Kali Phosphoricum

Questions

What is the general application of this drug?

In troubles of the nervous system; it corresponds to the condition known as neurasthenia, and is a restorative in muscular debility following acute diseases.

What are the mental conditions calling for its use ?

There is a gloomy, depressed irritable mental state; trifles annoy ; the patient looks on the dark side of everything; there is a loss of memory, crossness and fretfulness in children.

What mental diseases is it useful in ?

Melancholia and mania; somnambulistic states, or any state where there is mental aberration ; hallucinations and illusions, puerperal mania and delirium tremens. Give the typhoid symptoms of Kali phosphoricum. There is a dry tongue, brown in color, foul and putrid diarrhoea, great debility, low pulse, offensive breath, and sordes on the teeth ; there is also great mental depression , delirium, etc. Give indications for Kali phosphoricum in Enuresis or wetting the bed. Where it is due to a paralytic or paretic condition of the bladder or from nervous debility; there is inability to retain the urine.

What symptoms has Kali phosphoricum in the back ?

There is rheumatic lameness of the back, which is worse after rest and on just commencing to move; they are especially worse on rising from a sitting position; there seems to be a paralytic tendency.

What drug has these same symptoms ?

Rhus iox.