Remedy

Calcarea phosphorica

Phosphate of lime

24 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

One of the most important tissue remedies, and while it has many symptoms in common with 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.

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Mind & mood

Peevish, forgetful; after grief and vexation.
Always wants to go somewhere.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

Exposure to dampCold weatherMelting snow

Better

In summerWarmDry atmosphere

Symptoms by body part

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 thin. Defective hearing. Headache, with abdominal gas. Head hot, with smarting of roots of hair.

Eyes

Diffused opacity in cornea following abscess.

Mouth

Swollen tonsils; cannot open mouth without pain. Complaints during teething; teeth develop slowly; rapid decay of teeth. Adenoid growths.

Stomach

Infant wants to nurse all the time and vomits easily. Craving for bacon, ham, salted or smoked meats. Much gas. Great hunger with thirst gas temporarily relieved by sour belching. Heartburn. Easy vomiting in children.

Abdomen

At every attempt to eat, colicky pain in abdomen. Sunken and flabby. Colic, soreness and burning around navel.

Stool

Bleeding after hard stool. Diarrhoea from juicy fruits or cider; during dentition. Green, slimy, hot, sputtering, undigested, with fetid flatus.

Urine

Increased, with sensation of weakness. Pain in region of kidneys when lifting or blowing the nose.

Female

Menses too early, excessive, and bright in girls. If late, blood is dark; sometimes, first bright, then dark, with violent backache. During lactation with sexual excitement. Nymphomania, with aching, pressing, or weakness in uterine region. After prolonged nursing. White vaginal discharge, like white of egg. Worse morning. Child refuses breast; milk tastes salty. Prolapsus in debilitated persons.

Respiratory

Involuntary sighing. Chest sore. Suffocative cough; better lying down. Hoarseness. Pain through lower left lung.

Neck and back

Rheumatic pain from draught of air, with stiffness and dullness of head. Soreness in sacro-iliac symphysis, as if broken.

Extremities

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.

Often compared with

Sulphur Platinum metallicum

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