Calcarea Phosphorica
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General EN
Calcarea Phosphorica.
Phosphate of Lime. Tricalcic Phosphate. Ca3 2PO4. A mixture of the basic and other phosphates of lime, made by dropping dilute phosphoric acid into lime water. Trituration.
Clinical EN
Anaemia. Ankles, weak. Back, weakness of. Bones, affections of.
Brain-fag. Bright's disease. Cholera infantum. Chorea.
Consumption. Cretinism. Debility. Dentition.
Diabetes. Dyspepsia. Emissions. Enuresis.
Epilepsy. Erotomania. Face, boils on. Fistula.
Fracture. Gleet. Gonorrhoea. Headaches.
Hernia. Hydrocele. Hygroma. Joints, affections of.
Leucorrhoea. Lumbago. Nymphomania. Phosphaturia.
Rheumatism. Rickets. Self-abuse. Spermatorrhoea.
Spina bifida. Stiff-neck. Strabismus. Testicles, swollen.
Throat, sore. Tobacco habit. Tonsils, enlarged. Uterus, prolapsus of; polypus of.
Yawning.
Characteristics EN
Calc. Phos., whilst exhibiting strong points of resemblance with Calc. carb., has nevertheless a very distinct individuality. It has been proved and tested clinically, and, having been adopted by Schüssler as his leading "antisporic," a number of valuable indications have been added by him and his followers. The Calc. phos. patient is generally emaciated instead of fat like the typical Calc. carb. child.
The Calc. ph. patient is less chalky-white and more dirty-white or brownish than the Calc. c. patient. Both have large abdomens, but that of the Calc. Phos. patient is flabby. Calc. c, has craving for eggs;
Calc. Phos. for salt or smoked meats. "Craving for fat bacon" in children is a well-verified characteristic of Calc. phos. Calc. ph. has cured dyspepsia, pain > for a short time by raising wind, when fasting the pain goes to the spine, feeling as if one ought to raise wind and could not.
Dyspepsia with indescribable distress in region of stomach, only temporarily > by eating. The stools of Calc. phos. are green and slimy, or hot and watery with fetid flatus; of Calc. carb., sometimes green, generally watery, white, and mixed with curds. Calc. carb. has an open anterior fontanelle; Calc.
Phos. has both open, especially the posterior. The skull is thin and soft, almost cracks, like paper when pressed upon.
The mental state of Calc. ph. is one of weakness: weak memory; inability for mental exertion. Hence it is appropriate in effects of mental strain, such as school headaches in children, weak-minded children. In this it is like Nat. m. A schoolboy to whom I was giving Calc. ph. developed these new symptoms: "Tongue thickly coated white, taste pasty; felt absolutely silly; taking coffee whilst playing a game, he put the sugar on the draught-board instead of into the cup, and didn't know he had done anything foolish." Peevish and fretful.
Wants to be at home, and when at home wants to go out; goes from place to place. Complaints are < when thinking of them. The sexual organs are the centre of many symptoms. Nymphomania; all organs in erection with irresistible desire, particularly before catamenia.
Voluptuous feeling, as if all the parts were filled with blood; pulses in all the parts with increased desire; after urination. Many of the uterine symptoms are like those of Sepia. There is a weak, sinking sensation in the hypogastrium, and sinking, empty feeling in epigastrium; prolapsus < during stool or micturition. Aching in uterus.
Cutting through to sacrum. Cream-like leucorrhoea. Burning in vagina with pain on both sides of bladder and uterus; burning like fire up into chest. Flushes of heat and faintness; sweats easily.
But the menses are profuse, and the patient is weak and consumptive. She has partial profuse sweats, but less profuse than those of Sepia. Every exposure increases the rheumatic pains of Calc. ph. and the uterine distress. Defective bone growth; bones thin and brittle.
It is useful in cases of fistula; and when fistula has been operated on and symptoms have appeared elsewhere; fistula alternating with chest symptoms. Enlargement of tonsils, acute and chronic. Short breath. Involuntary sighing.
Contraction of chest and difficult breathing; evening till 10 p.m., > lying down, < getting up. Constant stretching and yawning. Crying out in sleep. Cannot get awake in morning.
