Phosphoricum Acidum ph-ac.

Unconsciousness, no complaints, even pinching is not noticed.
Weak memory.
Incapacity for thought in the morning.
Delirium: quiet with great stupefaction and dulness of the head; unintelligible muttering delirium.
Indifference and unwillingness to speak.
Answers either reluctantly and slowly, or short and incorrectly.
Homesickness, with inclination to weep.
Hysteria, in women of dark complexion, during change of life.
Sadness, grief and disposition to weep.
Ailments from grief, sorrow, homesickness or disappointed love; particularly with drowsiness, night-sweats toward morning, emaciation.

Vertigo: in typhus, so that they fall; when they sit up; lying in bed, as if the feet were going up, with head remaining still; after reflection.
Stupefying pain in the forehead, with somnolency without snoring, the eyes being closed.
Confusion and painful cloudiness of the head, especially on awaking.
Sensation as if intoxicated, in evening, in warm room, with humming in head, which feels as if it would burst, when coughing.

Chronic congestions to the head, caused by fright or grief.
School-girl's headache: from overuse of eyes.
Great heaviness of the head.
Headache forces one to lie down and is insupportably aggravated from least shaking or noise, especially music.
Headaches usually go from behind forward and are relieved by lying down.

Periosteal pains compel motion.
Bones ache, feel as if scraped; better in motion; when lying, the pain shifts to side on which he lies.
Hair: turns grey, early; or flaxen and very greasy; falls off, especially after grief and sorrow.
Itching of the scalp.

Aversion to sunlight.
Sees colors, as of the rainbow.
Blindness, with frequent desire to wink.
Torpid amaurosis, caused by debilitating losses.
Eyes look glassy, lustreless; also with staring.
Pressing in eyes, as if eyeballs were too large.
Burning of eyelids and corners of eyes, especially in evening by candle-light.
Yellow spots in white of eye.
Margins of lids swollen, red, rounded; lashes fall out; pus particles on the lashes or on the canthi.
Coldness of inner surface or eyelids.

Intolerance of noise, especially of music.
Nervous deafness, after typhoid diseases.
Dull hearing: stupefaction; especially to distant sounds.
Every sound re-echoes loudly in the ears.
Shrill sound in ears on blowing nose.
Otalgia, stitches in ears and drawing pains in cheeks and teeth; aggravated only from music.

Fetid smell from the nose.
Sense of smell too acute.
Discharge of bloody pus from the nose.
Nosebleed in typhus, giving no relief.
Swelling on dorsum of nose, with red spots; scurfs.

Skin of face feels tense, as if white of an egg had dried on it.
Hippocratic face, lips and tongue very pale.
Sensation as if lower jaw was going to break.
Eruption on the face, yellow-brown crusts.
Burning in skin of cheeks.
Pimples on forehead and body of onanists.
Hairs of the beard fall out, especially after grief and sorrow.
Sensation of coldness on one side of the face.

Bleeding, swollen gums; tearing pains in teeth worse when warm in bed, and from heat or cold; burning in front teeth during the night.
Teeth become yellow and feel dull.
Hollow teeth ache only when food gets into them.

Red streak in middle of tongue.
Tongue and lips pale in typhus.
Tough, clammy mucus in mouth and on tongue.
Burning in tongue; tongue swollen.
Smarting in mouth when masticating.
Tongue smarts only at night.
Bites the side of tongue involuntarily; also at night.

Dryness of mouth and throat; grey-whitish coating of tongue.
Tenacious mucus in mouth and fauces.
Cancrum oris following measles in syphilitic children.

Dryness of palate and whole mouth, without thirst.
Velum palati feels excoriated, with burning.
Sore throat, soreness, scraping, stinging, worse swallowing food.
Hawks up tough mucus.
Nasal voice.

Loss of appetite; the little food taken comes up with acid eructations; half an hour after eating, crampy pains in stomach, with distress from acid eructations.
Unquenchable thirst.
Inclination for warm food.
Longs for something refreshing and juicy; bread is too dry.
Desires for beer and milk.
Aversion to coffee, wine, beer, or spirituous liquors.
Sour food causes bitter eructations or flatulency.
Canine hunger: 37.

After eating: 36.

Nausea, as if at the palate.

Sensation as if the stomach were being balanced up and down.
Pressing in stomach, as from a heavy load.

Heaviness, stitches, burning of one spot in region of liver in passage of gall-stones; jaundice in scrofulous children, or from grief.

