Kali Phosphoricum kali-p.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

Nerves: Brain. Cord. Excretions. One side.

Worse

Slight: Excitement. Worry. Mental fatigue. Touch. Pain. Cold, dry air. Puberty.

Better

Sleep. Eating. Gentle motion (Fer. Pul.).

General

NERVOUS, SENSITIVE, WEAK AND EASILY FAGGED, especially by pain, etc. Neurasthenia. Paralysis. PUTRID, or golden-yellow excretions; coat on tongue, stool, etc. Foul odor of body. Carrion odor of secretions. Irregular menses, pulse, etc. Stitches. Little pain. Paralytic weakness.

Particulars

Shyness. Nervous and sensitive. Dread. Gloom. Averse to her own. Angry. Vertigo on facing sun. Eyes; burn, sting and swim in tears; yellow-gray, milky secretion; left lid droops. Retinitis. Reflex eye symptoms. Itching in posterior nares. Sneezing; at 2 A.M. Hay fever; pro-phylactic. Sad, care - worn look. Brown stripe at edge of hair. Palate feels greasy. Tongue yellow, like liquid mustard. Aphthæ. Craves ice water, vinegar and sweets. Craving hunger; soon after eating; and weakness follow painless, watery stools. Entero-colitis. Empty gnawing in stomach, > eating. Cutting in abdomen. Golden yellow, putrid, hot stools. Milky urine. Enuresis nocturna. Sexual erethism, with prostration after coition or nightly emissions. Horribly foul leucorrhœa. Aphonia. Nervous asthma. Axillary sweat smells of onions. Spinal irritation. Prickling hands and feet. Numb fingertips. Foot feels frost-bitten. Pains in soles. Drowsy. Yawning. Inactive skin.

Related

Related: Caus. Coccl. Pic-ac. Zin.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Phosphate of Potassium (KALI PHOSPHORICUM)

General

One of the greatest nerve remedies. Prostration. Weak and tired. Especially adapted to the young. Marked disturbance of the sympathetic nervous system. Conditions arising from want of nerve power, neurasthenia, mental and physical depression, are wonderfully improved this remedy. The causes are usually excitement, overwork and worry. Besides, it corresponds to states of adynamia and decay, gangrenous conditions. In these two directions it has won many clinical laurels. Remember it in the treatment of suspected malignant tumors. After removal of cancer when in healing process skin is drawn tight over the wound. Delayed labor.

Mind

Anxiety, nervous dread, lethargy. Indisposition to meet people. Extreme lassitude and depression. Very nervous, starts easily, irritable. Brain-fag; hysteria; night terrors. Somnambulance. Loss of memory. Slightest labor seems a heavy task. Great despondency about business. Shyness; disinclined to converse.

Head

Occipital headache; better, after rising. Vertigo, from lying, on standing up, from sitting, and when looking upward (Granat). Cerebral anæmia. Headache of students, and those worn out by fatigue. Headaches are relieved by gentle motion. Headache, with weary, empty, gone feeling at stomach (Ign; Sep).

Eyes

Weakness of sight; loss of perceptive power; after diphtheria; from exhaustion. Drooping of eyelids (Caust).

Ears

Humming and buzzing in the ears.

Nose

Nasal disease, with offensive odor; fetid discharge.

Face

Livid and sunken, with hollow eyes. Right-sided neuralgia relieved by cold applications.

Mouth

Breath offensive, fetid. Tongue coated brownish, like mustard. Excessively dry, in the morning. Toothache, with easily-bleeding gums; they have a bright-red seam on them. Gums spongy and receding (Caps; Hamam; Lach).

Throat

Gangrenous sore throat. Paralysis of the vocal cords.

Stomach

A nervous "gone" sensation at the pit of the stomach (Ign; Sep; Sulph). Feels seasick without nausea.

Abdomen

Diarrhœa; foul, putrid odor; occasioned by fright, with depression and exhaustion. Diarrhœa while eating. Dysentery; stools consist of pure blood; patient becomes delirious; abdomen swells. Cholera; stools have the appearance of rice water (Verat; Ars; Jatrop). Prolapsus recti (Ign; Pod).

Female

Menstruation too late or too scanty in pale, irritable, sensitive, lachrymose females. Too profuse discharge, deep-red or blackish-red, thin and not coagulating; sometimes with offensive odor. Feeble and ineffectual labor pains.

Male

Nocturnal emissions; sexual power diminished utter prostration after coitus (Kali carb).

Urinary Organs

Enuresis. Incontinence of urine. Bleeding from the urethra. Very yellow urine.

Respiratory

Asthma; least food aggravates. Short breath on going upstairs. Cough; yellow expectoration.

Extremities

Paralytic lameness in back and extremities. Exertion aggravates. Pains, with depression, and subsequent exhaustion.

Fever

Subnormal temperature.

Modalities

Worse, excitement, worry, mental and physical exertion; eating, cold, early morning. Better, warmth, rest, nourishment.

Relationship

Compare: Kali hypophosph (Debility with wasting of muscular tissue. Phosphaturia with general anæmia or leucocythemia. Effects of excessive tea drinking. Chronic bronchitis where the expectoration is thick and fetid, sometimes scanty and tough. Dose.--5 grains of crude to 3x). Genista.--Dyer's Weed--(contains scopolamin; frontal headache and vertigo, worse motion, better open air and eating. Dry throat, awakes with waterbrash. Itching eruption on elbows, knees and ankles. Promotes diuresis in dropsical conditions). Macrozamia Spiralis (Extreme debility after severe illness; collapse. Weariness from no assignable cause, no pains. Boring pain at vertex; vomiting and retching all night; impossible to open eyes, giddiness and cold). Zinc; Gels; Cimicif; Laches; Mur ac.

Dose

Third to twelfth trituration. The highest potencies seem to be indicated in certain cases.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Phosphate of Potassium. K 2 HPO 4 . Trituration. Solution in distilled water.

Clinical

Alopecia areata. Amenorrhœa. Anæmia. Asthma. Atrophy. Brain, concussion of. Brain-fag. Brain-softening. Cancrum oris. Carbuncle. Chilblains. Cholerine. Diphtheria. Dysentery. Enuresis. Face, neuralgia of. Feet, fidgety. Gangrene. Hypochondriasis. Hysteria. Insomnia. Melancholia. Menstrual headaches. Nervous dyspepsia. Neurasthenia. Night-terrors. Noma. Nymphomania. Œdema pulmonum. Paralysis. Pneumonia. Ptosis. Puerperal fever. Puerperal mania. Sciatica. Scurvy. Stomach, ulcer of. Ulcers. Urticaria. Whitlow.

Characteristics

According to Schüssler: K. ph . is contained in the cells of the brain, nerves, muscles, blood (corpuscles and plasma), and intercellular fluids; and a disturbance in the motions of its molecules produces:-( 1 ) In Thought cells: Despondency, anxiety, fearfulness, tearfulness, home-sickness, suspiciousness, agoraphobia, weak memory. ( 2 ) In Vaso-motor Nerves: First, small and frequent pulse; later, retarded. ( 3 ) In Sensory Nerves: Pains with sensation of paralysis. ( 4 ) In Motor Nerves: Weakness of muscles and nerves even to paralysis. ( 5 ) In Trophic fibres of Sympathetic Nerve: Retarded nutrition; even total arrest in a limited area of cells and then a softening. Depression is the characteristic of its action; conversely it cures depressed states of mind and body, hypochondriasis, hysteria, neurasthenia, nervous insomnia, spasms of irritable weakness, paralysis; septic states and septic fevers and hæmorrhages, noma, scurvy, phagedenic chancre, carbuncles, typhoid, typhus fever and adynamic states, progressive muscular atrophy, round ulcer of stomach (due to disturbed function of trophic fibres of the sympathetic), alopecia areata (due, according to Schüssler, to the same cause). ─ Thus far Schüssler, to whom we owe the medicine; and a very excellent ground-work of indications it provides. The action of the phosphoric element is very clearly visible, but for accurate prescribing something is needed beyond Schüssler's indications, excellent as they are; and this something has been provided by a proving published by H. C. Allen in Med. Adv ., xxviii. 194. Schüssler, as is usual with him, uses lower triturations, from 3x to 12x. No doubt that is wise when prescribing on the general indications he gives; but those who prescribe on the fine indications need not limit themselves to these. H. C. Allen's symptoms will be found in the subjoined Schema. As Allen points out, a vein of Kali symptoms runs through the proving, e.g ., early morning waking, the peculiar mouth, and the severe action on the skin. (I may add to these " < after coitus," and "sensitiveness to touch.") In menstrual headaches it is indicated, and in neurasthenia, and Allen has developed clinically the characteristic colour of the excretions ─ golden or orange-yellow. The urine is very yellow. He cured with K. ph . an old pelvic abscess, with orange-coloured discharge, having given the remedy for sleeplessness. The provers experienced great lassitude; they lost much flesh. Nervous, hot, restless, easily startled. Trembling of hands from nervousness. Sensations : as if tongue would cleave to roof of mouth; as if a ball were rising in throat; as if a rocket had passed through head. Stitching pains. Numb finger-tips. The least touch causes starting. There is a toothache alternating with headache. K. ph . corresponds to those numerous cases in which there is increased sensitiveness to all impressions, from a weakness of the vital organismic resistance or control. In weakened states from shock, mental or physical, from over-strain or over-drain of the system. Nervous, restless; fidgety feeling in feet; trembling sensation in muscles of legs, especially of gastrocnemii. Numb sensations. W. T. Laird ( H. R ., xiv. 461) points out that K. ph . cures a nervous dyspepsia almost identical with that of Anac. The K. ph . patient is more decidedly neurasthenic than the other; and the relapses, which are frequent in both, are mostly due to dietetic errors in Anac . cases, and to excitement or worry in the K. ph . cases. H. M. Rean ( Hom. News , xxviii. 82) reports three cases of amenorrhœa cured: Miss B., 19, very nervous, pale blonde, skin rather waxy, cross and snappish, cries easily, constant dull headache, yet very drowsy all day. ─ At times so fidgety could not control herself, and called her mother to hold her hands. Menses did not appear till eighteen, and were scanty then and since. K. ph . 3x four times daily caused great improvement at next menstrual period. In three months menses were regular and normal, and in five months the patient was perfectly well. H. T. Dodge gives these indications: Worn-out nursing mothers, tired to distraction by nervous babies. Worn-out business and professional men. Special indications being: Foul breath with low nervous condition; tongue with brownish mustard-like coat; dull heavy ache between shoulders; restlessness. He commends the higher attenuations where indications are close ( Hom. News , xxix. 10, quoting Critique ). ─ J. C. Nottingham ( H. R ., vii. 229) considers a leading indication of K. ph . "nervousness arising from excessive sexual excitement, whether indulged or suppressed . He as cured impotence and seminal losses on these indications. Accompanying symptoms are: Aching in sacrum, sleeplessness, pain in back of neck and head , general irritability, great despondency , frequent micturition, large quantities being passed night and day and containing phosphates. ─ H. C. Allen reports a case of subacute laryngitis in a woman six weeks after confinement, occurring concurrently with suppressed lochia and piles and non-appearing leucorrhœa, to which she had been subject. She was almost in articulo mortis when, on these indications ─ "In cases coming late under treatment, with great weakness, pale bluish face, &c." (Raue) "Speech slow, becoming inarticulate, creeping paralysis" (Hering) and "The oxydation processes, the change of gases on respiration and other chemical transformations in the blood is brought about by the presence of K. ph ." (Grauvogl). ─ K. ph . 30 was given and rapidly rescued the patient from the dangerous condition, though other remedies were required to complete the cure, in the course of which the piles and discharges came back. ─ K. ph . craves ice-cold water, vinegar, and sweets. The conditions are: < After eating (stomach and bowels and maxillæ ─ diarrhœa while eating); after rising in morning on falling asleep; by lying on painful part by sitting and walking at 3 to 5 a.m.; in early morning (diarrhœa) from exposure to cold (neuralgic pains); from coitus; from continued motion; from sneezing (side pains); from facing the sun (eye pain); after drinking water (bearing-down pains); by lying down (ears); by lying on back (lumbar pains). > When menses come on ( < before); after lying down; leaning against something; sitting up; bending double (colic in hypogastrium); from belching gas; from warmth; from motion if slight and of short continuance; from eating (occipital headache); by daylight (nervousness); out of doors (dull headache). It is suited to pale, sensitive, irritable persons.

