ACIDUM PHOSPHORICUM


An excellent compilation of symptoms of homeopathic medicine Acidum Phosphoricum from the book Pearls of Homeopathy by M.E. Douglass, published in 1903….


Adapted to persons of originally strong constitutions, who have become debilitated by loss of animal fluids; sexual excesses, violent acute diseases; chagrin; a long succession of moral emotions, as grief, care, disappointed affections.

Is very weak, apathetic; indifferent to the affairs of life; to those things that used to be of most interest.

In children and young people who grow too rapidly; pains in back and limbs as if beaten.

Patient trembles, legs weak, stumbles easily, or makes missteps.

Interstitial inflammation of bones; scrofulous; syphilitic; mercurial; periosteum inflamed, pains burning, tearing, as if scraped with a knife; caries rachitis, but not necrosis.

Urine: looks like milk mixed with jelly-like, bloody pieces; decomposes rapidly; profuse urination at night, of clear watery urine which forms a white cloud at once.

Onanism; when patient is greatly distressed by the culpability of the act.

Loss of ideas and weakness of mind.

He cannot collect his thoughts in proper order.

He speaks unwillingly; talking is irksome.

Roaring in the ears, with difficult hearing.

Distention of the abdomen.

Stool: thin whitish-gray; yellow, watery, with meal-like sediment; from depressing mental emotions; in young persons who have grown very rapidly; after eating.

Desire for something refreshing or juicy.

Very profuse emissions.

Menses too early and of too long duration.

During menses: pain in the region of the liver.

Leucorrhoea after menstruation, profuse, yellowish.

Meteoristic distention of the uterus.

Dry cough, caused by tickling low down in the chest, just above the pit of the stomach.

Pain in the chest, as from weakness.

Growing-pains in young girls.

Great bodily weakness.

Weak and apathetic in the morning.

Lascivious dreams, with emissions.

The evening chill predominates.

Excessive heat, depriving one almost of consciousness.

Thirst only during sweat.

Profuse morning sweat; clammy; exhausting.

Melford Eugene Douglass
M.E.Douglass, MD, was a Lecturer of Dermatology in the Southern Homeopathic Medical College of Baltimore. He was the author of - Skin Diseases: Their Description, Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment; Repertory of Tongue Symptoms; Characteristics of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica.