====== FERRUM PHOSPHORICUM ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Ferrum Phosphoricum.</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s2}}Phosphate of Iron. {{anchor:s3}}Fe32PO4, FePO4, 12H2O.</span>

{{anchor:s4}}One of the organic tissue-salts introduced by Schuessler. {{anchor:s5}}Needs proving. {{anchor:s6}}This arrangement includes all of Schuessler's Third American edition, with additions from the current literature.

{{anchor:s7}}Prepared by trituration.

{{anchor:s8}}Good results with the 200th potency have been obtained.

====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ======

{{anchor:s10}}- <span grade2>Congestion of blood to head</span>, Raue's Rec., 1875, p. 6; <span grade2>Headache</span> (5 cases), Raue's Rec., 1875, pp. 5-6; <span grade2>Attacks of nausea</span>, Raue's Rec., 1875, p. 6; <span grade2>Dyspepsia with vomiting</span>, Mossa, Allg. Hom. Ztg., vol. 104, p. 51; <span grade2>Summer complaint with bloody stools</span>, Goodno, MSS., 1877; <span grade2>Irritability of neck of bladder</span>, Hunt, Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 164; <span grade2>Incontinence of urine</span>, Parsons, Tans. Am. Inst. Hom., 1883, p. 181; <span grade2>Enuresis</span>, Cooper, Hughes' Pharm., p. 369; <span grade2>Gonorrhea</span>, first stage, Raue's Pathol., p. 697; <span grade2>Hemorrhage from urethra or bladder</span>, Ashton, Hah. Mo., vol. 10, p. 466; <span grade2>Dyspareunia</span>, Sulzer, Times Retros., 1875, p. 18; <span grade2>Diphtheria</span>, (2 cases), Morgan, Hah. Mo., 1885, p. 231; <span grade2>Pneumonia in phthisis</span>, Goodno, MSS.; Cough, Cooper, Raue's Rec., 1871, p. 132; <span grade2>Cough</span>, Fischer, Times Retros., 1875, p. 18; <span grade2>Acute bronchial catarrh</span>, Goodno, MSS., <span grade2>Haemoptysis of phthisis</span>, Knerr, MSS.; <span grade2>Sugillation of foot</span>, Fischer, Times Retros., 1875, p. 18; <span grade2>Articular rheumatism</span>, Plate, Raue's Rec., 1874, p. 253; <span grade2>Acute synovitis</span>, C. R. Norton, MSS.; <span grade2>Debility of children</span>, Cooper, Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 206; <span grade2>Measles</span> (35 cases), Koeck; <span grade2>Intermittent</span>, Curtis, MSS.

====== MIND. [1] ======

{{anchor:s12}}Very talkative and hilarious; unnatural excitement.\\ {{anchor:s13}}Delirium tremens.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s14}}Sows eat up their young; a transient mania depending upon hyperemia of brain.</span>

====== SENSORIUM. [2] ======

{{anchor:s16}}Dizziness with constant feeling as if head were being suddenly pushed forward, with danger of falling.\\ {{anchor:s17}}Great dizziness; every thing swims around him; his muscles seemed so weak he could hardly move about.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s18}}Vertigo caused by congestion to various parts of brain or head.</span>\\ {{anchor:s19}}Relieved symptoms supposed to be due to cerebral venous congestions.

====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s21}}Hammering pain in forehead and temples, so severe that she fears an apoplectic stroke; agg. in right side, formerly agg. on left</span> <span grade2>~</span> <span grade3>Dyspepsia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s22}}Frontal headache, followed and relieved by nosebleed.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s23}}Scarcely endurable, dull, heavy pain on top of head during menses which are very profuse.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s24}}Top of head sensitive to cold air, noise and any jar; on stooping, sharp pain through head, from back to front; at times, a feeling as if head were being pushed forward, with danger of falling.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s25}}Severe headache, soreness in vertex, general soreness of scalp, cannot bear to have hair touched, great nervousness at night.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s26}}On stooping a sharp pain through head, from back to front.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s27}}Headache or neuralgia of face with stinging, pressing or throbbing, agg. from shaking head, stooping and all motion.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s28}}"Blind headache," in a lady who had at the same time a bearing down sensation in uterus, with a constant dull pain in either ovarian region.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s29}}Headache with hot, red face and vomiting of food.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s30}}Rush of blood to head with vertigo.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s31}}Congestion of brain in children and grown persons; meningitis.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s32}}Congestion to head with epilepsy.</span>

====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s34}}Soreness in vertex, general soreness of scalp, cannot bear to have the hair touched.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s35}}~</span> <span grade3>Headache.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s36}}Top of head sensitive to cold and noise or any jar.</span>

====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s38}}On stooping cannot see; seems as if all blood ran into eyes.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s39}}Blinding headache.</span>\\ {{anchor:s40}}Acute conjunctivitis without suppuration, or discharge of mucus.\\ {{anchor:s41}}Ophthalmia, first stage; marked redness with great pain, and without mucus or pus.\\ {{anchor:s42}}Traumatic conjunctivitis from a bad wound, after case had been badly treated; it lessened the burning, redness and trickling of tears.\\ {{anchor:s43}}Eyes inflamed during dentition.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s44}}Conjunctivitis and photophobia.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s45}}~</span> <span grade3>Measles.</span>\\ {{anchor:s46}}(In sick:) Stye on lower lid of right eye.

====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ======

{{anchor:s48}}Sensitive to noise.\\ {{anchor:s49}}Roaring or buzzing from rush of blood to head.\\ {{anchor:s50}}Inflammatory pain in ear; otitis.\\ {{anchor:s51}}Catarrhal affection of Eustachian tube and ear, often combined with catarrh in chest, or bowels, or both.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s52}}Painful red swelling of parotids, one side or both.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s53}}~</span> <span grade3>Measles.</span>

====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s55}}Nosebleed of bright blood.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s56}}~</span> <span grade3>Summer complaint.</span>\\ {{anchor:s57}}Nosebleed: with blood spitting; following and relieving headache; a concomitant of other complaints.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s58}}Bleeding of nose in children.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s59}}Coryza; at the very beginning.</span>

====== UPPER FACE. [8] ======

{{anchor:s61}}Face earthy, pale, sallow.\\ {{anchor:s62}}Red face, with dysmenorrhea.\\ {{anchor:s63}}Pain with heat and redness of face.\\ {{anchor:s64}}Hot cheeks with toothache.\\ {{anchor:s65}}Neuralgia in face.

====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ======

{{anchor:s67}}Toothache, with hot cheeks.\\ {{anchor:s68}}Congestive or inflammatory toothache or faceache.\\ {{anchor:s69}}Toothache always appearing after eating food; amel. by cold.\\ {{anchor:s70}}(OBS:) Caries dentium.\\ {{anchor:s71}}Complaints during dentition, with fever.\\ {{anchor:s72}}Toothache agg. by warm, and amel. by cold drinks.

====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ======

{{anchor:s74}}Tongue swollen and dark red.\\ {{anchor:s75}}Inflammation of tongue, fauces and tonsils; redness, pain without exudation.

====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ======

{{anchor:s77}}Constant inflammation of palate, tonsils and pharynx, with dryness, redness and pain.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s78}}Fever; glistening, flushed eyes; red cheeks; tonsils red and swollen, especially right, on which was a tuft-like exudation, about its centre, and about one-fourth inch in diameter, hanging downwards, the upper attachment looking blackish, next to the tonsils; fetid breath; next day tonsil clear, fever gone, but a similar mass of exudation on posterior wall of pharynx; on day following apparently well, but next morning another patch of exudation appeared on left side, which finally disappeared on resumption of remedy.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s79}}Soreness of throat; tonsils red and moderately swollen; some fever; diphtheritic membrane on part of right tonsil.</span>

====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ======

{{anchor:s82}}Loss of appetite.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Poor appetite with attacks of sickness; could hardly get enough to eat after attacks of nausea.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s84}}Great thirst for much water.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s85}}~</span> <span grade3>Summer complaint.</span>\\ {{anchor:s86}}Aversion to meat.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s87}}Aversion to milk.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s88}}~</span> <span grade2>Dyspepsia.</span>\\ {{anchor:s89}}Better from drinking tea.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s90}}Worse after meat, herring, coffee, cake.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s91}}~</span> <span grade3>Dyspepsia.</span>

====== EATING AND DRINKING. [15] ======

{{anchor:s93}}While eating at table, chill.\\ {{anchor:s94}}After warm food or drinks, toothache, amel. by cold.\\ {{anchor:s95}}Eating aggravates gastralgia.

====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ======

{{anchor:s97}}Sudden attacks of "deathly sickness at stomach", coming on at no particular time, sometimes even awaking her out of sleep, and lasting from a half to one hour; appetite poor.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s98}}After eating, nausea and vomiting of food; vomited matter very sour, setting teeth on edge; vomiting in morning before eating.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s99}}~</span> <span grade3>Dyspepsia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s100}}Vomiting.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s101}}~</span> <span grade3>Gastritis.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s102}}~</span> <span grade3>Whooping cough.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s103}}~</span> <span grade3>Summer complaint.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s104}}~</span> <span grade3>Intermittent fever.</span>\\ {{anchor:s105}}Vomiting with the pains.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s106}}Green vomiting.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s107}}~</span> <span grade2>Pneumonia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s108}}Vomiting of blood.</span>

====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ======

{{anchor:s110}}Puffed up in region of stomach and hypochondria.\\ {{anchor:s111}}Pain in stomach agg. after eating.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Acute and chronic gastralgia agg. by eating and pressure on stomach; vomiting of food.\\ {{anchor:s113}}Acute gastritis with violent pain in region of stomach which is distended; vomiting and fever.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s114}}Anorexia; aversion to milk; nausea and vomiting after eating; vomited matter so sour that it sets the teeth on edge; agg. from meat, herring, coffee and cake, particularly sour things; sometimes vomiting in morning before food has been taken; cephalalgia, hammering in forehead and temples, formerly agg. on left side, now agg. on right side, so severe that she fears she will have an apoplectic stroke; menses profuse and early; stool regular; sleep restless, with anxious dreams; greatly depressed in morning; in evening sensation of constriction, must loosen her clothing.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s115}}~</span> <span grade3>Dyspepsia.</span>\\ {{anchor:s116}}Catarrh of stomach and bowels.

====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======

{{anchor:s118}}Colic before stool.\\ {{anchor:s119}}Bellyache with watery diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s120}}Inflammatory colic of horses.\\ {{anchor:s121}}Peritonitis.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Abdominal hernia in persons otherwise robust.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Inflamed and incarcerated hernia.

====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s125}}Yellow, watery diarrhea.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s126}}~</span> <span grade3>Pneumonia.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s127}}Chronic diarrhea.</span>\\ {{anchor:s128}}Lienterie from relaxation of pyloric muscles.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Stools contain undigested food in consequence of disturbance in the muscular fibres of the stomach.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Lienterie after a catarrh.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Dysentery commencing with violent fever; pain depends upon inflammatory condition, does not intermit and is agg. from pressure on stomach.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Before stool: colic; no tenesmus or but slight.\\ {{anchor:s133}}During stool: no tenesmus or only slight.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s134}}Frequent stools, green, watery or hashed, mixed with mucus, scanty; straining at stool, also retching; child rolls its head and moans; eyes half open; face pinched; urine scanty; pulse and respiration accelerated; starting in sleep.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s135}}~</span> <span grade3>Summer complaint.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s136}}Stools: of pure blood, bloody mucus, or bloody scum; yellowish, whitish, brown with blood; like bloody fish-brine; green watery or green mucous, with blood, no pain; blood dark or light.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s137}}~</span> <span grade3>Summer complaint.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s138}}Aggravation: midnight till morning (bloody serous stools); bloody mucus mixed with watery discharges day or night.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s139}}~</span> <span grade3>Summer complaint.</span>\\ {{anchor:s140}}Cholera depending on an inflammatory state.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Habitual constipation.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Constipation caused by atony of muscular fibres of intestines.\\ {{anchor:s143}}Disposition to prolapsus recti.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Hemorrhoidal troubles and obstinate constipation.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Hemorrhoids, with catarrh of stomach and bowels.

====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ======

{{anchor:s147}}(OBS:) Bright's disease; diabetes.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s148}}Hemorrhage from bladder or from urethra.</span>\\ {{anchor:s149}}Cystitis, with violent fever.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s150}}Frequent desire to urinate, urgent, with pain in neck of bladder and end of penis: must urinate immediately, which amel. the pain; the above only, or chiefly during day, not at night; agg. the more he stands.</span>\\ {{anchor:s151}}Enuresis nocturna from weakness of sphincter.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s152}}Diurnal enuresis, depending on an irritability of trigone and cervix vesicae, amel. when pressure of urine is taken off by recumbent posture.</span>\\ {{anchor:s153}}Urine spurts out with every cough.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Retention of urine, with fever in little children.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Complaints before making water.

====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ======

{{anchor:s157}}Seminal emissions.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s158}}Inflammatory stage of gonorrhea.</span>

====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s160}}Bearing down sensation in uterus with constant dull pain in either ovarian region.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s161}}Vaginismus, pain in vagina during coitus; cannot bear examination.</span>\\ {{anchor:s162}}Dysmenorrhea, with accelerated pulse and red face.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s163}}Menses every three weeks, profuse, with pressure in abdomen and small of back.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s164}}~</span> <span grade3>Dyspepsia.</span>\\ {{anchor:s165}}During profuse menses pain on top of head.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s166}}Chlorosis.</span>

====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s170}}During the third month of pregnancy.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s171}}~</span> <span grade3>Headache.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s172}}Cough with ejection of urine; during pregnancy.</span>

====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s175}}Laryngitis and hoarseness from overstraining voice.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s176}}Much mucus in throat and rattling in chest.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s177}}Acute bronchial catarrh affecting larger and smaller bronchi.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s178}}Bronchitis of young children.</span>\\ {{anchor:s179}}Violent fever in beginning of croup.

====== RESPIRATION. [26] ======

{{anchor:s181}}Pleuritic stitch with a deep inspiration or cough.

====== COUGH. [27] ======

{{anchor:s183}}Acute, short, spasmodic and very painful cough.\\ {{anchor:s184}}Tormenting cough when bending head over or touching larynx.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s185}}Short, dry, hacking cough, with involuntary spurting of urine.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s186}}~</span> <span grade3>During pregnancy.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s187}}Spasmodic cough every morning when dressing, greatly agg. by going into open air; fits of coughing produce involuntary micturition.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s188}}Cough in paroxysms, most at night or during day when asleep.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s189}}Cough agg. at night with much rattling of mucus in chest which is also most marked at night; slight fever.</span>\\ {{anchor:s190}}Whooping cough with retching and vomiting.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s191}}Inflammatory or catarrhal stage of whooping cough.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s192}}Expectoration of clear blood.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s193}}~</span> <span grade3>Pneumonia.</span>\\ {{anchor:s194}}Haemoptysis, after concussion or a fall.

====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s196}}Catarrhs on chest of children, similar to Aconite.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s197}}Right-sided pleuritic stitch agg. when coughing and on deep inspiration.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s198}}Pleuritis and pneumonia, first stage.</span>\\ {{anchor:s199}}Pneumonia, the hyperemia depending on relaxation of muscular fibres of blood-vessels as long as no exudation has taken place; general heat of body; very little thirst; first stage.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s200}}Coughs up clear blood; nosebleed at same time.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s201}}~</span> <span grade3>Pneumonia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s202}}In a tuberculous woman, aet. 49, pneumonia of left upper lobe, with well marked crepitation and profuse expectoration of frothy, pink mucus, patient almost moribund.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s203}}Full, round pulse; congestion; inflammation before any exudation; sputa blood-streaked, caused by least exertion or cold air, when congestion comes in opposite lung.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s204}}~</span> <span grade3>Phthisis pulmonalis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s205}}Haemoptysis of phthisis.</span>\\ {{anchor:s206}}Phthisis florida.

====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ======

{{anchor:s208}}Palpitation from congestion.\\ {{anchor:s209}}It will not cure thoroughly unless there is a full pulse, but a pulse less bounding than in Acon., and not so flowing as in Gelsem. {{anchor:s210}}(Farrington).\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s211}}Pulse full, from 120 to 160.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s212}}~</span> <span grade3>Summer complaint.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s213}}Accelerated pulse.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s214}}~</span> <span grade2>Dysmenorrhea.</span>\\ {{anchor:s215}}Quick pulse.\\ {{anchor:s216}}Anemia incidental to climacteric period.

====== OUTER CHEST. [30] ======

{{anchor:s218}}Rheumatism in upper thorax.

====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======

{{anchor:s220}}Crick in neck or back.

====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s222}}Violent pain in right shoulder and upper arm, of a drawing tearing character, agg. by violent motion of arm, amel. by gentle motion, and so the patient hardly kept the arm still at all; the affected part somewhat sensitive to touch; feeling of deadness in right hand and loss of strength so that she could not lift heavy things.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s223}}~</span> <span grade3>Rheumatism.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s224}}Acute rheumatism of right shoulder-joint; red, swollen and very sensitive to touch.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s225}}Rheumatism of right deltoid; unable to work, even to wear his cloak.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s226}}Swelling of elbow after a sprain, horribly maltreated by leeches and an incision, with general weakness, loss of appetite, fever and earthy, pale face; on upper part of forearm and lower part of upper arm a large swelling, red and hot, not allowing the least motion insufferable pains, burning; sleepless.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s227}}Rheumatism in wrist.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s228}}Palms of hands are hot, with children.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s229}}~</span> <span grade3>Rheumatic complaints.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s230}}Fingers contracted by acute articular rheumatism.</span>

====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ======

{{anchor:s232}}Inflammation of hip-joint.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s233}}Severe pain in both knees, shooting down the legs; every motion painful; high fever, quick pulse and increased temperature; sleepless at night from severity of pains; in addition to the knees one joint after another was attacked; joints puffy, very little redness; finally swelling in shoulder-joints and upper thorax; (after Ferr. phos. it went downwards from one joint to the other, to the knees and then passed off).</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s234}}Skin on outer side of ankle pale red; foot greatly swollen and sensitive to touch toes feel as if they were burning.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s235}}~</span> <span grade3>Acute synovitis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s236}}Steady terrible pain all over foot and ankle; cries with the pain; occasional shooting pains up inside of leg; once in a minute or two a shooting pain in foot around ankle.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s237}}~</span> <span grade3>Acute synovitis.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s238}}An acute very painful sugillation on dorsum of foot.</span>

====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ======

<span grade4>{{anchor:s240}}Acute articular rheumatism.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s241}}Rheumatism attacking one joint after another; joints puffy but little red; high fever.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s242}}Wrist and knee affected by rheumatism.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s243}}Articular rheumatism agg. from slightest motion.</span>\\ {{anchor:s244}}Rachitis with no pains in the epiphyses.

