Kalium phosphoricum
kali-phoPhosphate of Potassium One of the greatest nerve remedies. Prostration. Weak and tired. Especially adapted to the young. Marked disturbance of the sympathetic nervous system. Conditions arising from want of nerve power, neurasthenia, mental and physical depression, are wonderfully improved this remedy. The causes are usually excitement, overwork and worry. Besides, it corresponds to states of adynamia and decay, gangrenous conditions. In these two directions it has won many clinical laurels. Rem
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Kalium phosphoricum — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
Neurasthenia. Paralysis. PUTRID, or golden-yellow excretions; coat on tongue, stool, etc. Foul odor of body. Carrion odor of secretions. Irregular menses, pulse, etc. Stitches. Little pain. Paralytic weakness. .................... Shyness. Nervous and sensitive. Dread. Gloom. Averse to her own. Angry. Vertigo on facing sun. Eyes; burn, sting and swim in tears; yellow-gray, milky secretion; left lid droops. Retinitis. Reflex eye symptoms. Itching in posterior nares. Sneezing; at 2 A.M. Hay fever; pro-phylactic. Sad, care-worn look. Brown stripe at edge of hair. Palate feels greasy. Tongue yellow, like liquid mustard. Aphthæ. Craves ice water, vinegar and sweets. Craving hunger; soon after eating; and weakness follow painless, watery stools. Entero-colitis. Empty gnawing in stomach, > eating. Cutting in abdomen. Golden yellow, putrid, hot stools. Milky urine. Enuresis nocturna. Sexual erethism, with prostration after coition or nightly emissions. Horribly foul leucorrhœa. Aphonia. Nervous asthma. Axillary sweat smells of onions. Spinal irritation. Prickling hands and feet. Numb fingertips. Foot feels frost-bitten. Pains in soles. Drowsy. Yawning. Inactive skin.
Kalium phosphoricum — mind · James Tyler Kent
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.
Kalium phosphoricum — general · James Tyler Kent
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.
Kalium phosphoricum — modalities worse · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
Slight: Excitement. Worry. Mental fatigue. Touch. Pain. Cold, dry air. Puberty.
Kalium phosphoricum — modalities better · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
Sleep. Eating. Gentle motion (Fer. Pul.). NERVOUS, SENSITIVE, WEAK AND EASILY FAGGED, especially by pain, etc.
Kalium phosphoricum — head · James Tyler Kent
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.
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