# Zincum Phosphoricum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
According to Hale, Zinc-p. removes the mental depression and paralysis following cerebral 
congestion and strokes. Hale used it on a combination of the indications of the elements and especially in 
brain fatigue of business men. 
Brain fag, nervousness, and vertigo. Ner vous vertigo, better lying. Formication all over body. Restless, 
repetitive movements, head rolling, head banging, nail biting, tapping, thumb sucking, movements of the 
mouth, worse talking. Restless legs, worse getting to sleep, grabs the bedclothes. Tics and twitchings. Chorea. 
Hands cold, feet perspire. Paralysis. Epi lepsy. Burning pains. Hemorrhages of bright red blood. Cerebral 
hemorrhages. Petechia. Anemia. Neurological complaints. Menin gitis. Hydrocephal us. Multiple sclerosis. 
Parkinson’s disease. Vertigo and fainting. Abuse of bromides.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better open air, perspiration, discharges. Better sitting back,  lying on left side. Better noise. 
Better movement. Worse touch , rubbing. Worse from suppressed discharges, vaccination.  Worse noise, 
music, light. Worse walking. Worse cats, smells, wool. Worse 5 a.m. and 9 p.m. Worse right side. Worse cold 
weather, thunderstorms. Very sensitive to both wind and wine. 
 
 
Nose - Hay fever.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Moody.
- Changeable mood.
- Happy, open, enthusiastic, then gloomy, discon tented, hurried.
- Complaining.
- Sentimental.
- Laughing, hysterical, screaming.
- Grumbling.
- Irritability, worse being woken, worse music.
- Mental depression.
- Loathing of life.
- Mental exhaustion.
- Fatigue.
- Brain fatigue of businessmen.
- Slow mind.
- Forgetful.
- Loss of memory.
- Indolent.
- Aversion to talking.
- Worse talking.
- Nervousness.
- Restlessness.
- Apprehension, worse afternoon and night.
- Anticipation and anxiety.
- Fear of failure, criticism.
- Fear of falling, heights.
- Fear of being alone.
- Fear of being 
pursued, thieves.
- Fear of being observed, touched.
- Fear of stroke, death.
- Fear of being buried, the dark.
- Fear 
of horror, ghosts.
- Fear of disease and death of family or friends.
- Fear of future.
- Fear of thunder.
- Superstitious.
- Strong sexual, desire.
- Nymphomania, kisses everyone.
- Sexual excitement and sleeplessness.
- Delirious, 
chaotic, confused.
- Dementia.
- Idiotic.
- Mad, manic.
- Tourette’s.
- Childish, very active, makes mistakes.
- Ailments 
from humiliation, insults, fright, sadness, homesickness.
- Coma.
- Moody.
- Changeable mood.
- Happy, open, enthusiastic, then gloomy, discon tented, hurried.
- Complaining.
- Sentimental.
- Laughing, hysterical, screaming.
- Grumbling.
- Irritability, worse being woken, worse music.
- Mental depression.
- Loathing of life.
- Mental exhaustion.
- Fatigue.
- Brain fatigue of businessmen.
- Slow mind.
- Forgetful.
- Loss of memory.
- Indolent.
- Aversion to talking.
- Worse talking.
- Nervousness.
- Restlessness.
- Apprehension, worse afternoon and night.
- Anticipation and anxiety.
- Fear of failure, criticism.
- Fear of falling, heights.
- Fear of being alone.
- Fear of being 
pursued, thieves.
- Fear of being observed, touched.
- Fear of stroke, death.
- Fear of being buried, the dark.
- Fear 
of horror, ghosts.
- Fear of disease and death of family or friends.
- Fear of future.
- Fear of thunder.
- Superstitious.
- Strong sexual, desire.
- Nymphomania, kisses everyone.
- Sexual excitement and sleeplessness.
- Delirious, 
chaotic, confused.
- Dementia.
- Idiotic.
- Mad, manic.
- Tourette’s.
- Childish, very active, makes mistakes.
- Ailments 
from humiliation, insults, fright, sadness, homesickness.
- Coma.

### Vertigo
- Fainting.
- Vertigo, better lying down.
- COMMENTS - Ashburton Thompson gave pills, each containing 2/3 grains of Zinc-p.
- to two patients and both 
experienced a severe frontal headache with frequent stabs of pain backward, deep in the  head to occiput.
- Hammond cured with it nervousness and vertigo better lying down.
- In some patients the Zinc -p.
- 3c potency 
caused sexual excitement and sleeplessness after 3 a.m.
- J.
- E.
- Baldwin reported the case of a woman in perfect health prepared a long  report and read it to a large 
audience without undue excitement.
- The next day, she had some pressure in occiput to cervical spine, lasting 
four days.
- Feeling of fatigue with disinclination to any mental exertion.
- Zinc-p.
- 2x cured in a few doses.
- Zinc-p.
- 6x has also cured an irritable kidney with loss of memory in an old man.

### Head
- Migraine.
- Pressing pain in forehead, caused by schoolwork.
- He adache, especially in sides of head.
- Nervous headache.
- Neuralgia of head and face.
- Migraine.
- Pressing pain in forehead, caused by schoolwork.
- He adache, especially in sides of head.
- Nervous headache.
- Neuralgia of head and face.

### Eyes
- Eye infections.
- Foggy vision.
- Strabismus.

### Face
- Sickly and haggard expression.

### Chest
- Neuralgic pains and skin symptoms like those of herpes zoster.
- Palpitations.
- Kidneys - Irritable kidneys with loss of brain power even when calculus is present.
- Urine becomes cloudy on 
standing.
- Asthma.
- Hyperventilation.
- Gasping for breath.
- Sighing.
- Tuberculosis.
- Bronchitis.
- Lung problems.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Diabetes, worse during pregnancy.
- Stomach complaints.
- Empty sensation in stomach.
- Nausea and 
vomiting.
- Vomiting, worse drinking.
- Teeth - Late teething.
- Worse during dentition.
- Abdominal pains.
- Desires sweets, licorice, beer, meat, fruit, starch, cold, fish, anchovies.
- Aver sion to fish, milk, warm 
foods, sprouts, mushrooms, cloves, salt, oysters.
- Worse red wine, sweets, coffee.

### Urinary & Genital
- Enlarged prost ate.
- Erections with unusual voluptuousness and desire.
- Emis sions with voluptuous 
dreams and intense nervous thrill.
- Menses profuse.
- Generally better during menses.

### Extremities
- Bone problems.
- Growing pains.
- Rickets.
- Osteoporosis.
- Restlessness.
- Tingling fingertips.
- Lightning-
like pains in locomotor ataxia.

### Neck & Back
- Backache, worse carrying heavy loads, worse when sitting.
- Bladder - Retention of urine, better when sitting back.

### Skin
- Eczema.
- Herpes zoster.
- White spots on nails.
- Hair loss.

### Sleep
- Sleeplessness aggravates.
- Sleepless after 3 a.m., wakes at three and feels as if under the influence 
of pleasant and quick music.
- Sexual excitement and sleepless ness.
- Nightmares, caused by lack of s leep.
- Somnambulism.
- Sleeps on right side.
- Better after short sleep.
- Erotic dreams.
- Dream of futile efforts.
- Dream of 
paralysis, exams.
- Dream of thieves, fleeing, of be ing pursued, abduction, ghosts, monsters.
- Dream of falling, 
heights.
- Dream of accidents, murder, quarrels.