Kalium Phosphoricum

Observations have been made on two persons with large doses, and violent

effects ensued, which are recorded by Allen. The violence of the gastric intestinal irritation was

the chief feature. An accompanying redness of the face may prove a guiding symptom. The

vomiting was at first ineffectual, and afterwards convulsive. Great chilliness at first, followed

tardily by fever and sweat with burning skin and very strong and rapid pulse.

• ▸Anxiety, nervous dread, lethargy.
• ▸Indisposition to meet people.
• ▸Extreme lassitude and depression.
• ▸Very nervous, starts easily, irritable.
• ▸Brain-fag; hysteria; night terrors.
• ▸Somnambulance.
• ▸Loss of memory.
• ▸Slightest labor seems a heavy task.
• ▸Great despondency about business.
• ▸Shyness; disinclined to converse.

Stupid and unconscious, with small, contracted, irregular pulse, deathlike paleness,

and sunken face.

Occipital headache; better, after rising. Vertigo, from lying, on standing up, from sitting, and when looking upward (Granat).

• ▸Cerebral anaemia.
• ▸Headache of students, and those worn out by fatigue.
• ▸Headaches are relieved by gentle motion.
• ▸Headache, with weary, empty, gone feeling at stomach (Ign; Sep).

Giddy when out of doors, < when facing sun.—Seasick without nausea.—Vertigo with

pressure on brain —Occipital headache, lasting all night; frequent waking, with the pain > on

rising.—Woke with pains in occiput and loins, > lying on back, passed off after rising. —Pains

from |. eye to head, making him wretchedly ill; no > after sleep.—Dull headache across eyes, >

• ▸outdoors; <1.
• ▸side; 1.
• ▸eyelid droops.
• ▸—Before menses violent tearing in forehead and sense of

fatigue, > lying down and on menses appearing.—Pain through base of brain from eyes to

occiput, < night, > eating and gentle motion.—(Headache before and during menses; r. eye to

occiput, > heat, pressure, lying down, eating, gentle motion; < noise; always hungry, with

• ▸headache.
• ▸).
• ▸—Burning in forehead during stool.
• ▸—Intense headache from emotions and physical

effort.—Headache: morning on awaking; with vomiting of sour phlegm; making eyes unable to

bear light.—Pain across forehead and into both temples.—Neuralgic pain at base of brain and

upper spine.—Sensation of a band round forehead just above eyes——Heavy dull pain over eyes as

if brain would expand but for cranial bones.—Sharp darting pain over |. orbit —Neuralgia in r.

parietal eminence.—(An aching nervous sensation in cerebellum and upper cranial region, with

tenderness, involving entire head when aggravated.).—Intense itching on scalp, < morning after

waking.—Soreness back of head, < pressure.—Back of head sore, as if hair being pulled; then as

• ▸if hairpins sticking in.
• ▸—Neuralgia in 1.
• ▸mastoid process, < motion and in open air.
• ▸—Itching of

scalp; bald and dry.

Weakness of sight; loss of perceptive power; after diphtheria; from exhaustion. Drooping of eyelids (Caust).

Conjunctive inflamed.—Watery secretion from eyes.—Sensation: of sticks in eyes; of

• ▸sand; dryness; burning; pricking and smarting.
• ▸—Eves full of mucus; < evening.
• ▸—Balls (1.
• ▸) ache

and are sore, tender to touch and pressure.—Lids: swollen; agglutinated in morning; stye on 1.

• ▸lower; |.
• ▸lid droops, almost closed.
• ▸—Sharp pain from eyes (r.
• ▸) to temples in morning; > pressing

on temples.—Eyes feel sore round edge of lids, and burn as though they had been full of

smoke.—Eyes sore as after crying hard; awoke with severe pain through I. eye; throbbed and was

• ▸< in sunlight.
• ▸—Eyes twitch.
• ▸—Eyes blurred.
• ▸—Intolerance of light with headache.
• ▸—Eyes tire with

reading.—Black spots moving before eyes.

Humming and buzzing in the ears.

Itching and pimples in canal and external ear.—Deep-seated pain in ears, stinging,

• ▸itching; < lying down.
• ▸—Sharp pain in |.
• ▸ear and down |.
• ▸cheek.
• ▸—Fulness, singing, and surging in

ears.—Hearing too sensitive; cannot endure noise.

Nasal disease, with offensive odor; fetid discharge.

(An inveterate catarrh was greatly relieved after proving the 30th.—Thick yellow

• ▸discharge, < morning.
• ▸).
• ▸—Nostrils stopped, discharge of clear, stringy mucus.
• ▸—Obstruction;

• ▸sneezes on slightest exposure to air 2 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸; fluent watery coryza.
• ▸—Violent sneezing with

symptoms of fresh cold.—Sores inside nares with yellow crusts, and dark blood.—Symptoms of

• ▸cold with headache.
• ▸—Soft green or white discharge (< r.
• ▸nostril).
• ▸—Small growth, very sensitive,

at opening of |. nostril (lasted two weeks).—Very sensitive smell and lack of smell.

