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Phosphoricum Acidum

A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica · C. M. Boger

Open remedy: Ph-ac.

For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice. Consult a registered homeopath.

Region:

MIND

Nerves

Metabolism

Sexual system

Spine: Sensory nerves, Muscles

Bones

Worse:

DEBILITY from: LOSS OF FLUIDS, Sexual excesses, Fatigue, Fevers, Convalescence

EMOTIONS (chronic): Grief, Chagrin, Mental shock, Unhappy love, Homesickness

Drafts

Cold

Music

Talking

Better:

Warmth

Short sleep

Stooling

WEAK OR DEBILITATED, with free secretions. Slowness. Pains go to part lain on Bruised soreness; like growing pains. Sense of pressure. Formication; at roots of hair; along spine, limbs, etc. Loose joints. Grows too fast. Quiet. Indifferent, APATHETIC, obtuse or torpid; with tendency to diarrhoea or sweatiness. Slow grasp. Can't collect his ideas; hunts for words. Poor memory. Dull despair. Averse to talking. Brain-fag. Mild delirium; easily aroused. Crushing weight on vertex. Early grayness Falling hair. Dull, sunken eyes with blue circles; they feel pressed out. Eye-balls feel large. Pale, sickly face; white of egg seems dried on it. Bleeding gums. Slimy tongue. Craves juices. Sour stomach. PROFUSE, PAINLESS, DIRTY WHITE, WATERY or LIENTERIC STOOL; BUT LITTLE DEBILITY THICK, MILKY URINE. Polyuria. Diabetes. Weak, relaxed genitals; suddenly during coitus. Pollutions. Takes colds; < draft on chest. Shaking cough. Twisting under xiphoid. Paralytic weakness along spine. Heavy fore-arms. Scraping bone-pains, at night. Clammy wrinkled skin. SLEEPY BY DAY; but wakeful at night. Cold parts; one side of face, abdomen, etc. Burning along spine; below waist; kidney region. Heat with sweat. Profuse sweats; < night; as a sequel. Sluggish, painless fevers.

Relations

Complementary: Chin

Related: Gel.

What is in this library

These titles sit beside the repertory: Allen’s Keynotes, Anshutz on the twelve tissue remedies, Boericke’s materia medica, Clarke’s Dictionary, Hering, Jones, Kent’s lectures, Nash, and Boger’s Synoptic Key. Philosophy includes Hahnemann’s Organon (5th and 6th), Kent, Close, Burnett, Haehl, Gibson Miller, Royal, J. H. Allen, and Anshutz. Clinical, therapeutics, regional works, and short remedy pictures follow the same shelf.

Chapter text is on this shelf for study: open a title, then a heading. When a medicine appears in more than one materia medica, switch authors on the chapter to compare how each describes it. For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice.

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