(Phosphate 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 by 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. Remember it in the treatment of suspected malignant
tumors. After removal of cancer when in healing process skin is drawn
tight over the wound. Delayed labor. | ||
| Mind. Anxiety,
nervous dread, lethargy. Indisposition to meet people. Extreme
lassitude and depression. Very nervous. Starts easily, irritable.
Brain-fag; hysteria; night terrors. Somnambulance. Loss of memory.
Slightest labor seems a heavy task. Great despondency about
business. Shyness; disinclined to converse. | ||
| Head. Occipital
headache; better, after rising. Vertigo, 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. [Ign.; Sep.] | ||
| Eyes. Weakness
of sight; loss of perceptive power; after diphtheria; from exhaustion.
Drooping of eyelids. [Caust.] | ||
| 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. [Caps.; Ham.; Lach.] | ||
| Throat.
Gangrenous sore throat. Paralysis of the vocal cords. | ||
| Stomach. A
nervous "gone" sensation at the pit of the stomach. [Ign.; Sep.; Sulph.] Feels seasick without nausea. | ||
| Abdomen.
Diarrhea; foul, putrid odor; occasioned by fright, with depression
and exhaustion. Diarrhea while eating. Dysentery; stools consist of pure
blood; patient becomes delirious; abdomen swells. Cholera; stools have the
appearance of rice water. [Verat.; Ars.] Prolapsus recti. [Ign.; Podo.] | ||
| 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 prostration after coitus. [Kali-c.] | ||
| Urine.
Enuresis. Incontinence of urine. Bleeding from the urethra. Very yellow
urine. | ||
| Respiratory.
Asthma; least food aggravates. Short breath on going upstairs. Cough;
yellow expectoration. | ||
| Extremities.
Paralytic lameness in back and extremities. Exertion aggravates. Pains,
with depression, and subsequent exhaustion. | ||
| Fever.
Subnormal temperature. | ||
| Modalities.
Worse, excitement, worry, mental and physical exertion; eating,
cold, early morning. Better, warmth, rest, nourishment. | ||
| Relationship.
Compare: Zinc.; Gels.; Cimic.; Lach. | ||
| Dose. Third to
twelfth trituration. The highest potencies seem to be indicated in certain
cases. |