Calcarea Phosphorica

General

CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA. [Calc. phosph.] Hering.

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 diarrhoea. ► 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 alae, 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 diarrhoea.

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 diarrhoea. ► 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. ► Diarrhoea, 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. ► Leucorrhoea 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. ► Mammae sore to the touch. ► Pains and burning in the mammae. ► 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 scapulae. ► 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 vertebrae 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 diarrhoea ; with leucorrhoea ; 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 vertebrae bend forward. ► Condyles swollen on forearms and lower limbs. ► Abscess near the lumbar vertebrae. ► Spine bifida. ► Large pedunculated nasal polypi. ► Incipient mesenteric tabes, with much diarrhoea, fetid, sometimes lienteric. ► Rachitis, fontanelles wide open ; diarrhoea, 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.