PHOSPHORUS

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • irritates, inflames and degenerates mucous membranes
  • irritates and inflames serous membranes
  • inflames spinal cord and nerves, causing paralysis
  • destroys bone, especially the lower jaw and tibia
  • disorganizes the blood
  • fatty degeneration of blood vessels and every tissue and organ of the body
  • hemorrhages
  • hematogenous jaundice
  • destructive metabolism
  • yellow atrophy of the liver
  • sub-acute hepatitis
  • great nervous debility
  • emaciation
  • amative tendencies
  • great susceptibility to external impressions
  • suddenness of symptoms
  • sudden prostration
  • faints
  • sweats
  • shooting pains
  • Polycythemia
  • Blood extravasations
  • fatty degenerations
  • cirrhosis
  • caries
  • Muscular pseudo-hypertrophy
  • neuritis
  • Inflammation of the respiratory tract
  • Paralytic symptoms
  • Ill effects of iodine and excessive use of salt
  • Tertiary syphilis
  • skin lesions
  • nervous debility
  • Scurvy
  • Pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis
  • Ataxia
  • adynamia
  • Osteo myelitis
  • Bone fragility
  • Great lowness of spirits
  • Easily vexed
  • Fearfulness, as if something were creeping out of every corner
  • Clairvoyant state
  • Great tendency to start
  • Over-sensitive to external impressions
  • Loss of memory
  • Paralysis of the insane
  • Ecstasy
  • Dread of death when alone
  • Brain feels tired
  • Insanity, with an exaggerated idea of one's own importance
  • Excitable, produces heat all over
  • Restless
  • fidgety
  • Hypo-sensitive
  • indifferent
  • Vertigo of the aged, after rising
  • Heat comes from spine
  • Neuralgia
  • Burning pains
  • Chronic congestion of head
  • Brain-fag, with coldness of occiput
  • Vertigo, with faintness
  • Skin of forehead feels too tight
  • Itching of scalp
  • dandruff
  • falling out of hair in large bunches
  • Cataract
  • Sensation as if everything were covered with a mist or veil, or dust, or something pulled tightly over eyes
  • Black points seem to float before the eyes
  • Patient sees better by shading eyes with hand
  • Fatigue of eyes and head even without much use of eyes
  • Green halo about the candlelight
  • Letters appear red
  • Atrophy of optic nerve
  • Edema of lids and about the eyes
  • Pearly white conjunctiva and long curved lashes
  • Partial loss of vision from abuse of tobacco
  • Pain in orbital bones
  • Paresis of extrinsic muscles
  • Diplopia, due to deviation of the visual axis
  • Amaurosis from sexual excess
  • Glaucoma
  • Thrombosis of retinal vessels and degenerative changes in retinal cells
  • Degenerative changes where soreness and curved lines are seen in old people
  • Retinal trouble with lights and hallucination of vision
  • Hearing difficult, especially to human voice
  • Re-echoing of sounds
  • Dullness of hearing after typhoid
  • Fan-like motion of nostrils
  • Bleeding
  • epistaxis instead of menses
  • Over-sensitive smell
  • Periostitis of nasal bones
  • Foul imaginary odors
  • Chronic catarrh, with small hemorrhages
  • handkerchief is always bloody
  • Polypi, bleeding easily
  • Pale, sickly complexion
  • blue rings under eyes
  • Hippocratic countenance
  • Tearing pain in facial bones
  • circumscribed redness in one or both cheeks
  • Swelling and necrosis of lower jaw
  • Swelled and easily bleeding gums, ulcerated
  • Toothache after washing clothes
  • Tongue dry, smooth, red or white, not thickly coated
  • Persistent bleeding after tooth extraction
  • Nursing sore mouth
  • Burning in esophagus
  • Dryness in pharynx and fauces
  • Thirst for very cold water
  • Stricture of esophagus
  • Hunger soon after eating
  • Sour taste and sour eructations after every meal
  • Belching large quantities of wind, after eating
  • Throws up ingesta by the mouthfuls
  • Vomiting
  • water is thrown up as soon as it gets warm in the stomach
  • Post-operative vomiting
  • Cardiac opening seems contracted, too narrow
  • Pain in stomach, relieved by cold food, ices
  • Region of stomach painful to touch, or on walking
  • Inflammation of stomach, with burning extending to throat and bowels
  • Bad effects of eating too much salt
  • Feels cold in abdomen
  • Sharp, cutting pains in abdomen
  • A very weak, empty, gone sensation felt in whole abdominal cavity
  • Liver congested
  • Acute hepatitis
  • Fatty degeneration of liver
  • Jaundice
  • Pancreatic disease
  • Large, yellow spots on abdomen
  • Very fetid stools and flatus
  • Long, narrow, hard stools, like a dog's
  • Difficult to expel stools
  • Desire for stool on lying on, left side
  • Painless, copious debilitating diarrhea
  • Green mucus with grains like sago in stool
  • Involuntary stool
  • Great weakness after stool
  • Discharge of blood from rectum, during stool
  • White, hard stools
  • Bleeding hemorrhoids
  • Hematuria, especially in acute Bright's disease
  • Turbid, brown urine, with red sediment
  • Lack of power in male
  • Irresistible desire in male
  • involuntary emissions, with lascivious dreams in male
  • Metritis in female
  • Chlorosis in female
  • Phlebitis in female
  • Fistulous tracks after mammary abscess in female
  • Slight hemorrhage from uterus between periods in female
  • Menses too early and scanty-not profuse, but last too long in female
  • Weeps before menses in female
  • Stitching pain in mammae in female
  • Leucorrhea profuse, smarting, corrosive, instead of menses in female
  • Amenorrhea, with vicarious menstruation in female
  • Suppuration of mammae, burning, watery, offensive discharge in female
  • Nymphomania in female
  • Uterine polyps in female
  • Hoarseness, worse evenings
  • Larynx very painful
  • Clergyman's sore throat
  • violent tickling in larynx while speaking
  • Aphonia, worse evenings, with rawness
  • Cannot talk on account of pain in larynx
  • Cough from tickling in throat
  • Sweetish taste while coughing
  • Hard, dry, tight, racking cough
  • Congestion of lungs
  • Burning pains, heat and oppression of chest
  • Tightness across chest
  • great weight on chest
  • Sharp stitches in chest
  • respiration quickened, oppressed
  • Much heat in chest
  • Pneumonia, with oppression
  • Whole body trembles, with cough
  • Sputa rusty, blood-colored, or purulent
  • Tuberculosis in tall, rapidly-growing young people
  • Repeated hemoptysis
  • Pain in throat on coughing
  • Nervous coughs provoked by strong odors, entrance of a stranger
  • Violent palpitation with anxiety, while lying on left side
  • Pulse rapid, small, and soft
  • Heart dilated, especially right
  • Feeling of warmth in heart
  • Burning in back
  • pain as if broken in back
  • Heat between the shoulder-blades
  • Weak spine
  • Ascending sensory and motor paralysis from ends of fingers and toes
  • Stitches in elbow and shoulder joints
  • Burning of feet
  • Weakness and trembling, from every exertion
  • Can scarcely hold anything with his hands
  • Tibia inflamed and becomes necrosed
  • Arms and hands become numb
  • Can lie only on right side
  • Post-diphtheritic paralysis, with formication of hands and feet
  • Joints suddenly give way
  • Great drowsiness, especially after meals
  • Coma vigil
  • Sleeplessness in old people
  • Vivid dreams of fire, of hemorrhage
  • Lascivious dreams
  • Goes to sleep late and awakens weak
  • Short naps and frequent wakings
  • Chilly every evening
  • Cold knees at night
  • Adynamic with lack of thirst, but unnatural hunger
  • Hectic, with small, quick pulse
  • viscid night-sweats
  • Stupid delirium
  • Profuse perspiration
  • Wounds bleed very much, even if small
  • they heal and break out again
  • Jaundice
  • Little ulcer outside of large ones
  • Petechiae
  • Ecchymosis
  • Purpura hemorrhagica
  • Scurvy
  • Fungous hematodes and excrescences