Livid and sunken, with hollow eyes. Right-sided neuralgia relieved by cold applications.

Redness of face gradually came on, at first momentary and partial, afterwards

persistent and general, with symptoms of violent inflammation of stomach.

• ▸Breath offensive, fetid.
• ▸Tongue coated brownish, like mustard.
• ▸Excessively dry, in the morning.
• ▸Toothache, with easily-bleeding gums; they have a bright-red seam on them.
• ▸Gums spongy and receding (Caps; Hamam; Lach).

Teeth feel sore—Severe pains in decayed or filled teeth; surrounding gums much

swollen.—Pain in teeth after every cold.—Aching in teeth, with much secretion of

saliva.—Grinding teeth, and mumbling, in sleep.—Swelling of gums and upper lip; aching of teeth

all night and forenoon.—Gums feel swollen, soft, bleed easily.—Dull frontal headache and nausea

with dizziness, alternating with toothache.

Throat and fauces dry and reddish brown, with burning pain.—Constriction in

throat —CEsophagus painful to pressure on neck.

Gangrenous sore throat. Paralysis of the vocal cords.

A nervous "gone" sensation at the pit of the stomach (Ign; Sep; Sulph). Feels seasick without nausea.

Thirst.—Hiccough.—Constant inclination to vomit without being able; followed

by vomiting of contents of stomach; afterwards frothy substances streaked with blood;

afterwards clots of blood, even purulent pieces of membrane 2 1/2 inches long seemingly

detached from walls of stomach.—Constant efforts to evacuate, up and down.—Convulsive

vomiting.—Violent pain and heat (burning) in stomach; and round navel.

• ▸Diarrhoea; foul, putrid odor; occasioned by fright, with depression and exhaustion.
• ▸Diarrhoea while eating.
• ▸Dysentery; stools consist of pure blood; patient becomes delirious; abdomen swells.
• ▸Cholera; stools have the appearance of rice water (Verat; Ars; Jatrop).
• ▸Prolapsus recti (Ign; Pod).

Region of liver sensitive to pressure.—Stinging and catching in spleen, < from

motion.—Awoke with extreme soreness of back and sides; sneezing occasionally, constant desire

to; seems as though sides would break when sneezing.—Abdomen distended with pain.—Colic in

hypogastrium, with ineffectual urging to stool; after breakfast; > bending double.—Borborygmus

(afternoon); fermentation; soreness.—Sharp cutting pains r. side—Bearing down, > sitting up; <1.

side; < after drinking water.—Flatulence, griping, < when eating.

Stool: clay-coloured, watery; with urging, putrid flatus, followed by

tenesmus, after breakfast; light-coloured, offensive, unsatisfactory; profuse, painless, offensive,

before 6 a.m., imperative; offensive, undigested, dark; < after breakfast and supper; < after

dinner, < after breakfast and dinner.—Diarrhcea while eating. —Constipation; stools dark brown,

streaked with yellowish green mucus.—Aching in shoulders and arms, > by motion,

evening.—Burning in forehead with stool; afterwards slight chill from behind up

back.—Heemorrhoids protruding, with swelling and burning pains.—(Paretic condition of rectum

and colon following removal of hemorrhoids).

Urine saffron yellow, reddish sandy sediment.—Scanty, stream sluggish, a

few drops pass later and wet linen —After micturition: burning, smarting in urethra.—Stitching in

bladder and urethra.

• ▸Enuresis.
• ▸Incontinence of urine.
• ▸Bleeding from the urethra.
• ▸Very yellow urine.

Menstruation too late or too scanty in pale, irritable, sensitive, lachrymose females. Too profuse discharge, deep-red or blackish-red, thin and not coagulating; sometimes with offensive odor. Feeble and ineffectual labor pains.

Menses: five days early, scanty, with dragging pain in |. lower jaw;

(late in appearing; amenorrheea); irregular, scanty, almost black, first day thick.—Stomach growls

and legs ache as if about to become unwell.—Before menses: sense of fatigue —During menses:

sharp bearing-down pain; sensation of being bloated to bursting; restlessness, > moving and

lying on abdomen; sharp pain through I. ovary, > lying on back, and by bending double; dull

bursting headache, pain in |. leg and groin, tired and sleepy, borborygmus and heartburn at

• ▸night.
• ▸—Stitching all through pelvis and in womb.
• ▸—Pains: in |.
• ▸side and ovaries; across sacrum;

across abdomen, |. to r—(Chronic abscess discharging periodically through vagina and rectum a

copious orange-coloured fluid.).—Yellow, greenish, blistering leucorrhcea, with too short

menses.—Intense sexual desire for four or five days after menses.—Bloody discharge during

pregnancy.—Feeling of heavy weight on pelvis pressing down and backward.—Night-pains

during pregnancy.

Nocturnal emissions; sexual power diminished utter prostration after coitus (Kali carb).

Passion increased; priapism in morning.—Sexual instinct depressed;

impotence.—Strong desire, erections with desire to urinate, mornings; followed by impotence and

painful seminal emissions at night.—Utter prostration and weak vision after coitus —Emissions

without erections.

Asthma; least food aggravates. Short breath on going upstairs. Cough; yellow expectoration.

Intensely sharp, cutting pains (transitory) under (r.) breast and near waist, catching

breath.—Chest: painful; stinging in chest and sides; sore to touch; aching, |., through to scapule.

Stiff neck from swelling of glands —Neck lame, tender to touch.—Aching

between scapulze.—Stitches: severe in middle of back; towards front of chest with dyspnoea; >

leaning against something, < lying on back and sitting or walking —Awoke with pains in occiput

and loins, > lying on back, passed off after rising —Creeping sensation and intense pain along

spine relieving the headache at intervals —Back: lame as from a fall; sore from shoulders down.

Aching in shoulders and arms, > motion.—Severe pain in scapulze on waking

• ▸in morning, had to sit up in order to turn over.
• ▸—Pain first in r.
• ▸, then |.
• ▸scapula—Soreness and

swelling of axillary and parotid glands.—Pain in arms from raising them.—Twitching of muscles

of arms and fingers Numbness of r. arm and hand; itching and purple.—No feeling in finger-

tips.

Weak, tired, with pains in legs and back, > by gentle motion.—Pain in 1.

• ▸groin; throbbing pain in r—Thighs lame.
• ▸—Legs swollen, numb.
• ▸—Pain in r.
• ▸great toe and across

instep, not > taking off shoe.—Feet: cold, perspiring; swelling of, cracking of heels; burning of

toes and soles; stinging of soles.—Fidgety feet.

Paralytic lameness in back and extremities. Exertion aggravates. Pains, with depression, and subsequent exhaustion.

Blue spots on calves as if they would ulcerate.—Itching: of whole skin, < on chest and

• ▸under arms; in the night, esp.
• ▸on scalp and under beard, soles, and palms, < 3 to 5 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸—Pimples,

small boils, itching. —Pricking in abdomen as from a pin.

Woke early, nervous, hot, restless; expected to see burglar enter—During sleep:

mumbling and grinding teeth; talking.—Sleepy, yawning, hard to wake.—Very hard to awake,

eyes hurt they feel so sleepy, yawns a great deal—Talks in sleep —Pains frequently change

location and keep him awake; from 2 or 3 to 4 a.m.—Dreamed he was only partially clothed in a

public place.—Tendency to sleep on back developed (which was very uncomfortable before the

proving).—Lascivious dreams, with emission, wakes angry and cross.—Sleeplessness during

latter part of night (cured during the proving).—(The instant she fell into a doze was aroused by

• ▸violent spasms in |.
• ▸ovary.
• ▸).
• ▸—Night-terrors of children; awoke from sound sleep screaming with

fright; somnambulism.—Sleeplessness: from excessive mental exertion; after worry over business

troubles; from nervous exhaustion; simple painless wakefulness.

Subnormal temperature.

Skin and limbs extremely cold.—Fever developed only after several hours, when

patient became restless with all the symptoms of inflammation of the bowels.—Violent fever,

soon.—General profuse sweat, burning skin, very strong pulse.

• ▸Compare: Kali hypophosph (Debility with wasting of muscular tissue.
• ▸Phosphaturia with general anaemia or leucocythemia.
• ▸Effects of excessive tea drinking.
• ▸Chronic bronchitis where the expectoration is thick and fetid, sometimes scanty and tough.
• ▸Dose.
• ▸--5 grains of crude to 3x).
• ▸Genista.
• ▸--Dyer's Weed--(contains scopolamin; frontal headache and vertigo, worse motion, better open air and eating.
• ▸Dry throat, awakes with waterbrash.
• ▸Itching eruption on elbows, knees and ankles.
• ▸Promotes diuresis in dropsical conditions).
• ▸Macrozamia Spiralis (Extreme debility after severe illness; collapse.
• ▸Weariness from no assignable cause, no pains.
• ▸Boring pain at vertex; vomiting and retching all night; impossible to open eyes, giddiness and cold).
• ▸Zinc; Gels; Cimicif; Laches; Mur ac.

Third to twelfth trituration. The highest potencies seem to be indicated in certain cases.

The symptoms of this remedy are worse morning, evening, and

during the night. The over-sensitive, nervous, delicate person, worn

out from long suffering, much sorrow and vexation, and prolonged

mental work ; also such as are broken down from sexual excesses and

vices. It is a long-acting antipsoric. Anaemic and chlorotic patients.

