CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA.
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Sunny half of day), 6 A.M. to 6 P.M., cough. ► (Morning),
Pain in head; pain in heart; pain in back; bad taste; on waking,
headache; after waking, pain in left eye; tongue white, etc.; bitter
taste; offensive taste, etc.; when waking, insipid, etc., taste, etc.;
on waking, sore throat; gapping, etc.; when getting up, aching in anus;
after waking, pappy stool; aching in uterus;
when rising, difficult breathing; contraction of chest; getting awake,
drawing in back, etc.; after waking, extremities have gone to sleep;
pain in calf; in bed, stiffness; inflammation of eye. ► (Forenoon),
Belching, etc.; pain in region of navel; drawing in nape of neck. ► (Noon),
Diminished appetite. ► (Afternoon), Headache; nose-bleed; 4 P.M.;
hunger; pains in little finger; when walking, pain in knees. ► (Towards evening),
When urinating, urethra expands etc. ►
(Evening), Most complaints; after
going to bed, sore throat, etc.; pains in throat; stitches in rectum; in
bed, itching, etc., in rectum; stitching in anus; especially when
walking, pain in anus; while in bed, frequent urinating; painful
erection, etc.; voice husky, etc.;
difficult breathing; drawing in back, etc.; when writing; pain in right
fingers; dry heat; heat in face. ► (Night), Dryness in throat; boring in knee;
towards and in morning, sweat on single parts. ►
(Towards morning), Desire for
coitus. ► (Fresh
air), Pain in carious teeth. ►
(Open air), Headache; eye worse;
nose stopped. ► (On exposure to slight draught of air), Pains
in nape of neck, etc. ► (When walking in open air), Vertigo, etc. ► (After belching),
Burning in epigastrium. ► (Bending knee),
Pain beneath hollow of knee. ► (After nose-bleed), Aching in vagina. ► (When blowing
nose), Pain in kidneys. ► (After breakfast),
Hawking, etc. ► (Deep breathing), Shooting in chest; pain in
region of sixth rib; stitches in region of liver. ►
(Writing by candlelight), Especially
reckoning, affects eyes very much. ►
(After cider), Diarrhœa. ► (After coffee),
Nausea, etc. ► (After coition), Weakness in feet. ► (Cold air),
Chilliness. ► (After cold bath), Becomes red, etc. ► (After drinking
cold water), Pain in abdomen renewed; cutting in belly. ► (After Taking
cold), Liable to rheumatic pains; pains in joints, etc.; much worse. ►
(In cool room), Nose runs. ► (In damp, cold
weather), Pain in lower limbs. ►
(After dinner), Heartburn; pain in
stomach, etc. ► (After every attempt to eat), Bellyache. ► (Great exertion),
Headache. ► (After
eating fruit), Griping in abdomen, etc. ►
(Eating juicy fruit), Diarrhœa. ► (When getting up),
Vertigo. ► (When
hawking), Disgust taste. ►
(After honey), Cutting in abdomen. ► (After ice cream),
Vomiting, etc. ► (On inspiration), Shooting in breast, etc.;
pain in region of heart. ► (When lifting), Pain in region of kidneys. ► (Lifting up
child from cradle), Suffocative fits. ►
(Lying), Some complain more; pains
after exertion. ► (Lying on back), Aggravates; convulsive
stairs. ► (After
meals), More after dinner, headache; etc. ► (Before menses),
Griping, etc., in bowels, etc.; sexual desires, etc.; nymphomania. ► (At setting in
of menses), Bitter taste. ►
(During menses), Vertigo, etc. ► (Between
menstrual periods), Whites. ►
(Motion), Headache; nausea; drawing
in back, etc.; pain in wrist, etc. ►
(During pregnancy), Weariness in all
limbs. ► (Pressure),
Pains in head, etc. ► (While riding in a carriage), Erections. ►
(Riding on horseback), Complaints in
eyes, back, and thighs. ► (When rising from sitting), Vertigo; old
people stagger; headache; but-tucks feel as if gone to sleep; drawing in
popliteal space. ► (On sitting), Some complain more; pains in
glans penis. ► (Sitting up after lying down), Headache. ► (When stepping
down), Stitches in metatarsal bones. ►
(Stooping), Vertigo, etc.; headache.
