Condensed Materia Medica.
By Constantine Hering.
Presented by .
CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA.
[Calc. phosph.]
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* [48]► Forgetfulness, of what he had done a short time ago.
► Writes wrong words, or same words twice.
► Difficulty in performing intellectual operation.
► Wishes to be at home, and when at home, to go out ; goes from
place to place.
► Involuntary sighing.
► Anxiousness.
► Anxiety : in pit of stomach ; of children.
► Peevish and fretful children.
► Inclined to indignation and anger.
► Dulness with every headache ; worse from bodily exertion ;
better from cold washing ; from mental occupation.
► Feel complaints more when thinking about them.
► Ailments : from grief ; from disappointed love.
► Staggering when rising from a seat.
► Vertigo : on motion ; when walking in open air ;
worse in windy weather ; with costiveness ; of old people.
► Fulness and pressure, or dulness of head, worse from pressure of
the hat.
► Pressure from the eyes and toward them.
► Headache over the forehead, with tearing pain in the arms and
hands, most in wrist and right middle finger.
► Headache on vertex and behind the ears, with a drawing in the
muscles of the neck, to the nape and occiput.
► Aching, drawing pains around lateral protuberances of occiput.
► Headache of school girls, with diarrhśa.
► Headache worse from change of weather, extending from the forehead
to nose ; or from the temples to jaw, with some rheumatic feeling
from the clavicles to wrists.
► Sore pain ; drawing, rending, tearing in the skull
bones worse along the sutures.
► Skull soft and thin ; crackling noise like paper when
pressed, mostly in the occiput.
► Delayed closure, or re-opening of fontanelles.
► Crawling over the top of head, as if ice were lying over the
occiput ; head hot ; smarting of roots of the hair.
► Itching black scurfs ; poor crop of hair, or losing the hair.
► Ulcers on the top of the head.
► Cannot hold the head up ; moves it from place to place ;
head totters.
► Light, particularly candle or gas-light, hurts the
eyes.
► Eyeballs pain, as if beaten.
► Cool feeling behind the eyes.
► Squinting ; distortion of eyeballs.
► Hot feeling in lids.
► Difficult hearing.
► Singing and other noises most in the right ear.
► Cold feeling or coldness of the ears.
► Aching, pressing, tearing or rending in and around the ears, most
behind, or below.
► Inner and outer ear swollen, red, sore, itching ; hot.
► Excoriating discharge from the ears.
► Aching sore pain in the region of parotid gland.
► Sneezing, and soreness on the edges of alć, fluent
coryza, forenoon.
► Nosebleed ; afternoon.
► Coryza : fluent in a cold room ; stopped in warm air and
out-doors.
► Point of nose icy-cold.
► Nose swollen ; nostrils sore.
► Large pedunculated nasal polypi.
► Pain in face, particularly in upper maxilla, from right
to left ; extends from other parts, to the face, or vice versa.
► Heat in the face.
► Face : pale ; sallow ; yellowish ; earthy ;
full of pimples.
► Cold sweat on the face ; body cold.
► Swollen upper lip ; painful, hard and burning.
► Retarded dentition, with cold tumors and emaciation.
► Hollow teeth, sensitive to air.
► Pain in the canines.
► Teeth sensitive to chewing.
► Disgusting taste, on awaking, worse when hawking.
► Bitter taste : in the morning, with headache ;
particularly of wheat bread.
► Tongue swollen, numb, stiff, with pimples on it.
► Tip of tongue sore, burning, little blisters on it.
► Sore spot inside of the right cheek.
► Sore aching in throat, worse when swallowing.
► Sore throat, with tickling cough in the evening, worse after going
to bed.
► Hunger at 4 P.M.
► Infants want to nurse all the time.
► Much thirst, with dry mouth and tongue, during and after part of
the day.
► At every attempt to eat, belly-ache.
► After meals, sore after dinner, headache or drowsiness, weariness,
itching ; or heart-burn, and other gastric symptoms.
► After drinking cold water, cutting in the belly.
► Eating ice-cream in evening, causes colic.
► Juicy fruit, or cider, causes diarrhśa.
► Sour belching, and gulping up.
► After belching burning in the epigastrium.
► Nausea, rising from the pit of stomach when moving ; better
at rest ; followed by headache and lassitude.
► Nausea : from smoking ; after coffee.
► Vomiturition from hawk phlegm.
► Children vomit, often and easy.
► Indescribable uneasiness in region of stomach.
► Sharp cutting, or cramp-like pain, in stomach, with headache.
► Pressure in the stomach ; less during rest.
► Stomach feels expanded.
► Burning at the stomach and rising of water into mouth.
► Empty, sinking sensation at the epigastrium.
► Stomach symptoms worse by taking even the smallest quantity of
food.
► Throbbing in the right hypochondrium lessened after
belching or passing wind.
