Homeopathic Materia Medica

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica, James Tyler Kent

During the growing period many children need this remedy. if the head bones are slow in forming, or do not keep pace with the growth of the child, this remedy is often called for.

Where the child is losing flesh, slow learning to do things, slow learning to walk, or the legs are not strong enough to support the body, or it is behind in mental development, this remedy is one to be examined (like Baryta carb., Borax, Ph. ac., Nat. m., Calc.).

Flabby, shrunken, emaciated children. Non-union of fractured bones, swollen condyles, are symptoms accepted by all text-books as strong symptoms of this remedy. It has cured polypi of nose, rectum and uterus. It has cured enlarged glands of the neck, groin and abdomen.

Rachitis, with fontanelles open, and diarrhea, in emaciating children. Rheumatic pains in the joints and limbs, worse from cold weather, or in every cold change of weather. Pale, waxy skin; anaemia.

Growing pains nights in fast growing children. Phtisical subjects. Diseases of bone. Easy ulceration. Itching, burning, eruptions. Sensitive to cold. Sensitive to a jar.

The pains are shooting, drawing, aching, burning, pressing. It has a shaking chill that spreads downward. Dry heat in evening. Copious night sweats.

The complaints of this remedy are generally better during rest, come on during motion, and are greatly aggravated by exertion. Stiffness on moving in bed. General bodily weakness. Numbness of many parts. Trembling. Fear brings on complaints; palpitation.

Mind: Electric shock, so severe that the patient could not remain standing. Epileptic spasms. Convulsions of children; but the remedy must be given when not in the convulsion to secure the best effect. The mind shows above all a tired and weak brain.

Feeble memory, and inability to sustain mental effort. Suffering in the head from mental exertion. Dreads mental exertion. Sluggish mind. Imbecility.

Feeble minded children. The child grasps the head with the hands and screams. Thinking of complaints causes them to appear or increase. Extremely fretful.

Ailments from bad news, grief, unrequited affections, vexation. She seeks solitude to commune with her thoughts and to shun the exertion of society. Discontented with his own surroundings and goes from place to place.

Head: Vertigo in cold wind, from mental and physical exertion, when rising from sitting, when walking in cold air.

The head symptoms are still more striking. The dull headaches of school children-always come home from school with headache. The head is sensitive to a jar, to pressure, to the hat; wants it washed in cold water; wants to be quite and alone.

Throbbing and burning in the head. Rheumatic headache, seems to be in the whole head, in cold weather, being out in the cold wind; worse from walking, worse from exertion, worse at night. It has many times prevented hydrocephalus. Frontal headaches, and forehead and eyes worse from pressure of the hat. Perspiration of scalp; forehead cold to touch. Tearing pain in bones of head. Cold occiput. Eczema of scalp. Ulcers of scalp.

In children when coming out of brain congestion if there is strabismus, diarrhea, and losing flesh. Glittering fiery circles before the eyes. Pain in eyes from reading in artificial light. Eyes blurred. Soreness in eyeballs. Pains worse thinking about them. Ulceration of cornea. Eyes feel hot. Easy lachrymation.

Rheumatic tearing in the ears when the weather changes to cold. Ears very cold. Aching deep in ear. Enlarged, painful parotid glands.

Eruption about the ears. Noises in ears after stool. Dry catarrh of the middle ear. This remedy is useful in chronic catarrh of the nose when the general symptoms agree.

Polypi in the nose. Icy cold nose. Fluent coryza in a cold room, stopped in a warm room. Epistaxis.

Pale, waxy face, dirty skin. Rheumatic face ache in every cold spell of weather. Cold perspiration on face.

Neuralgia of face at night, in cold air; worse from exertion, ameliorated by heat; sensitive to pressure (Mag. p. is better by heat and pressure). Dark blotches and pustules on the face. Swollen upper lip, painful, hard and burning.

Teeth late coming in or decay soon. Teeth sensitive to touch, pressure, or when masticating. Complaints of teething children.

Foul taste in mouth. Bitter taste in the morning. Tongue coated in the morning. Tongue swollen, numb and stiff.

Growing children suffer from chronic throat troubles. Enlarged tonsils. Every cold settles in the tonsils (Baryta c., Alumen). Much mucus in throat. Dryness in throat at night.

Stomach and abdomen: Craves salt bacon and smoked meats. Strong appetite. Infants want to nurse all the time. Easily disordered stomach. Cold drinks, ice cream, fruits disorder the stomach, causing pain or diarrhoea. Pain in stomach after food. Eructations and nausea.

Soreness in the stomach. Sour eructations, nausea and vomiting. Burning in the stomach. Nausea from scraping the larynx or throat. Vomiting in infants, in children, and in pregnancy. Violent pain in the stomach; diarrhoea aggravated by the least food. Gnawing, empty feeling in the stomach.

After becoming chilled, pain in the liver, soreness, aggravated after eating and by motion; wants to keep quiet. Stitching pains in the liver from deep breathing or sudden motion. Pulsating in the liver. Cutting pains in the spleen. Sinking sensation in abdomen.

Burning in the abdomen, rising up into the chest. Pain in the abdomen ameliorated by passing flatus. Colic, followed by diarrhoea. Ulceration of naval in infants. Motion in abdomen from flatus as from something alive. Abdomen large and flabby.

Tabes mesenterica with diarrhoea. Green mucus and hot watery stools; white, mushy stools, copious, offensive flatus. Diarrhea from fruit, ice cream, cold drinks or vexation. Diarrhea in the morning in phtisical patients. Very offensive stools.

Stools and anus: Constipation, with difficult, hard stool. Bleeding from the rectum and anus during stool. Protruding piles so painful that he is kept in bed for weeks; the pain is intense standing, walking, from touch; ameliorated by heat; with general sufferings, every sudden cold change of the weather. Piles itch and burn and discharge yellow pus. Itching of the anus in the evening.

Stitching pain in the anus, with or without hemorrhoids. Boils and abscesses about and near the anus, discharging blood and pus. Fistula in tuberculous subjects. Fissured anus, with burning stitching pains.

Urines: Weak and irritable bladder. Catarrh of the bladder. Frequent urging to urinate. Copious flow of urine. Pain in the neck of the bladder before and after urinating. Aching in the empty bladder. This remedy has cured diabetes mellitus. Violent pain in the region of the kidneys.

Sexual desire increased. Painful erections. It has cured many cases of chronic gonorrhoea when the discharge is gleety and there are sharp pains in the urethra and prostate gland. Gonorrheal rheumatism when of long standing and worse in every cold change in the weather (Med.),

Women: The woman has no better friend than Calc. p.

Her sufferings at puberty when she is slow in maturing are often met by this medicine. From taking cold at first menstrual period often comes a painful menstruation that lasts during menstrual life, unless cured by this remedy.

Violent cramping in uterus and groin several hours before the flow starts, relieved after the flow has been fully established.

The pains make her cry out. Intense sexual excitement (like Platina, Gratiola, Origanum). Weak, sinking sensation in the pelvis.

Prolapsus of uterus during stool and micturition. Uterine polypus. Labor-like pains at the beginning of menstruation. Copious menstrual flow, with very dark clots and membranes.

Leucorrhea like white of egg day and night. Throbbing, titillating in external genitalia. Burning in the vagina and uterus during menses. Child refuses mother's milk. It may be given to a woman who has brought forth one or two children that may be considered Calc. p. babies. The next child will be stronger and have a better constitution.

Voice and larynx: It is often observed that this patient scrapes, mucus from the larynx before he can talk or sing. Hoarseness, dry hacking cough day and night. Tubercular laryngitis.

Suffocation on slight exertion, or on ascending stairs. In thin, pale, sickly people with dry, hacking cough worse in cold, damp weather in rheumatic constitutions. Yellow expectoration.

Stitching pains in the chest. Emaciation of the chest. Difficult expectoration. It is a very useful remedy in phthisis and blood spitting. Much sweat on the chest. Rattling in the chest with difficult expectoration, like Caust.

Soreness of the chest to touch. Palpitation, with trembling of the limbs.

Back and limbs: The back pains are worse in cold, stormy weather, attended with stiffness, and worse in the morning. The back is sensitive to draft. Pain in the back from lifting or straining. Curvature of spine. Tearing, shooting; tenderness and aching in the spine. Soreness in sacroiliac symphysis. Pain in lumbar region and sacrum at the menstrual period.