► (After
storm), Pains in buttocks. ►
(Stretching), Boring in knee;
tendons sore. ► (After supper), Pressure in rectum, etc. ► (When swallowing),
Pain in tongue, etc. ► (If others talk about it), sensation in eye
renewed. ► (Taking
boots off), Pain below hollow of knee. ►
(Thinking about it), Complaints in
general. ► (Tobacco
smoking), Nausea. ► (While urinating),
Drawing in bladder; burning in urethra. ►
(After urinating), Aching in
bladder; cutting, etc., in urethra; pressing, etc., in bladder;
relaxation, etc., of the organs; erection of clitoris. ► (After vexation),
Depressed, etc.; diarrhœa. ► (While walking), Vertigo, etc.; pains on
inside of thigh; pains in knees; knees sore; cramp in calves. ► (In warm room),
Sensation of dryness in throat; burning-itching of outer ear. ► (Change of
weather), Particularly when the snow melts, with east winds,
symptoms in general; headache. ► (After getting wet in rain), Pain in
shoulders, etc. ► (In windy weather), Drawing in nape of neck;
vertigo. ► (Yawning),
Pain in tonsil. ► Amelioration.
► (After
leucorrhœa), Bellyache. ►
(After lying down), Better;
headache; pain in stomach; pain in belly; oppressed breathing;
contraction of chest, etc. ► (Lying still), Headache. ►
(Lying on belly), During restless
night, better. ► (Lying on side), Easier. ►
(After motion), Aching in back, etc.
► (After
quick motion), Throbbing headache. ►
(After passing wind), Bellyache. ► (While
scratching head), Headache. ►
(After stool), Bellyache. ► (After stooping),
Headache. ► (After
supper), Headache. ► (Tobacco smoking), Headache. ► (Walking),
Some complain less. ► (Continued walking), Pain in popliteal space.
SUPPLEMENT: CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA.
Authorities.
7,
S. M. Cate, M.D., Trans. Am. Inst. of Hom., 1858, p. 54, took 4 grains
1st trit. at 12 M. (first day); 5 grains at 8 A.M. and 12 M. (second
day); same at 9 P.M. (fourth day); same at 6 A.M. (fifth and sixth
days); 6 grains at 6 A.M., 10 grains at 9 P.M. (seventh day); 8 grains
at 6 A.M., 10 grains at 10 P.M. (eighth day); same at 6 A.M. and 6 P.M.
(ninth day); 6 grains at 6 A.M., 8 grains at 9 P.M. (tenth and eleventh
day); 8, W. B. Chamberlain, M.D.,
ibid., took 6-grain doses of 1st trit.; 9,
E. N. Jones, M.D., ibid., took 3 grains at 9 A.M. (first day); 4 grains
(second day); 4 grains at 6 A.M. (third day); same at 7.30 A.M. and 4
P.M. (fourth day); 6 grains at 7.30 A.M., 4 grains at 4 P.M. (seventh
day).
MIND.
►
Gloomy and discontented (seventh day), [7].
► For the last two days an obtuseness
of the intellect; difficulty of performing any ordinary intellectual
operations; when composing would write throat for tonsils, red for
swollen, etc.; not clearly distinguishing the tings under consideration
(ninth day), [7]. ► The mind is less dull and muddy than for
several days (twelfth day), [7]. ► I have noticed too a great lack of
definiteness in my memory; an inability to remember common symptoms of
common remedies (twelfth day), [9].
HEAD.
