Phosphoric Acid
Dewey, Essentials of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 1894, p. 185
Questions
"What is Phosphoric acid?
It is the ordinary Phosphoric acid of the chemist.
Give the general action of Phosphoric acid?
It produces ner\'Ons prostration and debility; an atonic condition of the gastro intestinal tract and bone affections.
Mention three grand characteristic uses of Phosphoric acid?
1. Debility from nervous causes. 2. Painless, watery, non-exhausting diarrhoea. 3. Ailments from sexual excesses. Describe the debility calling for Phosphoric acid. It is a nervous debility, arising from continued grief, over-exertion of mind, sexual excess or any nervous strain on the body; it is characterized by indifference, apathy, and torpidity of body and mind. Give the Diarrhoea. It is a watery, painless, oftentimes undigested, diarrhoea, preceded by rumbling in the bowels, and despite the frequency of the stool the patient does not seem weakened by it; the keynotes are absence of pain and absence of exhaustion. Give the indications for Phosphoric acid in effects of grief. Bad effects of grief due to depressing emotions; disappointed love, and also for homesickness.
How does Ignatia compare here?
Iguana is more for the immediate effects, while Phosphoric acid is more for the chronic, long lasting effects, coming in after Ignatia. Give the indications for Phosphoric acid in Diabetes. Glycosuria and Polyuria, urine looks milky or like jelly after standing; great debility; cough on slightest exposure; bruised feeling in muscles and burning in the spine; urine loaded with phosphates showing a greasy pellicle.
What are some clinical indications for Uranium nitricum another remedy for Diabetes ?
Emaciation, excessive thirst, vomiting of food with excessive urine; sometimes tympanites.
What are the male sexual symptoms of Phosphoric acid?
Debility, relaxation or impotence from sexual excesses, frequent weak emissions and dragging pains in the testicles; weakness in back and legs and burning spine; spermatorrhoea .
Does Phosphoric acid have any action on the chest, if so what?
It produces weakness of the chest so that the patient can hardly talk, the weakness causes dyspnoea; cough from tickling in the chest about the ensiform cartilage, worse in the evening on lying down.