CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA.
A mixture of the basic and other phosphates of lime, prepared by dropping
dilute phosphoric acid into lime-water, as long as a white precipitate is formed; this
precipitate is collected and triturated. (Hering, in Correspondenzblatt, 1837).
Authorities.
1, Hering,
collection of provings with the crude, 1st and 2d triturations, Correspondenzblatt,
Allentown, Pa., Feb. 8th, 1837; 2, Bute ibid.; 3, Green, ibid.; 4, Humphrey,
ibid.; 5, Additional symptoms from Hering’s résumé, N.
Am. J. of Hom., New Series, vol. 2, p. 232; 6, Schreter,
N. Archiv., 3. 3. p. 153, proving with the 300th potency.
MIND.
► Emotional. ► Easily excited (from the 2d), [1].
► Likes to be alone, [5].
► She wishes to be at home, and when at home to go out;
goes from place to place, [5]. ►
A child of fifteen months, with a big head and open fontanels, took from a trituration of a
drachm, C. ph., with half an ounce of milk-sugar, half a teaspoonful, in the evening. Soon
violent screaming, grasping with hands in great with hands in great agony, towards his
mother; cold sweat, most in face; whole body cold; lasted nearly two hours; next day, as
well as usual; 6 P.M., another spell, lasting only fifteen minutes. Mother did not give
another dose. Sooner than expected the fontanel close. (1852, N. N.), [5]. ► With the drowsiness, gloomy
mood, inability to think, headache, singing in ears, sweat in face, prostration of limbs, [5]. ► After vexation,
depressed, as if lame; cannot work, hardly walk; gets a looseness of bowels, [6]. ► Anxiousness, with other
complaints, [5]. ►
Anxiety of children; in pit of stomach; with bellyache; with chest complaints; with
palpitation, [5]. ►
Feels as if she had been frightened, [5]. [10.] ► Great ill-humor and
dread of labor; will absolutely do nothing that he should (from the 2d), [1]. ► Very much out of humor,
disinclined to speak, prefers not to be asked questions, and to be left alone, after
disagreeable news (nineteenth day), [6]. ► Peevish and fretful children, [5]. ► Grows very violent, if his
opinion is differed from, or if contradicted, so that he is vexed not to have been able to
control himself (seventh day), [6]. ► Violent, irritable, and snappish; it affects him most to hear
that some one has done wrong; indignation rises in him, and he would like to avoid the
conversation (seventh day), [6]. ►
A communication in which some one is justly reproached concerning his conduct, affects him
very disagreeably; he grows violent, and holds up his faults to himself (fifth day), [6]. ► Unpleasant news
makes him beside himself; sweat breaks out; inclined to indignation and anger, [5]. ► Unpleasant news
makes him beside himself; he can seriously think of nothing, cannot collect his thoughts,
and gets into a general sweat about it (ninth day), [6].
► Stupid indifference; cretinism, [5]. ► Intellectual. ► He has a clearer oversight, and more distinct views of many
things (eighth day), [6]. [20.]
► Indisposition to work, also to mental work, [5]. ► Obtuse intellect;
difficulty in performing intellectual operations; cannot clearly distinguish, [5]. ► Writes wrong words, or the
same words twice, [5]. ►
Forgetfulness; forget what he did a short time ago, [5].
► A lack of definiteness of memory (Jones), [5]. ► Complete loss of
memory, so that he does not know at all what he has just done, or what he should do (from
the 2d), [4].
HEAD.
► Vertigo. ► Some vertigo and nausea towards noon (first day), [4]. ► With his dinner,
vertigo and loss of memory (Neidhard), [5]. ► Vertigo, when getting up or rising from sitting, [5]. ► Stooping causes
vertigo, rush of blood to the head, dull pain in head, [5].
[30.] ► Vertigo,
staggers when walking in the open air, with drawing in the nape of the neck in windy weather
(sixteenth day), [6]. ►
While walking, vertigo; running from the nose; bone of pelvis, hip-joint, thigh, knees, and
ankle-joint ache, [5]. ►
During catamenia, vertigo and throbbing in the forehead, blood rushes to the
head; throbbing headache, increasing after; over os pubis, pressure; want of appetite;
bellyache and diarrhœa; backache, shooting; lower limbs weary; over-fatigued; going
upstairs, feels stiff all over, [5]. ► Vertigo, with other ailments; a dull headache, nausea;
complaints of eyes, neck; limbs ache; with costiveness of old people; with leucorrhœa
before catamenia; in motion, walking in the open air; worse in windy weather, [5]. ► Vertigo, with confusion of
the head (twenty-first day), [6]. ► Old people stagger when getting up from sitting, [5]. ► Staggering, dizzy
when walking, with drawing in the nape of neck, and confusion of the head (nineteenth day), [6]. ► General Head.
► Acute hydrocephaloid, with cholera infantum (Raue), [5]. ► Heat in head;
burning on top, running down to the toes, [5]. ► Headache, like a confusion all over on the inner sides of the
skull (from the 2d), [1]. [40.]
► Headache, in the morning, on waking, a heavy painful
confusion, as if close to the bone, from within and without, worse on the vertex; aggravated
by bodily exertion; it seems to disappear on mental exertion, and return on bodily exertion;
relieved by washing with cold water (from the 2d), [1].
► Headache like a fulness, a painful pressure of the
brain against the skull, most severe on the top of the head; it returns regularly almost
every ten seconds; at last it becomes continuous, but is still more severe every ten
seconds; aggravated on motion, especially on stooping, even on changing the position while
sitting; especially one sitting up after lying down, also on rising after sitting, when it
is accompanied by vertigo; better while lying still, and after stooping (from the 2d), [1]. ► Fulness; pressure
and dulness of head; worse from pressure of the hat, [5].
► After catamenia increases, throbbing headache;
want of appetite; backache and aching in the lower limbs; whites, [5]. ► Headache, with hot head and
face, together with ill-humor and indolence (from the 2d), [1].
► Some headache, with flatulence in the abdomen (after
the 2d dose), [4]. ►
Headache, with gastric symptoms with uterine complaints, or following other sensations, [5]. ► Headache, in the
morning, with sore throat (from the 2d), [1]. ► Headache not aggravated by drinking wine, but afterwards
severe on going into the open air; relieved by scratching the head, but only while
scratching (from the 2d), [1]. ►
All great exertions increase the headache or bring it back, [5].
[50.] ► Every step is
felt in head, in sacrum, [5]. ►
Headache better at first, from going out (from the 2d), [1].
► After the meals, more after dinner, headache or
drowsiness, weariness, itching etc., [5]. ► Forehead. ► Headache
over forehead, with a tearing pain in the hands and arms, most in wrists and right middle
finger, [5]. ►
Headache worse from changes of weather, extending from the forehead to nose, from temples to
jaws, with some rheumatic feeling from collar-bone to wrists, [5].
► Vertex. ►
Headache on top of head, behind ears, with a drawing in muscles of the neck to the nape of
the neck and back of head, [5]. ► *Crawling sensations run over top of head, as if ice were laying on upper part of occiput; the head is hot, with smarting of the roots of the hair, [5]. ► Parietals. ► Headache in the afternoon, with dread of labor; some pressure
on both side towards the back; just the same in the open air, relieved for awhile after
supper, though continuing somewhat during the evening (crude), [1]. ► Stitching pain in left side
of head; sleepiness during day, [5]. ► Throbbing headache through both sides, most after quick
motion, [5]. ► Occiput.
[60.] ► Aching,
drawing pains around the lateral protuberances of the occiput, [5]. ► External Head. ► Affections of the skull, [5].