►
Heavy confused feeling in head as if about to ache (ninth day), [9]. ►
No headache this A.M., though a feeling of fulness and confusion
continues, which has been an accompaniment of the headache all along
(eleventh day), [9]. ► Fulness and pressure in the head,
aggravated by pressure of hat, lasting at intervals all day (after half
an hour, first day), [9]. ► Dull heavy feeling in the head (second
day), [9]. [650.] ►
Dull pain in the head all day, increased towards night (second day), [7]. ►
Pain in head relieved by food (second day), [7]. ► Dull
pain in the head at times through the day (ninth day), [7]. ► Dull
pain in the head, with confusion; pain increased on stooping; pain worse
at times (eleventh day), [7]. ► The headache has continued at intervals
throughout the proving, generally being aggravated by eating. Yesterday
and to-day the pain has been a beating pain, extending through both
parietal bones (eleventh day), [9].
► Dull, sleepy, oppressive pain,
embracing the whole head, but most in the cerebellum, [8]. ► Dull,
pressive, frontal headache, lasting all day (third day), [9]. ► Slight
momentary headache in forehead over left eye (third day), [9]. ► 12 M.,
sharp shootings through the temples, leaving a momentary soreness of the
right temple after the pain had gone (eighth day), [9]. ►
Throbbing headache behind left ear (going off soon), (tenth day), [9]. [660.]
► 12 M., headache principally on left
side, pressive, occasionally throbbing, aggravated by stepping or quick
motion (fifth day), [9].
EYE.
►
Itching of the edges of the right eyelid for a short (eleventh day), [7]. ►
Occasional aching pain in right eyeball (eleventh day), [9].
EAR.
►
Shock of pain in left ear (third day), [9].
NOSE.
►
Fluent coryza during the forenoon, with dull pain in the head from 11 to
12 o’clock (sixth day), [7]. ► Biting stinging in front corner of left
nostril, succeeded by sneezing, and lachrymation from left eye, at 4
P.M., whole group disappeared within thirty minutes (second day), [9]. ►
In an hour biting stinging in front of corner of right nostril,
accompanied by slight sneezing and lachrymation (seventh day), [9].
FACE.
►
Yellowness of complexion and sclerotica, with sleepiness (ninth day), [9].
MOUTH.
►
Bread had a bitter taste (second day), [7].
THROAT.
►
Dryness of the throat last night (twelfth day), [7]. [670.] ► Yesterday, soreness of the throat;
to-day, tonsils, uvula, and pharynx red and swollen, with pain increased
by swallowing (ninth day), [7]. ► Soreness of throat and fauces on
swallowing (tenth day), [9]. ► Inflammation of the throat continues;
yesterday, moderate pain most of the time when swallowing; this morning
the pain more marked, and inflammation gradually increases (eleventh
day), [7]. ►
Sensation of emptiness or faintness in pharynx, continued from last
night (third and fourth days), [9].
STOMACH.
►
Feeling of great hunger, at 4 P.M., very unusual (second day), [7]. ►
Increased appetite (third day), [7].
► Appetite diminished in morning, but
good at noon (seventh day), [7]. ► Rather less appetite than usual for three
days past (twelfth day), [9]. ► After breakfast, much loud belching of
wind from the stomach (eleventh day), [7].
► Heartburn, lasting for some time
after dinner (twelfth day), [7]. [680.] ►
Heartburn commencing about an hour after each meal, and lasting for an
hour (thirteenth day), [7]. ► Nausea, from 4 to 6 P.M. (second day), [7]. ►
Nausea and pain in the head increased during pain in stomach (second
day), [7]. ►
Sensation of fulness and repletion of stomach (second day), [9]. ►
Feeling in the stomach as if distended by food, [8]. ► An
empty sinking sensation at the epigastrium, at 7 P.M. (seventh day), [7]. ►
From 8 to 9 P.M., burning at the stomach, and rising of water into the
mouth (waterbrash), (tenth day), [7].
