FERRUM PHOSPHORICUM

FERRUM PHOSPHORICUM

(Phosphate of Iron)

Ferr-p.

In the early stages of febrile conditions, Ferr-p. lies between the high activity of Acon. and Bell. and the sluggishness of Gels. The typical Ferr-p. patient is not robust but nervous, sensitive, anemic, with easy flushing. They experience marked prostration, with a more active face than Gels., but without the dusky hue. The pulse is soft and flowing, lacking Acon.’s anxious restlessness. There is a susceptibility to chest issues, such as bronchitis in young children, and it is a fine palliative in acute tuberculosis exacerbations. It corresponds to Grauvogl’s oxygenoid constitution, characterized by inflammatory, febrile, and wasting conditions.

Ferr-p. is a remedy for the initial stage of all febrile disturbances and inflammations before exudation, especially in catarrhal respiratory affections. Ferr-p. 3x boosts hemoglobin in pale, anemic individuals with violent local congestions. It addresses bright hemorrhages from any orifice.

Head: Soreness to touch, cold, noise, or jar; rush of blood to the head; sunstroke effects; throbbing sensation; vertigo; headache relieved by cold applications.

Eyes: Red, inflamed with a burning sensation; feeling of sand under the lids; hyperemia of the optic disc and retina with blurred vision.

Ears: Noises, throbbing; first stage of otitis with red and bulging tympanic membrane; acute otitis where Bell. fails, preventing suppuration.

Nose: Early stage of cold; predisposition to colds; epistaxis with bright red blood.

Face: Flushed, with sore and hot cheeks; florid complexion; facial neuralgia worsened by head movement or stooping.

Throat: Hot mouth; red, inflamed fauces; ulcerated sore throat; swollen tonsils; inflamed Eustachian tubes; sore throat in singers; subacute laryngitis with inflamed fauces; post-surgery bleeding control and soreness relief; early stage of diphtheria; ranula in vascular individuals.

Stomach: Aversion to meat and milk; craving for stimulants; vomiting of undigested food or bright red blood; sour eructations.

Abdomen: Early stage of peritonitis; hemorrhoids; watery, bloody, undigested stools; early stage of dysentery with blood in discharges.

Urinary: Urine spurts with cough; incontinence; bladder neck irritation; polyuria; diurnal enuresis.

Female: Menses every three weeks with metrorrhagia and dysmenorrhea, bearing down sensation, and head pain; vaginismus; dry, hot vagina.

Respiratory: Early stage of inflammatory conditions; lung congestion; hemoptysis; short, painful, tickling cough; croup; hard, dry cough with sore chest; hoarseness; pure blood expectoration in pneumonia; cough better at night.

Heart: Palpitations; rapid pulse; early stage of cardiac diseases; short, quick, soft pulse.

Extremities: Stiff neck; articular rheumatism; back crick; rheumatic pain in the shoulder extending to chest and wrist; whitlow; hot palms; swollen, painful hands.

Sleep: Restless, sleepless; anxious dreams; night sweats of anemia.

Fever: Daily chill at 1 p.m.; all catarrhal and inflammatory fevers in the early stage.

Modalities: Worse at night and from 4 to 6 a.m., with touch, jar, motion, and on the right side; better with cold applications.

Relationship: Compare with Acon., Chin., Ars., Graph., Petr. Ferrum pyrophosphoricum is related for brain congestion and headache following significant blood loss, and tarsal cysts.