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Ferrum Phosphoricum

Phosphate of Iron
46 sectionsBoericke · 19Clarke · 20Kent · 7

At a glance

Cardinal features · auto-extracted from Boericke · Clarke · Kent
  • Ferr phos

Essence

Prologue
Boericke

Phosphate of Iron

  • In the early stages of febrile conditions, it stands midway between sthenic activity of Aconite and Bell, and the asthenic sluggishness and torpidity of Gels.
  • The typical Ferr phos subject is not full blooded and robust, but nervous, sensitive, anaemic with the false plethora and easy flushing of Ferrum.
  • Prostration marked; face more active than Gels.
  • The superficial redness never assumes the dusky hue of Gels.
  • Pulse soft and flowing; no anxious restlessness of Acon.
  • Susceptibility to chest troubles.
  • Bronchitis of young children.
  • In acute exacerbation of tuberculosis, a fine palliative of wonderful power.
  • Corresponds to Grauvogl's Oxygenoid Constitution, the inflammatory, febrile, emaciating, wasting consumptive.
  • The remedy for first stage of all febrile disturbances and inflammations before exudation sets in; especially for catarrhal affections of the respiratory tract.
  • Ferr phos.
  • 3x increases hemoglobin.
  • In pale, anaemic subjects, with violent local congestions.
  • Haemorrhages, bright from any orifice.
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Keynotes

Characteristics
Clarke
  • This salt has been proved by Dr.
  • J.
  • C.
  • Morgan.
  • The symptoms resemble those
  • of Ferr.
  • phos.
  • alb.
  • and the other Ferrum preparations.
  • Malaise; feeling as if he had not had

sufficient sleep; aching in occipito-cervical region; sensitiveness to cool air and desire for

warmth. Right side most affected. Symptoms < bending forward.

Modalities

Modalities
Boericke
Worse
at night and 4 to 6 pm; touch, jar, motion, right side
Better
cold applications

Head

Head
Boericke
  • Soreness to touch, cold, noise jar.
  • Rush of blood to head.
  • Ill effects of sun-heat.
  • Throbbing sensation.
  • Vertigo.
  • Headache better cold applications.
Symptoms — Head
Clarke

Dull r.—sided headache.—Every concussion (as coughing or hard smacking of lips) is

felt as a dull, painful sensation at base of skull.

Eyes

Eyes
Boericke

Red, inflamed, with burning sensation. Feeling as of sand under lids. Hyperaemia of optic disc and retina, with blurred vision.

Ears

Ears
Boericke
  • Noises.
  • Throbbing.
  • First stage of otitis.
  • Membrana tympani red and bulging.
  • Acute otitis; when Bellad fails, prevents suppuration.

Nose

Nose
Boericke

First stage of colds in the head. Predisposition to colds. Epistaxis; bright red blood.

Symptoms — Nose
Clarke

Nose-bleed of bright blood, in children.—Nose-bleed relieving headache.—Erysipelas,

with ulceration just inside tip (1.).

Face

Face
Boericke

Flushed; cheeks sore and hot. Florid complexion. Facial neuralgia; worse, shaking head and stooping.

Symptoms — Face
Clarke
  • Face earthy, pale, sallow.
  • —Heat, with redness.
  • —Hot cheeks, with toothache.
  • —Neuralgia

in face (r.).—Acne in chin and forehead.

Mouth

Symptoms — Mouth
Clarke

Toothache always appearing after eating food; < by warm drinks, > by

cold.—Complaints during dentition, with fever.

Throat

Symptoms — Throat
Clarke

On waking, throat feels swollen and stiff, swelling painful, < empty

  • swallowing.
  • —Feeling of lump (r.
  • ) on swallowing.
  • —Inflammation of palate, tonsils, and pharynx,

with dryness, redness, and pain——Membrane on r. tonsil, spreading to I.

