Magnesia phosphorica
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
MAGNESIUM PHOSPHORICUM
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Keynotes
Tall, slender, dark and neurotic. Nervous, tense and subject to sudden, violent neuralgias, colics, cramps, etc. SUDDEN paroxysms of pain; sharp shooting like lightning; suddenly changing place; in waves; radiating, boring or constricting; extorting cries; causing restlessness, prostration, etc. Twitchings. Tic-convulsif. Spasmodic effects; hiccough, yawning, chorea, writer's cramp, etc. Much pain. .................... Always talking of her pains. Hot, aching eyes. Photophobia. Faceache, < if body gets cold. Cracks in angles of lips. Nervous angina. Cutting; from bowels into thighs. Flatulent colic. Contracted abdomen. Diarrhœa ceases, spasms set in. Cough, > cool air. One vertebra seems absent. Tightness of skin of fingers. Pains in lower limbs, alternating sides. Irritable pulse. Tarry menses leaving a fast stain; flowing at night.
Worse
COLD: AIR. Uncovering. Drafts. Water (Calc-c.). Lying on R. side. Touch. Periodicity. NIGHT. Milk. Exhaustion.
Better
WARMTH. HOT BATHING. Pressure. Doubling up. Rubbing.
Region
NERVES: Face. Head. Muscles. Right side.
Relationships
Related: Colo. Dios.
What the other books say about Magnesia phosphorica
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Magnesia phosphorica in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Magnesia phosphorica in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Magnesia phosphorica in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Magnesia phosphorica — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/magnesia-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 Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.