Phosphor. HAHNEMANN. The Element.
Mind
Stupor, delirium, grasping at flocks.
Hysterical alternation of laughing and weeping.
Great indifference; answers no questions, or replies wrongly.
Gloomy, taciturn. Dejection, thought he would die.
Fearfulness, as if something were creeping out of every corner.
Anxious, restless: at twilight; when alone; about the future; during a thunder-storm; with palpitation.
Melancholy, sheds tears; or, with attacks of involuntary laughter.
Amativeness.
Apathy: indifference, even toward his own children.
Excitable, easily angered and vehement, from which he afterwards suffers.
Mind is overactive.
Irritability of mind and body; prostrated from the least unpleasant impression.
While reflecting, headache and dyspnoea; feeling of apprehension at pit of stomach; weak feeling in head.
Any lively impression is followed by heat, as if immersed in hot water.
Sensorium
Nervous vertigo; or vertigo from abuse of narcotics, coffee; also, on rising from bed, or a seat, with fainting; worse mornings and after meals.
Confusion as from watching; confusion and heaviness, worse in vertex and sinciput; vertigo, tendency to fall forward. Better in cold air and with head uncovered. Apoplexy, grasps at the head; mouth drawn to the left.
Inner Head
Cold, crampy pain on whole left side of head.
Sensation of coldness in cerebellum, with sensation of stiffness in the brain.
Pulsation in left temple. Headache over left eye.
Headache every other day.
Weight and throbbing in forehead on waking, better by cold washing, worse on stooping; sometimes lasts all day.
Impending paralysis of brain and collapse; burning pain in brain.
Congestion to head; burning, stinging pains and pulsations commencing in occiput.
Sick headache with pulsations and burning, mostly in forehead; with nausea and vomiting, from morning until noon; worse from music, while masticating and in warm room.
Hot vertex after grief.
Headache in forehead as if a weight pressed it down into the eyes.
Softening of brain, with persistent headache, slow answering questions, vertigo, feet drag, formication, numbness in the limbs.
Acute atrophy of brain and medulla oblongata, with uraemia.
Outer Head
Scaly, bald spots on the head.
Head affected: from taking cold; from remaining in hot rooms; after having the hair cut.
Tension in face and skin of forehead, frequent only one side; worse from change of temperature and while eating; better after eating; with anxiety.
Dandruff copious, falls out in clouds; roots of hair get grey and hair comes out in bunches; scratching makes itching worse, or burning and itching relieved at time, but worse after scratching.
Eyes
When reading, letters look red.
After reading, dull pain deep in eyes; black spots pass before the eyes, worse from looking at bright objects and in lamplight; better in twilight.
Contracted pupils.
Glaucoma.
Momentary blindness, as from fainting.
Amblyopia from loss of fluids; also in morbus Brightii.
Has stopped rapidly increasing myopia.
Paroxysms of nyctalopia; or, of a sensation as if things were covered with a gray veil.
Green halo around the candle.
Subacute conjunctivitis, lachrymation; swelling and suppuration of lids, and meibomian glands, with itching and burning pains.
Aching in eyes, forehead and orbits.
Small burning spots on the eyeballs.
Fungus oculi.
Eyelids tremble and quiver; eyes fill with tears.
Ears
Difficult hearing, especially of human voice; also after typhus: hardness of hearing, with cold extremities.
Sounds reverberate in the ears; especially music.
Shooting through ears, especially at night; ear-discharges.
Congestion to ears, with throbbing.
Noises in ears, roaring, from rush of blood, Polypi in the ears.
Nose
Coryza: fluent, dulness of head, sleepiness, especially during the day and after meals; blowing blood from nose; alternating fluent and dry, with frequent sneezing; dry, forming crusts, adhering firmly; profuse discharge, flowing down into fauces; neck swollen; eyes staring, consequent on the resulting, stagnation of blood; scarlatina.
Profuse discharge of green (or yellow) mucus from the nose; without coryza; also after frequent flowing of blood; polypus.
Polypi nasi, when they bleed easily.
Severe hemorrhage from nose, in diphtheria, following detachment of the membrane from the nose.
Sneezing causes pain in the throat.
Sensation of fulness in nose, especially high up in left nostril, with loose mucus.
Chronic inflammation of the nasal membrane; with suppressed or oversensitive smell.
Nose swollen, red, shining and inner nose very dry.
Necrosis: periosteum raised and forms a new stratum of bone.
Wing-like motion of the alae nasi.
Freckles on the nose.
Face
Face: Pale, ashy; sickly yellow; livid; bloated, lips blue; hippocratic.
Circumscribed red spots on the cheeks.
Puffiness under the eyes.
Eyes sunken, with blue rings around.
Burning throbbing, in region of antium.
Twitching, tearing, darting and tension in cheek-bones and jaw, with threatening caries.
