Remedy
Calcarea Phosphorica calc-p.
Duration of action
- 60 d.Robert Gibson Miller
Not a dosing interval.
Relationships
Relationship of Remedies
Inimicals
Polar generals
Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica
C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · 1915
Region
NUTRITION: BONES (SUTURES. PERIOSTEUM. Cartilage.). GLANDS. Nerves. ABDOMEN. Vertex. Chest.
Worse
Exposure to: Weather changes. Drafts. Cold, wet. Melting snows. East wind. DENTITION. Mental exertion. Loss of fluids. Puberty. Fruits. Cider.
Better
Lying down.
General
Delicate, erethistic, tall or scrawny children; with dirty, brownish skins. Soft, thin bones. Malassimilation. Scrofula. Rickets. Spots; cold or sore, vertex, eye-balls, tip of nose, or fingers, etc. Crawling, numb, cold limbs. Pains shift. Arthritis. Rheumatism. Albuminous discharges, leucorrhœa, etc. Anæmia; as a sequel.
Particulars
Peevish, restless and fretful. Idiotismus versatilis. Headache; in occipital protuberances; down spine; > cool bathing or sneezing; of school children. As of ice in occiput. Thin skull bones. Open fontanelles. Hydrocephalus. Teeth; late; soft; decay easily. Tonsils, large; mycosis (Kali-m.). Adenoids. Throat aches; feels hollow. Craves raw, salt, piquant foods or bacon. Weak digestion: every bite hurts the stomach. Persistently vomits milk. FLABBY, SUNKEN ABDOMEN; pains, then burning leucorrhœal flow. Festering navel. Diarrhœic tendency. Stools foul, hot; lienteric; spluttering and watery; < fruits. Fistula; alternating with chest symptoms. Addison's disease. School girl's headache. Abnormal cravings. Tumor in left mamma. Menses early, scanty; every two weeks. Crawling in genitals. Exalted sexual instinct. Eruptions, < during menses. Uterus heavy; weak or aching. Child loses its breath on being lifted up (Bor.). Cough, > lying. Cavernous phthisis; with night sweats. Neck or chest pains from drafts. Weak, thin neck; the head bobs about. Sore fingertips. As of a splinter under nails. Weak through hips. Thin, brittle bones. Pain, burning, along sutures or edges of nails. Slow ossification; non-union. Swollen glands. Pott's or hip-joint disease. Easily chilled; during pains. Sickly sweat; < head and throat; at night. Cold limbs with digestive trouble. Chills up back, but heats down back.
Related
Follows: Fer-p. Related: Carb-a. Chin. Nat-m. Rut.
Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica
H. C. Allen · Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica · 1898
Keynote
For persons of anaemic and dark complexioned, dark hair and eyes; thin spare subjects, instead of fat. During first and second dentition of scrofulous children; diarrhoea and great flatulence. Children: emaciated, unable to stand; slow in learning to walk (Cal., Sil.); sunken, flabby abdomen. Oozing of bloody fluid from naval of infants (of urine, Hyos.). Rachitis; cranial bones thin and brittle; fontanelles and sutures remain open so long, or close and reopen; delayed or complicated teething. Spine weak, disposed to curvatures, especially to the left, unable to support body, neck weak, unable to support head (Abrot.). Girls at puberty, tall, growing rapidly, tendency of bone to soften or spine to curve (Ther.). At puberty; acne in anaemic girls with vertex headache and flatulent dyspepsia, > by eating. Ailments from grief, disappointed love (Aur., Ign., Phos. ac.). Feels complaints more when thinking about them (Helon., Ox. ac.). Involuntary sighing (Ign.). Non-union of bones; promotes callous (Symph.). Rheumatism of cold weather; getting well in spring and returning in autumn. Headache of school-girls (Nat. m., Psor.); diarrhoea. At every attempt to eat, colic pains in abdomen. Fistula in ano, alternating with chest symptoms (Berb.); lack of animal heat; cold sweat and general coldness of body.
Relations
Complementary: Ruta. Similar: to Carbo an., Cal. fluor., Calc., Fluor. ac., Kali phos.; to Psor., in debility remaining after acute diseases; to Sil., but sweat of head is wanting. Acts best: before Iod., Psor., Sanic., Sulph.; after Ars., Iod., Tub.
Aggravation
Exposure to damp, cold, changeable weather; east winds; melting snow; mental exertion.
Amelioration
In summer; warm, dry atmosphere.
Key-Notes to the Materia Medica
Henry N. Guernsey · Key-Notes to the Materia Medica · 1887
General
A subject for this remedy does not present so clear and white a complexion as is called for by Calc. carb. The appearance of the patient is more of a dirty white or brownish color.
Mental
Mental anxiety, with all the troubles. Desire to change the position often. Is often useful in cases of disappointed love.
Children
Fontanelles remain open a long time. Very soft thin skulls, so that they almost crack like paper when pressed upon. Can't hold the head up, nurse is obliged to support it. Troubles during teething; slow dentition with cold tumors and emaciation; cough and much rattling in the chest. Oozing from the bloody navel. Children don't learn to walk; flabby, emaciated; great desire to nurse all the time.
Head
Burning heat on top of, which runs down to the toes. Headache of school-girls, with diarrhœa. Black itching scurfs on top of; scrofulous ulcers on the head.
Eyes
Can't use the eyes by gas-light; cataract; amaurosis; ulcers on the cornea.
Stools and Anus
Hæmorrhoids oozing a watery fluid all the time. Fistula ani alternating with chest symptoms--as the fistula is worse at one time, the chest troubles grow better, and vice versa. Diarrhœa with much flatulency.
Sexual
Male: Swelling of the testicles. Itching of the scrotum with swelling and soreness.Female: Uterine displacements aggravated by the passage of urine or stool; worse during the catamenia. As the menstrual flux becomes less and less, the leucorrhœa increases more and more, looking like the white of an egg. Spoiled milk of the mother (is salt and bluish), and the child won't take it.
Generalities
Large pedunculated polypi; copper-colored face, full of pimples; tongue swollen; sore, aching throat, worse when swallowing; burning in the epigastrium after belching; diabetes where the lungs are implicated; rheumatism which gets well in summer, and becomes bad again in cold weather; curvature of the spine to the left; lumbar vertebræ bend to the left; spina bifida; hard bluish lumps in the axillary space; coxalgia; the bone may be partially destroyed; fistulous ulcers on the foot joint; ulcers on the maleolus; swelling of the condyles. In any broken bones, where they fail to heal.
Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica
J. W. Hutchison · Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica · 1905
Red line symptom
Delayed closure or reopening of fontanelles. Retarded dentition, especially in second dentition. With every attempt to eat has aching in bowels. Heartburn and other gastric symptoms one or two hours after dinner. Sacro-iliac symphis is sore, as if separated or broken. Often a children's medicine, but oftener suitable for the young while growing, particularly girls at or near puberty.
Homœopathic Materia Medica
William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition
Common name
Phosphate of Lime
General
One of the most important tissue remedies, and while it has many symptoms in common with Calcarea carb, there are some differences and characteristic features of its own. It is especially indicated in tardy dentition and troubles incident to that period, bone disease non-union of fractured bones, and the anæmias after acute diseases and chronic wasting diseases. Anæmic children who are peevish, flabby, have cold extremities and feeble digestion. It has a special affinity where bones form sutures or symphyses, and all its symptoms are worse from any change of weather. Numbness and crawling are characteristic sensations, and tendency to perspiration and glandular enlargement are symptoms it shares with the carbonate. Scrofulosis, chlorosis and phthisis.
Mind
Peevish, forgetful; after grief and vexation (Ignat; Phos ac). Always wants to go somewhere.
Head
Headache, worse near the region of sutures, from change of weather, of school children about puberty. Fontanelles remain open too long. Cranial bones soft and thin. Defective hearing. Headache, with abdominal flatulence. Head hot, with smarting of roots of hair.
Eyes
Diffused opacity in cornea following abscess.
Mouth
Swollen tonsils; cannot open mouth without pain. Complaints during teething; teeth develop slowly; rapid decay of teeth. Adenoid growths.
Stomach
Infant wants to nurse all the time and vomits easily. Craving for bacon, ham, salted or smoked meats. Much flatulence. Great hunger with thirst flatulence temporarily relieved by sour eructations. Heartburn. Easy vomiting in children.
Abdomen
At every attempt to eat, colicky pain in abdomen. Sunken and flabby. Colic, soreness and burning around navel.
Stool
Bleeding after hard stool. Diarrhœa from juicy fruits or cider; during dentition. Green, slimy, hot, sputtering, undigested, with fetid flatus. Fistula in ano, alternating with chest symptoms.
Urine
Increased, with sensation of weakness. Pain in region of kidneys when lifting or blowing the nose.
Female
Menses too early, excessive, and bright in girls. If late, blood is dark; sometimes, first bright, then dark, with violent backache. During lactation with sexual excitement. Nymphomania, with aching, pressing, or weakness in uterine region (Plat). After prolonged nursing. Leucorrhœa, like white of egg. Worse morning. Child refuses breast; milk tastes salty. Prolapsus in debilitated persons.
Respiratory
Involuntary sighing. Chest sore. Suffocative cough; better lying down. Hoarseness. Pain through lower left lung.
Neck and Back
Rheumatic pain from draught of air, with stiffness and dullness of head. Soreness in sacro-iliac symphysis, as if broken (Aesc hip).
Extremities
Stiffness and pain, with cold, numb feeling, worse any change of weather. Crawling and coldness. Buttocks, back and limbs asleep. Pains in joints and bones. Weary when going upstairs.
Relationship
Complementary: Ruta; Hepar.
Compare: Calcar hypophosphorosa (is to be preferred when it seems necessary to furnish the organism with liberal doses of phosphorus in consequence of continued abscesses having reduced the vitality. Give first and second decimal trits. Loss of appetite, rapid debility, night sweats; Acne pustulosa.--Pallor of skin, habitually cold extremities. Phthisis-diarrhœa and cough; acute pains in chest. Mesenteric tuberculosis. Bleeding from lungs; angina pectoris; asthma; affection of arteries. Veins stand out like whipcords. Attacks of pain occurring two hours after meals (relieved by a cup of milk or light food). Cheiranthus (effects of cutting wisdom teeth). Calcarea renalis-Lapis renalis--(arthritic nodosities. Rigg's disease; lessens tendency to accumulation of tartar on teeth; gravel and renal calculi). Conchilion.--Meter perlarum.--Mother of pearl (Osteitis.--Has a wide range of action in bone affections, especially when the growing ends are affected. Petechiæ). Silica; Psorin; Sulph.
Modalities
Worse, exposure to damp, cold weather, melting snow. Better, in summer; warm, dry atmosphere.
Dose
First to third trituration. Higher potencies often more effective.
Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics
E. B. Nash · Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics · 1899
Leaders
Tardy closing or re-opening fontanelles in slim, emaciated children, with sweaty heads.
Diarrhœa or entero-colitis; stool passes with much flatulence and spluttering noise.
Rheumatic troubles which are < in fall or spring, when the air is full of melting snow.
When on the subject of Calcarea we may as well notice this other combination.
The Phosphorus element in this preparation seems to change the temperament, for while it retains its wonderful remedial power over tardy bone development it acts best in spare subjects instead of fat. So that if we find a sickly child with fontanelles remaining open too long or re-opening after once closed, the child being spare and anæmic, we think of this remedy.
We would also think of Silicea in one of these poor subjects, but in the Calcarea phos. the sweaty head is not a prominent symptom, while with Silicea it is markedly so. Calcarea phos.
also has a very peculiar desire, the little patient instead of wanting eggs wants "ham rind," a very queer symptom, but a genuine one. (Magnesia carb. craves meat in scrofulous children.) Diarrhœa is very prominent, and the stools are green and "spluttering;" that is the flatulence (of which there is much) with the stool makes a loud spluttering noise when the stool passes. I have made some very fine cures in such cases where there seemed little hope for the child and hydrocephaloid seemed impending. The little patients were shrunken, emaciated and very anæmic. Marasmus.
(Calcarea phos. is an excellent remedy in rheumatic troubles < spring and fall, especially when the air is cold and damp from melting snow.)
Calcarea phos. is an excellent remedy for broken bones where the bones refuse to knit (Also Symphytum.)
I have found Calcarea phos. very useful in the headaches of anæmic school girls. Here we sometimes have to choose between it and Natrum mur.
Feels complaints more when thinking of them (Oxalic acid, Helonias).
A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1902
General
Phosphate of Lime. Tricalcic Phosphate. Ca 3 2 PO 4 . A mixture of the basic and other phosphates of lime, made by dropping dilute phosphoric acid into lime water. Trituration.
Clinical
Anæmia. 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. Gonorrhœa. Headaches. Hernia. Hydrocele. Hygroma. Joints, affections of . Leucorrhœa. Lumbago. Nymphomania. Phosphaturia. Rheumatism. Rickets. Self-abuse. Spermatorrhœa. Spina bifida . Stiff-neck. Strabismus. Testicles, swollen. Throat, sore. Tobacco habit. Tonsils, enlarged . Uterus, prolapsus of; polypus of. Yawning.
Characteristics
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 leucorrhœa. 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.
The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica
Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91
Mind
A lack of definiteness or total loss of memory.
Forgetfulness, forgets what he has done a short while ago.
Writes wrong words, or same words twice.
Dulness : with every headache ; < from bodily exertion ; > from cold washing ; from mental occupation.
Obtuse intellect ; difficulty in performing intellectual operations ; cannot clearly distinguish.
Stupidity ; indifference ; cretinism.
Likes to be alone.
