Zincum Phosphoricum

Phosphide of Zinc. Zincic Phosphide. 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 better 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 cervical spine, lasting four days. Feeling of fatigue with disinclination to any mental exertion. *Zn. ph. 2x cured in a few doses. *Zn. ph. 6x has cured irritable kidney with loss of memory in an old man. SYMPTOMS.

Head

(Vertigo better lying down.)- Severe frontal headache, accompanied by frequent stabs of pain, apparently darting from before backward to occiput, but intracranial, and not attended with altered sensation in scalp.- Bursting headache.

Stomach

Vomiting.

Urinary Organs

(Irritable kidneys with loss of brain-power even when calculus is present.).

Male Sexual Organs

Erections with unusual voluptuousness and desire.- Emissions with voluptuous dreams and intense nervous thrill.

Chest

Neuralgic pains and skin symptoms like those of zoster (Mohr, *M. A., xxi. 259).

Sleep

Sleepless after 3 a.m., “it wakes me at three, and I feel as if under the influence of pleasant and quick music” (from third trit.). Posted in Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke