Kali Phosphoricum



Eyes

Conjunctivae inflamed. Watery secretion from eyes. Sensation: of sticks in eyes, of sand, dryness, burning, pricking and smarting. Eyes full of mucus, worse evening. Balls (left) ache and are sore, tender to touch and pressure. Lids: swollen, agglutinated in morning, stye on left lower, left lid droops, almost closed. Sharp pain from eyes (right) to temples in as though they had been full of smoke. Eyes sore as after crying hard, awoke with severe pain through left eye, throbbed and was worse in sunlight. Eyes twitch. Eyes blurred. Intolerance of light with headache. Eyes tire with reading. Black spots moving before eyes.

Ears

Itching and pimples in canal and external ear. Deep-seated pain in ears stinging, itching, worse lying down. Sharp pain in l. ear and down l. cheek. Fullness, singing, and surging in ears. Hearing too sensitive, cannot endure noise.

Nose

(An inveterate catarrh was greatly relieved after proving the 30th. Thick yellow discharge, worse morning.) _ Nostrils stopped, discharge of clear, stringy mucus. Obstruction, sneezing with symptoms of fresh cold. Sores inside nares with yellow crusts, and dark blood. Symptoms of cod with headache. Soft green or white discharge ( worse right nostril). Small growth, very sensitive, at opening of I. nostril (lasted two weeks). Very sensitive smell and lack of smell.

Face

Itching: under beard, on right cheek and temples. Itching pimples on forehead, suppurating next day. Brown patch from edge of brow to eyebrows three inches wide, lasting three months. Neuralgic stitches, especially from upper teeth to left ear, and from temples forward to a point just above right eye, worse from cold air (whilst driving), better by warmth of hand. Hydroa on lips, on upper lip right corner, lip feels swollen and itchy. Pimples and sore crusts on lips, peeling. Soreness and swelling of parotids and axillary glands. Red, hot, burning face and forehead, at other times pale and yellow. Sickly pale, dirty complexion. Pain in jawbones with stinging and aching, better after eating, speaking, waling and by touch. Warm feeling, as if a candle were held near left cheek.

Teeth

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.

Mouth

Left submaxillary gland swollen and sensitive. Offensive odor from mouth, mornings, like rotten cheese. Tongue: white, and slimy, greenish yellow, upper surface of, stiff, edges red and sore, red edges and transverse cracks. Roof of mouth: swollen, in ridges, feels as though lined with grease. Saliva profuse, and thick and salty, mouth tastes badly. Taste: bitter in morning, putrid, bitter, and sour.

Throat

Tonsils large and sore, especially left, dry sensation in throat as if from husks of grain. In morning both tonsils have distinct white solid deposits like diphtheric membranes, traces of it on pillars of fauces. Severe shooting pain from left tonsil to inner ear, while driving in forenoon. Severe pain right tonsil, worse swallowing. Soreness, full sensation, burning soreness and dryness, evening. Mucus: much after rising, causing nausea, salty.

Appetite

Hungry, but sight of food took away all appetite. No appetite, except for sweets. Appetite first increased, later, lost till end or proving. Desire for vinegar. Great thirst, for ice-cold water, a quantity and a time. Sweat during meals with drinking.

Stomach

Nausea after eating, afterwards drowsiness. Belching, smelling of sour and bitter food and of blood. Vomiting of blood and palpitation of the heart. Eructations of bile, worse after eating. Nausea better by belching. Stomach: growls during menses, sore as if pounded, gnawing in, 5 a.m. on waking, fullness and burning in.

Abdomen

Region of liver sensitive to pressure. Stinging and catching in spleen, worse 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, better bonding double. Borborygmus (afternoon), fermentation, soreness. Sharp cutting pains right side. Bearing down, better sitting up, worse left side, worse after drinking water. Flatulence, griping, worse when eating.

Stool

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, worse after breakfast and supper, worse after dinner, worse after breakfast and dinner. Diarrhoea while eating. Constipation, stools dark brown, streaked with yellowish green mucus. Aching in shoulders and arms, better by motion, evening. Burning if forehead with stool, afterwards slight chill from behind up back. Haemorrhoids protruding, with swelling and burning pains. (Paretic condition of rectum and colon following removal of haemorrhoids).

Urinary Organs

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.

Male Sexual Organs

Passion increased, priapism in morning. Sexual instinct depressed, impotence. Strong desire, erections with desire to urinate, mornings, followed by impotence and painful seminal emissions erections.

Female Sexual Organs

Menses: five days early, scanty, with dragging pain in I. lower jaw, (late in appearing, amenorrhoea), 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, better moving and lying on abdomen, sharp pain through left ovary, better lying on back, and by bending double, dull bursting headache, pain in left leg and groin, tired and sleepy, borborygmus and heartburn at night. Stitching all through pelvis and n womb. Pains: in left side and ovaries, across sacrum, across abdomen, left to right _ (Chronic abscess discharging periodically through vagina and rectum a copious orange-coloured fluid.) _ Yellow, greenish, blistering leucorrhoea, with too short menses. Intense sexual desire for four of five days after menses. Bloody discharge during pregnancy. Feeling of heavy weight on pelvis pressing down and backward. Night-pains during pregnancy.

Respiratory Organs

Cough: from irritation in trachea just below larynx, with scanty, thick, white, yellowish expectoration, without expectoration, 2 to 2.30 a.m., sudden unexpected spell preceded by pressure in throat. Hoarseness, trachea feels hurt. Rattling or whistling cough, expectoration green or like soap-suds. Sputa: like salt, fetid or sweet, (yellow in phthisis).

Chest

Intensely sharp, cutting pains (transitory) under (right) breast and near waist, catching breath. Chest: painful, stinging in chest and sides, sore to touch, aching, left, through to scapula.

Heart

Dull throbbing, left side, seems to stop heart beating. Vomiting of blood, with palpitation. Palpitation from slightest motion of ascending stairs.

Back and neck

Stiff neck from swelling of glands. Neck lame, tender to touch. Aching between scapulae. Stitches: severe in middle of back, towards front of chest with dyspnoea, better leaning against something, joins, better 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.

Limbs

Drawing pains in back and limbs, especially of soles to knees, and shoulders to head, better by warmth and (temporarily) by moving the parts. Awakens 5 a.m. with rheumatic pains in right leg and both arms, passing away I0 a.m. Constant pain in back and limbs, better motion.

Upper Limbs

Aching in shoulders and arms, better motion. Severe pain in scapula on waking in morning, had to sit up in order to turn over. Pain first in right, then left scapula. Soreness and swelling of axillary and parotid glands. Pain in arms from raising them. Twitching of muscles of arms and fingers. Numbness of right arm and hand, itching and purple. No feeling in finger.- tips.

Lower Limbs

Weak, tired, with pain in legs and back, better by gentle motion. Pain in left groin, throbbing pain in right Thighs lame. Legs swollen, numb. Pain in right great toe and across instep, not better taking of toes and soles, stinging of soles. Fidgety feet.

Skin

Blue spots on calves as if they would ulcerate. Itching: of whole skin, worse on chest and under arms, in the night, especially on scalp and under beard, soles, and palms, worse 3 to 5 a.m. Pimples, small boils, itching. Pricking in abdomen as from a pin.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica