Calcarea Phosphorica
Overview:
Calcarea phosphorica (Calcarea phos), a prominent homeopathic remedy derived from calcium phosphate, holds a significant place in the homeopathic materia medica, particularly for addressing issues related to growth, development, and nutrition, especially in children and adolescents. It is frequently indicated for delayed teething, bone weakness, growing pains, and individuals experiencing mental and physical fatigue, irritability, and a craving for smoked meats and salty foods. As one of the twelve Schuessler’s Tissue Salts, Calcarea phos is also considered crucial for cellular health and is often employed to restore mineral balance within the body, addressing a wide array of acute and chronic conditions based on the individual’s unique symptom picture and constitutional tendencies.
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C – Changeable weather agg.
Description:It has a special affinity where bones form sutures or symphyses, and all its symptoms are worse from any change of weather.
Reference: [Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica by Boericke]
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A – Anaemia
Description: Frequently indicated for anaemic states, especially in rapidly growing children or young people.
Reference: [A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by Clarke]
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L – Limbs growing pains
Description: Characteristic pains in the joints, shafts of long bones, and spine, especially during periods of rapid growth. These "growing pains" are often worse at night and with changes in weather.
Reference: [Clinical Materia Medica by Farrington]
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C – Caries
Description: Caries of teeth, heel bone (calcaneous bone)
Reference: [Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica by Kent]
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P – Perspiration on head,neck
Description: Profuse perspiration, particularly affecting the head, neck, and upper parts of the body, is common, especially during sleep. This sweat can be cold.
Reference: [Text Book of Homoeopathic Materia Medica by Lippe]
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H – Headaches of school children
Description: Frequently indicated for headaches occurring in anaemic, rapidly growing children or students. The headache is often worse after mental exertion, studying, or in a stuffy room.
Reference: [The Principles and Practice of Homoeopathy by Hughes]
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O-Open fontanelles
Description:Calc. carb. has an open anterior fontanelle, Calc- p. has both open, especially the posterior.
Source:[Dictionary Of Practical Materia Medica (All 3 Vol.) By Clarke J. H.]
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S – Spinal Weakness & Curvature
Description:Curvature of the spine to the left, lumbar vertebrae bend to the left, spina bifida.
Reference: [Dictionary Of Practical Materia Medica (All 3 Vol.) By Clarke J. H.]
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M – Memory Lost
Description: "Memory lost."Varified many times in clinical practice, patients present with loss of memory.
Reference: [Handbook Of Materia Medica And Homoeopathic Therapeutics By Allen T.F.]
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O – Obtuse Intellect
Description: "Obtuse."slow to or not wanting to understand something
Reference: [Handbook Of Materia Medica And Homoeopathic Therapeutics By Allen T.F.]
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O – Outbursts of Anger
Description: "Inclined to indignation and anger."
Reference: [Condensed Materia Medica By Hering C.]
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D – Depressed after Vexation
Description: Depression after vexation, cannot work, can hardly walk, looseness of bowels.
Reference: [Handbook Of Materia Medica And Homoeopathic Therapeutics By Allen T.F.]
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Y – Yearning for Change (Home/Out)
Description: "Wishes to be at home, and when at home, to go out; goes from place to place."
Reference: [Condensed Materia Medica By Hering C.]
Introduction
Constitution
Clinical
Mental Symptoms
Guiding Symptoms
Characteristic
Therapeutic Value
Modality
Remedy Relationship
Dose
Terminologies
Reference
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Introduction
Introduction of Calcarea Phosphorica
Common name:
Phosphate of Lime
Synonyms
Calcium phosphate[1]
Family / Group / Class / Order
Mineral Kingdom
Habit and habitat / Description
This is a white amorphous powder, which is odourless and tasteless.
Formula / Symbol
Ca3(Po4)2
Name of prover
Dr Constantine Hering and Dr W.H. Schussler
Introduction and history
This remedy belong to the twelve tissue remedies. It is somewhat similar to Calcarea carbonica and Phosphorus. It is a great remedy for defective nutrition. Hence, it is often used for children who are predisposed to glandular and bony diseases, slow development of teeth and spinal curvature.
Preparation
Triturations of precipitated phosphate of lime are prepared with sugar of milk as directed in our pharmacopoeia.
Constitution
Constitution of Calcarea Phosphorica
Physical make up
Adapted to persons who are pale, of dark complexion, dark hair and eyes; thin spare subjects instead of fat, emaciated body, sunken flabby abdomen, soft bones bent disproportionately, enlarged head and long weak emaciated neck, unable to support head.
Temperament
Phlegmatic 3, Sanguine 1 , Melancholic 1
Diathesis
Scrofulus
Relation with heat & cold
Chilly
Miasm
Psoric, Sycotic, Tubercular
Clinical
Clinical conditions
Anæmia. 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. Gonorrhœa. Headaches. Hernia. Hydrocele. Hygroma. Joints, affections of. Leucorrhœa. Lumbago. Nymphomania. Phosphaturia. Rheumatism. Rickets. Self-abuse. Spermatorrhœa. Spina bifida. Stiff-neck. Strabismus. Testicles, swollen. Throat, sore. Tobacco habit. Tonsils, enlarged. Uterus, prolapsus of; polypus of. Yawning.[2]
Sites of action / Pharmacodynamics
Nutrition, glands, bones, blood, lungs, skin, heart, female genital organs, mind, breast, lungs, digestive system, teeth, etc.
Causation (Causes / Ailments from)
Getting wet, grief, overstudy, disappointed love, bad news, fear, dentition.
Patho-physiological changes / Pathogenesis
Nutrition, glands, bones, blood, lungs, skin, heart, female genital organs, mind, breast, lungs, digestive system, teeth, etc.
Mental Symptoms
Characteristic Mental Symptoms (psychology) of Calcarea Phosphorica
1. Feel complaints more when thinking about them.
2. Wishes to be at home, and when at home, to go out.
3. Involuntary sighing, always wants to go somewhere.
4. Mental confusion, very forgetful, confused and low spirited.
5. Dullness with heaviness; headache worse from physical exertion.
6. Irritable without cause; peevishness and obstinacy.
7. Writes wrong words or same word twice.
8. Difficulty in performing intellectual operations.
9. Anxiousness, anxiety in the pit of the stomach of children.
Guiding Symptoms
Guiding Symptoms of Calcarea Phosphorica
Generalities
One of the most important tissue remedies, and while it has many symptoms in common with Calcarea carb, there are some differences and characteristic features of its own. It is especially indicated in tardy dentition and troubles incident to that period, bone disease non-union of fractured bones, and the anæmias after acute diseases and chronic wasting diseases. Anæmic children who are peevish, flabby, have cold extremities and feeble digestion.[3]
Head
Headache, worse near the region of sutures, from change of weather, of school children about puberty. Fontanelles remain open too long. Cranial bones soft and thin. Defective hearing. Headache, with abdominal flatulence. Head hot, with smarting of roots of hair.
Eye
Diffused opacity in cornea following abscess.
Ears
Sudden swelling of external ear. Cold feeling in; noises in after stools.[4]
Nose
Tip icy cold.Polypi; large, pedunculated.Coryza, with salivation.
Face
Pale, yellowish, earthy; full of pimples.Cold sweat on face.Upper lip swollen.
Mouth
Swollen tonsils; cannot open mouth without pain. Complaints during teething; teeth develop slowly; rapid decay of teeth. Adenoid growths.
Stomach
Infant wants to nurse all the time and vomits easily. Craving for bacon, ham, salted or smoked meats. Much flatulence. Great hunger with thirst flatulence temporarily relieved by sour eructations. Heartburn. Easy vomiting in children
Abdomen
At every attempt to eat, colicky pain in abdomen. Sunken and flabby. Colic, soreness and burning around navel.
Rectum & Anus
Bleeding after hard stool. Diarrhœa from juicy fruits or cider; during dentition. Green, slimy, hot, sputtering, undigested, with fetid flatus. Fistula in ano, alternating with chest symptoms.
Urinary Organ
Increased, with sensation of weakness. Pain in region of kidneys when lifting or blowing the nose.
Sexual Organ
Menses too early, excessive, and bright in girls. If late, blood is dark; sometimes, first bright, then dark, with violent backache. During lactation with sexual excitement. Nymphomania, with aching, pressing, or weakness in uterine region (Plat). After prolonged nursing. Leucorrhœa, like white of egg. Worse morning. Child refuses breast; milk tastes salty. Prolapsus in debilitated persons.