Relations

Compatible: Cycl. (disordered mental conditions); K. mur. (puerperal fever); Mag. ph. (bladder troubles); Zinc ph. (brain paralysis with nephritic irritation); Nat. m. and Nit. ac. (hæmorrhages). Compare: Phos., Phos. ac., the Kalis; Rhus (typhoid states; > motion, < by cold); Anac. (nervous dyspepsia); Hyo. (mania); Fer. (diarrhœa while eating); Ign. (hysteria); Bapt. (typhoid low conditions); K. ca. ( < by coitus; stitching pains); Cycl. (menstrual headache); Op. (drowsiness); Lach. ( < from sleep; typhoid states; putrid discharges; post-diphtheritic paralysis; > menses coming on); Arn. and Con. (blows); Con. (suppressed sexual excitement); Ars., Carb. v., Chi., Kre., Phyt., Puls. Compare also Agaricus. Hering says mushrooms contain K. Ph ., and hence are useful after weakening illness to restore muscle and nerve.

Causation

Mechanical injuries. Blows. Sexual excitement, indulged or suppressed.

Mind

Morose, irritable; tearful; averse to be talked to; everything is too much; depression. ─ Lethargy. ─ Cannot recall names or words; mind sluggish, but will act if aroused. ─ Extreme lassitude and depression; apprehensive. ─ Loss of memory. ─ Exhaustion after moderate mental effort. ─ Flies into a passion and can hardly articulate; tongue feels thick. ─ Restless. ─ Nervous; starting. ─ Perverted affections; cruel to husband; to baby. ─ Indifferent and captious.

Head

Giddy when out of doors, < when facing sun. ─ Seasick without nausea. ─ Vertigo with pressure on brain. ─ Occipital headache, lasting all night; frequent waking, with the pain > on rising. ─ Woke with pains in occiput and loins, > lying on back, passed off after rising. ─ Pains from l. eye to head, making him wretchedly ill; no > after sleep. ─ Dull headache across eyes, > outdoors; < l. side; l. eyelid droops. ─ Before menses violent tearing in forehead and sense of fatigue, > lying down and on menses appearing. ─ Pain through base of brain from eyes to occiput, < night, > eating and gentle motion. ─ (Headache before and during menses; r. eye to occiput, > heat, pressure, lying down, eating, gentle motion; < noise; always hungry, with headache.). ─ Burning in forehead during stool. ─ Intense headache from emotions and physical effort. ─ Headache: morning on awaking; with vomiting of sour phlegm; making eyes unable to bear light. ─ Pain across forehead and into both temples. ─ Neuralgic pain at base of brain and upper spine. ─ Sensation of a band round forehead just above eyes. ─ Heavy dull pain over eyes as if brain would expand but for cranial bones. ─ Sharp darting pain over l. orbit. ─ Neuralgia in r. parietal eminence. ─ (An aching nervous sensation in cerebellum and upper cranial region, with tenderness, involving entire head when aggravated.). ─ Intense itching on scalp, < morning after waking. ─ Soreness back of head, < pressure. ─ Back of head sore, as if hair being pulled; then as if hairpins sticking in. ─ Neuralgia in l. mastoid process, < motion and in open air. ─ Itching of scalp; bald and dry.

