Mirza Tahir Ahmad James Tyler Kent
Potassium Phosphate is an important element found in the secretions of the human body and glands. In the brain, nerves, muscles and blood especially, its mere presence is not enough, rather, it has to be in a state of equilibrium. It plays an essential, prominent role in the development of human life. While its deficiency causes numerous neurological and mental disorders, its excess, too, is sometimes extremely lethal. Its chemical name is Potassium Phosphate, though in homoeopathy it is known as Kali Phos.
Kali Phos is a renowned nerve tonic. It is an antipsoric remedy, meaning that it is effective against skin conditions which, when forcefully suppressed, can inflict the inner linings of the body and the nervous system. Though homoeopaths classify it as antipsoric, yet it is mainly related to the nerves. By nature it gives strength to the nerves and on the same basis, it has antipsoric effects. For example, if any illness remains suppressed due to the weakness of the nerves, and the body is too weak to expel it, Kali Phos will throw it out on the skin.
Kali Phos works on the brain, the nerves and the blood. It is surprisingly effective in the treatment of mental and physical fatigue. It is useful for the treatment of ailments resulting from anxiety, confusion, overwork and mental anguish. By nature, a patient of Kali Phos is lazy and fearful. He feels nervous to meet people, loses his memory and becomes indifferent to his work.
In Kali Phos ailments become aggravated by resting in the cold and humid weather. These symptoms are also seen in Rhus Tox, but in Rhus Tox the patient tosses and turns all night because of the increasing discomfort. Whereas, in Kali Phos, the sufferings build up all night and then forcefully express themselves in the morning when the patient wakes up. So the discomfort is at its peak in the morning and then gradually abates. The gradual increment of the disease is an important sign of Kali Phos. In a patient of Rhus Tox, the discomfort is worst at the onset of movement and gradually improves on walking. A patient of Kali Phos gets relieved with slow movement. Like Rhus Tox, there is a tingling and numbness of the hands and feet as well as the flaccidity of the muscles. All kinds of body excretions have a foul odour in Kali Phos. In Rhus Tox, however, there is no such foul odour. Rhus glaba and foul odour are very deeply related. Many antipsoric medicines are used for treating the foul smelling secretions of the armpits (due to the infected sebaceous glands in the axilla). But Rhus Glabra in potency 3X or 6X and Kali Phos in 6X are extremely effective when given together. Kali Phos is also deeply related to foul smell.
Kali Phos is also very useful in the treatment of gangrene. In the allopathic system, the treatment of infected indolent ulcers that become necrotic and gangrenous is amputation. But amputation is usually performed through a healthy area of good circulation, well above the gangrenous area. In many such patients, I have successfully obviated the need for amputation with the use of Kali Phos and Silicea.
Allah, the Almighty has created a very elaborate immune system in our body against diseases. The cure is not obtainable without these antibodies. When a disease has knocked down the body defence to the extent that it cannot react any more, any amount of antibiotics given will be ineffective because body can no longer react. Similarly, in the case of gangrene, the immune system of the body is completely damaged. Kali Phos revives the immune system and empowers the tissues to defend. Consequently, the body starts defending itself against the gangrenous process. Silicea also works well once the tissues become strong again.
Kali Phos is also useful in the treatment of inflamed lymph glands. Sometimes the glands become inflamed on both sides of the neck. This also happens in the case of tuberculosis and cancer. In these patients, Silicea alone can lead to serious consequences. Therefore, many other medicines are given before or along with Silicea. One of them is definitely Kali Phos. Kali Phos streamlines the reaction of the body towards Silicea. In my opinion, this method is very effective. It is also possible to give Kali Phos before Silicea and prepare the patient for proper reaction. In this situation, it is better to give Kali Phos 1000 and wait for a few days. Sometimes this alone produces miraculous results, and a single dose starts decreasing the size of the lymph nodes. At this time, we do not even need to give Silicea. Another dose of Kali Phos can be repeated after eight to ten days. As long as the size of the lymph nodes is reducing, we do not need to add another medicine. Kali Phos is not only effective in the treatment of superficial glands, but it also affects the glands of the internal organs and uterus. When the glands look like they are transforming into cancer, Kali Phos must be kept in mind because of its beneficial effect on the healing of cancerous ulcers.
Kali Phos resembles Agaricus to some extent. The twitching of the muscles of the face may require Kali Phos, Agaricus or similar medicines.
Kali Phos, like Ambra Grisea, is also useful to alleviate the ill effects of a serious accident or a bad news. The development of such a mental shock is an important sign of Kali Phos. Kali Carb is the best remedy for any gastric or heart ailment resulting from sad news. Natrum Mur is also useful for the mental disturbance consequent upon sad news. Sad news or grief due to shock does not affect everybody uniformly. In Kali Phos, sudden shocking news afflicts the mind and the patient suffers from sadness and weakness for a long, long time. In a patient of Natrum Mur, the grief results in insanity.