Throat
Boericke
  • Mouth hot; fauces red, inflamed.
  • Ulcerated sore throat.
  • Tonsils red and swollen.
  • Eustachian tubes inflamed.
  • Sore throat of singers.
  • Subacute laryngitis with fauces inflamed and red (2x).
  • After operations on throat and nose to control bleeding and relieve soreness.
  • First stage of diphtheria.
  • Ranula in vascular, sanguine constitutions.

Stomach

Stomach
Boericke
  • Aversion to meat and milk.
  • Desire for stimulants.
  • Vomiting of undigested food.
  • Vomiting of bright red blood.
  • Sour eructations.
Symptoms — Stomach
Clarke
  • Irritating rising, greasy flavour.
  • —At 9.
  • 30 p.
  • m.
  • , sitting at table, bent forward

reading, most intense heartburn, with rising so irritating as to cause cough.

Abdomen

Abdomen
Boericke
  • First stage of peritonitis.
  • Haemorrhoids.
  • Stools watery, bloody, undigested.
  • First stage of dysentery, with much blood in discharges.
Symptoms — Abdomen
Clarke

Distension in hypochondria and region of stomach.—Feeling of a layer of hard

substance in abdomen; later of hardness in spots.—Intolerance of clothes touching abdomen and

chest; throws them off at night.—Colic before stool—Hernia: inflamed and incarcerated.

Stool

Symptoms — Stool and Anus
Clarke

Chronic diarrhoea; yellow, watery (with pneumonia).—Lienteria from

relaxation of intestinal muscles.—Dark green stools, odourless.—Hot flatus—Dysentery with

violent fever; fever continues < from pressure on stomach; no tenesmus.—Summer diarrhea,

stools green, watery, or hashed, mixed with mucus, scanty, straining at stool; also retching, child

rolls its head and moans, eyes half open.—Stools pure blood; bloody mucus or slime; < midnight

to morning.—Green and hard stools expelled with much effort.—Habitual constipation; piles;

disposition to prolapse.

Urinary

Symptoms — Urinary Organs
Clarke

Frequent desire to urinate, urgent, with pain in neck of bladder and end of

penis; must urinate immediately, which > the pain; < during the day; < standing.—Enuresis

nocturna from weakness of sphincter.—Enuresis diurna from irritability of trigone, > lying

  • down.
  • —Urine spurts out with every cough.
  • —Complaints before urinating.
  • —Urine smells like café

au lait.—Heemorrhage from bladder or urethra.

Urinary
Boericke
  • Urine spurts with every cough.
  • Incontinence.
  • Irritation at neck of bladder.
  • Polyuria.
  • Diurnal enuresis.

Female

Female
Boericke

Menses every three weeks, with bearing-down sensation and pain on top of head. Vaginismus. Vagina dry and hot.

Symptoms — Female Sexual Organs
Clarke

Bearing-down in uterus, with constant dull pain in either ovarian

  • region.
  • —Vaginismus.
  • —Pain in vagina during coition; cannot bear examination.
  • —Dryness of

vagina.—Dysmenia, with accelerated pulse and red face—Menses pale first half of

period.—Menses every three weeks, profuse, with pressure in abdomen and small of

back.—During profuse menses, pain on top of head.—During pregnancy: cough with ejection of

urine; headache during third month.

Male

Symptoms — Male Sexual Organs
Clarke

Seminal emissions.—Sexual instinct completely in abeyance.—Dull

aching in r. testicle——Gonorrheea, inflammatory stage.

Respiratory

Respiratory
Boericke
  • First stage of all inflammatory affections.
  • Congestions of lungs.
  • Haemoptysis.
  • Short, painful tickling cough.
  • Croup.
  • Hard, dry cough, with sore chest.
  • Hoarseness.
  • Expectoration of pure blood in pneumonia (Millefol).
  • Cough better at night.
Symptoms — Respiratory Organs
Clarke

Laryngitis, with hoarseness from overstraining voice.—Hoarse; raises

greenish mucus in biggish lumps.—Much mucus in throat and rattling in chest.—Pleuritic stitch

with a deep inspiration, or cough.—Acute, short, spasmodic, and very painful cough.—Suddenly a

loose cough, painless indoors, but painful in open air.—Tormenting cough when bending over or

touching larynx.—Cough: causes spurting of urine; < in open air; < touching larynx; < at

night—Whooping-cough, with retching and vomiting.—Hemoptysis; after concussion or fall.