Rumbling in abdomen, and noise as from water.
Meteoristic distention of the abdomen; rumbling and gurgling; painless stool.

Diarrhœa: does not debilitate; from acids; in young persons who grow too rapidly.
Stools: involuntary, liquid, grey; yellow, mixed with mucus, undigested, greenish-white, painless; escape with the flatus; yellow, watery, with meal-like sediment.
Hemorrhoids: bleeding, with intolerable pain in sitting; with cramps of the upper arm, forearms and wrist.
Intestinal hemorrhage in typhoid.

Looks like milk mixed with jelly-like, bloody pieces; decomposes rapidly; passed in large quantities at night, clear like water.
Constant urging to urinate.
Involuntary urination.
Few drops of white, gleety discharge, mornings, and discharge of prostatic fluid in the evening.

Erections, without sexual desire; morning when standing.
During coition, sudden relaxation of penis preventing emission.
Weakness after coition; also after pollutions.
Emission: frequent and debilitating, causing hypochondriasis; from weakness of the parts, with onanism and very little sexual excitement; during stool.
Onanism, when patient is distressed by the culpability of his indulgence.
Feeling of heaviness in glans, especially during urination; also, with tingling, oozing vesicles around the frænum; in balanorrhœa.
Swelling of the testes, with swelling and tension in the spermatic cords; testes tender to touch; gnawing pain or excoriated feeling in testes.
Inflammatory swelling of scrotum.
Formication of scrotum.
Hair of sexual parts falls off.
Herpes preputialis, with tingling.
Sycotic excrescences, chronic, with heat, burning and soreness when sitting or walking.
Fig warts, complicated with chancre.

Ovaritis and metritis, from debilitating influences; amenorrhœa.
Uterus bloated, as if filled with wind.
Dysmenorrhœa, with pain in region of liver.
Menses too early and too long.
Leucorrhœa yellow, mostly after menses, with itching.
Uterine ulcer with copious, putrid, bloody discharge; itching or corroding pain, or no pain.

Itching, pricking like flea-bites between mammæ, obliging her to rise at night.
Sharp pressure in left mamma.
Scanty milk, debility, great apathy.
Deterioration of health from nursing.

Tenacious mucus in mouth and fauces, causes hawking.
Contraction is suprasternal fossa, worse when bending neck.
Hoarseness and roughness in throat, hindering speech.
Burning in throat and chest.

Dyspnœa, as from weakness of chest; caused by odors, by talking, or by any effort.
Oppression of chest; with contraction; with anxiety; when beginning to walk; at night.

Spasmodic tickling cough; as from "down" in the larynx, suprasternal fossa, and whole chest as far as the epigastrium; evening without, morning with expectoration of dark blood, or tenacious, whitish mucus of sourish, hereby taste.
Restless but weak with hæmoptysis.

Burning in whole chest, with pressure.
Weak feeling in chest, from talking, coughing, or sitting too long; relieved by walking.
Spasm in chest and diaphragm, sudden and unexpected, must sit bent.
Loud rattling and whistling in chest, with but little cough.

Stitches through the heart.
Palpitation: in children and young persons who grow too fast; after grief; after self-abuse.
Pulse irregular, sometimes intermitting one or two beats, generally small, weak or frequent, at times full and strong.

Formication in the back.
Gnawing on the scapulæ.
Heaviness in lumbar region, increases to pain in the legs. θ Tabes dorsalis.
Burning pain in a spot about small of back.
Burning in lower half of body, from small of back to pit of stomach downward; extremities are cold to touch.

Tearing in shoulder and left hand.
Burning as from a red-hot coal, in different parts of arm and on shoulder.
Hydroadenitis in the axillæ.
Stiffness and cramp in joints.
Shriveled, dry skin of hands and fingers.
Wens on the hand, between metacarpal bones.
Sharply marked deadness of one-half of the fingers.
Hands tremble when writing.
Burning of hands and heaviness; blood rushes into them when they hang down.
Boring, drawing, digging pains in nerves, awaken him from sleep.

Heaviness and paralytic sensation in hip-joint, worse commencing to walk after sitting; better after walking a little.
Burning: in posterior muscles of thigh when standing better when walking; in soles at night.
Ulcers on lower leg.
Pains in tibia and night.
Blisters on balls of toes; feet swollen and sweaty.
Beating, swelling and burning in joint of big toe.