Kali Phos is very useful in the treatment of mental stress and severe fatigue. My late father had a prescription devised for nervous weakness and this should be remembered i.e. Kali Phos 6X and Calcaria Phos 6X, Mag Phos 6X, combined and taken two to three times a day. This can relieve all kinds of nervous exhaustions.
In Kali Phos, the memory can be affected temporarily without the narrowing of the blood vessels of the brain. This is not permanent. While someone is seriously thinking over a particular matter and then suddenly his attention gets diverted to another focus, he fails to recall the desired name or word that he is looking for. The reason is that the mind, being busy in another thought does not concentrate on the new thought immediately. This is due to the mental stress and not due to arteriosclerosis (narrowing of the cerebral blood vessels). Besides Kali Phos, Caladium is very useful in the treatment of this transient ailment. In Kali Phos, the patient may feel dizzy suddenly, reminding one of Bryonia. The dizziness on sudden standing up, lowering of the head or movement of the head from side to side is a sign of Kali Phos, Bryonia and many other homoeopathic remedies. Nux Vomica is also very good for the treatment of dizziness. Sometimes the head feels heavy and there is loss of balance and unsteadiness on walking. Movement of the head leads to the sensation of vertigo. Similarly, when the distension of the abdomen suddenly jolts the stomach, this movement can also lead to unsteadiness and dizziness. In this situation, Nux Vomica works immediately and effectively. If the dizziness is only because of nervous exhaustion, Kali Phos should be the top priority.
If any ailment is aggravated by motion and there is dizziness during travelling, both Cocculus and Bryonia are useful. When unsteady, the patient of Kali Phos tends to fall forwards. Some just tend to bend backwards. This tendency of theirs to bend back, sometimes changes to the tendency to fall forwards. The patient of Kali Phos is in general very intelligent and adapts to bending forwards for the fear of falling backwards, which results in a forward fall.
In the neurogenic pains of the face (trigeminal neuralgia), besides Kali Phos, Phosphorus, Silicea, Spigelia and Magnesium Phos are also very useful. Mag Phos is also deeply related to the nerves. For the treatment of restlessness and muscular cramping, it is more useful, compared to Kali Phos. Kali Phos is also associated with tonic contractions of the muscles, which it relieves in homoeopathic and biochemic forms. The convulsions of Kali Phos are usually related to the lower parts of the body, namely the thighs, calves and feet. The muscular spasms of Mag Phos are more generalised and can affect the intestines as well. Kali Phos also works well on the infections of the kidneys. In Mag Phos, in addition to the hyperexcitability, there may be other factors that lead to violent muscle spasms.
In typhoid, deep ulcers form inside the mouth. The tongue looks filthy and smells foul. These signs are also seen in Kali Phos. Lack of body immunity leads to the spread of toxins into the blood, sepsis, and oral thrush (fungal infection of the tongue). Another sign of Kali Phos is that the patient feels hungry but does not want to eat anything. This is common in very sensitive types of people. Slim, skinny boys and girls, who are over-sensitive and are teased by others, react against food, refusing to eat important nutrients. These children become anorexic because of hypersensitivity. Kali Phos is the best remedy for such children. Initially, it should be given in potency 6X. After it has shown some beneficial effect, another dose in high potency will show surprisingly good results. For the anorexia, due to a stomach or liver disorder, Nux Vomica is the best. The effect of Nux Vomica on sleep is similar to that of Kali Phos. Nux Vomica is useful in treating the insomnia and restlessness arising from drinking tea or coffee, but in case of insomnia due to nervousness and anxiety, Kali Phos should be used.
The patients of Kali Phos and Arsenic are usually very neat and tidy but unfortunately their body secretions become very foul smelling and putrid during the severity of the illness and fever. Because the foul smell of secretions is common in other medicines too, one should not consider the foul smell as a diagnostic sign for Kali Phos. Most bodily secretions happen to be foul smelling in contagious diseases and infections. Kali Phos ranks high in the cure of such a patient. Ferrum Phos 6X and Kali Phos6X combined given five to six times a day along with Pyrogenium 200 and Typhoidinum 200, work very well in a typhoid patient who has a tendency towards constipation.
The patient of Kali Phos likes cold and sour drinks.