Chest

Heart
Boericke

Palpitation; pulse rapid. First stage of cardiac diseases. Short, quick, soft pulse.

Symptoms — Heart
Clarke

Dull, aching pain at heart; sometimes extending to back, |. of spine.—Palpitation

with full pulse (less bounding than Acon., less flowing than Gels.).

Upper Limbs

Symptoms — Upper Limbs
Clarke

Violent drawing, tearing pain r. shoulder and upper arm, < violent motion of

arm, > gentle motion, so that patient hardly kept it still at all; somewhat sensitive; deadness in r.

  • hand.
  • —Acute rheumatism of r.
  • deltoid; unable to wear cloak.
  • —In r.
  • shoulder-joint acute

rheumatism; red, swollen; very sensitive-—Swelling of elbow from sprain—Rheumatism in

wrist.—Wrists ache with loss of power to grasp.—Palms of hands hot, with children—Nodule on

dorsum of |. little finger—Contracted fingers from acute rheumatism.

Lower Limbs

Symptoms — Lower Limbs
Clarke

Pain and soreness in hip.—Pains in knees spreading to other joints, finally to

shoulders and upper thorax (after Ferr. Phos. it went downwards from joint to joint, to knees,

and then passed off).—While walking constrictive pain in anterior aspect of shins, lower third, as

if he had been walking very hard and fast (which was not so), < 1—Ankle, outer side, pale red;

foot greatly swollen and sensitive; toe feels as if burning.—Steady, terrible pain all over foot and

ankle, extorting cries, shooting pains around ankle and up inside of leg.—An acute, very painful

sugillation on dorsum of foot.

Extremities

Extremities
Boericke
  • Stiff neck.
  • Articular rheumatism.
  • Crick in back.
  • Rheumatic pain in shoulder; pains extend to chest and wrist.
  • Whitlow.
  • Palms hot.
  • Hands swollen and painful.

Skin

Symptoms — Skin
Clarke

Capillary congestion, with burning of skin, < from severe exercise or in a warm

  • room.
  • —Measles.
  • —Erysipelas.
  • —Acne.

Sleep

Sleep
Boericke

Restless and sleepless. Anxious dreams. Night sweats of anaemia.

Symptoms — Sleep
Clarke

Drowsy, eyes feel it much, feeling extends upward into head; soon after, he was

compelled to lie down and take a nap.

Fever

Fever
Boericke

Chill daily at 1 pm. All catarrhal and inflammatory fevers; first stage.

Relations

Relations
Clarke
  • Compare: Acon.
  • (more bounding pulse than Fe.
  • p.
  • ); Gels.
  • (more flowing pulse);
  • Caustic.
  • and Puls.
  • (cough with spurting of urine).
  • Compatible: Kali mur.
  • (croup, pneumonia,
  • palpitation, typhus) Kali p.
  • (colic, threatened gangrene); Calc.
  • sul.
  • (hip-joint disease) Calc.
  • p.
  • (chlorosis, heemorrhoids); Calc.
  • fl.
  • (heemorrhoids); Nat.
  • sul.
  • (diabetes); Ant.
  • t.
  • (capillary
  • bronchitis).
  • According to Cooper Fe.
  • phos.
  • antidoted "violent disuria, night and day," caused by

Stront. bro.

Relationship
Boericke

Compare: (Oxygenoid Constitution. Acon; China; Arsenic; Graphit; Petrol). Ferrum pyrophosph (congestion of brain and headache following great loss of blood; tarsal cysts); Acon; Gelsem; China.

