====== KALIUM PHOSPHORICUM ====== {{anchor:s1}}Kali Phosphoricum. ====== Phosphate of Potash. K2HPO4. ====== {{anchor:s4}}One of the constituents of the human body, obtainable from calcined bones. {{anchor:s5}}Also obtained by adding carbonate of potassium to dilute phosphoric acid. {{anchor:s6}}One of the Twelve Tissue Remedies, introduced by Schuessler. {{anchor:s7}}This valuable medicine needs proving on the healthy; so far we have but the suggestions of Schuessler, and results of limited clinical experience. ====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ====== {{anchor:s9}}- Mental alienation, Amberg, Schuessler's Tissue Remedies, p. 70; Melancholia religiosa, Amberg, Schuessler; Headache, Wesselhoeft, Schuessler, p. 29; Neuralgia of face, Wesselhoeft, Schuessler, p. 29; Stomatitis, Rapp, Schuessler, p. 43; Cholerine, Schuessler, p. 84; Enuresis, Crowell, Schuessler, p. 64; Amberg, Allg. Hom. Ztg., vol. 103, p. 84; Asthma, Rapp, Schuessler, p. 63. ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s11}}Loss of memory, or weak memory.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Quiet delirium. {{anchor:s13}}~ Dysentery. {{anchor:s14}}~ Pneumonia.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Delirium tremens; horrors of drunkards; fear, sleeplessness, restlessness and suspicion; rambling talk; endeavors to grasp or avoid visionary images.\\ {{anchor:s16}}Says she is eternally and irretrievably damned; continually weeping and crying, wringing her hands, pulling to pieces and tearing her clothing, as well as bed covering; does not recognize her surroundings; no sleep; staring eyes; often must be held by two persons; food and medicine must be forcibly administered. {{anchor:s17}}~ Melancholia religiosa.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Anxiety, nervous dread without special cause, gloomy moods, fancies, taking dark views of things, dark forebodings.\\ {{anchor:s19}}Melancholia and other similar ailments, which arise from deranged mental function, caused by overstrain of mind, or from exhausting drainings affecting nerve centres of spinal cord.\\ {{anchor:s20}}Sighing or moaning, also when occurring during sleep.\\ {{anchor:s21}}Whining and fretful disposition in children and adults.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Crying or screaming in children, from undue sensitiveness.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Hysterical fits of laughter and crying; yawning.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Shyness, excessive blushing, from undue sensitiveness.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Vexation, restlessness and irritability.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Easily frightened, and inclined to fear.\\ {{anchor:s27}}Depression of spirits and lassitude.\\ {{anchor:s28}}Profound hypochondria and melancholia, weariness of life and fear of death, suspiciousness, weeping mood.\\ {{anchor:s29}}Dread of noise, oversensitiveness to noise and light.\\ {{anchor:s30}}Homesickness, morbid activity of memory, haunted by visions of past, and longing after them. ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== {{anchor:s32}}Concussion of brain.\\ {{anchor:s33}}Nervous vertigo; cerebral anemia. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s35}}Excruciating nervous headache, with great sensitiveness to noise, during menses.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Pains and weight at back of head, with feeling of weariness and exhaustion.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Headache of students; brain fag from overwork.\\ {{anchor:s38}}Headache amel. by motion.\\ {{anchor:s39}}Softening of brain; early stage; hydrocephalus.\\ {{anchor:s40}}Brain affections with diarrhea smelling like carrion. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s42}}Weak sight; from exhausted condition of optic nerve; strabismus; after diphtheria.\\ {{anchor:s43}}Excited, staring appearance of eyes.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Drooping of eyelids. ====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ====== {{anchor:s46}}Deafness, from want of nervous perception, weakness, or exhaustion of auditory nerve.\\ {{anchor:s47}}Noises in ears from nervous exhaustion; nervous roaring.\\ {{anchor:s48}}Ulceration of membrana tympani and middle ear suppurations, with foul discharge.\\ {{anchor:s49}}Atrophic conditions of nerve. ====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ====== {{anchor:s51}}Epistaxis; from predisposition or weakness; ozaena.\\ {{anchor:s52}}Hay fever with nervous irritability. ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== {{anchor:s54}}Face livid and sunken, with hollow eyes.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Neuralgia in right side of face, proceeding from hollow teeth, amel. by cold applications.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Facial neuralgia; great weakness after attack.\\ {{anchor:s57}}Loss of power in muscles of face, causing contortions, or an involuntary twist of mouth. {{anchor:s58}}~ Paralysis. ====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ====== {{anchor:s60}}Chattering of teeth, nervous.\\ {{anchor:s61}}Toothache of highly nervous, delicate, pale, irritable, sensitive persons.\\ {{anchor:s62}}Bright red border, easily bleeding gums; scorbutic. ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== {{anchor:s64}}Tongue: coated, like stale, brownish, liquid mustard; offensive breath; excessively dry in morning, feeling as if it would cleave to roof of mouth. ====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ====== {{anchor:s66}}Breath offensive, fetid; stomatitis.\\ {{anchor:s67}}Gums spongy and receding.\\ {{anchor:s68}}Noma. ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== {{anchor:s70}}Diphtheria, with marked, putrid, gangrenous condition, and fearful stench from mouth; malignant. ====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ====== {{anchor:s73}}Excessive hungry feeling, soon after eating, caused by nervous depression or weakness. ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== {{anchor:s75}}Inordinate appetite; wants to eat almost every hour; very tired and enervated. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s77}}Sweat during meals, with feeling of weakness at pit of stomach; "gone sensation".\\ {{anchor:s78}}Indigestion with great nervous depression; faint feeling.\\ {{anchor:s79}}Inflammation of stomach; failing strength, dryness of tongue. ====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ====== {{anchor:s81}}Affection of spleen; leukemia lienalis. ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s83}}Flatulence with distress about heart.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Inflammatory colic of horses with incipient gangrene.\\ {{anchor:s85}}Abdominal hernia and prolapsus; in weak persons. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s87}}Diarrhea: painless, watery; with heavy odor; occasioned by fright and other causes depressing and exhausting nerves; putrid, carrion-like stools; great prostration.\\ {{anchor:s88}}Delirium, dryness of tongue, tympanites; carrion-like odor of discharges; dysentery; pure blood is discharged.\\ {{anchor:s89}}Stools: like rice water; offensive, ichorous; pure blood.\\ {{anchor:s90}}Vomiting and diarrhea; painful cramps in calves; rice water stools. {{anchor:s91}}~ Cholera.\\ {{anchor:s92}}Cholera (second stage) caused by affection of nerves of intestinal canal.\\ {{anchor:s93}}Putrid and typhoid dysentery. ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s95}}Bright's disease; depressed condition of nerves; sleeplessness, irritability, weary feeling.\\ {{anchor:s96}}Diabetes; nervous weakness; breath peculiar, with hay-like odor, thirst, emaciation, often voracious hunger, all consequent on liver derangement.\\ {{anchor:s97}}Inflammation of bladder; asthenic condition.\\ {{anchor:s98}}Catarrh of bladder; vomiting, paleness of face, loss of strength and dryness of tongue.\\ {{anchor:s99}}Paralysis of sphincter, inability to retain urine, generally of old people.\\ {{anchor:s100}}Incontinence of urine, from paralysis of sphincter.\\ {{anchor:s101}}Obstinate enuresis; general weakness. ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== {{anchor:s103}}Phagedenic chancre; balanitis. ====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ====== {{anchor:s105}}Menses: premature and profuse in nervous subjects; too scanty; too profuse, with heavy odor, dark red, or blackish red, thin and not coagulating.\\ {{anchor:s106}}Amenorrhea, retention or delay of monthly flow, with depression of spirits, lassitude, and general nervous debility. ====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ====== {{anchor:s110}}Labor pains: feeble and ineffectual; spurious.\\ {{anchor:s111}}Mastitis, pus brownish, dirty looking, with heavy odor; adynamic condition; gangrenous, bad colored, bad smelling pus.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Childbed fever with absurd notions or mania.\\ {{anchor:s113}}Second stage of puerperal fever. ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== {{anchor:s116}}Speech slow, becoming inarticulate; creeping paralysis.\\ {{anchor:s117}}Recent paralysis of vocal cords.\\ {{anchor:s118}}Hoarseness from overexertion of voice.\\ {{anchor:s119}}Croup, last stage; extreme weakness, pale or livid countenance. ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== {{anchor:s121}}Nervous asthma with depression; asthma after most moderate use of food; asthma with sallow features, sunken eyes, emaciation.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Shortness of breath; asthmatic when going up stairs. ====== COUGH. [27] ====== {{anchor:s124}}Whooping cough in highly nervous patients, or great exhaustion. ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== {{anchor:s126}}Pain in lower part of left thorax, agg. on coughing; slight catarrhal cough; tongue dry; pulse frequent, small and intermittent; no appetite; great weakness.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Edema pulmonum; dyspnea, spasmodic cough, with expectoration of frothy, serous masses; lassitude and prostration; livid countenance. ====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ====== {{anchor:s129}}Palpitation: from nervous causes; on ascending, with shortness of breath; with nervousness, anxiety; with sleeplessness.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Intermittent action of heart: with morbid, nervous sensitiveness; from violent emotions, grief, care.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Fainting, from weak action of heart.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Pulse intermittent, irregular.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Sluggish circulation, in sensitive, nervous subjects; to strengthen heart's action. ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== {{anchor:s135}}Spinal anemia from exhausting diseases.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Softening of spinal cord, loss of power, stumbles and trips.\\ {{anchor:s137}}Paralytic or rheumatic lameness, stiffness after rest, amel. by gentle motion. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s139}}Rheumatic or neuralgic affections of sciatic nerve; amel. from motion.\\ {{anchor:s140}}For two days drawing, laming pain in sole of foot; affected place size of silver dollar, bluish.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Chilblains, if recent. ====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ====== {{anchor:s143}}Paralyzing pain in limbs, amel. by motion and external warmth. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s147}}During rest: tearing, paralytic pains agg.\\ {{anchor:s148}}After rest: stiffness; severe rheumatism.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Rising: neuralgic pains agg.; paralytic pains agg.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Beginning to move: paralytic pains agg.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Motion: headache amel.; rheumatic affection amel.; paralytic pains amel.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Gentle exercise: neuralgic pains amel.; stiffness amel.; rheumatism amel.\\ {{anchor:s153}}Going up stairs: shortness of breath. ====== NERVES. [36] ====== {{anchor:s155}}Starting on being touched, or at sudden noises.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Undue irritability, after exhausting diarrhea or long continued use of purgatives.\\ {{anchor:s157}}Disposition to feel bodily pains too acutely.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Nervous attacks, from sudden or intense emotion, or from smothering passion; in highly nervous and excitable persons; also feeling as of a ball rising in throat.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Fits, from fright, with pallid or livid countenance.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Spasmodic attacks; face pale and sunken, body and limbs cold, violent palpitation. {{anchor:s161}}~ Epilepsy.\\ {{anchor:s162}}Nervous affections, when occurring without reasonable causes, such as impatience, irritability, dwelling upon grievances, merriment becoming oppressive, shedding tears about trifles, making mountains out of mole hills.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Neuralgia, much reduced constitutions, paralyzing pains.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Neuralgic pains, amel. with gentle exercise, agg. on rising.\\ {{anchor:s165}}Sciatica.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Paroxysms of pain followed by great weakness.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Feeling of faintness; lassitude and palpitation.\\ {{anchor:s168}}General debility, with nervousness and irritability.\\ {{anchor:s169}}Adynamic typhoid condition.\\ {{anchor:s170}}Collapse, with livid countenance and low pulse.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Tearing, paralytic pains in nerves, most during rest, amel. from motion without exertion, especially felt after rising from sitting, or on beginning to move.\\ {{anchor:s172}}Lameness: recent, paralytic, from exhaustion of nerves, with stiffness after rest, yielding to gentle exercise; rheumatic; rigidity of muscles.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Creeping paralysis; course of disease slow; tendency to wasting, with loss of sense of touch.\\ {{anchor:s174}}Shock of paralysis, with morbid sensibility, or a bruised and painful feeling in part affected, or rigidity of paralyzed limbs.\\ {{anchor:s175}}Paralysis dependent on exhaustion of nerve power in recent cases, as after diphtheria.\\ {{anchor:s176}}Paralytic states, nasal voice, strabismus, etc., after diphtheria.\\ {{anchor:s177}}Atrophic paralysis.\\ {{anchor:s178}}Infantile paralysis recent, and if connected with teething.\\ {{anchor:s179}}Softening of spinal cord, idiopathic, with gradual deadening of nerves. ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== {{anchor:s181}}Yawning: excessive, unnatural; hysterical.\\ {{anchor:s182}}Sleeplessness: after worry or excitement; from nervous causes; simple wakefullness.\\ {{anchor:s183}}Night terrors, in children awakening with fright and screaming; somnambulism.\\ {{anchor:s184}}Noises in head on falling asleep, feeling as if a rocket had passed through head. ====== TIME. [38] ====== {{anchor:s186}}Morning: tongue dry; rheumatism. ====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ====== {{anchor:s188}}External warmth: amel. paralytic pain in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s189}}Cold applications: neuralgia amel. ====== FEVER. [40] ====== {{anchor:s191}}Typhus or typhoid fevers; haggard face, pulse whizzing or very small.