Homeopathy Treatment & Homeopathic Remedies for Tuberculosis Phosphorus was considered by the older writers of our school as the nearest specific for pulmonary tuberculosis, it has been styled the “King of phthisical remedies.” Yet it is not wise to ask too much of Phosphorus. The choice of this remedy must be most carefully made, and it is also the universal testimony that its dose should not be too often repeated. Baehr says that no other remedy causes haemoptysis so easily as Phosphorus. Study the remedy for every case; in fact, it seems to be an accepted dictum that Arsenicum, Sulphur and Phosphorus should never be used in tuberculosis unless most carefully indicated. Phosphorus corresponds especially to phthisis in the rapidly growing young, who are brilliant in mind, but who have a hereditary tendency to lung troubles, who are chicken thoraxed, tall and phthisical, and to those who take cold easily owing to a general relaxation of the system. The chief symptoms are ...