SPHERE OF ACTION
This is one of those peculiar remedies that I can hardly tell what group to place in; but have concluded to put it in the organic group, but its curative action would seem to show that its main action is upon the cerebro-spinal system. It especially affects the generative organs, kidneys, alimentary organs, bones and skin.
GRAND CHARACTERISTICS
The chief sphere of the curative action of Phosphoric acid is the nervous system, and in this it influences less the functional than the organic.
Suited to individuals of originally strong constitutions, but which have become weakened by losses of animal fluids, by excesses, Violent acute diseases, chagrin, or a long succession of moral emotions.-TESTE.
Trinks looks upon Phosphoric acid, Iron and China, as the three leading restorers of the sinking vital energies.
Is very weak, and indifferent to the affairs of life listless; apathetic.
Indifferent to those things that used to interest her the most.
Conscious, but apathetic and indifferent in typhoid fever.-
F.
Great sense of weakness, with a remarkable state of indifference, from which she cannot arouse herself.
Torpor, want of reaction in the nervous and blood systems, and by decreases of vital power.-DR. TRINKS.
Diseases caused by debilitating influences, with excessive emaciation and great prostration.
In children and young persons who grow too fast; after self- abuse, or long grief.
Chronic consequences of grief. chagrin, care, anxiety, and disappointed love.
Hysteric affections of young women, with irritable fibre, excessive sensibility and irritability, accompanied by extreme delicacy and sponginess of the organic tissue; vascular orgasm, or atonic debility,.
Brain.-Cerebral weakness from brain fag.
Hypochondria, from sexual abuse.
Dreadful pain on the top of the head, as though the brain were crushed, after long continued grief.
Digestive Organs.-Gluey matter on the tongue, in choleraic diseases.
Bread tastes bitter..
Mercurial syphilitic ulceration of the lips, gums and soft palate, with swelling of the bones: condylomata.-HEMPEL.
Nausea as if in the palate.
Sensation as if the stomach were being balanced up and down.
Clammy, sticky tongue; abdomen much bloated; great rumbling in the bowels, and painless, watery diarrhoea, in cholera epidemics.-RAUE.
Meteoristic distention1 of the abdomen.
Often specific in the diarrhoea which precedes epidemic cholera.- F.
Copious watery diarrhoea, with rumbling in the bowels.- RAUE.
Stools yellowish, and very offensive; the child is very listless: wants nothing and cares for nothing.
The diarrhoea, although of long continuance, does not seem to debilitate much; the mother wonders that the child remains so strong with it all.
Undigested, painless stools.
White, gray diarrhoea. – RAUE.
For white watery diarrhoea, without pain, that is one of our most useful remedies.
The stools are hard and in pieces; she is obliged to rise frequently at night to void large quantities of colorless urine.
– G.
Urinary Organs.-Urine like milk, mixed with jelly-like, bloody pieces, with pain in the kidneys.-HEMPEL.
She must often rise at night, in order to pass large quantities of colorless urine. – G.
Phosphatic deposits, when these depend upon excess of Phosphoric acid, from waste on nervous tissue, or upon alkalinity of the urine, from nervous depression.
Diabetes mellitus.
Generative Organs of Women.-Too early and too long menstruation, with pain in the liver; has to rise frequently at night to void large quantities of colorless urine.
Pain universally in the liver, during menstruation.
Profuse leucorrhoea, with itching, some days after the menses.- G.
Leucorrhoea after the menses. – G.
Uterine ulcer; has a copious, putrid, bloody discharge, with itching or corroding pain, or entirely destitute of pain.- Meteoristic distention of the uterus.
Metritis; great debility, with indifference to all about her; slow fever.
Irritable uterus, it is distended with gas.
Scanty milk, debility and great apathy.
Male.-It is probably through the nervous centres that it affects the male sexual organs, on which its influence is very powerful.
Impotence, especially when the sensibility of the parts is excessive, and the semen is discharge shortly after an erection, or without an erection.
Bad effects from sexual excesses, with debilitating night sweats, and much despondency.
Loss of memory from sexual abuse.
This is probably the most useful remedy we have for spermatorrhoea; when it fails study Bromide of Potassa.
(1836-1897)
Characteristic materia medica Published 1873
Physiological materia medica, containing all that is known of the physiological action of our remedies; together with their characteristic indications and pharmacology. Published 1881