Phosphoric acid

January 4, 2010 by H.C.Allen  

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Best suited to persons of originally strong constitutions, who have become debilitated by loss of vital fluids, sexual excesses ( Cinch. ); violent acute diseases; chagrin, or a long succession of moral emotions, as grief, care, disappointed affection.
Ailments: from care, chagrin, grief, sorrow, homesickness ( Ign. ); sleepy, disposed to weep; night-sweats towards morning.
Pale sickly [...]

Best suited to persons of originally strong constitutions, who have become debilitated by loss of vital fluids, sexual excesses ( Cinch. ); violent acute diseases; chagrin, or a long succession of moral emotions, as grief, care, disappointed affection.

Ailments: from care, chagrin, grief, sorrow, homesickness ( Ign. ); sleepy, disposed to weep; night-sweats towards morning.

Pale sickly complexion, eyes sunken and surrounded by blue margins.

Mild yielding disposition ( Puls. ).

Is listless, apathetic; indifferent to the affairs of life; prostrated and stupefied with grief; to those things that used to be of most interest, especially if there be debility and emaciation.

Delirium: muttering, unintelligible; lies in a stupor, or a stupid sleep, unconscious of all that is going on around him; when aroused is fully conscious, answers slowly and correctly and relapses into stupor.

In children and young people who grow too rapidly ( Cal. , Cal. p. ); pains in back and limbs as if beaten.

Headache: crushing weight on vertex, from long lasting grief or exhausted nerves; in occiput and nape; usually from behind forward, < by least motion, noise, especially music, > lying ( Bry. , Gels. , Sil. ).

Headache of school girls from eye-strain or overuse of eyes ( Cal. p. , Nat. m. ); of students who are growing too fast.

Patient trembles, legs weak, stumbles easily or makes missteps; weak and indifferent to the affairs of life.

Interstitial inflammation of bones, scrofulous, sycotic, syphilitic, mercurial; periosteum inflamed, pains burning, tearing, as if scraped with a knife ( Rhus ); caries, rachitis, but not necrosis; growing pains.

Boring, drawing, digging pains in nerves of extremities; neurosis is stump after amputations ( Cepa. ).

Diarrhoea: painless; not debilitating; white or yellow; watery; from acids; involuntary, with the flatus ( Aloe , Nat. m. ); choleric, from fear.

Urine: looks like milk mixed with jelly-like, bloody pieces; decomposes rapidly; profuse urination at night of clear, watery urine, which forms a white cloud at once (phosphates in excess, nerve waste).

Onanism; when patient is greatly distressed by the culpability of the act (compare Dios. , Staph. ).

Emissions: frequent, profuse, debilitating; after coitus; most desire, after; several in one night; abashed, sad, despair of cure (with irresistible tendency to masturbate, Ust. ).

Chest; weak from talking or coughing ( Stan. ); in phthisis; nervous from loss of vital fluids, too rapid growth, depressing mental emotions.

Cerebral typhoid or typhus; complete apathy and stupor; takes no notice, “lies like a log,” utterly regardless of surrounding; intestinal haemorrhage, blood dark.

Relations. – Compare: Phos. , Puls. , Pic. ac. , Sil. ; Mur. ac. in typhoid; Nit. sp. d. in apathetic stupor and delirium.

Phos. ac. acts well before or after Cinch. in colliquative sweats, diarrhoea, debility; after Nux in fainting after a meal.

Aggravation. – From mental affections; loss of vital fluids, especially seminal; self abuse; sexual excesses; talking causes weakness in chest ( Stan. ). Amelioration.