Pains from forehead into eyes (right), and from vertex and temples down upon the zygoma.
Tearing about lower margin of right orbit, extending under right ear, involving also bones of face, as if everything was torn out,.
Lower Face
Lips dry, with sooty coating.
Necrosis of the lower jaw, rarely of the upper.
Tearing in jaw-bones, evening, worse lying down, better moving the jaw.
Parotitis, when suppuration sets in.
Tough, viscous expectoration, hangs on lips and tongue in typhoid conditions.
Nose, lips, mouth and throat dry; no relief from water.
Teeth
Toothache; from washing clothes; from having the hands in cold or warm water.
Pricking and stinging in decayed teeth.
Gums stand off from teeth and bleed easily.
Tongue etc.
Taste: bitter; slimy; sour, after drinking milk.
Tongue: dry, immovable, covered with black crusts, cracked, parched, or glossy; dry, coated white, with stinging in the tip; coated yellowish; coated only in the middle.
Mouth
Aphthous patches on roof of mouth and tongue, Soreness of mouth, easily bleeding.
Saliva increased, tasting saltish or sweetish.
Throat
Swelling of right tonsil; mucus in throat, removed with difficulty; is quite cold as it comes into mouth; mucus white, nearly transparent, in lumps.
Tonsils and uvula much swollen; uvula elongated; with dry and burning sensation. Muscular angina, with fatty degeneration.
Rawness and scraping in pharynx, worse toward evening; hawking in morning.
Dryness of throat day and night; it fairly glistens.
Sensation as of cotton in throat.
Burning in the oesophagus; spasmodic stricture.
Desires Aversions
Wants to eat, but as soon as food is offered, does not want it.
Hunger: must eat during the chill, before he can get up; at night, feels faint.
Wants cold food and drink, ice cream, etc.
Thirst, longs for something refreshing.
Aversion to sweets, or to meat.
Want of appetite, from fulness in the throat.
Loss of appetite, alternating with bulimia; burning, cutting, pressing in stomach, nausea and vomiting.
Eating and Drinking
Bad effects from excessive use of salt.
After eating: sleepy; belches much even after a little food.
After eating: , Eating or drinking: , 7, Drinking: ; drinking cold water: .
Nausea and Vomiting
Eructations: frequent, empty; spasmodic; sour.
Regurgitation of food without nausea; also in mouthfuls.
Sourish, offensive fluid ejected in large quantity, looking like water, ink and coffee-grounds; after food, or even a swallow of water.
As soon as water becomes warm in stomach, it is thrown up.
Food scarcely swallowed, comes up again; spasms of oesophagus at cardiac end.
Constant nausea.
Vomiting; of bile; of blood.
Stomach
Severe pressure in stomach, after eating with vomiting of food.
Oppression and burning in stomach; loss of appetite, inextinguishable thirst, worse after eating or drinking.
Cardialgia, with gnawing; worse from motion.
Cramps in stomach radiating to the liver.
Fulness and painfulness in stomach; sometimes a gurgling and stitching in pit of stomach.
Hemorrhage from stomach, better from drinking cold water.
Goneness in region of stomach.
Gastritis, with heart-burn, ending in an unconquerable scratching in the throat.
Hypochondria
Jaundice: with pneumonia or brain disease; during pregnancy; from nervous excitement.
Acute yellow atrophy of the liver; malignant jaundice.
Diffuse hepatitis; liver hard, large with subsequent atrophy.
Abdomen
Very sensitive abdomen, painful to touch; rolling and rumbling in abdomen; during and after drinking.
Painful feeling of weakness across whole abdomen, worse in hypogastric region after a short walk; must lie down.
Shooting in the abdomen, with empty feeling.
Sensation of coldness in the abdomen.
Abdomen flaccid, with chronic loose bowels.
Tympanitis, mostly about the coecum and transverse colon.
Stool etc.
Stools: profuse, watery, pouring away as if from a hydrant, better after sleeping; copious, light colored; greenish, bloody; bloody, with small white particles, like opaque frog’s spawn; painless, blood-streaked, like flesh-colored water.
Chronic painless diarrhoea of undigested food, with much thirst for water during the night.
Frequent diarrhoea, during cholera time.
Painless debilitating diarrhoea, worse mornings. Constipation, faeces slender, long, dry, tough and hard, like a dog’s; voided with difficulty.
Bleeding hemorrhoids.
Ulceration of the rectum, with discharge of pus and blood; tenesmus.
Anus feels as if it was open.
Urine
Profuse, pale, watery; frequent and scanty; turbid, whitish, like curdled milk, with brick-dust sediment and variegated cuticle on surface; with red sediment.
Haematuria, from debility after sexual excesses; blood deficient in fibrin.
Glycosuria, with phthisis.
Albumen and exudation cells in urine; Morbus Brightii.
