Phosphoricum acidum

as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931

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Keynotes

WEAK OR DEBILITATED, with free secretions. Slowness. Pains go to part lain on. Bruised soreness; like growing pains. Sense of pressure. Formication; at roots of hair; along spine, limbs, etc. Loose joints. Grows too fast. .................... Quiet. Indifferent, APATHETIC, obtuse or torpid; with tendency to diarrhœa or sweatiness. Slow grasp. Can't collect his ideas; hunts for words. Poor memory. Dull despair. Averse to talking. Brain-fag. Mild delirium; easily aroused. Crushing weight on vertex. Early grayness. Falling hair. Dull, sunken eyes with blue circles; they feel pressed out. Eye-balls feel large. Pale, sickly face; white of egg seems dried on it. Bleeding gums. Slimy tongue. Craves juices. Sour stomach. PROFUSE, PAINLESS, DIRTY WHITE, WATERY or LIENTERIC STOOL; BUT LITTLE DEBILITY. THICK, MILKY URINE. Polyuria. Diabetes. Weak, relaxed genitals; suddenly during coitus. Pollutions. Takes colds; < draft on chest. Shaking cough. Twisting under xiphoid. Paralytic weakness along spine. Heavy fore-arms. Scraping bone-pains, at night. Clammy wrinkled skin. SLEEPY BY DAY; but wakeful at night. Cold parts; one side of face, abdomen, etc. Burning along spine; below waist; kidney region. Heat with sweat. Profuse sweats; < night; as a sequel. Sluggish, painless fevers.

Worse

DEBILITY from: LOSS OF FLUIDS. Sexual excesses. Fatigue. Fevers. Convalescence. EMOTIONS (chronic): Grief. Chagrin. Mental shock. Unhappy love. Homesickness. Drafts. Cold. Music. Talking.

Better

Warmth. Short sleep. Stooling.

Region

MIND. Nerves. Metabolism. Sexual system. Spine: sensory nerves. Muscles. Bones.

Relationships

Complementary: Chin. Related: Gel.

What the other books say about Phosphoricum acidum

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Phosphoricum acidum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Phosphoricum acidum in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
Phosphoricum acidum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Phosphoricum acidum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.

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Cite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Phosphoricum acidum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/phosphoricum-acidum. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.