{"id":11705,"remedy_name":"Phosphoricum Acidum","remedy_type":"Homeopathic Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Tubercular Miasm","temperament":"Chilly","aggravation_time":"Morning","keynote_indications":"Source: Derived from phosphoric acid (H\u2083PO\u2084), a mineral acid, prepared for homeopathic use. through serial dilution and succussion to enhance therapeutic action while eliminating material. effects, in accordance with homeopathic pharmacopeia standards. Traditional  Context:  Historically  employed  in  homeopathy  for  psychological,  neurological,. systemic, gastrointestinal, and genitourinary disorders , particularly those involving mental and. physical exhaustion, apathy, and weakness following grief or overexertion. It is noted for symptoms. such as mental dullness, profound fatigue, diarrhea, and urinary incontinence, often aggravated by. emotional stress, grief, or cold, and ameliorated by warmth, rest, or emotional support. Modern  Context:  Indicated  for  psychological  conditions (e.g.,  major  depressive  disorder,. adjustment disorder),  neurological conditions  (e.g., mild cognitive impairment, chronic fatigue. syndrome), systemic conditions (e.g., post-viral fatigue syndrome, dehydration), gastrointestinal. conditions (e.g., irritable bowel syndrome, functional diarrhea), and  genitourinary conditions. (e.g.,  stress  incontinence,  diabetes  mellitus).  It  suits  patients  with  acute  or  chronic  symptoms. characterized by  mental dullness ,  profound fatigue ,  apathy,  diarrhea, or  urinary weakness ,. typically exacerbated by grief, emotional stress, overexertion, or cold, and often seen in individuals. with  depleted,  sensitive  constitutions.  The  remedy  is  particularly  relevant  for  those  with. psychological or systemic conditions, often presenting with symptoms like emotional indifference. or exhaustion, commonly observed in patients with major depressive disorder, chronic fatigue. syndrome, or irritable bowel syndrome triggered by grief, trauma, or physical overexertion.\nCOMMENTS - Convalescent remedy. Chronic fatigue since a debilitating acute. Heavy limbs, droopy eyelids, \ndrained feeling, chills and fever (Gels.). Mononucleosis and flu with extreme weakness. Draining, debilitating \nchronic illness. Emaciation with dark circles around their eyes, sunken faces and apathy. Spacey and empty \neyes. \nChronic fatigue with weight loss, especially after grief, emotional loss, loss of fluids, or fevers. Debilitated and \ntired since grief (Gels., Sil.). Grief, leading to falling of hair, premature senility and depression. The hair may \nturn gray or fall out in patches. \nHomesickness (Caps.), with weight loss , insomnia, and pining. Chronic mental exer tion or worry. Lack of \nemotions (Aur., Sep.). Apathetic (Gels.). Aversion to loved ones (Sep.), with weakness. Feels indifferent about \nfuture. Listless. Decreased mental function. Lack of direction, empty (Ign.).  Blank mind, spacey, cannot \nconcentrate. \nMay have a history of excessive sexual activity and loss of sexual fluids. Chronic seminal discharge, \nprostatorrhea. Weakness and apathy from masturbation or exces sive sexual activity (Sei., Agn.). Effects of \nchronic masturbation. Severe impotence with a history of masturbation or too much sex. Lack of sexual desire \nor function. Used in some countries as a tonic for sexual debility. May have a history of drug use. \nVertigo with the sensation as if the feet were risi ng until he stood on his head. This symptom occurred in a \npatient of Skinner's suffering from smallpox. The disease had been cut short by Vario., when the patient, a \nwoman, complained that her feet were rising to the ceiling and begged her nurses to keep them down. Ph-ac. \nspeedily put her straight. \nIllusions of the senses as well as of the sensorium, bells are heard, ciphers, sparks, etc., are seen. Exalted \nsensitiveness to light, sound and odors, \u201codors take away his breath.\u201d \nBecher, one of Hahnemann's provers, noted that his right pupil became widely dilated while the left remained \nnormal. The more he strained the eye, the wider the pupil became until the iris had almost disappeared.  \nGreat weakness, better by short sleep (Phos.). Legs tremble when walking, limbs are difficult to control. \u201cWeak \nfeeling in chest from talking, coughing or sitting too long, better by walking.