Twitching and burning in the urethra with frequent desire to urinate.
Male Sexual Organs
Sexual excitement, frequent erections and emissions, or irresistible desire for coitus.
Lascivious, strips himself, sexual mania.
Impotence after excessive excitement and onanism.
Hydrocele after gonorrhoeal, orchitis, with sexual weakness; also, after seminal losses.
Female Sexual Organs
Nymphomania.
Sterility from excessive voluptuousness, or with late and profuse menses.
Metritis after frequent pregnancies; pyaemia and phlebitis; fair, graceful women.
Frequent and profuse metrorrhagia, pouring out freely and then ceasing for a short time. Cancer uteri.
Pain in left ovarian region and down the inner side of thigh.
Menses early, profuse, long-lasting; or early, scanty and pale; weeps before the menses; during menses, pains in the small of the back; palpitation.
Amenorrhoea, with blood-spitting; bleeding from the anus; or haematuria; menses suppressed, with milk in breasts.
Stitches upward, from vagina into pelvis.
Dull tearing in labia, during or after walking in open air.
Leucorrhoea: with chlorosis; instead of the menses; watery, slimy or acrid, causing blisters.
Pregnancy
Labor-pains distressing, but of little use; cutting pains through the abdomen.
Ulceration of the mammae, with hardness; red spots or streaks; fistulous openings, with burning, stinging, and watery, offensive discharge; also so soon as pus forms.
Cancer mammae, with sharp, lancinating pains; or bleeding easily.
Larynx
Hoarseness. with cough and rawness in larynx and bronchia; worse in the evening.
Aphonia; from prolonged, loud talking; catarrhal and nervous; larynx sensitive to touch.
Cannot talk on account of pain in larynx.
Larynx feels as if lined with fur.
Laryngeal croup; aphonia; rapid sinking; cold sweat; dropped jaw; sunken face; rattling breathing; also, with tendency to frequent relapses.
Breathing
Asthma, with fear of suffocation.
Oppression and anxiety in the chest, worse evening and morning.
Stridulous inspiration in evening in falling asleep; nightly suffocative spells, as if lungs were paralyzed.
Spasmodic contraction of chest.
Noisy, panting breathing.
Difficult inspiration, chest feels full and heavy, with tension.
Short breath: after each cough; oppression and palpitation from a short walk; worse after evening.
Fulness in the chest, as after eating too much.
Cough
Dry, tickling, with tightness across chest; hollow, spasmodic, from tickling in chest; with trembling of whole body; with sticking in epigastrium; must press it with the hand; nervous, when any one enters the room; from strong odors; before a thunder-storm.
Cough, with stitches over one eye, splitting headache, burning dryness in throat; hoarseness, aphonia; soreness and roughness in larynx; worse evening and night.
Cough worse from change from warm to cold air; from laughing, loud talking; change of weather; eating or drinking; lying on the left side or back.
While coughing, involuntary stool.
Sputa: mostly in morning; frothy, bloody, rust-colored; purulent, white and tough; cold mucus, tasting sour, salt or sweet.
Lungs
Stitches in left chest, better lying on right side.
Burning, piercing soreness and tension in chest.
Congestion to chest; anxiety; worse from any emotion; cramp between scapulae.
Broncho-pulmonary catarrh, with dilatation, or fatty degeneration of heart,.
Pneumonia: dryness of air-passages; excoriated feeling in upper chest; great weight on chest or tightness; chest sore, bruised; well-developed co-existing bronchitis; hepatization, especially of lower half on right lung. Latter part of the period of deposit and early part of that of absorption.
Capillary bronchitis; pulmonary oedema.
Pleuritis; late stages; Heart dilated; purulent infiltration.
Threatened paralysis of the lungs, prostration, viscid sweat; small pulse; face sunken; rattling in the windpipe.
Tuberculosis in the tall, slender or rapidly growing; repeated haemoptysis; great debility; frequent attacks of bronchitis.
Heart Pulse
Disease of the right heart, with consequent venous stagnation.
Palpitation from every motion; with rush of blood to the chest, especially in the rapidly growing youth. Great pressure on the middle of the sternum; orthopnoea; dyspnoea, with inability to exert himself; palpitation.
Dilatation of the heart, following endocarditis, or fatty degeneration.
Pulse: accelerated, full and hard; sometimes double; small, weak and frequent.
Outer Chest
Yellow spots on the chest.
Neck Back
Back pains as if broken impending all motion.
Pain in small of back when rising from stooping Burning in a small spot in small of the back, better from rubbing.
Softening of the spine.
Progressive locomotor ataxia.
Pain in coccyx as if ulcerated, hindering motion, followed by painful stiff neck. Rachitis.
Pains in the sacrum after confinement.
Upper Limbs
Swelling of axillary glands.
