Calcarea Phosphorica

▲   GENERAL

General

One of the most important tissue remedies, and while it has many symptoms in common with Calc Carb ^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 anaemias after acute diseases and chronic wasting diseases. Anaemic 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.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, exposure to damp, cold weather, melting snow.

Better

Better in summer; warm, dry atmosphere.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Calcar. Hypophosporosa (is to be preferred when it seems necessary to furnish the organism with liberal doses of Phosphorus ^Phosphorus in consequence of continued abscesses having reduced the vitality Give first and second decimal trit. Loss of appetite, rapid debility, night sweats; Acne pustulosa. - Pallor of skin, habitually Cold extremities. Phthisis - diarrhoea 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 Cheiri ^Cheiranthus (effects of cutting wisdom teeth). Calcarea renalis - Lapis Albus ^Lapis renalis - (arthritic nodosities. Riggs disease; lessens tendency to accumulation of tartar on teeth; gravel and renal calculi). Conchiolin. - Mater perlarum. - Mother of pearl (Osteitis. - Has a wide range of action in bone affections, especially when the growing ends are affected. Petechiae). Silicea ^Silica; Psorinum ^Psorin.; Sulphur ^Sulph.

Complementary

Complementary: Ruta Graveolens ^Ruta.; Hep Sulph Calc ^Hepar.

▲   MIND

Mind

Peevish, forgetful; after grief and vexation ( gnat.; Phosphorus ^Phos)

Ac) Always wants to go somewhere.

Aversions, dislikes; open air

Desires, wants; travel

Mental exertion

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; unhappy; discontent, displeased, dissatisfied, etc.

Intellectual faculties

impaired thinking; dull, sluggish

impaired thinking; dull, sluggish; children

Insecure, uncertain, scared

anxiety

fear

Restlessness, nervousness

Sighing (see respiration)

▲   HEAD

Head

Fontanelles remain open too long

Cranial bones soft and thin

Defective hearing

Coldness

back of head (occiput)

top of head (vertex)

Skull; fontanels apart (separate bones of skull)

Headache

Headache, Worse near the region of sutures, from change of weather, of school children about puberty

Headache, with abdominal flatulence

Pain, headache

from exertion; mental exertion

school girls

sides; extending to other parts; waist; pain follows sutures

Scalp

Head hot, with smarting of roots of hair.

▲   EYES

Eyes

Diffused opacity in cornea following abscess.

Pain; as from something in eye

▲   EARS

Ear

Discharges from ear

▲   FACE

Face

Skin

discoloration; iron deficiency anaemia (greenish-yellow discoloration)

discoloration; pale

discoloration; yellow

▲   NOSE

Nose

Nose bleed

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Swollen tonsils; cannot open mouth without pain

Adenoid growths.

Gums and teeth

Complaints during teething; teeth develop slowly; rapid decay of teeth

Teeth

teething; difficult

teething; slow

Tongue

Pain; burning, raw and smarting; tongue; tip

▲   THROAT

Throat

Catarrh; larynx

Voice; hoarseness; morning

▲   CHEST

Chest

Lungs

tuberculosis

tuberculosis; early stages

Pain

Respiration

Involuntary sighing

Chest sore

Suffocative cough; better lying down

Hoarseness

Pain through lower left lung.

Neck and Back.

Rheumatic pain from draft of air, with stiffness and dullness of head

Soreness in sacroiliac symphysis, as if broken ( Aesculus ^Aesc)

hip.)

Sighing

▲   EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

Yellow

▲   SKIN

Skin

Coldness

▲   BACK AND NECK

Neck

Pain; neck; from a draft of air

Stiffness; neck; from draft of air

Back

Pain

in cold weather; change to cold weather

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Craving for bacon, ham, salted or smoked meats

Heartburn

At every attempt to eat, colicky pain in abdomen

Sunken and flabby

Colic, soreness and burning around navel.

Pain

in women; before period

in women; during period

Stomach

appetite; ravenous, excessive

pain; after eating

Eating

dinner

Flatus

much flatulence

Great hunger with thirst, flatulence temporarily relieved by sour eructations

Vomiting

Stomach; Infant wants to nurse all the time and vomits easily

Easy vomiting in children.

Pain; with vomiting, blood and mucus in stool (intussusception); pain in region of liver

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Haemorrhoids; protrude during stool

Skin and lining; fistula (additional hole)

Stool

Bleeding after hard stool

Diarrhoea from juicy fruits or cider; during dentition

Green, slimy, HOT, sputtering, undigested, With fetid flatus

Fistula in ano, alternating with chest symptoms.

Green

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Increased, with sensation of weakness

Pain in region of kidneys when lifting or blowing the nose.

Urethra

Urethra (urinary part of genitals); discharge; gonorrhoea; chronic

discharge

white; chronic; in anaemic subjects

pain; cutting

Female

Female; vaginal discharge; after period

Womb

Nymphomania, with aching, pressing, or weakness in uterine region ( Platinum Metallicum ^Plat.) After prolonged nursing

Female

displacement of womb

pain; cutting; womb; extending to sacrum

polyp (growth inside); womb

Genitals

If late, blood is dark; sometimes, first bright, then dark, with Violent backache

During lactation, with sexual excitement

Leucorrhoea, like White of egg

Worse morning

Child refuses breast; milk tastes salty

Prolapsus in debilitated persons.

Male; sexual passion; increased

Female

sexual intercourse; desire increased

Menses

Menses too early, excessive and bright in girls

period; clotted

period; dark

period; painful; and difficult (dysmenorrhea)

pain; womb (see abdomen, pain); before period

pain; cramping; womb; before period

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

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.

Coldness; upper limbs; hands

Cramps; calf; on walking

Diseased hip-joint (see pain in hip)

Movements and positions; trembling; hand

Pain

rheumatic; in cold weather

joints

after exposure to cold

in cold weather

gouty

rheumatic

upper limbs; cold weather

upper limbs; rheumatic

sore, bruised; thigh; cold damp weather

stitching, sudden, sharp; buttocks

small spots

Swollen; elbow; ends of bones

Problems with walking, gait; late learning to walk

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Deep; morning

Sleepiness, tiredness

morning

difficult to wake up; morning

Sleeplessness, insomnia; night; from before midnight

Waking

difficult to wake up; morning

late

Generalities

Morning

Night

Aversion to open air

Draft

Anaemia

as from iron deficiency - greenish yellow skin

Bones; slow repair of broken bones

Dehydration

Dwarfism

Eating and food; after eating

Emaciated (extremely thin); children (marasmus)

Jerking; muscles

Lean people

In women

symptoms before period

symptoms at beginning of period

Polyp (growth on mucus lining)

Temperature (felt and effects of temperature); cold feeling; lack of vital heat

cold in general

cold air

after becoming cold

tendency to catch cold

cold, wet weather

Weariness (see weakness)

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