Zincum phosphoricum
Mineral
Key symptoms
- Severe frontal headache with frequent stabs of pain darting backward to occiput
- Brain-fag of business men; mental fatigue with disinclination to exertion
- Vertigo better lying down
- Nervous exhaustion; mental depression and paralysis following cerebral congestion
- Pressure in occiput extending to cervical spine
- Irritable kidneys with loss of memory
- Sexual excitement and sleeplessness after 3 a.m.
- Seminal emissions with voluptuous dreams and intense nervous thrill
- Forgetful, indolent, apprehensive worse afternoon and night
- Formication all over the body
Better (amelioration)
- Lying down (vertigo ameliorated)
Phosphide of Zinc. Zincic Phosphide. Zn3P2. Trituration.
Clinical
Brain-fag. Delirium tremens. Headache. Herpes zoster. Impotence. Kidneys, irritable. Neuralgia. Paralysis. Sleeplessness. Tremors, mercurial.
Characteristics
Ashburton Thompson gave pills, each containing 2/3 gr. of Zn. ph., to two patients, and both experienced a severe frontal headache with frequent stabs of pain backward, deep in the head, to occiput. Hale has used it on a combination of the indications of the elements, and especially in brain-fag of business men. Hammond has cured with it nervousness, and vertigo > lying down. In some patients the 3rd potency has caused sexual excitement and sleeplessness after 3 a.m. According to him, Zn. ph. removes the mental depression and paralysis following cerebral congestion and apoplexy. J. E. Baldwin (N. A. J. H., xiii. 266) reports this case: A lady in perfect health prepared a long report and read it to a large audience without undue excitement. Next day had some pressure in occiput to …
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