Most complaints are worse during rest, and ameliorated by gentle

motion and slowly walking about. The patient in general, and his

pains, are aggravated in cold air, from becoming cold, alter becoming

cold, from entering a cold place, and in cold, wet weather. He takes

cold easily. Aversion to the open air. Draft of air aggravates, and

open air aggravates. Numbness in the extremities. Great lassitude.

Aggravated by ascending stairs, and by physical exertion. Glands

dwindle. Choreic movements. Complaints are worse after coition.

The weakness, emaciation, and amemia and tubercular tendency are

strong features of this wonderful antipsoric remedy. Gidema of the

limbs and dropsy of serous sacs. Complaints aggravated after eating.

Emaciation, wasting diseases with putrid discharges and putnd stools.

Fainting spells. Fasting ameliorates. Fatty tendency of muscles and

organs. Aggravated alter cold drinks, milk. This remedy has been

used in gangrenous condition. Parts become black. Septic, putrid

hemorrhages, and great prostration All forms of nervous weakness.

Hypochondriasis and hysteria. of glands. Complaints

• ▸from loss of fluids.
• ▸Orgasm of biebd.
• ▸The pains are aching, pressing, stitching, tearing, tearing downwards, paralyzing.
• ▸Chronic neuralgia, ameliorated by gentle motion, aggravated from cold.
• ▸Onesided paralysis from a gradually increasing weakness.
• ▸Paroxysms of

pain followed by exhaustion. Pulsation felt all over the body and in

the limbs. Symptoms are often one-sided. Many symptoms come

during and after sleep. Twitching of muscles, and jerking of limbs.

• ▸Ulcers with putrid discharges.
• ▸Offensive catarrhal discharges.
• ▸Walking fast aggravates ; walking in open air aggravates.
• ▸Warmth of bed

ameliorates. Complaints wonse in winter. Too many cures have been

made by the followers of Schuesslcr to permit this remedy to remain

unexplained. Good provings are found in our literature. The high

and highest potencies have served the best, and it should be used in

the single dose.

Flies into a passion and can hardly articulate. Aversion to answering questions. Apprehensive anxiety, in the evening in bed, and during

the night ; anxiety after eating, about the future, about his health,

about his salvation. Whenever he wakens it oppresses him, and he

becomes hypochondriacal. She takes an antipathy to her husband.

She is cruel to her baby and husband. Perverted affections. Broods

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over his condition. Aversion to company. Complaints come on from

bad news. Confusion of mind morning and evening. Contrary humor.

Low form of delirium in typhoid and septic fevers. Delirium tremens.

Imaginations. Sees dead people. Sees figures, frightful images.

Discontented and sad. Dullness of mind in the morning. Discouraged.

He refuses to eat., He is very excitable and greatly wrought up from

• ▸bad news ; then follows palpitation and many nervous symptoms.
• ▸Exhaustion after exertion of mind.
• ▸He dwells much in fancy.
• ▸Fear in

the evening. Fear of a crowd, of death, of disease, of evil, of people,

of solitude. He is easily frightened, which increases his many nervous

and mental symptoms. Weak memory. Forgetful, Cannot recall

• ▸words.
• ▸Homesickness.
• ▸Effects of grief and prolonged sorrow.
• ▸A

nervous hurry is noticed in action and speech. Nervous excitement

has increased until hysterical conduct is present. It is a great remedy

• ▸for imbecUity.
• ▸She is impatient and impetuous.
• ▸Indifference to surroundings, to joy and to her family.
• ▸Indifference to his business

matters, and then comes indolence and lassitude. Insanity ; melancholia ; thinks she has sinned away her day of grace and refuses to

eat. She does not recognize her surroundings. Shrieks and acts like

one insane. Quarrels with her family. The irritability is very marked,

in morning on waking, in the evening, after coition, during headache,

during menses, when spoken to, on waking at any time, after becoming

exliaustcd from a diarrhoea. There is laughing and crying, lamenting

and wringing the hands. There is loathing of life ; moaning during

sleep. Dullness of the senses. Weakness of memory for words, and

great prostration of mind. Sadness in morning ion wjaking, in the

• ▸evening, and also day and night.
• ▸Obstinate ; morose ; mood changeable.
• ▸Mistaken in speaking and WTiting.
• ▸In many cases cured a mild

mental state was noticed. Over-sensitive in general, and especially to

noise. Restlessness during menses. The numerous cases of nervous

prostration from mental work, prolonged anxiety, much sorrow, and

sexual excesses and vice are likely to require this remedy. Incoherent

speech. Starting ; easily startled from fright, during sleep, from touch

and from noise. Stupefaction and suspicious. He is indisposed to

talk, or to be talked to. Talking in sleep. Vanishing of thought.

Becomes timid and bashful. Vexation brings on many complaints.

Weeping and weary of life.

Vertigo afternoon and evening, ameliorated in open air, aggravated

after eating, with a tendency to fall forward ; aggravated on looking

upwards, compelling him to lie down ; with nausea and with headache ;

objects turn in a circle on rising up, when standing, when stooping, on

turning the head, when walking in open air.

The head is cold, and sensitive to cold air. Congestion ; fullness of

the head felt on coughing. Heat in head evening, flushes of heat in

the forehead. The head inclines to fall forward. Tension of scalp

Heaviness of the head, morning on rising, in forhead and occiput.

This has been a useful remedy in hydrocephalus and many brain affections, when associated with putrid diarrhoea. Itching of the scalp

morning on waking, in the night in bed, aggravated 3 to 5 a. m.

Movements felt in the head. It has much pain in the head. Pain

morning in bed, on rising, on waking, and passes off on moving about.

• ▸Pain afternoon, evening and night.
• ▸Worse in very cold air, but ameliorated in open fresh air.
• ▸She must let the hair hang down.
• ▸The

headache comes with coryza, comes from taking cold. The pain is

worse on coughing, and ameliorated by eating ; aggravated from becoming overheated, from disordering the stomach, from excitement,

and from physical exertion. Weight in occiput with exhaustion. Must

lie down and shun the light, lying on back ameliorates ; aggravated

from jarring and stepping, aggravated before and during menses.

The headaches from mental work, in students, brain-fag from overwork are cured by this remedy — when the symptoms agree. Nervous

headache during menses. Paroxysmal headaches. The pains in head

are ameliorated by gentle motion ; aggravated from noise, riding in a

carriage, after sleep, sneezing, stepping, stooping, touch, pressure,

• ▸walking and writing.
• ▸Headache comes from eye-strain, and is ameliorated by wrapping up the head.
• ▸Violent pulsating pains.
• ▸Pain in

forehead before menses, above the i eyes extending to occiput ; across

forehead into both temples. Pam in occiput lasting all night ; frequent waking, with pain on rising} wakens with pain in occiput and

loins ameliorated lying on back, p^ses off after rising. Pain in occiput

as if hair were pulled ; must let hair hang down. Violent headache in

sides of head. Neuralgia of left mastoid process, aggravated by

motion and in open air. Pain in temples. The pains are aching,

boring, burning. Burning in forehead during stool. Bursting in

forehead. Drawing in forehead, sides of head and vertex. Jerking

pain, pressing pain. Forehead as though bored, ameliorated by eating.

Pressing outward in forehead, over eyes as if brain would expand.

Pressing in occiput, ameliorated by eating. Pressing in temples and

vertex. Soreness in occiput. Stitching in the head, forehead, over

eyes, in occiput, sides of head, right frontal eminence and in temples.

Stunning pains. Tearing pains in the head, in forehead before menses,

ameliorated lying and on appearance of the flow. Tearing in occiput,

sides of head, temples, and vertex. Perspiration on mental exertion,

of the forehead ; cold sweat. Pulsation, forehead and temples. The

brain is very sensitive to jar, and to sounds. Shocks felt in the head.

Softening of the brain. Complaints come on from uncovering the head.

Anaemia of the optic nerve. Lids agglutinated in the morning and

a discharge of mucus, aggravated in the evening. Dryness and dull-

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• ▸ness of the eyes.
• ▸Falling of the lids.
• ▸Inflammation of the conjunctiva, injected blood-vessels and lachrymation.
• ▸Paralysis of the optic

• ▸nerve.
• ▸Photophobia.
• ▸Redness of the eyes.
• ▸Staring, restless, excited

• ▸look.
• ▸Strabisms following brain diseases.
• ▸Sunken eyes.
• ▸Swollen

• ▸oedematous lids.
• ▸Twitching of eyes and lids.
• ▸Weak eyes.
• ▸Pain in

eyes on motion of eyes, on reading, on waking ; aggravated in sunlight.

Aching. Smarting of eyes and margins of lids. Drawing, pressing.

The balls are sore to touch. Sharp pains from eyes to temples in the

• ▸morning.
• ▸Stitching.
• ▸Sticks.
• ▸^nsation of sand.
• ▸Tearing pains.

Blurred vision. Colors before the eyes, floating black spots, dark

colors ; halo around the light. Dim vision after coition. Vision is

foggy. Exertion of vision brings on eye troubles and headaches.

Vision weak.

• ▸Discharge from the car, bloody, offensive, putrid, purulent.
• ▸Eruptions on the ears.
• ▸Pimples in the canal.
• ▸Fullness in ears.
• ▸The ears

are hot. Itching in the ears, aggravated lying. Noises from nervous

exhaustion and cerebral anaemia, with vertigo. Buzzing, fluttering,

humming, ringing, roaring, rushing, singing, whizzing. Pain deep in

ear. Cramping, drawing, pressing. Stitching in left ear down to

• ▸cheek, and behind the ear.
• ▸Stinging in ear, aggravated lying.
• ▸Tearing in ear.
• ▸Pulsation in ear.
• ▸Stopped sensation.
• ▸Singing in ear.

