CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA
By C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica
REGION
- NUTRITION: BONES (SUTURES. PERIOSTEUM. Cartilage.). GLANDS. Nerves.
- ABDOMEN.
- Vertex.
- Chest.
WORSE
- Exposure to:Weather changes. Drafts. Cold, wet. Melting snows. East wind.
- DENTITION.
- Mental exertion.
- Loss of fluids.
- Puberty.
- Fruits.
- Cider.
BETTER
- Lying down.
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.
Related: Carb-a. Chin. Nat-m. Rut.