CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA
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CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA
(Phosphate of Lime)
One of the most important tissue remedies, and while it had
many symptoms in common with Calearea carb., there are some
iy 89 -teristic features of its own. It is espe
y dentition and troubles incident to that
period, bone disease, non-union of fractured bones, and the
ias after acute diseases and chronic wasting di
vie children who are peevish, flabby, have cold exhienceneea
digestion. It has a special affinity where bones form su-
physes, and all its symptoms are worse from any
change of weather. Numbness and crawling are characteristie
ns, and tendency to perspiration and glandular enlarge-
nent are symptoms it shares with the carbonate, Scrophulosis,
chlorosis and phthisis.
Mind.—Peevish, forgetful; after grief and vexation. [Ignat.;
Phos. ac.j 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 tain. Defective
hearing. Headache, with abdominal flatulence. Head hot,
with smarting of roots of hair. 3
Eyes.—Diffused opacity in cornea following abscess.
Mouth.—Swollen tonsils; eannot open’
Complaints during teething;
of teeth. Adenoid gro
Stomach,—Infant want
easily. Craving for bacon,
flatulence. Great hunge
relieved by sour eructat
children.
Abdomen.—At every att
Sunken and flabby. Col
Stool.—Bleeding after
fruits or cider; during d
undigested, with fetid
chest symptoms,
Urine.—Increased,
region of kidneys when |
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asCALCAREA PHOSPHORICA is
Female.—Menses too early, excessive, and bright in girls.
If late, blood is dark; sometimes, first bright, then dark, with
yiolent backache. During lactation with sexual excitement.
Nymphomania, with aching, pressing, or weakness in uterine
region. [Plat.] After prolonged nursing. Leucorrhcea, like
white of egg. Worse morning. Child refuses breast; milk tastes
salty. Prolapsus in debilitated persons.
Respiratory.—Involuntary sighing. Chest sore. Suffoca-
cative cough; better lying down. Hoarseness. ‘Pain through
jower left lung.
Neck and Back.—Rheumatie pain from draught of air, with
stiffness and dullness of head. Soreness in sacro-iliae symphy-
sis, as if broken. [A¥sc. hip.]
Extremities.—Stiffness and pain, with cold, numb feeling,
worse any change of weather. Crawling and coldness. But-
tocks, back and limbs asleep. Pains in joints and bones.
Weary when going upstairs.
Relationship—Complementary: Ruta; Hepar.
Compare: Calear. hypophosporosa (is to be preferred when it
seems necessary to furnish the organism with liberal doses of
phosphorus in consequence of continued abscesses having re-
duced the vitality. Give first and second decimal trits. Loss
of appetite, rapid debility, night sweats; Acne pustulosa—
Pallor of skin, habitually cold
and cough; acute pains in
Bleeding from lungs; 3
arteries. Veins stand
cccurring two hou
light food). €
Calearea renalis—Ls
disease; lessens tt
Dose.~-First j
ore effective,