She wishes to be at home, and, when at home, to go out ; goes from place to place.
Involuntary sighing.
Often screaming and grasping with hands ; cold sweat in face, body cold ; children with open fontanelles.
Does not want to do what he has to do.
Feels as if she had been frightened.
Anxiousness with other complaints.
Anxiety of children : in pit of stomach ; with bellyache ; with chest complaints ; with palpitation.
Peevish and fretful children. θ Cholera infantum.
Inclined to indignation and anger.
Feel complaints more when thinking about them.
Unpleasant news brings him beside himself ; sweat breaks out.
Ailments from grief, disappointed love.
After vexation depressed ; cannot work, walks as if lame ; looseness of bowels.
Sensorium
Feeling of fulness and confusion, or a dulness accompanying headache.
Vertigo : on motion ; when getting up, or rising from sitting ; when walking in open air ; < in windy weather ; with costiveness of old people ; dull headache, nausea, complaints of eyes, neck, aching limbs ; with whites
before catamenia.
Old people stagger when getting up from sitting.
Inner head
Fulness and pressure in head, < from pressure of hat.
Pressure above eyes and towards them.
Headache over forehead, with tearing pains in arms and hands, most in wrists and right middle finger.
Headache on vertex and behind ears, with a drawing in muscles of neck, to nape and occiput.
Heat in head ; burning on top, running down to toes.
Headache, throbbing through both sides, most after quick motion.
Aching, drawing pains around lateral protuberances of occiput.
Dulness with every headache ; > from cold washing and mental occupation ; < from bodily exertion.
Headache : with gastric symptoms, with uterine complaints, or following other sensations ; in peevish and fretful children ; < from change of weather, extending from forehead to nose, or from temples to jaw, with some rheumatic feelings from clavicles to wrists ;
< when thinking about it, and in morning ; > from cold washing and mental occupation.
Headache of schoolgirls, with diarrhœa.
Rheumatic headache ; < at night.
Hyperemia of brain.
Acute and chronic hydrocephalus and hydrocephaloid. θ Cholera infantum.
Hydrocephalus congenitus.
Sensation as if brain was pressed against skull. θ Fungus of cranium.
Meningitis involving bony structure of spine.
Idiopathic fungus of dura mater.
Stupid look, taking no interest in anything, keeps eyes shut, always < in wane of day, great inclination for salt meat or potatoes ; fontanelles too much open. θ Incipient
hydrocephalus.
Chronic hydrocephalus.
Brain fag.
Outer head
Headache ; head feels and is cold to touch.
Sore pain, drawing, rending, tearing in bones of skull, most along sutures of skull, particularly between frontal and parietal bones, or around temporal bones.
Crawls run over top of head ; as if ice was lying on upper occiput.
Head is hot, with smarting of roots of hair.
Affections of bony structure of skull.
Skull very soft and thin, crackling like paper when pressed upon. θ Cholera infantum.
Fontanelles remain open too long, or close and reopen.
Nonunion of bones in fracture of skull, particularly in the aged.
Depression on occipital bone. θ Sanguineous occipital tumor.
(OBS :) Cranio tabes.
Encephalocele.
Cannot hold bead up ; moves it from place to place ; head totters.
Tied feeling or tension in scalp of forehead.
Itching black scurfs ; poor crop of hair, or losing hair.
Scalp sore, hurts ; creeping, numbness, or cold crawls, coldness on occiput.
Impetigo on scalp.
Scrofulous ulcers on top of head.
Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica
James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · 1905
Lecture
During the growing period many children need this remedy. if the head bones are slow in forming, or do not keep pace with the growth of the child, this remedy is often called for.
Where the child is losing flesh, slow learning to do things, slow learning to walk, or the legs are not strong enough to support the body, or it is behind in mental development, this remedy is one to be examined (like Baryta carb., Borax, Ph. ac., Nat. m., Calc.).
Flabby, shrunken, emaciated children. Non-union of fractured bones, swollen condyles, are symptoms accepted by all text-books as strong symptoms of this remedy. It has cured polypi of nose, rectum and uterus. It has cured enlarged glands of the neck, groin and abdomen.
Rachitis, with fontanelles open, and diarrhea, in emaciating children. Rheumatic pains in the joints and limbs, worse from cold weather, or in every cold change of weather. Pale, waxy skin; anaemia.
Growing pains nights in fast growing children. Phtisical subjects. Diseases of bone. Easy ulceration. Itching, burning, eruptions. Sensitive to cold. Sensitive to a jar.
The pains are shooting, drawing, aching, burning, pressing. It has a shaking chill that spreads downward. Dry heat in evening. Copious night sweats.
The complaints of this remedy are generally better during rest, come on during motion, and are greatly aggravated by exertion. Stiffness on moving in bed. General bodily weakness. Numbness of many parts. Trembling. Fear brings on complaints; palpitation.
Mind
Electric shock, so severe that the patient could not remain standing. Epileptic spasms. Convulsions of children; but the remedy must be given when not in the convulsion to secure the best effect. The mind shows above all a tired and weak brain.
Feeble memory, and inability to sustain mental effort. Suffering in the head from mental exertion. Dreads mental exertion. Sluggish mind. Imbecility.
Feeble minded children. The child grasps the head with the hands and screams. Thinking of complaints causes them to appear or increase. Extremely fretful.
Ailments from bad news, grief, unrequited affections, vexation. She seeks solitude to commune with her thoughts and to shun the exertion of society. Discontented with his own surroundings and goes from place to place.
Head
Vertigo in cold wind, from mental and physical exertion, when rising from sitting, when walking in cold air.
The head symptoms are still more striking. The dull headaches of school children-always come home from school with headache. The head is sensitive to a jar, to pressure, to the hat; wants it washed in cold water; wants to be quite and alone.
Throbbing and burning in the head. Rheumatic headache, seems to be in the whole head, in cold weather, being out in the cold wind; worse from walking, worse from exertion, worse at night. It has many times prevented hydrocephalus. Frontal headaches, and forehead and eyes worse from pressure of the hat. Perspiration of scalp; forehead cold to touch. Tearing pain in bones of head. Cold occiput. Eczema of scalp. Ulcers of scalp.
In children when coming out of brain congestion if there is strabismus, diarrhea, and losing flesh. Glittering fiery circles before the eyes. Pain in eyes from reading in artificial light. Eyes blurred. Soreness in eyeballs. Pains worse thinking about them. Ulceration of cornea. Eyes feel hot. Easy lachrymation.
Rheumatic tearing in the ears when the weather changes to cold. Ears very cold. Aching deep in ear. Enlarged, painful parotid glands.
Eruption about the ears. Noises in ears after stool. Dry catarrh of the middle ear. This remedy is useful in chronic catarrh of the nose when the general symptoms agree.
Polypi in the nose. Icy cold nose. Fluent coryza in a cold room, stopped in a warm room. Epistaxis.
Pale, waxy face, dirty skin. Rheumatic face ache in every cold spell of weather. Cold perspiration on face.