Eyes

Conjunctivæ inflamed. ─ Watery secretion from eyes. ─ Sensation: of sticks in eyes; of sand; dryness; burning; pricking and smarting. ─ Eves full of mucus; < evening. ─ Balls (l.) ache and are sore, tender to touch and pressure. ─ Lids: swollen; agglutinated in morning; stye on l. lower; l. lid droops, almost closed. ─ Sharp pain from eyes (r.) to temples in morning; > pressing on temples. ─ Eyes feel sore round edge of lids, and burn as though they had been full of smoke. ─ Eyes sore as after crying hard; awoke with severe pain through l. eye; throbbed and was < in sunlight. ─ Eyes twitch. ─ Eyes blurred. ─ Intolerance of light with headache. ─ Eyes tire with reading. ─ Black spots moving before eyes.

Ears

Itching and pimples in canal and external ear. ─ Deep-seated pain in ears, stinging, itching; < lying down. ─ Sharp pain in l. ear and down l. cheek. ─ Fulness, singing, and surging in ears. ─ Hearing too sensitive; cannot endure noise.

Nose

(An inveterate catarrh was greatly relieved after proving the 30th. ─ Thick yellow discharge, < morning.). ─ Nostrils stopped, discharge of clear, stringy mucus. ─ Obstruction; sneezes on slightest exposure to air 2 a.m.; fluent watery coryza. ─ Violent sneezing with symptoms of fresh cold. ─ Sores inside nares with yellow crusts, and dark blood. ─ Symptoms of cold with headache. ─ Soft green or white discharge ( < r. nostril). ─ Small growth, very sensitive, at opening of l. nostril (lasted two weeks). ─ Very sensitive smell and lack of smell.

Face

Itching: under beard; on r. cheek and temples. ─ Itching pimples on forehead, suppurating next day. ─ Brown patch from edge of brow to eyebrows three inches wide, lasting three months. ─ Neuralgic stitches, esp. from upper teeth to l. ear, and from temples forward to a point just above r. eye, < from cold air (whilst driving), > by warmth of hand. ─ Hydroa on lips; on upper lip r. corner; lip feels swollen and itchy. ─ Pimples and sore crusts on lips; peeling. ─ Soreness and swelling of parotids and axillary glands. ─ Red, hot, burning face and forehead, at other times pale and yellow. ─ Sickly, pale, dirty complexion. ─ Pain in jawbones with stinging and aching, > after eating, speaking, walking, and by touch. ─ Warm feeling, as if a candle were held near l. cheek.

Teeth

Teeth feel sore. ─ Severe pains in decayed or filled teeth; surrounding gums much swollen. ─ Pain in teeth after every cold. ─ Aching in teeth, with much secretion of saliva. ─ Grinding teeth, and mumbling, in sleep. ─ Swelling of gums and upper lip; aching of teeth all night and forenoon. ─ Gums feel swollen, soft, bleed easily. ─ Dull frontal headache and nausea with dizziness, alternating with toothache.

Mouth

L. submaxillary gland swollen and sensitive. ─ Offensive odour from mouth; mornings, like rotten cheese. ─ Tongue: white; and slimy; greenish yellow; upper surface of, stiff; edges red and sore; red edges and transverse cracks. ─ Roof of mouth: swollen; in ridges; feels as though lined with grease. ─ Saliva profuse; and thick and salty; mouth tastes badly. ─ Taste: bitter in morning; putrid, bitter, and sour.

Throat

Tonsils large and sore, esp. l.; dry sensation in throat as if from husks of grain. ─ In morning both tonsils have distinct white solid deposits like diphtheric membranes; traces of it on pillars of fauces. ─ Severe shooting pain from l. tonsil to inner ear, while driving in forenoon. ─ Severe pain r. tonsil, < swallowing. ─ Soreness; full sensation; burning soreness and dryness, evening. ─ Mucus: much after rising, causing nausea; salty.

Appetite

Hungry; but sight of food took away all appetite. ─ No appetite; except for sweets. ─ Appetite first increased; later, lost till end of proving. ─ Desire for vinegar. ─ Great thirst; for ice-cold water, a quantity at a time. ─ Sweat during meals with drinking.

Stomach

Nausea after eating, afterwards drowsiness. ─ Belching, smelling of sour and bitter food and of blood. ─ Vomiting of blood and palpitation of the heart. ─ Eructations of bile, < after eating. ─ Nausea > by belching. ─ Stomach: growls during menses; sore as if pounded; gnawing in, 5 a.m. on waking; fulness and burning in.

