Calcarea Phosphorica



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.

Throat

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

Appetite

Unusual hunger 4 p-m. Infant wants to nurse all the time. Craves fat bacon, salt meats. Desire for tobacco smoke, smoking better 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).

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., 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.

Abdomen

Aching soreness and pain round navel; amelioration 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 left groin, later in right.- Burning aching in groins. – Abdominal weakness in anaemic patients.

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, worse 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.

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 feces 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).

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 anemic subjects.

Female Sexual Organs:-

Nymphomania, especially before catamenia. Aching in uterus, weakness and distress in uterine region, worse during defecation and micturition, uterine displacement. Pressure upward over mons veneries, 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 (especially 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, worse 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.

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, worse morning, with stitches in chest. Cough during difficult dentition. Breathing frequent, short, difficult. With inhalation, shooting in left breast and right temple, sudden jerking pain in back. Involuntary sighing.

Chest

Contraction of chest, and difficult breathing, evening till 10 p-m., better lying down, worse when getting up. Obstinate pain through lower left lung and left hypochondrium (uterine disease). Burning sensation in chest from below up into throat. Sharp pain like an instrument through end of sternum. Cracking in sternum.

Heart

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

Neck and Back

Rheumatic pain and stiffness of neck with dulness of head, from slight drought of air. Cramp-like pain in neck first one side then the other (right to left). 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-illiac synchondrosis. Curvature of the spine to the left, lumbar vertebrae bend to the left, spina bifida.

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.

Upper Limbs

Rheumatic pains in shoulder and arm, also with swelling of the diseased part and febrile heat. Ulcerative pain especially in roots of finger nails of right hand, and in middle finger. Gouty nodosities. Soreness, torpor, and paralysis of the (left) arm. Paralysis of the joints of the hand and of the fingers, especially in the thumbs, sometimes from a chill.

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, especially shin bones.

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.

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, dream of dangers and fires. Transient, frequent shuddering. Starting from fright.

Fever

Frequent creeping shiverings. Copious night sweats, on single parts.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica