PHOSPHORUS


PHOSPHORUS homeopathic remedy keynotes and indications from the Decachords by Gladstone Clarke, of the medicine PHOSPHORUS …


Symptoms

      1. Tall, slender subjects; fair or red hair; sometimes complexion pale, lemon-yellow tint; quick, lively, sensitive temperament. Young people who grow too rapidly; narrow-chested, inclined to stoop; esp. if anaemic or T.B. tendency; blue rings and much puffiness around the eyes.

2. Indifference (even towards family); talks little or only in monosyllables; occasional fits of excitement and enthusiasm; disinclined to mental and physical exertion; slow; depressed, weary of life, full of fears esp. (<) alone, dark and thunder; gloomy forebodings; craves sympathy.

3. Neurasthenic condition; weakness and weariness with trembling, often from loss of vital fluids; general restlessness and fidgetiness; hypersensitiveness to all external stimuli and to physical influences.

4. Burning sensations in spots, esp. dorsal region of spine; intense heat running up the back into head (rev. Pic. Ac.).

5. Haemorrhages, bright-red blood; hemophilia; patient bruises easily; purpura with abdominal symptoms.

6. Emptiness (weakness) in various localities; esp. of entire abdomen about 11 a.m. which (<) all other symptoms; fear, sudden noises, etc. strike patient in the stomach.”

7. Gastric symptoms; hunger, must eat often esp. during night, craves salt, cold food and drink; great thirst but water vomited soon as warm in the stomach; unchanged food regurgitated in mouthfuls; nausea from putting hands in hot water.

8. Diarrhoea; very forcible; as soon as anything enters rectum; gen. painless but debilitating; stool contains white, sago-like particles; anus feel open; involuntary oozing. Constipation; long, slender, hard stools.

9. Wide use in acute and chronic diseases of respiratory tract; much tightness or rawness; oppression as of heavy weight on the chest; coughs (<) going from warm into cold air, using the voice, eating, drinking etc.; lying left side. Right-sided lobar pneumonia.

10. Modalities; (<) cold (except stomach and head symptoms); (<) every change of weather; during thunder; twilight to midnight; (>) lying down but (<) lying left side; (>) sleep.

Notes. Incompatible with Causticum. Long and deep acting remedy but often “hangs fire” at first. Checks post-anaesthetic vomiting; best given twelve hours before.

A. Gladstone Clarke
Arthur Gladstone Clarke, a christian missionary working with the North China Mission, made good practical use of the homeopathy. He learnt as a student at MSM. He published a short introduction to the use of over 100 commonly used medicines—Decachords—first published in 1925 and still in print today.