Phosphoricum acidum
Remedy of debility from grief, homesickness, or disappointed love. Apathetic, indifferent, wants nothing. Mental symptoms precede physical. Profuse watery diarrhea without weakness. Hair turns grey early.
Source
Prepared from orthophosphoric acid (H3PO4), diluted and potentised.
Available Potencies
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Keynote Symptoms
Mental debility first, then physical — complete apathy and indifference. Ailments from grief, homesickness, disappointed love, loss. Profuse painless watery diarrhea that is not debilitating. Craves juicy, refreshing things. Hair turns grey prematurely. Effects of growth in children — growing pains, headaches. Diabetes.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Apathetic — does not care about anything, not even their own sickness. Settled despair. Cannot collect thoughts. Listless, indifferent. Mental exhaustion precedes physical. Ailments from grief, disappointed love, homesickness, loss of fluids. Quiet grief — does not complain. Answers slowly or not at all.
General Symptoms
Debility from loss of vital fluids — excessive perspiration, diarrhea, sexual excess, nursing, hemorrhage. Better from warmth, short sleep. Worse from loss of fluids, emotions, music, being talked to, exertion, cold drafts. Craves juicy, refreshing things.
Physical Symptoms
Head
Headache in schoolchildren from overwork. Heavy, crushing pain on vertex. Hair falls out, turns grey early.
Eyes
Blue rings around eyes. Glassy, dull look. Staring vacantly.
Face
Pale, earthy, sunken. Looks aged. Dark circles.
Stomach
Craves juicy, refreshing fruit and cold milk. Nausea from smell of cooking. Thirst for cold drinks.
Abdomen
Rumbling, distension. Painless.
Rectum
Profuse, watery, painless diarrhea — white, involuntary — that does NOT debilitate (unlike China). Chronic diarrhea.
Urinary
Frequent profuse urination. Diabetes — excessive urine with sugar. Milky urine.
Male Genitalia
Weakness from sexual excess or loss of seminal fluid. Emissions every night with depression.
Extremities
Growing pains in children. Weakness, heaviness. Stumbles easily. Periosteal pain.
Chest
Weak feeling in chest from talking. Palpitation in adolescents.
Skin
Pimples, boils. Ulcers with watery discharge. Hair loss.
Modalities
Better From
Warmth, short sleep, stool, after eating
Worse From
Loss of vital fluids, grief, disappointed love, cold, drafts, exertion, being talked to, music, sexual excess
Constitutional Type
Tall, slender, growing youth. Students exhausted from overwork. Persons depleted by grief or loss. Apathetic, indifferent appearance.
Clinical Indications
Grief, homesickness, depression, chronic fatigue, diabetes, growing pains, debility from fluid loss, student burnout, effects of disappointed love
Comparative Materia Medica
China has debility from fluid loss but with more sensitivity and irritability. Ignatia has grief but with more contradictory symptoms and sighing. Natrum muriaticum has grief but is more closed-off and worse from consolation. Gelsemium has apathy but more trembling and anticipatory.
Safety Information
Camphora, Coffea, Nux vomica, Staphysagria.
Phosphoric acid is corrosive in concentrated form but the dilute food-grade acid is widely used. Safe in all potencies.
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