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headache; he knows that the headache is coming on because of his violent hunger; in periodicalheadaches. The hunger is often spasmodic, because at times there is aversion to food. Again, he wantsto eat and as soon as the food is offered he does not want it. Thirst is one of the most constant featuresof Phosphorus. In acute and chronic complaints there is violent thirst; thirst for ice-cold drinks. Wantssomething refreshing; is ameliorated momentarily by drinking cold things, but the thirst appears assoon as the water gets warm in the stomach.Vomiting comes on as soon as the water becomes warm in the stomach, but there are manyconditions where the ice-cold water agrees. Unquenchable thirst. When the water is vomited there isalways unquenchable thirst. He wants cold food as well as cold drinks; refreshing, spicy things, juicythings; desire for wines and sour thing. Phosphorus often cures the violent longing in inebriates foralcohol. It simply resembles the congestion of the mucous membrane of the stomach. Aversion tosweets, to meat, to boiled milk, to salt fish, to beer, to puddings, to tea and coffee.Many of the complaints of Phosphorus are ameliorated by eating. The nervous symptoms ofPhosphorus drive the patient to eat and he feels better for a little while, and then he must eat again orthe nervous symptoms will come on. Often he can sleep better after eating and cannot go to sleep untilhe eats something.The stomach symptoms are numerous---pains, nausea, vomiting, burning. The stomachsymptoms are ameliorated-by cold things and aggravated by warm things. The nausea and vomiting arebrought on by putting the hand into warm water, from being in a warm room, from warm things andfrom taking warm things into the stomach.The nausea of pregnancy is cured when the woman cannot put the hands into warm waterwithout bringing on vomiting. Another marked feature of Phosphorus is eructations of food. The foodis eructated by mouthfuls until the stomach is emptied of the last meal. Constant nausea except whensomething cold is in the stomach. As soon as water becomes warm in the stomach it comes up. Thisvery much resembles the vomiting and nausea of , and Phosphorus is a great friend to thesurgeon because he can nearly always antidote the stomach affections of by Phosphorus.Vomiting of blood and violent vomiting of sour fluid; vomiting of bile and mucus; vomiting of blacksubstances, coffee-ground substances. Awful sinking, gone feeling in the stomach. This sometimescomes at 11 o'clock like . Pressing pains, burning pains, tearing pains in the stomach; pain inthe stomach after eating; sensitiveness in the pit of the stomach; inflammation of the stomach. It hasbeen a very useful remedy in cancer of the stomach, with coffee-ground vomiting and burning;coldness, as if freezing, in the pit of the stomach; paroxysms of knife-like pains in the stomach. Thepains in the stomach are ameliorated by ice-cold things for a moment;spasmodic contractions of thestomach; hemorrhage from the stomach; vomiting of great quantities of clotted blood; long- standingdyspepsia; much flatulence; regurgitation of food; distended stomach and abdomen; ulceration of thestomach.The liver furnishes us many symptoms of Phosphorus. Congestion of the liver, fulness, pain,hardness, fatty degeneration of the liver, hyperaemia of the liver. Phosphorus is one of our most usefulliver remedies; hard, large liver. With the stomach and liver symptoms there is commonly jaundice.Very sensitive abdomen; painful to touch, rolling and rumbling. Sensation of emptiness in theabdomen; sunken feeling in the abdomen. The abdomen feels as if relaxed; hanging down sensationand sensation of great weight in the abdomen.Tympanitic abdomen such as occurs in typhoid fever. A marked feature in Phosphorus is thepeculiar gurgling which begins in the stomach and gurgles along down through the intestines, attendedwith involuntary stool. This occurs in typhoid fever.The gurgling that occurs in is down the oesophagus.Flatulence; colic; rending, tearing, cutting pains throughout the abdomen; stitching pains in theabdomen; violent neuralgic pains in the abdomen; inflammation of the bowel, of the peritoneum;appendicitis. Yellow, brown spots on the abdomen; petechiae over the abdomen during typhoid fever.Phosphorus is rich in symptoms of the rectum and stool; involuntary discharges from the bowels;copious emission of fluids; fetid, gushing stool; horribly offensive, yellow, watery stools The patientlies as if dying, the stools passing involuntarily; stools of white mucus; stools of slime intermingledwith little specks like tallow; involuntary oozings from the constantly wide open anus. Hemorrhagefrom the bowels in typhoids, in low forms of disease; bloody discharges like meat washings,involuntary, on every motion. Burning in the rectum during stool. Protrusion of the rectum; protrusionof haemorrhoidal tumors. Sharp, stitching pains from the coccyx up the spine to the base of the braindrawing the neck backward, and this symptom occurs during stool. It has occurred during involuntarystool. After stool painful cramps in the rectum; burning in the anus; violent tenesmus; sinking feeling inthe abdomen; obliged to lie down; exhaustion and fainting. The copious diarrhea is like the profuse