Neuralgia of face at night, in cold air; worse from exertion, ameliorated by heat; sensitive to pressure ( Mag. p. is better by heat and pressure). Dark blotches and pustules on the face. Swollen upper lip, painful, hard and burning.
Teeth late coming in or decay soon. Teeth sensitive to touch, pressure, or when masticating. Complaints of teething children.
Foul taste in mouth. Bitter taste in the morning. Tongue coated in the morning. Tongue swollen, numb and stiff.
Growing children suffer from chronic throat troubles. Enlarged tonsils. Every cold settles in the tonsils ( Baryta c., Alumen). Much mucus in throat. Dryness in throat at night.
Stomach and abdomen
Craves salt bacon and smoked meats. Strong appetite. Infants want to nurse all the time. Easily disordered stomach. Cold drinks, ice cream, fruits disorder the stomach, causing pain or diarrhoea. Pain in stomach after food. Eructations and nausea.
Soreness in the stomach. Sour eructations, nausea and vomiting. Burning in the stomach. Nausea from scraping the larynx or throat. Vomiting in infants, in children, and in pregnancy. Violent pain in the stomach; diarrhoea aggravated by the least food. Gnawing, empty feeling in the stomach.
After becoming chilled, pain in the liver, soreness, aggravated after eating and by motion; wants to keep quiet. Stitching pains in the liver from deep breathing or sudden motion. Pulsating in the liver. Cutting pains in the spleen. Sinking sensation in abdomen.
Burning in the abdomen, rising up into the chest. Pain in the abdomen ameliorated by passing flatus. Colic, followed by diarrhoea. Ulceration of naval in infants. Motion in abdomen from flatus as from something alive. Abdomen large and flabby.
Tabes mesenterica with diarrhoea. Green mucus and hot watery stools; white, mushy stools, copious, offensive flatus. Diarrhea from fruit, ice cream, cold drinks or vexation. Diarrhea in the morning in phtisical patients. Very offensive stools.
Stools and anus
Constipation, with difficult, hard stool. Bleeding from the rectum and anus during stool. Protruding piles so painful that he is kept in bed for weeks; the pain is intense standing, walking, from touch; ameliorated by heat; with general sufferings, every sudden cold change of the weather. Piles itch and burn and discharge yellow pus. Itching of the anus in the evening.
Stitching pain in the anus, with or without hemorrhoids. Boils and abscesses about and near the anus, discharging blood and pus. Fistula in tuberculous subjects. Fissured anus, with burning stitching pains.
Urines
Weak and irritable bladder. Catarrh of the bladder. Frequent urging to urinate. Copious flow of urine. Pain in the neck of the bladder before and after urinating. Aching in the empty bladder. This remedy has cured diabetes mellitus. Violent pain in the region of the kidneys.
Sexual desire increased. Painful erections. It has cured many cases of chronic gonorrhoea when the discharge is gleety and there are sharp pains in the urethra and prostate gland. Gonorrheal rheumatism when of long standing and worse in every cold change in the weather ( Med.),
Women
The woman has no better friend than Calc. p.
Her sufferings at puberty when she is slow in maturing are often met by this medicine. From taking cold at first menstrual period often comes a painful menstruation that lasts during menstrual life, unless cured by this remedy.
Violent cramping in uterus and groin several hours before the flow starts, relieved after the flow has been fully established.
The pains make her cry out. Intense sexual excitement (like Platina, Gratiola, Origanum). Weak, sinking sensation in the pelvis.
Prolapsus of uterus during stool and micturition. Uterine polypus. Labor-like pains at the beginning of menstruation. Copious menstrual flow, with very dark clots and membranes.
Leucorrhea like white of egg day and night. Throbbing, titillating in external genitalia. Burning in the vagina and uterus during menses. Child refuses mother's milk. It may be given to a woman who has brought forth one or two children that may be considered Calc. p. babies. The next child will be stronger and have a better constitution.
Voice and larynx
It is often observed that this patient scrapes, mucus from the larynx before he can talk or sing. Hoarseness, dry hacking cough day and night. Tubercular laryngitis.
Suffocation on slight exertion, or on ascending stairs. In thin, pale, sickly people with dry, hacking cough worse in cold, damp weather in rheumatic constitutions. Yellow expectoration.
Stitching pains in the chest. Emaciation of the chest. Difficult expectoration. It is a very useful remedy in phthisis and blood spitting. Much sweat on the chest. Rattling in the chest with difficult expectoration, like Caust.
Soreness of the chest to touch. Palpitation, with trembling of the limbs.
Back and limbs
The back pains are worse in cold, stormy weather, attended with stiffness, and worse in the morning. The back is sensitive to draft. Pain in the back from lifting or straining. Curvature of spine. Tearing, shooting; tenderness and aching in the spine. Soreness in sacroiliac symphysis. Pain in lumbar region and sacrum at the menstrual period.
Rheumatic pains in the limbs in cold weather, worse from motion, better during rest and from heat. Trembling in all the limbs. Stiffness after resting, and in the morning. Aching in the bones, like growing pains. Gouty fingers and toes that become painful in cold weather. Ulcerative pains in the roots of the nails.
The most severe tearing, shooting pains are in the lower limbs. The probable reason for this is that the lower limbs are always cold to the knees, and the cold parts are always the suffering parts in this remedy.
Sharp pains in tendons of the lower limbs. Intense aching boring pains in the knees, and long bones. Pains in the tibia with soreness. Drawing pain in the tibia. Cramp in the calves. Ulcers on the legs; weak, chronic; no granulation. Rheumatism of the ankles. Caries of the os calcis. Stringing and shooting in the toes.
Sleepy daytime and evening. Sleepless after going to bed until midnight or later. Very sleepy in the morning. Vivid dreams. Children cry out in sleep. Frightful dreams cause him to awaken with a start.
Condensed Materia Medica
Constantine Hering · Condensed Materia Medica · 1877
Mind
Forgetfulness, of what he had done a short time ago.
Writes wrong words, or same words twice.
Difficulty in performing intellectual operation.
Wishes to be at home, and when at home, to go out; goes from place to place.
Involuntary sighing.
Anxiousness.
Anxiety: in pit of stomach; of children.
Peevish and fretful children.
Inclined to indignation and anger.
Dulness with every headache; worse from bodily exertion; better from cold washing; from mental occupation.
Feel complaints more when thinking about them.
Ailments: from grief; from disappointed love.
Sensorium
Staggering when rising from a seat.
Vertigo: on motion; when walking in open air; worse in windy weather; with costiveness; of old people.
Fulness and pressure, or dulness of head, worse from pressure of the hat.
Inner Head
Pressure from the eyes and toward them.
Headache over the forehead, with tearing pain in the arms and hands, most in wrist and right middle finger.
Headache on vertex and behind the ears, with a drawing in the muscles of the neck, to the nape and occiput.
Aching, drawing pains around lateral protuberances of occiput.
Headache of school girls, with diarrhœa.
Headache worse from change of weather, extending from the forehead to nose; or from the temples to jaw, with some rheumatic feeling from the clavicles to wrists.
Outer Head
Sore pain; drawing, rending, tearing in the skull bones worse along the sutures.
Skull soft and thin; crackling noise like paper when pressed, mostly in the occiput.
Delayed closure, or re-opening of fontanelles.
Crawling over the top of head, as if ice were lying over the occiput; head hot; smarting of roots of the hair.
Itching black scurfs; poor crop of hair, or losing the hair.
Ulcers on the top of the head.
Cannot hold the head up; moves it from place to place; head totters.
Eyes
Light, particularly candle or gas-light, hurts the eyes.
Eyeballs pain, as if beaten.
Cool feeling behind the eyes.
Squinting; distortion of eyeballs.
Hot feeling in lids.
Ears
Difficult hearing.
Singing and other noises most in the right ear.
Cold feeling or coldness of the ears.
Aching, pressing, tearing or rending in and around the ears, most behind, or below.
Inner and outer ear swollen, red, sore, itching; hot.
Excoriating discharge from the ears.
Aching sore pain in the region of parotid gland.
Nose
Sneezing, and soreness on the edges of alæ, fluent coryza, forenoon.
Nosebleed; afternoon.
Coryza: fluent in a cold room; stopped in warm air and out-doors.
Point of nose icy-cold.
Nose swollen; nostrils sore.
Large pedunculated nasal polypi.
Face
Pain in face, particularly in upper maxilla, from right to left; extends from other parts, to the face, or vice versa.
Heat in the face.
Face: pale; sallow; yellowish; earthy; full of pimples.
Cold sweat on the face; body cold.
Lower Face
Swollen upper lip; painful, hard and burning.
Teeth
Retarded dentition, with cold tumors and emaciation.
Hollow teeth, sensitive to air.
Pain in the canines.
Teeth sensitive to chewing.
Tongue, etc
Disgusting taste, on awaking, worse when hawking.
Bitter taste: in the morning, with headache; particularly of wheat bread.
Tongue swollen, numb, stiff, with pimples on it.
Tip of tongue sore, burning, little blisters on it.
Mouth
Sore spot inside of the right cheek.
Throat
Sore aching in throat, worse when swallowing.
Sore throat, with tickling cough in the evening, worse after going to bed.
Desires and Aversions
Hunger at 4 P.M.
Infants want to nurse all the time.
Much thirst, with dry mouth and tongue, during and after part of the day.
Eating and Drinking
At every attempt to eat, belly-ache.
After meals, sore after dinner, headache or drowsiness, weariness, itching; or heart-burn, and other gastric symptoms.
After drinking cold water, cutting in the belly.
Eating ice-cream in evening, causes colic.
Juicy fruit, or cider, causes diarrhœa.
Nausea and Vomiting
Sour belching, and gulping up.
After belching burning in the epigastrium.
Nausea, rising from the pit of stomach when moving; better at rest; followed by headache and lassitude.
Nausea: from smoking; after coffee.
Vomiturition from hawk phlegm.
Children vomit, often and easy.
Stomach
Indescribable uneasiness in region of stomach.
Sharp cutting, or cramp-like pain, in stomach, with headache.
Pressure in the stomach; less during rest.
Stomach feels expanded.
Burning at the stomach and rising of water into mouth.
Empty, sinking sensation at the epigastrium.
Stomach symptoms worse by taking even the smallest quantity of food.
Hypochondria
Throbbing in the right hypochondrium lessened after belching or passing wind.
Stitches or shooting in region of liver, wen taking a deep breath.
Hardness, soreness and pressure in the right side.
Pressure and soreness in the left side.
Stitch in the left side while breathing.
Abdomen
Empty, sinking sensation, around the navel in the whole belly.
Motion in belly, like something alive.
Cutting, pinching, sharp colic, followed by diarrhœa.
Burning: in region of navel; in the whole abdomen, rising up into the chest, or into the throat.
Aching soreness, and pain around navel, lessens after passing fetid flatus.
Oozing of bloody fluid from navel of infants.
Aching soreness, cutting, drawing in left groin, later in right.
Abdominal wall: tingling, numb; quivering or aching.
Stool, etc
Stitches in the rectum toward the anus or shooting in the anus.
Offensive flatus.
Diarrhœa, during dentition, with much flatus.
Stools: green and loose, sometimes slimy, with children; soft, passed with difficulty, accompanying the headache of school girls.
Pus discharged with the stools, which are extremely offensive.
Hard stool, with depression of mind, causing headache with old people.
Itching in the anus; most in the evening.
Protruding piles aching itching and sore; oozing of a yellow fluid.
Small furuncle near anus, to the right, with much pain; cannot sit, has to stand, or lie on left side; discharges blood or pus and remains a painless fistula.
Fistula in ano, alternating with chest symptoms.
Urine
Violent pain in the region of the kidneys, when lifting and when blowing the nose.
Violent pain in the bladder and all neighboring parts.
Shooting in the mouth of the bladder.
Frequent urging to urinate.
Cutting pains in the urethra.
Dark urine.
Large increase of urine with sensation of weakness.
Male Sexual Organs
Erection, while riding in a carriage, without sexual desire.
Shooting through the perineum into the penis.
Swelling of the testicles.
Itching of scrotum, with sweating, soreness and pimples.
Scrotum sore, oozing a fluid.
Female Sexual Organs
Voluptuous feeling as if all the female parts were filling up with blood; she feels the pulse in all the parts, with increased sexual desire.
Aching in the uterus.
Drawing pain from right to left over the pubes, with discharge of some blood followed by earache, first left, then right.
Menses: too early, blood bright, with girls; too late, blood dark, or first bright, then dark, with women.
Weakness and distress in the region of the uterus, worse during passage of stool and urine.
Leucorrhœa like the white of egg, day and night.
Throbbing, stinging, tickling, sore aching, or pressing in the genitals, drawing upwards in the symphysis, downwards in the thighs.
Pregnancy
Weakness in all the limbs during pregnancy.
Child refuses the mother's breast, the milk tastes saltish.
Milk; acid; watery, thin, neutral.
Mammæ sore to the touch.
Pains and burning in the mammæ.
Nipple aching, sore.
Larynx
Hoarseness and cough, day and night.
Must hawk or hem to clear the voice.
Burning at back of tongue, followed by burning larynx.
Breathing
Involuntary sighing.
Breathing more frequent, short and difficult.
Child gets a suffocative attack when lifted up from cradle.
Cough
Tubercular cough, with soreness and dryness in the throat.
Cough: with yellow expectoration, more in the morning; with fever, dryness and thirst; from 6 A.M. to 6 P.M.; during difficult dentition; cavities containing pus.
With the cough, stitches in the chest, heat on lower part of chest and upper arm.