Ears swollen. Twitching. Hearing acute to noises and voices, but

impaired as to the articulation of the human voice. Deafness.

Coryza, fluent or dry, with cough, with headache. Hay-fever with

great nervous weakness. Obstinate catarrh. Discharge bloody, excoriating, greenish offensive, purulent, stringy, thick, watery, white,

yellow, worse in the morning. Yellow crusts, worse in right nostril.

He suffers much from dryness in the nose. Epistaxis in the morning,

on blowing the nose, in low fevers. The nose is obstructed. Itching,

and burning in the nose. Pressing pain at the root of the nose. Much

soreness inside of the nose, with yellow crusts and dark blood. Smell

• ▸at first acute, later wanting.
• ▸Sneezing frequent ; violent at a a.
• ▸m.
• ▸,

from slight exposure. Ulceration in Ae nose. The nose is swollen.

Brown patch from the edge of the brows to the eyebrows, three

inches wide, lasting three months. Chlorotic face. Dark circles under

• ▸eyes.
• ▸Cracked lips.
• ▸Face pale, sickly and dirty.
• ▸Circumscribed red

• ▸cheeks.
• ▸Jaundiced face.
• ▸Herpes on the lips.
• ▸Sore crusts on lips.

Vesicles on lips. The expression is haggard, sickly and suffering.

Flushes of heat in face. Inflammation and swelling of the parotid

gland. Itching of the face, in the whiskers, on right cheek, on temples.

There are drawing, stitching, tearing pains in the face, aggravated in,

cold air. Cold applications ameliorate pain in right side of face from'

a hollow tooth. Pain in jaw bones, ameliorated after eating, speaking,

waking and toudi, Neuralgia of face followed by great weakness,

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• ▸Neuralgic stitch riding in cold air, ameliorated by heat of hand.
• ▸Paralysis of one side of face {Caust.
• ▸y The face perspires.
• ▸Swollen

lips, parotid and submaxillary glands. Tension of the face. Ulceration of lips.

The tongue is dark coated and bleeding. The gums bleed, and are

covered with sores. The typhoid mouth, tongue and teeth in septic

fevers when there are putrid odors. Redness of gums and edges of

the tongue. The tongue is white, slimy, greenish yellow. Dry mouth

and tongue in the morning. Inflamed mouth and gums. Offensive

odor, putrid morning, like spoiled cheese. Sore burning mouth and

• ▸tongue.
• ▸Receding gums.
• ▸Thick salty saliva.
• ▸Scorbutic, spongy

gums. The roof of the mouth swollen in ridges, feels as if lined with

grease. Taste bad, bitter, insipid, putrid, sour ; bitter in the morning.

Grinding teeth in sleep. Nervous chattering of teeth. Pain in teeth

from taking cold, aggravated by cold things, aggravated masticating,

aggravated after sleep. Pulsating, aching, jerking, pressing, sore,

stitching, tearing.

This remedy has been used with some success in diphtheria with

putrid odor. Dryness in throat in evening. Fullness and constriction

of the throat. Inclination to clear the throat by hawking. Mucus in

the throat in the morning, sometimes tasting salty. Lump in throat.

• ▸Pain in throat on swallowing.
• ▸Pain in right tonsil.
• ▸Burning, rawness, soreness.
• ▸Stitching on swdlowing.
• ▸Stitching pain from left

tonsil to ear, while driving in forenbon. Inflammation and swelling of

throat and tonsils, with white deposits like membrane.

The appetite is increased and sometimes ravenous, but goes on the

sight of food. Hunger soon after eating, from nervous weakness.

• ▸Hunger during menses.
• ▸Aversion to food, to bread, to meat.
• ▸Sensation of coldness in the stomach.
• ▸Desires cold drinks, sour things,

• ▸sweets.
• ▸The stomach is commonly disordered.
• ▸Fullness and distension.
• ▸Emptiness with nausea, during menses, after eating.
• ▸Eructations, after eating, ineffectual, of bile, bitter, empty, of food, sour ;

• ▸waterbrash.
• ▸Heartburn.
• ▸Weight in stomach after eating.
• ▸Loathing of food.
• ▸Nausea on coughing, after eating, during headache,

• ▸during menses, during pregnancy ; ameliorated by eructations.
• ▸Retching.
• ▸Pain in stomach after eating and during menses.
• ▸Burning,

• ▸cramping, cutting, soreness.
• ▸Stitching.
• ▸Gnawing pain at 5 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸on

waking. Pressing after eating. Sensation of a stone in the stomach.

Extreme thirst for cold water. Thirst during heat. Thirstlessness

sometimes. Vomiting in the morning, on coughing, after eating,

during headaches, during menses, during pregnancy. Vomiting bile,

blood, food, mucus, sour.

