Magnesia phosphorica

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.

COLD: AIR. Uncovering. Drafts. Water (Calc-c.). Lying on R. side. Touch. Periodicity. NIGHT. Milk. Exhaustion.

WARMTH. HOT BATHING. Pressure. Doubling up. Rubbing.

NERVES: Face. Head. Muscles. Right side.

Related: Colo. Dios.

Magnesia phosphorica

Phosphate of Magnesia.

Is best adapted to thin, emaciated persons of a highly nervous organization; dark complexion.

Affections of right side of body; head, ear, face, chest, ovary, sciatic nerve (Bell., Bry., Chel., Kali c., Lyc., Pod.).

Pains : sharp, cutting, stabbing ; shooting, stitching ; lightning-like in coming and going (Bell.) ; intermittent, paroxysm becoming almost unbearable, driving patient to frenzy; rapidly changing place (Lac c.. Puls.), with a constricting sensation (Cac., lod., Sulph.) ; cramping, in neuralgic affections of stomach, a1)domen and pelvis (Caul., Col.).

Great dread: of cold air; of uncovering; of touching affected part; of cold bathing or washing; of moving.

Languid, tired, exhausted; unable to sit up.

Complaints from standing in cold water or working in cold clay (Cal.).

Ailments of teething children ; spasms during dentition, no fever (with fever, hot head and skin. Bell.).

Headache : begins in occiput and extends over head (Sang., Sil.) ; of school girls; face red, flushed; from mental emotion, exertion or hard study; < lo to ii A. M. or 4 to 5 p. M. ; > by pressure and external heat.

Neuralgia: of face, supra or infra-orbital; r. side; intermittent, darting, cutting < by touch, cold air, pressure > by external heat.

Toothache: at night; rapidly shifting; < eating, drinking, especially cold things; > by heat (> by cold, Bry., Coff., Fer. p.).

Spasms or cramp of stomach, with clean tongue, as if a band was drawn tightly around the body.

Colic : flatulent, forcing patient to bend double ; > by heat, rubbing and hard pressure (Col., Plumb.) ; of horses and cows when Colocynth fails to >.

Menses : early ; flow dark, stringy ; pains < before, > when flow begins (Lach., Zinc.); pains darting, like lightning, shooting, < r. side, > by heat and bending double ; vaginismus.

Enuresis : nocturnal ; from nervous irritation ; urine, pale, copious ; after catheterization.

Cramps: of extremities; during pregnancy; of zvriters, piano or violin players.

Lac c., Puls. ; Cham, its vegetable analogue. Sometimes acts best when given in hot water. wind; cold bathing or washing; motion; touch.

Amelioration. — Bending double; heat; warmth; pressure (burning pain > by heat, Ars.).

Laments all the time about the pain. Inability to think clearly. Sleepless on account of indigestion.

Phosphate of Magnesia The great anti-spasmodic remedy. Cramping of muscles with radiating pains. Neuralgic pains relieved by warmth. Especially suited to tired, languid, exhausted subjects. Indisposition for mental exertion. Goitre.

Worse, right side, cold, touch, night. Better, warmth, bending double, pressure, friction.

Vertigo on moving, falls forward on closing eyes, better walking in open air. Aches after mental labor, with chilliness; always better warmth (Sil). Sensation as if contents were liquid, as if parts of brain were changing places, as of a cap on head.

Supraorbital pains; worse, right side; relieved by warmth applied externally. Increased lachrymation. Twitching of lids. Nystagmus strabismus, ptosis. Eyes hot, tired, vision blurred, colored lights before eyes.

Severe neuralgic pain; worse behind right ear; worse, by going into cold air, and washing face and neck with cold water.

Toothache; better by heat and hot liquids. Ulceration of teeth, with swelling of glands of face, throat and neck and swelling of tongue. Complaints of teething children. Spasms without febrile symptoms.

Soreness and stiffness, especially right side; parts seem puffy, with chilliness, and aching all over.

Hiccough, with retching day and night. Thirst for very cold drinks.

Enteralgia, relieved by pressure. Flatulent colic, forcing patient to bend double; relieved by rubbing, warmth, pressure; accompanied with belching of gas, which gives no relief. Bloated, full sensation in abdomen; must loosen clothing, walk about and constantly pass flatus. Constipation in rheumatic subjects due to flatulence and indigestion.

Menstrual colic. Membranous dysmenorrhœa. Menses too early, dark, stringy. Swelling of external parts. Ovarian neuralgia. Vaginismus.

Asthmatic oppression of chest. Dry, tickling cough. Spasmodic cough, with difficulty in lying down. Whooping-cough (Corall). Voice hoarse, larynx sore and raw. Intercostal neuralgia.

Angina pectoris. Nervous spasmodic palpitation. Constricting pains around heart.

Involuntary shaking of hands. Paralysis agitans. Cramps in calves. Sciatica; feet very tender. Darting pains. Twitchings. Chorea. Writers' and players' cramp. Tetanic spasms. Weakness in arms and hands, finger-tips stiff and numb. General muscular weakness.

