PHOSPHORUS



EARS

Dragging pain in the ears. Violent itching of the ear. throbbing in the ear. Heat and redness of the ear. Pimples in the ear, with sensation as of a foreign body being in the ears. Hard hearing, with sensation as of a foreign body being in the ears. Congestive deafness. Affections of the hearing after typhoid and inflammatory diseases.

NOSE

Feeling of pressure in the nose, as in catarrh. Inflammation of the interior of the nose. Swelling of the nose during catarrh. Scrofulous swelling in the nose. Ulcerated nostrils. Polypus of the nose. Blood with nausea mucus. Frequent discharge of blood from the nose, particularly early in the morning. Loss of smell. Fetid smell from the nose. Sneezing, with violent pain in the throat. Obstruction of the nose, every morning. Discharge of mucus from the nose, without coryza. Green-yellow discharge of mucus from the nose. Feeling of obstruction in the nose, with dullness of the head.

FACE

Pale face. Pale, sickly complexion. Sunken, livid countenance, with deep hollow eyes and blue margins around. Hippocratic countenance. Circumscribed redness of the face. Burning and redness of the cheeks. Puffiness and swelling around the eyes. Painless swelling of the cheek and gums. Violent itching of the face. Tension of the skin of the face. Increasing lacerating in the facial bones and temples, as if every part would be torn out. Lacerating in the jaws, in the evening, when lying, ceasing when eating and moving the jaws. Sticking in the malar bones. The pains in the face come on again after the least cold, when talking, eating, or by contact. Dry lips. Ulcerated corner of the mouth.

JAWS AND TEETH.

Pressure, drawing, and lacerating in the lower jaw. Glandular swellings in the region of the articulation of the lower jaw. Toothache, with swelling of the cheeks. Violent toothache. Toothache, only at night when in bed, going off by rising. toothache from the least cold, with ptyalism. Lacerating in the teeth. Sticking in the teeth. Sore pain in the teeth. Pain as from subcutaneous ulceration, when pressing the teeth together. Soreness of the gums. Painful sore swelling of the gums. Inflammation of the gums. Ulcer on the gums, with swelling of the upper lip. Bleeding of the gums at the slightest touch.

MOUTH

Painful sensitiveness of the mouth, gums, and palate. Soreness of the inner mouth. Swelling of the root of the tongue. Dry tongue. A number of small, red, bleeding tips of the anterior surface of the tongue. Blisters on the palate, bursting and suppurating.

THROAT

Rawness and soreness in the back part of the throat, with dark redness. Sore throat, as if the uvula were swollen. Burning in the pharynx, also with scraping or smarting as if excoriated. Sensation of tightness about the throat. Swelling of the tonsils. Dryness in the pharynx and fauces, day and night. Hawking up of mucus, in the morning.

TASTE AND APPETITE

Taste. Slimy taste. Saltish-sweet, sourish taste. Acrid bitterness in the fauces, with roughness. Increase of acidity after every meal, and pulsative headache in the forehead. Loss of taste. Hunger after a meal. Canine hunger.

GASTRIC SYMPTOMS

Water-brash after acid things. Nausea and palpitation of the heart from smoking. Qualmishness in the region of the stomach, after dinner. Drowsiness while eating, or after a meal. Irresistible sleep after dinner. Indolence. Pressure in the stomach after a meal. Qualmishness in the abdomen, after break fast. Violent pulsations below the pit of the stomach, shortly after a meal. Oppression of the chest and shortness of breathing, after a meal. Tension and pressure in the region of the stomach, after a meal, with distention of the abdomen. Oppressive anxiety and heat. Anguish and agitation of the blood, after a slight meal. Burning in the hands. Great weakness in the whole body after a meal, and especially in the affected part. Violent pressing on the rectum after a meal. Great weakness of digestion. Frequent eructations. During an eructation, pain in the upper orifice of the stomach, as if something would tear off. Empty eructations, causing a pain in the chest. Spasmodic eructations. Sour eructations, causing a pain in the chest. Spasmodic eructations. Sour eructations after every meal. Gulping up of bitter, rancid water. Sour regurgitation of food. Gulping up of bile, when stooping. Heartburn, morning and afternoon. Nausea in the stomach, with vertigo, oppression in the pit of the stomach. Constant nausea. Nausea and inclination to vomit. Nausea with hunger, early in the morning. Water-brash after acids. Water-brash after a meal, with eructations, nausea, and flow of water from the mouth. Vomiting. Empty vomiting. Violent vomiting. vomiting, accompanied with excessive weakness, small, quick pulse, and pains in the abdomen. Vomiting of the ingesta, in the evening. Vomiting of the bile. Sour, bilious, vomiting. Sour vomiting. Green, blackish vomiting. Haematemesis. Vomiting with diarrhoea. Asiatic cholera.