Abdomen

Region of liver sensitive to pressure. ─ Stinging and catching in spleen, < from motion. ─ Awoke with extreme soreness of back and sides; sneezing occasionally, constant desire to; seems as though sides would break when sneezing. ─ Abdomen distended with pain. ─ Colic in hypogastrium, with ineffectual urging to stool; after breakfast; > bending double. ─ Borborygmus (afternoon); fermentation; soreness. ─ Sharp cutting pains r. side. ─ Bearing down, > sitting up; < l. side; < after drinking water. ─ Flatulence, griping, < when eating.

Stool and Anus

Stool: clay-coloured, watery; with urging, putrid flatus, followed by tenesmus, after breakfast; light-coloured, offensive, unsatisfactory; profuse, painless, offensive, before 6 a.m., imperative; offensive, undigested, dark; < after breakfast and supper; < after dinner, < after breakfast and dinner. ─ Diarrhœa while eating. ─ Constipation; stools dark brown, streaked with yellowish green mucus. ─ Aching in shoulders and arms, > by motion, evening. ─ Burning in forehead with stool; afterwards slight chill from behind up back. ─ Hæmorrhoids protruding, with swelling and burning pains. ─ (Paretic condition of rectum and colon following removal of hæmorrhoids).

Urinary Organs

Urine saffron yellow, reddish sandy sediment. ─ Scanty, stream sluggish, a few drops pass later and wet linen. ─ After micturition: burning, smarting in urethra. ─ Stitching in bladder and urethra.

Male Sexual Organs

Passion increased; priapism in morning. ─ Sexual instinct depressed; impotence. ─ Strong desire, erections with desire to urinate, mornings; followed by impotence and painful seminal emissions at night. ─ Utter prostration and weak vision after coitus. ─ Emissions without erections.

Female Sexual Organs

Menses: five days early, scanty, with dragging pain in l. lower jaw; (late in appearing; amenorrhœa); irregular, scanty, almost black, first day thick. ─ Stomach growls and legs ache as if about to become unwell. ─ Before menses: sense of fatigue. ─ During menses: sharp bearing-down pain; sensation of being bloated to bursting; restlessness, > moving and lying on abdomen; sharp pain through l. ovary, > lying on back, and by bending double; dull bursting headache, pain in l. leg and groin, tired and sleepy, borborygmus and heartburn at night. ─ Stitching all through pelvis and in womb. ─ Pains: in l. side and ovaries; across sacrum; across abdomen, l. to r. ─ (Chronic abscess discharging periodically through vagina and rectum a copious orange-coloured fluid.). ─ Yellow, greenish, blistering leucorrhœa, with too short menses. ─ Intense sexual desire for four or five days after menses. ─ Bloody discharge during pregnancy. ─ Feeling of heavy weight on pelvis pressing down and backward. ─ Night-pains during pregnancy.

Respiratory Organs

Cough: from irritation in trachea just below larynx, with scanty, thick, white, yellowish expectoration; without expectoration, 2 to 2.30 a.m.; sudden unexpected spell preceded by pressure in throat. ─ Hoarseness, trachea feels hurt. ─ Rattling or whistling cough; expectoration green or like soap-suds. ─ Sputa; like salt, fetid or sweet; (yellow in phthisis).

Chest

Intensely sharp, cutting pains (transitory) under (r.) breast and near waist, catching breath. ─ Chest: painful; stinging in chest and sides; sore to touch; aching, l., through to scapulæ.

Heart

Dull throbbing, l. side, seems to stop heart beating. ─ Vomiting of blood, with palpitation. ─ Palpitation from slightest motion or ascending stairs.

Neck and Back

Stiff neck from swelling of glands. ─ Neck lame, tender to touch. ─ Aching between scapulæ. ─ Stitches: severe in middle of back; towards front of chest with dyspnœa; > leaning against something, < lying on back and sitting or walking. ─ Awoke with pains in occiput and loins, > lying on back, passed off after rising. ─ Creeping sensation and intense pain along spine relieving the headache at intervals. ─ Back: lame as from a fall; sore from shoulders down.

Limbs

Drawing pains in back and limbs, esp. of soles to knees, and shoulders to head, > by warmth and (temporarily) by moving the parts. ─ Awakens 5 a.m. with rheumatic pains in r. leg and both arms, passing away 10 a.m. ─ Constant pain in back and limbs, > motion.

Upper Limbs

Aching in shoulders and arms, > motion. ─ Severe pain in scapulæ on waking in morning, had to sit up in order to turn over. ─ Pain first in r., then l. scapula. ─ Soreness and swelling of axillary and parotid glands. ─ Pain in arms from raising them. ─ Twitching of muscles of arms and fingers. ─ Numbness of r. arm and hand; itching and purple. ─ No feeling in finger-tips.

Lower Limbs

Weak, tired, with pains in legs and back, > by gentle motion. ─ Pain in l. groin; throbbing pain in r. ─ Thighs lame. ─ Legs swollen, numb. ─ Pain in r. great toe and across instep, not > taking off shoe. ─ Feet: cold, perspiring; swelling of, cracking of heels; burning of toes and soles; stinging of soles. ─ Fidgety feet.

