Comparison Phosphoricum acidum with others
Chin.:
"Deterioration of health from nursing“. Also apathetic, indifferent,
taciturn, but from loss of vital fluids (haemorrhages/excessive
lactation/suppurations
Ph-ac.: Deterioration of health from nursing/breaking down (nerve
strain). Mental enfeeblement: mind tired: perfectly exhausted.
Ign.:
"Ailments from care, grief" and sensitive, easily excited with
incredibly rapid changes of mood; Ailments from disappointed love. Profuse watery urine
Ph-ac.: Ailments from care, grief. Apathy and indifference. Profuse watery urine
Staph.:
"Ailments from chagrin“. Has to control himself, he goes all to pieces,
trembles from head to foot, loses his voice, his ability to work, etc. More
intense and energetic in suffering than Ph-ac.
Ph-ac.: Ailments from chagrin. Apathetic, indifferent, low spirited, but
its ailments from pride, envy or chagrin.
Nat-m.:
"Ailments from disappointed love", emaciation, passionate, intense:
weeps, hates sympathy:
Ph-ac.: Ailments from disappointed love, emaciated, dull apathy
Hyos.: has
marked jealousy, and is far more intense mentally
Mur-ac.: muscular
prostration comes first, and the mind seems clear until long after the muscles
are prostrated.
Ph-ac.: the mental symptoms develop first;
1. mental/brain, 2. physical/muscles: muscles may remain strong after the mind
has given out.
Ph-ac. pines and emaciates, grows weaker and weaker, withered in the
face; night sweats; cold sweats down the back; cold sweats on arms and hands
more than on feet:
cold extremities: feeble heart and circulation; catches cold easily and
it settles on the chest (Tb.). Pallor with increasing weakness and emaciation.
Most writers on Ph-ac. give prominence to the curious fact, that with
all its prostration, its diarrhoea, acute or chronic, does not cause
prostration, points to Calc. "feeling better, every way, when
constipated“.
In Ph-ac. there may be "complaints > ending in diarrhoea“. Kent:
child with copious, watery stools in summer: so copious that the napkin seems
no use: the stool runs all over the mothers dress and forms
a great puddle on the floor: the stool is almost odourless, thin and
watery, and the little one smiles as if nothing were the matter. The mother
wonders where it all came from, yet the child seems well“.
Diarrhoea > many of the symptoms and the patient feels better. Some
patients say they are never comfortable unless they have diarrhoea".
Ph-ac. has pinching and squeezing pains.
Vorwort/Suchen Zeichen/Abkürzungen Impressum.