Magnesia Phosphorica

Illusions of the senses; sobbing, crying, lamenting all the time about pain in affected parts; with hiccough

Mental depression and anxiety

Drowsiness on every attempt to study

Very forgetful

Dulness and inability to think clearly

Indisposition to study; to mental effort

Mind seems clearer; can think and study more clearly after a few doses of Mag. p

Persistent depression of spirits.

Headache: pains shooting, darting, stabbing, shifting; intermittent and paroxysmal

Headache: excruciating; spasmodic; neuralgic or rheumatic; always > by external application of warmth

Nervous headache, with sparks before eyes; diplopia

During the night, severe throbbing pressure on vertex, l. side, deep in brain

Dull headache, as if brain too heavy (after protracted mental effort)

Headache > towards evening, but changes to a pressure above eyebrows, esp. r

Headache beginning in, or worst in occiput, and constant whilst attending school

Severe headache; face flushed, red; pain began in occiput, extended over whole head; sick at stomach; aches all over;

< 9 or 10 a.m. to 4 or 8 p.m

Pressive pain in head down through middle of brain

Pain through temples, top and back of head, with sensation of fulness, < lying down

Sensation of a strong shock of electricity beginning in head and extending to all parts of body

Severe headache began in occiput on waking, extending over head, located over both eyes, with severe nausea, and terminated 5 p.m. in a pronounced chill

Severe pricking over head and forehead, as if rubbed with a fine brush (after becoming warm from eating)

Pustules or large pimples (like blood-boils), with redness and rawness, appeared on r. side of scalp, but did not suppurate

Large, white, shining scales can be combed out in handfuls twenty times a day

Scalp feels rough like a grater, and the fine particles combed out feel like sand.

Double vision (horizontal); sparks; rainbow colours; photophobia

Pupils contracted

Dark spots before eyes on attempting to read

Dull vision from weakness of optic nerve

Nystagmus; strabismus, spasmodic; ptosis, < r. side

Twitching of lids

Neuralgia: supra-orbital or orbital; intermittent, darting, lightning-like pains, < (or entirely) r. side, > by warmth, exquisitely sensitive to touch; with increased lachrymation

Itching and heat in lower l. lid.

Nervous otalgia, intermittent and spasmodic;

> by heat

Sharp intermittent pains behind r. ear, greatly < by cold air or washing face in cold water.

Neuralgia: supra- and infra-orbital, r. side, intermittent, spasmodic, lightning-like pains, < by touch and pressure, > by warmth

Neuralgia of r. upper jaw and teeth, begins with greatest fierceness 2 p.m., and lasts till he gets warm in bed; pains sharp, lightning-like, < by cold, > by heat; face swollen as if stung by bees

Boring, pinching, nipping pains, driving him out of bed, soon spreading over entire r. side of face

Pains radiating all over r. side of face from infra-orbital foramen, < by touch; by opening mouth to eat or drink; by cold air; by walking or riding in cold wind

Faceache < when body gets cold

Face distorted from pains and weakness; cramping colic

Lock-jaw

Hydroa on upper lip

Convulsive twitching of angles of mouth

Neuralgia from washing or standing in cold water

Sensation of painful contraction of jaw-joint for several days, with a nervous backward jerking.

Toothache;

< after going to bed; changes place rapidly;

< eating or drinking, esp. cold things, > by heat; teeth sensitive to touch or cold air

Severe pinching, stabbing, neuralgic pain over root of r. bicuspid; can be covered with point of finger;

< by cold, > by heat; could not brush teeth with cold water for months

Neuralgic pain in a filled tooth which had never ached before

Complaints of teething children; spasms during dentition, without febrile symptoms

Ulceration of teeth, with swelling of glands of face, throat, and neck, and swelling of tongue

Severe pain in decayed or filled teeth (in seven persons; three of them had to discontinue the proving and be treated by a dentist).

