PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM



The watch which in his usual state he heard at a distance of twenty paces, he could only hear at a distance of twenty paces, he could only hear at a distance of ten paces (aft. 6 d.). [Bch.]

At every stroke of the bell and at every musical note he felt stitches in his ears, like earache, also when he himself sang; but nonmusical sounds and noises, like the rattling of carriages, shutting of doors and the like caused no stitches, and he was quite indifferent to them (aft. 53 h.). [Bch.]

Musical notes were and continued to be intolerable to him, though they did not cause pain in the ear. [Bch.]

Spasmodic drawing pain in the left ear. [Bch.]

185. A long continued fine prick deep in the right ear (aft. 30 h.).

Burning stitches in the ears.

Drawing pain in the left cheek and stitches in the ears.

Drawing in the right internal and external meatus. [Hrr.]

Tearing in the external and internal meatus of the ears (aft. 30 h.). [Myr.]

190. (Both ears are swollen, hot, with burning and itching).

Twitching tearing, sometimes only simple tearing, in the left auricle. [Hrr.]

Painful drawing, as it were spasmodic pain in the right auricle (aft. 4.1/2 h.). [Htn.]

An almost painless stitch in the left ear that went off putting in the finger (aft. 6.1/2 h.). [Gn.]

Itching pricks in the interior of the right ear, continuing while moving the lower jaw (aft. 27 h.). [Gn.]

195. Pricking itching on the lobe of the right ear (aft. 2 h.). [Fz.]

Fine twitching on the right ear lobe (aft. 3 h.). [Ws.]

A large red lump behind the lobe of the ear, with sore pain per se, but much violent when touched.

(A creeping and burning in the nose.)

Itching in the point of the nose; he must scratch there. [Myr.]

200. A pimple on point of the nose, with throbbing sensation in it; it is also painful when touched.

The dorsum of the nose is swollen and studded with red spots, and there are red spots on its side which go away and come again, accompanied by tensive sensation. [Myr.]

On the lower part of the septum of the nose an itching scab.

Epistaxis and frequent blowing of blood from the nose.

(Pus flows out of the nose.)

205. (Mucus stops up the nose).

On the right side of the upper lip an oblique chap, as if he had cut himself, with sore pain, especially on moving the lip, for several days. [Stf.]

In the red part of the upper lip, a point with obtuse shooting and creeping as if gone to sleep (aft. 32 h.). [Fz.]

(Pimples on the red of the upper and lower lips, which cause burning pain.)

(On the red of the upper and lower lips, ulcerous, depressed spots, which came a tensive and smarting pain, even without moving the lips; they become covered by a dark-coloured skin, which is readily detached by washing; they then bleed, and when touched there is sore and smarting pain in them.)

210. Yellowish-brown, scabby eruption containing pus in the lower lip, towards the commissure of the mouth, without pain, for days. [Fr.-H-n.]

Eruption on the border of the lower lip, not far from the angle of the mouth.

The lower lip is burst in the middle.

Violent burning pain in the right lower lip, persisting also when moving it (aft. 5, 8.1/2 h.). [Gn.]

Burning pain on the left side of the lower lip (aft. 12 h.). [Gn.]

215. Burning pain in the skin of the cheek near the right angle of the mouth (aft. 27 h.). [Gn.]

Obtuse pressive, drawing pain on the right angle of the lower jaw (aft. 7 h.). [Gn.]

Pain as if the right lower jaw were forced out of its joint in front of the ear, even when the part is not moved – but more severe when chewing. [Hrr.]

Pain on touching the gland under the left angle of the lower jaw.

When he chews anything he gets a cold (in the morning, painfully cold) sensation in the roots of the molars especially, which goes off after eating. [Htn.]

220. The teeth are on edge, as from a corrosive acid.

The whole of the gums are painful when touched, as if sore, and they bleed when rubbed.

Bleeding of the gums, on the slightest touch.

The inner surface of the gums is swollen and painful when eating and on being touched.

Great bleeding from a hollow tooth.

225. Pain of the wisdom tooth.

In a hollow tooth a tingling like tingling burning.

Burning pain in the incisors, at night.

Jerking tearing in the right upper molars, neither increased nor diminished by chewing.

Boring shooting pains in the teeth, which end in swelling of the cheek.

230. A tearing in the teeth up into the head as if the teeth were pressed asunder and forced out, increased by the heat of the bed, as also by hot and cold things.

Pain in the mouth as if sore and raw, when not swallowing (aft. 2 h.).

Shooting on the tip of the tongue (aft. 1.1/2 h.). [Ws.]

Itching pricking on the tip of the tongue (aft. 1.1/2 h.). [Ws.]

Shooting pain on the right side of the tongue (aft. 26 h.). [Gn.]

235. The tongue is quite dry (aft. 24 h.).

Dry feeling on the tongue and palate, without thirst (aft. 6 h.). [Fz.]