The abdomen feels cold, and is sensitive to uncovering. Distension

after eating, during menses. Tympanitic with great pain, in typhoid

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• ▸fever.
• ▸Distended with dropsy.
• ▸Sensation of emptiness.
• ▸Fermentation with distress in heart.
• ▸Flatulence, obstructed, noisy.
• ▸Sensation

• ▸of fullness after eating.
• ▸Heat in abdomen and heaviness.
• ▸Inflammation of intestines, peritoneum, and liver.
• ▸Pain in abdomen aggravated

at night ; across the abdomen left to right ; bending double ameliorates ; during cough, during diarrhoea, after eating, before and during

menses ; paroxysmal ; before stool. Pain in region of liver. Bearing

down, ameliorated sitting, aggravated lying on left side, aggravated

after drinking. Seems as though sides of abdomen would burst when

• ▸sneezing.
• ▸Burning.
• ▸Cramping after eating.
• ▸Cutting.
• ▸Griping in

hypogastrium with ineffectual urging to stool. Soreness in abdomen

and liver. Stitching in abdomen and liver. Stitching, catching in

spleen, aggravated from motion. Rumbling and tension.

• ▸Constipation with very difficult stool ; hard, large, knotty.
• ▸Diarrhoea, moniing, 6 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸, evening, night, during or after eating; colliquative ; from fright or excitement, during menses, painless, with vomiting and cramps, with great exhaustion, in typhoid.
• ▸Dysentery.
• ▸Offensive flatus which ameliorates the symptoms.
• ▸Formication of the anus.

Haemorrhage from intestines in typhoid. Haemorrhoids, external and

internal, itching, painful with burning and swelling. Inflamed piles

with offensive moisture. Inactivity of the rectum. Involuntary

stools. Pain in rectum during and after stool. Burning during and

• ▸after stool.
• ▸Soreness and pressing pains.
• ▸Stitching pain.
• ▸Tenesmus

• ▸after stool.
• ▸Paralysis of the rectum.
• ▸Relaxed anus.
• ▸Ineffectual

urging to stool. The stool is excoriating ; bloody mucus or pure blood,

brown, clay colored, watery stool ; putrid flatus followed by tenesmus

after breakfast. Stool copious, dark, frequent ; large, light colored.

Lienteric stools. Stools offensive, putrid, purulent, watery, like rice

water, yellow or yellowish green mucus.

Chronic catarrh of the bladder in old people and nervous wrecks.

• ▸Pressing and stitching in the bladder.
• ▸The urging to urinate is frequent, or ineffectual, and worse at night.
• ▸The urine dribbles.
• ▸Dribbling after urination ; feeble stream, frequent, copious at night.

Stream stops and starts. Involuntary at night, in old people, in typhoid,

in nervous prostration. In obstinate cases of enuresis, in excitable

sensitive children. Unsatisfactory urination. Inflammation and

stitching in the kidneys. Burning in the urethra during and after

urination. Stitching in the urethra. The urine is albuminous, burning, cloudy, copious, offensive, scanty, watery, yellow like saffron.

Sediment is flocculent, mucous, red and sandy. Specific gravity increased, Sugar in the urine.

Erections very troublesome in the morning and during the night

without sexual desire ; violent in the morning. Impotency. Frequent

seminal emissions with erections. Inflammation of glans penis.

Sexual passion obliterated.

In tired out nervous women who are subject to abortion. Aversion

to coition. Desire increased, intense for four or five days after menses.

Inflammation of uterus. Itching from Icucorrhoea. It cured a

chronic abscess discharging periodically through the vagina and

rectum a copious orange-colored fluid. Leucorrhoea acrid, burning

copious, greenish, yellow, offensive, putrid ; after menses ; in young

girls. Menses absent, black, copious, dark, delayed, frequent, irregular,

late, offensive, painful, pale, protracted, scanty, short, suppressed,

thick. Uterine haemorrhage. Pain in ovaries, in left, ameliorated

lying on the back and bending double, during menses. Pain in ovaries

on going to sleep. Stitching pain in ovaries. Pain in uterus and

ovaries at night during pregnancy. Labor-like pains. Prolapsus of

uterus^ J

Irritation of the larynx and trachea in cold air. Catarrh of the air

passages, with thick, yellowish white mucus. Soreness and scraping

in the larynx. Tickling in larynx and trachea. Voice hoarse, lost

from paralysis of the vocal cords; hoarse from over-exertion of vocal

cords.

Respiration difficult at night ; rattling, short ; difficult on going up

stairs. Nervous asthma, aggravated after eating.

Cough in daytime, morning, evening in bed and during the night.

Dry cough at night during fever. Hacking cough. Cough from

irritation in larynx and trachea. Ijoosc cough. Paroxysmal cough.

• ▸Racking cough.
• ▸Rattling cough.
• ▸Short, spasmodic.
• ▸Cough in cold

air, from deep breathing, during chill and fever, after eating ; aggravated lying. Asthmatic cough. Cough from tickling in larynx and

trachea. Whistling cough. Whooping-cough with great nervous

exhaustion.