Respiratory System
Involuntary sighing. Chest sore. Suffocative cough; better lying down. Hoarseness. Pain through lower left lung
Heart & Pulse
Sharp cutting pain, shooting in heart region interrupting breathing.─Dropsy from heart disease.
Neck & Back
Rheumatic pain from draught of air, with stiffness and dullness of head. Soreness in sacro-iliac symphysis, as if broken (Aesc hip).
Extremities
Stiffness and pain, with cold, numb feeling, worse any change of weather. Crawling and coldness. Buttocks, back and limbs asleep. Pains in joints and bones. Weary when going upstairs.
Skin
Contant stretching and yawn Easily chilled.Chilly with pains.Chills up the back, but heat down the back.Sticky sickly sweat agg. head and throat; at night.ing.Children cry in sleep.Can not get awake in early morning.
Sleep
Contant stretching and yawning.Children cry in sleep.Can not get awake in early morning.
Fever
Contant stretching and yawning.Children cry in sleep.Can not get awake in early morning.
Characteristic
Important characteristic features of Calcarea Phosphorica
Keynotes / Redline
Discontent and dissatisfied, hence, strong desire to travel, with a hope to change the environment and find a sense of happiness.
< drafts or wind.
Delayed development. Milestones delayed.
Headaches in school going children.
Delayed closure of fontanelles.
Desires smoked meat, ham, bacon, salami, salty food, sweets, ice cream.
Growing pains in children.
Guiding
Delayed development, slow to walk.
Mental and physical weakness and fatigue.
Head-Headaches in school going children.
Pain along the suture lines, originating in the cervical region.
Delayed closure of fontanelles.
Perspiration on head at night, while in bed.
Vertigo-From constipation < drafts < winds.
Mouth-Delayed dentition and teething problems.
G.I.T.-Chronic abdominal colic in school going children, with or without diarrhoea.
Desires smoked meat, hot dogs, bacon, salami, sweets, salty food, ice cream.
Curvature of spine- scoliosis, spondylosis.
Extremities-Growing pains in children.
Delayed healing of fractures or sprains.
Tendonitis.
Carpal tunnel syndrome.
PQRS
Constant desire to travel or change location, reflecting deep dissatisfaction.
Craving for smoked meats (like bacon or ham) and salty, indigestible things.
Headaches in school children (especially girls), often worse with study or changes in weather.
Slow or non-union of fractured bones; fontanelles remain open too long.
Ailments (physical or mental) arising specifically from grief or disappointed love.
Confirmatory
Delayed closure of fontanelles / Thin skull bones.
Desire to wander / go somewhere else from discontent.
Growing pains during rapid growth.
Headaches worse from mental exertion (school children).
Craving for salty / smoked meats / bacon.
Therapeutic Value
Therapeutic value of Calcarea Phosphorica
Abdominal disorders, Anaemia, Ankle weakness, Back
weakness, Bone affections, Brain fag, Bright’s disease, Chorea, Cretinism,
Debility, Epilepsy, Fistula, Gonorrhoea, Leucorrhoea, Menstrual troubles,
Respiratory affections, Rheumatism, Rickets, Skin affection
Modality
Modality of Calcarea Phosphorica
Aggravation
Exposure to damp cold, changeable weather, east winds, melting snow, mental exertion, thinking about complains, pressure of a hat.
Amelioration
In summer, warm dry atmosphere, lying, after supper, passing wind.
Remedy Relationship
Remedy Relationship of Calcarea Phosphorica
Complimentary
Hep, Ruta, Sulph. Zinc.
Follows Well
Rhus-t, Sulph
Dose
Dose of Calcarea Phosphorica
3x to 200 potencies
Potency
30C,200C
Duration of Action
60 days
Terminologies
Terminologies of Calcarea Phosphorica
Calcarea phosphorica (Calcarea phos):
The Latin name for the homeopathic remedy prepared from calcium phosphate. "Calcarea" refers to calcium, and "phosphorica" refers to phosphorus.