► Stitches or shooting in region of liver, wen taking a deep breath.
► Hardness, soreness and pressure in the right side.
► Pressure and soreness in the left side.
► Stitch in the left side while breathing.
► Empty, sinking sensation, around the navel in the whole
belly.
► Motion in belly, like something alive.
► Cutting, pinching, sharp colic, followed by diarrhśa.
► Burning : in region of navel ; in the whole abdomen,
rising up into the chest, or into the throat.
► Aching soreness, and pain around navel, lessens after passing
fetid flatus.
► Oozing of bloody fluid from navel of infants.
► Aching soreness, cutting, drawing in left groin, later in right.
► Abdominal wall : tingling, numb ; quivering or aching.
► Stitches in the rectum toward the anus or shooting in
the anus.
► Offensive flatus.
► Diarrhśa, during dentition, with much flatus.
► Stools : green and loose, sometimes slimy, with children ;
soft, passed with difficulty, accompanying the headache of school girls.
► Pus discharged with the stools, which are extremely offensive.
► Hard stool, with depression of mind, causing headache with old
people.
► Itching in the anus ; most in the evening.
► Protruding piles aching itching and sore ; oozing of a yellow
fluid.
► Small furuncle near anus, to the right, with much pain ;
cannot sit, has to stand, or lie on left side ; discharges blood or
pus and remains a painless fistula.
► Fistula in ano, alternating with chest symptoms.
► Violent pain in the region of the kidneys, when lifting
and when blowing the nose.
► Violent pain in the bladder and all neighboring parts.
► Shooting in the mouth of the bladder.
► Frequent urging to urinate.
► Cutting pains in the urethra.
► Dark urine.
► Large increase of urine with sensation of weakness.
► Erection, while riding in a carriage, without sexual
desire.
► Shooting through the perineum into the penis.
► Swelling of the testicles.
► Itching of scrotum, with sweating, soreness and pimples.
► Scrotum sore, oozing a fluid.
► Voluptuous feeling as if all the female parts were
filling up with blood ; she feels the pulse in all the parts, with
increased sexual desire.
► Aching in the uterus.
► Drawing pain from right to left over the pubes, with discharge of
some blood followed by earache, first left, then right.
► Menses : too early, blood bright, with girls ; too late,
blood dark, or first bright, then dark, with women.
► Weakness and distress in the region of the uterus, worse during
passage of stool and urine.
► Leucorrhśa like the white of egg, day and night.
► Throbbing, stinging, tickling, sore aching, or pressing in the
genitals, drawing upwards in the symphysis, downwards in the thighs.
► Weakness in all the limbs during pregnancy.
► Child refuses the mother’s breast, the milk tastes saltish.
► Milk ; acid ; watery, thin, neutral.
► Mammć sore to the touch.
► Pains and burning in the mammć.
► Nipple aching, sore.
► Hoarseness and cough, day and night.
► Must hawk or hem to clear the voice.
► Burning at back of tongue, followed by burning larynx.
► Involuntary sighing.
► Breathing more frequent, short and difficult.
► Child gets a suffocative attack when lifted up from cradle.
► Tubercular cough, with soreness and dryness in the
throat.
► Cough : with yellow expectoration, more in the morning ;
with fever, dryness and thirst ; from 6 A.M. to 6 P.M. ; during
difficult dentition ; cavities containing pus.
► With the cough, stitches in the chest, heat on lower part of chest
and upper arm.
► Aching in the chest, with soreness to touch.
► Sharp pain about sixth rib, right side ; later on the left
about fourth and fifth ribs, coming and going ; takes the breath ;
worse with deep breath, during the day.
► Contraction of chest and difficult breathing, evening till 10 P.M. ;
better lying down, worse when getting up.
► Palpitation with anxiety, followed by trembling
weakness, particularly of the calves.
► Feels the beating of the pulse not frequent but quick ; while
sitting, feels it in the nape of neck of left chest.
► Tearing, pressing and shooting in sternum.
► Sore pain on the sternum.
► Clavicle sore ; first left, then right.
► Ulcer over the sternum or clavicle.
► Rheumatic pain and stiffness of the neck, with dulness
of the head ; from slight draught of air.
► Cramp-like pain in neck, first one then the other side.
► Pains and aches between, and mostly below, the scapulć.
► Violent pain in the region of the kidneys when lifting weight, or
when blowing the nose.
► Backache and uterine pains.
► Curvature of spine to left, lumbar vertebrć bend forwards.
► Violent stitch at a small spot between left ilium and sacrum, from
the slightest motion.
► Soreness in the sacro-iliac symphysis.
► Hard, bluish lumps, under the arms ; oozing and
scabbing ; after checked itch.
► Shooting from clavicle to wrist ; work from change of
weather.
► Rheumatic pain in upper arm near the shoulder-joint ; cannot
lift the arm.
