Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

abscesses in the muscles, and state of molecular weakness about the ankles; over the tibia where theflesh is thin. Phosphoric acid has a special relation to the periosteum. Periostitis. Pains in the tibia atnight. Bone feels as if scraped. Cold hand and hot feet. Ulcers on the leg with watery, offensivedischarge.Boils, abscesses, pustules and other moist eruptions.Suppurating eruptions; tissues become weak.Nervous state; marked indifference; weak and trembling; fainting; great nervous exhaustion;hysterical affections.Creeping, tingling and crawling all over the body, especially where there is hair, as if in theroots of the hair; formication; especially in those debilitated from sexual excesses."Formication over whole body". Sore spots in the spine; lame back. Backache."Itching between the fingers or in the bend of joints or on hand". Herpes; eczema, erysipelas.Large purple spots form on the skin, and extravasation of blood from the capillary veins; ecchymoses.Ulcers on the skin; carbuncles; warts; chilblains; wens; corns with stinging and burning, and partsbecome black; feeble circulation in the skin. Skin withered, old and gray, and the patient emaciates.PHOSPHORUS [phos] [Kent’s]The complaints of Phosphorus are most likely to arise in the feeble constitutions, such as havebeen born sick, grown up slender, and grown too rapidly. Its complaints are found in such as areemaciated, and in those who are rapidly emaciating; in children who are going into marasmus, and inpersons who have in them the foundation of consumption fairly well laid. Delicate, waxy, anemic andemaciated subjects. In persons who are vehement, irascible. This expresses the person's dispositionsomewhat as well as his internal constitutional state. Internally he is in a turmoil. Subject to violentpulsations, complaints from electric changes in the atmosphere; violent palpitations and orgasms. Inchlorotic girls who have grown too rapidly and have suddenly taken on weakness, pallor, greensickness, with menstrual difficulties. Ebullitions and congestions. Haemorrhagic constitutions. Smallwounds bleed much; the prick of the needle will bubble forth much bright red blood. Haemorrhagefrom small wounds, from the nose, from the lung, from the stomach, from the bladder and from theuterus. Bleeding from ulcerations. False granulations that bleed. Purpura haemorrhagica. Black andblue spots. Blood settles beneath the conjunctiva, or beneath the skin anywhere. Bloody saliva;evidences of disorganized blood, or that the blood seems to become fluid. Small bruises take on broadblue spots. Blows much blood out of the nose. Petechiae all over the body, such as are found in typhoidfever, low forms of continued fever with haemorrhages. Fungous growths. Fatty degeneration is amarked feature of Phosphorus, and can be found in the liver, heart or kidneys. General dropsicalcondition. Bloating of the hand and feet, especially dropsical conditions after scarlet fever. The mucousmembranes are all pale, such as is found after bleeding or in low forms of disease. A marked state ofanemia and relaxed condition of the muscles. Muscles flabby. Fatty degeneration of the muscles. Thegenitals hang down. In the woman, relaxation of the pelvic organs, prolapsus and other displacements.Stiffness is a marked feature of Phosphorus.Stiffness on beginning to move. Limbs stiff like a foundered horse, especially in the morning.Rheumatic stiffness in all the limbs. Phosphorus has tearing, drawing pains in the limbs.Drawing, tearing pains in affected parts. Phosphorus complaints are worse in cold weather. Thepatient himself, generally considered, is sensitive to cold. All his complaints are worse from cold andcold applications, and better from heat and warm applications, except the complaints of the head andstomach, which are ameliorated from cold as will hereafter be described.Phosphorus has been very useful in weak, relaxed conditions of the joints following sprains,when the symptoms agree. Necrosis is another feature of Phosphorus, especially of the lower jaw, butmay be useful in necrosis of any of the bones. Exostoses of the skull with tearing pains. Tearing, boringpains, especially at night. Phosphorus has cured polypi of the nose and ears.Scrofulous and glandular swellings. Glands enlarge, especially after contusions like .Glandular affections of weak, pale, sickly individuals, such as suffer from diarrhea, such as suffer fromexhaustive conditions, abscesses, fistulous openings, with hectic fever. Abscesses with copiousdischarge of yellow pus. Malignant growths are greatly restrained by the use of Phosphorus, when thesymptoms agree. Burning pains are observed everywhere. Burning in the brain, burning in the skin.Burning in the stomach, in the chest, and in various parts.The Phosphorus patient is very sensitive to all external impressions; slight odors, noises, touch.Slight causes lead to exhaustion of either body or mind. Trembling throughout the body from slightcauses, using the hand, from slight exertion, from debility, from coughing. Weakness prevails in amarked degree, finally becoming paralysis or paralytic weakness such as occurs in most forms of