Calcarea phosphorica

as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931

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Keynotes

Delicate, erethistic, tall or scrawny children; with dirty, brownish skins. Soft, thin bones. Malassimilation. Scrofula. Rickets. Spots; cold or sore, vertex, eye-balls, tip of nose, or fingers, etc. Crawling, numb, cold limbs. Pains shift. Arthritis. Rheumatism. Albuminous discharges, leucorrhœa, etc. Anæmia; as a sequel. .................... Peevish, restless and fretful. Idiotismus versatilis. Headache; in occipital protuberances; down spine; > cool bathing or sneezing; of school children. As of ice in occiput. Thin skull bones. Open fontanelles. Hydrocephalus. Teeth; late; soft; decay easily. Tonsils, large; mycosis (Kali-m.). Adenoids. Throat aches; feels hollow. Craves raw, salt, piquant foods or bacon. Weak digestion: every bite hurts the stomach. Persistently vomits milk. FLABBY, SUNKEN ABDOMEN; pains, then burning leucorrhœal flow. Festering navel. Diarrhœic tendency. Stools foul, hot; lienteric; spluttering and watery; < fruits. Fistula; alternating with chest symptoms. Addison's disease. School girl's headache. Abnormal cravings. Tumor in left mamma. Menses early, scanty; every two weeks. Crawling in genitals. Exalted sexual instinct. Eruptions, < during menses. Uterus heavy; weak or aching. Child loses its breath on being lifted up (Bor.). Cough, > lying. Cavernous phthisis; with night sweats. Neck or chest pains from drafts. Weak, thin neck; the head bobs about. Sore fingertips. As of a splinter under nails. Weak through hips. Thin, brittle bones. Pain, burning, along sutures or edges of nails. Slow ossification; non-union. Swollen glands. Pott's or hip-joint disease. Easily chilled; during pains. Sickly sweat; < head and throat; at night. Cold limbs with digestive trouble. Chills up back, but heats down back. Follows: Fer-p.

Worse

Exposure to: Weather changes. Drafts. Cold, wet. Melting snows. East wind. DENTITION. Mental exertion. Loss of fluids. Puberty. Fruits. Cider.

Better

Lying down.

Region

NUTRITION: BONES (SUTURES. PERIOSTEUM. Cartilage.). GLANDS. Nerves. ABDOMEN. Vertex. Chest.

Relationships

Related: Carb-a. Chin. Nat-m. Rut.

What the other books say about Calcarea phosphorica

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Calcarea phosphorica in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Calcarea phosphorica in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
Calcarea phosphorica in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Calcarea phosphorica in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.

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Cite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Calcarea phosphorica — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/calcarea-phosphorica. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.