Grauvogl considered it the most important remedy in chronic hydrocephalus, and he very properly gave it as a prenatal remedy during pregnancy to women who had previously borne hydrocephalic children. The chills of Calc. ph. strike upward. Hering gives: "The chills run up the back; terrible muscular jerks in body, which almost throw him out of his chair."
Calc. Phos. corresponds to defective nutrition, whether of childhood, puberty, or of old age. Predisposition to glandular and bone diseases. Slow development of teeth.
Spinal curvature. Slow walking; neck too thin and weak to support head. Rickets. Diabetes when the lungs are affected.
Motion < and rest > most symptoms. < When thinking of his symptoms. A slight draught causes rheumatic pains; every cold causes pains in joints and sutures. Changes of weather, especially when the snow melts, or in east winds <.
Damp, rainy, cold weather <. It is suited to scrofulous, gouty constitutions.
Relations EN
Its nearest analogue is Carb. an. (which contains Calc. phos.). Follows well: Ars., Chi., Iod., Merc. Is followed well by: Sulph.
Complementary: Ruta. Compare: In bone affections and fistula, Berb., Calc., Calc. fl., Fluor. ac., Ruta, Sil., Sul.; in joint affections, Berb., Kali ph., Nat. m.; in caries of teeth, Fluor. ac., Mag. ph., Sil.; in epilepsy, Calc., Fer. ph., Kali m., Kali ph., Sil.; in diabetes, Kali ph., Nat. ph.; in tabes, Ars., Iod., Merc.; haemorrhoids, Fer. ph.; worms, Nat. ph.; in debility after acute disease; chest affections > by lying down, Pso.; in peevishness and fretfulness of children, Cham.
School headaches; housemaid's knee, Nat. m.; in tonsillitis; weak-minded children, Bar. c.; chest affections after operation; in fistula, Berb.; uterine affections, Sep. (but in Calc. ph. the menses are more profuse; there is more sexual excitement; the patient is apt to be weak, emaciated, and consumptive); osteitis of diaphyses, Conchiolinum; in fractures, &c., Symphytum; < from motion, Bry.; < from wet, Dul., Sil., Sul., Caus., Rhus.
Causation EN
Over-growth. Lifting. Ascending. Over-study. Sexual excesses. Sexual irregularities. Grief. Disappointed love. Unpleasant news. Operation for fistula. Getting wet.
Mind EN
Great depression; slow comprehension; cretinism.—Children are peevish and fretful; difficulty in performing intellectual operations.
Head EN
Large open fontanelles
Delayed closure or re-opening of fontanelles
Headache < from change of weather extending from forehead to nose; from temples to jaws; with some rheumatic feeling from collar-bone to wrists
Vertigo, with nausea
Head compressed, heavy, and painful, on waking in the morning
Painful sensation of fulness in the head, as if the brain were pressed against the cranium, < by movement and by change of position, > by lying still
Headache with craving for tobacco smoke, which >
During the headache, face and head hot with indolence and ill-humour
The headache is < in the open air, or on stooping
Headache on vertex, behind ears, with drawing in muscles of neck to nape and occiput
Headache, with flatulency in the abdomen
Headache of school-girls with diarrhoea
Crawling sensations run over top of head as if ice were lying on upper part of occiput; the head is hot with smarting of the roots of the hair
Skull soft; crackling noise like paper when pressed, mostly in occiput
Itching in the scalp every evening.
Eyes EN
Sensation in the eye as if something in it, renewed if others talk about it
Cannot read; light hurts, esp. candle or gaslight
Cataract; amaurosis; ulcers on the cornea
Squinting
Lachrymation; most with yawning
Pain in the eyes and nose, as if a foreign body were introduced into them.
Ears EN
Singing or other noises in the ears
Inner and outer ear red, sore itching
External ear swells suddenly and appears as if it would burst with eczema
Excoriating discharge from ears.
Nose EN
Coryza: fluent in cold room; stopped in warm air and out of doors
Swollen nose with sore nostrils in scrofulous children
Large pedunculated polypi
Streaks of blood, nose-bleed in afternoon
Frequent sneezing, with flow of mucus from the nose, and salivation
Blood follows when the nose is blown.
Face EN
Pain esp. in upper jawbone from r. to l.; extends from other parts to face or from face to other parts
Coppery face full of pimples.—(Warts on mouth)
Acne in the face; red pimples, filled with a yellowish pus, with shooting pains on being touched
Swollen upper lip; painful, hard and burning.
Teeth EN
Teeth sensitive to chewing
Pain in molars
Tearing, boring pain at night;
< from warm or cold things
Slow dentition, with cold tumours and emaciation
Too rapid decay
Convulsions without fever during dentition.
Mouth EN
Tongue: swollen, numb, and stiff
Tip of tongue sore, burning, little blisters on it
Tongue white furred at root, most in morning
Accumulation of acid saliva in the mouth
Insipid disgusting taste
Bitter taste in the morning with headache.
Throat EN
Sore aching (on waking in morning) < by swallowing
Sensation of contraction in throat
When swallowing, pain in tongue, fauces, pharynx, chest, and pit of stomach
Chronic swelling of tonsils.
Appetite EN
Unusual hunger 4 p.m
Infant wants to nurse all the time
Craves fat bacon salt meats
Desire for tobacco smoke; smoking > headache
Complete loss of appetite before and during catamenia
Colic and diarrhoea from ice creams; juicy fruit or cider; every attempt to eat; drinking cold water (colic or diarrhoea).
Stomach EN
Nausea, with vertigo, perplexity of head, and confusion of ideas
After taking coffee, nausea, pyrosis, head confused and painful, and excessive ill-humour
Heartburn and water-brash
Sour rising
Acute pains in the stomach, with great weakness, headache, and diarrhoea; the least morsel that is eaten renews the pains in the stomach
After belching, a burning in epigastrium
Empty, sinking sensation (at the epigastrium); 7 p.m
Persistent vomiting of milk, whether of breast or other
Vomiting from hawking phlegm
Easy vomiting in children.
Abdomen EN
Aching soreness and pain round navel;
> after fetid flatus passes off
Oozing of bloody fluid from navel of infants
Violent colic with inflation of abdomen, and great accumulation of flatulency, or with headache
Difficult escape of wind, without mitigation of suffering
Burning in abdomen
Aching soreness, cutting, drawing in l. groin, later in r
Burning aching in groins
Abdominal weakness in anaemic patients.
Stool And Anus EN
Evacuations with much flatulency
Stools in which there were many small white points or flakes, like pus, scarcely perceptible
Offensive pus with stools
Daily watery, very hot stools
Stools green and loose, sometimes slimy
Diarrhoea, very fetid
Offensive flatus
Cutting, pinching, sharp colic, followed by diarrhoea
Diarrhoea from juicy fruit or cider; from vexation
Diarrhoea of dentition
Hard stools, with mental depression
Hard stools with much blood
After stool, buzzing in ears; weak feeling in male sexual organs
Bleeding after stool; protruding piles, aching, itching, sore; oozing of a yellow fluid and bleeding
Itching in anus; most in evening
Single stitches in rectum towards anus, or shooting in anus
Sore feeling in anus, < one side, with shaking, burning, throbbing
Fistula in ano, alternating with chest symptoms
Fistula; in persons who have pains in joints with every spell of cold, stormy weather
Fissures
Haemorrhoids oozing a watery fluid all the time.
Urinary Organs EN
In region of kidneys violent pain when lifting, or blowing nose
Frequent micturition
Urine passed in large quantities with sensation of weakness
Urine deep-coloured and sometimes hot
After evacuation of faeces and emission of urine, the genital parts feel, as it were, fatigued
Cutting in urethra before and after urinating; burning during
Enuresis
Phosphatic urine (Bright's disease).
Male Sexual Organs EN
Increase of sexual desire in the morning, with unusual enjoyment in coition
Nocturnal emissions
Erections while riding in a carriage, without desire
Shooting through the perineum into the penis
Swelling of testicles
Scrotum: itching; sweating; sore; oozing a fluid
Hydrocele
Chronic gonorrhoea in anaemic subjects.