Expectoration in morning, bloody, frothy, greenish, mucous, offen-^

sive, purulent, putrid, salty, thick sweetish, viscid, yellowish white.

This remedy has been favorably mentioned in angina pectoris.

• ▸Anxiety in the chest in the morning.
• ▸Catarrh of the chest.
• ▸Spasmodic constriction.
• ▸Constriction of the heart.
• ▸Fatty degeneration of

the heart. Haemorrhage from the lungs. Hepatization of the lungs.

Inflammation of the bronchial tubes, lungs, pleura. Oppression of

• ▸the chest.
• ▸Itching of the skin.
• ▸Pain in chest during cough, on inspiration, on motion, on breathing.
• ▸Pain in lower part of chest on coughing, inside of chest, in heart.
• ▸Aching in left side of chest through

• ▸to scapula.
• ▸Burning in chest.
• ▸Cutting under right breast.
• ▸Soreness

in chest. Stitching in chest on coughing, during respiration, in

• ▸mammae, sides of chest, in heart.
• ▸Tearing pains in chest.
• ▸Palpitation, anxious, ascending steps, aggravated by motion.
• ▸Violent.
• ▸Perspiration like onions in axilla.
• ▸It is a very useful remedy in catarrhal

• ▸phthisis.
• ▸Suffocation of lungs.
• ▸Swelling in axilla ; abscess.
• ▸Weakness of chest.
• ▸Weak heart.
• ▸Pulse iniermittent and irregular ; feeble

circulation.

The back feels cold. Eruptions on the back, pimples. Weight in

• ▸lumbar region.
• ▸Ihe nape and back lame.
• ▸Itching.
• ▸Pain in the back

during rest, ameliorated by motion, respiration aggravates, during

menses. Pains in occiput and loins morning on waxing, ameliorated

lying on back, passing off after rising. Pam in back ot neck. Pain

in dorsal region. Pam in scapulae morning on waking, had to sit up

to ,turn over. Pain hrst in right, then left scapula. Pain between

• ▸scapulae.
• ▸Pain in lumbar region during menses, while sitting, ameliorated by motion.
• ▸Pain in sacrum during menses.
• ▸Intense pain along

• ▸spine.
• ▸Pain in coccyx.
• ▸Aching between scapulae.
• ▸Sore, bruised

spine. Burning in back, in lumbar region. Drawing in back, lumbar

region. Lameness and stiffness of whole back, ameliorated by gentle

motion. Stitching pains in the back, in dorsal and lumbar regions,

Stitching toward Iront of chest with dyspnoea, ameliorated leaning

back against chair, aggravated lying on the back, sitting or walking.

Tearing pains in the back, in lumbar region. Softening of the spinal

cord. Weakness with stumbling when walking. Swollen glands of

neck. Weak back. Cannot sit erect without a chair back to lean

against, This remedy cures many nondescript spinal affections.

Cold hands and feet. Feet cold and damp. Cramps in thighs,

calves and soles. Eruptions on limbs, pimples. The hands are hot.

Heaviness of limbs, of lower limbs and feet. It has been of great

service in hip joint disease. Itching of the limbs, of palms and soles.

Numbness of the limbs, upper and lower ; hands and finger tips, feet

and legs. Rheumatic and gouty pains in limbs and joints, ameliorated

by motion and warmth. Pain in back and limbs, ameliorated by

motion. Pain in shoulders and arms, in arms when raising them.

Sciatica, ameliorated by gentle motion. Pain in hip and knee. Pain

• ▸in legs j A.
• ▸M.
• ▸on waking, ameliorated by gentle motion.
• ▸Bruised

knees and legs. Burning feet, soles and toes. Paralytic drawing

in limbs, ameliorated by warmth and gentle motion. Drawing in upper

limbs, in the thighs, knees and legs. Drawing laming pain in soles-

Pressing pain in shoulder and thighs. Stinging in soles. Stitching

in joints, shoulders and knees. Tearing in the limbs ; shoulders, upper

arm, elbow, forearm, hand, fingers. Tearing in lower limbs ; hip,

knee, legs, feet. Paralytic tearing in limbs, ameliorated by motion.

Paralysis of limb. Hemiplegia, The feet perspire. The lower

limbs and feet are restless. Rheumatic stiffness after resting. (Edema

• ▸of hands and feet.
• ▸The hands tremble.
• ▸The limbs twitch.
• ▸Weakness in all the limbs, especially the lower.

Ptofoimd sleep. Dreams anxious amorous, of falling, frightful,

Drawing pains in back and limbs, esp. of soles to knees, and shoulders to head, > by

• ▸warmth and (temporarily) by moving the parts.
• ▸—Awakens 5 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸with rheumatic pains in r.
• ▸leg

and both arms, passing away 10 a.m.—Constant pain in back and limbs, > motion.