Chilliness after dinner, in evening. Chills run up and down the back, with shivering, followed by a suffocating sensation.

Compare: Kali phos; Colocy; Silica; Zinc; Diosc. Antidotes: Bell; Gels; Lach.

First to twelfth potency. Sometimes the highest potencies are preferable. Acts especially well, given in hot water.

Magnesia Phosphorica

Magnesia phos. is best known for its spasmodic conditions and neuralgias.

The pains: are very violent and may affect any nerve. A pain localizes itself in a nerve and becomes worse and worse, sometimes coming in paroxysms, but becoming so violent that the patient becomes frantic.

The pains are ameliorated by heat and pressure. The patient feels better in a warm place; and his neuralgias are also better, he is miserable, and his pains are brought on when he becomes cold or is in a cold place. Pains are brought on from riding in the cold, and in cold, damp weather. Exposure for a long time to cold winds causes neuralgia of the face, The pains are felt everywhere. Pain in the bowels, enteralgias, cramps in the stomach and bowels, with the same modalities. Pains in the spinal cord under the same rule - amelioration from heat. There are times when a nerve, in which there is considerable pain, becomes sensitive to pressure, becomes sore. The spinal cord becomes sore.

Convulsions, with stiffness of the limbs. Convulsions in adults or children, followed by extreme sensitiveness to touch, to wind, to noise, to excitement, to everything. Such convulsions, as children have during dentition. Colic; three months'colic, cramps, bilious colic. But the special feature is its power to debilitate, to cause irritation of the nerves and muscles. Cramps from prolonged exertion. Stiffness numbness, awkwardness and deadness of a nerve from prolonged exertion.

Fingers: Thus it applies to long use of the hands and fingers in writing, and gives a fair sample of writer's cramp. It is especially useful in the cramps that come in the fingers, from writing, playing instruments and piano practice. Pianists suddenly break down, with stiffness of the fingers, after several hours' labor every day for years. The fingers give out. In playing the harp a cramp comes on and the fingers cannot perform their use. Other parts are affected in the same way from prolonged exertion. A laborer's hand will sometimes cramp and become almost useless. As soon as he undertakes to do that particular thing his hand cramps and he clutches the implement or loses hold. The carpenter after prolonged use of a tool has a cramp. This is a strong feature of the remedy in all sorts of overexertion.

Violent cramps in dysentery and cholera morbus, that make him scream out. Twitching of the muscles all over the body, as in cholera. It was Sch ̧essler's main remedy for chorea, but we can only use it by its proving. Sch ̧essler prescribed it in all nervous conditions, but its proving justifies its use in neuralgia ameliorated by heat and pressure, cramps and twitchings.

Shooting pains along the nerves, but these are not so common as violent pains in paroxysms - a tearing pain as if the nerve were inflamed and put on a stretch. Shaking as in paralysis agitans and complaints resembling it. Amelioration from heat and pressure, and aggravation from cold, cold bathing, cold winds, cold weather, lack of clothing. Pains all over, but more likely pain located in one part.

Mind: The mental symptoms have not been brought out to any extent. It has been used clinically when diarrheas have ceased suddenly and brain troubles have come on. Congestion of the brain, but this is clinical.

Head: Neuralgia and rheumatic headaches ameliorated by heat. Excruciating pains. Violent attacks of headache ameliorated by hard pressure, heat and in the dark.

I have seen this mitigation of the symptoms in chronic congestive headache, when the face was red and there was throbbing, almost like Bell .; those headaches give way to Magnesia phos., when there is relief by heat and pressure. He wants the head. bandaged with a tight-fitting cloth, a warm room, and he is aggravated by cold.

Eyes: Spasms and jerking about the eyes, or prolonged tonic spasms producing a strabismus. Violent supra and infra-orbital pains with amelioration from heat and pressure. It has cured more face-aches than other pains.

Face: Neuralgia of the face, worse on the right side, and ameliorated by heat and pressure, and aggravated by cold. Tic douloureux. Chronic jerkings of the face. It favors rheumatic and, gouty subjects who suffer with neuralgia. It is a wonderful remedy for spasmodic hiccoughing. I have sometimes given Magnesia phos. for hiccoughing when I could not get any other symptoms to describe on.

Stomach and abdomen: Pain at the pit of the stomach. Spasms of the stomach with clean tongue. Colic ameliorated by doubling up, like Coloc., and ameliorated by heat.

The colic is not so markedly relieved by heat in Coloc., but is relieved by pressure. Distension of the abdomen and flatulence, with much pain. Radiating pains in the abdomen. Compelled to walk and groan from pain. Meteorism. It is said to cure cows of this condition. Colchicum will cure cows when they are distended with gas after being turned into clover patches. Cutting, darting pains in hemorrhoids. If well proved we would probably have many liver symptoms, because both Magnes. and Phos. have liver symptoms.

Violent pains in acute rheumatism, ameliorated by heat. Neuralgic pains in the limbs. Rest relieves many complaints, and the least motion brings them on. Pains changing place.