Calcarea phosphorica

Calcarea Phos Homoeopathic remedy

1. Calcarea Phosphorica Phosphate Of Lime, Calcium phos , Calc-phos , Calc Phos , Schuessler Tissue Salt, Cell Salts, Tissue Salts, Biochemic Tissue / Cell Salt Number # 2 / Two, Calcium Phosphate, Calcarea Phos , Cal Phos Calc -p.

2. GENERAL One of the most important tissue remedies, and while it has many symptoms in common with  Calc Carb   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. Scrofulosis , chlorosis and phthisis .

3. Description : This is a white amorphous powder, which is odourless and tasteless. It is stable in air. It is almost insoluble in water and is decomposed slightly by boiling water. It is insoluble in alcohol, but is easily soluble in dilute HCl or HNO3. It is commonly obtained by purifying bone ash.

4. Preparation : Trituration of precipitated phosphate of lime are prepared with sugar of milk as directed in our pharmacopoeia

5. Constitution and Physiognomy It is best suited to people having a dark complexion ,eyes, hair and pale face. Persons are thin, sunken, have a flabby abdomen, soft bones, an enlarged head and a weak and emaciated neck

6. Region NUTRITION BONES (SUTURES) PERIOSTEUM Cartilage GLANDS Nerves ABDOMEN Vertex Chest Skin Female genital organs

7. Physio-pathological changes: Its act upon the vegetative system, exciting moderately the functions of secretion and absorption, resulting in condition of impaired nutrition of all organs. It acts on glands causing induration and swellings. It has a special affinity for the mucous membrane, the fibrous system and the nervous and lymphatics systems of the abdomen. It acts on deep muscles producing abscesses. Calcarea phosphorica helps in the formation of bones and teeth. Its deficiency causes rickets in children; osteoporosis and osteomalacia in old age, paraesthesia, convulsions, opacity of lens, calcification of basal ganglia, tropical ulceration and fungal infection of skin, bleeding disorders and curdling of milk, and tetanic seizures. Its acts on bones producing swelling, softening and bending of bones. It is a definite stimulant to the periosteum.

8. MODALITIES Worse WORSE, exposure to damp, cold weather, melting snow, changeable weather, melting snow, mental exertion, thinking about complains, pressure of hat. Better Better in summer; warm, dry atmosphere, lying, after supper ,passing wind. ALIMENTS FROM Getting wet, grief, over study, over study, disappointed love, bad news, fear, dentition.

9.    MIND Peevish , forgetful; after grief and vexation ( gnat.;  Phosphorus   Phos ) Ac) Always wants to go somewhere. Aversions, dislikes; open air Desires, wants; travel Mental exertion Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; unhappy; discontent, displeased, dissatisfied, etc . Intellectual faculties Feel complaints more when thinking about them. impaired thinking; dull, sluggish; children Insecure , uncertain, scared anxiety fear Restlessness, nervousness

10. Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms Discharges: Thin, watery , albuminous like the white of an egg. Tongus : Swollen , numb , cracked with blisters at the tip. Taste: Sweetish or bitter taste in the morning. Coldness: General coldness of the body; lack of animal heat; cold limbs with disordered digestion; cold occiput, chill runs up the back, tendency to perspiration. Weakness: Great weakness and prostration, both mentally and physically. Weakness runs all through the remedy. Sensitiveness: Great sensitiveness to take cold and coryza ; cannot tolerate cold in any form. Coryza is psoric in origin and chronic in nature. Cravings: Great desire for salted and smoked meats, bacon,etc Perspiration : Profuse sweating from head during sleep,mostly at the back of the head and neck or chest. General coldness of the body, lack of animal heat.

11. Malassimilation: Malnutrition and malassimilation causes emaciation, pit of stomach swollen; sunken, flabby abdomen; neck slender; child looks old and wrinkled. Skin is dry and cold. Defective bone development: Imperfect ossification, defective formation of bones, swelling and softening of bones. Difficulty in learning to walk or stand, difficult dentition, fontanelles remain open for a long time. Congestion: Congestion of head; sometime head is hot; external coldness and internal heat. Glandular affections: Inflammation and induration of glands – parotid, facial, cervical, inguinal, maxillary, etc. Ulceration: Ulcers with induration. Cancerous ulcers which burn and sting. Every injury tends to ulceration.

12. Stiffness and cramps: Stiffness all over the body ; stiffness in joints. Cramps and contraction of limbs. Dentition: Difficult and delayed dentition with characteristic head sweat and open fontanelles. Cough: Cough during dentition , contraction of chest and difficulty in breathing; suffocative cough better by lying down. Hunger: Unusual hunger at 4 pm. Leucorrhoea: Leucorrhoea like the white of an egg. Worse in morning. Fistula, fissure: Fistula, alternating with chest symptoms; occur in those who have pain in joints with every spell of cold. Numbness: crawling and numbness in parts affected with rheumatism. Crawling in genitals.

