Calcarea Phosphorica

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 anaemic.

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 diarrhoea.

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.

Diarrhoea, especially after fruit, or during teething, with much flatulence.

Diarrhoea 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.

Leucorrhoea 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.

Dysmenorrhoea.

Leucorrhoea.

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.