Drawing and twitching-tearing in limbs.
Smarting at night in bones of limbs.
Limbs feel weak, from loss of fluids, with no other pain than burning.
Formication in limbs.
Feeling as if periosteum were being scraped with a knife, after injuries.
Interstitial distention of the bones; mercurial, syphilitic or scrofulous.
Arthritic pains brought on by least cold, with irritable cough; swallowing excites the pains; fear of touching the parts.
Cold hand and warm feet.
Boils in the axillæ, on the shoulders and nates.

Walking: 22, 26, 28, 33. Motion: 4, 28. Going backward: 4. Sitting: 2, 20, 26, 28, 33. Must rise: 24. Bending neck: 25. Lying down: 2, 3, 4, 36. Standing: 22, 33. Lifting: 4. Rest: 4.

Child weak, pale, cold; painless stools.
Weak from loss of fluids, grief, sorrow or unfortunate love; from suppression of eruptions; from talking.
Trembling, legs weak, stumble easily, or make missteps.
Fainting: after a meal; from loss of fluids; from emotions; with desire to lie down.
Cramps: spasmodic, in chest and diaphragm, in onanists.
Spasm, painful, in hip-joint.
Spasmodic jerking of head.
Twitching or quivering in muscles of thigh.
Tosses the hands about, restless in the evening.

Great drowsiness and apathy.
Lies in a deep sleep, but when aroused, fully conscious. θ Typhoid.
Awakened by: canine hunger; dry heat; sensation of falling; sad thoughts.

Morning: 1, 21, 22, 27, 40. Evening: 2, 5, 27, 36, 40. Night: 10, 11, 21, 23, 24, 26, 33, 34, 40, 44, 45. Day: 40.

Generally worse from uncovering, better from wrapping up.
Worse in snowy air.
Warm room: 2. Heat: 10; of bed: 10. Cold: 10.
Averse to uncover: 40.

Chills, with shuddering and shaking, always in the evening.
Chill and heat alternate frequently.
During the chill peculiar cold sensation in tips of fingers and in abdomen, with weakness of arms and tearing in wrist-joints.
Heat, but averse to uncovering.
Internal heat, without being hot to the touch.
Sweat: mostly on occiput and neck, with sleepiness during daytime; profuse during night and in morning, with anxiety; clammy.
Intermittent fevers: shaking chills over whole body fingers being as cold as ice, without thirst followed by heat, without thirst, excessive heat, depriving one almost of consciousness.
Thirst only during sweat.
Typhoid fever: 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 11, 19, 20, 28, 29, 36, etc.

Right: 18, 23. Left: 18, 24, 32. Above downward: 31.

Hemorrhages, blood dark.
Painless swelling of glands.
Interstitial inflammation of bones; scrofulous, syphilitic or mercurial.
Bone diseases.
Periosteal inflammation, with burning, gnawing, tearing pains.
Caries, with smarting pains, not with necrosis.
Emaciation; also, of single parts.
External parts become black.

Touch: 31, 34, 40.
When after contusions periosteum feels as if scraped by a knife, worse at night.
Smarting in all wounds.

Herpes dry or humid, squamous.
Itching between fingers or in folds of joints, or on hands.
Exanthemata, suppressed by cold, cause brain symptoms; hardness of hearing or dropsy.
Variola.
In typhoid state, eruptions do not fill with pus, but degenerate into large blisters, which bursting, leave surface excoriated; watery diarrhœa; with subsultus tendinum; fear of death.
Warts, indented, pedunculated.
Condylomata; with bone pains; complicated with chancre.
Ulcers: like carbuncles on the skin, with a coppery circumference; with smarting pain; flat and itching.
Parts get black.

Bad effects from growing too rapidly; as if beaten in back and limbs.

Chinchon. before or after in colliquative sweat, diarrhœa and debility.
If in syncope after a meal, Nux vom. is insufficient, give Phosp. ac.
After Phosp ac. are frequently suitable: Cinchon., Ferrum, Rhus tox., Veratr.
Antidotes to Phosp. ac.: Camphor., Coffee.
Distinguished in typhoid from Mur. ac. by pallor, grey or colorless stools; Nitr. spir. dulc. causes a sensorial apathy, a sort of half paralysis of the mental organs; can be aroused, when he answers slowly but relevantly, and again goes into a stupor. (Relieved in typhoid after Phosp. ac. failed).