Kali Phos is very effective in the inflammatory conditions of the liver and the intestines. It also works for irritable bowel syndrome (an intestinal disorder of psychological origin). One or two doses of Kali Phos are very effective in the treatment of acute dysenteric symptoms associated with severe cramps in the abdomen (tenesmus). It should be remembered that Kali Phos and nothing else will work for gastro-intestinal disturbances associated with nervousness and anxiety. Kali Phos should especially be used when all other similar medicines have failed. Kali Phos is usually used as a tonic in combination with Mag Phos and Calacarea Phos. But if the symptoms of Kali Phos are obvious, then the effect of Kali Phos would diminish in the presence of other medicines. In this situation, one should keep in mind that if the diagnosis is correct then that one particular medicine could hit the target, with the blessings of Allah. One or two doses can cure the patient, and if by chance it does not help, then other appropriate medicines should be sought.
Regarding the disease pattern of some medicines, the symptoms shift from right to left or from left to right. In Kali Phos, like Lachesis, the symptoms move from left to right. In Kali Phos, it is not the disease itself which transfers from left to right but simply the pain moves from left to right, while in Lachesis, the disease itself tends to shift from left to right.
In the diarrhoea of Kali Phos associated with fear and anxiety, the stools are watery and foul smelling causing weakness. The dysentery in Kali Phos is associated with the passage of mucous without blood, but sometimes there could be fresh bleeding. It is the irritation of the nerves in the walls of the intestines that increases their mobility. The adjacent loops of the gut rub against each other, causing inflammation, production of mucous and then bleeding.
Kali Phos works on the bladder rendered irritable due to exposure to cold. Some people suffer from frequent urination, more so in cold weather. On exposure to the cold, the bladder becomes irritable, leading to the frequent passage of urine but there is no associated burning. The urine is clear like water, showing that there is no infection. Instead it is mere irritation of the bladder. As in the common cold, there is excessive running of the nose but no physical discomfort. It is the frequent wiping of the nose that causes inflammation inside the nose. If this bladder condition of a Kali Phos patient does not abate soon, inflammation will ensue; even infection can set in. Sometimes in a patient of Kali Phos, the headache resulting from mental fatigue may apparently get better but the associated mental stress becomes directed towards the kidneys. As a result of this, the patient passes an abundant amount of urine every few minutes or so (polyuria). Such episodes occur in people involved in serious literary work. Highly intellectual work and mental anguish may cause migraine or headache or sometimes frequent urination.
Kali Phos is also the remedy for sexual weakness resulting from nervous tension. Kali Phos should also be remembered in women who tend to abort. In general, in the beginning of pregnancy, Viburnum Opulus Q is used to prevent the abortion. In the second and third month, Sabinais used, while in the fourth and fifth months, Kali Carb is used. However if the abortions occur because of the patient being highly-strung and anxious, Kali Phos would be the best treatment.
Kali Phos is deeply related to the aborting tendency secondary to mental stress. These women should be made to take Kali Phos 1000 (even when not pregnant) once or twice a month. At the onset of bleeding during pregnancy, Kali Phos should be combined with Ferrum Phos.
Kali Phos is also worth remembering in the treatment of angina. In angina, it should be combined with Mag Phos but other appropriate medicines may be used.
The acne and boils of Kali Phos are more on the abdomen and the back rather then on the face or other areas. Initially Kali Phos alone should be used for this, but other medicines should be looked for if there is no relief.
When the skin diseases become suppressed and migrate to the deep internal organs, the nervous system becomes inflicted and loses its normal function. The body becomes cold and unable to defend itself. Kali Carb and Psorinum are among those homoeopathic remedies that can immediately warm up the body and surface the disease out onto the skin. Kali Phos would certainly be indicated when diseases like measles and chicken pox, originating from the deep organs do not manifest their signs on the skin due to the suppressed nervous system. Kali Phos is completely different from Psorinum and other such medicines in its action.
Some homoeopath physicians warn that Kali Phos and other potassium salts should not be used during a fever, but this is only true when the temperature is rising in the early stage of the disease. Once the fever starts lowering, any proper medication can be given to its advantage.
Regarding the loss of memory and nervous breakdown, Kali Phos should be used in potency CM.
Kali Phos, Calcarea Phos and Ferrum Phos combined in 6X potency are useful for the correction of anaemia and the general well being of children. If the child is congenitally weak, then one should also add Silicea. In the case of premature children, most of their organs, which were supposed to develop in the uterus, remain weak. Silicea is very useful to strengthen them. It is a very good remedy to improve such congenital weaknesses.
Kali Phos is also useful in the treatment of Puerperal fever alongside Pyrogenium and Sulphur.
Potency: 6X to 30, 200, 1000, 10 0000 or 100 000 as indicated
by Mirza Tahir Ahmad
KALIUM PHOSPHORICUM
Generals: The symptoms of this remedy are worse morning, evening and during the night.
