt.).

CATAMENIA TOO EARLY, TOO PROFUSE AND OF TOO LONG DURATION (Cycl., Ferr., Nat-M., Nux-V., Sabin.).

Acrid, corrosive, smarting leucorrhœa, drawing blisters (N.).

Metrorrhagia, in cancer (Lach., Nit-Ac., Sec.) (A.).

Vicarious hæmorrhage from the nose, stomach, anus, urethra, etc., in association with amenorrhœa (A.).

Is unable to drink water during pregnancy; sight of it causes vomiting; must close her eyes while bathing (Lyss.) (A.).

The patient is hungry, especially at night; wakes up hungry and longs for cold thing (D.).

Tongue parched, dry, cracked, and covered black, or glazed (Hi. and Ht.).

Thirst and dryness of the mouth (Ars., Bry., Nat-M., Sulph.) (Bt.).

Perforating ulcer of the stomach, with vomiting of coffee-ground-like matters (Con.) (D.).

The victuals, which have been scarcely swallowed, come up again in the mouth.

Hiccough in typhoid (Ars., Carb-V., Cic., Crot-H., Mag-P.) (K.).

Belching large quantities of wind after eating (Arg-N., Carb-V., Lyc.) (Bt.).

WANTS COLD FOOD AND DRINK, ICECREAM; IS RELIEVED BY THEM (N.).

Longs for juicy, refreshing things (A.).

Desire for fish (Nat-M., Nat-P.), cold milk, and highly seasoned food (Chin., Hep., Sulph.) (K.).

AS SOON AS WATER BECOMES WARM IN THE STOMACH IT IS THROWN UP (Chlf., Pyrog.) (N.).

Nausea from placing hands in warm water (A.).

Sensation of weakness and emptiness in the abdomen (Ign., Sep.) (Bt.).

Sharp, cutting pains in the bowels, sometimes with sour vomiting (G.).

Objects have a cloudiness about them by candle-light (D.).

Hemicrania (Nat-M., Sang., Spig.) (Hr.).

Hemi-plegia from apoplexy, with formication in the paralyzed limbs (Hm.).

Typhus with paralysis impending (Bt.).

GLAUCOMA (Bry., Spig., Sulph.) (B.).

Green halo about objects (D.).

Deprivation of sight, with dilatation of the pupils, and darting pains in the eyeballs (Hr.).

LETTERS APPEAR RED (D.).

SHORT-SIGHTEDNESS (Nat-M.,) (G.).

ATTACKS OF SUDDEN BLINDNESS; OBJECTS APPEAR VEILED (Merc.) (Bt.).

DEGENERATION OR GREY ATROPHY OF THE OPTIC NERVE (D.).

Cataract (Calc., Nat-M., Sep., Sil.) (K.).

Retinitis albuminurica (Ars., Nat-M.) (B.).

Dim vision after coition (Chin., Kali-C., Kali-P., Nat-P., Sep., Sil), or during headache (Cycl., Iris, Sulph.) (K.).

Green mucus in the nostrils (Merc., Puls.) (Bt.).

Strong effect on the respiratory organs and the capillary vessels, with inflammation of the lung on the left side.

ACUTE PAIN IN THE LOWER PART OF THE LEFT LUNG, GREATLY AGGRAVATED BY LYING ON THE LEFT SIDE (Bt.).

Cough in the evening, when reading, laughing, or loudly talking, or from lying on the left side (N.).

Trembling of the whole body while coughing (Hr.).

CANNOT TALK ON ACCOUNT OF PAIN IN THE LARYNX (N.).

HOARSENESS, WITH LOSS OF VOICE, WORSE IN THE EVENING (Brom., Carb-V., Caust., Graph., Kali-B., Mang., Rumx., Sulph.) (Bt.).

Cough worse when coming from the warm room into the cold air (Hr.).

Capillary bronchitis; severe, hard, dry, exhausting cough (Bry., Squil.) (Bt.).

Pain in the chest with coughing, better by external pressure (Bry.) (N.).

Tightness across the chest, with a dry tight cough (Bry.) (Bt.).

Heaviness of the chest, as if a weight were lying on it (Bry.) ((A.).

PNEUMONIA WITH SANGUINEOUS INFILTRATION OF THE PARENCHYMA, AND RED HEPATIZATION.

RUSTY SPUTUM OR BRICK-DUST EXPECTORATION; OR EXPECTORATION OF MUCUS, PUS AND BLOOD (Bt.).

OPPRESSION OF THE CHEST (Bry., Ferr-P., Lach.) (D.).

Very sleepy during menstruation (Eupi., Kali-C., Nux-M., Sulph., Uran.) (Bt.).

Very sleepy after meals, especially after dinner (Agar., Calc., Nux-V.) (G.).

HAEMOPTYSIS, WITH OCCASIONAL ATTACKS OF PROFUSE HAEMORRHAGE (Ferr-P., Ipec., Lach., Nit-Ac., Sulph-Ac.) (Bt.).

It should be borne in mind in incipient as well as the more advanced cases of phthisis (Bl.).

Gums inflamed, bleed easily, and are separated from the teeth (Merc., Nit-Ac.) (R.).

PERSISTENT BLEEDING AFTER EXTRACTION OF TEETH (Merc.) (R.).

RAVENOUS HUNGER DURING FEVER (Chin., Cina, Cur., Eup-Pur., Hell.) (K.).

Fungous hæmatodes and excrescences (B.).

Perspiration has the odour of sulphur (A.).

Acute and chronic nephritis (Apis, Canth., Lyc., Merc-C., Nit-Ac., Sep.) (K.).

THICK, TURBID AND SCANTY URINE (Apis, Canth., Kali-C., Puls., Sep.) (Bt.).

Albumen and exudation cells in the urine (Apis, Canth., Merc-C., Tereb.) (Hm.).

LASCIVIOUS; STRIPS HIMSELF; SEXUAL MANIA; IRRESISTIBLE DESIRE FOR COITION (Canth., Stram.) (N.).

Nocturnal emissions with or without lascivious dreams (Anac., Camph., Dios., Gels., Graph., Nat-P., Pic-Ac., Sep., Stann., Zinc.) (K.).

IMPOTENCE FROM SEXUAL ABUSE (Agn., Calad., Chin., Lyc., Nat-M., Phos-Ac., Sulph., Zinc.) (Hm.).

THE PATIENT HAS DESIRES AND FANCIES, BUT NO POWER (Con.) (D.).

Discharge of prostatic juice, during hard stools (Agn., Alum., Cann-I., Carb-V., Con., Gels., Hep., Nat-C., Nit-Ac., Phos-Ac., Psor., Sep., Sil., Staph., Sulph., Zinc.) (Bt.).

Sexual abuse producing dorsal consumption, trembling, imbecility, mania, epileptic fits and impaired digestion (Bt.).

Moisture in the meatus urinarius (Nat-M.), causing a yellow stain (K.).

AGGRAVATION: From change of weather; during a thunderstorm; in the morning; in the evening; while in bed; after eating; after drinking; before midnight; when lying on the back; and when lying on the left side.

Cold air relieves the head and face symptoms, but aggravates those of the chest, throat and neck.

AMELIORATION: After eating; from drinking cold water; from cold food; from lying on the right side; from being rubbed or mesmerized; and after sleep.

RELATIONSHIP: Complementary: Ars., with which it is isomorphic; All-C., its vegetable analogue.

Incompatible: with Caust.; must not be used before or after.

Phos. removes the bad effects of Iod. (Hep.), and excessive use of table salt.

Follows well after: Calc. or Chin.

Antidotes: Coff., Nux-V.