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-p. whilst exhibiting strong points of resemblance with *Calcarea carb., has nevertheless a very distinct individuality. It has been proved and tested clinically, and, having been adopted by Schussler as his leading “antipsoric, ” a number of valuable indications have been added by him and his followers. The *Calc- p. patient is generally emaciated instead of fat like the typical *Calcarea carb. child. The *Calc-p. patient is less chalky-white and more dirty-white or brownish than the *Calcareac patient. Both have large abdomens, but that of the *Calc-p. patient is flabby. *Calcareac. has craving for eggs, *Calc-p. for salt of smoked meats. “Craving for fat bacon” in children is a well-verified characteristic of *Calc-p. *Calc-p. has cured dyspepsia, pain better for a short time by raising wind, when fasting the pains 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 better by eating. The stools of *Calc- p. are green and slimy, or hot and watery with fetid flatus, of *Calcarea carb., sometimes green, generally watery, white, and mixed with curds. *Calcarea carb. has an open anterior fontanelle, *Calc- p. has both open, especially the posterior. The skull is thin and soft, almost cracks, like paper when pressed upon.
The mental state of *Calc-p. 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 *Natrum mur. A schoolboy to whom I was giving *Calc-p. developed these new symptoms: “Tongue thickly coated white, taste pasty, felt absolutely silly, taking coffee while coated white, taste pasty, felt absolutely silly, taking coffee while playing a game, he put the sugar on the draught- board instead of into the cup, and did not 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 worse 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 worse 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-p. 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., better lying down, worse 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-p. strike upward. Hering gives: “The chills run up the back, terrible muscular jerks in body, which almost throw him out of his chair.”
*Calc-p. 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 worse and rest better most symptoms. Worse 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 worse. Damp, rainy, cold weather worse. It is suited to scrofulous, gouty constitutions.
Relations.
Its nearest analogue is Carb-an. (which contains Calc-p.). *Follows well: Arsenicum, China, Iodium, Mercurius Is *followed well by: Sulph. *Complementary: Ruta. *Compare: In bone affections and fistula, Berberis, Calcarea, Calcarea flour., Fl-ac., Ruta, Silicea, Sulphur, in joint affections, Berberis, Kali-p., Natrum mur., in caries of teeth, Fl- ac., Mag-p., Silicea, in epilepsy, Calcarea, Ferr-p., Kali-m., Kali-p., Silicea, in diabetes, Kali-p., Nat-p., in tabes, Ars, Iod, Merc, Haemorrhoids; Ferrumph; worms, Nat. ph.; in debility after acute disease, chest affections better by lying down, Psorinum, in peevishness and fretfulness of children, Chamomilla School headaches, housemaid’s knee, Natrum mur., in tonsillitis, weak-minded children, Baryta carb., chest affections after operation, in fistula, Berberis, uterine affections, Sepia (but in Calc-p. 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, worse from motion, Bry, worse from wet, Dulcamara, Silicea, Sulphur, Causticum, Rhus.
Causation
Over-growth. Lifting. Ascending. Over-study. Sexual excesses. Sexual irregularities. Grief. Disappointed love. Unpleasant news. Operation for fistula. Getting wet.
SYMPTOMS.
Mind
Great depression, slow comprehension, cretinism. Children are peevish and fretful, difficulty in performing intellectual operations.
Head
Large open fontanelles. Delayed closure or re-opening of fontanelles. Headache worse 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 fullness in the head, as if the brain were pressed against the cranium, worse by movement and by change of position, better by lying still. Headache with craving for tobacco smoke, which better. During the headache, face and head hot, with indolence and ill-humour. The headache is worse 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.
Eyes
Sensation in the eye as if something in it, renewed if others talk about it. Cannot read, light hurts, especially 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.
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.
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.
Face
Pain especially in upper jawbone from right to left, 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.
Teeth
Teeth sensitive to chewing. Pain in molars. Tearing, boring pain at night, worse from warm or cold things. Slow dentition, with cold tumours and emaciation. Too rapid decay. Convulsions without fever during dentition.