The over-sensitive, nervous, delicate person, worn out from long suffering, much sorrow and vexation, and prolonged mental work; also such as are broken down from sexual excesses and vices.
It is a long-acting antipsoric. Anemic and chlorotic patients, Most complaints are worse during rest, and ameliorated by gentle motion and slowly walking about. The patient in general, and his pains, are aggravated in cold air, from becoming cold, after becoming cold, from entering a cold place, and in cold, wet weather. He takes cold easily. Aversion to the open air. Draft of air aggravates, and open air aggravates. Numbness in the extremities. Great lassitude. Aggravated by ascending stairs, and by physical exertion. Glands dwindle. Choreic movements.
Complaints are worse after coition. The weakness, emaciation, and anaemia and tubercular tendency are strong features of this wonderful antipsoric remedy. Oedema of the limbs and dropsy of serous sacs. Complaints aggravated after eating. Emaciation, wasting diseases with putrid discharges and putrid stools.
Fainting spells. Fasting ameliorates, Fatty tendency of muscles and organs. Aggravated alter cold drinks, milk. This remedy has been used in gangrenous condition. Parts become black. Septic, putrid hemorrhages, and great prostration. All forms of nervous weakness. Hypochondriasis and hysteria. Inflammation of glands.
Complaints from loss of fluids. Orgasm of blood. The pains are aching, pressing, stitching, tearing, tearing downwards, paralyzing. Chronic neuralgia, ameliorated by gentle motion, aggravated from cold. One sided paralysis from a gradually increasing weakness. Paroxysms of pain followed by exhaustion. Pulsation felt all over the body and in the limbs.
Symptoms are often one-sided. Many symptoms come during and after sleep. Twitching of muscles, and jerking of limbs. Ulcers with putrid discharges. Offensive catarrhal discharges. Walking fast aggravates; walking in open air aggravates. Warmth of bed ameliorates. Complaints worse in winter. Too many cures have been made by the followers of Schüessler to permit this remedy to remain unexplained. Good provings are found in our literature. The high and highest potencies have served the best, and it should be used in the single dose.
Mind: Flies into a passion and can hardly articulate.
Aversion to answering questions. Apprehensive anxiety, in the evening in bed, and during the night; anxiety after eating, about the future, about his health, about his salvation.
Whenever he wakens it oppresses him, and he becomes hypochondriacal. She takes an antipathy to her husband. She is cruel to her baby and husband. Perverted affections. Broods over his condition. Aversion to company. Complaints come on from bad news.
Confusion of mind morning and evening. Contrary humor. Low form of delirium in typhoid and septic fevers. Delirium tremens. Imaginations. Sees dead people. Sees figures, frightful images. Discontented and sad. Dullness of mind in the morning. Discouraged. He refuses to eat, He is very excitable and greatly wrought up from bad news; then follows palpitation and many nervous symptoms.
Exhaustion after exertion of mind. He dwells much in fancy. Fear in the evening. Fear of a crowd, of death, of disease, of evil, of people, of solitude. He is easily frightened, which increases his many nervous and mental symptoms. Weak memory. Forgetful.
Cannot recall words. Homesickness. Effects of grief and prolonged sorrow. A nervous hurry is noticed in action and speech. Nervous excitement has increased until hysterical conduct is present. It is a great remedy for imbecility. She is impatient and impetuous.
Indifference to surroundings, to joy and to her family. Indifference to his business matters, and then comes indolence and lassitude. Insanity; melancholia; thinks she has sinned away her day of grace and refuses to eat. She does not recognize her surroundings. Shrieks and acts like one insane. Quarrels with her family.
The irritability is very marked, in morning on waking, in the evening, after coition, during headache, during menses, when spoken to, on waking at any time, after becoming exhausted from a diarrhoea, There is laughing and crying, lamenting and wringing the hands. There is loathing of life; moaning during sleep.
Dullness of the senses. Weakness of memory for words, and great prostration of mind. Sadness in morning on waking, in the evening, and also day and night. Obstinate; morose; mood changeable. Mistaken in speaking and writing. In many cases cured a mild mental state was noticed.
Over-sensitive in general, and especially to noise. Restlessness during menses. The numerous cases of nervous prostration from mental work, prolonged anxiety, much sorrow, and sexual excesses and vice are likely to require this remedy. Incoherent speech. Starting; easily startled from fright, during sleep, from touch and from noise. Stupefaction and suspicious.
He is indisposed to talk, or to be talked to. Talking in sleep. Vanishing of thought. Becomes timid and bashful. Vexation brings on many complaints. Weeping and weary of life.