Tongue: coated slightly yellow, crampy colic; clean or slight coating, with pain in stomach; coated white with diarrhoea; a bright red, rawness in mouth; coated heavily; coated white all over; sticky and coated a dirty yellow

L. side of tongue sore; biting, burning, smarting like a canker-sore; eating is painful

Taste as of sour bread; slightly bitter; as of bananas (a bit of one had been eaten the day before)

Bad taste in mouth on waking; rawness in mouth; feels as if cankered; warm food seems hot and burning

Bad taste; food does not taste right; coffee tasteless; fulness in bowels; belching of gas

Sour taste on waking in night

Mouth very sore; eating difficult; sores red and raw-looking on inside of cheeks, gums, (l.) lips, tongue, not in corners of mouth;

< by touch, particles of food caused smarting and burning

Mouth feels scalded, or as if he had been smoking strong, hot cigars

Mouth coated with a sticky substance that rolls up in little shreds

Mouth full of water tasting like potato water

Taste of magnesia and chalk (after each powder of 200 and 1,000, the prover not knowing what she was taking).

Spasmodic constriction of throat on attempting to swallow liquids, with sensation of choking

Throat very red and sore, muscles of r. side of neck esp. sore, must hold head to r. side, without >

Flow of mucus through posterior nares into throat; with sneezing and tingling in nose and on tongue

Sensation of a corn-husk lodged in upper part of throat, with constant inclination to swallow.

Appetite: small, with faceache; unusually good, but food disagreed, leaving an uncomfortable feeling all forenoon

Aversion to coffee

Acids taste stronger than usual

Appetite remains good, though food does not taste right.

Spasmodic sobbing (like a hiccough) for three days, ceasing with the second dose in water

Hiccough thirty times a minute; for sixty days life in danger (Mag. p. soon restored health)

Hiccough with retching day and night for three days; ejected matter was coagulated milk, bile and mucus, with great pain causing lamentations

Burning, tasteless eructations come on about three hours after eating in the evening;

< by physical exertion, > by drinking hot water; heartburn

Eructation of food tasting of injesta

Constant nausea

Bilious vomiting, at times streaked with blood

Nausea and vomiting attend headache and flatulent colic

Gastralgia: soreness and extreme sensitiveness of epigastrium to touch; some eructation and sour vomiting; at 12 every day;

> by eating.—(Cancer of stomach; intolerable burning pain; vomiting; hiccough;—after Ars. failed, Mag. p. made the patient comfortable for six months.)

Distension of stomach; very restless

Fulness after eating

Spasmodic pains in stomach, with clean tongue

Intense cutting, shooting, cramping pains in region of stomach and epigastrium, extending sometimes towards back and abdomen

Flatulent distension of stomach, with constrictive pain, > by warmth and bending double

A drink of cold water starts a colicky pain in stomach, which radiates to bowels, very severe, > by doubling up; by walking about; by rest; by belching.

Sharp twinges in r. hypochondrium, on border of lower ribs

Constrictive, aching pain around body at lower margin of ribs, as of a lameness from lifting

Severe griping colic-pain, at times shooting up towards stomach, > by hot applications

Abdominal pains caused great restlessness; walked about hurriedly, said he must have relief; lying on stomach gave short relief, the pains compelled him to walk again

Abdominal muscles sore, with tendency to constipation

Colic: generally radiating from navel, > bending double, or from pressure with hand; often accompanied by a watery diarrhoea

Incarcerated flatulence

Cramps in abdomen, pains round navel and above it towards stomach, thence radiating to both sides, towards back; now violent cutting compelling screaming; then shooting and contracting, like a spasm; cannot bear to lie on back stretched out, must lie bent over

Swelling of r. abdomen over ascending colon; on lying down a marked ridge became prominent, painful on pressure, continued four weeks

Pain begins in bowels to r. of navel while walking in cold air, > warmth of room

Sharp, cutting pain in r. abdominal ring, as if hernia would protrude, > hard pressure

Sharp, burning pain in a spot about an inch in diameter

Bloated, full sensation in abdomen, must loosen clothing, < sitting, > walking about

Much flatus in bowels, passing off freely on walking;

< after evening meal.—(Cramps and wind-colic in horses; wind-colic of cattle, meteorism of cows).