Posology

Dose
Boericke

Third to twelfth potency.

Kent's Lecture

Lecture (part 1)
Kent

We read in the text that Fcrrum is a remedy for diarrba?a in die

Jast stages of consumption. Well sometimes it is- if the patient is

prepared to die. Ferrum will stop the diarrhoea, but after it is stopped

the patient will not live long. The diarrlioea is not usually painful.

It is annoying, but it is painless, and the night sweats arc painless.

Do not suppress them ; tlicy had better be let alone. Let die jiaiicnt

go on to a peaceful termination. The best remedy for diarrhoea in

the last stages of consumption is Saccharum lac t is in the crude form,

given in very small c|uantiries and repeated as often as is rcc|uircd by

the patient and the bystanders.

Great weakness, and desire to lie down. Nervous at night.

Rheumatic conditions. While it has been used by Schuessler's followers

for the first stage of inflammatory fevers, it is useful in die higher

potencies in chronic diseases, and is a deep acting anti-psoric. It could

not be less than the Ferrum and Phosplioric acid that form it. For

many years 1 followed the Schuessler indications, hut by the aid of

new provings, homoeopathic: aggravations, and clinical experience the

present arrangement of symptoms furnishes my guide for diis valuable

homoeopathic remedy.

The time of aggravation of some complaints is in the morning, some

in afternoon ; others come in the evening and night, and after midnight. The patient is sensitive to the open air, and many symptoms

are aggravated in open air. The most noticeable features are atiicmia

and chlorosis {like Ferrum), The general pliysical anxiety i? more

like Phos, acid. Lack of vital heat, and aggravation in cold air and

from becoming cold. Always taking cold. Congestion of head and

organs, with fever and red lace. The general weakness is like the

low vitality of the phthisical inheritance. Dropsical conditions.

Symptoms worse after eating, from physical exertion. Fainting spcels

Cold drinks bring on symptoms. Sour food aggravates. Vascular

fullness and distension of veins. The hscmorrhagic condition is a

strong feature, as it is in Ferrum, Phos, acid and Phos, The nervousness of hysteria and hypochondriasis is found in this remedy. Soreness through the body, especially in congested parts ; with aggravation

from jar and walking. Complaints from lifting and straining muscles,

and from sprains. Many symptoms ate worse lying in bed and from

rest, and ameliorated by moving slowly about {like Ferrum), hut the

great lassitude compels him to lie down. Motion tliat is a real exertion aggravates, but slow motion ameliorates. Numbness of parts

^nd suffering parts. Surging of blood in body and head. Stitching,

  • tearing pains.
  • Tearing downwards.
  • False plethora.
  • Strong pulsalion over body, and in head.
  • Strong, full, frequent pulse.
  • Generally
  • oversensitive, and sensiitve to pain.
  • Standing aggravates many complaints.
  • Trembling limbs.
  • All combine to give us a remedy broad

and deep acting.

Lecture (part 2)
Kent

This remedy has marked anger, even to violence ; producing weakness, headache, trembling, sweat, and other nervous manifestations.

Anxiety at night, as if he had done a great wrong to somebody ; after

eating : with apprehensivencss ; during fever ; about the future ; hypochondriacal. Cheerful, talkative and hilarious ; unnatural excitement,

mingled with sadness. This remedy has been used in delirium tremens.

Aversion to company and feels better when alone. He is unable

to concentrate the mind, or reflect ordinary questions ; can not study.

Confusion of mind when trying to think, in the morning, in the evening, after eating ; ameliorated by washing the face in cold water. He

is dissatisfied with everything he possesses, and with his surroundings. Very excitable in the evening. The fullness in his head makes

him fear apoplexy. Fear of going into a crowd, or death, that some

evil will come to him, of misfortune, of people. Forgetful. It is an

excellent remedy for hysterical girls, when other symptoms agree.