Vertigo: afternoon and evening, ameliorated in open air, aggravated after eating, with a tendency to fall forward; aggravated on looking upwards, compelling him to lie down; with nausea and with headache; objects turn in a circle on rising up, when standing, when stooping, on turning the head, when walking in open air.
The head: is cold, and sensitive to cold air. Congestion; fullness of the head felt on coughing. Heat in head evening, flushes of heat in the forehead. The head inclines to fall forward.
Tension of scalp. Heaviness of the head, morning on rising, in forehead and occiput. This has been a useful remedy in hydrocephalus and many brain affections, when associated with putrid diarrhoea. Itching of the scalp morning on waking, in the night in bed, aggravated 3 to 5 A.M.
Movements felt in the head. It has much pain in the head. Pain morning in bed, on rising, on waking, and passes off on moving about. Pain afternoon, evening and night. Worse in very cold air, but ameliorated in open fresh air. She must let the hair hang down. The headache comes with coryza, comes from taking cold.
The pain is worse on coughing, and ameliorated by eating; aggravated from becoming overheated, from disordering the stomach, from excitement, and from physical exertion. Weight in occiput with exhaustion. Must lie down and shun the light, lying on back ameliorates; aggravated from jarring and stepping, aggravated before and during menses.
The headaches from mental work, in students, brain-fag from overwork are cured by this remedy when the symptoms agree. Nervous headache during menses. Paroxysmal headaches. The pains in head are ameliorated by gentle motion; aggravated from noise, riding in a carriage, after sleep, sneezing, stepping, stooping, touch, pressure, walking and writing. Headache comes from eye-strain, and is ameliorated by wrapping up the head. Violent pulsating pains. Pain in forehead before menses, above the eyes extending to occiput; across forehead into both temples.
Pain in occiput lasting all night; frequent waking, with pain on rising; wakens with pain in occiput and loins ameliorated lying on back, passes off after rising. Pain in occiput as if hair were pulled; must let hair hang down. Violent headache in sides of head.
Neuralgia of left mastoid process, aggravated by motion and in open air. Pain in temples. The pains are aching, boring, burning. Burning in forehead during stool. Bursting in forehead. Drawing in forehead, sides of head and vertex. Jerking pain, pressing pain. Forehead as though bored, ameliorated by eating.
Pressing outward in forehead, over eyes as if brain would expand. Pressing in occiput, ameliorated by eating. Pressing in temples and vertex. Soreness in occiput. Stitching in the head, forehead, over eyes, in occiput sides of head, right frontal eminence and in temples. Stunning pains.
Tearing pains in the head, in forehead before menses, ameliorated lying and on appearance of the flow. Tearing in occiput, sides of head, temples, and vertex. Perspiration on mental exertion, of the forehead; cold sweat. Pulsation, forehead and temples. The brain is very sensitive to jar, and to sounds. Shocks felt in the head. Softening of the brain. Complaints come on from uncovering the head.
Eyes: Anemia of the optic nerve. Lids agglutinated in the morning and a discharge of mucus, aggravated in the evening.
Dryness and dullness of the eyes. Falling of the lids. Inflammation of the conjunctiva, injected blood-vessels and lachrymation. Paralysis of the optic nerve. Photophobia. Redness of the eyes. Staring, restless, excited look. Strabismus following brain diseases.
Sunken eyes. Swollen oedematous lids. Twitching of eyes and lids. Weak eyes. Pain in eyes on motion of eyes, on reading, on waking; aggravated in sunlight. Aching. Smarting of eyes and margins of lids. Drawing, pressing. The balls are sore to touch. Sharp pains from eyes to temples in the morning. Stitching. Sticks. Sensation of sand. Tearing pains. Blurred vision. Colors before the eyes, floating black spots, dark colors; halo around the light. Dim vision after coition. Vision is foggy. Exertion of vision brings on eye troubles and headaches. Vision weak.
Ear: Discharge from the ear, bloody, offensive, putrid, purulent.
Eruptions on the ears. Pimples in the canal. Fullness in ears. The ears are hot. Itching in the ears, aggravated lying. Noises from nervous exhaustion and cerebral anaemia, with vertigo. Buzzing, fluttering, humming, ringing, roaring, rushing, singing, whizzing.
Pain deep in ear. Cramping, drawing, pressing. Stitching in left ear down to cheek, and behind the ear. Stinging in ear, aggravated lying. Tearing in ear. Pulsation in ear. Stopped sensation. Singing in ear. Ears swollen. Twitching. Hearing acute to noises and voices, but impaired as to the articulation of the human voice. Deafness.
Coryza: fluent or dry, with cough, with headache.