Lungs
Aching in the chest, with soreness to touch.
Sharp pain about sixth rib, right side; later on the left about fourth and fifth ribs, coming and going; takes the breath; worse with deep breath, during the day.
Contraction of chest and difficult breathing, evening till 10 P.M.; better lying down, worse when getting up.
Heart and Pulse
Palpitation with anxiety, followed by trembling weakness, particularly of the calves.
Feels the beating of the pulse not frequent but quick; while sitting, feels it in the nape of neck of left chest.
Outer Chest
Tearing, pressing and shooting in sternum.
Sore pain on the sternum.
Clavicle sore; first left, then right.
Ulcer over the sternum or clavicle.
Neck and Back
Rheumatic pain and stiffness of the neck, with dulness of the head; from slight draught of air.
Cramp-like pain in neck, first one then the other side.
Pains and aches between, and mostly below, the scapulæ.
Violent pain in the region of the kidneys when lifting weight, or when blowing the nose.
Backache and uterine pains.
Curvature of spine to left, lumbar vertebræ bend forwards.
Violent stitch at a small spot between left ilium and sacrum, from the slightest motion.
Soreness in the sacro-iliac symphysis.
Upper Limbs
Hard, bluish lumps, under the arms; oozing and scabbing; after checked itch.
Shooting from clavicle to wrist; work from change of weather.
Rheumatic pain in upper arm near the shoulder-joint; cannot lift the arm.
Lameness of the arms; formication.
Shootings through the elbows, usually first left, then right.
Aching in the bones of the arm particularly of thumb.
Pains, as if ulcerated around the nails.
Lower limbs
Nates: feel "asleep"; stinging on small spots; itching; burning; sore spots; oozing scurfs.
Sore pain in the thighs, with aching in the sacral bones.
Pains above the knee.
Knees pain, as if sprained; sore when walking.
Lower limbs "asleep", feel restless anxious; has to move them.
Pain in the bones, particularly the tibia.
Cramp pain in calves, rending, shooting, warm feeling.
Rending, tearing and shooting in the ankle-joint.
Ulcers on malleolus dexters; edges callous; ichor putrid.
Fistulous ulcer on the ankle.
Limbs in General
Feeling of lameness of the flexors, sudden aching of the extensors.
Extensors more affected than flexors.
Aching in limbs, with weariness.
Pains in all joints; most left side; later and less the right.
Pains flying about in all parts of rump and limbs, after getting wet in the rain.
Rheumatism during the cold season, better in the warm.
Rheumatism after every cold.
Position, etc
Painful symptoms brought on by moderate motions of single limbs, easier after lying down.
Pains after great exertions, worse when lying down.
Rest: 17. Motion: 2, 16. Exertion: 2. Lifting: 31. Walking: 2, 33. Ascending: 36. Rising: 2, 28. Sitting: 29. Wants to sit: 36. Lying: 28; on left side: 20; worse lying on back, better lying on side: 36.
Nerves
Weakness with other symptoms.
Languor: with diarrhœa; with leucorrhœa; with catarrh; during pregnancy.
Weariness when going up stairs; wants to sit down.
Children do not learn to walk, or lose the ability.
Trembling of the arms and hands.
Convulsive starts, when the child lies on its back, cease when lying on the side.
Sleep
Stretching; yawning.
Drowsiness all day.
Disturbed sleep, worse before midnight.
Dreams: vivid, of late events or last readings; of travelling.
Time
Morning: 11, 27. Forenoon: 7. Afternoon: 7, 14. Evening: 13, 15, 20, 28, 40. Night: 40. Before midnight: 37. Daytime: 27, 28, 37. Day and night: 23, 25.
Temperature and Weather
Warm air: 7. Open air: 2, 7, 39, 40. Draught: 31. Teeth sensitive to air: 10. Cold room: 7. Cold washing: 2. Worse cold season, better warm: 35. Change of weather: 3. Windy weather: 2. Getting wet in rain: 35.
Chill, Fever and Sweat
Shaking chill, out-doors.
Cold in lower part of body; face hot.
Heat runs from the head down to the toes.
Dry heat in evening; hot breath, noticeable beating of heart; mouth and tongue dry without thirst, yawning, stretching.
Copious night-sweats; on single parts, towards and in the morning.
Sides
Right, upper; left, lower; pain in bones.
Right side: 3, 6, 12, 18, 20, 28. Left side: 18, 29, 31, 35. Right to left: 8, 23, 28. Left to right: 19, 23, 30, 32, 35. Above downwards: 3, 40. Along sutures: 4.
Sensations
Mostly on small spots.
Tissues
Pains along the sutures or at symphyses.
Nonunion of fractured bones.
Curvature of spine to left, lumber vertebræ bend forward.
Condyles swollen on forearms and lower limbs.
Abscess near the lumbar vertebræ.
Spine bifida.
Large pedunculated nasal polypi.
Incipient mesenteric tabes, with much diarrhœa, fetid, sometimes lienteric.
Rachitis, fontanelles wide open; diarrhœa, emaciation.
Rheumatic pains in all the joints.
Soreness of tendons when flexing or extending.
Flabby, shrunken, emaciated children.
Contact, Injuries, etc
Sensitive to slight touch.
Pressure aggravates head, chest, belly and limb symptoms.
The place of old injury becomes the seat of affections.
Every step is felt in the head, or in the sacrum.
Lifting child from cradle: 26. Riding in a carriage: 33.
Skin
Dry skin; moist on hands.
Skin dark brown, or yellow.
Itching and burning as from nettles.
Scaling herpes on the lower leg.
Furuncles; ulcers.
Scars from an amputation ulcerate.
Stages and States
During dentition: 20.
Children lose flesh; will not stand any more; do not learn to walk.
Girls at or near puberty: 3, 20.
Old people, vertigo; constipation.
Relationship
Complementary to Calc. phosph.: Ruta, Sulphur follows well.
Compare with Calc. ostr., Silic., Fluor. ac., Berber.; also with Calc. hypophos., which is useful in consumption, with hectic, cavities in lungs, etc., and in severe corneal, crescentic ulcers, when low health prevents healing.
Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics
Timothy Field Allen · Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics · 1889
General
Precipitated phosphate of lime, obtained by dropping dilute phosphoric acid into lime water, is triturated for use.
General Action
A tissue remedy.
Compare Calcarea carb., Phosphorus, etc.
Generalities
Convulsive starts when the child lies on his back. ▶ Stretching. ▶ Trembling and weakness. ▶ Rachitis, fontanelles open, diarrhœa, emaciation. ▶ Phosphatic diathesis. ▶ Sharp pains in tendons. ▶ Pains in various parts, often shooting along muscles into joints; pains in bones, especially in shin-bones; in bones or joints, in bed; in joints, then in bones; caused by every cold, in joins and where bones form sutures or symphyses. ▶ Rheumatism in cold weather; rheumatic pains in shoulders, chest and other parts after getting wet in rain.