His ideas are abundant, and there is unusual clearness of mind

{Coff,), Again, extreme indifference to all pleasure and exciting

events. Aversion to work. It might well be thought of for puerperal

mania from the note, ''Sows eat up their young.'' It has plenty of

cerebral hyperaemia, then why not madness? Irritability. Alternating

  • moods.
  • Morose.
  • Obstinate.
  • Restlessness at night in bed, tossing

about much during fever. Sadness in the evening before menses.

Extremely sensitive to noise. Stupefaction. Indisposed to talk.

Aversion to thinking. Weeping. Aversion to mental work.

Vertigo in afternoon from hyperaemia of brain, during chill, on

closing the eyes ; tendency to fall forwards ; during headache ; as if

intoxicated ; looking downwards ; during menses ; with nausea ; on

rising up ; on rising from bed. Staggering when walking, with vanishing of sight. Sensation as if the head were pushed forward while

walking.

Lecture (part 3)
Kent
  • The head feels cold and the vertex is sensitive to cold air.
  • Hyperaemia of the brain.
  • Constriction of the scalp.
  • Empty sensation in the

head ; during menses. Sensation of fullness in the head. The hair

falls out. The head feels very hot. Flushes of heat, and red face.

Heat in head ; in vertex ; during menses. The head feels heavy during

menses. Weight in forehead and occiput. Itching of the scalp.

Headache, in morning in bed, in afternoon, in evening. Cold air ameliorates the general headaches ; ascending steps aggravates ; blinding

headache ; catarrhal headaches. Headache during chill, aggravated

on, closing the eyes; cold afiplications ameliorate ; with coryza; aggravated on coughing, after eating, excitement. Headache during menses,

worse from light and noise. Hammering headaches. Headache

  • aggravated from a jar.
  • He is compelled to lie down.
  • Lying ameliorates.
  • Headache during menses ; on motion, and on moving the
  • head ; noise.
  • Paroxysmal pains.
  • Pressure ameliorates.
  • Pulsating
  • pains.
  • Riding in a carriage aggravates.
  • Sitting.
  • Stooping ; walking.
  • Wrapping up the head brings on or aggravates the headache.

Pulsating in head and temples, worse on right side. Headache with

hot, red face and vomiting food. Severe frontal headache with epistaxis, which ameliorates. Predominance of suffering on right side of

forehead, aggravated in the morning on waking, evening ; ameliorated

in open air ; aggravated on coughing. Pain above the eyes. Pain in

the occiput, on coughing, jarring : during menses. Pain in sides of

head and temples, in vertex. Pain in vertex during profuse menses.

Boring pain in temples. Bursting pain in head. Pressing pain in

whole head, pressing outward, forehead, in frontal eminence, temples ;

vertex like a stone. Soreness of the scalp, of occiput, vertex. Stitclv

ing pains in head, in forehead, over eyes occiput extending to forehead, on stooping ; sides of head, temples, vertex. Tearing pains in

head. General pulsation in head, aggravated by motion, and stooping ; strong in forehead ; in occiput on coughing, in temples, in vertex.

Shocks in the head.

  • Discharge of mucus from the eyes.
  • Conjunctivitis with photophobia, Can not see on stooping.
  • Blood vessels enlarged.
  • Larchymation.
  • Half open lids.
  • Pain in ey<Ssf{ aching, burning; sand.
  • Stitching.
  • Sensation of protrusion.
  • Rednel^s of conjunctiva, of balls and
  • lids.
  • Sunken eyes.
  • Swollen lids.
  • Sclerotics jaundiced.
  • Vanishing

of sight as from fainting.

Purulent discharge from the ear. Itching in ear. Noises in the

ear ; roaring, buzzing, humming, ringing and singing. Catarrh of

Eustachian tubes. Inflammatory pains in the ear. Otitis media.

  • Pain deep in the ear.
  • Drawing.
  • Stitching.
  • Pain and swelling of

the parotid glands. Sensitive to noise. Impaired hearing.