13. Sexual organs : Erection while riding in a carriage without desire. Shooting through the periosteum into the penis. Menses: Menses too early, excessive and bright in girls; sometimes dark, with violent backache. Nymphomania. Dyspepsia : Dyspepsia where pain in relieved by passing wind and temporarily relieved by eating. Anemia : Marasmus is a disorder occurring very early in the life. The child eats well and the food stuff is nourishing, yet the child gradually looses weight. They are children coming out of sycotic parents . Scrofula or rachitis : Weak; bloodless; sunken abdomen; slow dentition and learning to sit, stand and walk. The development of mental faculties are all late

14. HEAD Fontanelles remain open too long Cranial bones soft and thin Defective hearing Coldness back of head (occiput ) top of head (vertex) Skull; fontanels apart (separate bones of skull)

15. Headache Headache,  Worse near the region of sutures, from change of weather,  of school children about puberty Headache, with abdominal flatulence Pain, headache from exertion; mental exertion school girls sides; extending to other parts; waist; pain follows sutures

16. Eyes Diffused opacity in cornea following abscess. Pain; as from something in eye Ear Discharges from ear Face Skin discoloration; iron deficiency anemia (greenish-yellow discoloration) discoloration; pale discoloration; yellow Nose nose bleed

17. Mouth Swollen tonsils; cannot open mouth without pain Adenoid growths. Gums and teeth Complaints during teething; teeth develop slowly; rapid decay of teeth Teeth teething; difficult teething; slow Tongue Pain; burning, raw and smarting; tongue; tip

18. Throat Catarrh; larynx Voice; hoarseness; morning Chest Lungs tuberculosis tuberculosis; early stages Pain

19. Respiration Involuntary sighing Chest sore Suffocative cough; better lying down Hoarseness Pain through lower left lung. Neck and Back. Rheumatic pain from draft of air, with stiffness and dullness of head Soreness in sacroiliac symphysis, as if broken (  Aesculus   Aesc ) hip.) Sighing

20. Expectoration Yellow Skin Coldness Neck Pain; neck; from a draft of air Stiffness; neck; from draft of air Back Pain in cold weather; change to cold weather

21. Abdomen Craving for bacon, ham, salted or smoked meats Heartburn At every attempt to eat, colicky pain in abdomen Sunken and flabby Colic, soreness and burning around navel. Pain in women; before period in women; during period Stomach appetite; ravenous, excessive pain; after eating

22. Eating Pain after dinner Flatus much flatulence Great hunger with thirst, flatulence temporarily relieved by sour  eructations Vomiting Stomach; Infant wants to nurse all the time and vomits easily Easy vomiting in children. Pain; with vomiting, blood and mucus in stool (intussusception ); pain in region of liver

23. Rectum Haemorrhoids; protrude during stool Skin and lining; fistula (additional hole) Stool Bleeding after hard stool Diarrhoea from juicy fruits or cider; during dentition Green, slimy, HOT, sputtering, undigested,  With fetid flatus Fistula in ano , alternating with chest symptoms. Green

24. Urine Increased, with sensation of weakness Pain in region of kidneys when lifting or blowing the nose. Urethra Urethra (urinary part of genitals) discharge; gonorrhoea ; chronic discharge; white; chronic; in anaemic subjects pain; cutting

25. Female Female; vaginal discharge; after period Womb Nymphomania, with aching, pressing, or weakness in uterine region (  Platinum Metallicum  Plat .) After prolonged nursing Female displacement of womb pain; cutting; womb; extending to sacrum polyp (growth inside); womb

26. Genitals If late, blood is dark; sometimes, first bright, then dark, with  Violent backache During lactation, with sexual excitement Leucorrhoea , like  White of egg Worse morning Child refuses breast; milk tastes salty Prolapses in debilitated persons. Male; sexual passion; increased Female sexual intercourse; desire increased

27. Menses Menses too early, excessive and bright in girls period; clotted period; dark period; painful; and difficult (dysmenorrhea) pain; womb (see abdomen, pain); before period pain; cramping; womb; before period

28. Extremities , limbs 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. Coldness; upper limbs; hands Cramps; calf; on walking Diseased hip-joint (see pain in hip) Movements and positions; trembling; hand Pain rheumatic; in cold weather

29. joints after exposure to cold in cold weather gouty rheumatic upper limbs; cold weather upper limbs; rheumatic sore, bruised; thigh; cold damp weather stitching, sudden, sharp; buttocks small spots Swollen; elbow; ends of bones Problems with walking, gait; late learning to walk

30. Sleep and dreams Deep; morning Sleepiness, tiredness morning difficult to wake up; morning Sleeplessness, insomnia; night; from before midnight Waking difficult to wake up; morning late

31. Generalities Morning Night Aversion to open air Draft Anaemia as from iron deficiency - greenish yellow skin Bones; slow repair of broken bones Dehydration Dwarfism Eating and food; after eating Emaciated (extremely thin); children (marasmus ) Jerking; muscles Lean people

32. In women symptoms before period symptoms at beginning of period Polyp (growth on mucus lining) Temperature (felt and effects of temperature) cold feeling; lack of vital heat cold in general cold air after becoming cold tendency to catch cold cold, wet weather Weariness

33. Baby Baby is self-willed, obstinate, and cries persistently. Baby is fair, has a red face and is flabby. The abdomen is swollen and sunken. The head is large and the bones are weak and soft. They develop slowly hence they are late in learning to walk. The fontanelles and sutures remain open for a long time. Dentition is difficult and delayed. Mentally, the baby is very peevish and fretful; wants to go home and when at home wants to go out. Big head, neck is weak, weak spine and disposed to curvature. The baby suffers from diarrhoea which is very watery ,greenish , slimy, foetid and hot, containing undigested food particles. There is intense craving for salted and smoked meat.