Sensitiveness to touch; of places hurt by a shock. ▶ Soreness of tendons when stretching and bending. ▶ Trembling feeling, then toothache and uterine pain. ▶ Restlessness, spasmodic motion of limbs, agg. lying on back, amel. lying on side. ▶ Discomfort. ▶ Ailments from grief, disappointed love. ▶ Weakness; on ascending stairs; with flushes of heat in head. ▶ Stiffness in morning in bed.
▶ Sensations mostly in small spots. ▶ Small of back, knees and thumbs especially affected. ▶ Right to left sutures of frontal and lateral bones, earache, ears stopped, cold feeling, jugular bones ache, upper jaw pains, toothache, pain in abdomen, aching in groins, above os pubis, mammæ, neck, chest, back, armpits, arms, elbows, forearms, hands fingers, buttocks, thighs, above knees, shin-bones, calves, heels, big toes, toes.
Last half of day stands to first half like 5: 7; sunny half to the dark like 5: 3. ▶ Aggravation in morning; evening; after taking light cold, rheumatic pains and displaced uterus; in changeable weather, especially when snow melts, with east winds; when thinking about the symptoms; of some symptoms when sitting or lying; of head, chest, abdomen, limbs on pressure; pains after great exertions, when lying; during motion of single limbs. ▶ Amelioration by lying; on abdomen during restless night.
Clinical
Valuable in diseases of mal-nutrition, especially with predisposition to diseases of the bones. ▶ In children the osseous tissue is badly developed; the child grows slowly, does not learn to walk rapidly, is emaciated, has symptoms of indigestion, colic, vomiting of undigested food, green, mucous stools, fetid flatulence, etc. ▶ General lack of vital heat. ▶ General symptoms of Calcarea, particularly the aggravation from wet the tendency to perspiration, glandular enlargement, etc., but there is less enlargement of the abdomen and perhaps less obstinate disposition, the child is rather stupid. ▶ Generally valuable in promoting the development and healing of bones. ▶ Grauvogl advises that if a woman has scrofulous children, with a tendency to hydrocephalus, she should be given Calc. phos. and Sul. at intervals, when pregnant again.
Mind
Screaming, grasping in agony towards his mother, cold sweat, especially in face whole body cold. ▶ Easily excited. ▶ Beside himself at unpleasant news, with sweat, inclination to indignation and anger. ▶ Fear of bad news. ▶ Feeling as if she had been frightened. ▶ Anxiety; in children; with palpitation. ▶ Ill humor; in children. ▶ Likes to be alone. ▶ Restlessness. ▶ Depression as if lame, after vexation, cannot work, can hardly walk, looseness of bowels. ▶ Indisposition to work, also to mental work. ▶ Obtuse. ▶ Stupid indifference, cretinism. ▶ Writes wrong words or the same word twice. ▶ Memory lost.
A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy
Timothy Field Allen · A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy · 1892
Generalities
General tendency to emaciation.
Anæmia.
Rheumatic pains in various parts and joints, mostly in small spots.
Aggravation in morning; evening; after taking cold; rheumatic pains and displaced uterus; in changeable weather, especially when snow melts, with east winds; when thinking about the symptoms; of some symptoms when sitting or lying; of head, chest, abdomen, limbs on pressure; pains after great exertions, when lying; during motion of single limbs.
Amelioration by lying; on abdomen during restless night.
Clinical:
Valuable in diseases of malnutrition, especially with predisposition to diseases of the bones.
In children the osseous tissue is badly developed; the child grows slowly, does not learn to walk rapidly, is emaciated, has symptoms of indigestion, colic, vomiting of undigested food, green, mucous stools, fetid flatulence, etc.
General lack of vital heat.
General symptoms of Calcarea, particularly the aggravation from wet, the tendency to perspiration, glandular enlargement, etc., but there is less enlargement of the abdomen and perhaps less obstinate disposition; the child is rather stupid.
Generally valuable in promoting the development and healing of bones.
Mind
Ill humor.
Forgetfulness.
Head
Sensations mostly on the vertex.
Pain.
At times a feeling as though ice were on the head, though the head may be hot.
Clinical:
Valuable for the headaches of school children, especially of girls who are maturing and who are anæmic.
Headaches on the top of the head particularly.
Chronic hydrocephalus; pain in head, extending down spine; weakness, vomiting; very large head, separated bones.
In chronic irritation of the brain resembling hydrocephalus, following exhausting diseases, like cholera infantum.
Bald spots on the head.
Eyes
Sensitiveness, especially when thinking about the eyes, with a feeling as though something were in them.
Photophobia, especially to candle-light.
Nose
Nose swollen, with sore nostrils or ulcers.
Point of the nose cold.
Bleeding of the nose afternoons.
Face
Pains, especially in the upper jaw, and in the zygoma.
Upper lip swollen, painful, hard, burning.
Mouth
Teeth sensitive to cold air.
Tip of the tongue sore, burning; little blisters.
Bitter taste in the morning, with a headache.
(Slow dentition, with emaciation.)
Throat
Sore aching in the throat, < swallowing.
Pain and burning.
Sensation of weakness in the throat.
Stomach
Unusual appetite.
Burning in the stomach and eructations of water.
Burning after belching.
A feeling of distention.
A sinking sensation.
Clinical:
Dyspepsia after eating; thirst, pain, ameliorated for a short time by raising wind; when fasting the pain goes to the spine.
Feeling as if one ought to raise gas and could not.
Dyspepsia, with indescribable distress in region of stomach, only temporarily aggravated by eating.
Abdomen
Cutting, pinching pains precede the diarrhœa.
Pain always on attempting to eat.
Soreness and pain around the umbilicus.
Flatulent colic.
Rectum and Stool
A feeling of soreness about the anus, with burning, throbbing, stinging.
Itching in anus, especially in the evening.
Diarrhœa, especially after fruit, or during teething, with much flatulence.
Diarrhœa after emotional excitement, very offensive, undigested.
Urinary organs
Copious urine, with weakness.
Sexual organs, Female
Weakness in the region of the uterus, < during stool and micturition, with distress and uterine displacement.
Menstruation too early, bright, or too late and dark; or first bright, then dark and at last fetid.
Leucorrhœa like the white of an egg, worse in the morning.
Increased sexual desire before the menses, followed by free menstruation.
Clinical:
It has been used for nymphomania, with heat and weight on vertex, melancholia, flushed face, etc., the symptoms always worse before menses.
Uterine spasms, sometimes after stool or micturition, ameliorated by change of weather.
Menstruation too early, with faint feeling in stomach, etc.
Dysmenorrhœa.
Leucorrhœa.
After prolonged nursing, cough, weakness of voice, pain beneath shoulders, etc.
Respiratory organs
Hoarseness.
Frequent, short and difficult breathing.
Sighing respiration.
Dry, short cough, with soreness and dryness in the throat and hoarseness.
Suffocating attacks in children after nursing, < after crying, etc.