► Sore pain; drawing, rending, tearing in the bones of
the skull, most along the sutures of the skull, particularly between the frontal and
parietal bones, or around the temporal bones, [5]. ► Scalp sore, hurts; creeping, numbness, cold crawl; coldness
on occiput, head, [5]. ►
Tight feeling; tension in scalp of forehead, [5]. ► Itching on the scalp provoking scratching, for several
evenings (crude), [1].
EYE.
► Eyes red; capillary
vessels visible in streaks from corners to cornea, [5].
► As if something came into his eyes; renewed if others
talk about it, [5]. ►
Sensation in the eye, as if something were in it; he always feels
it anew, if even after several days it is only mentioned (from the 2d), [1]. ► (For several days
there is a frequent sensation as if something were in the left eye; it seems to move about
in the eye, but is mostly felt towards the inner canthus and also in the upper part of the
ball; nothing can be seen, and it often disappears after a short time; it is very
troublesome and annoying; in the morning there is matter in the inner canthus; afterwards,
there is some swelling and redness in the upper part of the inner canthus), (from the 2d), [1]. [70.] ► Sticking-pressive pain in the left eye, extending to the
upper orbital border, in the mornings, on waking (nineteenth day), [6]. ► The left eye pains, as if
from a blow (fifth day), [6]. ►
A pain, as if struck in the left eye; he must press it gently and hold it until it ceases
(thirteenth day), [6]. ►
Itching sensation in the eyes (crude), [1]. ► Itching of the eyes, as if there were sand or hair in them
(fifth day), [6]. ►
Itching in the left eye; he must rub it, in the evening (third day), [6]. ► In the air, eyes worse;
coryza, hoarseness, cough, [5]. ►
Using eyes by gaslight hurts them, [5]. ► Writing, and especially reckoning, by candlelight, affects
the eyes very much (tenth day), [6]. ► Orbit. ► Pressure
above the eyes and towards them, [5]. ► Lids. [80.] ► Hot feeling in lids; sweat of the brows on lids, [5]. ► Violent painful
biting sensation in the left eyelid, towards the external canthus, compels violent rubbing,
which causes pain, but does not relieve, in the afternoon (from the second), [1]. ► Lachrymal Apparatus.
► Lachrymation and confusion of the head, with yawning
(seventh day), [6]. ►
Eyes water, most with gaping, [5]. ► Ball. ► Squinting;
distortion of eyeballs, as if it were from pressure; eyes seem distended; they protrude
somewhat, [5]. ►
Eyeballs hurts, aching as if beaten, [5]. ► Vision. ► *Cannot read;
light hurts, particularly candlelight, [5].
► More nearsighted than usual, as if dim before the eyes,
as from small, round, grayish spots (fifth day), [6]. ► Letters change in little black points, or small round gray
spots, or as if a little bird was flying from right to left, [5].
► Veil over eyes; eyes misty, [5]. [90.] ►
Glimmering, glittering, fiery circles; dreams of fire, [5].
EAR.
► Objective. ► Inner and outer ear swollen; red, sore, itching, [5]. ► Excoriating
discharge from ears, [5]. ►
Subjective. ► Burning pain in a small spot
over the right ear, highly sensitive to the slightest touch, [5].
► A severe, violent, burning pain in a small spot above
the right ear (when scratching the head on account of itching); it is exceedingly sensitive
to the slightest touch; after a time it suddenly disappears (crude), [1]. ► Aching, pressing, tearing,
rending, in and around the ears, most behind or below, [5].
► All the bones behind and around the ears ache and hurt,
shooting outwards, [5]. ►
Pressive pain in the cartilage of the left ear, as if it were being squeezed together with
the fingers (eleventh day), [6]. ►
Cold feeling in the ears, coldness followed by throbbing, by heat, with hard hearing; outer
ears cold; cold and aching, or hot and aching, [5]. ► Heat of inner and outer ear, [5].
[100.] ► Earaches,
tearing, shuttering, jerking pain, in alternations, or with other rheumatic complaints, [5]. ► Soreness in ears
and around, [5]. ►
Hearing. ► Difficult hearing, with all other
ear symptoms, [5]. ►
Singing and other noises most in right ear, [5].