Lecture (part 4)
Kent

Catarrh of nose. Coryza ; discharge bloody. Crusts form in the

nose. Discharge excoriating, purulent. When this remedy has been

given on the biochemical theory in the low potencies its use has been

limited to the acute stage of coryza, but when used homoeopathically

this limitation does not hold good. Who would think of limiting Ferrum or Pho$, acid or Phos. to the acute or first stage of an acute

disease?

Epistaxis with coryza, during fever, or headache when the head

is hot and full. Epistaxis in the morning, on blowing the nose, with

cough. Sneezing.

Chlorotic face. Dark circles under the eyes. Earthy, pale, sallow

  • face.
  • Pale lips.
  • Red face alternating with paleness.
  • Circumscribed

redness of cheeks. Red during fever ; during headache. Yellow.

Liver spots. Dryness of lips. Heat of face ; flushes ; while sitting ;

with toothache : with pains. Hippocratic face. Inflammation of the

parotid. Pain in face, from inflammation of teeth, neuralgia, ameliorated by cold applications, aggravated by motion. Pulsating pains.

  • Stitching.
  • Perspiration of face.
  • Sunken face.
  • Swelling cedematous, from toothache.
  • Swollen parotids.

Bleeding from mouth and gums. Tongue dark red and swollen.

Tongue white. Dry mouth. Inflammation of gums, fauces, tongue

and tonsils. Pains in teeth, with red, hot, swollen gums ; ameliorated

by holding cold water in the mouth, and aggravated by warm things.

Pains in the teeth after eating. Burning of the tongue. Salivation.

Taste insipid, putrid, sweetish.

Constriction of throat. Redness in throat and tonsils. Swollen

  • tonsils.
  • Heat in throat.
  • Inflammation of throat and tonsils.
  • Lumps

in throat. Pain on swallowing. Burning, Soreness.

Appetite diminished. Ravenous appetite without relish of food.

Appetite entirely gone. Aversion to food, meat, milk. Desires sour

  • things.
  • Distension of stomach after eating.
  • Eructations, after eating, better, empty, of food, foul, sour.
  • Water-brash.
  • Fullness after
  • eating.
  • Heat in stomach.
  • Hiccough.
  • Indigestion.
  • Inflammation of

stomach. Nausea after eating, during pregnancy. Sudden attacks

of nausea, coming at any moment ; sometimes waking her out of sleep,

  • lasting a short time.
  • Nausea felt in the throat.
  • Nausea while walking.
  • Pain in the stomach after eating.
  • Burning in the stomach.
  • Cramping.
  • Pressing after eating.
  • Soreness.
  • Great thirst for much

water. Vomiting, morning, on rising, on coughing, after drinking,

after eating, during fever, during headache, during pregnancy, riding

in a carriage. Violent vomiting ; blood, food, green, sour. Vomiting

with inflammation and pain in the stomach.

Lecture (part 5)
Kent

The abdomen is distended, and the liver and spleen are enlarged.

Much flatulence, fullness and rumbling, gurgling. The abdomen is

hard. Weight in the abdomen. Inflammation of the peritoneum.

This remedy is curative in many complaints of the liver. Severe pain

in the bowels, in the morning, evening, night; on coughing; during

diarrhoea ; after eating ; during menses ; as if menses would come on ;

paroxysmal, Ijefore stool, when walking. Pain in hypochondria, in

  • liver.
  • Cramping, colicky pains.
  • Dragging ; pressing.
  • Sore bruised

pains. Tension.

Constipation ; difficult stool. Constriction of anus. Diarrhoea, in

morning, afternoon, night, after midnight; after eating; painless.

  • Flatus.
  • Haemorrhage from anus, from piles.
  • Haeihorrhoids, external.
  • Involuntary stools.
  • Itching of anus.
  • Moisture about the
  • anus.
  • Pain in rectum during stool ; with dystentery, and fever.
  • Burning during stool, after stool.
  • Tcnsmus.
  • Pain in rectum from inflamimation, canstant, aggravation by pressure on stomach.
  • Prolapsus

of anus, during stool. Ineffectual urging to stool. Stool is excoriating,

bloody, brown, frequent, hard, licnteric, slimy, green mucus, thin,

watery, green watery.