\u201d Hoarseness and nasal voice. \nDyspnea, capillary bronchitis. \nCough, as if a feather tickling from middle of chest to larynx, low down in chest. The cough is worse in evening, \nafter lying down. Muco-purulent, salty, bloody, offensive expectoration. Cough causes headache, nausea and \nvomiting of food, spurting of urine. Every draft of air causes fresh cold. \nDry mouth and throat. Involuntary biting of tongue in sleep. Thirsty for ice cold drinks, bubbly drinks and mineral \nwaters, fresh fruit juice with ice, sparkling fruit juices. Diabetes, when there is a history of sexual excess or of \nsevere mental or emotional over-strain. Emaciation with diabetes. \nCopious discharges appear in the sweat and urine. Polyuria. White, milky urine and also white stools. The \nurine may be clear as it is passed, but turns milky at once and is very offensive. Bedwetting, the child passes \n \n \na great quantity of urine. \nExcessive flatulence. Distention and pass ing of flatus in large quantities, sometimes with the odor of garlic. \nWeakened sphincters, involuntary escape of feces and urine, especially on coughing or movement. \nKeynote \u201cpersistent, painless, watery diar rhea often containing undigested particles of food and which does \nnot debilitate.\u201d Diar rhea in children who are emaciated and de hydrated. Weight loss from severe diarrhea. \nChildren feel better when they're having diarrhea (Calc., better constipated).  \nBloating of  the uterus with gas. Menses are excessive and premature. Debility from breast -feeding. Dark, \nprofuse, passive hemorrhages. \nH. Maandblad offered the case of a married woman, 36, mother of eight children, who had for some time been \nso melancholy and depressed as to be unable to fulfill her household duties. There was no discoverable mental \ncause, though her condition had been made worse by a sudden death in the family.  \nThe beginning of the illness was appar ently a weakness of the stomach, small appe tite, always pain and \ndistention after eating, the food seemed to lie long in the stomach undigested. Ph-ac. 6x, ten drops three times \na day, soon restored the patient.\nTemperature - Low types of fever with dull comprehension and stupor. Slug gish, painless fevers. Fever with \nsweat. Profuse sweat during night and morning. Chilliness. Cold parts, one side of face, abdomen. Aching in umbilical region. \nEnlarged spleen (Cean.). Coldness. Distention and fermentation in bowels. Loud rumbling. Offensive, garlicky \nflatus. Loss of appetite. Craves juicy things. Thirst for cold milk, sodas, carbonated drinks, mineral water, \nice water. Sour food and drinks disagree.","modalities":"Worse from: Grief, emotional stress, cold (weather, air, drinks), overexertion, morning,. night, solitude, dietary indiscretions, damp weather, fasting, mental exertion.","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Mental debility,followed by physical. Difficult comprehension. Slowness of mind and special senses. \nImpaired memory (Anae.). Prostrated and stupefied with grief, effects of disappointed love. Homesickness. \nBrain fag. Cannot collecthisthoughtsor find the right word. Forgetfulness of old people. Vanishing of thoughts \non reading. Reflects long, then answers correctly, but slowly. \nMild, yielding disposition. Apathetic. Indifferent to everything. Listless and dullness. Answers reluctantly and \nslowly, or short and incorrectly. Aversion to talking. Wants to be left alone. Wants nothing and \nPhosphoricum acidum caresfor nothing. Indifferent to those things that used to interest her the most. \nMental ailments with drowsiness, nightsweats toward morning, emaciation. Silent ill-humor. Sadness only while \nwalking, the longer he walks the worse he gets. Sadness from masturbation. Effects of grief and mental \nshock. Ailments from disappointed love, with silent grief. \n \n \nAnxiety and doubt concerning recovery. Despair. Hopelessness. Dread of future, broods over one's condition. \nDiscouraged in open air. Pining with emaciation. Homesickness with inclination to weep. \nHysteria at menopause. Hysterical af fections of young women, with excessive sensibility and irritability. \nWildness from vexation. Mild delirium, eas ily aroused. Delirium with great stupefaction. Uncon scious after \nstrong emotions. Mental debility,followed by physical. Difficult comprehension. Slowness of mind and special