PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM

PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM

(Phosphoric Acid)

Ph-ac.

Phosphoric Acid is known for treating “debility,” prominently causing nervous exhaustion. It first affects mental strength, followed by physical. It benefits young, rapidly growing individuals who are mentally or physically overtaxed. It’s also effective after acute diseases, excesses, grief, or loss of vital fluids. Indications include pyrosis, flatulence, diarrhea, diabetes, rickets, periosteal inflammation, neurosis in amputated stumps, hemorrhages in typhoid, and cancer pain.

Mind: Listless, impaired memory, apathy, indifference, difficulty collecting thoughts or finding words, and poor comprehension. Effects of grief and mental shock include delirium with stupor and despair.

Head: Heaviness, confusion, and pain as if temples are crushed. Worse with shaking or noise. Crushing headaches, pressure on top. Early graying and hair loss. Dull headache after coition or eye strain. Evening vertigo when standing or walking.

Eyes: Blue rings around eyes, inflamed lids, dilated pupils, glassy appearance, photophobia, seeing rainbow colors, eyes feel too large, amblyopia in masturbators, torpid optic nerves, and pain as if eyeballs are forcibly pressed into the head.

Ears: Roaring sounds, difficulty hearing, intolerance of noise.

Nose: Epistaxis, nose itching, and boring fingers into the nose.

Face: Pale, earthy, tense feeling like dried albumen, and cold sensation on one side.

Mouth: Dry, cracked lips, bleeding gums, retracted gums, swollen dry tongue with frothy mucus, cold teeth sensation, and involuntary tongue biting at night.

Stomach: Craving for juicy foods, sour risings, nausea, symptoms after sour foods, weighty pressure with post-eating sleepiness, and thirst for cold milk.

Abdomen: Distention, fermentation, splenomegaly, umbilical aching, and loud rumbling.

Stool: White, watery, painless, involuntary diarrhea with flatus, common in weak, rachitic children.

Urinary: Frequent, profuse, watery, milky urine, diabetes, anxiety before and burning after urination, frequent nighttime urination, and phosphaturia.

Male: Night emissions, seminal vesiculitis, deficient sexual power, tender swollen testicles, parts relax during embrace, prostatorrhea, scrotum eczema, prepuce edema, swollen glans penis, herpes preputialis, and sycotic excrescences.

Female: Early, profuse menses with liver pain, post-menstrual yellow leucorrhea, scanty milk, and deteriorated health from nursing.

Respiratory: Chest issues after brainfag, hoarseness, dry cough from chest tickling, salty expectoration, difficult respiration, and chest weakness from talking, with pressure behind the sternum causing breathing difficulty.

Heart: Palpitations in rapidly growing children or after grief/self-abuse, irregular, intermittent pulse.

Back: Boring pain between scapulae, back and limb pain like being beaten.

Extremities: Weakness, tearing joint and bone pains, upper arm and wrist cramps, nighttime bone-scraping pain, stumbling, missteps, and itching between fingers or joint folds.

Sleep: Somnolence and lascivious dreams with emissions.

Fever: Chills, night and morning sweat, low-grade fever with dull comprehension and stupor.

Skin: Pimples, acne, ulcers with offensive pus, burning rash, formication, hair loss, and tendency to abscess post-fever.

Modalities: Better with warmth; worse with exertion, being talked to, loss of vital fluids, and sexual excesses. Symptoms worsen with anything impeding circulation.

Relationships: Compare with Oenothera biennis (effortless diarrhea, nervous exhaustion, incipient hydrocephalus, whooping cough, and spasmodic asthma), Nectranada amara (watery diarrhea, dry tongue, colic, bluish ring around sunken eyes, restless sleep), Chin., Nux-v., Pic-ac., Lac-ac., Phos.

Antidotes: Coff.

Dose: First potency.