====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======

{{anchor:s248}}Desire to lie down.\\ {{anchor:s249}}Recumbent position: amel. diurnal enuresis.\\ {{anchor:s250}}Standing: desire to urinate agg.\\ {{anchor:s251}}Stooping: sharp pain through head; cannot see; faceache agg.; produces tormenting cough.\\ {{anchor:s252}}Motion: causes headache; agg. pain in arm and shoulder; gentle motion amel. pain in upper arm and shoulder; swelling in arm allows no motion; pain in knees agg.; articular rheumatism agg.\\ {{anchor:s253}}Exertion: sputa blood-streaked.\\ {{anchor:s254}}Desire to get out of bed and run about.\\ {{anchor:s255}}Can hardly move about.

====== NERVES. [36] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s257}}Great nervousness at night.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s258}}~</span> <span grade2>Headache.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s259}}A general feeling of weakness and desire to lie down.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s260}}~</span> <span grade3>Rheumatism of shoulder.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s261}}He desired to get out of bed, and wished to run around, but he was so weak that he fell over; very talkative and hilarious.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s262}}Muscles so weak could hardly move about.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s263}}Great prostration.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s264}}~</span> <span grade3>Summer complaint.</span>\\ {{anchor:s265}}Debility of children, with no organic lesion, save a carious condition of teeth; flesh fairly firm, complexion delicate, hair light and curly.\\ {{anchor:s266}}Convulsions with fever.\\ {{anchor:s267}}Epilepsy with congestion to head.\\ {{anchor:s268}}Acute cases of rheumatic paralysis.

====== SLEEP. [37] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s270}}Restless at night.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s271}}~</span> <span grade2>Summer complaint.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s272}}Restless sleep at night, with anxious dreams; great depression in morning.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s273}}~</span> <span grade3>Dyspepsia.</span>\\ {{anchor:s274}}Sleepless from severity of pains.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s275}}Restlessness and sleeplessness.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s276}}~</span> <span grade3>Measles.</span>\\ {{anchor:s277}}Cough in day time when asleep.

====== TIME. [38] ======

{{anchor:s279}}Between 4 and 6 A. M.: sweat.\\ {{anchor:s280}}Morning: vomiting; greatly depressed.\\ {{anchor:s281}}By day: bloody and watery discharges; frequent desire to urinate; cough.\\ {{anchor:s282}}Evening: sensation of constriction, must loosen her clothes.\\ {{anchor:s283}}Night: great nervousness; bloody and watery discharges; cough agg.; more rattling of mucus on chest; sleepless.\\ {{anchor:s284}}Midnight till morning: bloody serous stools.

====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ======

{{anchor:s286}}Open air: agg. cough.\\ {{anchor:s287}}Warm drinks: toothache agg.\\ {{anchor:s288}}Cold air: top of head sensitive to: sputa blood-streaked.\\ {{anchor:s289}}Cold and cold drinks: amel. toothache.

====== FEVER. [40] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s291}}Chill returning at same time (1 o'clock) every day, while sitting at table.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s292}}General heat with very little thirst.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s293}}Fever with vomiting and puffed up stomach.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s294}}High fever, quick pulse and increased temperature.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s295}}Skin hot and dry.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s296}}~</span> <span grade3>Summer complaint.</span>\\ {{anchor:s297}}Fever: with complaints accompanying teething; with gastritis; with cystitis; retention of urine; beginning of croup; with cough; with rheumatism; with convulsions.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s298}}Intermittent fever with vomiting of food.</span>\\ {{anchor:s299}}In beginning of typhus.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s300}}Copious night sweats, not relieving the great pains of rheumatism, driving out of bed.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s301}}Sweat between 4 and 6 A. M., with increase of pains.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s302}}~</span> <span grade2>Rheumatism of shoulder.</span>

====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s304}}Sudden attacks of sick stomach.</span>\\ {{anchor:s305}}Once in a minute or two: shooting pain in foot and around ankle.\\ {{anchor:s306}}Half an hour: deathly sickness at stomach.\\ {{anchor:s307}}Every morning: spasmodic cough.\\ {{anchor:s308}}Every day at same time: chill.\\ {{anchor:s309}}Every three weeks: menses.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s310}}Cough in paroxysms.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s311}}Headache at intervals for many years.</span>

====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======

{{anchor:s313}}Right: pain in head agg. right side; stye on lower lid of eye; tonsil red and swollen; diphtheritic membrane on tonsil; hammering in side of head; pleuritic stitch; violent pain in shoulder and upper arm; hand numb.\\ {{anchor:s314}}Left: pneumonia of lobe; exudation on side of throat: hammering on side of head.\\ {{anchor:s315}}Shooting: up inside of leg; down legs.\\ {{anchor:s316}}From back to front: pain in head.