Rheumatic pains in the limbs in cold weather, worse from motion, better during rest and from heat. Trembling in all the limbs. Stiffness after resting, and in the morning. Aching in the bones, like growing pains. Gouty fingers and toes that become painful in cold weather. Ulcerative pains in the roots of the nails.

The most severe tearing, shooting pains are in the lower limbs. The probable reason for this is that the lower limbs are always cold to the knees, and the cold parts are always the suffering parts in this remedy.

Sharp pains in tendons of the lower limbs. Intense aching boring pains in the knees, and long bones. Pains in the tibia with soreness. Drawing pain in the tibia. Cramp in the calves. Ulcers on the legs; weak, chronic; no granulation. Rheumatism of the ankles. Caries of the os calcis. Stringing and shooting in the toes.

Sleepy daytime and evening. Sleepless after going to bed until midnight or later. Very sleepy in the morning. Vivid dreams. Children cry out in sleep. Frightful dreams cause him to awaken with a start.

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Phosphate of Lime. Tricalcic Phosphate. Ca3 2PO4. A mixture of the basic and other phosphates of lime, made by dropping dilute phosphoric acid into lime water. Trituration.

Clinical.─Anaemia. Ankles, weak. Back, weakness of. Bones, affections of. Brain-fag. Bright's disease. Cholera infantum. Chorea. Consumption. Cretinism. Debility. Dentition. Diabetes. Dyspepsia. Emissions. Enuresis. Epilepsy. Erotomania. Face, boils on. Fistula. Fracture. Gleet. Gonorrhoea. Headaches. Hernia. Hydrocele. Hygroma. Joints, affections of. Leucorrhoea. Lumbago. Nymphomania. Phosphaturia. Rheumatism. Rickets. Self-abuse. Spermatorrhoea. Spina bifida. Stiff-neck. Strabismus. Testicles, swollen. Throat, sore. Tobacco habit. Tonsils, enlarged. Uterus, prolapsus of; polypus of. Yawning.

Characteristics.─Calc. Phos., whilst exhibiting strong points of resemblance with Calc. carb., has nevertheless a very distinct individuality. It has been proved and tested clinically, and, having been adopted by Schüssler as his leading "antisporic," a number of valuable indications have been added by him and his followers. The Calc. phos. patient is generally emaciated instead of fat like the typical Calc. carb. child. The Calc. ph. patient is less chalky-white and more dirty-white or brownish than the Calc. c. patient. Both have large abdomens, but that of the Calc. Phos. patient is flabby. Calc. c, has craving for eggs; Calc. Phos. for salt or smoked meats. "Craving for fat bacon" in children is a well-verified characteristic of Calc. phos. Calc. ph. has cured dyspepsia, pain > for a short time by raising wind, when fasting the pain goes to the spine, feeling as if one ought to raise wind and could not. Dyspepsia with indescribable distress in region of stomach, only temporarily > by eating. The stools of Calc. phos. are green and slimy, or hot and watery with fetid flatus; of Calc. carb., sometimes green, generally watery, white, and mixed with curds. Calc. carb. has an open anterior fontanelle; Calc. Phos. has both open, especially the posterior. The skull is thin and soft, almost cracks, like paper when pressed upon.

The mental state of Calc. ph. is one of weakness: weak memory; inability for mental exertion. Hence it is appropriate in effects of mental strain, such as school headaches in children, weak-minded children. In this it is like Nat. m. A schoolboy to whom I was giving Calc. ph. developed these new symptoms: "Tongue thickly coated white, taste pasty; felt absolutely silly; taking coffee whilst playing a game, he put the sugar on the draught-board instead of into the cup, and didn't know he had done anything foolish." Peevish and fretful. Wants to be at home, and when at home wants to go out; goes from place to place. Complaints are < when thinking of them. The sexual organs are the centre of many symptoms. Nymphomania; all organs in erection with irresistible desire, particularly before catamenia. Voluptuous feeling, as if all the parts were filled with blood; pulses in all the parts with increased desire; after urination. Many of the uterine symptoms are like those of Sepia. There is a weak, sinking sensation in the hypogastrium, and sinking, empty feeling in epigastrium; prolapsus < during stool or micturition. Aching in uterus. Cutting through to sacrum. Cream-like leucorrhoea. Burning in vagina with pain on both sides of bladder and uterus; burning like fire up into chest. Flushes of heat and faintness; sweats easily. But the menses are profuse, and the patient is weak and consumptive. She has partial profuse sweats, but less profuse than those of Sepia. Every exposure increases the rheumatic pains of Calc. ph. and the uterine distress. Defective bone growth; bones thin and brittle. It is useful in cases of fistula; and when fistula has been operated on and symptoms have appeared elsewhere; fistula alternating with chest symptoms. Enlargement of tonsils, acute and chronic. Short breath. Involuntary sighing. Contraction of chest and difficult breathing; evening till 10 p.m., > lying down, < getting up. Constant stretching and yawning. Crying out in sleep. Cannot get awake in morning. Grauvogl considered it the most important remedy in chronic hydrocephalus, and he very properly gave it as a prenatal remedy during pregnancy to women who had previously borne hydrocephalic children. The chills of Calc. ph. strike upward. Hering gives: "The chills run up the back; terrible muscular jerks in body, which almost throw him out of his chair."