\\ {{anchor:s192}}Ileo-typhus.\\ {{anchor:s193}}Intermittent fever; sweat profuse and exhausting, fetid.\\ {{anchor:s194}}In yellow fever; if Carbo vegetabilis is not sufficient.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Excessive, exhausting, strong swelling sweats. ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== {{anchor:s197}}Almost every hour: wants to eat.\\ {{anchor:s198}}For two days: drawing, laming pain in sole of foot. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s200}}Right: neuralgia of face.\\ {{anchor:s201}}Left: pain in lower part of thorax. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s203}}As if tongue would cleave to roof of mouth; as of a ball rising in throat; as if a rocket had passed through head.\\ {{anchor:s204}}Pains: at back of head; in lower part of left thorax.\\ {{anchor:s205}}Lancinating nervous headache.\\ {{anchor:s206}}Tearing, paralytic pains; in nerves.\\ {{anchor:s207}}Paralyzing pain: in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s208}}Painful cramps: in calves.\\ {{anchor:s209}}Drawing, laming pains: in sole of foot.\\ {{anchor:s210}}Rheumatic or neuralgic affections: of sciatic nerve.\\ {{anchor:s211}}Neuralgia: in right side of face.\\ {{anchor:s212}}Bruised and painful feeling: in part affected.\\ {{anchor:s213}}Dryness: of tongue.\\ {{anchor:s214}}Weight: at back of head. ====== TISSUES. [44] ====== {{anchor:s216}}Function of brain cells depressed. {{anchor:s217}}~ After concussion.\\ {{anchor:s218}}All ailments which arise from or denote a want of nerve power; hence nervous prostration, exhaustion, nervous rigors; also all affections in which brain, and consequently mind, shows want of vigor.\\ {{anchor:s219}}Insanity, mania or other mental derangement; from exhausted or depressed condition of brain or nerve cells, showing itself in perverted function.\\ {{anchor:s220}}Anemia or leukemia, caused by long lasting mental depression, poverty of blood from continuous influences depressing mind or nerves.\\ {{anchor:s221}}Too rapid decay of blood corpuscles.\\ {{anchor:s222}}Hemorrhages; blood not coagulating, thin, blackish or light red.\\ {{anchor:s223}}Septic hemorrhages; stench from mouth and stomach; discharges smelling like carrion; putrid gangrene; prostration.\\ {{anchor:s224}}Scorbutus, gangrene, noma or stomatitis, gangrenous angina, phagedenic chancre, offensive, carrion-like diarrhea, adynamic or typhoid conditions.\\ {{anchor:s225}}Fatty metamorphosis in muscular fibres.\\ {{anchor:s226}}Atrophy, wasting disease, putrid smelling stools.\\ {{anchor:s227}}Rheumatism, acute and chronic, with pains disappearing on moving about, severe in morning after rest, and on first rising from sitting position.\\ {{anchor:s228}}Rachitis with atrophy; profuse, discolored, foul smelling diarrhea; violent thirst; sometimes discolored vomiting; brown covering of teeth, etc.\\ {{anchor:s229}}Suppurations, dirty, foul, ichorous fetid matter.\\ {{anchor:s230}}Cancer, encephaloid, medullary, soft (brain-like convolutions), chiefly occurring in young.\\ {{anchor:s231}}Noma.\\ {{anchor:s232}}Chancre, phagedenic.\\ {{anchor:s233}}Purpura hemorrhagica. ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== {{anchor:s237}}Touch: causes him to start.\\ {{anchor:s238}}Mechanical injuries: ichorous discharge, gangrene. ====== SKIN. [46] ====== {{anchor:s240}}Urticaria.\\ {{anchor:s241}}Vesicles, with bloody ichorous contents.\\ {{anchor:s242}}Greasy, offensive smelling crusts or scales.\\ {{anchor:s243}}Skin diseases with bad smelling discharge.\\ {{anchor:s244}}Scarlet fever: putrid condition of throat; typhoidal.\\ {{anchor:s245}}Smallpox; adynamia and decomposition of blood.\\ {{anchor:s246}}Offensive ulcers; bad colored, ichorous, bad smelling.\\ {{anchor:s247}}Pemphigus malignus. ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== {{anchor:s249}}Pale, sensitive, irritable persons.\\ {{anchor:s250}}Atrophic conditions in old people.\\ {{anchor:s251}}Girl, aet. 7; enuresis.\\ {{anchor:s252}}Woman, aet. 33, pale and thin; neuralgia of face.\\ {{anchor:s253}}Woman, aet. 44, formerly neither inclined to piety nor fanaticism; melancholia religiosa.\\ {{anchor:s254}}Man, aet. 60; enuresis.\\ {{anchor:s255}}Man, aet. 80; mental alienation. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s257}}Compare: Arsen., Baptis., Carbo v., China, Ignat., Kreos., Laches., Mur. ac., Phosphor., Phytol., Pulsat., Rhus tox.\\ {{anchor:s258}}Compatible: Cycl., disordered mental conditions; Kali mur., in puerperal fever; Magnes. phos., bladder troubles; Zinc. phos., incipient paralysis of brain, with nephritic irritation; Natr. mur., Nitr. ac. hemorrhages.\\ {{anchor:s259}}After weakening diseases, mushrooms, by virtue of containing Kali phos., rapidly restore muscle and nerve tissue. ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 06, 1888 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r137|Kalium phosphoricum]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r137|Kalium phosphoricum]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. | ^ Year: | 1888 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}