Immediately after breakfast, sudden diarrhoea; stools frequent; at first thick, dark brown, mushy; then lighter; almost white and watery; finally mixed with blood

Next day, 9 a.m., same diarrhoea returned in milder form;

> of pain while at stool, followed by chilliness; stools light brown, then lighter and more watery

Dysentery: with cramp-like pains, > by pressure or bending double; with spasmodic retention of urine; cutting, darting, lightning-like pains in haemorrhoids

Pains so severe as to cause fainting.: pains very severe in abdomen and rectum, esp. latter; pain like a prolonged spasm of abdominal muscles

Constipation in infants, with spasmodic pains at every attempt at stool, indicated by a sharp, shrill cry; much rumbling and flatulent colic

Itching and scratching feeling in anus

Tedious stool, hard at first, soft afterwards, followed by burning in anus

Chronic constipation in rheumatic subjects

At 7 a.m. profuse stool, like yellow clay mixed with water (enough for three ordinary movements), followed in an hour by one neither so large nor so loose, which > the pain in bowels.

Spasm of bladder; of neck of bladder; spasmodic retention; tenesmus, with constant and painful urging

Nocturnal enuresis from nervous irritation

When urinating, violent, shooting, burning pains; mucous discharge from urethra

Vesical neuralgia after use of catheter

Sensation as if no muscular contraction.—(A bright, shiny discharge from urethra for three years, in an old man.)

Deficiency or excess cif phosphates

Gravel

Cutting pain in bladder before urinating

Restless sleep from urging.

Menstrual colic; pain precedes flow

Menses six to nine days too soon

With menses: great weakness; intensely sore, bruised feeling all through, abdomen, could hardly be up at all, but was much < lying down

Labiae swollen and at times intensely painful

Flow dark, fibrinous, stringy

Dysmenia; pains (cutting, drawing, pressing, cramping) severe, intermittent, < r. side, > from heat;

> by flow.

Darting pains in chest, < r. side; which radiate from pain in bowels

Oppression: desire to take deep breath;

< on first entering warm room, > after being in it a short time;

< walking.

Sore pain in head, back of neck, and lower part of back

Aching in small of back; sensation as if a section of vertebra was missing

Dorsal spine, for about six inches, very painful and sensitive to touch for weeks.

Rheumatic pain in l. forearm from elbow to hand, < from wrist to knuckles

Darting pain in arms

Skin of fingers feels as if stretched too tightly; followed by pain in elbow-joint, then in wrist

Throbbing pain in r. wrist near ulna

R. shoulder-joint lame

Rheumatic, aching pain in r. shoulder, going to arm;

> heat, < motion; coming on when retiring, disturbing sleep; lasts all night, disappearing in morning after moving about (every night for three weeks)

Tingling in fingers of l. hand

Stinging pain in first joint of l. thumb, extending to next, like that of a panaritium

First joint of fingers of both hands swollen, though painless.

Every night neuralgia, now in lower limbs, in tibia or in thighs, now on l. now on r. side, mostly with spasmodic muscular contractions; during day perfectly well

R. hip lame, < walking

Sharp pain in l. knee, followed by numbness

Tingling in l. toes

Legs ache after getting into bed

Burning, stinging pain in bunion on l. foot

Feet so tender and corns so painful could not wear her ordinary shoes

Burning, stinging, smarting, lancinating pain in corns.

Drowsy; fall asleep and awake as from an electric shock, then fall asleep again

Sleepy when attempting to study

Spasmodic yawning, severe, as if it would dislocate the jaw; caused tears to flow

Drowsy at time of rising

Sleep disturbed by troublesome dreams; wakes with impression that some one is in the room; saw some one standing near

Restless sleep from pain in occiput and back of neck

Feels sick and prostrated on waking in the night.—(Relieves sleeplessness in flatulent and gouty subjects.)

Chilly after dinner in evening, 7 p.m.; chills run up and down back, with shivering, wants more clothes

Chilliness, evening, when going from warm room into open air; shaking and chattering of teeth as with an ague chill;

> entering warm room

A crop of boils took possession of him, terminating in a five weeks' attack of remittent fever

Severe chill 9 a.m.; lasts three hours; was compelled to go to bed, where he lay and shook; neither heat nor sweat followed

Creeping chills up and down spine, followed by suffocating sensation; must throw off covering; no thirst

Exhausted sensation compelled him to go to bed; chill for an hour, at end of which exhausted feeling passed off; cough and catarrhal symptoms followed chill; no fever

Bilious fever.