PHOSPHORUS
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Boericke's Materia Medica
- irritates, inflames and degenerates mucous membranes
- irritates and inflames serous membranes
- inflames spinal cord and nerves, causing paralysis
- destroys bone, especially the lower jaw and tibia
- disorganizes the blood
- fatty degeneration of blood vessels and every tissue and organ of the body
- hemorrhages
- hematogenous jaundice
- destructive metabolism
- yellow atrophy of the liver
- sub-acute hepatitis
- great nervous debility
- emaciation
- amative tendencies
- great susceptibility to external impressions
- suddenness of symptoms
- sudden prostration
- faints
- sweats
- shooting pains
- Polycythemia
- Blood extravasations
- fatty degenerations
- cirrhosis
- caries
- Muscular pseudo-hypertrophy
- neuritis
- Inflammation of the respiratory tract
- Paralytic symptoms
- Ill effects of iodine and excessive use of salt
- Tertiary syphilis
- skin lesions
- nervous debility
- Scurvy
- Pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis
- Ataxia
- adynamia
- Osteo myelitis
- Bone fragility
- Great lowness of spirits
- Easily vexed
- Fearfulness, as if something were creeping out of every corner
- Clairvoyant state
- Great tendency to start
- Over-sensitive to external impressions
- Loss of memory
- Paralysis of the insane
- Ecstasy
- Dread of death when alone
- Brain feels tired
- Insanity, with an exaggerated idea of one's own importance
- Excitable, produces heat all over
- Restless
- fidgety
- Hypo-sensitive
- indifferent
- Vertigo of the aged, after rising
- Heat comes from spine
- Neuralgia
- Burning pains
- Chronic congestion of head
- Brain-fag, with coldness of occiput
- Vertigo, with faintness
- Skin of forehead feels too tight
- Itching of scalp
- dandruff
- falling out of hair in large bunches
- Cataract
- Sensation as if everything were covered with a mist or veil, or dust, or something pulled tightly over eyes
- Black points seem to float before the eyes
- Patient sees better by shading eyes with hand
- Fatigue of eyes and head even without much use of eyes
- Green halo about the candlelight
- Letters appear red
- Atrophy of optic nerve
- Edema of lids and about the eyes
- Pearly white conjunctiva and long curved lashes
- Partial loss of vision from abuse of tobacco
- Pain in orbital bones
- Paresis of extrinsic muscles
- Diplopia, due to deviation of the visual axis
- Amaurosis from sexual excess
- Glaucoma
- Thrombosis of retinal vessels and degenerative changes in retinal cells
- Degenerative changes where soreness and curved lines are seen in old people
- Retinal trouble with lights and hallucination of vision
- Hearing difficult, especially to human voice
- Re-echoing of sounds
- Dullness of hearing after typhoid
- Fan-like motion of nostrils
- Bleeding
- epistaxis instead of menses
- Over-sensitive smell
- Periostitis of nasal bones
- Foul imaginary odors
- Chronic catarrh, with small hemorrhages
- handkerchief is always bloody
- Polypi, bleeding easily
- Pale, sickly complexion
- blue rings under eyes
- Hippocratic countenance
- Tearing pain in facial bones
- circumscribed redness in one or both cheeks
- Swelling and necrosis of lower jaw
- Swelled and easily bleeding gums, ulcerated
- Toothache after washing clothes
- Tongue dry, smooth, red or white, not thickly coated
- Persistent bleeding after tooth extraction
- Nursing sore mouth
- Burning in esophagus
- Dryness in pharynx and fauces
- Thirst for very cold water
- Stricture of esophagus
- Hunger soon after eating
- Sour taste and sour eructations after every meal
- Belching large quantities of wind, after eating
- Throws up ingesta by the mouthfuls
- Vomiting
- water is thrown up as soon as it gets warm in the stomach
- Post-operative vomiting
- Cardiac opening seems contracted, too narrow
- Pain in stomach, relieved by cold food, ices
- Region of stomach painful to touch, or on walking
- Inflammation of stomach, with burning extending to throat and bowels
- Bad effects of eating too much salt
- Feels cold in abdomen
- Sharp, cutting pains in abdomen
- A very weak, empty, gone sensation felt in whole abdominal cavity
- Liver congested
- Acute hepatitis
- Fatty degeneration of liver
- Jaundice
- Pancreatic disease
- Large, yellow spots on abdomen
- Very fetid stools and flatus
- Long, narrow, hard stools, like a dog's
- Difficult to expel stools
- Desire for stool on lying on, left side
- Painless, copious debilitating diarrhea
- Green mucus with grains like sago in stool
- Involuntary stool
- Great weakness after stool
- Discharge of blood from rectum, during stool
- White, hard stools
- Bleeding hemorrhoids
- Hematuria, especially in acute Bright's disease
- Turbid, brown urine, with red sediment
- Lack of power in male
- Irresistible desire in male
- involuntary emissions, with lascivious dreams in male
- Metritis in female
- Chlorosis in female
- Phlebitis in female
- Fistulous tracks after mammary abscess in female
- Slight hemorrhage from uterus between periods in female
- Menses too early and scanty-not profuse, but last too long in female
- Weeps before menses in female
- Stitching pain in mammae in female
- Leucorrhea profuse, smarting, corrosive, instead of menses in female
- Amenorrhea, with vicarious menstruation in female
- Suppuration of mammae, burning, watery, offensive discharge in female
- Nymphomania in female
- Uterine polyps in female
- Hoarseness, worse evenings
- Larynx very painful
- Clergyman's sore throat
- violent tickling in larynx while speaking
- Aphonia, worse evenings, with rawness
- Cannot talk on account of pain in larynx
- Cough from tickling in throat
- Sweetish taste while coughing
- Hard, dry, tight, racking cough
- Congestion of lungs
- Burning pains, heat and oppression of chest
- Tightness across chest
- great weight on chest
- Sharp stitches in chest
- respiration quickened, oppressed
- Much heat in chest
- Pneumonia, with oppression
- Whole body trembles, with cough
- Sputa rusty, blood-colored, or purulent
- Tuberculosis in tall, rapidly-growing young people
- Repeated hemoptysis
- Pain in throat on coughing
- Nervous coughs provoked by strong odors, entrance of a stranger
- Violent palpitation with anxiety, while lying on left side
- Pulse rapid, small, and soft
- Heart dilated, especially right
- Feeling of warmth in heart
- Burning in back
- pain as if broken in back
- Heat between the shoulder-blades
- Weak spine
- Ascending sensory and motor paralysis from ends of fingers and toes
- Stitches in elbow and shoulder joints
- Burning of feet
- Weakness and trembling, from every exertion
- Can scarcely hold anything with his hands
- Tibia inflamed and becomes necrosed
- Arms and hands become numb
- Can lie only on right side
- Post-diphtheritic paralysis, with formication of hands and feet
- Joints suddenly give way
- Great drowsiness, especially after meals
- Coma vigil
- Sleeplessness in old people
- Vivid dreams of fire, of hemorrhage
- Lascivious dreams
- Goes to sleep late and awakens weak
- Short naps and frequent wakings
- Chilly every evening
- Cold knees at night
- Adynamic with lack of thirst, but unnatural hunger
- Hectic, with small, quick pulse
- viscid night-sweats
- Stupid delirium
- Profuse perspiration
- Wounds bleed very much, even if small
- they heal and break out again
- Jaundice
- Little ulcer outside of large ones
- Petechiae
- Ecchymosis
- Purpura hemorrhagica
- Scurvy
- Fungous hematodes and excrescences