senses. \nImpaired memory (Anae.). Prostrated and stupefied with grief, effects of disappointed love. Homesickness. \nBrain fag. Cannot collecthisthoughtsor find the right word. Forgetfulness of old people. Vanishing of thoughts \non reading. Reflects long, then answers correctly, but slowly. \nMild, yielding disposition. Apathetic. Indifferent to everything. Listless and dullness. Answers reluctantly and \nslowly, or short and incorrectly. Aversion to talking. Wants to be left alone. Wants nothing and \nPhosphoricum acidum caresfor nothing. Indifferent to those things that used to interest her the most. \nMental ailments with drowsiness, nightsweats toward morning, emaciation. Silent ill-humor. Sadness only while \nwalking, the longer he walks the worse he gets. Sadness from masturbation. Effects of grief and mental \nshock. Ailments from disappointed love, with silent grief. \n \n \nAnxiety and doubt concerning recovery. Despair. Hopelessness. Dread of future, broods over one's condition. \nDiscouraged in open air. Pining with emaciation. Homesickness with inclination to weep. \nHysteria at menopause. Hysterical af fections of young women, with excessive sensibility and irritability. \nWildness from vexation. Mild delirium, eas ily aroused. Delirium with great stupefaction. Uncon scious after \nstrong emotions.","Vertigo":"Vertigo toward evening, when standing or walking. Vertigo, as if floating in the air, while lying in \nbed with ringing in the ears and glassy eyes.","Head":"Crushing weight on vertex, pain as if temples were crushed, worse shaking or noise. Pressure on \ntop. Dull headache after sex, from eyestrain (Na.t-m.). School girl's headache from over use of eyes (Ruta). \nHair thins, turns gray early, falls out. Hair loss after grief or loss of fluids. Crushing weight on vertex, pain as if temples were crushed, worse shaking or noise. Pressure on \ntop. Dull headache after sex, from eyestrain (Na.t-m.). School girl's headache from over use of eyes (Ruta). \nHair thins, turns gray early, falls out. Hair loss after grief or loss of fluids.","Eyes":"Blue rings around eyes.  Lusterless, glassy, staring, sunken, dull appearance. Yellow spots on \nconjunctiva. Pupils dilated. Eyeballs feel large. Pain as if eyeballs were forcibly pressed together and into \nhead. Optic nerves seem torpid. Photophobia, averse to sunlight. Sees color s as if a rainbow. Loss of vision \nfrom masturbation. Lids inflamed and cold.","Ears":"Earache after blowing the nose. Shrill sound in ears on blowing the nose. Intolerance of noise, especially \nmusic, which causes stitches, even while singing himself. Illusions of hearing, hears bell pealing. Every sound \nre-echoes loudly in the ear. Roaring with difficult hearing. Nervous deafness after typhoid-like fevers.","Face":"Pale, earthy, sickly. Tense as if egg white had dried on it. Sensation of coldness of one side of face. \nAcne from onanism. Hairs of beard fall out.","Mouth":"Lips dry, cracked. Mouth dry .Taste of rotten eggs. Tongue swollen, dry with viscid, frothy mucus, \nslimy. Red streak in middle of tongue. Bleeding, swollen gums, retract from teeth. Painful nodosities on the \ngums. Teeth become yellow and feel dull. Teeth feel cold. At night, bites tongue involuntarily.  \nNose - Bleeding. Nose swollen with red patches or pimples on tip of nose. Itching. Bores fingers into nose.","Throat":"Dry palate. Hoarseness. Hawks up tough mucus.","Chest":"Takes cold from drafts on chest. \nChest troubles after brain -fag. Pressure or twisting behind the sternum, rendering breathing difficult. Weak \nfeeling in chest from talking (Stann.). Dry cough from tickling in chest. Salty expectoration. \nConstitutions - Suited to persons of origi nally strong constitution weakened by loss of fluids, excesses, \nviolent, acute diseases, chagrin or a long succession of moral emotions. Children and young people who have \ngrown too rapidly, tall, \nslender and slim with pains in back and limbs as if beaten, growing pains. Persons of mild disposition. Irregular, intermittent pulse. Palpitations after grief, after masturbation, in children and young persons \nwho grow too fast. \nBreasts - Sharp pressure in left breast. Milk scanty, health deteriorated from nursing. Infants vomit milk \nconstantly. \nCausations - Ill effects of bad news, disappointed love, grief, chagrin, shock. Separation from home. Loss of \nfluids, sexual excesses. Over-lifting, over-study. Injuries, operations.