Haemorrhage from the bladder or urethra. Inflammation of the

bladder with fever. Pain in the bladder and neck of the bladder.

Tenesmus. Urging ; constant ; frequent ; with pain in neck of bladder

and end of penis, must urinate immediately, which ameliorates the

pain ; aggravated standing ; only in the daytime. Sudden urging.

Must hasten or urine will escape. Frequent urination. Involuntary

urination in the daytime, ameliorated lying down ; at night in sleep ;

on coughing ; while walking. Pain in the kidneys with fever.

Gleety discharge from the urethra. Gonorrhoea with heat in urethra

in inflammatory stage ; scanty, watery or mucous discharge. Hsemorrhage from urethra. Burning in urethra during flow of urine.

Urine albuminous, bloody, burning, cloudy on standing, dark, red,

copious with headache ; ammoniacal, scanty ; much sediment, mucus,

much uric acid ; high specific gravity.

Troublesome nightly erections and seminal emissions. Erections

feeble, or entirely wanting. Sexual passion increased, or entirely

  • absent.
  • In the woman there is slight change of symptoms ; predisposition to abort, aversion to coition, or desire much dimished.
  • Leucorrhoea, excoriating, before men^S, milky, thin, white.
  • Chlorotic

girls. Menses absent. Menstrual flow bright red, clotted, copious,

dark, too frequent, intermittent, irregular, late, painful, pale, protracted, scanty, suppressed, thin, watery. Uterine haemorrhage. Pain

in vagina during coition. Dysmenorrhoea with fever and red face.

Bearing down in pelvis with dull pain in ovarian region. Prolapsus

of the uterus. Sterility. Sentitive vagina.

Lecture (part 6)
Kent

Acute catarrh of air passages. Inflammation of the larynx, with

mucus, raw feeling and rattling in chest, fever, red face. Mucus in

  • larynx and trachea.
  • Dryness in larynx.
  • Burning in larynx.
  • Roughness in larynx.
  • Hoarseness during coryza.
  • Voice lost, weak.

Respiration asthmatic. Spasmodic asthma Dyspnoea, evening,

night, with cough, while lying. Rattling, Short, Suffocative respiration. Stitching in chest on deep inspiration.

Cough, daytime, morning on rising, evening, night ; cold air aggravates ; asthmatic ; acute. Short, spasmodic and very painful cough.

Deep breathing aggravates. Constant cough, with coryza. Dry cough,

Cough after eating ; exhausting ; with fever. Hacking cough. Cough

  • from irritation in larynx and trachea.
  • Loose cough.
  • Lying aggravates cough.
  • Cough in bed.
  • Paroxysmal cough.
  • Rattling cough.
  • Spasmodic.
  • Talking aggravates.
  • Tickling.
  • Tormenting cough, agravated on walking.
  • Whooping cough.
  • Touching larynx on bending

head over. Increased cough from taking cold in phthisis.

Expectoration in daytime, morning, bloody, bright red, dark, copious, difficult, frothy, greenish, mucus, offensive, purulent, scanty,

putrid, thick, viscid, whitish, yellow.

Anxiety in chest and region of the heart. Catarrh of the chest.

Congestion of the chest. Constriction of chest and heart. Sensation

  • of fullness.
  • Haemorrhage of lungs.
  • Heat.
  • Inflammation of bronchial tubes, lungs and pleura : oppression of chest.
  • Pain in chest

during cough, during inspiration ; in sides of chest, during deep inspiration. Soreness in chest on coughing. Stitching in chest, in sides

of chest, on coughing. Right sided pleuritis. Stitches, aggravated

coughing and breathing. Palpitation at night with anxiety, on exertion and motion, while sitting, walking rapidly. This is a valuable

temporary remedy in the acute colds during the course of phthisis.

