Calcarea Phosphorica

Mind

(Calcarea phosphorica)

Children are peevish and fretful. ( Cham ., Cina.)

Forgetful ; difficulty in performing intellectual operations.

Head

(Calcarea phosphorica)

Crawling sensation runs over top of head, as if ice were lying on upper part of occiput (Verat. alb.) ; head hot ; smarting of the roots of the hair.

Delayed closure, or reopening, of fontanelles. (Calc. c.)

Skull soft and thin ; crackling noise like paper when pressed, mostly in occiput.

Eyes

(Calcarea phosphorica)

Light, particularly candle or gaslight, hurts the eyes.

Ears

(Calcarea phosphorica)

Singing or other noises in the ear. (Calc. c.)

Inner and outer ear swollen, red, sore, itching, hot.

Excoriating discharge from ears.

Nose

(Calcarea phosphorica)

Coryza ; fluent in a cool room ( Puls .) ; stopped in warm air and out of doors.

Bleeding of nose afternoons.

Nasal polypi, large, pedunculated.

Face

(Calcarea phosphorica)

Pain in face, particularly in upper jaw bone, from right to left ; extends from other parts to face, or vice versa .

Swollen upper lip ( Bell ., Calc. c., Psor .) ; painful, hard, and burning.

Mouth

(Calcarea phosphorica)

Retarded dentition (Calc. c.), with cold tumors and emaciation.

Tip of tongue sore, burning (Calc. c., Carb. an., Coloc., Kali carb.) ; little blisters on it.

Bitter taste in the morning, with headache. ( Bry., Nux v ., Carb. an., Puls., Sulph .)

Throat

(Calcarea phosphorica)

Sore aching in the throat ; worse when swallowing.

Stomach

(Calcarea phosphorica)

Unusual hunger at 4 P. M. ; infant wants to nurse all the time.

With every attempt to eat he has bellyache.

After dinner, heartburn and other gastric symptoms. (Carb. an.)

After belching, a burning in epigastrium.

Empty, sinking sensation at the epigastrium. ( Ign .)

Vomiting from hawking phlegm.

Burning at the stomach, and rising of water into the mouth.

Stomach feels expanded.

Abdomen

(Calcarea phosphorica)

Aching soreness, and pain around the navel ; relieved by passing fetid flatus.

Burning in the abdomen. (Acon., Ars ., Canth.)

Cutting, pinching, sharp colic, followed by diarrhoea.

Stool And Anus

(Calcarea phosphorica)

Very offensive diarrhoea. (Ars.)

Juicy fruit or cider causes diarrhoea.

Passage of offensive flatus.

Sore feeling in anus ; worse outside, with stitching, burning, and throbbing.

Itching in the anus. (Sulph.)

Fistula in ano , alternating with chest symptoms.

Urinary Organs

(Calcarea phosphorica)

Violent pain in region of kidneys, when lifting and when blowing the nose.

Large increase of urine, with sensation of weakness.

Male Organs.- (Calcarea phosphorica)

Erection while riding in a carriage, without desire.

Shooting through the perineum into the penis.

Swelling of the testicles ; scrotum sore, oozing a fluid.

Female Organs.- (Calcarea phosphorica)

Weakness and distress in the region of the uterus ; worse during passage of stool and urine.

Pressure upward over mons veneris.

Voluptuous feeling, as if the parts were filling up with blood ; feels pulse in all the parts, with increased sexual desire.

Menses too early, blood bright, with girls ; too late, blood dark, or first bright, then dark, in women.

Child refuses the breast ; the milk tastes saltish.

Leucorrhoea like white of an egg. (Amm. mur., Borax .)

Mammae sore to the touch. (Bry.)

Respiratory Organs.- (Calcarea phosphorica)

Hoarseness. ( Acon., Hep. s., Phos .)

Must hawk or hem to clear the voice.

Involuntary sighing. ( Ign ., Sec.)

Breathing more frequent, short, and difficult.

Cough during difficult dentition.

Contraction of chest, and difficult breathing, evening till 10 P. M. ; better lying down ; worse when getting up.

Neck and Back.- (Calcarea phosphorica)

Rheumatic pain and stiffness of the neck ( Rhus .) with dullness of the head ; from slight draft of air.

Cramp-like pain in neck, first one side, then the other.

Backache and uterine pains. (Cimic., Puls .)

Soreness in sacro-iliac symphysis, as if separated or broken.

Limbs

(Calcarea phosphorica)

Pains flying about in all parts of rump and limbs, after getting wet in the rain. ( Rhus tox .)

Aching in all the limbs, with weariness.

Upper Limbs.- (Calcarea phosphorica)

Rheumatic pain in shoulder and arm.

Pains as if ulcerated around the finger nails, especially of right hand.

Lower Limbs.- (Calcarea phosphorica)

Lower limbs fall asleep ; feel restless ; anxious ; has to move them.

Legs tired, weak, restless, crawling, tingling.

Pains above the knee.

Cramp-like pain in calves (Acon., Calc. c., Nux v.), when walking.

Generalities

(Calcarea phosphorica)

Weariness when going up stairs ; wants to sit down ; hates to get up.

On every little cold she is much worse.

Sensation mostly on small spots.

Children do not learn to walk, or lose the ability (Sil.) ; lose flesh.

Pains along sutures or at symphyses.

Flabby, shrunken, emaciated children.

Soreness of tendons when flexing or extending.

Sleep

(Calcarea phosphorica)

Gaping, with irresistible drowsiness all day. ( Nux m .)

Cannot get awake in the early morning.

Fever

(Calcarea phosphorica)

Frequent creeping shiverings.

Copious night sweats, on single parts.

Amelioration

Therapeutic Range.- (Calcarea phosphorica)

Similar to that of Calc. c ., though not so extensive ; diseases of bones and glands in strumous, tubercular, and rachitic persons ; non-union of fractures, chronic hydrocephalus, headache of school girls, difficult dentition, rheumatism, dyspepsia, leucorrhoea, phthisis, spina bifida, abscesses, curvature of spine, vertigo of old people, incipient mesenteric tabes.

Conditions

(Calcarea phosphorica)

Girls at or near puberty ; during dentition ; old people.

Compare

(Calcarea phosphorica)

Baryt. c ., Berb., Calc. c., Fluor. ac., Iodi ., Nitr. ac., Phos ., Ruta, Sil ., Sulph.

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