Female Sexual Organs EN
Nymphomania; esp. before catamenia
Aching in uterus; weakness and distress in uterine region;
< during defecation and micturition; uterine displacement
Pressure upward over mons veneris, throbbing
Voluptuous feeling as if the parts were filling up with blood; feels pulse in all the parts, with increased sexual desire
Prolapse
Polypus
Menses: too early, light, or dark (esp. with rheumatic patients); labour-like pains
Menses too early, blood bright, with girls; too late; blood dark, or first bright, then dark, in women
Leucorrhoea, like white of egg, day and night;
< morning after rising; of sweetish odour; increased whites with a stool of bad odour
Burning, pain, swelling of vagina and external parts
Pains in navel; sacrum; symphysis pubis; mammae (sore and burning; nipples aching, sore) during pregnancy
Child refuses breast, milk has a saltish taste.
Respiratory Organs EN
Hoarseness; burning in throat; constant hawking and hemming to clear voice when talking
Cough; tickling; with dryness of throat and hoarseness; with yellow expectoration, < morning; with stitches in chest
Cough during difficult dentition
Breathing frequent, short, difficult
With inhalation; shooting in l. breast and r. temple; sudden jerking pain in back
Involuntary sighing.
Chest EN
Contraction of chest, and difficult breathing, evening till 10 p.m.;
> lying down;
< when getting up
Obstinate pain through lower l. lung and l. hypochondrium (uterine disease)
Burning sensation in chest from below up into throat
Sharp pain like an instrument through end of sternum
Cracking in sternum.
Heart EN
Sharp cutting pain, shooting in heart region interrupting breathing.—Dropsy from heart disease.
Neck And Back EN
Rheumatic pain and stiffness of neck with dulness of head; from slight draught of air
Cramp-like pain in neck first one side then the other (r. to l.)
Throbbing or jerking pains below scapula
Violent pain in region of back when making the least effort
Backache and uterine pains
Sharp pains in sacrum and coccyx
Soreness as if separate in sacro-iliac synchondrosis
Curvature of the spine to the left; lumbar vertebrae bend to the left; spina bifida.
Limbs EN
Aching in all the limbs with weariness
Pains flying about, in all parts of rump and limbs after getting wet in rain
Extensors more affected than flexors.
Upper Limbs EN
Rheumatic pains in shoulder and arm, also with swelling of the diseased part and febrile heat
Ulcerative pain esp. in roots of finger nails of r. hand; and in middle finger
Gouty nodosities
Soreness, torpor, and paralysis of the (l.) arm
Paralysis of the joints of the hand and of the fingers, esp. in the thumbs, sometimes from a chill.
Lower Limbs EN
Buttocks and back "asleep," with a sensation of uneasiness
Lower limbs fall asleep; restless; anxious feeling; has to move them to jump out of carriage; also at night
Abdomen, sacrum, and lower limbs asleep; cannot rise from seat
Cramp in calves; on a small spot inside, when walking
Legs tired, weak, restless, crawling, tingling
Pains above knee
Pains in joints and bones, esp. shin bones.
Generalities EN
Large pedunculated polypi; copper-coloured face, full of pimples; tongue swollen Rheumatic pains of all kinds Pains in different parts of the body, proceeding along the muscles into the joints Rheumatism which gets well in summer and becomes bad again in cold weather
The loins, knees, and thumbs are principally affected Veins swollen Burning itching over the whole body Ulcers
Caries Weariness, when going upstairs; wants to sit down; hates to get up Ill-humour, and aversion to labour On every little cold she is much worse
Sensations frequently on small spots Children do not learn to walk, or lose the ability; lose flesh Pains along sutures or at symphyses Flabby, shrunken, emaciated children
Soreness of tendons when flexing or extending The heat of the room appears insupportable.
Sleep EN
Constant stretching and yawning
Cannot awake in early morning
Sleep, early in the evening, with frequent waking during the night
Restlessness for two or three hours after midnight
Frequent dreams, sometimes with reflections, dreams of dangers and fires
Transient, frequent shuddering
Starting from sleep as from fright.
Fever EN
Frequent creeping shiverings.—Copious night sweats, on single parts.