Calcarea Phos

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Phosphate of Lime Calcarea Phos

• A Text-Book of Materia Medica.
• (Characteristic, Analytical, and
  Comparative.)
• By Pr. Allen Corson Cowperthwaite,
• M. D., PH. D., LL. D.

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General Analysis.-

• Affects exclusively the vegetative system,
  causing defective nutrition, imperfect cell
  development, and consequent decay or destruction
  of tissue, especially in the osseous and
  glandular systems.

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Characteristic symptoms.

• Mind.- (Calcarea phosphorica)
• Children are peevish and fretful. (Cham., Cina.)
• Forgetful difficulty in performing intellectual
  operations.

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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.

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Eyes.- (Calcarea phosphorica)

• Light, particularly candle or gaslight, hurts the
  eyes.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.)

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Throat.- (Calcarea phosphorica)

• Sore aching in the throat worse when
  swallowing.

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Stomach

• 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.

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Abdomen

• 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.

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Stool and Anus

• 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.

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Urinary Organs

• Violent pain in region of kidneys, when lifting
  and when blowing the nose.
• Large increase of urine, with sensation of
  weakness.

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Male Organs

• Erection while riding in a carriage, without
  desire.
• Shooting through the perineum into the penis.
• Swelling of the testicles scrotum sore, oozing
  a fluid.

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Female Organs

• 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.

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Female Organs

• 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.)

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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.

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Cough during difficult dentition.

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

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Neck and Back

• 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.

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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.

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Upper Limbs.- (Calcarea phosphorica)

• Rheumatic pain in shoulder and arm.
• Pains as if ulcerated around the finger nails,
  especially of right hand.

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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.

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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.

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Sleep.- (Calcarea phosphorica)

• Gaping, with irresistible drowsiness all day.
  (Nux m.)
• Cannot get awake in the early morning.

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Fever

• Frequent creeping shiverings.
• Copious night sweats, on single parts.

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Aggravation.- (Calcarea phosphorica)

• Mornings evenings from motion artificial
  light from cold after eating from juicy
  fruit from change of weather, or from getting
  wet in rain.

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Amelioration.- (Calcarea phosphorica)

• After lying down.

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Therapeutic Range

• 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.

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Conditions.- (Calcarea phosphorica)

• Girls at or near puberty during dentition old
  people.

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Compare.- (Calcarea phosphorica)

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