NOSE.
► Objective. ► Point of nose icy cold, [5].
► A small, very painful ulcer forms on the right side of
the septum of the nose; he cannot well blow his nose, on account of a sore pain in it; opens
the second day, but does not heal till the fifth day (twenty-third day), [6]. ► Dry yellow mucus in the
nose, which must be removed with the fingers (fourth day), [6].
► Frequent sneezing (seventh day), [6]. ► Very frequent sneezing
during the whole time (eleventh day), [6]. ► Frequent violent sneezing, with running from the nose, with
nasal mucus and flow of saliva (from the 2d), [1]. [110.] ► Sudden sneezing, and
soreness on the margins of wings of nose; fluent coryza during the afternoon, [5]. ► Interrupted sneezing,
afterwards sneezing with coryza (fifth day), [6]. ► In the evening, three or four times, sudden sneezing,
followed by sensation of soreness in the nostrils, with relief of the headache (crude), [1]. ► Coryza, fluent, in
a cold room; stopped in warm air and out of doors, [5].
► Fluent coryza, in a cool room; after driving out,
stopped catarrh in the hot air, outside (fifth day), [6].
► Very profuse, fluent coryza; three handkerchiefs a day;
discharge thick, yellow, sometimes watery, with sore nostrils (twenty-first day), [6]. ► In the open air,
on warm days, nose stopped; coming in a cool room, the nose runs, [5]. ► Chronic catarrh in
scrofulous children, [°], [5]. ► Streaks of blood; nose bleeding, afternoon, [5].
► Thin bright-red streaks of blood on the mucus from the
nose, while sneezing (from the 2d), [1]. ► Subjective. [120.] ► Sometimes a sensation as if something had got into the nose
(like a crumb, while eating), which could not be got out (from the 2d), [1]. ► Biting-stinging in anterior
angle of left nostril; later right nostril, sneezing and lachrymation (Jones), [5]. ► Ticking in the
nose and sneezing, [5]. ►
Itching and a kind of soreness within the right angle of the nose near the tip (crude), [1].
FACE.
► Face pale, sallow,
yellowish, earthen, [5]. ►
*Pain in face, particularly in upper jawbone, from right to left; extends from other parts
to face, or from face to other parts, [5]. ► Pain in the processus zygomaticus, [5]. ► *Swollen upper lip; painful,
hard, burning, [5].
MOUTH.
► Teeth. ► (Slow, backwards in teething, also in closing of fontanels), [5]. ► (Slow dentition,
with cold tremors and emaciation), (G.), [5]. [130.] ► Teeth cannot bear
chewing, [5]. ►
(Carious teeth, cannot bear the fresh air), [5]. ► Pains in eye-teeth and stomach-teeth, [5]. ► Toothache, with other
complaints, [5]. ►
In an upper hollow root on the right side, sensation as if something had got into it that
she strives to remove. The loose root is sensitively painful when touched, yet he has a
desire to touch it; every minute renews the pain (twenty-first day), [6]. ► Raging toothache in an
upper root, left, extending into the upper jaw (fifth day), [6].
► Sensitiveness in an upper hollow root, right, with
desire to suck it with the tongue, which increases the pain, [6].
► Sensation as if something were sticking into the lower
incisors; it feels like a small painful swelling of the gum (crude), [1]. ► Dull drawing stitches in a
hollow upper back tooth, left side, afternoon (third day), [6].
► Shooting in molar teeth; all the hollow teeth cannot
bear the air, [5]. [140.]
► Jerking toothache in a hollow back tooth, right, after
a bit of pear had got into it (fourth day), [6]. ► Tongue. ► Tongue
white, furred on the root; most in the morning, [5]. ► Mornings, a whitish coated tongue, with furrows on it, as if
split; insipid sweetish taste after the ice cream of the day before (seventh day), [6]. ► When swallowing,
pain in tongue, fauces, pharynx, chest, and pit of stomach, [5].