Hay-fever with great nervous weakness. Obstinate catarrh. Discharge bloody, excoriating, greenish offensive, purulent, stringy, thick, watery, white, yellow, worse in the morning. Yellow crusts, worse in right nostril.
He suffers much from dryness in the nose. Epistaxis in the morning, on blowing the nose, in low fevers. The nose is obstructed. Itching, and burning in the nose. Pressing pain at the root of the nose. Much soreness inside of the nose, with yellow crusts and dark blood. Smell at first acute, later wanting. Sneezing frequent; violent at 2 A.M., from slight exposure. Ulceration in the nose. The nose is swollen.
Face: Brown patch from the edge of the brows to the eyebrows, three inches wide, lasting three months.
Chlorotic face. Dark circles under eyes. Cracked lips. Face pale, sickly and dirty.
Circumscribed red checks. jaundiced face. Herpes on the lips. Sore crusts on lips. Vesicles on lips. The expression is haggard, sickly and suffering. Flushes of heat in face. Inflammation and swelling of the parotid glands. Itching of the face, in the whiskers, on right cheek, on temples. There are drawing, stitching, tearing pains in the face, aggravated in cold air.
Cold applications ameliorate pain in right side of face from a hollow tooth. Pain in jaw bones, ameliorated after eating and speaking, waking and touch. Neuralgia of face followed by great weakness.
Neuralgic stitch riding in cold air, ameliorated by heat of hand. Paralysis of one side of face (Caust.). The face perspires. Swollen lips, parotid and submaxillary glands. Tension of the face. Ulceration of lips.
Mouth: The tongue is dark coated and bleeding.
The gums bleed, and are covered with sores. The typhoid mouth, tongue and teeth in septic fevers when there are putrid odors. Redness of gums and edges of the tongue. The tongue is white, slimy, greenish yellow. Dry mouth and tongue in the morning. Inflamed mouth and gums.
Offensive odor, putrid morning, like spoiled cheese. Sore burning mouth and tongue. Receding gums. Thick salty saliva. Scorbutic, spongy gums. The roof of the mouth swollen in ridges, feels as if lined with grease.
Taste bad, bitter, insipid, putrid, sour; bitter in the morning. Grinding teeth in sleep. Nervous chattering of teeth. Pain in teeth from taking cold, aggravated by cold things, aggravated masticating, aggravated after sleep. Pulsating, aching, jerking, pressing, sore, stitching, tearing.
Throat: This remedy has been used with some success in diphtheria with putrid odor.
Dryness in throat in evening. Fullness and constriction of the throat. Inclination to clear the throat by hawking. Mucus in the throat in the morning, sometimes tasting salty. Lump in throat. Pain in throat on swallowing. Pain in right tonsil. Burning, rawness, soreness. Stitching on swallowing. Stitching pain from left tonsil to ear, while driving in forenoon. Inflammation and swelling of throat and tonsils, with white deposits like membrane.
Stomach: The appetite is increased and sometimes ravenous, but goes on the sight of food.
Hunger soon after eating, from nervous weakness. Hunger during menses. Aversion to food, to bread, to meat. Sensation of coldness in the stomach. Desires cold drinks, sour things, sweets. The stomach is commonly disordered. Fullness and distension. Emptiness with nausea, during menses, after eating. Eructations, after eating, ineffectual, of bile, bitter, empty, of food, sour; waterbrash. Heartburn. Weight in stomach after eating.
Loathing of food. Nausea on coughing, after eating, during headache, during menses, during pregnancy; ameliorated by eructations. Retching. Pain in stomach after eating and during menses. Burning, cramping, cutting, soreness. Stitching. Gnawing pain at 5 A.M. on waking. Pressing after eating. Sensation of a stone in the stomach. Extreme thirst for cold water. Thirst during heat. Thirstlessness sometimes. Vomiting in the morning, on coughing, after eating, during headaches, during menses, during pregnancy. Vomiting bile, blood, food, mucus, sour.
Abdomen: The abdomen feels cold, and is sensitive to uncovering.
Distension after eating, during menses. Tympanitic with great pain, in typhoid fever. Distended with dropsy. Sensation of emptiness. Fermentation with distress in heart. Flatulence, obstructed, noisy. Sensation of fullness after eating. Heat in abdomen and heaviness. Inflammation of intestines, peritoneum, and liver. Pain in abdomen aggravated at night; across the abdomen left to right; bending double ameliorates; during cough, during diarrhoea, after eating, before and during menses; paroxysmal; before stool.
Pain in region of liver. Bearing down, ameliorated sitting, aggravated lying on left side, aggravated after drinking. Seems as though sides of abdomen would burst when sneezing. Burning. Cramping after eating. Cutting. Griping in hypogastrium with ineffectual urging to stool. Soreness in abdomen and liver. Stitching in abdomen and liver. Stitching, catching in spleen, aggravated from motion. Rumbling and tension.
Anus: Constipation with very difficult stool; hard, large, knotty.
Diarrhoea, morning, 6 A.M., evening, night, during or after eating; colliquative; from fright or excitement, during menses, painless, with vomit ing and cramps, with great exhaustion, in typhoid. Dysentery. Offensive flatus which ameliorates the symptoms. Formication of the anus. Haemorrhage from intestines in typhoid.
Haemorrhoids, external and internal, itching, painful with burning and swelling. Inflamed piles with offensive moisture. Inactivity of the rectum. Involuntary stools. Pain in rectum during and after stool. Burning during and after stool. Soreness and pressing pains. Stitching pain. Tenesmus after stool. Paralysis of the rectum. Relaxed anus. Ineffectual urging to stool. The stool is excoriating; bloody mucus or pure blood, brown, clay colored, watery stool; putrid flatus followed by tenesmus after breakfast. Stool copious, dark, frequent; large, light colored. Lienteric stools. Stools offensive, putrid, purulent, watery, like rice water, yellow or yellowish green mucus.
Bladder: Chronic catarrh of the bladder in old people and nervous wrecks.
Pressing and stitching in the bladder. The urging to urinate is frequent, or ineffectual, and worse at night. The urine dribbles. Dribbling after urination; feeble stream, frequent, copious at night, Stream stops and starts. Involuntary at night, in old people, in typhoid, in nervous prostration.
In obstinate cases of enuresis, in excitable, sensitive children. Unsatisfactory urination. Inflammation and stitching in the kidneys. Burning in the urethra during and after urination. Stitching in the urethra. The urine is albuminous, burning, cloudy, copious, offensive, scanty, watery, yellow like saffron. Sediment is flocculent, mucous, red and sandy. Specific gravity increased. Sugar in the urine.
Genitals: Erections very troublesome in the morning and during the night without sexual desire; violent in the morning. Impotency. Frequent seminal emissions with erections. Inflammation of glans penis. Sexual passion obliterated.
In tired out nervous women who are subject to abortion. Aversion to coition. Desire increased, intense for four or five days after menses. Inflammation of uterus. Itching from leucorrhoea. It cured a chronic abscess discharging periodically through the vagina and rectum a copious orange-colored fluid. Leucorrhoea acrid, burning, copious, greenish, yellow, offensive, putrid; after menses; in young girl.
Menses absent, black, copious, dark, delayed, frequent, irregular, late, offensive, painful, pale, protracted, scanty, short, suppressed, thick. Uterine haemorrhage. Pain in ovaries, in left, ameliorated lying on the back and bending double, during menses. Pain in ovaries on going to sleep. Stitching pain in ovaries. Pain in uterus and ovaries at night during pregnancy. Labor-like pains. Prolapsus of uterus.
Respiration: Irritation of the larynx and trachea in cold air.
Catarrh of the air passages, with thick, yellowish white mucus. Soreness and scraping in the larynx. Tickling in larynx and trachea. Voice hoarse, lost from paralysis of the vocal cords; hoarse from over-exertion of vocal cords.
Respiration difficult at night; rattling, short; difficult on going up stairs. Nervous asthma, aggravated after eating.
Cough in daytime, morning, evening in bed and during the night. Dry cough at night during fever. Hacking cough. Cough from, irritation in larynx and trachea. Loose cough. Paroxysmal cough. Racking cough. Rattling cough. Short, spasmodic. Cough in cold air, from deep breathing, during chill and fever, after eating; aggravated lying. Asthmatic cough. Cough from tickling in larynx and trachea. Whistling cough. Whooping-cough with great nervous exhaustion.
Expectoration in morning, bloody, frothy, greenish, mucous, offensive, purulent, putrid, salty, thick sweetish, viscid, yellowish white.
This remedy has been favorably mentioned in angina pectoris. Anxiety in the chest in the morning. Catarrh of the chest. Spasmodic constriction. Constriction of the heart. Fatty degeneration of the heart. Haemorrhage from the lungs. Hepatization of the lungs. Inflammation of the bronchial tubes. lungs, pleura. Oppression of the chest. Itching of the skin. Pain in chest during cough, on inspiration, on motion, on breathing.
Pain in lower part of chest on coughing, inside of chest, in heart. Aching in left side of chest through to scapula. Burning in chest. Cutting under right breast. Soreness in chest. Stitching in chest on coughing, during respiration, in mammae, sides of chest, in heart. Tearing pains in chest.