► Lameness of the arms ; formication.
► Shootings through the elbows, usually first left, then right.
► Aching in the bones of the arm particularly of thumb.
► Pains, as if ulcerated around the nails.
► Nates : feel “asleep” ; stinging on
small spots ; itching ; burning ; sore spots ; oozing
scurfs.
► Sore pain in the thighs, with aching in the sacral bones.
► Pains above the knee.
► Knees pain, as if sprained ; sore when walking.
► Lower limbs “asleep”, feel restless anxious ; has
to move them.
► Pain in the bones, particularly the tibia.
► Cramp pain in calves, rending, shooting, warm feeling.
► Rending, tearing and shooting in the ankle-joint.
► Ulcers on malleolus dexters ; edges callous ; ichor
putrid.
► Fistulous ulcer on the ankle.
► Feeling of lameness of the flexors, sudden aching of
the extensors.
► Extensors more affected than flexors.
► Aching in limbs, with weariness.
► Pains in all joints ; most left side ; later and less
the right.
► Pains flying about in all parts of rump and limbs, after getting
wet in the rain.
► Rheumatism during the cold season, better in the warm.
► Rheumatism after every cold.
► Painful symptoms brought on by moderate motions of
single limbs, easier after lying down.
► Pains after great exertions, worse when lying down.
► Rest : 17. Motion : 2,
16. Exertion : 2. Lifting : 31.
Walking : 2, 33. Ascending : 36.
Rising : 2, 28. Sitting : 29.
Wants to sit : 36. Lying : 28 ;
on left side : 20 ; worse lying on back,
better lying on side : 36.
► Weakness with other symptoms.
► Languor : with diarrhśa ; with leucorrhśa ; with
catarrh ; during pregnancy.
► Weariness when going up stairs ; wants to sit down.
► Children do not learn to walk, or lose the ability.
► Trembling of the arms and hands.
► Convulsive starts, when the child lies on its back, cease when
lying on the side.
► Stretching ; yawning.
► Drowsiness all day.
► Disturbed sleep, worse before midnight.
► Dreams : vivid, of late events or last readings ; of
travelling.
► Morning : 11, 27.
Forenoon : 7. Afternoon : 7, 14.
Evening : 13, 15, 20,
28, 40. Night : 40.
Before midnight : 37. Daytime : 27,
28, 37. Day and night : 23,
25.
► Warm air : 7. Open air : 2,
7, 39, 40. Draught :
31. Teeth sensitive to air : 10.
Cold room : 7. Cold washing : 2.
Worse cold season, better warm : 35. Change of
weather : 3. Windy weather : 2.
Getting wet in rain : 35.
► Shaking chill, out-doors.
► Cold in lower part of body ; face hot.
► Heat runs from the head down to the toes.
► Dry heat in evening ; hot breath, noticeable beating of heart ;
mouth and tongue dry without thirst, yawning, stretching.
► Copious night-sweats ; on single parts, towards and in the
morning.
► Right, upper ; left, lower ; pain in bones.
► Right side : 3, 6, 12,
18, 20, 28. Left
side : 18, 29, 31,
35. Right to left : 8, 23,
28. Left to right : 19, 23,
30, 32, 35. Above
downwards : 3, 40. Along sutures :
4.
► Mostly on small spots.
► Pains along the sutures or at symphyses.
► Nonunion of fractured bones.
► Curvature of spine to left, lumber vertebrć bend forward.
► Condyles swollen on forearms and lower limbs.
► Abscess near the lumbar vertebrć.
► Spine bifida.
► Large pedunculated nasal polypi.
► Incipient mesenteric tabes, with much diarrhśa, fetid, sometimes
lienteric.
► Rachitis, fontanelles wide open ; diarrhśa, emaciation.
► Rheumatic pains in all the joints.
► Soreness of tendons when flexing or extending.
► Flabby, shrunken, emaciated children.
► Sensitive to slight touch.
► Pressure aggravates head, chest, belly and limb symptoms.
► The place of old injury becomes the seat of affections.
► Every step is felt in the head, or in the sacrum.
► Lifting child from cradle : 26. Riding in a
carriage : 33.
► Dry skin ; moist on hands.
► Skin dark brown, or yellow.
► Itching and burning as from nettles.
► Scaling herpes on the lower leg.
► Furuncles ; ulcers.
► Scars from an amputation ulcerate.
► During dentition : 20.
► Children lose flesh ; will not stand any more ; do not
learn to walk.
► Girls at or near puberty : 3, 20.
► Old people, vertigo ; constipation.
► Complementary to Calc. phosph. :
Ruta, Sulphur follows well.
► Compare with Calc. ostr., Silic., Fluor.
ac., Berber. ; also with Calc.
hypophos., which is useful in
consumption, with hectic, cavities in lungs, etc., and in severe corneal,
crescentic ulcers, when low health prevents healing.
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