In acute phthisis. Spasms of the chest with suffocation, fever and

red face. Rheumatism in the upper thorax.

Coldness in back. *‘Crick’' in the neck or hack. Pain in the back

at night, during menses, on motion, rising from a seat, while sitting,

while walking, cervical region, between shoulders, lumbar region

  • during menses.
  • Aching.
  • Stitching pains in back.
  • Tearing.
  • Stiffness

in back of neck.

Lecture (part 7)
Kent

Cold extremities. Cold hands and feet. Cold feet evening in bed.

  • Cold feet during headache.
  • Contraction of fingers, result of rheumatisnt.
  • Cramps in thighs, legs, calves, feet.
  • Blueness of finger

nails. Hot hands, palms ; soles. Heaviness of the limbs, upper limbs ;

legs. Inflammation of joints. Numbness of hands and fingers, legs

and feet. Rheumatic pain in right shoulder and upper arm, of a

drawing, tearing character, aggravated by violent motion of arm,

  • ameliorated by gentle motion (Ferr.
  • ), part sensitive to touch.
  • Deadness of the right hand, could not lift with the hand.
  • Acute rheumatism of right shoulder joint, red, swollen and sore.
  • Rheumatism

of right deltoid. Rheumatism of wrist. Rheumatism of knee joint

  • with fever.
  • Gouty affection of joints.
  • Sciatica.
  • Pain in thighs.

Sore bruised pain in limbs. Stitching pains in limbs, upper limbs ;

  • shoulders ; hips.
  • Tearing pain in shoulders, upper arms, hips.
  • Shooting pains in both knees, extending down legs, with fever.
  • Restless

legs. Stiffness of lower limbs, of feet. Swollen joints, upper limbs,

forearm, hands ; feet. Dropsical and rheumatic swelling. Great

weakness of limbs, of joints, knees, legs. The rheumatism goes from

joint to joint, aggravated by the slightest motion.

There are many dreams, anxious, confused, of failing, nightmare,

  • vivid.
  • Late falling asleep.
  • Restless sleep.
  • Sleepiness in the eve-

FLUORIC ACID 469

ning. Sleepless before midnight, with slecpinees. After once waking

up he is sleepless.

  • Chill afternoons ; i.
  • p.
  • m.
  • daily.
  • Chill at night in bed.
  • Chilliness.
  • Shaking chill.
  • The fever predominates.
  • Fever at any time with inflammation of organs, joints, or mucus membranes.
  • Fever without
  • chill.
  • Dry heat with thirst.
  • Flushes of heat.
  • Hectic fever and night
  • sweats.
  • Internal heat.
  • Remittent fever.
  • Heat after sleep.
  • Perspiration in daytime, morning ; clammy ; with great weakness, on

slight exertion, following the fever ; copious ; during sleep.

  • Burning skin.
  • Coldness.
  • Desquamation.
  • Pale, red skin.
  • Dry skin.
  • Formication.
  • Great sensitiveness of the skin.
  • Skin feels sore.
  • Ulceration.
  • Small withered warts.

Classical Posology

Acute
  • 30C or 200C · repeat every 1–4 h depending on intensity
  • Stop on improvement · reassess in 24–48 h
  • For sensitive / elderly / paediatric: prefer LM1 or 30C
Constitutional
  • 200C or 1M single dose · wait 4 weeks
  • Alternative: LM1 daily × 10 days · ascend on retest
  • Hering's-Law follow-up adapts the next script
Citations: Organon §246 (interval / repetition) · §161 (plussed water) · §282 (LM ascension) · Kent on selection · Vithoulkas on second prescription. Open Repertify for the case-specific dose with the rule cited inline.

Additional notes

Symptoms — Limbs
Clarke

Rheumatism attacking one joint after another; joints puffy, but little red; high fever;

< slightest motion —Rheumatism of wrist and knee.

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