► Sharp pain at pit of stomach, from
5.30 to 6 o’clock (second day), [7].
► Pain in stomach relieved by food
(second day), [7]. ► Dull pain in the epigastrium (ninth day),
[7]. [690.]
► Dull pain in the stomach; with
soreness on pressure after dinner (fifteenth day), [7]. ► Pains
in the stomach still come on about an hour after each meal, with
soreness of the stomach to pressure, and accompanied at times with loud
belchings of empty tasteless flatus from the stomach, which affords
relief (sixteenth day), [7].
ABDOMEN.
►
Escape of considerable flatus, during the whole forenoon (third day), [7]. ►
Abundant emission of flatus (seventh day), [7]. ►
Emission of fetid flatus during the day (eight day), [7]. ►
Frequent emission of fetid flatus (eleventh day), [9]. ► Flatus
still and abundant (sixteenth day), [7].
► Sharp pain in abdomen around the
navel, with a slight feeling of soreness, at 9 P.M. (second day), [7]. ►
Severe pain in region of transverse colon, for half an hour, at 3 P.M.
(seventh day), [7]. ► Pain in the middle of the abdomen, while
and after eating, lasting half an hour; this pain abated after a copious
emission of fetid flatus (ninth day), [7].
[700.] ►
Pains in the bowels to-day, most in the region of the ascending and
transverse colon (sixteenth day), [7].
► Pains in the bowels still present,
at times through the day, lasting a few minutes, and generally followed
by flatulent emission, showing that the pains were caused by flatus
(sixteenth day), [7]. ► Sharp pain in the left hypogastrium,
lasting a short time (eleventh day), [7].
► Shooting through the perinæum and
into the penis (eighth day), [9]. ► After movement of the bowels, pain in the
rectum, extending up five or six inches, lasting some ten minutes (ninth
day), [7].
STOOL.
►
In the morning after rising, a thin, copious, fecal discharge (seventh
day); diarrhœa early on rising (eighth day), [7]. ► Stool
soft, but otherwise natural (second day); soft pappy stool (third day);
soft stool, but difficult of expulsion (fifth day); stool rather
costive, expelled with difficulty (sixth day); painfully hard costive
stool (eleventh day); stool soft (twelfth day), [9]. ►
Bilious, slimy, offensive fecal evacuations, lumpy and covered with
mucus, as many as twelve stools a day, with little pain. Seemed to be
more of a dysenteric character as the disease progresses. Stool in the
morning, soon after rising, mostly bloody mucus. Slight pain, low down
in the bowels. Frequent urging to stool, with small discharges, attended
with pain in the head, [8].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Frequent profuse discharge of clear urine from 12 M. to 9 P.M. (fifth
day), [7]. ►
The urine has continued profuse, frequent, and watery, since the fifth
day; but no unusual thirst (ninth day), [7].
[710.] ►
Frequent and urgent desire to urinate, in the forenoon. The water pretty
clear, and the aggregate quantity large. From 12 M., till 5 P.M., no
opportunity to pass water. By 2 P.M., the desire was urgent, and the
pain in the bladder considerable; the pain kept increasing from 2 to 5,
at which time it was very severe in the bladder above the pubis, and in
the prostate gland and neck of bladder. The water passed in a feeble
stream, occupying considerable time. After all had passed, considerable
soreness of the bladder, followed by frequent micturition. Though the
urine had often been retained much longer without difficulty, it was
evident that this group of troubles of the bladder arose from
overdistension, and that the medicine affected the bladder only through
the increased secretion of urine (fourteenth day), [7].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Diminution of the sexual desire since the commencement of this proving
(tenth day), [7]. ► Diminution of the aphrodisiac sense still
continues, and the whole function seems so weak as to be well-nigh
removed, and has been since the second day of the proving. The
excitement reaches a low pitch, at which it culminates from a slight
cause, assimilating impotency (sixteenth day), [7].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
►
Dry hacking cough of a few minutes duration, at 3 P.M. (seventh day), [7]. ►
Hacking cough and fluent coryza with the chill (tenth day), [7]. ►
Involuntary sighing at times, for the last three days (eleventh day), [7]. ►
Inclination to sigh continues, and is still marked; I find myself making
frequent involuntary inspirations; this has been for a number of days
(sixteenth day), [7].