In the afternoon, great dryness of the mouth, with a quantity of tasteless, sticky, soapy mucus, which he often spits out. [Stf.]

Burning on several points of the tongue as if something corrosive had got upon it, without external alteration of it (aft. 6 h.). [Ws.]

Dryness of the palate, without thirst (aft. 6 h.). [Fz.]

240. He could not swallow well; he felt as if something had got behind the palate (aft. 10 h.). [Myr.]

Burning posteriorly on the velum pendulum palati as if it were inflamed and sore (aft. 4.1/2 h.). [Fz.]

Painful soreness on the velum pendulum palati and rawness in the throat, felt especially when expiring (aft. 6.1/2 h.). [Fz.]

Feeling of swelling and soreness at the posterior nares (aft. 3.1/2 h.). [Fz.]

Nausea in the palate. [Hrr.]

245. Soreness in the throat, when not swallowing.

On swallowing, sore sensation in the throat.

Throat as if raw, she must hawk; it is painful when talking and swallowing.

Sore throat; pain on the left side, like an abscess, throbbing, tensive, and as dry on that part, when not swallowing; speaking is difficult for him; when swallowing there occurrs a scrapy sore pain extending to the ears, where, at the same time, there is scrapy shooting pain.

Inflammation of the throat (with a vesicle causing smarting pain).

250. When swallowing the saliva, an aching stitch, which lasts as long as the swallowing continues.

When swallowing food, shooting in the throat.

When swallowing bread, it feels scrapy in the throat.

The mouth always comes full of water, with excitation of nausea on the chest. [Fz.]

Great secretion of sourish saliva in the mouth. [Trn.]

255. Constant sourish taste in the mouth. [Trn.]

Much frothy saliva in the mouth of a harsh taste (aft. 2 h.). [Fr.H-n.]

Putrid, steamy taste in the mouth.

Putrid flat taste in the mouth. [Gn.]

In the morning he has still the taste of food in his mouth, especially of bread.

260. Long after-taste of bread that had been eaten, with some scrapiness in the throat.

He loathed even the sight and smell of black bread; the smell of sour things was most repulsive to him; even when eating the sourness of the bread was repugnant to him and almost made him vomit (aft. 24 h.). [Bch.]

In the forenoon, herb-like taste in the mouth, breakfast has the same taste.

Bread tastes as bitter as gall, otherwise the taste in the mouth is normal. [Fr.H-n.]

In the morning he is thirsty and slimy and oily in the mouth.

265. Intense thirst. [Fr.H-n.]

An almost insatiable thirst for cold milk. [Bch.]

Much thirst for beer after the abdominal pains, all day. [Myr.]

Anorexia. [Hrr.]

Food has a very slight but not altered taste. [Fr.H-n.]

270. After and during eating she has confusion of the head.

Every time after eating a pressure in the stomach, as if there were a down-pressing weight in it; at the same time drowsiness, so that he can do no work.

After a meal (breakfast) she was overcome by such exhaustion that she fell down and had to be carried to bed (but without unconsciousness or cold perspiration)(aft. 10 d.).

After eating pressure in the stomach and great drowsiness, the same after drinking; after eating he felt as heavy as lead in the stomach.

Pressure in the stomach, even before eating, and also after eating, which is aggravated by movement.

275. After eating his head is confused, for two hours.

After eating frequent and a persistent eructation of air, each time preceded by rumbling in the region of the stomach. [Trn.]

After a meal the abdomen feels immediately full, and yet the appetite is tolerable.

Frequent eructation of air. [Ws.]

Incomplete, disagreeable eructation (aft. 3 h.). [Fz.]

280. Sourish eructation, an hour after a meal. [fz.]

Burning, sourish eructation without taste, which us not audible, and does not rise up as high as the mouth (aft. 3 h.). [Bch.]

He is full, uncomfortable, and anxious.

Sickness in the region of the stomach (immediately). [Trn.]

A twisting in the stomach (after eating), then very severe nausea, so that she must lie down in bed. [Fr.H-n.]

285. Vomiting of food, and then almost every hour vomiting day and night, until the morning. [Fr.H-n.]

Grumbling and rumbling in the region of the stomach (aft. 1.1/4 h.). [Htn.]

Audible rumbling in the abdominal cavity. [Bch.]

Samuel Hahnemann
Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) was the founder of Homoeopathy. He is called the Father of Experimental Pharmacology because he was the first physician to prepare medicines in a specialized way; proving them on healthy human beings, to determine how the medicines acted to cure diseases.

Hahnemann's three major publications chart the development of homeopathy. In the Organon of Medicine, we see the fundamentals laid out. Materia Medica Pura records the exact symptoms of the remedy provings. In his book, The Chronic Diseases, Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homoeopathic Cure, he showed us how natural diseases become chronic in nature when suppressed by improper treatment.