Kali Phosphoricum



Sleep

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 left 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.

Fever

Chills run up spine in evening, continued after retiring, could scarcely get warm in bed. Chilly, cold all day, heat during night, with strong inclination to eat. Return of offensive axillary sweat (cured months before with Lachesis). Axillary sweat of odour of onions.

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