Heart: Palpitation, anxious, ascending steps, aggravated by motion. Violent.
Perspiration like onions in axilla. It is a very useful remedy in catarrhal phthisis. Suffocation of lungs. Swelling in axilla; abscess. Weakness of chest. Weak heart. Pulse intermittent and irregular; feeble circulation.
Back: The back feels cold.
Eruptions on the back, pimples. Weight in lumbar region. The nape and back lame. Itching. Pain in the back during rest, ameliorated by motion, respiration aggravates, during menses. Pains in occiput and loins morning on waking, ameliorated lying on back, passing off after rising. Pain in back of neck. Pain in dorsal region. Pain in scapulae morning on waking, had to sit up to turn over. Pain first in right, then left scapula. Pain between scapulae.
Pain in lumbar region during menses, while sitting, ameliorated by motion. Pain in sacrum during menses. Intense pain along spine. Pain in coccyx. Aching between scapula. Sore, bruised spine. Burning in back, in lumbar region. Drawing in back, lumbar region. Lameness and stiffness of whole back, ameliorated by gentle motion. Stitching pains in the back, in dorsal and lumbar regions,
Stitching toward front of chest with dyspnoea, ameliorated leaning back against chair, aggravated lying on the back, sitting or walking. Tearing pains in the back, in lumbar region. Softening of the spinal cord. Weakness with stumbling when walking. Swollen glands of neck. Weak back. Cannot sit erect without a chair back to lean against.
This remedy cures many nondescript spinal affections.
Limbs: Cold hands and feet.
Feet cold and damp. Cramps in thighs, calves and soles. Eruptions on limbs, pimples. The hands are hot. Heaviness of limbs, of lower limbs and feet. It has been of great service in hip joint disease. itching of the limbs, of palms and soles, Numbness of the limbs, upper and lower; hands and finger tips, feet and legs.
Rheumatic and gouty pains in limbs and joints, ameliorated by motion and warmth. Pain in back and limbs, ameliorated by motion. Pain in shoulders and arms, in arms when raising them. Sciatica, ameliorated by gentle motion. Pain in hip and knee. Pain in legs at 5 A.M., on waking, ameliorated by gentle motion. Bruised knees and legs. Burning feet, soles and toes. Paralytic drawing in limbs, ameliorated by warmth and gentle motion. Drawing in upper limbs, in the thighs, knees and legs. Drawing laming pain in soles, Pressing pain in shoulder and thighs.
Stinging in soles. Stitching in joints, shoulders and knees. Tearing in the limbs; shoulders, upper arm, elbow, forearm, hand, fingers. Tearing in lower limbs; hip, knee, legs, feet. Paralytic tearing in limbs, ameliorated by motion. Paralysis of limbs. Hemisplegia.
The feet perspire. The lower limbs and feet are restless. Rheumatic stiffness after resting. Oedema of hands and feet. The hands tremble. The limbs twitch. Weakness in all the limbs, especially the lower.
Sleep: Profound sleep.
Dreams anxious amorous, of falling, frightful, of being naked, nightmare, vivid; night terrors in children (Borax). Restless, nervous and hot in sleep. Sleeps on the back. Sleepiness early in evening, after eating. Sleepless after midnight, after mental exertion, after excitement, after vexation. Sleepless with sleepiness. Waking early, as from fright. Walking in sleep. Very troublesome yawning.
Chill, morning, forenoon, noon, afternoon, evening. Chilliness in the open air, in bed. Could scarcely get warm in bed. Chilliness ascending spine in evening. Cold all day. Chilliness after eating. External and internal chill. Nervous shivering and shuddering. Shaking chill. One-sided coldness.
Fever in afternoon and evening. Heat all night, with hunger. Fever alternating with chill. Fever at night in bed. Typhoid fever, low, putrid type. Dry heat. Flushes of heat. It has been a very useful remedy in hectic fevers when there is putrid sweat and putrid expectoration and great nervousness and excitement. Internal heat. Fever with no sweat. Scarlet fever, skin dusky and throat putrid and dark red. Sweat mornings and nights, when eating and drinking, and on slight exertion, during sleep offensive; profuse night sweats.
Dusky spots on calves. Burning after scratching. The skin is cold, jaundiced, dry. Eruption moist, and the moisture is bad smelling. Herpes. Eruptions, itching, pimples, psoriasis, scabby, urticaria; vesicles, bloody, ichorous. It has cured erysipelas that was almost gangrenous with putrid odor. Inactivity of the skin. Itching, crawling, stinging in the skin. Very sensitive skin. Sticking in skin. Ulcers, burning, offensive, even putrid, with yellow discharges.
by James Tyler Kent