PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM



He thinks he staggers when walking. [Fr.H-n.]

575. Exhaustion in all parts of the body. [Hrr.]

The body is unwieldy, the mind inactive.

The body exhausted, the mind depressed (the 4th d.).

He is weaker and more exhausted.

In the morning after rising, she us so exhausted (and looks pale) that she must lie down again for some time; then she feels well.

580. Exhaustion of the body (in the afternoon). [Ws.]

(A kind of epilepsy [immediately after taking the medicine]). [Fr.H-n.]

Feeling of an agitation on the blood.

Great restlessness, a forcing and driving in the blood; he is as if beside himself (aft. 4 d.).

He sweats profusely when walking.

585. Very much fatigued by a walk, exhausted and prostrated; chilliness in the house (aft. 50 h.).

When walking in the open air he sweats profusely all over, especially in the genitals.

He becomes thinner, looks wretched in the face, and has deeply set eyes.

Constant yawning and stretching of the arms, with drowsiness (aft. 1.3/4 h.). [Htn.]

Much yawning, during which water runs out of the eyes.

590. By day great weariness ad drowsiness, which goes off on walking; but at night she cannot go to sleep, and from evening till midnight she has heat and perspiration.

He falls irresistibly into a sound and deep sleep in the middle of writing. [Fr.H-n.]

Sopor; must sleep after dinner; he falls asleep while talking. [Myr.]

Drowsiness all day with yawning, which always makes him close his eye. [Fz.]

In the evening early sleeping; and in the morning great drowsiness for a long time.

595. He falls asleep earlier than usual, from exhaustion, and sleeps more profoundly than usual.

In the evening, great drowsiness with yawning, which always makes him close his eyes. [Fz.]

Such deep sleep that he can hardly be awoke in the m. [Htn.]

He can only fall asleep late in the evening (aft. 3 d.).

Sleep with sometimes vexatious, sometimes indifferent dreams, during which, towards morning, he lays his arms under his head, and they then go to sleep. [Fz.]

600. Ravenous hunger wakes him up at night.

(He moans much in his sleep).

(With half open eyes he wails and talks in his slumber, and his hands twitch.)

In the evening he lay for a couple of hours in bed, without being able to sleep; ciphers came before his eyes, as if he was not quite right in his head; when he rose up, this went off.

(In slumber he has sometimes a smiling sometimes a lachrymose expression, and the half open eyes are distorted.)

605. Lascivious dreams with seminal emission. [Gn.]

Sleep at night disturbed by dreams and erections.

Before midnight agreeable, after midnight very frightful but ill-remembered dreams. [Gn.]

(Wonderful dreams at night.)

All night in his dreams he occupied with the things that had last happened to him in the evening.

610. Very vivid dreams, as by day, of feasting.

Restless night with dreams full of scolding and quarrelling. [Lr.]

Vivid, gruesome dreams, not remembered in the morning. [Stf.]

Disturbing dreams.

Frequent starting up at night out of sleep, as if he fell down and into the water. [Lr.]

615. He wakes up about 1 a.m., and though his consciousness is pretty clear, he has very gloomy, anxious, care-beset thoughts, for half an hour, whereupon he falls asleep again until the morning. [Stf.]

The first night dreams of dead people, which make him very anxious, and when he is half awake he is uncommonly fearful. [Fz.]

Restless sleep with dry heat (the 6th night).

Too early waking at night, and he cannot go to sleep again. [Fr.H-n.]

Anxious waking (the first night).

620. In the morning he can hardly be roused from sleep, and is still very drowsy.

In the morning he gets up in very bad humour, exhausted and sleepy.

Chilly feeling on the face, temples, and forehead, as if from a cool wind blowing on him, with cold feeling in the tips of the fingers, which were quite cold to the touch (aft. 1 h.). [Stf.]

Shivering over the abdomen, with cold finger tips, for two hours, without thirst, chiefly from the access of the open air, even when he merely looked out of window, without subsequent heat (aft. 2 h.). [Trn.]

Frequent cold feeling on the right check, and warm feeling on the left, without outwardly perceptible alteration of the temperature. [Bch.]

625. In the evening attacks of febrile rigor, followed at night by exhausting perspiration (the 2nd night).

Chilliness, even when walking in the warm. [Stf.]

Chill all over the body (aft. 26 h.). [Myr.]

Chill all the forenoon, by jerks, like general shudder (but not running over him) even in the room, with blue, icy cold hands and dry palate without particular thirst. [Fz.]

