PHOSPHORUS

P: Perspiration has the odor of Sulphur. Placing hands in warm water results in nausea, putting hands in cold water, sneezing and coryza. People often young who grow too rapidly, are inclined to stoop, chlorotic and anemic. Painless, copious debilitating diarrhoea. Post operative vomiting. H: Haemorrhagic and Tubercular diathesis. O: Over sensitiveness of all senses. Susceptible to all external impressions: Light, noise, odor, touch, electrical changes, thunderstorms. S: Swelling of both eye lids, stoop shouldered. Spine, burning in spots between the scapulae. Small wounds bleed profusely, ( Kreos, Lach), from every mucus outlet due to haemorrhagic diathesis. Swelling and necrosis of the lower jaw, (Amph, Hecla). P: Prostration with nervous debility and trembling. Pain: acute especially in the chest aggravation from pressure, in inter costal spaces and lying on left side ( Dros, Stan),excited by slightest chill, open air intolerable. Pneumonia worse lying on the left side. H: Heat running up the back. Heaviness of the chest as if a weight were lying on it. Hair falls out in bunches, baldness of single spots, dandruff falls out in clouds ( Lyco). Hearing difficult especially to human voice. O: Old people with morning diarrhoea, as if anus wide open. R: Restlessness is another characteristic, patient moves continuously, cannot stand still for a moment, fidgety feeling. Regurgitation of ingesta in mouthful, (Alum). U: Unwillingness to converse, study, disinclination to both mental and physical exertion. S: Sensation of empty all gone sensation in head, chest, stomach and abdomen especially at 11 AM like sulphur. Short cat naps refreshing. Stomach longs for cold foods and drinks, juicy refreshing things, ice creams which ameliorates gastric pains. Stomach throws out water as soon as it becomes warm in the stomach. Aggravation: Touch; physical or mental exertion; twilight; warm food or drink; change of weather, from getting wet in hot weather; evening; lying on left or painful side; during a thunderstorm; ascending stairs. Amelioration: in dark, lying on right side, cold food; open air; washing with cold water; sleep.