Hand Book of Materia Medica and
Homśopathic Therapeutics.By T. F. Allen.
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Ferrum Phosphoricum.
The pure Phosphate of Iron is triturated for use.
Generalities :- ►
Malaise all the
evening. ► Weariness in morning on waking ; at 1 P.M.
(not having eaten since breakfast), with desire for brandy.
Mind :- ►
Hasty, intolerant
feeling in afternoon. ► Impetuous feeling in evening, yet obstacles
cause hindrance and annoyance and trifles seem like mountains, intolerant
of hindrance and annoyance. ► Annoyed at the conversation of
fellow-passengers in street-car, agg. when earnest or excited, amel.
afternoon. ► Shrinking and timid at hearing cross words about an
absent stranger. ► Soothing, pleasant effect from walking in a quiet
part of the city after dark, ceasing on returning to the bustle of the
central streets. ► Inertia, indifference to ordinary matters,
craving for brandy without real muscular debility. ► Loss of courage
and hope early in evening, amel. sleep.
Head :- ►
Feeling as from
insufficient sleep, fell asleep at my table at 4.30 P.M.
► Pain all day, agg. right side, agg. first thinking of it ; P.
from right brow to right ear when reading ; in right side. ►
Sharp twinges of pain over whole left side at 11 P.M. ;
from right vertex to right supraorbital foramen in afternoon. ►
Aching dullness extending from vertex towards orbits and sides of head as
a pressure, agg. holding head down when writing, amel. when walking, but
when walking in the street more in occiput and when rising, walking, etc.,
most in vertex, as the force of the circulation most impinges, it always
seems in subcutaneous cavities. ► Pain in posterior part of base of
skull in afternoon at every concussion (as of coughing or even sudden and
hard smacking of lips).
Clinical :- ►
Symptoms of meningitis of the brain, suffused eyes, full, soft pulse,
with drowsiness and heaviness. ► Violent headache, throbbing,
followed and amel. and by nosebleed. ► Violent headaches during
menstruation ; the head is extremely sensitive to pain (Compare Fer.
met.).
Eyes and Ears :- ►
Smarting in
edges of right lids. ► Neuralgia at left inner brow and down left
side of nose, in evening when riding. ► Sharp aching at outer edge
of left orbit, as if in bone at 7.30 P.M., on right
side at 8.30. ► Sticking in right ear ; on going to bed,
extending as a headache above periosteum of that side.
Clinical :- ►
Encysted tumor of the eyelids. ► Inflammation of the external ear,
with muco-purulent discharge, ear red and swollen, mastoid process
swollen and sore.
Nose and Face :- ►
Lips blue
after a tepid sponge bath. ► Grumbling in left lower jaw, near
filled molar. ► Smarting in right anterior nasal passage ;
right posterior nasal passage agg. inspiration, amel. expiration.
Mouth and Throat :- ►
Increase of
the usual light coat on tongue, with yellowish tint increasing towards the
base. ► Liberation of pharyngeal, tracheal and nasal mucus. ►
Working down of phlegm behind velum palati, also loosening from below.
Clinical :- ►
Sore
throat, catarrhal affections of the Eustachian tube and ears, especially
in singers.
Stomach :- ►
Indifferent to food
on sitting down to supper, but ate heartily. ► Thirst for cold water
and for brandy in morning ; for brandy on rising in morning after
studying till 2 A.M., took a teaspoonful with good
effect ; for ale at 1 P.M., at 3 P.M.
no desire for dinner but for brandy, if he took a teaspoonful, he then ate
with relish, the same desire before breakfast. ► Irritating, greasy
eructation. ► Hiccough at noon after sitting bent towards the
floor ; H. when respiration compress the stomach and afterwards.
► Nausea in morning on rising. ► Heartburn at 9.30 P.M.
when sitting bent forward reading with eructations causing coughing and
hemming, irritation in throat and behind left of mid-sternum, later
eructations of gas and of greasy fluid provoking cough (had had stewed
oysters and aromatic tea at supper). ► Pinching in epigastrium.
Clinical :- ►
Dyspepsia, with loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting after eating,
aggravation from acids, especially with pulsating headaches, profuse
menses, restlessness, etc. ► Persistent vomiting of food, often
before eating in the morning, in women.
Abdomen :- ►
Emission of fetid
flatus when standing leaning over the table, continuing when undressing.
► Pain in transverse colon ; at 3 P.M. ;
at breakfast, when bending forward, repeated when standing, using arms
moderately towards the left. ► Threatening of diarrhśa from colon
to rectum.
Stool and Urinary and Sexual Organs :- ►
Stool soft, yellow, easy. ► Urine pale, copious in cool
weather ; in warm weather, and limpid, less copious and darker in
cooler weather ; when pale there were several crystalline forms the
principal being hexagonal plates answering to cystin, and tables answering
to uric acid and chloride of sodium.
Clinical :- ►
Hćmorrhoids. ► Cholera infantum, with red face, full, soft
pulse ; stools watery or even bloody, after checked perspiration.
► Hćmorrhage from the bladder. ► Irritable or inflamed
bladder, with frequent urging. ► Retention of urine, with fever,
in children. ► Ovarian neuralgia. ► Dysmenorrhśa, with
sacral pains, headache, frequent urging to urinate, pain in left ovary.
Chest, Heart and Pulse :- ►
Pain
in C. in morning. ► Oppression of left C. and stomach from
indignation. ► Palpitation when sitting ; when sitting writing.
► Pulse accelerated.
Clinical :- ►
Its
action upon the respiratory organs may be clearly foreshadowed by the
provings of Fer.
and Phos. ;
like Fer.
is indicated in congestions of the respiratory organs, even when there
is considerable fever, especially notice that the oppression and dyspnśa,
both of which are extremely marked in Fer.
and Phos.,
and duplicated in this chemical compound and afford good indications for
its use ; so, in a general way, symptoms of oppression like Phos.,
with the evident fever and congestion of Fer.,
should be treated by this drug ; the cough may be short, dry and
hacking or even paroxysmal ; there may be expectoration of blood,
either streaked or clear.
Neck and Back :- ►
Pain in neck
in morning. ► Pain in left lower lumbar region when walking bent
forward ; in sacro-iliac symphysis at 1 P.M. on
walking in the street after standing, amel. pressure. ► The habitual
aching in dorsal spine (agg. standing or sitting, amel. walking or leaning
back against chair) is increased, also amel. change of position. ►
Tired feeling in right lumbar region in evening when sitting in church.
Extremities :- ►
Rheumatic
feeling in right wrist after writing, extending downward in dorsal
tendons, agg. rest, then the pain ebbs and flows, when writing it
sometimes extends up forearm, agg. dorsal and ulnar aspects, on rising
felt in little finger to first phalanx, amel. warmth and wrapping.
Clinical :- ►
In
articular rheumatism, especially of the shoulder, the pains extend to
the upper part of the chest ; and of the hands, which are swollen
and painful, or of the knee, with severe pain, or of the ankle, with
shooting pain.
Sleep and Fever :- ►
Drowsiness
at 4.30 P.M., felt much in eyes, extending up into
head, necessity to take a nap. ► Sensitiveness to cool air ; at
noon ; all the evening. ► Dry heat of palms ; when
sitting, and of face ; D. heat of face, hands, throat and upper chest
at 6 P.M.
Clinical :- ►
There
may be heat, with quick, soft pulse, thirst and sweat, which does not
relieve the patient (Fer.).
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