► Tip of the tongue feels as if sore or burnt (fourth
day), [6]. ► *Tip of
tongue sore, burning, little blisters, [5].
► General Mouth. ►
Dryness of mouth and tongue, into choanæ, with salivation, with or without thirst, [5]. ► Contraction in the
right half of the mouth, as if from something hard; teeth also feel contracted, and as if a
draught of wind came from their roots (eighteenth day), [6].
► A sore spot inside of right cheek, in two provers,
distant in time and space, and from different preparations (Jones and B.), [5]. ► Saliva. ► Saliva copious and acid (crude), [1]. [150.] ►
Saliva running with fluent coryza, [5]. ► Taste. ► Flabby,
sweetish taste, [5]. ►
Bitter taste; particularly wheat bread tastes bitter (Cate), [5].
► *Bitter taste in the morning, with headache, [5]. ► Bitter taste at
the setting in of the catamenia, [5]. ► Foul taste and smell, [5].
► All day, especially mornings, offensive taste and
coated tongue (ninth day), [6]. ►
Disgusting taste when getting awake; worse when hawking, [5].
► Insipid, disgusting taste when waking; tongue thickly
coated white (fifth day), [6].
THROAT.
► Hawking and
inclination to vomit after breakfast (eighth day), [6].
[160.] ► Hawking up
phlegm in the evening, at night, and in the morning, with gagging, [5]. ► When they talk, they
constantly hem and hawk, [5]. ►
Much mucus; is often compelled to hawk in his sleep, to raise the mucus (evenings, twentieth
day), [6]. ► Much
mucus, with excessive hawking and sore pain in the throat, late in the evening (twenty-third
day), [6]. ►
Dryness in the throat, at night, [5]. ► Throat day, sore scrapy (twentieth day), [5]. ► A sensation in the throat
as after much weeping or after running, a kind of contraction (from the 2d), [1]. ► Pains and burning from other parts towards the throat, [5]. ► Burning in pit of throat, [5]. ► Pain on the sides
of throat; aching on pressure up to the ear, or from ear to shoulder, worse when turning the
neck, also when swallowing, [5]. [170.] ► Sore aching in throat;
worse when swallowing, [5]. ► Drawing in the inner throat, in the left eye, and in the left
row of teeth (nineteenth day), [6]. ► Sore throat and running of the nose, [5]. ► Sore throat in the morning,
on waking, worse in the right side, low down in the fauces, more towards the back; worse
when swallowing; it disappears after rising and at breakfast; warm drink causes no pain
(from the 2d), [1]. ►
In the evening, sore throat, with tickling cough, increasing after going to bed, [5]. ► Throat pains as if
sore; rough when swallowing, as if sore and painful; worse evenings (nineteenth day), [6]. ► Sensation of
soreness in the throat, and swelling of the left tonsil, with sensitiveness to the touch;
relieved in the evening by moistening it with fruit (eighteenth day), [6]. ► Throat rough and scrapy, as
if he would have a sore throat; sensation of dryness in a warm room (fifth day), [6]. ► Roughness in the
throat (twenty-first day), [6]. ►
Tickling-crawling in the throat that excites a dry cough (sixth day), [6]. ► Tonsils. [180.] ► Pain in the right
tonsil (after mustard), (from the 2d), [1]. ► Sore pain in the left tonsil, when yawning, [6]. ► Fauces. ► Fauces and uvula red and swollen; warm drink does not hurt, [5]. ► Sensation of
weakness or emptiness in fauces and throat, [5]. ► Swallowing. ►
Difficult empty swallowing, with scratching in the throat; foot is easy to swallow (seventh
day), [6]. ► Saliva
hurts to swallowing food, [5]. ► External Throat. ►
Aching, sore pain in the region of parotid gland, [5].® 2000
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