STOMACH

Pains in the stomach, with nausea and desire to vomit. Qualmishness in the pit of the stomach, and soon after shuddering. The region of the stomach is painful to the touch. Painfulness of the stomach when walking. Painfulness of the pit of the stomach to the touch. Deranged, weak stomach. Violent pain in the stomach, gradually extending over the whole abdomen, with vomiting, first of greenish, then of blackish substance. Continued pressure in the pit of the stomach. Pressure in the stomach after a meal. Repletion in the stomach. Feeling of heaviness in the stomach. Cramp in the stomach. Tensive contraction of the stomach. Griping in the region of the stomach, in paroxysms, also with arrest of breathing, and at night, with writhing pain. Drawing pain in the pit of the stomach. Griping in the region of the stomach, in paroxysms, also with arrest of breathing, and at night, with writhing pain. Drawing pain in the pit of the stomach, extending into the chest. Cutting in the region of the stomach. Burning in the stomach, also extending to the throat, and bowels. Burning and cutting, or burning and oppressive weight in the region of the stomach. Burning in the pit of the stomach. Inflammation of the stomach. Inflammation and gangrene of the stomach and intestinal canal, with violent burning and cutting. The pains in the stomach come on again after eating, in the evening and at night. Contraction of the pit of the stomach, with regurgitation of the food almost as soon as swallowed.

HYPOCHONDRIA

Violent pain in the left hypochondrium. Sensitiveness of the region of the liver. Stitches in the region of the liver.

ABDOMEN

Drawing aching pain in the epigastrium. Colic in the morning. Violent pain in the whole abdomen. Spasmodic pressure, deep in the abdomen, near the genital organs. Occasional contractive pain in the intestines. Burning contractive pain in the abdomen. Spasmodic griping and contraction, apparently in the uterus. Violent cutting in the abdomen, followed by discharge of liquid stool. Stitching colic, with pale complexion, chilliness, and headache, at noon. Tearing in the abdomen, with urging to stool. Sore or inflammatory pain in the abdomen, extending to the genital organs. Cramp-colic. Colic, as if diarrhoea would come on. Colic, followed by sour smelling diarrhoeic stool, leaving some tenesmus and burning. Feeling of coldness in the abdomen. Burning and pressure in the abdomen. Relaxed feeling in the abdomen. Bloated, extremely sensitive abdomen. Oppressive fullness of the abdomen. Incarceration of flatulence, with coldness of the body and heat in the face. Pressing in the abdomen, sometimes towards the small of the back, or in the sides. Rumbling as if diarrhoea, would set in, or painful, after eating. Rumbling with emission of flatulence. Large yellow spots on the abdomen, on the side of the umbilicus. Great pain in the region of the inguinal hernia. Swelling of the inguinal glands. Tumor in the groin, with burning pain.

STOOL

Constipation. Difficult expulsion of faeces. Stool, with violent pressing. Scanty stool, followed by discharge of blood from the anus. Hard stool, with cutting in the anus. Paralysis of the intestinal canal. Scanty stool, followed by discharge of blood from the anus. Soft stool, with pressing and cutting in the larger intestines. Papescent stool. Diarrhoea, with tenesmus of the rectum. Half-liquid stool. Chronic diarrhoea. Diarrhoea, with expulsion of ascarides. Slimy, bloody, watery, exhausting diarrhoea of phthisicky persons. Typhoid diarrhoea. Alternate diarrhoea and constipation of old people. Green and black stools. Undigested stool. Involuntary stool. Violent urging before stool. Blood with the stool. Sharp scraping and burning at the anus, frequently after stool, with burning desire to urinate. Tenesmus after stool. Violent burning at the anus and rectum. Lacerating in the rectum. Burning at the rectum. Violent pain at the anus, as if the abdomen would be torn asunder. Cutting in the anus and rectum, especially in the evening. Gnawing and itching of the anus. Haemorrhage from the anus or rectum. Mucous discharge from the anus. Taenia. Ascarides with stool.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.