Tearing in left shoulder worse at night.
Arms weak, can hardly move them, they tremble. Emaciation of the hands.
Tremor of the hands.
Finger-tips feel numb and insensible.
Periodical contraction of the fingers like cramp.
Veins on hands are distended.
Burning palms; or clammy sweat on the head and palms.
Lower Limbs
Rheumatic stiffness of the knees; pains from knees to feet.
Swelling of the tibia.
Pains in the soles of the feet, as if bruised.
Nightly tearing in the feet, during pregnancy.
Feet swollen in the evening.
Feet icy-cold.
Twitching of the feet.
Limbs in General
Hands and feet numb, clumsy; ankles feel swollen and as if the skin was tense.
Limbs tremble from every exertion; also icy-coldness of limbs.
When walking he makes missteps, from weakness.
Swelling of hands and feet, with stinging pains.
Position etc.
Motion: , Walking: ; in open air: Change of position: . Exertion: . Cannot exert himself: Rising: Stooping: Must lie down: Lying on back, on left side; on right side: Lying down: Masticating: Moving jaw:.
Nerves
Oversensitive to external impression: light, odors, noises, touch, etc.
Pains tearing, drawing, tensive, excited by slightest chill; body feels bruised, with sensation of coldness; open air intolerable.
Frequent fainting; pale, cold; sudden syncope, lying as if lifeless.
Epilepsy, with consciousness.
Spasms on the paralyzed side.
Paralysis; formication and tearing in the limbs; anaesthesia; increased heat.
Sleep
Sleepy, coma vigil.
Stupor, burning heat of head; muttering delirium.
Pneumonia. Sopor, dry lips, black tongue, open mouth.
Sleepy all day, all night restless.
Restless, especially before midnight.
Awakens often from heat and ebullitions, or from hunger.
Feels in morning as if he had not slept enough, or as if paralyzed.
Somnambulism.
Time
Morning: , Morning till noon: Afternoon: Evening: , Evening till midnight: Night: 4, Before midnight: Day: Day and night: . Every other day:.
Temperature and Weather
Warm room: Warm washing: . Cold, cold washing: , Change of temperature: Thunder-storm: Uncovering: , Hair cut: Open air: Chill descends, heat ascends:.
Chill Fever Sweat
Chill: generally only in the evening; no thirst; worse from uncovering; veins on the hands swollen; from evening until midnight with great weakness and sleep; at night, alternating with heat; with diarrhoea; chill descends, heat ascends the back; Flushes all over, beginning in the hands. Heat, with anxiety and burning in face and hands, afternoon and evening. Sweat mostly on head, hands and feet, with increased urine, or only on forepart of body.
Profuse night-sweat, worse during sleep. Clammy sweat.
Intermittent fever, heat at night, beginning in stomach; faint and hungry; then chilly, followed by internal heat, especially in the hands, external cold continuing.
Typhoid forms of fever.
Attacks
Every other day:.
Sides
Right: , Left: Above downward: , Below upward:.
Tissues
Ebullitions and congestions.
Fatty degeneration of liver, heart, kidneys, etc.; anaemia.
Chlorosis, with too rapid growth.
Hemorrhages from internal organs.
Small wounds bleed much. Fungus haematodes.
Sprains; joints easily dislocated.
Glands enlarged, especially after contusions.
Dropsy of the face, hands and feet.
Swelling of the bones; necrosis (lower jaw).
Exostoses, especially of the skull; tearing, boring pains; worse at night, or from least touch. Hip-joint diseased; oozing a watery pus.
Contact Injuries etc.
Touch: , Pressure: Rubbing: Scratching: Contusions:.
Skin
Burning in skin; or burning and stinging; restless, change of position.
Blood-boils.
Polypi bleeding readily.
Open cancers bleeding easily. Vesicles around joints.
Brownish spots here and there. Red spots ; petechiae.
Dry, scaly, or pustulous eruptions; psoriasis on knees and elbows.
Scarlatina, with suddenly repelled rash ; chest affected; typhoid symptoms, restless yet apathetic.
Fistulous ulcers : erysipelatous; pus thin, ichorous; hectic.
Stages and States
Tall, slender (slim) women; disposed to stoop.
Nervous, weak; desires to be magnetized.
Grows too rapidly.
Relationship
Ill effects of excessive use : of salt; of camphor; of iodine.
Phosphor. follows well after : Calc, carb., Chinchon., Kali carb., Lycop. Nux vom., Rhus tox., Silic., Sulphur.
Complementary too Cepa and Arsen. Antidotes to Phosphor. Nux vom., Coffea, Tereb.
Phosphor. antidotes : Tereb., Rhus ven.
Inimical : Caustic.
Acalypha Indica is excellent in the haemoptysis of pulmonary tuberculosis ; severe fit of dry cough, followed by spitting of blood.