PHOSPHORUS

The phosphorus is a colourless, pale yellow or transparent substance having waxy lustre and its consistency is at ordinary temperature. This remedy was proved and introduced by Samuel Hahnemann and later, by Brandt and Alchemist. Some work was also done by Kunkel. The Homoeopathic mother tincture is prepared from the saturated solution 1/667 and dilution from it. Phosphorus is useful remedy in Atrophy of the liver and sub acute hepatitis. It is also useful in fatty degenerations, cirrhosis, caries and muscular pseudo, hypertrophy, osteomyelites, cataract and bone fragility. This remedy should not be given in very low dilutions, specially in tuberculos cases, the mother tincture ?+4x is recommended but not in too frequent doses.