Remedy

Kalium phosphoricum

Phosphate of potassium

4 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • One of the greatest nerve remedies.
  • Extreme weakness.
  • Weak and tired.
  • Especially adapted to the young.
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  • 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.
  • Delayed labor.

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Mind & mood

  • Anxiety, nervous dread, lethargy.
  • Indisposition to meet people.
  • Extreme tiredness and depression.
  • Very nervous, starts easily, irritable.
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  • Brain-fag; emotional outbursts; night terrors.
  • Somnambulance.
  • Loss of memory.
  • Slightest labor seems a heavy task.
  • Great despondency about business.
  • Shyness; disinclined to converse.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

ExcitementWorryMental and physical exertionEatingColdEarly morning

Better

WarmthRestNourishment

Symptoms by body part

Head

Occipital headache; better, after rising. Dizziness, from lying, on standing up, from sitting, and when looking upward. Cerebral anaemia. Headache of students, and those worn out by fatigue. Headaches are relieved by gentle motion. Headache, with weary, empty, gone feeling at stomach.

Eyes

Weakness of sight; loss of perceptive power; after diphtheria; from exhaustion. Drooping of eyelids.

Ears

Humming and buzzing in the ears.

Nose

Nasal disease, with offensive odor; fetid discharge.

Face

Livid and sunken, with hollow eyes. Right-sided neuralgia relieved by cold applications.

Mouth

Breath offensive, fetid. Tongue coated brownish, like mustard. Excessively dry, in the morning. Toothache, with easily-bleeding gums; they have a bright-red seam on them. Gums spongy and receding.

Throat

Gangrenous sore throat.

Stomach

A nervous "gone" sensation at the pit of the stomach. Feels seasick without nausea.

Abdomen

Diarrhoea; foul, putrid odor; occasioned by fright, with depression and exhaustion. Diarrhoea while eating. Dysentery; stools consist of pure blood; patient becomes delirious; abdomen swells. Prolapsus recti.

Female

Menstruation too late or too scanty in pale, irritable, sensitive, lachrymose females. Too profuse discharge, deep-red or blackish-red, thin and not coagulating; sometimes with offensive odor. Feeble and ineffectual labor pains.

Male

Nocturnal emissions; sexual power diminished utter extreme weakness after coitus.

Urinary organs

Bed-wetting. Incontinence of urine. Bleeding from the urethra. Very yellow urine.

Respiratory

Short breath on going upstairs. Cough; yellow phlegm coughed up.

Extremities

Paralytic lameness in back and extremities. Exertion aggravates. Pains, with depression, and subsequent exhaustion.

Fever

Subnormal temperature.

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