Every night fever: in the evening, after sleeping for an hour, she is awakened by chilliness all over the body ad drawing in the limbs, without subsequent heat.

630. Towards evening, chilliness and coldness for an hour, without thirst and without subsequent heat.

Alteration of shivering and heat, in the evening.

Frequent alterations of chilliness and hear, in the evening; the dry heat in the face is not attended by redness, and during this heat there is chilliness; after the cessation of the heat still greater chilliness, coldness runs all over his body; towards morning profuse sweat in the second sleep, that is, when after awaking, he again fell asleep.

Severe rigor, from afternoon till evening, 10 o’clock, then dry heat to such a degree that he became almost unconscious.

Rigor all over the body, with icy cold fingers, without thirst (an hour after eating); after four hours increased warmth, without thirst. [Myr.]

635. Frequent rushing over the cold and chilliness, and palpitation of the heart.

Occasional rigor running over him, without thirst, for minute, followed immediately by heat rapidly alternating with cold for a minute. [Gss.]

In the evening on lying down chilliness, and after the first awaking heat all over, without thirst (aft. 12 h.).

In the evening chilliness causing trembling, then in the morning heat of the face, dryness in the mouth, and shooting pain in the throat when swallowing.

The temporal arteries and the blood-vessels of the hand are distented, and the arteries beat more full. [Ws.]

640. On going to sleep dry heat (the 4th evening).

In the evening heat of all the body, followed by restless night,

After lying down in the evening heat all over the head, with only moderately warm body, but very cold feet (aft. 14.1/2 h.). [Htn.]

Internal heat throughout the body, without thirst, not perceptible outwardly and without redness of the cheeks; he becomes anxious and breathes deep (aft. 1.1/4 h.). [Ws.]

In the evening when walking in the open air heat on the cheeks and flying heat in the back. [Fz.]

645. Morning sweat, with heavy dreams of dead people, and as if he were hunted.

Profuse morning sweat.

On two nights, about midnight and when he awakes profuse sweat, which commenced on the head, and was most profuse on the chest.

(Great thirst for water, with much heat and perspiration all over, by day and night.)

Pulse beats strongly (aft. 9 h.). [Bch.]

650. The pulse is irregular and often intermits one or two beats. [Ws.]

In the afternoon heat in the face, without redness, with thirst. [Fz.]

In the evening before falling asleep, heat in the cheeks and ears.

At night much heat and anxiety; he feels as if the chest were too narrow (aft. 8 h.). [Hrr.]

Internal heat and anxiety; he feels as if the chest were too narrow (aft. 8 h.). [Hrr.]

655. Great anxiety; he must lie down in the afternoon (the 3rd d.).

Restlessness and anxiety throughout the body.

He looks very ill humoured and sullen, so that everybody asks him what is the matter, and yet he does not look actually ill.[Stf.]

Very irritated, the mind depressed, the body exhausted.

Very irritated, cross, ill humoured.[Stf.]

660. Always cross, disinclination to speak.

Silent crossness. [Hrr.]

A trifling vexation makes him very angry and hot.

He speaks unwillingly, talking is very disagreeable to him (aft. 5 h.). [Hrr.]

He speaks little and answers unwillingly questions put to him (aft. 5 h.). [Hrr.]

665. Dislike to speak. [Lr.]

When speaking a kind of hurriedness; he cannot get anything quickly enough, whereas he is usually very patient.

Restlessness in the morning in bed.

Inward restlessness hinders him in his work.

Restless, indifferent. [Stf.]

670. Sad humour, on account of concern for the future (aft. 50 h.). [Gn.]

Dejection (aft. 4 d.).

Serious, dejected, and sad, only when walking in the open air, and the more he walked the more sad, serious, and dejected he became; in the house this went off gradually, and he became cheerful.

Disposition lachrymose, as from home sickness. [Trn.]

Discontented with himself, self-reproaches. [Lr.]

675. He is very willful about everything.

Disposition active and lively (Reaction of the organism, secondary action.) (aft. 24 h.). [Fz.]

He became very cheerful and well disposed. (Reaction of the organism, secondary action.) [Bch.]

(Disposition is often extravagantly gay. (This inordinate gaiety seems to be a (rare) alternating action.) )

(A woman affected with epilepsy danced in a senseless, violent, and wild manner for several days, without lying down, except at night.. (This inordinate gaiety seems to be a (rare) alternating action.) ) [Fr.H-n.]

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.