Skin

Blue spots on calves as if they would ulcerate. ─ Itching: of whole skin, < on chest and under arms; in the night, esp. on scalp and under beard, soles, and palms, < 3 to 5 a.m. ─ Pimples, small boils, itching. ─ Pricking in abdomen as from a pin.

Sleep

Woke early, nervous, hot, restless; expected to see burglar enter. ─ During sleep: mumbling and grinding teeth; talking. ─ Sleepy, yawning, hard to wake. ─ Very hard to awake, eyes hurt they feel so sleepy, yawns a great deal. ─ Talks in sleep. ─ Pains frequently change location and keep him awake; from 2 or 3 to 4 a.m. ─ Dreamed he was only partially clothed in a public place. ─ Tendency to sleep on back developed (which was very uncomfortable before the proving). ─ Lascivious dreams, with emission, wakes angry and cross. ─ Sleeplessness during latter part of night (cured during the proving). ─ (The instant she fell into a doze was aroused by violent spasms in l. ovary.). ─ Night-terrors of children; awoke from sound sleep screaming with fright; somnambulism. ─ Sleeplessness: from excessive mental exertion; after worry over business troubles; from nervous exhaustion; simple painless wakefulness.

Fever

Chills run up spine in evening, continued after retiring, could scarcely get warm in bed. ─ Chilly; cold all day; heat during night, with strong inclination to eat. ─ Return of offensive axillary sweat (cured months before with Lach .) Axillary sweat of odour of onions.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

Mind

Loss of memory, or weak memory.
Quiet delirium. θ Dysentery. θ Pneumonia.
Delirium tremens ; horrors of drunkards ; fear, sleeplessness, restlessness and suspicion ; rambling talk ; endeavors to grasp or avoid visionary images.
Says she is eternally and irretrievably damned ; continually weeping and crying, wringing her hands, pulling to pieces and tearing her clothing, as well as bed covering ; does not recognize her surroundings ; no sleep ; staring
eyes ; often must be held by two persons ; food and medicine must be forcibly administered. θ Melancholia religiosa.
Anxiety, nervous dread without special cause, gloomy moods, fancies, taking dark views of things, dark forebodings.
Melancholia and other similar ailments, which arise from deranged mental function, caused by overstrain of mind, or from exhausting drainings affecting nerve centres of spinal cord.
Sighing or moaning, also when occurring during sleep.
Whining and fretful disposition in children and adults.
Crying or screaming in children, from undue sensitiveness.
Hysterical fits of laughter and crying ; yawning.
Shyness, excessive blushing, from undue sensitiveness.
Vexation, restlessness and irritability.
Easily frightened, and inclined to fear.
Depression of spirits and lassitude.
Profound hypochondria and melancholia, weariness of life and fear of death, suspiciousness, weeping mood.
Dread of noise, oversensitiveness to noise and light.
Homesickness, morbid activity of memory, haunted by visions of past, and longing after them.

Sensorium

Concussion of brain.
Nervous vertigo ; cerebral anemia.

Inner head

Excruciating nervous headache, with great sensitiveness to noise, during menses.
Pains and weight at back of head, with feeling of weariness and exhaustion.
Headache of students ; brain fag from overwork.
Headache > by motion.
Softening of brain ; early stage ; hydrocephalus.
Brain affections with diarrhœa smelling like carrion.

Sight and eyes

Weak sight ; from exhausted condition of optic nerve ; strabismus ; after diphtheria.
Excited, staring appearance of eyes.
Drooping of eyelids.

Hearing and ears

Deafness, from want of nervous perception, weakness, or exhaustion of auditory nerve.
Noises in ears from nervous exhaustion ; nervous roaring.
Ulceration of membrana tympani and middle ear suppurations, with foul discharge.
Atrophic conditions of nerve.

Smell and nose

Epistaxis ; from predisposition or weakness ; ozæna.
Hay fever with nervous irritability.

Upper face

Face livid and sunken, with hollow eyes.
Neuralgia in right side of face, proceeding from hollow teeth, > by cold applications.
Facial neuralgia ; great weakness after attack.
Loss of power in muscles of face, causing contortions, or an involuntary twist of mouth. θ Paralysis.

Teeth and gums

Chattering of teeth, nervous.
Toothache of highly nervous, delicate, pale, irritable, sensitive persons.
Bright red border, easily bleeding gums ; scorbutic.

Taste, speech, tongue

Tongue : coated, like stale, brownish, liquid mustard ; offensive breath ; excessively dry in morning, feeling as if it would cleave to roof of mouth.

Inner mouth

Breath offensive, fetid ; stomatitis.
Gums spongy and receding.
Noma.

Palate and throat

Diphtheria, with marked, putrid, gangrenous condition, and fearful stench from mouth ; malignant.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Excessive hungry feeling, soon after eating, caused by nervous depression or weakness.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Inordinate appetite ; wants to eat almost every hour ; very tired and enervated.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Sweat during meals, with feeling of weakness at pit of stomach ; "gone sensation".
Indigestion with great nervous depression ; faint feeling.
Inflammation of stomach ; failing strength, dryness of tongue.