Calcium Phosphate:
The mineral from which the homeopathic remedy is derived. It’s a naturally occurring compound essential for bones and teeth.
Tissue Salt (or Cell Salt):
Calcarea phos is one of the twelve Schuessler’s Tissue Salts. These are believed to be essential mineral components of the body’s cells, and imbalances are thought to contribute to illness. Homeopathic preparations of these salts aim to restore cellular balance.
Polycrest:
A homeopathic remedy that has a broad range of applications and affects many different systems in the body. Calcarea phos is considered a polycrest due to its wide symptom picture.
Constitutional Remedy:
A deep-acting homeopathic remedy chosen to match the individual’s overall physical, mental, and emotional constitution. It aims to address the root cause of their susceptibility to illness. Calcarea phos can often act as a constitutional remedy, especially for individuals with specific characteristic symptoms.
Proving:
The process by which homeopathic remedies are tested on healthy individuals to determine the range of symptoms they can produce. The symptoms experienced by the provers form the basis of the remedy’s materia medica (a collection of drug pictures).
Materia Medica:
A comprehensive collection of information about homeopathic remedies, detailing the symptoms they are known to cause and therefore can potentially cure. An article might refer to specific symptoms listed in the materia medica for Calcarea phos.
Reference
Reference of Calcarea Phosphorica
[1] Gems textbook of materia medica by Dr.Patil
[2] Dictionary Of Practical Materia Medica (All 3 Vol.) By Clarke J. H.
[3]Materia Medica By Boericke W.
[4]Concise Materia Medica Of Hom. Remedies By S.R. Phatak
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
What exactly is Calcarea sulphurica?
Calcarea sulphurica,
often shortened to Calc sulph, functions as a specific homeopathic remedy. Practitioners prepare it from Calcium Sulphate (commonly known as Gypsum). Primarily, homeopathy utilizes its action for conditions marked by notably slow healing processes and persistent pus formation, also called suppuration.
Consequently, what conditions does Calcarea sulphurica typically address in homeopathy?
Uses
Homeopaths frequently employ Calcarea sulphurica when suppuration continues long after the initial inflammation subsides. Therefore, its key uses involve treating lingering abscesses, boils, fistulas, and slow-healing (indolent) ulcers. In addition, it addresses certain types of acne and eczema, particularly those forming thick yellow crusts or involving characteristic purulent discharges from eyes, ears, or the nose.
What main guiding symptoms signal the need for Calcarea sulphurica?
Guiding symptoms
The most definitive symptom indicating Calcarea sulphurica involves thick, yellow, often lumpy pus that continuously discharges from an opening (like an abscess or ulcer). Furthermore, sluggish wound healing, generally unhealthy skin prone to infection, and the presence of thick yellow scabs on eruptions are strong indicators. Sometimes, patients also report distinct burning sensations, especially on their soles, palms, or the top of the head. Mentally, underlying discontent or sensitivity can also guide the prescription.
So, does Calcarea sulphurica specifically help with skin problems?
Yes
Absolutely. Calcarea sulphurica stands out as a significant remedy for various challenging skin issues. It particularly targets conditions featuring unhealthy skin tissue, sluggish healing responses, and the characteristic formation of thick, yellow pus or crusts. Consequently, homeopaths often prescribe it for stubborn forms of eczema, persistent acne (cystic or pustular), boils, and infected wounds that refuse to heal cleanly.
What specific type of discharge strongly suggests using Calcarea sulphurica?
Discharge
Discharges strongly pointing towards Calcarea sulphurica are characteristically thick and yellow (though occasionally greenish or blood-streaked). Moreover, they are often lumpy and notably persist much longer than expected during a normal healing process. This specific discharge quality is key, whether it comes from wounds, ulcers, ears, eyes, sinuses, or other bodily sources.
How does Calcarea sulphurica differ from the similar remedy Hepar sulph?
While both remedies address suppuration, they apply at different stages and with different nuances. Hepar sulph typically matches the acute, highly sensitive stage, marked by extreme sensitivity to touch and cold, and it actively promotes rapid abscess maturation. Calcarea sulphurica, however, generally finds its place after this peak sensitivity lessens, specifically when the suppuration problematically lingers, indicating the body’s failure to fully complete the healing process.