Chest
Contraction in the chest until 10 P. M.; better when lying down, worse getting up, with difficult breathing.
Sharp pain through the sternum.
Neck and Back
Rheumatic pain in the neck from a draft of air, with stiffness and dullness of the head.
Cramp-like pain one side, then the other, of the neck.
Muscles hurt up into the occiput, first right, then left.
Pain in the lumbar region when lifting, or on blowing the nose.
Backache; cutting, jerking, shooting, throbbing.
A feeling of soreness in the sacro-iliac union, as if the bones were separated.
Extremities
Pains, with soreness, flying about in all parts after getting wet.
Ulcerative pains in the root of the right finger nails, especially in the middle finger.
The lower extremities seem asleep, which extends to the abdomen and sacrum; cannot rise, with anxious feeling.
Cramp in the calves when walking.
Weak, restless feelings in the legs.
Sleep
Irresistible drowsiness all the forenoon, with yawning.
Inability to get awake in the morning.
Fever
Creeping and shivering.
Chill on going into the cold air.
Sweat on various parts at night, waking out of sleep.
The Mnemonic Similiad
Stacy Jones · The Mnemonic Similiad · 1904
Mnemonic names
Cal. p. / Caliph.
Verse
Calcarea phos., -Is cited for decline,
For ulcers, caries, rickets, curving spine,
For Hip Disease, for joint rheumatic pain,
Consumption, scrofula, anaemic bane,
For open fontanels, for bones that fit
In fracture well, yet do not knit.
For tardy teething, abdomen caved in,
For school-girl headaches, pimples on the skin.
Desire for salted meat- For ills that get
Increase by being cold, or getting wet.
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Mnemonic sentences
The Caliph,- Has the Rickets.
The Caliph, Asa, Claims the Thebian Ewes.
This Caliph, - Who is subject to Ulceration,- Is in the car with Aurmur Hyde, at a hot game of Euchre, with lisping, sour, Arab Kid Kalbi.
Indications
Rickets-Softening and Curving of Bone: Cal. p., Asa., Cal. c., Lyc., Mer., Sul., Theri., Alu., Sil.
Ulcerations: Cal. p., Carb. v., Aur. mur., Hyd., Hep., Thuj., Graph., Mer., Euca., Lach., Sil., Pho., Mur. a., Nit. a., Ars., Kal. i., Kali. bi. (Fistulous, Cal. f., Flu. a., Pho., Sil., Berb.)
Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica
C. M. Boger · Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica · 1905
Mind
Loss of memory. Stupid, slow comprehension. Confusion, with flatulency, washing in cold water. Violent screaming. Peevish, fretful, goes from place to places, likes to be alone.
Vertigo
Accompanies many symptoms, with running from nose and aching in bones, worse in windy weather.
Head
Vertex: Burning heat in, running down to toes, crawling over, as if ice were on upper occiput, with hot head and smarting of roots of hair. Pain along sutures. Both fontanelles open. Throbbing headache and diarrhoea during menses. Worse: Motion, stepping and exertion. Better: After eating, sneezing or applying cold water.
Eyes
- Protruding, squinting, balls feel sore or distended. Hot feeling of lids, with sweat on, and on brows. Worse: Artificial light, or when other talk about it.
Ears
Excoriating discharges. Pain in, with or alternating with rheumatism in other parts. Worse: Touch.
Nose
Feeling of a foreign body in. Bleeding in a afternoon. Coryza.
Face
Pain in upper jaw born.
Mouth
Teeth: Contracted feeling as if a draft of wind came from roots. Fresh air, warm or cold things. Tip of tongue sore burning, with little blisters on. Salivation: With coryza, with sense of dryness, copious acid saliva.
Taste: Bitter at start of menses, disgusting, worse when hawking.
Throat
Much hawking. Enlarged tonsils. Weakness and emptiness in fauces and throat.
Stomach
Easy vomiting. In children, when hawking. Expanded feeling in. Burning and waterbrash. Infantile indigestion. Emptiness and sinking in, and in abdomen. Flabby. Loud eructations which alleviate the pains. Pains are better after food.
Abdomen
Soreness and festering at navel. formication over, Asleep sensation in lower, in sacrum, and in lower limbs, numbness and quivering in walls. Weakness in lower. Worse: After eating, cold drinks, while passing stool or urine. Better: Eructations, after passing flatus, stool and urine, lying.
Anus and Rectum
Fistula. Throbbing in Hemorrhoids, oozing a yellow fluid.
Stool
Watery, burning, offensive, flatulent, with while points like flakes of pus. Cholera infantum with acute hydrocephalus. Worse: From juicy fruit, cider, during dentition, after vexation.
Urine
Copious, with weakness.
Sexual organs
Throbbing, with increased desire. Upward pressure over cons. Burning from vagina up into chest. Aching in uterus, in vagina, after nosebleed. leucorrhoea, Albuminous, bellyache. Profuse, dark menses. Labor - like pains, going into thighs, with involuntary stool and passing of blood when nursing child. Worse: Taking cold: while passing stool or urine.
Respiratory Organs
Suffocation, lying down, raising up. Involuntary sighing.
Chest
Milk, acid, Constriction, lying, getting up.
Back
Neck: Rheumatic pain, with stiffness, after being in a draft. Cramp - like pain in one side. Aching sore pain in region of parotid gland.
Back: Ache, with uterine pains. Scapular pains. Feeling as if sacro - symphysis were separated. Worse, Lifting.
Upper Extremities
Numbness of left arm in afternoon. Paralysis loss of power in affected part. Ulcerative pain in roots of nails.
Lower Extremities
Caries of hip - joint with stinking pus. Inability to walk after vexation, child no longer walks, infant is unable to stand. Cramp in calves when walking.
Generalities
Emaciation. Cretinism. Acid saliva, milk, heartburn, etc. Shifting pains. Sensations in small of soreness predominate. Sensations in small spots. Many symptoms go from right to left. Bilateral pains, on both sides of throat, bladder, uterus, and chest, all going upward, upward pressure in many parts. Conditions marked by numerous concomitants or alternating symptoms.
Worse: During dentition. Thinking of his complaints. Weather changes, cold, wet, damp weather. Sensitive to dampness. East winds. When snow melts. When menses are increased. Better: Rest.
Bones
Pains in, especially in shin - bones, along sutures and symphysis. Slow or absent ossification of fractures, fontanelles, etc. Caries. Exostoses. Rachitis. Deficient formation of.
Skin
Dark - brown, yellowish. Red, with prickling like nettles after a bath.
Sleep
Day sleepiness.
Fever
Chill: With uterine pains or motions of scrotum. Coldness behind eyes, of prominent parts, ears, nose, etc., with hot face. Heat, Running downward, without thirst. On mammae. With many complaints. Sweat: On single parts. On palms. Cold.
Relationship
Allied Remedies: Calc-c., Calc-f., Phos., Sil.
Complementary: China.