Phosphorus (The Element)
- Adapted to tall slender persons of sanguine temperament, fair skin, delicate eyelashes, find blond, or red hair, quick perceptions, and very sensitive nature.
- Young people, who grow too rapidly, are inclined to stoop (to walk stooped, Sulph.); who are chlorotic or anaemic; old people, with morning diarrhoea.
- Nervous, weak; desires to be magnetized (Sil.).
- Over-sensitiveness of all the senses to external impressions, light, noise, odors, touch.
- Restless, fidgety; moves continually, cannot sit or stand still a moment (restless, fidgety feet, Zinc.).
- Burning: in spots along the spine; between the scapulae (as of a piece of ice, Lachn.); or intense heat running up the back; of palms of hands (Lach.); in chest and lungs; of every organ or tissue of the body (Ars., Sulph.); generally in diseases of nervous system.
- Haemorrhagic diathesis; small wounds bleed profusely (Kreos., Lach.); from every mucous outlet.
- Great weakness and prostration; with nervous debility and trembling; of whole body; weakness and weariness from loss of vital fluids (Cinch., Phos. ac.).
- Pain: acute, especially in the chest, < from pressure, even slight, in intercostal spaces, and lying on left side; excited by slightest chill; open air intolerable.
- A Weak, empty, all-gone sensation in head, chest, stomach and entire abdomen.
- Apathetic; unwilling to talk; answers slowly; moves sluggishly (Phos. ac.).
- Weary of life, full of gloomy forebodings.
- Dandruff, falls out in clouds (Lyc.); hair falls out in bunches, baldness of single spots.
- Eyes: hollow, surrounded by blue rings; lids, puffy, swollen, oedematous (upper lids, Kali c.; lower, Apis).
- Longs for: cold food and drink; juicy, refreshing things; ice cream > gastric pains.
- As soon as water becomes warm in stomach it is thrown up.
- Regurgitation of ingesta in mouthfuls (Alum.).
- Nausea from placing hands in warm water; sneezing and coryza from putting hands in water (Lac d.).
- Constipation: faeces slender, long, dry, tough, and hard (Stap.); voided with great straining and difficulty (Caust.).
- Diarrhoea: as soon as anything enters the rectum; profuse, pouring away as from a hydrant; watery, with sago-like particles; sensation, as if the anus remained open (Apis), involuntary; during cholera time (which precedes cholera, Phos. ac.); morning, of old people.
- Haemorrhage: frequent and profuse, pouring out freely and then ceasing for a time; metrorrhagia, in cancer; haemoptysis, vicarious, from nose, stomach, anus, urethra, in amenorrhoea.
- Heaviness of chest, as if weight were lying on it.
- During pregnancy; unable to drink water; sight of it causes vomiting; must close her eyes while bathing (Lys.).
- Cannot talk, the larynx is so painful; is dry, raw, rough, sore.
- Cough: going from warm to cold air (rev. of Bry.); < from laughing, talking, reading, drinking, eating, lying on the left side (Dros., Stan.).
- Perspiration has the odor of sulphur.
- Necrosis of the (left) lower jaw.
Relations
- Complementary: Arsenic, with which it is isomorphic; Cepa, its vegetable analogue.
- Incompatible: with Causticum, must not be used before or after.
- Phos. removes the bad effects of Iodine and excessive use of table salt.
- Follows well: after, Calc. or Cinch.
- Hahnemann says: "Acts most beneficial when patient suffers form chronic loose stool or diarrhoea.".
Aggravation
- Evening, before midnight (Puls., Rhus); lying on left or painful side; during a thunderstorm; weather changes, either hot or cold.
- Cold air relieves the head and face symptoms but aggravates those of chest, throat and neck.
Amelioration
- In the dark; lying on right side; from being rubbed or mesmerized; from cold food, cold water, until it gets warm.