CHEST.
►
Dull pain in a small spot in right chest, near mammary gland, at 5 P.M.,
lasting half an hour (seventh day), [7].
► Considerable pain in right chest
when pressed upon; some, but less in the left chest (ninth day), [7]. ►
A sharp pain about the sixth rib of the right chest, a little to the
right of the mamma, worse on inspiration, lasting ten minutes; 5 P.M., a
like pain at a corresponding part of the left chest (ninth day), [7]. [720.]
► The pains above described in the
chest felt very often through the day (tenth day), [7]. ► Sharp
pain for a short time in the region of the heart (8 P.M.), (tenth day), [7]. ►
The sharp pain in the left chest, about the seventh rib, and to the left
of the mamma, followed by a dull pain, felt more when inspiring deeply,
and this still continues (8 P.M.), (tenth day), [7]. ► Pain in
the region of the heart, violent at times (eleventh day), [7]. ► Sharp
pain in the region of the heart, when making an inspiration; most marked
when taking a deep inspiration (eleventh day), [7]. ► Sharp
pain between the fourth and fifth ribs of the left chest, a little to
the left of the heart, occurring frequently during the forenoon; so
sharp and severe as to cut off the breath at times. The sharp pain would
last ten or fifteen minutes, leaving a soreness for a longer a shorter
time, and then come on again. The pain in the left chest has been
troublesome through the afternoon; felt most during a deep inspiration,
though not all the time present. Sharp pain in the right chest by turns
during the same time (eleventh day), [7].
► Pain in the chest trouble some,
though not constant through the day (thirteenth day), [7]. ► The
pains and soreness still felt about the chest, though not as constantly
as several days ago (fourteenth day), [7].
► A sharp pain as though some round
sharp instrument was pushing out the lower end of the sternum, for a
short time, at about 12 M. (sixteenth day), [7]. ► Pains
in the chest still troublesome, passing from place to place; it is felt
in the central part of the left chest in front, and passed thence under
the left scapula, but is of a less acute character, but more and more
aching. Pains still aggravated by a deep inspiration (sixteenth day), [7]. [730.]
► Before rising in morning, sudden
sharp cuttings or stitches in region of heart, continuing about five
minutes, and then going off. Slight pain of the same nature, preventing
a full breath, occasionally during the day (eighth day), [9].
NECK AND BACK.
►
Crampy pain in nape of the neck, first on one side and then on the
other, lasting for a short time (thirteenth day), [7]. ► Sharp
pain under the left scapula, towards the spine, at 9 A.M., continuing
ten minutes, followed by dull pain in the shoulder-joint (second day), [7]. ►
Pain, with soreness, under the left scapula (thirteenth day), [7]. ►
The latter part of the night, and in the morning, dull, or pain as if
from a bruise, on each side of dorsal spine (fifth day), [7]. ► Pain on
each side of dorsal and lumbar spine, as from a bruise, when awakening,
on the following morning, disappeared after exercise (eighth day), [7]. ►
The soreness of the muscles of the back continues on getting up in the
morning (tenth day), [7]. ► Sharp pain in region of lumbar vertebræ,
and top of sacrum, lasting a short time, followed by soreness (eleventh
day), [7].
EXTREMITIES.
►
During forenoon, pain in all the limbs, worse in gastrocnemii, as from a
cold (second day), [9].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Aching in the right arm, in the left
temple, and shoulder-joint, lasting for a short time (second day), [7]. [740.]
