Phosphorus

Characteristic symptoms

Ailments from cold and from anger, aggravations morning, evening, on lying on left side, burning pains of internal parts ; improvement on lying on right side, during rest, on application of cold water, while eating; increased heat in paralyzed parts; progressive pornlysis with the intellectual faculties preserved ; paralysis consequent on apoplexy with twitching and muscular contractions in the paralyzed parts ; albuminuric paralysis ; puerperal paralysis, whether symptomatic of Bright's disease or not, especially when preceded or accompanied by uterine haemorrhage ; chlorotic paralysis with puffiness under the eyes ; rheumatic tearing and stitching after taking cold ; sensitiveness to cold weather ; pains when the weather changes or during thunderstorms; liability to take cold in the open air ; frequent agitation of the blood ; haemorrhage from various parts of the body ; heaviness of the mind and body ; languor and weakness of the joints ; great nervous weakness ; emaciation, especially of the hands ; formication in the paralyzed parts ; furfuraceous dry herpes ; yellow or brown spots on the body ; sanguineous spots ; petechiae, boils ; lymphatic abscesses; fistulous ulcers; diseases of the bones; small wounds bleed profusely ; frequent waking in the night from feeling too hot ; restless at night and dreaming constantly ; chilliness in the evening ; amelioration after sleep; exhausting sweats every morning; night-sweat's; lowness of spirits and despondency ; anxious and irritable when alone; sensitiveness of the senses and tendency to start ; great indifference to everything; vertigo ; rush of blood to the head with buzzing and heat of the head ; falling off of the hair ; spots on the scalp get bald ; dryness of the roots of the hairs ; determination of blood to the eyes; discharge of burning and smarting fluid from the eyes, especially in the open air ; photophobia ; myopia, nyctalopia, as if he sees everything through a gauze ; hard" hearing, especially for the human voice ; loss of the sense of smell ; fetid smell from the nose ; green, yellow discharge from the nose ; pale, sickly, sunken complexion with deep, hollow eyes and blue margins around; bloatedness of the face, especially round the eyes; herpes round the lips ; bleeding of the gums at the slightest touch; ailments with bitter or sour taste after drinking milk ; canine hunger ; nausea and frequent eructations, waterbrash ; vomiting of cold drinks, after they got warm in the stomach ; vomiting of pregnant women, when they have to get up from the table, throw up quickly the ingesta, without losing their appetite ; dyspepsia ; gastritis complicated with heartburn and invincible scratching in throat ; loss of appetite with feeling of emptiness and want, with impossibility of eructating and tendency to diarrhœa ; excessive formation of acidity ; regurgitation of food, patient can literally not retain a morsel of food ; little thirst and pains aggravated by drinking ; sensitiveness of gastric region increased by motion ; ulcers in the stomach; burning in the stomach and pit of the stomach ; bloatedness and hardness of the abdomen with flatulency ; large yellow spots and boils on the abdomen ; icterus graves from fatty degeneration of the liver; jaundice from suppression ; acute diffuse inflammation of the liver ; acute atrophy of the liver ; pappy, bright, yellow stools with a sensation, as if wind were about to escape ; semi-fluid scanty stools, escaping with force ; haemorrhoids appear simultaneously with chronic relaxation of the bowels ; relaxation of sphincter ani ; stools mucous, liquid and passed involuntarily ; stinging haemorrhoids with passing of blood ; blind piles ; mucous discharge from the anus; involuntary emission of urine ; urine with a sediment of white flocculi ; ulcer on the prepuce ; irresistible desire for an embrace ; impotence, nocturnal emissions without dreams ; menses too early, too profuse and too long ; leucorrhœa with urging t© urinate and weeping; hard, painful nodosities in the mamma; abscesses in the mamma with fistulous ulcers; chronic hoarseness and aphonia ; croup with disposition to relapses ; cough with rawness and hoarseness in the chest ; panting, fatiguing cough with expectoration of tough mucus ; phthisis tuberculosa in persons of gracile build, light-colored hair, night-sweats, circumscribed redness of the cheeks, haemoptoe, great irritability ; cough with saltish, purulent expectoration ; oppression, anguish and heaviness of the chest ; palpitation ; yellow spots on the chest ; tremor of the hands ; numbness of the fingers ; pains of the soles, as if ulcerated.