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Symptoms following sour food and drink. Pressure as from a weight, with sleepiness aftereating \n(Fei.). Acidity. Sour risings. Nausea.","Urinary & Genital":"Kidneys - Burning in kidney region. Diabetes. Frequent urination at night. Bedwetting during first sleep. \nUrination preceded by anxiety and followed by burning. Urine is profuse, watery, milky. Phosphaturia. Whey-\nlike urine shortly before menses. Spasmodic tickling cough. Salty expectoration.\nSexual power deficient. Weak, relaxed genitals during sex, preventing emission (Nux-v.). Weakness \nand pollutions after sex. Nightly emissions with lascivious dreams. Seminal vesiculitis (Ox-ac.). Prostatorrhea, \neven when passing a soft stool. Tender and swollen testes. Edema of prepuce and swollen glans penis. Sycotic \nexcrescences (Thuj.). Herpes. Eczema of scrotum. Menses too earl y and profuse, with pain in liver. Itching, yellow leucorrhea after menses. Uterus \nbloated, as if filled with wind. Dysuria during pregnancy.","Extremities":"Weak. Great debility. Pains at night as if bones were scraped. Tearing pains in joints, bones and \nperiosteum. Numbness along radial nerve. Stumbles easily and makes missteps. Formication in limbs. Burning \nbelow the waist. Cramps in upper arms and wrists. Heavy forearms. Wens on hands between metacarpal  \nbones. Itching, between fingers or in folds of joints. \nLiver - Liver, seems to be too heavy, painful during menses.","Neck & Back":"Pain in back and limbs, as if beaten. Lumbar region heavy, increases pain in legs. Boring pain between \nscapulae. Para lytic weakness along spine. Formication or burning along spine. Spondylitis of cervical \nvertebrae. Fine stitches in coccyx and sternum. Boils on buttock.","Skin":"Profound fatigue or weakness, with a sensation of prostration or collapse, resembling. post-viral fatigue syndrome, worse with cold, exertion, grief, or morning, often with. cold sweat or pallor. Dehydration or weight loss, with a tendency to dryness or emaciation, resembling. dehydration, aggravated by diarrhea, emotional stress, or cold, often with thirst for. cold drinks. Chilliness or cold sensitivity, with a sensation of shivering, resembling hypothermia-. like states, worse with cold, damp weather, or night. Tendency to systemic depletion, with aggravation in cold or fatigued states. Gastrointestinal:. Painless  diarrhea  or  loose  stools,  with  a  sensation  of  weakness  or  urgency,. resembling  irritable  bowel  syndrome,  worse  with  emotional  stress,  cold,  dietary. indiscretions, or morning, often with flatulence or watery stools. Phosphoricum acidum (Phosphoric Acid) 1514. Dyspepsia or nausea, with a tendency to aversion to food, resembling functional. dyspepsia, aggravated by grief, cold, or rich foods, often with belching or bloating. Loss of appetite or hunger, with a sensation of emptiness, resembling malabsorption. syndromes, worse with stress or cold. Tendency to gastrointestinal weakness, with aggravation in stressed or cold states. Genitourinary:. Urinary  incontinence  or  dribbling,  with  a  sensation  of  weakness  or  urgency,. resembling stress incontinence, worse with cold, stress, night, or exertion, often with. frequent urination. Frequent urination or polyuria, with a tendency to clear or copious urine, resembling. diabetes mellitus, aggravated by emotional stress, cold, or night. Weakness of bladder or burning urination, with a sensation of irritation, resembling. overactive bladder, worse with cold or stress. Tendency to genitourinary weakness, with aggravation in cold or stressed states.","Sleep":"Weakness is better from short sleep. Sleepy by day, hot and wakeful at night. Deep sleep, but when \naroused, fully conscious, during fevers. Lascivious dreams with emissions.","Generalities":"As if intoxicated, as if head would burst. As if weight in head, as if brain crushed. Bones as if \nscraped with a \nknife. As if eyeballs too large. As if egg white had dried on face. As if lower jaw were going to break. Nausea \nas if in soft palate in throat. H eavy load in stomach. Uterus as if filled with wind. Tickling in chest as with a \nfeather, as with down in larynx. Red -hot coal on arm and shoulder. As if ants crawling over body. As if feet \ngoing up."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}