====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======

{{anchor:s318}}As if head were being suddenly pushed forward; as if all the blood ran into eyes; toes feel as if they were burning.\\ {{anchor:s319}}As if bursting: toes.\\ {{anchor:s320}}Pain: in eyes; of face; of palate; of tonsils; of pharynx; in stomach; in neck of bladder; in end of penis; in vagina; on top of head.\\ {{anchor:s321}}Insufferable pains: in upper limbs.\\ {{anchor:s322}}Violent pain: in region of stomach; in right shoulder; in upper arm.\\ {{anchor:s323}}Steady terrible pain: all over foot and ankle.\\ {{anchor:s324}}Tearing pain: in right shoulder; in upper arm.\\ {{anchor:s325}}Severe pain: in both knees; in head; cries because the pain is so bad.\\ {{anchor:s326}}Sharp pain: through head.\\ {{anchor:s327}}Shooting pains: from knees to legs; up inside of leg; in foot; around ankle.\\ {{anchor:s328}}Pleuritic stitch.\\ {{anchor:s329}}Neuralgia: of face.\\ {{anchor:s330}}Blinding headache.\\ {{anchor:s331}}Hammering pain: in forehead; in temples.\\ {{anchor:s332}}Throbbing in head.\\ {{anchor:s333}}Stinging: in head.\\ {{anchor:s334}}Acute rheumatism: of right shoulder joint; of right deltoid; in wrist; in fingers; in knee; in shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s335}}Heavy pain: on top of head.\\ {{anchor:s336}}Bearing down sensation: in uterus.\\ {{anchor:s337}}Inflammatory pain: in ear.\\ {{anchor:s338}}Inflammation: of tongue; palate; of tonsils; of pharynx; of fauces; of hip-joint.\\ {{anchor:s339}}Burning: of eyes; of upper limbs.\\ {{anchor:s340}}Heat: of face.\\ {{anchor:s341}}Soreness: in vertex; of scalp; of throat.\\ {{anchor:s342}}Constriction: in region of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s343}}Pressing: in head; in abdomen; in small of back.\\ {{anchor:s344}}Painful swelling: of parotids.\\ {{anchor:s345}}Dull pain: on top of head; in either ovarian region.\\ {{anchor:s346}}Roaring buzzing: from rush of blood to head.\\ {{anchor:s347}}Dryness: of tonsils; of palate; of pharynx.\\ {{anchor:s348}}Dead feeling: in right hand.

====== TISSUES. [44] ======

{{anchor:s350}}Hyperemia dependent upon relaxation of muscular fibres of blood-vessels.\\ {{anchor:s351}}All kinds of inflammation as long as no exudation has taken place.\\ {{anchor:s352}}First stage of all inflammations as long as there is no suppuration.\\ {{anchor:s353}}In first stage of inflammation, hyperemia, to the abatement of fever and beginning of sweat.\\ {{anchor:s354}}Relaxation of muscular fibres presiding over voluntary motion.\\ {{anchor:s355}}Diarrhea from disturbed function of molecules of iron in the muscles of the villi.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s356}}Bleeding (bright red) from any orifice of body.</span>\\ {{anchor:s357}}Blood red, easily coagulating to a gelatinous mass.\\ {{anchor:s358}}Leukemia; the blood corpuscles are normal as to quantity but lack color.\\ {{anchor:s359}}To be given in true chlorosis as soon as the general condition has been improved by Calc. phosph. {{anchor:s360}}(Schssler).\\ {{anchor:s361}}Varicose veins, in young persons.\\ {{anchor:s362}}Rheumatic fevers; acute articular rheumatism.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s363}}Scrofula: rachitis; periostitis; cancer.</span>\\ {{anchor:s364}}In the beginning of inflammation of the skin or connective tissue.\\ {{anchor:s365}}Telangiectasy; nevus.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s366}}Dropsy from loss of blood or other fluids.</span>

====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ======

{{anchor:s370}}Top of head sensitive to every jar.\\ {{anchor:s371}}Touch: scalp sensitive; on larynx produces tormenting cough; rheumatic shoulder and arm sensitive; foot sensitive.\\ {{anchor:s372}}Pressure: on stomach agg. gastralgia; diurnal enuresis amel. when pressure of urine is taken off by recumbent position.\\ {{anchor:s373}}Hyperemia following mechanical injuries.\\ {{anchor:s374}}Injuries: to the eye.\\ {{anchor:s375}}After concussion or a fall: haemoptysis.\\ {{anchor:s376}}After a sprain of elbow.\\ {{anchor:s377}}In fractures: at the beginning for injury to the soft parts; the adjacent parts are red, hot and painful.

====== SKIN. [46] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s379}}Capillary congestion, with burning of skin, agg. from severe exercise or in warm room.</span>\\ {{anchor:s380}}Telangiectasy, nevus.\\ {{anchor:s381}}In beginning of measles.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s382}}Measles with conjunctivitis and photophobia (35 cases).</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s383}}In beginning of small-pox, with violent fever and cerebral congestion.</span>\\ {{anchor:s384}}Erysipelas with intense fever and inflammatory symptoms.

====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======

{{anchor:s386}}Leucophlegmatic temperament.\\ {{anchor:s387}}Young people, varicose veins.\\ {{anchor:s388}}Boy, aet. 5 years, very bright and shrewd; diphtheria.\\ {{anchor:s389}}Boy, aet. 5, very fair; pleurisy and rheumatism.\\ {{anchor:s390}}Girl, aet. 12, mother, aet. 20; headache.\\ {{anchor:s391}}Girl, aet. 17; attacks of nausea.\\ {{anchor:s392}}Young lady, nervo-sanguine temperament; diphtheria.\\ {{anchor:s393}}Miss C., aet. 22; headache during menses.\\ {{anchor:s394}}Woman, aet. 29; sanguine temperament, after drinking cold water while overheated, five years ago; dyspepsia.\\ {{anchor:s395}}Mrs. Z., aet. 35; rushes of blood to head.\\ {{anchor:s396}}Woman, aet. 37; nervous temperament; acute rheumatism.\\ {{anchor:s397}}Woman, in third month of pregnancy, has suffered at times for many years; headache.\\ {{anchor:s398}}Workman, aet. 39; unable for a long while to raise up his arm.\\ {{anchor:s399}}A woman, aet. 49; left-sided pneumonia.\\ {{anchor:s400}}Old maid, aet. 75; chronic diarrhea.

====== RELATIONS. [48] ======

{{anchor:s402}}Compare: in fevers <span grade2>Acon.</span> (more bounding pulse) and <span grade2>Gelsem.</span> (more flowing pulse); <span grade3>in cough with spurting urine.</span>\\ {{anchor:s403}}Compatible: <span grade2>Kali mur.</span> (croup, pneumonia, palpitation, typhus; <span grade2>Kali phosph.</span> (colic, threatened gangrene); <span grade2>Calc. sulph.</span> (hip joint disease); <span grade2>Calc. phosph.</span> (chlorosis, hemorrhoids); <span grade2>Calc. fluor.</span> (hemorrhoids); <span grade2>Natr. sulph.</span> (diabetes); <span grade2>Ant. tart.</span> (capillary bronchitis).

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 05, 1887 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r181|Ferrum phosphoricum]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r181|Ferrum phosphoricum]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1887 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}