► Dull pain in the left arm below the
elbow and wrist (ninth day), [7]. ► At 11.30 A.M., pain in the right arm,
from the elbow to the hand, with lameness of the wrist, all lasting till
9 P.M. (tenth day), [7]. ► Pain in the right wrist, with lameness as
if bruised, at 7 A.M., lasting half an hour (third day), [7]. ►
Tremulous motion of the hands (eighth day), [7]. ► Aching
in pulp of left forefinger, sometimes extending up the arm, and giving
it a sensation of weakness (continually all day), (eleventh day), [9]. ►
Pain in left forefinger to-day, as yesterday; felt more when driving
(twelfth day), [9].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Severe lame or bruised feeling in both
nates (tenth day), [9]. ► Pain in nates better (eleventh day), [9]. ►
Biting stinging in small spot on left nates (second day), [9]. ►
Shooting through the left thigh (eighth day), [9]. [750.] ► Sharp pain in the tendons of the inner
hamstrings, when walking, lasting twenty minutes, at 6 P.M. (ninth day),
[7]. ►
Aching in outer side of right knee in bed, soon followed by aching in
ball of left foot, relieved by motion, lasting about ten minutes (ninth
day), [9]. ►
Drawing pains is gastrocnemii (third day), [9]. ► Slight
jerking pain in the right knee-joint, [8].
► Weakness of legs, especially below
knees, as if from severe labor (second day), [7]. ► Dull
pain in the legs, from the knees to the feet, continuing for one-half
hour (after one hour and a half, second day), [7]. ► From 8
to 8.30 P.M., severe pain in front of right ankle, followed by a
soreness about the sheaths of the tendons, most on extending and flexing
the foot (second day), [7]. ► Violent pain in the right toes and foot
to the instep, lasting half an hour (fifteenth day), [7].
GENERALITIES.
►
Feeling of languor and laziness in the evening, and aversion to mental
labor (thirteenth day), [7]. ► Took the last medicine on Friday, and the
symptoms were at their height on the following Sunday, and continued
with a gradual abatement till the last of the week, [8].
SKIN.
[760.]
► (There is as small white ulcer upon
a spot in right cheek which had been irritated by a broken tooth. Am
uncertain if medicine had anything to do with it), (tenth day), [9]. ►
Burning itching of the outer ear, in the evening, lasting half an hour
(fifteenth day), [7]. ► Burning itching of the outer ears when in
a warm room, after riding in the open air (which was not cold), and on
putting the hand to the ears, was surprised to find they were not hot,
though they were red. This burning has been troublesome all day when
indoors (sixteenth day), [7]. ► Itching of the left cheek, nose, and chin
(second day), [7]. ► A smart itching vesicle on the left
wrist, at 6 P.M. (second day), [7].
► Violent itching of left wrist, with
burning after scratching, at 9 P.M. (fifth day), [7]. ► Severe
biting itching in outer border of left axilla, momentarily relieved by
scratching (ninth day), [9].
SLEEP.
►
Sleepiness all day, with yellowness of complexion and sclerotica (ninth
day), [9]. ►
Very sleepy in the evening; slept sound for ten hours in succession
(fourteenth day), [7]. ► Restless sleep, disturbed by dreams
(ninth day), [9]. [770.] ►
Restless sleep last night, disturbed by dreams, amorous and fearful
(tenth day), [9]. ► Amorous dream (fourth day), [9]. ►
Amorous dream, and increased sexual desire (sixth day), [9]. ► Amorous
dream with emission (thirteenth day), [9].
► Last night dreams of travelling, of
robbers, of an army of cats (eleventh day), [7]. ► Vivid
dreams of travelling (twelfth day), [7].
FEVER.
►
After dressing, seized with chills and shivering, lasting half an hour,
till after a brisk walk of half a mile; with the chill a hacking cough
and fluent coryza (tenth day), [7].® 2000
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