Hypochondria

Affection of spleen ; leukemia lienalis.

Abdomen and loins

Flatulence with distress about heart.
Inflammatory colic of horses with incipient gangrene.
Abdominal hernia and prolapsus ; in weak persons.

Stools and rectum

Diarrhœa : painless, watery ; with heavy odor ; occasioned by fright and other causes depressing and exhausting nerves ; putrid, carrion-like stools ; great prostration.
Delirium, dryness of tongue, tympanites ; carrion-like odor of discharges ; dysentery ; pure blood is discharged.
Stools : like rice water ; offensive, ichorous ; pure blood.
Vomiting and diarrhœa ; painful cramps in calves ; rice water stools. θ Cholera.
Cholera (second stage) caused by affection of nerves of intestinal canal.
Putrid and typhoid dysentery.

Urinary organs

Bright's disease ; depressed condition of nerves ; sleeplessness, irritability, weary feeling.
Diabetes ; nervous weakness ; breath peculiar, with hay-like odor, thirst, emaciation, often voracious hunger, all consequent on liver derangement.
Inflammation of bladder ; asthenic condition.
Catarrh of bladder ; vomiting, paleness of face, loss of strength and dryness of tongue.
Paralysis of sphincter, inability to retain urine, generally of old people.
Incontinence of urine, from paralysis of sphincter.
Obstinate enuresis ; general weakness.

Male sexual organs

Phagedenic chancre ; balanitis.

Female sexual organs

Catamenia : premature and profuse in nervous subjects ; too scanty ; too profuse, with heavy odor, dark red, or blackish red, thin and not coagulating.
Amenorrhœa, retention or delay of monthly flow, with depression of spirits, lassitude, and general nervous debility.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Labor pains : feeble and ineffectual ; spurious.
Mastitis, pus brownish, dirty looking, with heavy odor ; adynamic condition ; gangrenous, bad colored, bad smelling pus.
Childbed fever with absurd notions or mania.
Second stage of puerperal fever.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Speech slow, becoming inarticulate ; creeping paralysis.
Recent paralysis of vocal cords.
Hoarseness from overexertion of voice.
Croup, last stage ; extreme weakness, pale or livid countenance.

Respiration

Nervous asthma with depression ; asthma after most moderate use of food ; asthma with sallow features, sunken eyes, emaciation.
Shortness of breath ; asthmatic when going up stairs.

Cough

Whooping cough in highly nervous patients, or great exhaustion.

Inner chest and lungs

Pain in lower part of left thorax, < on coughing ; slight catarrhal cough ; tongue dry ; pulse frequent, small and intermittent ; no appetite ; great weakness.
Œdema pulmonum ; dyspnœa, spasmodic cough, with expectoration of frothy, serous masses ; lassitude and prostration ; livid countenance.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Palpitation : from nervous causes ; on ascending, with shortness of breath ; with nervousness, anxiety ; with sleeplessness.
Intermittent action of heart : with morbid, nervous sensitiveness ; from violent emotions, grief, care.
Fainting, from weak action of heart.
Pulse intermittent, irregular.
Sluggish circulation, in sensitive, nervous subjects ; to strengthen heart's action.

Neck and back

Spinal anemia from exhausting diseases.
Softening of spinal cord, loss of power, stumbles and trips.
Paralytic or rheumatic lameness, stiffness after rest, > by gentle motion.

Lower limbs

Rheumatic or neuralgic affections of sciatic nerve ; > from motion.
For two days drawing, laming pain in sole of foot ; affected place size of silver dollar, bluish.
Chilblains, if recent.

Limbs in general

Paralyzing pain in limbs, > by motion and external warmth.

Rest. position. motion

During rest : tearing, paralytic pains <.
After rest : stiffness ; severe rheumatism.
Rising : neuralgic pains < ; paralytic pains <.
Beginning to move : paralytic pains <.
Motion : headache > ; rheumatic affection > ; paralytic pains >.
Gentle exercise : neuralgic pains > ; stiffness > ; rheumatism >.
Going up stairs : shortness of breath.

Nerves

Starting on being touched, or at sudden noises.
Undue irritability, after exhausting diarrhœa or long continued use of purgatives.
Disposition to feel bodily pains too acutely.
Nervous attacks, from sudden or intense emotion, or from smothering passion ; in highly nervous and excitable persons ; also feeling as of a ball rising in throat.
Fits, from fright, with pallid or livid countenance.
Spasmodic attacks ; face pale and sunken, body and limbs cold, violent palpitation. θ Epilepsy.
Nervous affections, when occurring without reasonable causes, such as impatience, irritability, dwelling upon grievances, merriment becoming oppressive, shedding tears about trifles, making mountains out of mole hills.
Neuralgia, much reduced constitutions, paralyzing pains.
Neuralgic pains, > with gentle exercise, < on rising.
Sciatica.
Paroxysms of pain followed by great weakness.
Feeling of faintness ; lassitude and palpitation.
General debility, with nervousness and irritability.
Adynamic typhoid condition.
Collapse, with livid countenance and low pulse.
Tearing, paralytic pains in nerves, most during rest, > from motion without exertion, especially felt after rising from sitting, or on beginning to move.
Lameness : recent, paralytic, from exhaustion of nerves, with stiffness after rest, yielding to gentle exercise ; rheumatic ; rigidity of muscles.
Creeping paralysis ; course of disease slow ; tendency to wasting, with loss of sense of touch.
Shock of paralysis, with morbid sensibility, or a bruised and painful feeling in part affected, or rigidity of paralyzed limbs.
Paralysis dependent on exhaustion of nerve power in recent cases, as after diphtheria.
Paralytic states, nasal voice, strabismus, etc., after diphtheria.
Atrophic paralysis.
Infantile paralysis recent, and if connected with teething.
Softening of spinal cord, idiopathic, with gradual deadening of nerves.