Calc. Phos. corresponds to defective nutrition, whether of childhood, puberty, or of old age. Predisposition to glandular and bone diseases. Slow development of teeth. Spinal curvature. Slow walking; neck too thin and weak to support head. Rickets. Diabetes when the lungs are affected. Motion < and rest > most symptoms. < When thinking of his symptoms. A slight draught causes rheumatic pains; every cold causes pains in joints and sutures. Changes of weather, especially when the snow melts, or in east winds <. Damp, rainy, cold weather <. It is suited to scrofulous, gouty constitutions.

Relations.─Its nearest analogue is Carb. an. (which contains Calc. phos.). Follows well: Ars., Chi., Iod., Merc. Is followed well by: Sulph. Complementary: Ruta. Compare: In bone affections and fistula, Berb., Calc., Calc. fl., Fluor. ac., Ruta, Sil., Sul.; in joint affections, Berb., Kali ph., Nat. m.; in caries of teeth, Fluor. ac., Mag. ph., Sil.; in epilepsy, Calc., Fer. ph., Kali m., Kali ph., Sil.; in diabetes, Kali ph., Nat. ph.; in tabes, Ars., Iod., Merc.; haemorrhoids, Fer. ph.; worms, Nat. ph.; in debility after acute disease; chest affections > by lying down, Pso.; in peevishness and fretfulness of children, Cham. School headaches; housemaid's knee, Nat. m.; in tonsillitis; weak-minded children, Bar. c.; chest affections after operation; in fistula, Berb.; uterine affections, Sep. (but in Calc. ph. the menses are more profuse; there is more sexual excitement; the patient is apt to be weak, emaciated, and consumptive); osteitis of diaphyses, Conchiolinum; in fractures, etc., Symphytum; < from motion, Bry.; < from wet, Dul., Sil., Sul., Caus., Rhus.

Causation.─Over-growth. Lifting. Ascending. Over-study. Sexual excesses. Sexual irregularities. Grief. Disappointed love. Unpleasant news. Operation for fistula. Getting wet.

SYMPTOMS.

1. Mind.─Great depression; slow comprehension; cretinism.─Children are peevish and fretful; difficulty in performing intellectual operations.

2. Head.─Large open fontanelles.─Delayed closure or re-opening of fontanelles.─Headache < from change of weather extending from forehead to nose; from temples to jaws; with some rheumatic feeling from collar-bone to wrists.─Vertigo, with nausea.─Head compressed, heavy, and painful, on waking in the morning.─Painful sensation of fulness in the head, as if the brain were pressed against the cranium, < by movement and by change of position, > by lying still.─Headache with craving for tobacco smoke, which >.─During the headache, face and head hot with indolence and ill-humour.─The headache is < in the open air, or on stooping.─Headache on vertex, behind ears, with drawing in muscles of neck to nape and occiput.─Headache, with flatulency in the abdomen.─Headache of school-girls with diarrhoea.─Crawling sensations run over top of head as if ice were lying on upper part of occiput; the head is hot with smarting of the roots of the hair.─Skull soft; crackling noise like paper when pressed, mostly in occiput.─Itching in the scalp every evening.