Allen's Keynotes

  • more information and order at remedia homeopathy adapted to tall slender persons of sanguine temperament, fair skin, delicate eyelashes, find blond, or red hair, quick perceptions, and very sensitive nature
  • young people, who grow too rapidly, are inclined to stoop (to walk stooped, sulph.)
  • who are chlorotic or anaemic
  • old people, with morning diarrhoea
  • nervous, weak
  • desires to be magnetized
  • oversensitiveness of all the senses to external impressions, light, noise, odors, touch
  • restless, fidgety
  • moves continually, cannot sit or stand still a moment (restless, fidgety feet, zinc.)
  • burning
  • in spots along the spine
  • between the scapulae (as of a piece of ice, lachn.)
  • or intense heat running up the back
  • of palms of hands
  • in chest and lungs
  • of every organ or tissue of the body
  • generally in diseases of nervous system
  • haemorrhagic diathesis
  • small wounds bleed profusely
  • from every mucous outlet
  • great weakness and prostration
  • with nervous debility and trembling
  • of whole body
  • weakness and weariness from loss of vital fluids
  • pain
  • acute, especially in the chest, gastric pains
  • as soon as water becomes warm in stomach it is thrown up
  • regurgitation of ingesta in mouthfuls
  • nausea from placing hands in warm water
  • sneezing and coryza from putting hands in water (lac d.)
  • constipation
  • faeces slender, long, dry, tough, and hard
  • voided with great straining and difficulty
  • diarrhoea
  • as soon as anything enters the rectum
  • profuse, pouring away as from a hydrant
  • watery, with sago-like particles
  • sensation, as if the anus remained open , involuntary
  • during cholera time (which precedes cholera, phos. ac.)
  • morning, of old people
  • haemorrhage
  • frequent and profuse, pouring out freely and then ceasing for a time
  • metrorrhagia, in cancer
  • haemoptysis, vicarious, from nose, stomach, anus, urethra, in amenorrhoea
  • heaviness of chest, as if weight were lying on it
  • during pregnancy
  • unable to drink water
  • sight of it causes vomiting
  • must close her eyes while bathing
  • cannot talk, the larynx is so painful
  • is dry, raw, rough, sore
  • cough
  • going from warm to cold air (rev. of bry.)
  • &lt
  • evening, before midnight
  • lying on left or painful side
  • during a thunderstorm
  • weather changes, either hot or cold
  • cold air relieves the head and face symptoms but aggravates those of chest, throat and neck. &gt
  • in the dark
  • lying on right side
  • from being rubbed or mesmerized
  • from cold food, cold water, until it gets warm

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