About
Phosphoric Acid is a key remedy for profound mental and physical exhaustion, often following grief, emotional shock, or prolonged stress. It is indicated for conditions of debility, apathy, and a marked indifference to everything, including loved ones. It is also valuable for physical weakness with profuse, painless diarrhea.
Keynotes
Profound indifference and apathy; answers questions slowly or not at all; weakness from loss of vital fluids (diarrhea, seminal losses); painless, watery, debilitating diarrhea; hair falls out in handfuls after grief or illness.
Constitution
Tall, slender, rapidly growing teenagers and young adults who are prone to physical and nervous exhaustion. Often fair-haired, delicate, and sensitive.
🤒Symptoms Profile
● General Symptoms
Apathy and indifference, profound mental and physical exhaustion, grief and emotional shock, debility from loss of vital fluids, painless diarrhea, hair loss, headache from mental exertion, sexual excesses in youth
● Mental Symptoms
Apathy, indifference, and torpor; slow to answer questions; mental exhaustion from grief, shock, or overstudy; homesickness; memory weakness; inability to think or concentrate.
● Physical Symptoms
General debility and prostration; painless, watery, debilitating diarrhea; headache from mental exertion, feels like a heavy weight on vertex; hair loss; weakness in spine; sexual debility in young people.
Uses
Mental and physical exhaustion (neurasthenia), grief and emotional shock, debility after acute illnesses, chronic diarrhea, headaches from mental strain, hair loss after illness or grief, effects of sexual excesses in the young
Modalities
Worse from: emotional shocks, grief, loss of sleep, sexual excess, talking, exertion. Better from: warmth, short sleep, keeping still.
💊Dosage Information
Available Potencies
6C, 12C, 30C, 200C, 1M, 10M
Recommended Dosage
For acute grief or diarrhea: 30C, 2-3 times daily. For chronic debility: 200C or 1M, infrequently (e.g., once a week).
🔗Relationships & Affinities
🫀 Organ Affinity
Nervous system, mind, gastrointestinal tract (intestines), hair, sexual organs, bones.
🤝 Complementary
China (after fluid loss), Natrum muriaticum (chronic grief), Picric Acid (complete mental exhaustion).
🛡️ Antidotes
Camphora, Coffea cruda, Nux vomica.
⚠️Important Cautions
Should not be repeated frequently in high potencies, especially in deep, chronic states. Avoid in patients with severe organic disease where it may mask symptoms.
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