3. Eyes.─Sensation in the eye as if something in it, renewed if others talk about it.─Cannot read; light hurts, esp. candle or gaslight.─Cataract; amaurosis; ulcers on the cornea.─Squinting.─Lachrymation; most with yawning.─Pain in the eyes and nose, as if a foreign body were introduced into them.

4. Ears.─Singing or other noises in the ears.─Inner and outer ear red, sore itching.─External ear swells suddenly and appears as if it would burst with eczema.─Excoriating discharge from ears.

5. Nose.─Coryza: fluent in cold room; stopped in warm air and out of doors.─Swollen nose with sore nostrils in scrofulous children.─Large pedunculated polypi.─Streaks of blood, nose-bleed in afternoon.─Frequent sneezing, with flow of mucus from the nose, and salivation.─Blood follows when the nose is blown.

6. Face.─Pain esp. in upper jawbone from r. to l.; extends from other parts to face or from face to other parts.─Coppery face full of pimples.─(Warts on mouth).─Acne in the face; red pimples, filled with a yellowish pus, with shooting pains on being touched.─Swollen upper lip; painful, hard and burning.

7. Teeth.─Teeth sensitive to chewing.─Pain in molars.─Tearing, boring pain at night; < from warm or cold things.─Slow dentition, with cold tumours and emaciation.─Too rapid decay.─Convulsions without fever during dentition.

8. Mouth.─Tongue: swollen, numb, and stiff.─Tip of tongue sore, burning, little blisters on it.─Tongue white furred at root, most in morning.─Accumulation of acid saliva in the mouth.─Insipid disgusting taste.─Bitter taste in the morning with headache.

9. Throat.─Sore aching (on waking in morning) < by swallowing.─Sensation of contraction in throat.─When swallowing, pain in tongue, fauces, pharynx, chest, and pit of stomach.─Chronic swelling of tonsils.

10. Appetite.─Unusual hunger 4 p.m.─Infant wants to nurse all the time.─Craves fat bacon salt meats.─Desire for tobacco smoke; smoking > headache.─Complete loss of appetite before and during catamenia.─Colic and diarrhoea from ice creams; juicy fruit or cider; every attempt to eat; drinking cold water (colic or diarrhoea).

11. Stomach.─Nausea, with vertigo, perplexity of head, and confusion of ideas.─After taking coffee, nausea, pyrosis, head confused and painful, and excessive ill-humour.─Heartburn and water-brash.─Sour rising.─Acute pains in the stomach, with great weakness, headache, and diarrhoea; the least morsel that is eaten renews the pains in the stomach.─After belching, a burning in epigastrium.─Empty, sinking sensation (at the epigastrium); 7 p.m.─Persistent vomiting of milk, whether of breast or other.─Vomiting from hawking phlegm.─Easy vomiting in children.

12. Abdomen.─Aching soreness and pain round navel; > after fetid flatus passes off.─Oozing of bloody fluid from navel of infants.─Violent colic with inflation of abdomen, and great accumulation of flatulency, or with headache.─Difficult escape of wind, without mitigation of suffering.─Burning in abdomen.─Aching soreness, cutting, drawing in l. groin, later in r.─Burning aching in groins.─Abdominal weakness in anaemic patients.

13. Stool and Anus.─Evacuations with much flatulency.─Stools in which there were many small white points or flakes, like pus, scarcely perceptible.─Offensive pus with stools.─Daily watery, very hot stools.─Stools green and loose, sometimes slimy.─Diarrhoea, very fetid.─Offensive flatus.─Cutting, pinching, sharp colic, followed by diarrhoea.─Diarrhoea from juicy fruit or cider; from vexation.─Diarrhoea of dentition.─Hard stools, with mental depression.─Hard stools with much blood.─After stool, buzzing in ears; weak feeling in male sexual organs.─Bleeding after stool; protruding piles, aching, itching, sore; oozing of a yellow fluid and bleeding.─Itching in anus; most in evening.─Single stitches in rectum towards anus, or shooting in anus.─Sore feeling in anus, < one side, with shaking, burning, throbbing.─Fistula in ano, alternating with chest symptoms.─Fistula; in persons who have pains in joints with every spell of cold, stormy weather.─Fissures.─Haemorrhoids oozing a watery fluid all the time.