Sleep

Yawning : excessive, unnatural ; hysterical.
Sleeplessness : after worry or excitement ; from nervous causes ; simple wakefulness.
Night terrors, in children awakening with fright and screaming ; somnambulism.
Noises in head on falling asleep, feeling as if a rocket had passed through head.

Time

Morning : tongue dry ; rheumatism.

Temperature and weather

External warmth : > paralytic pain in limbs.
Cold applications : neuralgia >.

Fever

Typhus or typhoid fevers ; haggard face, pulse whizzing or very small.
Ileo-typhus.
Intermittent fever ; sweat profuse and exhausting, fetid.
In yellow fever ; if Carbo vegetabilis is not sufficient.
Excessive, exhausting, strong swelling sweats.

Attacks, periodicity

Almost every hour : wants to eat.
For two days : drawing, laming pain in sole of foot.

Locality and direction

Right : neuralgia of face.
Left : pain in lower part of thorax.

Sensations

As if tongue would cleave to roof of mouth ; as of a ball rising in throat ; as if a rocket had passed through head.
Pains : at back of head ; in lower part of left thorax.
Lancinating nervous headache.
Tearing, paralytic pains ; in nerves.
Paralyzing pain : in limbs.
Painful cramps : in calves.
Drawing, laming pains : in sole of foot.
Rheumatic or neuralgic affections : of sciatic nerve.
Neuralgia : in right side of face.
Bruised and painful feeling : in part affected.
Dryness : of tongue.
Weight : at back of head.

Tissues

Function of brain cells depressed. θ After concussion.
All ailments which arise from or denote a want of nerve power ; hence nervous prostration, exhaustion, nervous rigors ; also all affections in which brain, and consequently mind, shows want of vigor.
Insanity, mania or other mental derangement ; from exhausted or depressed condition of brain or nerve cells, showing itself in perverted function.
Anemia or leukemia, caused by long lasting mental depression, poverty of blood from continuous influences depressing mind or nerves.
Too rapid decay of blood corpuscles.
Hemorrhages ; blood not coagulating, thin, blackish or light red.
Septic hemorrhages ; stench from mouth and stomach ; discharges smelling like carrion ; putrid gangrene ; prostration.
Scorbutus, gangrene, noma or stomatitis, gangrenous angina, phagedenic chancre, offensive, carrion-like diarrhœa, adynamic or typhoid conditions.
Fatty metamorphosis in muscular fibres.
Atrophy, wasting disease, putrid smelling stools.
Rheumatism, acute and chronic, with pains disappearing on moving about, severe in morning after rest, and on first rising from sitting position.
Rachitis with atrophy ; profuse, discolored, foul smelling diarrhœa ; violent thirst ; sometimes discolored vomiting ; brown covering of teeth, etc.
Suppurations, dirty, foul, ichorous fetid matter.
Cancer, encephaloid, medullary, soft (brain-like convolutions), chiefly occurring in young.
Noma.
Chancre, phagedenic.
Purpura hemorrhagica.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : causes him to start.
Mechanical injuries : ichorous discharge, gangrene.

Skin

Urticaria.
Vesicles, with bloody ichorous contents.
Greasy, offensive smelling crusts or scales.
Skin diseases with bad smelling discharge.
Scarlet fever : putrid condition of throat ; typhoidal.
Smallpox ; adynamia and decomposition of blood.
Offensive ulcers ; bad colored, ichorous, bad smelling.
Pemphigus malignus.

Stage of life, constitution

Pale, sensitive, irritable persons.
Atrophic conditions in old people.
Girl, æt. 7 ; enuresis.
Woman, æt. 33, pale and thin ; neuralgia of face.
Woman, æt. 44, formerly neither inclined to piety nor fanaticism ; melancholia religiosa.
Man, æt. 60 ; enuresis.
Man, æt. 80 ; mental alienation.

Relations

Compare : Arsen., Baptis., Carbo v., China, Ignat., Kreos., Laches., Mur. ac., Phosphor., Phytol., Pulsat., Rhus tox .
Compatible : Cycl ., disordered mental conditions ; Kali mur ., in puerperal fever ; Magnes. phos ., bladder troubles ; Zinc. phos .,
incipient paralysis of brain, with nephritic irritation ; Natr. mur., Nitr. ac . hemorrhages.
After weakening diseases, mushrooms, by virtue of containing Kali phos ., rapidly restore muscle and nerve tissue.