14. Urinary Organs.─In region of kidneys violent pain when lifting, or blowing nose.─Frequent micturition.─Urine passed in large quantities with sensation of weakness.─Urine deep-coloured and sometimes hot.─After evacuation of faeces and emission of urine, the genital parts feel, as it were, fatigued.─Cutting in urethra before and after urinating; burning during.─Enuresis.─Phosphatic urine (Bright's disease).

15. Male Sexual Organs.─Increase of sexual desire in the morning, with unusual enjoyment in coition.─Nocturnal emissions.─Erections while riding in a carriage, without desire.─Shooting through the perineum into the penis.─Swelling of testicles.─Scrotum: itching; sweating; sore; oozing a fluid.─Hydrocele.─Chronic gonorrhoea in anaemic subjects.

16. Female Sexual Organs.─Nymphomania; esp. before catamenia.─Aching in uterus; weakness and distress in uterine region; < during defecation and micturition; uterine displacement.─Pressure upward over mons veneris, throbbing.─Voluptuous feeling as if the parts were filling up with blood; feels pulse in all the parts, with increased sexual desire.─Prolapse.─Polypus.─Menses: too early, light, or dark (esp. with rheumatic patients); labour-like pains.─Menses too early, blood bright, with girls; too late; blood dark, or first bright, then dark, in women.─Leucorrhoea, like white of egg, day and night; < morning after rising; of sweetish odour; increased whites with a stool of bad odour.─Burning, pain, swelling of vagina and external parts.─Pains in navel; sacrum; symphysis pubis; mammae (sore and burning; nipples aching, sore) during pregnancy.─Child refuses breast, milk has a saltish taste.

17. Respiratory Organs.─Hoarseness; burning in throat; constant hawking and hemming to clear voice when talking.─Cough; tickling; with dryness of throat and hoarseness; with yellow expectoration, < morning; with stitches in chest.─Cough during difficult dentition.─Breathing frequent, short, difficult.─With inhalation; shooting in l. breast and r. temple; sudden jerking pain in back.─Involuntary sighing.

18. Chest.─Contraction of chest, and difficult breathing, evening till 10 p.m.; > lying down; < when getting up.─Obstinate pain through lower l. lung and l. hypochondrium (uterine disease).─Burning sensation in chest from below up into throat.─Sharp pain like an instrument through end of sternum.─Cracking in sternum.

19. Heart.─Sharp cutting pain, shooting in heart region interrupting breathing.─Dropsy from heart disease.

20. Neck and Back.─Rheumatic pain and stiffness of neck with dulness of head; from slight draught of air.─Cramp-like pain in neck first one side then the other (r. to l.).─Throbbing or jerking pains below scapula.─Violent pain in region of back when making the least effort.─Backache and uterine pains.─Sharp pains in sacrum and coccyx.─Soreness as if separate in sacro-iliac synchondrosis.─Curvature of the spine to the left; lumbar vertebrae bend to the left; spina bifida.

21. Limbs.─Aching in all the limbs with weariness.─Pains flying about, in all parts of rump and limbs after getting wet in rain.─Extensors more affected than flexors.

22. Upper Limbs.─Rheumatic pains in shoulder and arm, also with swelling of the diseased part and febrile heat.─Ulcerative pain esp. in roots of finger nails of r. hand; and in middle finger.─Gouty nodosities.─Soreness, torpor, and paralysis of the (l.) arm.─Paralysis of the joints of the hand and of the fingers, esp. in the thumbs, sometimes from a chill.

23. Lower Limbs.─Buttocks and back "asleep," with a sensation of uneasiness.─Lower limbs fall asleep; restless; anxious feeling; has to move them to jump out of carriage; also at night.─Abdomen, sacrum, and lower limbs asleep; cannot rise from seat.─Cramp in calves; on a small spot inside, when walking.─Legs tired, weak, restless, crawling, tingling.─Pains above knee.─Pains in joints and bones, esp. shin bones.

24. Generalities.─Large pedunculated polypi; copper-coloured face, full of pimples; tongue swollen.─Rheumatic pains of all kinds.─Pains in different parts of the body, proceeding along the muscles into the joints.─Rheumatism which gets well in summer and becomes bad again in cold weather.─The loins, knees, and thumbs are principally affected.─Veins swollen.─Burning itching over the whole body.─Ulcers.─Caries.─Weariness, when going upstairs; wants to sit down; hates to get up.─Ill-humour, and aversion to labour.─On every little cold she is much worse.─Sensations frequently on small spots.─Children do not learn to walk, or lose the ability; lose flesh.─Pains along sutures or at symphyses.─Flabby, shrunken, emaciated children.─Soreness of tendons when flexing or extending.─The heat of the room appears insupportable.

26. Sleep.─Constant stretching and yawning.─Cannot awake in early morning.─Sleep, early in the evening, with frequent waking during the night.─Restlessness for two or three hours after midnight.─Frequent dreams, sometimes with reflections, dreams of dangers and fires.─Transient, frequent shuddering.─Starting from sleep as from fright.

27. Fever.─Frequent creeping shiverings.─Copious night sweats, on single parts.

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Phosphate of Lime (Calcium Phosphate)

For persons of anaemic and dark complexioned, dark hair and eyes; thin spare subjects, instead of fat. During first and second dentition of scrofulous children; diarrhoea and great flatulence. Children: emaciated, unable to stand; slow in learning to walk (Cal., Sil.); sunken, flabby abdomen. Oozing of bloody fluid from naval of infants (of urine, Hyos.). Rachitis; cranial bones thin and brittle; fontanelles and sutures remain open so long, or close and reopen; delayed or complicated teething. Spine weak, disposed to curvatures, especially to the left, unable to support body, neck weak, unable to support head (Abrot.). Girls at puberty, tall, growing rapidly, tendency of bone to soften or spine to curve (Ther.). At puberty; acne in anaemic girls with vertex headache and flatulent dyspepsia, > by eating. Ailments from grief, disappointed love (Aur., Ign., Phos. ac.). Feels complaints more when thinking about them (Helon., Ox. ac.). Involuntary sighing (Ign.). Non-union of bones; promotes callous (Symph.). Rheumatism of cold weather; getting well in spring and returning in autumn. Headache of school-girls (Nat. m., Psor.); diarrhoea. At every attempt to eat, colic pains in abdomen. Fistula in ano, alternating with chest symptoms (Berb.); lack of animal heat; cold sweat and general coldness of body.

Relations. - Complementary: Ruta. Similar: to Carbo an., Cal. fluor., Calc., Fluor. ac., Kali phos.; to Psor., in debility remaining after acute diseases; to Sil., but sweat of head is wanting. Acts best: before Iod., Psor., Sanic., Sulph.; after Ars., Iod., Tub.

Aggravation. - Exposure to damp, cold, changeable weather; east winds; melting snow; mental exertion.

Amelioration. - In summer; warm, dry atmosphere.

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Tardy closing or re-opening fontanelles in slim, emaciated children, with sweaty heads.

Diarrhoea or entero-colitis; stool passes with much flatulence and spluttering noise.

Rheumatic troubles which are < in fall or spring, when the air is full of melting snow.

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When on the subject of Calcarea we may as well notice this other combination.

The Phosphorus element in this preparation seems to change the temperament, for while it retains its wonderful remedial power over tardy bone development it acts best in spare subjects instead of fat. So that if we find a sickly child with fontanelles remaining open too long or re-opening after once closed, the child being spare and anaemic, we think of this remedy.

We would also think of Silicea in one of these poor subjects, but in the Calcarea phos. the sweaty head is not a prominent symptom, while with Silicea it is markedly so. Calcarea phos.

also has a very peculiar desire, the little patient instead of wanting eggs wants "ham rind", a very queer symptom, but a genuine one. (Magnesia carb. craves meat in scrofulous children.) Diarrhoea is very prominent, and the stools are green and "spluttering;" that is the flatulence (of which there is much) with the stool makes a loud spluttering noise when the stool passes. I have made some very fine cures in such cases where there seemed little hope for the child and hydrocephaloid seemed impending. The little patients were shrunken, emaciated and very anaemic. Marasmus.

(Calcarea phos. is an excellent remedy in rheumatic troubles < spring and fall, especially when the air is cold and damp from melting snow.)

Calcarea phos. is an excellent remedy for broken bones where the bones refuse to knit (Also Symphytum.)

I have found Calcarea phos. very useful in the headaches of anaemic school girls. Here we sometimes have to choose between it and Natrum mur.

Feels complaints more when thinking of them (Oxalic acid, Helonias).